Chapter 687: The Past Is Like Smoke
I couldn't see how bright Miss Salley's smile was under the veil, but I could feel her heartfelt joy.
Dean Ho was as loving as ever with an intimate smile on his face.
The Sunflower Orphanage is Dean He's lifelong effort, and if you want to say that in the Sunflower Orphanage, who has the most feelings for the grass and trees in the orphanage, and is most familiar with every corner of the orphanage, everyone will shout Dean He.
For 30 years, Dean He has been staying at the Sunflower Orphanage since he was young.
The Sunflower Orphanage has been established for 30 years, and from the past to the present, Dean He has been silently expressing his feelings for it with his own actions.
Miss Salley listened to Dean He's words, her expression was focused, and she would ask a few words from time to time, like a curious girl, leaning affectionately on her grandmother's side, listening to her grandmother's best memories of the past.
Maybe Dean He is getting older, or maybe Dean He has a lot of things to worry about for the children in the orphanage, and he is used to nagging.
Before introducing Miss Salley to the Sunflower Orphanage, when Miss Salley asked her why she hadn't found a wife, Dean Ho first showed a touch of sadness, but was quickly relieved and told Miss Salley about the past.
In fact, Dean He was not alone at the beginning, she had a family, children, and a happy and sweet life.
Unfortunately, a sudden illness took her husband's young life.
When her husband died, Dean He was not yet 30 years old, and in the prime of her life, she could start a new life without having to immerse herself in the grief of her lover's death.
But she didn't, because she also had a child, a daughter, who was very cute, and the neighbors around her praised Dean He's daughter for being very likable and smart.
After the death of Dean He's husband, the daughter was very sensible, not noisy or noisy, and never caused trouble for Dean He, when Dean He's daughter was only five years old, she had already started cooking, taking care of herself, and combing her hair.
All of a sudden, the happy family collapsed instantly, leaving only a large amount of medical arrears paid by her husband, no way, Dean He had been a housewife before, she had no work experience, and she shouldered the burden of life in the family, she knew that she still had your daughter, for her daughter, no matter how much hardship she suffered, she had to persevere.
It can be said that the five-year-old daughter is the biggest motivation for Dean He to persevere.
With more than 14 hours of high-intensity work every day, she takes care of her daughter a lot, and more often, Dean He's daughter is either in kindergarten or alone at home.
Dean He still remembers that when she came home from work late at night every night, her daughter always fell asleep on the windowsill, and the lights were always on and never turned off.
According to the daughter's words, that is when the mother gets off work, the road is too dark, and the mother can find the way home as long as she sees the lights at home, and a five-year-old girl lies on the windowsill every night waiting for her mother to return late from work, what a torment and loneliness.
But Dean He's daughter didn't complain at all, no matter how Dean He told her daughter not to wait for her in the future and go to bed early.
Dean He still remembers his daughter's words very clearly, as if it was a brand deeply engraved in his heart.
At that time, Dean He's daughter said that she was afraid to sleep alone, and she was afraid that she would not see her mother when she woke up tomorrow.
Because Dean He's job at that time was an assembly line worker in an electronics factory far away from his home, he worked at a high intensity every day, and the working hours were beyond ordinary people, so that Dean He was exhausted after returning home every day, leaving work at 11 o'clock in the evening and going to work at 8 o'clock the next day.
Because his family lives far away, Dean He has to get up early and walk to work every day in order to save the bus fare of one or two yuan.
The five-year-old child slept late and was more sleepy, and Dean He woke up too early, so Dean He's daughter might not see Dean He for a day.
On weekends, Dean Ho's daughter is entrusted to the care of a neighbor, while she goes to work and returns too late in the evening.
For Dean He's daughter, perhaps only when Dean He comes home from work can she see her favorite mother, which is also the happiest time for Dean He's daughter.
No matter how late it is, Dean He's daughter will wait for her to come home, a five-year-old child who has to get used to being alone.
Moreover, after paying off the expenses for her husband's medical treatment before his death, Dean He basically had no savings, and the house was sold to pay off debts, so he could only rent a small house of less than 20 square meters in a shanty town.
In the past, the well-known public security conditions in shantytowns were chaotic, and messy things could be seen almost everywhere, which was related to the fact that most of the residents living in shantytowns at that time were middle- and lower-class working people, and their quality was limited after all, which also gave rise to a lot of bad habits of cheating, abduction, and abduction.
Even illegal and criminal things are not uncommon, and it was the dirtiest and messiest place in Donghai City at that time.
Just imagine, a single woman with a daughter, living in such a place with such conditions, there is no need to say that she is afraid every day, and most importantly, Dean He has to go to work every day and can only leave her children at home.
What can a five-year-old do?
When other children are playing, she can only watch, sometimes when she wants to go out to play, she is afraid of being bullied by bad people, Dean He told her daughter that when she is not at home, she must not go out, there are bad people outside.
The little girl has always remembered her mother's words, did not dare to go out to play, basically completely lost the opportunity to contact with children in the outside world, except for being able to play with other children when she was in kindergarten, after returning home, she could only lie on the windowsill through a rusty iron window and watch the children downstairs jumping happily, and the envy in her eyes could not be stopped, so that the neighbors around her looked distressed.
How many times have someone introduced Dean He to a remarriage partner, after all, a single woman looks pretty good, and there is definitely no shortage of people around her who will introduce her to her.
Dean He also thought about finding a stepfather for his daughter if he couldn't do it at the beginning, anyway, it would be good for his daughter's growth, after all, in the growth of a child, the lack of father's love is indeed not very good.
Regarding the issue of finding a stepfather for his daughter, Dean He also tried to communicate with his daughter, saying that it would be good to find her a father.
The answer her daughter gave her made her feel distressed again, and the daughter asked Dean He very innocently, if she wanted to get her father back, and the father she found would be as good to her as before?
This is a question asked by a five-year-old, very simple, very innocent, but it expresses how tall and tall the image of her father is in her heart.
Dean He told his daughter at the time that the father he found for her in the future would definitely treat her as good as his biological father, and in his daughter's seemingly happy smile, Dean He could also feel a sense of loss, which was missing her father.
However, for the sake of the child, Dean He still tried to get along with a few people who were ready to remarry under the introduction of others, but unfortunately when the other party heard that she had a five-year-old daughter, he either disliked her for carrying a drag oil bottle or asked Dean He if he could have children in the future.
It was a very direct and clear question, but Dean He didn't know how to answer.
She had a daughter, and she never thought about having another child again.
When she said her decision, the other party immediately changed her previous pleasant face, relying on their superior conditions than Dean He, and picking her nose and eyes.
Dean He thought at the time, since he wanted to give the child a new home, the natural conditions should be better, otherwise the child would have to suffer with himself in the future, and in order to take care of the child's feelings, Dean He did not plan to have another child.
These conditions are very common and common now, but under the circumstances at that time, the reform and opening up was not long ago, and many people's concepts were not as open as they are now, and they were still very conservative, believing that it was a shame to have no son to inherit the lineage.
And almost all of them who met Dean He came with this idea, for a second marriage, it would be good if people didn't pick her conditions, after all, with a child, but Dean He also put forward some conditions for his daughter.
The conditions put forward are all beneficial to his daughter, and in the eyes of others, Dean He's behavior is a typical shamelessness.
promised to raise your mother and daughter, you are still picking fat and thin, do you really think you are a yellow flower girl?
However, after all, there was still a man who was more pleasing to the eye of Dean He and came into her life, who was very good to Dean He and her daughter, and the conditions were not bad, and he was also a divorced man with no children at home.
Dean He couldn't say how she felt about that man, anyway, she found a man to remarry and reorganize the family, and it was also for her daughter.
After a few months of getting along, Dean He took his daughter to marry the man who looked sven.
But everything seems to have changed overnight, just over a month after marrying that Sven man, Dean He found out that he had been fooled, the original Sven, the man who loved cleanliness, was gone, and was replaced by a sloppy, short-tempered man, who was completely different from before.
If it's just like this, Dean He can barely live for the sake of the child, after all, they are all combined, but that man is still a bad gambler, and when he gambles, he is not a person at all.
The person who introduced the man before said how good the man's conditions were, Dean He had also been to the man's house, and the conditions were indeed good, there was a small western-style building with good decoration, and there was also a car.
You must know that cars were not so common at that time, and 10,000 households would be envied by others for a long time, plus that man was polite and considerate to Dean He and the children, Dean He even felt that his happy new life was coming.
Overnight, all beliefs collapsed, leaving only a man who was lazy and scolded herself and her children all day long, and this kind of life was completely different from what she imagined.