Twenty years ago, Jinlin City, the capital of Nancy Province, was a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Dingyang City, and 20 years ago it was just a small county town in ruins, with a total population of only 70,000 or 80,000.

On the street, it is dusty on sunny days, rainy days, muddy like a river, and the occasional car passing by, passers-by are panicking and avoiding, a little slower, the splashing mud paddle can make you a mud man.

With the reform and opening up in recent years, the economy of Jinlin, which is close to the provincial capital, has developed rapidly, the original county has also become a city, the low tiled houses have become high-rise buildings, and the streets have become clean and flat cement floors.

On a pick-up truck, a young man with slightly dark skin but very good spirit looked at the prosperous and unfamiliar everything, and his face showed a complicated look.

There is joy, hatred, love, confusion, and expectation.

He is Zhao Chen, all these years abroad, in order to hide his identity, he has always been disguised as a bearded man in his thirties, but in fact, now is his real appearance.

And Jinlin City is his hometown, but unfortunately, there is no home for him here, and there are no relatives for him, because he is an orphan, only a few months old, he was abandoned in front of the orphanage, he grew up in an orphanage, and then he was taken out of here and went to Yanjing.

After being plotted by the dragon group last time, it took him more than ten days to recover from his injuries, and with boundless hatred, he quietly returned to the dragon country from abroad.

He didn't go back to Dongfang Shenjian, because he knew that although the Dragon Group was the first special combat team of the Dragon Country, when the task was issued, it was issued by each special combat team independently, and it was impossible for the Dragon Group to know.

But now that the dragon group knows his actions, it proves that there are also people from the dragon group in the Eastern Divine Sword, and their status is not low, and he will undoubtedly send sheep like a tiger's mouth when he goes back now.

So, after thinking twice, he came to Jinlin City, which is his hometown, and after being away for so many years, he wants to come back to see the mothers who took care of him like his own son.

He wants to develop his own forces here, the strength of the dragon group is too strong, it is impossible to deal with him alone, he must have his own forces.

The pickup truck stopped suddenly, and the middle-aged driver smiled and said, "Little brother, Jinlin Orphanage has arrived." ”

Zhao Chen came back to his senses, a low-rise building with cement brick wall structure in the seventies appeared in front of him, and the long-term sun and rain made a lot of green flakes appear on the surface of the building, and the cement in some places fell off, looking very dilapidated.

It's out of place compared to the sleek modern buildings around it that's a dozen stories tall and covered with tiles.

But all this, in Zhao Chen's eyes, is so kind, so familiar, this is his former home, here are the mothers who love him, and there are partners who are orphans like him.

Recalling the memory of the past for a moment, Long Feitian jumped out of the car and came to the gate of the orphanage.

The rusty iron door was locked, and only a small door next to it was ajar, guarded by an old man with gray temples.

Zhao Chen walked up to the old man and said with a smile: "Uncle, can you help me open the door?" ”

The old man raised his head, looked at Zhao Chen, and said with a kind smile: "Young man, is there anything wrong with you?" ”

"I'm from Beijing, I bought some things, and I want to go in and see the children inside." Zhao Chen smiled and handed a box of cigarettes to the old man, although the old man did not smoke at this time, the smell of smoke on his body told Zhao Chen that he was definitely an old smoker.

The old man glanced at Zhao Chen's cigarette, he didn't know what kind of cigarette it was, but decades of experience told him that this cigarette was definitely not ordinary.

"Young man, I'll open the door for you, you can take back this cigarette, the old man doesn't dare to smoke such a valuable cigarette." The old man smiled, took out a key, walked to the iron gate, glanced at the small truck outside the door, and said with a smile: "There are fewer and fewer caring young people like you now. ”

"I'm out of here too, and I'll be back today." Zhao Chen smiled.

"Oh, you're out of here, too?" The old man looked at Zhao Chen in surprise, and then smiled: "Also, the Jinlin Orphanage has been established for more than thirty years, and there are thousands of children who have lived here. ”

The old man opened the iron door and said with a smile: "Okay, come in." ”

Beckoning the driver to drive the pickup truck in, Zhao Chen stuffed the cigarette in his hand into the old man's bag, and said with a smile: "Trouble you, uncle." ”

The old man originally wanted to postpone it, but Zhao Chen ran in early, he smiled, didn't catch up again, walked back again, took out the cigarette given by Zhao Chen with a happy face, and enjoyed it.

As soon as you enter the courtyard, you will see groups of children playing in the yard, ranging in age, the youngest of whom has just learned to walk and is being carried by the older children.

The older ones are fourteen or fifteen years old, but they all have disabilities.

The entry of the pickup truck immediately attracted the attention of the children, who were not afraid of life, on the contrary, everyone gathered around, and there were many caring people in the orphanage, and these children were used to it.

"Uncle, are you coming to see us?" A little girl of three or four years old with big eyes looked at Zhao Chen curiously.

"yes." Zhao Chen touched the little girl's head and asked with a smile, "Little sister, what's your name?" ”

"My name is Lin Chen." The little girl replied immaturely, but her big eyes looked straight at the small truck behind Zhao Chen.

Zhao Chen smiled slightly, walked to the front of the pickup truck, took out a large cardboard box from it and put it on the ground, took out a red apple and handed it to Lin Chen, "Little sister, uncle invites you to eat apples." ”

"Thank you, uncle." Lin Chen happily took the apple handed by Zhao Chen, while the child next to him looked at Lin Chen with envy, and some of the little guys' saliva flowed out.

"Don't envy Lin Chen, everyone has it." Zhao Chen smiled, took out the apples from the cardboard box and handed them to a few children.

"Thank you, uncle."

Several children who got the apples shouted sweetly at Zhao Chen, and then obediently retreated to the back, while the other children surrounded Zhao Chen.

However, the children were not crowded, but rather orderly.

Looking at these happy children, Zhao Chen couldn't help but think of his childhood, when the supplies were not as abundant as they are now, and there were very few people who came to the orphanage.

Because these people will more or less bring something for themselves, especially some snacks.

The truck driver saw that Zhao Chen was too busy, and also stepped forward to help, listening to the happy smiles of the children, the driver also rejoiced in his heart, and told the children while posting: "You have to wash it before you can eat it, otherwise you will have a stomachache." ”

After sending out two boxes, the children who gathered around were finally distributed, and only a few children aged fourteen or fifteen years old remained, who were just standing from a distance and watching, but from their intently looking eyes, it could be seen that they actually wanted it too.

Zhao Chen glanced at the older children and found that they were all disabled, two of them needed crutches, two were in wheelchairs, and one only had one arm.

I found a few small bags from the car, Zhao Chen filled four apples in each, and walked over, several disabled children looked at Zhao Chen coming, and subconsciously wanted to leave, but Zhao Chen's speed was obviously faster than them, and as soon as they turned around, Zhao Chen came to them.

"Seventeen years ago, I lived here." Zhao Chen looked at a few people and handed them the bag containing apples with a smile.

Several people were stunned, and the girl in the wheelchair asked, "You really lived here." ”

"Of course." Long Feitian smiled: "And I have lived there for nine years. ”

The girl hesitated, then took the apple handed by Zhao Chen, nodded, and said, "Thank you." ”

With that, she departed.

Several other people also took the apple handed by Zhao Chen and said, "Thank you." He left with the wheelchair girl.

Looking at the backs of several people, Zhao Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, most of the children in the orphanage were discarded by their families, and only a small part of them lived here temporarily because their relatives had an accident or were abducted and could not find their relatives.

But whatever the reason, their hearts are hurt to a greater or lesser extent.

A large number of them are discarded because of physical disabilities or serious illnesses.

These disabled children themselves will have some low self-esteem because of their physical defects, coupled with being abandoned by their relatives, which makes them more psychologically repulsive to others, feeling that they are inferior to others, and even some develop autism.

These children are like this, they were reluctant to come over just now, not because they didn't want things, but because they didn't want to contact outsiders, but when Zhao Chen said that he also walked out from here, they felt that Zhao Chen and them were the same people, equal, so they accepted Zhao Chen's things.

"Thank you, sir, for coming to visit these poor children."

A voice suddenly sounded behind Zhao Chen, and as soon as Zhao Chen turned around, a woman in her forties and dressed plainly was walking towards him.

"Mother Lu!"

As soon as he saw the woman, Zhao Chen's whole body trembled, his eyes moistened all of a sudden, and he rushed to the old man in a few steps, although she was much older than she remembered, but her appearance did not change much.

"You know me?"

The woman was stunned for a moment, obviously a little surprised by Zhao Chen's title, but after looking at it for a long time, she didn't know it at all.

"I'm Zhao Chen, the naughty and mischievous Zhao Chen who always fights with others." Zhao Chen's face was red, his tone was anxious and fast, he was very excited, he reached out and grabbed the woman's hand, and the woman was so frightened that she took a step back.

"Zhao Chen?" Seeing that Zhao Chen's excited appearance was not pretending, the woman thought about it, and suddenly said in surprise: "You are the Xiao Chen'er who was taken away by the old dean's son?" ”

The woman looked at Zhao Chen carefully, nodded and said excitedly: "Although I have grown up, my appearance has changed a lot, but the wheel corridor has not changed, it is indeed Xiao Chen'er." ”

"The old dean's son?" Zhao Chen was stunned for a moment, obviously not understanding what Lu's mother meant.

"Don't you know that Zhou Ping, who took you away back then, is the son of the old dean." Mother Lu said in surprise.