The school has long been closed, but Jane Eyre still sticks to her post and is busy in the office all morning. After lunch and getting off work, she went home and told her mother to come back in the afternoon, and then called a taxi and asked the driver to help her stuff two large cardboard boxes into the trunk and back seat.

"Is Mr. Duan going to the welfare home?" Jane Eyre muttered as she was seen by two office colleagues passing by. "Yes. I've never seen her so active in other things in the past, but this time she is quite enthusiastic about organizing social practice in the welfare home. "Ahem, maybe there were too many gaps in my work grades last semester, so I'm in a hurry now." ”

The taxi sped all the way and soon arrived at the welfare home. Jane Eyre went to the communication room to say hello, and after a while, Dean Liu and a few male nurses came to the door. "Thank you, Mr. Duan, for making a special trip. Jane Eyre found that Dean Liu's haggard face was much more relaxed, which was about a relief after relieving some kind of burden in her heart. "You're welcome, Dean Liu, these are all the thoughts of the teachers and classmates in the school. ”

In recent days, in addition to writing and sending fake emails in English and French, Jane Eyre has also run fundraisers at the school. She called on teachers and students to donate toys, books and daily necessities to the children in the orphanage, "to send them the warmth of the New Year". Everyone's response was quite enthusiastic, not only the two boxes of things, but also more teachers and students donated money. Jane Eyre also gave the money to Dean Liu. Dean Liu wanted to keep her sitting for a while and introduce her to the children who were given toys and storybooks, but she declined. As she walked out of the gate of the orphanage, her gaze went beyond the holy stone sculpture to the second floor, where she vaguely heard the sound of childish laughter, which may not have anything to do with her, but she still felt a trace of comfort in her heart.

About 20 years ago, when Ms. Duan was a high school student, the school arranged for them to go to this welfare home for social practice every Saturday to help the staff take care of these children without parents and families. She was assigned to a ward on the second floor, where children with lower limb or brain disabilities lacked adequate means of transportation, many of whom were confined to small beds surrounded by railings on all sides, more like prison cells than cradles. Outside of their own ward, they could only see the scenery outside the window. When Jane Eyre and the others walked in to feed them and water, a girl with a slightly normal intelligence grabbed Jane Eyre. "Sister, sister, where are you from?"

"I'm from ......," she was about to answer "from home," when she suddenly remembered that her teacher had told them not to mention the word "home," so she said, "I came up the stairs." "What is a staircase?" "A staircase is a path of steps that runs from the outside of your house to the bottom of the house. "Can it be paved outside?" "No, it's the road that goes out." "What is the road for?" "The road can be used for people and cars. "What is a car?" "A car has four wheels and a compartment, and people sit in the compartment and let the four wheels carry themselves away, and they can go fast!"

The girl was very excited, pointed out the window and asked, "Where can you go by car and along the road?" "Where are you out of Beijing?" "Yes...... It's Hebei. "Is Hebei big?" "It's bigger, much bigger than Beijing." "Is there a road in Hebei?" "Yes." "Then where is it to walk out of Hebei along the road?" "Yes...... It's Tianjin. "Is Tianjin big?" "Uh, I haven't been, but...... It's big, and it's by the sea. "What is the sea?" "The sea is water...... A large area, full of water. "Is the sea as big as our house?" "Haha, of course, it's bigger than a thousand of your houses combined." "Is there a road on the sea?" "No, you have to cross the sea by steamer." "What is a ship?" "A ship is as big as this building, big enough to house all of you, and can move like a car over the water." "Wow," the girl pulled her tighter, "can the steamer pull me to the backyard?" "This ...... This is not possible, the ship can drive on the water, and it cannot move without water. "Oh, what's on the other side of the sea?" "Yes, it's the American ......"

Jane Eyre never knew the girl's name, but every time the girl saw the big sister, she was so happy that she wanted to sit up by leaning on the railing. "Is there a road in America?", "How far is the sun from our windows?", "Do watermelons grow from trees?", "Are whales the size of my bed?", every Saturday she tugged at Jane Eyre's sleeve and asked these weird questions about the world outside the window. Jane Eyre was amused at first, smiling and answering all questions, but after a long time, she became a little impatient. In addition, this girl was born with a crooked mouth and slanted eyes, and was helped by the staff to sit up several times, and her deformity and distortion were exposed again, which made Jane Eyre, who had a habit of cleanliness, disgusted.

Finally, near the end of the term, the last two social practices, Jane Eyre rushed to feed the other children as soon as she entered the ward, and let the girl call "sister, sister" without turning her head to look at it. Some classmates couldn't stand it and persuaded her: "It's not a few times, let's talk with her again." She went over to greet the girl, and hurried away before she could grab her sleeve, thus avoiding the last two Saturdays.

The results of this social practice were very satisfying to the school and the college, so on June 1 of the next semester, the students were sent to celebrate their birthdays with the children. Hearing that she had not been assigned to the ward on the second floor this time, Jane Eyre breathed a sigh of relief. After the birthday party, she couldn't help but ask her classmates on the second floor to inquire about the girl's situation, and the classmates told her: "It's good, two classmates in our class are with her, and I'm very happy." "Happy, happy, that means she's forgotten about me, right?" Jane Eyre comforted herself.

Years later, when she remembered this incident and her state of mind, Jane Eyre was filled with regret: how willful and stupid I was! The girl who could not walk, who might never get out of bed and could never get out of the stairs, wanted to know the colorful world outside the window through me, but I closed the window tightly. Especially at the theme class meeting that summarized the practical experience of the welfare home, she was also praised for chatting with the girl, and some classmates wrote him as an advanced model of this activity in the recitation works. In fact, she complained to her table mates at school that the child was difficult.

For more than ten years after graduating from high school, Jane Eyre did not go to that welfare home again, and the disabled and intellectually curious girl became a burden that she could not let go of for a long time. It wasn't until this time that the university where she worked planned social practice activities that she thought of the welfare institute on a whim and tried her best to promote the cooperation between the two sides. During this period, she went to the welfare home several times, but she did not see the girl back then. Naturally, given her age, she would definitely not be here anymore, and Jane Eyre was afraid to face her again. But there are many children in the orphanage who have the same experience as the girls back then, and mobilizing their students to help them with love can also be regarded as a form of compensation for Jane Eyre.

In the Chinese New Year's Eve, the number of buses has decreased and there are not many passengers. It was dark, and Xing Tian sat in a seat near the door in civilian clothes and closed his eyes to recuperate. "Hello, is this your child?" his ears caught the voice of a woman in the front compartment, and his eyes widened.

A young woman who had just gotten into the car stood next to a boy who was asleep in his seat, holding the armrest, and asked the people sitting in the front and back rows of the boy, "Hello, is this your child?" The woman whispered to the boy and slapped him twice, eventually waking him up. "Kid, where do you get off? The boy's voice was very small, Xing Tian didn't hear it, only heard the woman's next words: "Okay, if you are sleepy, you can continue to sleep, and I will call you when you get to the station." ”

The woman was about 20 years old, wearing a simple cotton coat and glasses, like a college student. Her voice was soft, and with the help of the dim interior lights, Xing Tian observed the sincerity on her face.

Xing Tian yawned and continued to close his eyes to recuperate, letting the colorful light outside reflect on his eyelids, and only the rumble of the bus was in his ears.