Chapter 001: Osmanthus
"The most painful thing in life is that people die and the money is not spent. ”
Every time Li Guihua saw this sentence, she rolled her eyes first, and then skimmed her cherry mouth. In her opinion, at least you have to have money first, and then you can have the following feelings, and she is a poor egg, so she can't experience this kind of life experience.
Maybe God heard her heart and gave her a big gift package.
Li Guihua never thought that she would experience it herself, she knew that she was so spiritual, she should worship the Bodhisattva more, beg the Buddha, anyway, she is idle, at least she has to wait for the money to be spent before going to Elysium.
She was an orphan who was thrown next to an osmanthus tree near the provincial orphanage since she was a child.
According to the mother of Li Lanli, the director of the orphanage, it was autumn, the blue sky and white clouds were like a wash, the sun was warm on the earth, and the warm autumn wind was blowing gently.
Good weather accompanied by a good mood, the dean's mother took advantage of these two good to go out to do errands, just went out to see a group of people in a circle, as a caring for everyone, concerned about life, caring for friends and neighbors of the enthusiastic person, she immediately ran over, with a vigorous posture, successfully squeezed to the center of the circle.
I saw a child crawling on the ground, wearing thin clothes, it was already a little cold in northern Hubei in October, especially in the morning and evening, the child only wore a shabby single coat, revealing his thin arms, and tried to crawl towards the crowd.
Now that family planning is strict, some families are desperately trying to avoid giving birth to a son, hiding in the countryside, hiding in relatives' homes, and even hiding in the mountains. gave birth to a son as he wished, the penalty money was on the household registration, it was tricky to give birth to a daughter, the better conditions didn't care about a mouthful of food, and raised it casually, and the bad conditions were directly given away or thrown away, and then they had to continue to give birth, no way, they couldn't let the family go to the end.
This year alone, the number of new children in the orphanage is several times that of previous years, all of them are girls, wrapped in cloth and thrown at the door of the orphanage, which is convenient and fast.
Li Lan looked at the child on the ground and sighed, not knowing whether it was discarded by her parents or unintentionally dropped.
After looking left and right, she was not surprised to see Sister Zhang in the crowd.
Sister Zhang is known as knowing Pepsi, where there is excitement, there is her, and there is nothing near here that she doesn't know. She likes to chat, and often goes to the east house to the west house, chewing her tongue by the way, and listening to other people's chickens and dogs.
After a long time, Sister Zhang did the job of being a matchmaker when she visited the door, and she knew all kinds of gossip and gossip, and most of the parents in the neighborhood would ask her when they were considering their children's marriages. Every time you succeed as a matchmaker, everyone will give some money to the matchmaker.
At that time, it was popular to go to the sea, Sister Zhang's son was a particularly discerning person, he mobilized his parents to open a marriage company, there were only three employees, his parents and him, he was responsible for formulating strategies, his father was responsible for reception, and his mother was an indispensable person, responsible for matchmaking, understanding the dynamics of each family and school-age children.
Li Lan slowly moved to the side of Sister Zhang, and before she could speak, Sister Zhang said the bamboo tube she knew as if she was cocooning.
"I don't know who put it, it's here in the morning. Sister Zhang relied on her eyesight trained by her years of matchmaking career and told Li's mother, "Another abandoned child, there are only two little girls of this age nearby, and those two girls are obviously fatter and whiter than the one on the ground." Parents left here, probably because they want someone to adopt, in case they can't be adopted, and your orphanage. ”
Li Lan really thinks that it is a waste for Sister Zhang to be a matchmaker, she should go to be a policeman, and look at the head of this analysis.
At this time, the little girl crawled to Li Lan's feet, grabbed her feet, and giggled. Everyone persuaded her to take the child away, and the families in the neighborhood all had children, and no one wanted to adopt them.
Li Lan asked Sister Zhang to help inquire and see if she could find the child's parents, and she took the child back to the orphanage first. She also had to go to the police station to explain the situation to the police to prevent people from saying that she was abducting and trafficking children.
She actually knew that the child's parents probably wouldn't come back to look for it, the child was yellow and thin, and he looked malnourished, and the family conditions were definitely not good, but she still had a trace of hope in her heart, hoping that the child was just accidentally lost.
Li Lan is also an orphan, she doesn't know who her parents are, she has been resentful, resentful, cried in the dead of night, I don't know why my parents want to throw her away, and even comfort her parents may have a last resort, but this can't change the fact that she is an orphan.
She is forty years old this year, unmarried and childless, and Sister Zhang doesn't know how many introductions she has took, but she has not succeeded. She devotes all her energy to taking care of the children in the orphanage and making up for their lack of love, and the children affectionately call her Mama Li.
A year has passed in the blink of an eye, and not a single parent has come to the orphanage to look for their lost child. Li Lan also gradually gave up, she named the child Osmanthus, in case the child's parents came to find it one day, the name would be understood as soon as she heard it.
Li Guihua grew up day by day in the orphanage, living a life that was more than enough, she had not seen the outside world, and in her eyes, eating enough was the happiest thing. Even though there were no toys, no good snacks, and no nice clothes, she had a great time.
Before the age of six, she knew that if she listened to the dean's mother, she would get extra rewards, sometimes an apple, sometimes a banana, and a bunch of sweet and sour, which the dean's mother said were grapes, and each grape was the size of a finger. When she first got the grapes, she counted them over and over again, and there were 32 of them, and each one was so delicious. At that time, her dream was to have apples, bananas, and grapes every day in the future.
She doesn't have a clever mouth and doesn't know how to please people, but she has a pair of powerful fists, and no one wants to rob her of food.
She was dark-skinned when she was a child, and no one in those families who wanted to adopt a child looked down on her, and Osmanthus felt that this was exactly what she wanted, and she didn't want to leave the dean's mother.
When I was six years old, volunteers came to the orphanage, a beautiful big sister, wearing a floral dress and a strange pair of shoes on her feet, with a "stick" on the back of the shoes, which was taller than the shoes that Osmanthus usually wore.
Osmanthus focused on what the big sister was carrying, she had a sharp nose and her favorite grapes in it. That day was also the first time Osmanthus had eaten biscuits, and she realized that there was something better than grapes and apples.
The eldest sister taught them to sing and read and write, and told them to study hard and be useful people in the future. She opened her eyes wide and asked why she wanted to study, and her eldest sister told her that if she studied hard, she would have biscuits, apples and grapes, and beautiful clothes and shoes. She learned that the shoes worn by her big sister were called high heels.
Osmanthus doesn't know what the use of looking good, and she doesn't care about high heels, she just remembers that if she studies hard, she can eat delicious food every day in the future.