Things filled the whole car, I sat in the co-pilot, Xiao Tingting drove, and the windy Q7 slowly drove out of the parking lot, arrogantly driving on the wide street.

"Tingting, where are we going?" After walking for half an hour, seeing the car on the third ring road, I was a little puzzled and said, "This doesn't seem to be the way to the company, right?" ”

"Who said we went to the company?" Xiao Tingting's face didn't have the flattery just now, and she chuckled at me: "Let's go to Wufeng Village." ”

"Wufeng Village?" I'm a little confused, I've been in Fuzhou for seven or eight years, and I don't know this place at all.

"Haven't heard of it?" Xiao Tingting smiled softly at me: "Then you stay honest, and I'll call you when the time comes." ”

After Xiao Tingting finished speaking, she concentrated on driving, and I picked up a copy of the information about the beauty game that the vice president put in the car, and browsed it boringly. Although the car is broken, the navigation system is installed, so I am not worried about Xiao Tingting getting lost.

After walking for nearly forty minutes after getting off the Third Ring Road, Xiao Tingting's speed slowed down, and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated compound.

"Here we are." Xiao Tingting pointed to the compound and said lightly.

I frowned, the compound was lonely at the foot of a hill, a jumble of broken bricks and low bushes. It may be that the age of the building is relatively old, and the skin of the outer wall of the compound has long since fallen off, if it weren't for the people walking around in the compound, I really thought that this place would have been abandoned a long time ago. At the entrance of the gate is a pile of rubble, and next to the pile of rubble stands a sign that has rusted - Wufeng Sunset Courtyard.

Xiao Tingting didn't look at it much, and when she got out of the car, she opened the trunk and moved all the big and small bags of things inside.

She was busy, and the figure in the compound flashed, but an aunt in her fifties, dressed simply, walked out of it. When we were still a few meters away, my aunt greeted us in non-standard Mandarin: "Two bosses, you are from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd., right?" ”

I was slightly stunned, could it be that this aunt is a hermit master, and you can know our identity at a glance?

I didn't speak, the little girl lifted the hair on her forehead with her hand, and smiled at her aunt: "Auntie, hello, I am Xiao Tingting from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd., Drunken Hongchen Charity Foundation, and I contacted you in the morning." ”

"Oh-oh-oh, I can remember your voice." Auntie's weathered face was suddenly full of smiles, and then walked quickly to Xiao Tingting: "You said you would come over today, but I didn't expect it to come so quickly, we didn't prepare anything." ”

"Auntie, we are all our own people, why are you so polite?" Xiao Tingting is familiar everywhere, and after greeting her aunt warmly, she pointed at me and said, "This is the boss of our Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd., Yu Wang." After hearing about the situation of our Wufeng Sunset Courtyard, he took time out of his busy schedule to come with me to greet the old people. ”

"Oh, hello Mr. Yu." My aunt looked at me with respect in her eyes, and said to me nervously: "We are really grateful that our little sunset courtyard can get your special care!" ”

"Uh...... Auntie, you ...... You're welcome. Hearing my aunt say this, my old face turned red and I stammered. I have been kept in my bones from beginning to end, if Xiao Tingting hadn't brought me here, I'm afraid I wouldn't have gone to any sunset courtyard to take a look at it in my life.

"Auntie, do you have a trolley here, it's hard to move so many things." Xiao Tingting seemed to see that I was at a loss, and pulled the topic away again.

"Oh, I'm patronizing and greeting you, you wait for me, I'll call someone to help." With that, the aunt hurried back to the compound.

"Tingting, what's going on?" I ran to the trunk and asked depressedly while helping Xiao Tingting unload things.

"Can't you see it?" Xiao Tingting chuckled: "The Spring Festival is approaching, let's visit the lonely old man on behalf of the company, it's as simple as that." ”

"You...... How do you know that there is a nursing home here? I said puzzled.

"Looks like you didn't care about that information before." Xiao Tingting glanced at me and said, "Wufeng Sunset Courtyard was funded and established by local well-wishers, and a fixed amount of money was invested every month, and it is said that more than 200 lonely and widowed elderly people were taken in in the heyday. Later, the good Samaritan unfortunately went bankrupt in business, and the Wufeng Sunset Courtyard gradually declined, and now only fifty or sixty people have been adopted. ”

"Huh?" I'm an ordinary person, where do I have time to care about these things? However, when I heard that well-wishers funded the establishment of a nursing home, I was also in awe: "The kind-hearted person you said can't continue to fund, and the government doesn't care?" ”

"This nursing home is a non-governmental organization, and although it has been recognized by the government, it is simply not enough with that little minimum guarantee." Xiao Tingting's eyes were slightly red, and she sighed: "I heard that the old people here only have thirty yuan of pocket money every month, and they can only eat half a bowl of rice per meal, and they can't be sent to the hospital in time when they are sick...... Ay. ”

"How so?" I frowned and said, "Aren't all old people's homes charged?" Besides, these old people don't have sons? ”

"Charges? Most people are not able to work, how can they be charged? Xiao Tingting glanced at me depressedly: "Can you grow your brains?" If there were sons, they would live in such a dilapidated old people's home? ”

"Uh...... "I was scolded by Xiao Tingting and didn't have a temper at all, think about it, if you really can't be with the elderly because of work or other reasons, even if you send them to the nursing home, you have to choose a good condition. The conditions of this Wufeng Sunset Courtyard are really ...... It's rotten to the extreme.

As we were talking, a few more aunts in their forties and fifties came out of the compound, pushing carts in their hands, speaking Fuzhou dialect that we couldn't understand, and pushing the things we brought into the courtyard lively.

"These are local villagers, who are equivalent to volunteers in society." Xiao Tingting explained to me, and then pulled me and the volunteers to carry my things to the storage room on the second floor.

After finishing the work, I didn't know what to do, but Xiao Tingting didn't see the outside at all, and she didn't think the old people were dirty, so she followed the volunteers to help some elderly people with limited mobility out of the room, and then helped to remove and wash the sheets, and she was very busy.

Maybe those old people think of me as a person of great status, so no one wants to get close to me, and they talk in the local dialect on their own, and I can't interject. Although I asked myself not to be a very sensitive person, I felt a terrible loneliness in their eyes.

"Mr. Yu, don't you feel bored?" The atmosphere in the old people's home was a bit oppressive, and I was about to find a place to smoke a cigarette when an old man in his 80s stood behind me on crutches.

"Not boring, not boring." I stood up in a panic and moved a chair from the side: "Old man, you sit." ”

"Thank you." The old man smiled at me, sat down and said, "Don't blame those old brothers and sisters for ignoring you, the long-term loneliness has made them a little closed, and it will take a long time to melt this barrier." ”

"No, of course not." I shook my head with a wry smile: "I'm not afraid of your jokes, this is my first time in the nursing home, and I don't know what I should do." ”

"Yes, there is a first time for everything, and it will be good to get used to it later." The old man took out a pack of five-yuan Gutian cigarettes from his pocket, handed me one, and said, "But then again, at your age, it is really rare to be able to take the initiative to care for us." ”

"You...... It's over. I took the cigarette and bowed my head.

Perhaps it was my modest gesture that won the old man's approval, or maybe the old man did not communicate with outsiders for a long time, and after smoking half a cigarette, the old man spoke again: "Let me tell you a story." ”

"Hmm." I listened intently.

There was a sense of reminiscence in the old man's cloudy eyes: "I don't know if you ever felt like this when you were a child, when you walked at night, you always felt that there were a pair of eyes staring at you behind, and you always felt that someone was following you...... Then you look back, but you can't see anything. The more you are like this, the more you muttered in your heart, thinking, those ghosts, monsters, maybe when they will come out and take your life. ”

The old man said it funny, and I hurriedly nodded: "You're right, I'm afraid most people will be like this when they are young." ”

"yes." The old man nodded and said with a smile: "Later, my old mother told me, she said, everyone has three lamps on their bodies, one on the top of their head, and the other two on their shoulders, which is the human [Three Flavors True Fire]. When we walk at night, no matter what sound we hear, don't look back, the light will not go out, as long as the light is on, no matter how fierce the demons and monsters will not dare to come near you. ”

I didn't speak, I've seen such legends in supernatural novels.

"I listened to my mother, and when I walked at night again, I was no longer afraid." When the old man said this, he changed his words and said, "Mr. Yu, what do you think I should do when I was young?" ”

"Uh......" I was stunned for a moment, and subconsciously guessed: "Entrepreneurs? ”

"Haha, you really can't guess." The old man laughed and said, "Let me tell you, I was a member of the Fujian Provincial Swimming Team when I was young!" ”

Me: "......"

Seriously, I'm a little bit of a pain in the ass, there are thousands of professions in the world, and it would be strange if I could guess.

"I had a very good score, and I had a private car when cars were not popular in China. Hehe, when I came back from a race, I was tired and collided with a truck on the opposite side, and my best friend in the passenger was killed instantly. Although I survived, the comminuted fracture of my left leg also made me say goodbye to my favorite profession completely. ”

"Huh??" My heart tightened, the importance of legs to normal people is self-evident, let alone to a strong swimmer?

I secretly felt sorry for the old man in my heart, but to my surprise, when the old man said this, there was no sadness on his face except for a little nostalgia for the past.