Chapter 90 Welfare House
Sure enough, in the next few days, Chunyu never saw Ah Cai to give gifts again, she ignored the faint loss in her heart, and devoted herself to her new career.
She suddenly wanted to open a welfare home, which was the kind of shelter for the lonely elderly and orphans. Of course, in modern times, it requires a lot of financial resources, but here it is not needed, she has already thought of a good way to do good things and make money.
This welfare home was not something she thought about casually, but that day she went to find Uncle Dongzi and went with him to the courtyard in a remote alley in the west of the city. It was very shabby, seven or eight children, the youngest of whom was only three years old, and the oldest of whom was only twelve, and they were all thin and thin. The husband and wife who took care of them also looked poor, they ate vegetable soup and black nests, and their clothes were even more tattered, not counting the warm weather, and they didn't even have a thin cotton coat.
Chunyu couldn't believe her eyes, didn't she say that the big families in the city were all helping them? How can it still look like this?
It seemed that she was puzzled when she saw Chunyu, so the eldest aunt told Chunyu about the situation. It turned out that this aunt's name was Hongyun, and she was originally a maid of a large family, but later she met a robber when she went out with her mother, and she woke up injured but forgot a lot of things, but she remembered that she was called Hongyun and a maid of a big family, and she didn't remember anything else. The mistress and the others were gone, and she was hungry and cold in the wilderness, so she had to go on to find someone. Just walked to a village but was still a locust plague, there were not many people in the village, and there was nothing to eat, she met her current husband, Uncle Cheng, in despair. Uncle Cheng's family was empty, and there was nothing to eat, but he still gave Aunt Hongyun the little sweet potatoes that he secretly saved in the cellar and ate slowly. Hongyun was grateful, and it happened that she had nowhere to go, so she married Uncle Cheng, who was nearly ten years older than her. The two became married very simply, so they decided to leave their hometown to find a way to survive in Hongyun's Tiyì.
Later, they came all the way here, and the two of them went to find a buddy to take care of their lives, but after seven or eight years, they had no children. And Uncle Cheng accidentally sprained his waist while working, so he couldn't go out to do heavy work, so he could only weave some baskets and baskets at home with bamboo strips.
Later, a large number of refugees came to the city, and the adults were able to find their own jobs to make ends meet, but the children who had lost their relatives and become orphans due to the disaster had nowhere to go. The county government had no choice but to come forward to find a way to solve the problem, they first arranged for the children to live in the grocery room behind the county government compound, arranged food every day, and then posted big-character posters hoping that someone would help take care of these children, so they gave him the public yard that had been drawn in Dog's Tail Lane in the west of the city.
It's just that everyone here knows that Dogtail Alley is a remote old alley, where land prices and housing prices are extremely low, and it is not easy to raise a few children. So the big-character poster was posted for several days and no one went to reveal it, until Uncle Cheng accidentally saw it, and two of those children turned out to be from his village, so he discussed with Aunt Hongyun to pick up these children, and the whole family lived in this dilapidated courtyard. At the beginning, the county government also allocated some silver, and also called on the big families in the city to subsidize, but in the middle of the year, they began to send some coarse brown rice at will, and then they simply didn't even look good. So Uncle Cheng and Aunt Hongyun worked hard to support eight children, and this is three or four years.
Aunt Hongyun also said that she also lost some kind-hearted scholars to come, occasionally giving some things and money, and some came to teach the children to read and write.
Chunyu listened to the affairs of the two Cheng couples, in addition to sighing and sympathizing, she was more angry. These so-called big families are so hateful, and the waste of their family every day is enough for these children to eat. Chunyu didn't expect that Zhou Xu'an was also indifferent to this, she suddenly thought again that it was a wise decision not to enter the Zhou family, these rich people are saying one thing and doing another, so stay away from them.
Although this is not "Zhumen wine and meat stink, and there are frozen bones on the road." "But there's also a little bit of insinuation.
That's why Chunyu thought of this welfare home, and she thought of opening the welfare home to this dog's tail alley.
She asked Uncle Dongzi, this dog's tail alley is close to the city on the side of the moat, it is located in the middle of the country and there are few dilapidated families, and it is far away from the bustling market streets, so the land price is very low. And this alley is not long, and there are only a dozen of them in total. So Chunyu thought about going home to discuss with his family, and together with his close relatives, he bought this dog's tail alley with the land and belt house.
In fact, she wants to build a welfare home in the largest courtyard at the end of this alley, and when the time comes, it will be built in the form of a courtyard house, and the rooms will be more spaced, but each will open a window to let it breathe. Then open a small private school in the courtyard next door, in addition to the children in the welfare home to go to school for free, you can also collect low constraints, so that those who are not very good at the children can not afford to go to private school.
As for the money needed to build the welfare home, her family naturally paid for it in the early stage, but in the later stage, it was earned by this alley.
How to say this, she is going to make this alley a pedestrian street with all kinds of eating, drinking and merrymaking. It is in the form of the later generations, the pedestrian street is completed, and then the tenants are found, and they only need to sit and wait for the rent to be collected. As for whether there will be tenants to rent, it depends on the publicity in the later stage. However, this idea was also Chunyu's sudden inspiration, so she still needs to think about it carefully.
That's why she is ready to find relatives and friends at home, who can not only eat this whole street, but also earn money in the future.
In fact, the location of this alley is very good, but no one has seen the superior environment here, so let Chunyu steal a coincidence. There is a river behind here, which is cool and refreshing in summer, and the air is humid and not dry in winter, so it is the best place to go shopping.
Although this alley is remote, after the development of this place, Chunyu is also ready to discuss with Uncle Guo, so that he can not run around, and directly open a car shop on the pedestrian street to pick up and drop off people. In this way, people who come to shop do not have to worry about being too far away, and they can't take back too many things to buy. Moreover, Chunyu is also preparing to invent the rickshaw in the Republic of China period in advance, and she will not issue patents in vain, just let Uncle Guo's car dealer give two cents of profit.