Chapter 153: The Orphanage
"Isn't there no need to donate to them anymore?"
"In fact, charity doesn't have to be about donating money and materials."
Lu Mengxuan pursed his lips and smiled, pondered for a while and continued: "That's it, I'll take you to a place to have a look." ”
"How long will it take? Don't have coffee yet? ”
Zhang Yang was also curious about where she wanted to take herself, but dozens of cups of coffee could not be wasted.
What's more, there is still today's promotional video to be filmed, Feng Yanran has made an appointment with others, and she has to do her best to fool Lu Mengxuan.
"I'll be there in a moment." After Lu Mengxuan finished speaking, he turned his head sideways and shouted to the waiter not far away: "Waiter, you help me put the coffee in the cup." ”
There was a big water cup on the side of her backpack, and she took it out and handed it to the waiter and said, "Just pour out the water inside, the coffee is in it, and my water cup is very large, it can hold two cups." ”
Soon the waiter returned the water cup, Lu Mengxuan took him out of the coffee shop, and then said, "You wait for me for a while." ”
After speaking, he quickly ran to a supermarket next to him and returned after ten minutes.
Caught a taxi on the side of the road, and the two headed for the suburbs.
The road became more and more rugged, and the location became more and more remote, and finally stopped in front of a row of red brick houses.
The two large rusty iron doors were closed, and a white sign hung next to them, which had long been worn out by the wind and sun all year round, and even the handwriting on them was difficult to read.
Lu Mengxuan explained that the taxi would wait for about half an hour, and of course the taxi fee would be added.
No way, you can't take a taxi in such a remote place.
Then he walked to the iron door, pushed the door open, and walked inside with Zhang Yang.
The courtyard is obviously an abandoned factory, and a corner is full of various machines and equipment, which are also rusty, and it looks like it has not been used for many years.
As we got closer to a row of rooms, there were bursts of children's laughter and crying.
"Teacher Lu, you're here."
A door opened, and out came a middle-aged woman in her forties, bloated, with a red face and a simple smile on her face.
Holding a black iron pot, he immediately greeted Lu Mengxuan when he saw him.
"Aunt Wang, how are the children doing?"
"Very well, they are looking forward to your coming."
Aunt Wang was stunned when she saw Zhang Yang behind Lu Mengxuan, and asked suspiciously, "......Who is this?"
"He is my friend Zhang Yang, and he is also very fond of charity, so I took him to see these children." Lu Mengxuan explained with a smile.
"Well, if only there were more people like you, these children would have a better life."
When Zhang Yang heard their conversation, he couldn't help but blush when he thought he was cheeky.
How can I have any philanthropic thoughts? It's just that he wants to rely on this method to let Lu Mengxuan make a promotional video for himself.
It's good now, but I'm moved by her behavior.
"Charity is glorious, and I also do my best to help these poor children."
There is no need to guess that Zhang Yang also knows that this is an orphanage, even if he blushes, he has to put gold on his face without shame, but for the first time, he tasted the taste of shame and self-shame.
"Let's go, let's go in and see the kids."
Lu Mengxuan was very satisfied with his words, with a sweet smile on his face, he glanced at him and turned around and walked towards the house.
"Hmm." Zhang Yang casually agreed and followed.
The green paint on the door had peeled off and looked dilapidated, and when it was opened, a dozen children were playing and frolicking in the large room.
The house was very tidy, but the tables, chairs and benches were also very old, and some scattered children's toys were incomplete.
"Aunt Xuanxuan, what about the picture book you promised to bring me?"
"Aunt Xuanxuan, Xinxin peed her pants again a few days ago."
……
When the two entered the house, there was no lively atmosphere of children jumping up with joy, only a few children moved their immature footwork.
It was all plain, but it made Zhang Yang's heart tremble.
The little boy had white hair, snow-white skin, and a weak and sick look on his immature little face, which at first glance showed that he had congenital albinism.
There are also large, bright eyes, but they are born with cleft lip and palate, and the small lips are naturally mutilated all the way to the bottom of the nose, revealing white teeth and making a muffled childish voice.
……
"I brought it to you, look, there's a cartoon doll on it!"
Lu Mengxuan squatted down, opened his backpack, took out a coloring book in it and continued: "What about Xinxin, didn't you say last time that you wouldn't pee your pants?" It's time for Auntie to spank him this time. ”
"Aunt Wang said that he was sleepy, so she didn't let us disturb him and carried him somewhere else." The childish voice of the little girl with a cleft lip and palate said.
"Then let's not bother him, Xixi, this is the cartoon machine qì cat that Auntie brought you, it can sing!"
Lu Mengxuan took out a toy in his bag, and when he turned on the switch, a children's song immediately sounded, and Xixiqiao's face immediately showed surprise.
"Guoguo, Auntie brought you chocolate." Lu Mengxuan walked up to a little boy with a dull gaze and a little boy who lowered his head and played with his fingers, and said with a smile.
The little boy looked at her, but there was no response, not even bothering to glance at the beautifully packaged chocolates.
"Come on, Auntie feeds you."
Lu Mengxuan was not angry, opened the chocolate, broke a small piece, and gently placed it on the side of Guoguo's mouth.
Guoguo opened his small mouth, and after taking a bite, the sweet taste attracted him, and then he reached out and grabbed the chocolate and held it tightly in his hand.
"I know that you are a little glutton, and you love face like a little man." Lu Mengxuan smiled and touched the little boy's hair, turned around and began to divide the contents of the bag for each child one by one.
Candy, pencils, ragdolls......
After dividing the things, Lu Mengxuan picked up the backpack, walked in front of Xixi again and said, "Xixi, Auntie is back, you are their little sister, you must remember to take care of them." ”
"Well, don't worry, Aunt Lu, goodbye." Cissy hugged the toy in her arms tightly, waved her hand, and spit out immature and vague words of goodbye.
After the two walked out of the house, Lu Mengxuan's pretty face, which was still smiling with sunshine just now, instantly dimmed a lot, let out a long sigh of relief, and turned to leave.
"Teacher Lu......" Aunt Wang hurriedly walked out of the room not far away and shouted.
"What's wrong, Aunt Wang?"
"It's not very cold yet, but these kids are weak, so I want to heat them up as soon as possible."
"I know Aunt Wang, it's winter soon, you can prepare a little more coal."
Lu Mengxuan opened the bag, took out the 5,000 yuan he was going to lend Zhang Yang just now, walked over and stuffed it into Aunt Wang's hand.
"It doesn't take so much."
"The rest is your salary, and then buy them some common medicines."
"Okay." Aunt Wang no longer shirked, and after pondering for a while, she continued: "Teacher Lu, Xinxin has already ......."
"I see."
"Alas, I would have liked to inform you and send this child to the crematorium, but after thinking about it, isn't that a waste of money? So I buried him in the open space behind the yard. ”
"I'll go back to Aunt Wang, and I'll come back in two days."
After Lu Mengxuan finished speaking, without waiting for Aunt Wang's answer, he walked quickly to the outside of the orphanage.
Didi ......
Outside, the horn of a taxi was rushed.
"What press, don't you see it's coming out?"
Zhang Yang was a little depressed, inexplicably irritable, and rushed over quickly and shouted to the driver.
"Dude, I'm going to eat too! It's not profitable to pull you on this trip at all, and it's not worth it to delay it for so long. ”
The driver was in his forties, dark-skinned, and his face was full of grievances.
"Didn't you just give you more money?"
"It's been more than half an hour, and I can pull several customers, how can I make this money?"
"Forget Zhang Yang, it's not easy, let's go back." Lu Mengxuan came over and persuaded him.
The two sat in the car, and the driver stepped on the gas pedal and drove in the direction of the city.
When the driver saw Zhang Yang's expression just now, he didn't dare to say more, while Lu Mengxuan looked out the window expressionlessly.
The three of them were speechless all the way, looking particularly dull.
"Why bother, make yourself so unhappy when you come here?"
Zhang Yang broke the silence, tried to squeeze out a wicked smile, and said teasingly.
"I'm not unhappy." Lu Mengxuan shrugged his shoulders and pursed his lips, revealing a relaxed smile.
"Really? Isn't that Xinxin already ......"
Zhang Yang thought to himself, that child is dead, can you not be sad? It's better for you to cry.
Although you used to be in the acting department, your acting skills can't hide from my eyes, and it's not good for your body to be stuffy in your heart.
"Death is a relief for him."
"You can't say that, it's better to die than to live."
Seeing that she was still so relaxed, Zhang Yang felt that she had thoroughly seen through birth, old age, sickness and death, and reached a kind of artistic conception, and continued to talk nonsense: "Are you still a teacher?" How ruthless is it? ”
"Really? What do you know? These surviving children do not have a happy childhood, and their illnesses are regarded and ridiculed by others even if they are in society, will they live in pain and shadow for the rest of their lives? ”
"And you still care so much about them?"
"I just want them to be happy while they're alive."
Lu Mengxuan continued with a calm face: "Actually, I can't bear to look at their pitiful appearance, but you see how clear their eyes are, they should have the same happy life and childhood as other children, but ......"
I really want to live another 500 years!
Zhang Yang's mobile phone rang suddenly, making Lu Mengxuan's pretty face stunned, and then gloomy.
Maybe this funny ringtone touched her sad feelings, although she also knew that Zhang Yang was not to blame, but she couldn't blame her disgusted feelings at the moment.
"Dude, what did you set up this ringtone, can you set one for me?"
The driver of the car came to be interested, turned around and asked with a smile.
PS: You're used to me changing Mondays and Wednesdays, right? Do you like it? Love me? How would I know if you don't sue me?