234. Golden childhood
There are still two days to go before the G12 summit in Hanzhou.
At 11 o'clock this evening, Noah's representative team, a group of more than 10 employees, has arranged a long-distance chartered tour bus to set off. Tomorrow before 10 o'clock at noon, you may be able to arrive at your hotel in Hanzhou City.
Today, Yao Yayao has one last important task that must be completed. In the words of the president of the previous step, Yao Yayao is basically ready in other aspects, and only the last "spiritual rest journey" is missing. Today, it's just a matter of filling in the final piece of the puzzle. Then, he can go to the battlefield with peace of mind to find the enemy to "fight for his life".
At ten o'clock in the morning, several cars of Noah's company, including a bus that is usually used to transport the company's employees to and from work, carried more than 40 employees of the company, and set off towards the Guangzhu Children's Welfare Institute.
Most of them are holiday interns, and their task today is to volunteer at a children's welfare home for half a day. Yao Yayao and Zhong Yixue are also among this group of people.
Noah's 100 vacation interns were divided into several batches, and each of them had the experience of volunteering in a children's welfare home. Yao Yayao and Zhong Yixue were assigned to the last batch today because they were busy preparing for the G12 summit.
Yao Yayao was very curious about today's work task. As for volunteering at the welfare home, he had never eaten pork or seen pigs running. The brothers and sisters who went there before said that the mobile phones were temporarily confiscated by the company's supervisors during the day's trip. Therefore, Yao Yayao has never seen any video or photo materials at the scene.
The brothers and sisters who have been to the scene do not complain about the company's harsh practices. Because the supervisor explained that the temporary confiscation of the mobile phone that day was just to not disturb the children's peaceful life, as well as to protect their personal portrait privacy from leakage. Considering that some people may not be able to control their own hands, they take random photos on the spot. Therefore, the only way to do this is to use the big trick of uniformly handing over mobile phones.
Sure enough, when he was on the road, Li Zhiqiang, the director of the office who served as the team leader, asked everyone to temporarily hand over their mobile phones. He said that there are many ways to do good deeds, but the one that makes a lot of noise in the process must also be the one that annoys people. Therefore, this trip should be as low-key and unassuming as possible. He took the lead and put his phone into a cardboard box.
This explanation is acceptable to all. So, except for the driver, everyone put their mobile phones with stickers with their names on them, and then put them in this cardboard box for the time being.
When everyone arrived at the welfare home, a small van with the conspicuous mark "McDonald" on the exterior also arrived at about the same time.
Next, more than 40 employees including Yao Yayao from Noah moved many food boxes on the pickup truck, as well as some stationery and toy boxes brought by the company, to more than 10 small classrooms where the children were.
It should be because Noah has already had friendly negotiations with the staff of the welfare home. In the small classroom, the tables and chairs have already been neatly arranged, and the children are all seated in groups, waiting for the arrival of the volunteers.
Today's lunch for the children is the food box that has just been brought upstairs. There are only three kinds of stuff: fries, chicken nuggets, and cola.
A large number of bright yellow fries were shining, almost covering the small tables. The children were cheering and excited.
Yao Yayao and other volunteers were tasked with dispersing and dismantling into multiple small classrooms to have lunch with the children. For example, help them squeeze ketchup, reduce their food grabbing speed, maintain dining etiquette, pay attention to hygiene, etc.
Maybe the kids don't usually have the opportunity to eat fries, and they like to eat the fries that are stacked in the center of the table without individual portions. Fortunately, the stuff is definitely full.
In the center of the table, a large number of golden fries slowly disappeared and ran into the children's stomachs. Yao Yayao suddenly felt very regretful, and he took the time to whisper to Zhong Yixue, who was not far away:
"It's a pity! If you can use your mobile phone to take a photo of the large number of fries that just went into the dining table and the children. I think this photo might be named: Golden Childhood. ”
Zhong Yixue nodded first, then shook her head. She also sighed and said:
"I understand and support the approach of the company's leaders. It's right that there are no photos on site. The peaceful life of children should not be disturbed by the complicated world of the outside world. ”
"It doesn't matter if you and I own this live photo. The most important thing is that the golden childhood may have been remembered in the memories of the children's personal growth! ”
When Yao Yayao heard this, he felt that this sentence was very philosophical in life, so he nodded yes. Then, the two looked at each other and chuckled.
After lunch, some of the children went to take a nap. Those who didn't want to take a nap stayed in the classroom, fiddling with some educational toys that Noah had bought from the company. And Yao Yayao and others were their companion instructors next to them.
Yao Yayao and Zhong Yixue spent a lot of effort together to finally guide a seven or eight-year-old boy to successfully assemble a combined building block tank car. This child is slightly mentally handicapped, so the guidance process is not easy. However, he has always persevered. And Yao Zhong and the others are not lacking in patience, and they are slowly instructing him throughout the whole process how to assemble them step by step.
When he was done, the little boy happily took the tank and ran to the bedroom to sleep peacefully.
Yao Yayao began to accompany another little boy and guide him to play with some jigsaw puzzle toys.
This little boy is so well-behaved and so smart. After a while, he looked left and right, and saw that the nursery teachers were not present, so he suddenly asked Yao Yayao a question in a low voice:
"Big brother, do you have a mobile phone?"
Yao Yayao subconsciously touched his pocket, it was empty, and then he remembered that the mobile phone was temporarily handed over. So, he had no choice but to shake his head.
"You want to call? To whom? Yao Yayao was a little surprised.
The child shook his head and said, "Some of my older brothers and sisters who used to come here occasionally let us play those games on their phones. Those are fun, I want to play. However, the teachers also said that those mobile games were toxic and should not be played by children. The teachers said that if you play those games a lot, you will end up with no food and will have to be a little beggar on the road. ”
Blinking his watery eyes, the little boy suddenly asked curiously, "Big brother, are there any non-poisonous games that children can play?" ”
Yao Yayao suddenly felt a lot of emotion in his heart. He thought for a moment, then nodded, and said very seriously: "Not yet, but soon." ”
The child was pleasantly surprised and said, "Really? How do you know? ”
Yao Yayao said: "Because of my eldest brother, I am specialized in making games. We will definitely design non-toxic video games, and then let all children in the world have fun playing in the future. ”
The little kid suddenly stretched out his hand and unfolded it, giving Yao Yayao an intimate moment of hug, and then he said, "Big brother, don't lie to people!" I'm one of my favorite video games. ”
Yao Yayao stretched out one of his tail fingers to him: "Pull the hook and hang it, it will not change for a hundred years." Brother, I must be talking and counting. ”
The kid seems to have learned this trick long ago. He also stretched out one of his tail fingers, and then the two gently pulled each other a few times back and forth as if they were in a tug-of-war.
Throughout the afternoon, Yao Yayao and all the volunteers from Noah were accompanying the children in the small classrooms, teaching them to play with educational toys or something.
At about five o'clock in the afternoon, everyone Mingjin withdrew his troops and ended today's trip to the welfare home as volunteers.
On the way back, everyone got their phones back. On the way back, there were not too many people on the bus, and there was a relaxed mood to chat. Everyone was silently fiddling with their phones.
Today's trip allowed Yao Yayao and other holiday interns to fully see some of the dark sides of society. This, everyone's hearts at this time, can't help but feel a little heavy. Everyone didn't speak at this time, not because of work fatigue, but because everyone's inner feelings, they all felt a little depressed.
No matter who you are, you will not feel too happy in your heart when you see so many cute winged little angels in the welfare home at once.
The country has given love, and the enthusiastic people in society have also continued to give love. However, no matter how these loves are superimposed, they cannot completely replace the blood love from their biological parents.
That night, Yao Yayao suddenly had a whim, so he went to Noah's official website and checked some public information bulletins in the company. He found that today's trip to the welfare home is completely unrecorded. There are no videos, photos or transcripts on the official website, and there are no clues at all. It's as if this never happened.
Then, for the sentence "good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles", Yao Yayao began to have a vague understanding. He also began to know that for the same thing, different people and different angles to cut into, the final result may not be the same.
In other words, the supreme philosophical guidance of the four words "silence is golden" can be applied in many ways.
(Preview of the next chapter: "The Practice of Parting")
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