Chapter 17: A monkey who is not a monkey
The Sunshine Welfare Home was already on the edge of the town, where it used to be a granary, but it was abandoned more than 30 years ago, and the front office building was renovated to become the only children's welfare home in the city.
Bang!
Li closed the door as lightly as he could, but it was still inevitable that there would be a screeching sound of scrap metal colliding, and even so, the door was shaking and shaking.
"Phew! White eyes, if you don't change Lao Tzu's car this year, I will not finish it for you! Seeing the scotch tape covered in the windows, Lee seemed to think of something that made him extremely angry.
"Dean Li, you're back!"
An old aunt in a flower jacket in her fifties ushered in, with a smile in her eyes.
"Sister Liu, you go first!" As soon as Li raised his hand, the bag in the safflower supermarket had already flown towards the old aunt.
"Slow down, don't break it, something!" Sister Liu stretched out her hand and hurriedly took it.
I have to say that Li Yiyan's strength is really good, and the bag in the safflower supermarket just fell into Sister Liu's arms.
"Little son!" Li smiled with a smile.
"Huh?" Sister Liu's hand trembled, and she almost threw the bag to the ground.
"Let's go, let's go upstairs first." Lee limped towards the mottled building.
The building is not large, only two floors, but the front and back are quite long.
On the second floor, in a large room, dozens of small beds were arranged in two rows, and the baby boy was lying on the edge of the bed, his eyes were round and curious, looking at the unfamiliar faces in front of him, still silent.
"Dean, this kid is really good, alas, he hasn't made any trouble until now!" Four or five old aunts were around, watching this little thing.
"Well, it's okay to watch! I'm thinking about what to name this little son, and I have to fill in the information and hand it in as soon as possible. Lee lit a cigarette and frowned.
"Li Shuai!"
"Li Zhi!"
"Li Zhi is not good, his name is Li Wenming!"
A few old aunts, gossiping and ready to begin to decide the future of a small life.
Yes!
The baby boy seemed to be noisy, opened his mouth and shouted, constantly raising his hands and kicking his feet and twisting his body.
"Poof, this posture, how does it look like a monkey!" Sister Liu suddenly sneered, and the rest of the people lowered their heads and laughed as well.
The little guy's wrapped shoulder, I don't know when he stretched out one, pinned to the outside of his clothes, just on the door of his head, the little hand bent, the body twisted, like a monkey.
"That's right! Li Hou! ”
Li suddenly slapped his thigh.
"Li Monkey? Monkey? Dean Li, did you really give him this name? A few old aunts began to laugh.
"Wait, Hou Ye's wait, not a monkey's monkey!" Li puffed out his cheeks at a glance and didn't have a good airway.
"What kind of monkey grandfather, monkey grandfather is the same, isn't that still a monkey!" A few old aunts laughed even more.
"Alas, you guys, it's terrible to be uneducated!" Li looked helpless at a glance, and his head shook like a rattle.
“……”
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Don't cry, don't make trouble, don't be picky eaters, never get sick and grow big.
This little monkey is really easy to raise!
This is the unified evaluation of Li Hou by the seven old aunts of the Sunshine Welfare Institute.
only knows how to eat and play, this kind of time is the best, time passes day by day, and Li Hou's childhood is so plain and bland.
In this remote small town welfare home, there are not many children, only more than 40 people, and the oldest is only 14 or 5 years old.
Although Li Yiyan will bring a few children to join every year, some people have left, and some couples who are unable to have children often come here to see if there are any children who have fallen in love.
In general, girls are more popular than boys, and beautiful are more popular than ugly, and the reality is so cruel!
Li Hou, in fact, in the past few years, has been favored many times, because he is more pleasing, white and tender, and has a smiling face all day long.
But the strange thing is that Li Yiyan did not agree with the couples to take Li Hou away for the first time, saying that he wanted to choose a good family environment for the little monkey. In this regard, several old aunts were puzzled and persuaded them, but Li Yiyan stubbornly did not listen to anyone's opinions.
Funds are tight, funds are tight! This sentence is often on Li Yi's lips, and he seems to have forgotten it himself at this time.
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Time passes, more than ten years.
The Sunshine Welfare Home has been renovated several times, and although it is still so big, it looks a little more like it used to be.
The old aunts have changed a stubble, and the children inside continue to come, grow up, leave, come and go more, familiar faces are replaced by new faces, compared with more than ten years ago, the only ones who are still there are only two people, one is Li Yiyan, and the other is Li Hou.
Li is even older at a glance, a man in his seventies, his face is full of vicissitudes, he is still the honorary dean, but the positions he once held have gradually been replaced, it's not that he doesn't want to do it, it's really that he has more than enough heart and strength.
His legs are no longer able to support his body and he is confined to a wheelchair every day, but even so, he still likes to move around in a wheelchair.
Li Hou, who is seventeen years old, is in the first grade of Ningma High School, not far from the welfare home, and is already a young and sunny teenager at this moment.
"Little monkey! Come here. ”
Li Yanyan, who was sitting in the shade to avoid the sun in the western mountains, just saw Li Hou who had just walked into the gate of the welfare home with his cat bent over, and immediately snorted.
"It's coming, it's coming!" Li Hou turned his head, his face changed from cautious to full of smiles, and he ran over one by one, "What instructions does the old man have?" ”
"You kid, don't pretend garlic for me, yesterday you said you had too much homework, but today is Friday, and the day after tomorrow there is time, this time there is no excuse!" Li looked at him with a straight face, and seemed to be very dissatisfied.
"Oh, old man, I twisted my foot when I went downstairs at school today, you saw it just now, or next week, right?" Li Hou cried and mourned, squatting in front of Li Yanyan's wheelchair and rubbing his left foot.
"Hey, you kid want to be lazy? Get up, stop acting for me, play this little trick in front of me, there is no door! Li glanced at Li Hou with disdain.
"Old man, what I said is true, I really twisted my feet!" Li Hou shouted.
"When you ran over, although you looked limped, your stride was light, and your left foot and right foot were exactly the same distance, and you told me that you twisted your foot, telling a joke?" Li squinted and smiled.
"Huh?" Li Hou was stunned for a moment, and instantly drooped his head.
"Alright, put the things back, I'll wait for you at the old place!" Li turned the wheelchair and began to go to the back of the welfare home, and behind the wheelchair, there was a big civet cat chained.
"Oh, okay!" Li Hou walked into the antechamber of the welfare home weakly.
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Chirping...... Quack Quack ......
The heavy iron door was pushed open by Li Hou A gap, his body twisted dexterously, and he had already drilled in, and with a push of his hand, the door slowly closed again.
This is the abandoned granary behind the welfare home, which has not been dismantled for many years, and it is just like this, and some old urban construction machinery and equipment are piled up here waiting to be scrapped.
It is said that this is because the main direction of the planning and development of the small city is in the south of the city, and here is the north of the city, and further north is the continuous Xiaoma Mountain, and there is no room for development at all.
The sun in the west mountain still has some afterglow, shining into the warehouse through the high windows, all kinds of equipment are put together in a mess, the bucket groove of the bulldozer, the mechanical arm of the excavator, the big tires taller than adults, the huge rusty engine, and even a bunch of basketball hoops, which occupy eighty percent of the space of the warehouse, and the granary, which was originally very tall, looks a little gloomy and depressed.