Seeing that Fang Chuyang was ignoring him, Zhai Chen knew the current affairs and did not catch up.
"We're working on a case." Gao Yusheng came over and whispered.
"Don't care about him." Zhai Chen waved his hand and turned around to get something in the trunk. A large number of supplies were in the truck that followed, and precious little things were in Gao Yusheng's car.
Zhai Chen took a breath of oxygen and easily picked up the two all-in-one computers, as if carrying two cardboard boxes.
"Ouch, hurry up and give me one." Secretary Zheng hurried over to help. Others didn't pay attention to Zhai Chen, who was wearing a mask, but he recognized it at a glance. This is Mr. Gao's little lover brother of the excavator bodyguard.
"No, you can't hold it." Zhai Chen glanced at Secretary Zheng in a suit, strode past him, and put the computer on the donation table prepared at the entrance of the orphanage. The table is covered with blue flannel, but it is a little old, and there is no flannel in some places.
Looking at the past, this welfare home is obviously much more dilapidated than the two in the central area and the new city.
The yard is not big, surrounded by iron fences, the ground is still a pitted concrete floor, and grass grows in the gaps. On the west side is a play bunker, and the sand is not very full; the east side is full of clotheslines, some of which are iron wire and some cloth. The volunteers of Punctuation Company have been working here for a long time. The clothesline is covered with all kinds of children's clothes, shoes and socks, bedding, and weeds have been cleaned out.
Gao Yusheng stood at the door, quietly looking at the rusted words "Gaoyuan Welfare Institute" on the iron gate for a long time.
"Yusheng, come and see this." Zhai Chen didn't call him by his nickname outside, because he was afraid that others would recognize him as a small bodyguard, and he didn't call Mr. Gao.
When Gao Yusheng heard him calling him, the coldness on his face instantly melted away, and he walked over with his feet raised.
Outside the iron fence, there are public signs. All children who are to be adopted must be publicized with photos and various information, and the formalities can only be processed after the publicity period.
The children on this sign are also very different from those on the sign in the central area. The children on the sign in the central area basically have no major problems, and some are quite beautiful. In this house, they are basically crooked melons and cracked jujubes. Even if they have had surgery, they still have obvious facial asymmetry. Some have crooked mouths and slanted eyes, and have some mental problems. There is also one marked with serious illness.
"It's understandable that there are differences in the conditions between these orphanages, but is there also a difference in the quality of the children?" Zhai Chen put one hand on Gao Yusheng's shoulder and whispered in his ear.
"Well, in poor welfare institutions, fewer children are sent, and the chances of getting relatively healthy children are small." Gao Yusheng carefully analyzed the market probability for him.
Zhai Chen squeezed his shoulder with a smile: "I'm just ranting, you don't need to answer so seriously."
"Whatever you ask, I will answer it seriously." Gao Yusheng turned to look at him.
The westward sun shone on the handsome face with three-dimensional features, and the beautiful eyes shone with fine light. Zhai Chen stayed for a moment, suddenly didn't know what to say, raised a finger and scratched his face: "cough..."
"Welcome, I'm sorry, just now a child suddenly fell ill and came out to greet him late," a middle-aged man in his 40s in an old suit ran out of the yard in a panic and shook hands with Gao Yusheng, "This is I'm President Gao, I'm Lu Changhua, the director of Gaoyuan Orphanage."
"I saw that it wasn't you in the introduction column of the dean." Zhai Chen pointed to the propaganda column next to the bulletin board, where the photo of the dean was a white-haired old man.
"Ah, that's my father. He passed away a few years ago. I used to work in another industry. My father didn't worry about this orphanage, so I ran the orphanage for him." Lu Changhua smiled bitterly and ran over cautiously He crushed his feet in open rubber shoes and turned to ask the teacher inside to bring the children out.
Now in the Gaoyuan Orphanage, there are more than a dozen children who can walk by themselves, and the rest are either too young or have serious illnesses and cannot get out of bed. Children, carers, and deans, standing at the donation table with the Punctuation Map staff for a group photo. Originally, Dean Lu meant to pull a banner and write "Thank you for the donation of the punctuation map", but Gao Yusheng rejected it.
"We are here to help, not to cause trouble." Gao Yusheng asked the workers who were pulling the goods to help move the supplies in.
Dean Lu was very grateful and took them to visit.
"Why is there so much difference between here and the central area?" Zhai Chen touched the blackboard in the nursery classroom and couldn't help asking.
"Hey, it's a long story for a child without a mother." Lu Changhua moved a few stools and asked them to sit. "The central area is directly under the city, and of course there are plenty of funds. We belong to Nancheng District. What does this area look like? I also know, not to mention that it was picked up halfway, and it is not taken seriously at all.”
"Why did you pick it up halfway?" Secretary Zheng asked curiously.
"This orphanage was run by a state-owned enterprise in the early years, and it was considered semi-public and semi-private. Later, the company closed down and was taken away by the district and became its current name." Dean Lu showed them the photo album from the past.
It was originally called "Gaoyuan Orphanage", and the gate remained basically unchanged. It was just that it used to be a courtyard wall, but later it was replaced by an iron fence in response to the city turning green. Lu Changhua's father, the old dean, is a kind-hearted old man who takes pictures with the children at the gate every year.
Looking at it year by year, the old dean was getting thinner and thinner with the naked eye, and the last one was still smiling kindly.
"My father died of cancer. I didn't feel relieved when I was about to die, so let me take over. In fact, I am a child adopted by my father, so my surname is also Lu. Did you pick it up on the roadside?" Lu Changhua said with a smile.
The children of this orphanage, except for those who have a name and a surname, all have the surname Lu.
"The old gentleman is really a caring person." Secretary Zheng was deeply moved.
"Can I take a photo?" Gao Yusheng pointed to the photo on the album and asked Dean Lu.
"Of course you can." Lu Changhua waved his hand indifferently and asked Gao Yusheng to take a photo.
Zhai Chen looked at him carefully taking pictures with his mobile phone one by one, and was a little surprised: "When did you become interested in such old photos?"
"I have always been interested in photography and painting." Gao Yusheng returned the photo album to the dean after the shooting.
"Ah, yes." Zhai Chen remembered the starry sky photography exhibition last time, and the studio that had been locked.
"Our President Gao likes art very much, especially the starry sky," Secretary Zheng chatted with Dean Lu with a smile, and suddenly handed a glass of water in front of him, he hurriedly looked up, "Thanks... ah!"
A thank you didn't finish, it turned into a scream.
The person who poured the water was a boy of about thirteen or fourteen years old, with severe burn scars on his face, looking a bit terrifying. Seeing that Secretary Zheng was frightened, he bent down and bowed, making a "hoho" sound from his mouth.
"I'm sorry, his throat was burned out when he was a child, so he can't speak." Dean Lu quickly explained. The child was burnt when he was very young, and his family treated him and threw it at the gate of the orphanage.
"Oh, what's there to apologize for." Secretary Zheng was very embarrassed.
The burnt boy lowered his head and poured water for Zhai Chen and the others. Zhai Chen was not afraid of that face at all, he said with a smile: "A man is handsome only if he has a scar. When I was a teenager, I always wanted to get a scar on my face." He also demonstrated with his hands, From the forehead through the eyes to the bridge of the nose.
The young man looked up at him, as if it was the first time he heard someone say this, his eyes were full of surprise.
Gao Yusheng was expressionless from beginning to end, letting him talk nonsense.
"He's actually pretty good. There are still a lot of severely disabled children here." Dean Lu sighed and took them to see those children who couldn't take care of themselves.
Most are intellectually disabled, and some are born with disabilities.
"I have to say that the children here are really ... none of them are healthy." Secretary Zheng swallowed the word "ugly", but it was true. It is common sense that disabled children are also good-looking, but there are even facial features here. Can't find anything right.
"Normally, there are people rushing to adopt, and we don't know how many adoption numbers we're in. It's just that there are many disabled children, but few normal children, and no one wants to adopt severely disabled children. Those with mild disabilities are hanging at the door. Yes, it was also adopted by foreigners." Dean Lu picked up a mentally handicapped child who was crawling all over the floor and put him back on the fenced cot.
"It's too bad, Dean Lu is really a good person." Secretary Zheng felt sad and donated 1,000 yuan on the spot.
When I left the Gaoyuan Orphanage, it was already dusk. This is the last stop of the day. The employees disbanded on the spot. Secretary Zheng bowed his head and said a few words to Gao Yusheng. After he nodded, he immediately said to everyone: "It's been a tiring day, let's go to a dinner party, Mr. Gao said that it will be reimbursed!"
"Oh yeah!" The employees cheered and ran with Secretary Zheng in a lively manner.
"Why don't you go?" Zhai Chen pinched Gao Yusheng who was in a daze.
"I'm going to destroy the atmosphere." Gao Yusheng was so tickled by him that he couldn't help but move his body.
"Well, that's just right, my brother will take you to eat delicious food." Zhai Chen raised his eyebrows together, much like the attentive Tom cat in the cartoon.
"Uh, uh!" The voice of the burnt boy came from behind, Zhai Chen turned his head, and a picture album was stuffed in his hand. This is the brochure produced by Gaoyuan Welfare Institute, which was distributed to every volunteer just now.
"Thank you." Zhai Chen put the album in his bag and waved goodbye to the boy.
Gao Yusheng stuffed his own book into his brother's bag, and grabbed his hand that was waving in the air: "What to eat?"
"Look where this is?" Zhai Chen pointed to the gradually bustling urban village. This is Zhouzhai, a famous night market.
When he was a child, he promised to take Tianci to eat all the snacks in the city, and Zhai Chen tried everything he could. This kind of night market is very unfriendly to his night blindness, so he forcibly dragged Fang Chuyang to show him the way. In this Zhouzhai Night Market, things are very cheap, and it looks very cheap and messy, but there are also hidden delicacies.
Gao Yusheng looked at the dimly lit street, but did not let go of his hand at all, and dragged him into the night market in the urban village where the alleys were crisscrossed.
It is said that it is a night market, but there is no unified plan, that is, every night, there will be many food stalls pushing carts, and they will sell at random places.
A young girl dressed in cool clothes is sitting in front of the humble Mala Tang stall eating skewers one by one. The aunt who sold the burritos shouted loudly while quickly putting vegetables into the dough. The roast chicken stall is even more lively. The whole roast chicken skewers are automatically flipped on the iron fork, and the boss is frying chicken fillets next to it.
A young man who just came back from work buys a white sesame cake at the sesame cake stand, splits it in the middle, and buys chicken fillets for two yuan to sandwich it in. I ask the boss to squeeze more tomato sauce.
"Just buy two dollars, and still greedy me for so much sauce, I'm losing money every day!" The boss scolded, but still squeezed a little more sauce.
The young man happily squeezed out the biscuits and almost bumped into Zhai Chen.
Gao Yusheng immediately grabbed Zhai Chen and hugged him. He had some resistance to this kind of crowded place, and he didn't want to let others touch Zhai Chen, just like an old farmer walking in a thorn forest.
"It's alright, I can see it," the light bulbs became brighter one by one in order to grab business from these stalls, and they could still see clearly next to the stall. "If you go further, it won't be so crowded."
Turning with Gao Yusheng to another street, this side is relatively quiet, and most of the shops are facing the street. Zhai Chen bought several things, and sat with Gao Yusheng on the peripheral table of an ice shop to eat slowly.
Zhai Chen bought all the food that he had tasted and thought it was delicious, and the taste was naturally not bad, but he didn't know if Gao Yusheng could adapt to the taste that he had been pampered for so many years. Fortunately, Gao Yusheng is not a picky eater and eats with relish.
"When you were young, you liked to eat the fried jelly in the town, but it's a pity that you can only go there once in half a year." Zhai Chen scooped a spoonful of fried jelly and handed it to Gao Yusheng. When he opened his mouth to eat, he turned back and ate it himself.
Gao Yusheng blinked and looked at him innocently.
Zhai Chen laughed and put the spoon for him to eat by himself.
At that time in the mountains, Gao Yusheng had escaped several times with a low reputation, and the hunchback never let him leave the village, only Zhai Chen could take him a little farther. Every time Zhai Chen's father, Li Dahai, went to town to sell mountain goods, Zhai Chen would bring Gao Yusheng with him, and only an adult would reluctantly agree when he saw the hunchback.
There is nothing delicious in that town, it's all low-quality snacks for tourists from out of town, and only one fried jelly is good. Zhai Chen helped Li Dahai sell eggs, and he would secretly raise the price a little, and the extra money would be used to buy jelly for Tianci. His arithmetic was learned from Mr. Mazi Munkou, so it would not be a problem to deal with Li Dahai.
"You all remember." Gao Yusheng took a bite, it wasn't as delicious as the one back then, but because this person bought it for him, it tasted good again.
"Of course I remember." Except for face recognition, Zhai Chen has a very good memory in other aspects.
"How did you come to the night market before?" Gao Yusheng was more concerned about this.
"Let's go with Fang Chuyang." Zhai Chen remembered that his brother was here. He saw him at the gate of the orphanage in the afternoon, so he should investigate the case nearby. Looking down at the phone, there was no news from Fang Chuyang, and he didn't dare to call him casually.
"Where brother wants to go in the future, I will accompany you, don't bother his second uncle any more." Gao Yusheng said casually.
"That's a must. I'm so full of anger when I eat with him. If I didn't have a choice..."
Before he finished speaking, a siren suddenly sounded across the street, and seven or eight police motorcycles with flashing blue lights drove in and stopped in front of a residential house. Not long after, a bunch of people were twisted out of it, all of them squatting on the wall with their heads up.
"Oh, the teahouse has been checked." The proprietress of the ice shop stuck her head out to watch the excitement.
"Is that a poker venue?" Zhai Chen casually chatted with the proprietress.
"No." The proprietress smiled at him when she saw that Zhai Chen was knowledgeable.
Gao Yusheng suddenly squeezed his hand and drew his brother's attention back: "That, seems to be the black face of the afternoon."
Xiao Chen? The light over there was dim, and Zhai Chen could not see clearly. Since Gao Yusheng saw Chen Zhaohui, it meant that Fang Chuyang was also there.
"Police officer, I'm just playing cards. I'm playing a game of fifty cents a game. It's really not gambling."
"Officer, I'm just a card watcher."
The people who were squatting at the door were chattering and were ordered to be quiet. The passers-by around were laughing and lively, and the atmosphere was not very tense. At this moment, the house suddenly burst into flames, and there was a loud bang, and the glass in the house was instantly shattered and shot out.
"Ah—" The onlookers immediately shouted and ran away, and the caught gamblers ran away.
Someone shouted "the gas tank exploded", and the courtyard wall collapsed halfway. Chen Zhaohui raised his foot and was about to rush in, but was stopped by other colleagues and shouted anxiously: "The deputy is still inside!"
Fang Chuyang!
When Zhai Chen heard this, he took out the oxygen bottle without saying a word.
"Oxygen will explode if you bring it in." Gao Yusheng held his wrist.
Zhai Chen didn't speak, he took a few mouthfuls and stuffed the bottle into Gao Yusheng. He lifted his foot and turned into the yard.