Chapter 340 Self-Help Project

"You say you're the first orphan? So this orphanage has been around for a long time? "I looked at the girl in front of me, no matter how I looked, she was already in her twenties, the same age as me, so this orphanage has really been established for a long time.

"I don't know how old I am, I think I'm about twenty years old, because when I was picked up, my mother-in-law said that I might be three or five years old, I don't remember, where my home is, where my parents are, how I came to this barren mountain, I don't remember, so I don't even know how old I am, but since then, I've been with my mother-in-law for seventeen years." The girl said.

"Seventeen years, that's a long time." As I spoke, I looked around and saw that this place had been like this for seventeen years, and no matter how I looked at it, I didn't feel that this was an orphanage, an orphanage that was completely incompatible with the orphanage. "Is there you here, and the old woman? Isn't there anyone else to help you? I just saw that you couldn't even breastfeed your baby. I asked.

"Originally, there were a few, when I was young, there were more than 20 of our children at most, nearly 30, and we were not too busy, they were all older children with younger ones, and this is how we all grew up slowly. But all the children who came with me left the orphanage, some never came back, some came back occasionally to see and send something, and a few did not come back, but from time to time they would send money back. In addition, we mobilized the children to go up the mountain to pick up the waste products before. Our lives are still okay. The reason why I stayed was because, you see, my face. The girl pointed to her face in frustration, the birthmark that took up almost the entire face, and it looked disgusting.

"You said that at the most of you, there were more than 20 children, all of whom were picked up? Isn't the odds of an abandoned baby here a little too high? I asked.

"You don't know this, our town was still very closed before, and even now the patriarchal mentality is very serious, so a newborn girl like me. A lot will be abandoned. I don't know why, but I've heard that it seems that a long time ago, there was a big family in this town. It's always been a raw girl. Women preside over household affairs. Even the marriage match must require the man to join the family, but then overnight, a major change occurred. Most of the family died, so it is said that it is unlucky to have a daughter in the family, and it will bring disaster to the family. The girl said very seriously.

"But what age is this, and it's still so feudal, isn't it a bit abnormal." I say.

"Now it's actually not anymore, because in recent years, the population flow in this town is very strong, many people in the town have moved away, about ten years ago, no one here will discard baby girls anymore, there were fewer children for a while, but now there are more and more slowly, and not only baby girls, now we also have a lot of baby boys, very strange, I don't know why, these children are under the age of one, some are even newborn, they are like an agreement, Always abandoned at our door in the middle of the night, we have picked up about three or four newborn babies at the door in the past six months. The girl said.

"This is really a strange thing, I have seen it on TV before, some mothers who have children out of wedlock abroad, they are not able to raise their children, they will put some baby boxes in some fixed places, so that these mothers can put their children in it, the ambient temperature and humidity of the baby box are strictly controlled, so many mothers even if they put their children in the middle of the night, they don't have to worry about the baby being frozen, and there will be people from the welfare home to check on a regular basis, whether there is a baby abandoned. People passing by will also call the welfare home when they see a baby in the baby box. I explained, "But is your orphanage also given such a role?" ”

"Is there such a thing in the world? Encourage mom and dad to throw their children. The girl's eyes widened and she said, "I've never heard of anything like this, eldest sister, you're from outside the town, can you tell me more about the things outside?" The girl said.

"You've never been out of town?" I asked, looking at the environment, there was no computer, not even a TV, I saw a radio in the yard, but I wasn't sure if it was good or not, because it was thrown on top of the scrap pile.

"Me? No, I've never been out, and I don't know what it's like outside the town. The girl said.

"It's okay, I'll tell you slowly when I have time later. By the way, I heard that you have a policy that didn't you say that you were going to move your orphanage to the town? You're so remote and shabby, it doesn't look like an orphanage. I said.

"You're talking about that funding program, right?" The girl said.

"Funding projects."

"Yes, at that time, it was said that there was an investor who heard about us and planned to move our orphanage to the town, but then it was not because the mother-in-law was too stubborn and said that she was unwilling to move out of this place, so in the end it had to be that they built a new orphanage in the town, and the mother-in-law felt that the environment there was better, so she hoped to send all the children over, but because they were not fully staffed there, there was no way to accept such a small child for the time being, so only the older children were sent over." The girl said.

"But you have to take care of so many children, it must be a lot of money, right?" My curiosity was piqued and I started asking questions.

"Ah, we don't dare to give the children bad food, every day we get up very early to boil millet porridge, feed the rice soup on it to the children, and my mother-in-law and I only eat the lower grains of rice, and eat two meals a day. In addition to the orphans who were away from home before, they would often send money back, and the scrap we picked up would also ask the pickup driver to help us take it out of the mountain to exchange for money and bring it back to us. The girl said.

"Is that the driver who sent me here, he looks a little fierce." I say.

"He is a veteran of the army, he used to drive in the army, and then it became the only way for us to get in and out of the mountain, he would come over once a day, never speak, you wrapped the things and put them at the door, he would take them away, and the next day he would put the money from the sale in the iron mailbox at the door. In addition, Uncle Gui will often give us some subsidies here. The girl said.

"Uncle?"

"Yes, although your uncle is inconspicuous, I heard that he is still quite powerful." The girl said.

"Didn't the government give you any money?" I asked, "You should have a part in the previous funding projects." Even if you can't move out of here, I should help you renovate this place and improve your hardware. I said.

"Hey, to put it bluntly, the town has wanted to give up on us for a long time, isn't it, when these younger children are moved to the town, there will really be no one, so we don't have a funding program at all, the so-called funding project is just a self-help project. However, the mother-in-law has already seen it very openly, and she said that she is also old, and then she thinks about guarding this courtyard by herself and growing old alone. But I don't want to leave, I also want to be here with my mother-in-law, I can't stand the eyes of people outside. The girl said.

"After all this time, I still don't know your name." I asked.

"My name is Peach Blossom, my mother-in-law named it to me, although I have never talked about peach blossoms, but my mother-in-law always says that my face is like a peach blossom." Peach Blossom said. I said in my heart that this mother-in-law really has a bodhisattva-like heart.

"What about the mother-in-law? What about her last name? I asked.

"I don't know about this, I've always called her mother-in-law since I was a child, and I asked when I was a child, but he said that it would be fine to just call her mother-in-law, so now I don't know what his name is." Peach Blossom said.

We were chatting energetically, and my mother-in-law over there called us over, and she was very anxious to hear the voice.

"Mother-in-law, what's wrong?" I ran over to my mother-in-law, who was standing outside the yard, and she had just gone out to spill the laundry water outside, and then she shouted.

"Over there, over there, see no." The mother-in-law pointed to a small downhill depression, "There's a child over there." The mother-in-law said.

Sure enough, following the mother-in-law's finger, there was a small swaddling cloth there, and a slight baby's cry could be heard. Peach Blossom took three steps and made two steps, ran over, picked up the child, and pointed not far away and said, "Mother-in-law, that person hasn't gone far yet." ”

The mother-in-law walked over tremblingly and took the child, "Hurry up and take a look, I want to see, this is the heartless one again." The mother-in-law said angrily.

I hurriedly followed the peach blossom to chase up, the mountain road is rugged and not easy to walk, the figure in front of me is not fast, I can't catch up, fortunately, the peach blossom is running back and forth on this mountain road every day, so it is special to walk the mountain road, it can be called a brisk walk. It didn't take long for him to catch up with the man. Peach Blossom grabbed the person from behind, the man let out an exclamation, Peach Blossom dragged her to death, the person was petite, only as high as Peach Blossom's shoulders, and had no strength to break free of Peach Blossom, so he could only fall to the side hard, trying to get rid of Peach Blossom's hand. But Peach Blossom's strength was too great, and as soon as the man fell like this, and then he was pulled by Peach Blossom like this, and he fell to the ground.

"Don't arrest me, I don't know anything, I didn't do it." The man whispered. I also came to them at this time, followed the prestige, I felt that at such a close look, this figure was very familiar, even the clothes I was wearing were so familiar, I walked over, put the shoulder of the person, and turned her whole person, the person's face was facing me, such a four eyes, startled me.

"How are you?" I exclaimed. (To be continued.) )