Chapter 15: Tongtong

At eight o'clock in the morning, the air was quite refreshing, the sun was not scorching, and it was just right to go out. The school is not far from the welfare home, and it takes a short time to reach the destination.

The door of the welfare home is an iron door with a pattern, and a few plush little heads look out in the gap of the iron door, and when they see Ji Chuan and his party, they jump and shout in surprise.

"It's my brother and sister who came to see us"

"Aunt Dean, come and open the door," chirped like a flock of sparrows.

"Come on, come on" A chubby woman about forty years old walked over, gently pushed away the children gathered behind the door, opened the iron door, and beckoned Ji Chuan and his party to enter the door. "The kids miss you so much, thank you for taking the time to spend with them," he said with a smile. The corners of the woman's eyes and eyebrows were covered with fine and dense lines, and when she smiled, it was deeper, and when she saw Chen Kou, she was happy with a hint of surprise, "What a beautiful woman, I haven't seen it before, and Xiaochuan looks like a pretty good match, the ...... of this dress is worn, what is it called, is it a couple's outfit." ”

Zheng Bo burst into laughter, a little out of breath, and patted Ji Chuan's shoulder hard. Ding Ranwei glared at Zheng Bo, took Chen Kou's arm, and explained to the dean, "Auntie, this is a classmate who just joined us, and Ji Chuan is a friend, and we are all friends." ”

"Oh oh auntie made a mistake, don't mind, but Ji Chuan, this kid is really good, down-to-earth, if there is fate, you can consider it, by the way, I don't know what your name is." The dean asked while holding Chen Kou's hand.

"Auntie, my name is Chen Kou, a freshman, in the English department, and Ding Ranwei in the same department"

"It's good, it's good, Auntie thank you for the children, thank you for your willingness to accompany them."

The five people over there were already surrounded by children, the children were scrambling to show them the pictures they had drawn, and the gadgets in their hands were stuffed into Ji Chuan's arms, talking about what had happened in the past half a month, pulling the corners of their clothes and arms, and refusing to let go. Zheng Bo has a ghostly temperament, the children are the most unscrupulous towards him, one by one they pounce on him, Zheng Bo who pounced is about to be unable to parry, Ding Ranwei is surrounded by well-behaved and clever little girls, looking at Zheng Bo's embarrassment, Ding Ranwei let out a merciless laugh, "Zheng Bo, what's the matter with you, you can't stand on your empty stand?" Well? ”

Zheng Bo was besieged and had no time to take care of it, He Jiayi and the others were also hurriedly stabilizing the little ga beans around them, and the dean seemed to be no longer surprised, scolding the children with a smile, "You see you are all so skinny, my brothers and sisters are about to be tired of being tossed by you." ”

"No, Aunt Dean, last time Sister Ran Wei said that she liked me the most," a chubby little boy made a fuss.

"You lie, Sister Ran Wei said she likes me the most." The little girl with a double ponytail fought back with sharp teeth and sharp mouth.

"Don't quarrel, children, Brother Zheng Bo likes you." Zheng Bo wanted to relieve Ding Ranwei, but he was quickly beaten to the bottom.

"It's not good, you don't look as good as Sister Ding Ranwei"

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Ji Chuan couldn't laugh, and explained to Chen Kou, "The children are very polite and cute, Zheng Bo is always not serious, and getting along with each other is like this hahahahaha"

The dean blew the whistle on his neck, and the children quieted down, (not restricting the children, nor is it a rule, only when they say something important or the scene is uncontrollable, they will whistle, and as soon as the whistle sounds, the children know to be quiet),

The dean took Chen Kou with one hand and introduced to the children, "This is Sister Chen Kou, in the future, I will accompany you with those brothers and sisters."

"Okay, Auntie is going to be busy, Ji Chuan, you can take Chen Buckle to familiarize yourself, the nursery staff are here, call me if there is anything."

The children saw that the dean's aunt was gone, and they surrounded them in twos and threes, the first time they saw Chen Kou, they were not familiar with it, and they seemed a little restrained, Chen Kou didn't know what to say for a while, Ji Chuan broke the strange atmosphere and asked a little girl holding a doll next to her, "Did your doll just get up, her hair was messy, let Sister Chen Kou help her comb her hair, the building blocks over there are scattered, how about building blocks together?" ”

The child is naturally not polite to play, and it is a beautiful sister who looks gentle, gossiping and saying yes, the little girl holding the doll jumped forward and grabbed Chen Kou's hand.

After playing for a morning, to Chen Kou's surprise, although there were many children, they were young and orderly, taking care of each other, and occasionally there were disagreements and quarrels, and soon reconciled again. Regardless of personality, every child is nurtured.

After lunch, the children fell asleep, He Jiayi and the two went back early, and Ji Chuan helped clean up the dishes and chopsticks.

Zheng Bo and Ding Ranwei were chatting with each other in the distance, and Ji Chuan and Chen Kou were chatting in the dishwashing room.

"How did it feel to volunteer in a welfare home for the first time?"

"The children are very well-behaved, much better than I thought, there should be a lot of people willing to adopt them, right?"

"The directors and nursery staff are very attentive and patient with the children, and there used to be many adoptions, but last year there was an incident of domestic abuse in adoption, and since then, the adoption conditions and follow-up visits have improved a lot, and the frequency of adoptions has decreased a lot."

"Why don't you bring snacks and toys for the kids this time? Was it the same before? ”

"We prepared it when we first came, and that was the last time, and the dean said that it was still the students who had no income and were not financially independent, so they couldn't do this. The children, too, would never ask us or any other volunteers for anything. ”

"I hope they can always be happy in the future......... Yes! ”

Chen Kou's words were intercepted by a black shadow that suddenly rushed out, and before he could see who it was, he felt that he was hit and sat on the ground, and then ran out of the panicked nurseryman, "Tongtong, come back, you recognize the wrong person"

Chen Kou looked at the little body called "Tongtong" on his body, four or five years old, different from those ruddy and energetic children, Tongtong was thin and small, with a sallow face, messy hair, and undried tears on his face.

As soon as the nursery worker came over to pick up Tongtong from Chen Kou's body, as soon as she touched Tongtong's body, the little girl immediately grabbed Chen Kou's clothes and wrapped her legs around it, like a little koala hugging her mother's body. The nursery staff walked around to Tongtong and comforted him softly: "Tongtong, you let go of my sister first, let's sit up and talk, okay?" ”

Tongtong turned her head to the other side, pressed against Chen Kou's chest, her voice was stubborn and hoarse, and she was crying, "This is not my sister, it's my mother, as soon as I let go, my mother ...... It's gone again."

It seemed that the two of them could not be separated for the time being, so Ji Chuan brought a chair and helped Chen Kou and her Tongtong to the chair with the nursery. Tongtong hung on Chen Kou's body, and soon fell asleep in Chen Kou's slapping. Carefully put it on the bed and cover it with the quilt, and no matter how atmospheric it is, I don't dare to breathe and bring it to the door.

The nursery worker seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, took a chair a little tiredly, and introduced Tongtong's situation with Chen Kou.

"Just call me Sister He, I've been here for ten years, but this is the first time I've seen this situation" Sister He sighed.

"Very well-behaved child, but the fate is not good, Dad committed a crime, was shot, Mom was mentally stimulated because of this, put Tongtong at our door, and the child said that he would come back after a while, who knows that he never came back, this was a week ago, called the police, and there is still no news at all, Dad's side of the responsible relatives are gone, Mom's side, alas, don't mention it, there is only one eighty-year-old grandmother, who died not long ago, no one knows where Tongtong's mother went, these are still Tongtong's words. The surveillance happened to be broken that day, and it was difficult to find someone. ”

"So how did Tongtong get over these days?" Chen Kou was worried.

"The police said that before finding Tongtong's mother, Tongtong lived with us, this child did not cry or make trouble, nor did he play with other children, except for sleeping and eating, he just sat in the room and twisted the corner of his clothes, asked her, and did not talk much. Today, this is the first time I've taken the initiative to talk to someone. ”

"Maybe, I'm a bit like Tongtong's mother..."

"This child, alas, ........."

Suddenly, a shrill cry erupted in the room,

"Ah~Mom, Wow~, Ahhh~Mom~" stumbled out while howling, because he ran too fast, he fell hard. As if he didn't feel pain, he got up and continued to run, his face mixed with mud and tears. finally threw himself into Chen Kou's arms, whimpering indistinctly, because he cried too violently and kept knocking down,

"Mom, Mom, don't go..."

Chen Kou was a little unbearable, comforted, waited until he calmed down, and stood in front of him by holding the little girl's shoulders.

"Tongtong, take a closer look, is my sister my mother?"

I thought that the little girl would resolutely shake her head and deny and cry violently, and the three of them were ready to be appeased, who knows, the little girl with a red nose was silent for a long time, and smacked, her voice was hoarse and weak,

"I'm sorry, sister, you and your mother are like, that day, my mother also wore a white shirt, and this bow, my mother also has it, I really miss my mother's ......, is my mother not coming, she ...... Don't want me anymore......" Tears welled up in Tongtong's eyes again, one by one, smashed Chen Kou's heart was full of holes, she remembered that she went to the temple fair with her mother when she was six years old, but was dispersed by the crowd, and the horror of turning her head and finding no one now remembers it. Not to mention being abandoned.

Ji Chuan next to him sighed, the welfare home is such a place, and the word abandonment is here, and it appears very frequently. But it wasn't early, he quietly greeted Sister He, patted Chen Kou's shoulder, and signaled that it was not too early for her to go back.

Chen Kou was cautious, "Tongtong, is it okay for my sister to come to accompany you often in the future, but today, it's not early, my sister has to go to school tomorrow, will we meet next time?" ”

The little girl didn't cry, just a little sad, "Well, it's going to be a few days again." I'm afraid that my sister, like my mother, won't come back. ”

Chen Kou took off the bow and handed it to Tongtong,

"Well, my sister put the bow in Tongtong, and she will definitely come back to get it, okay, Tongtong has to keep it for her sister."

"Uh-huh, then, when is the next time?"

Chen Kou wanted to say fourteen days, but it was a long time, so it would be good every weekend, and she could come by herself.

"Sister and Tongtong pull Gougou, come next weekend, that is, you have breakfast seven more times, and my sister will come to accompany Tongtong, Tongtong will eat well."

The child carefully put the bow in his pocket, and seriously promised that he would, and Sister He took him to take a bath, and looked back at them in three steps until he turned the corner and couldn't see it.

Ji Chuan and Chen Kou and the four of them should also leave, Ding Ranwei and Zheng Bo have been cleaning up elsewhere, they don't know what happened just now, they laughed and said that they were going to make a meal, and they didn't leave with Ji Chuan.

On the way, Ji Chuan was silent and didn't know what he was thinking, Chen Kou sat in the back, a little apprehensive, the first time he followed the volunteer to make a claim,

"Senior Ji, you also saw Tongtong just now, I want to accompany her every weekend and not disturb everyone's original plan, I think, the two weekends that I didn't plan, I went by myself, so I ......"

"You really surprised me, little button," Ji Chuan said slowly.

"But this is a special situation, Tongtong she..., it is really needed, besides, you have promised others, can I stop it, when the time comes, it will become Gargamel in the eyes of the little girl." Ji Chuan quipped.

Chen Kou breathed a sigh of relief, "Okay, thank you to our Ji Group Master." ”

"Don't, don't call me the group leader, as soon as I say the group leader, I think of the group red envelope. By the way, you don't have your own means of transportation, you come and go, it's not a close road, so let's do it, anyway, I usually don't have anything to do, and it's difficult to be your chauffeur, or the kind of convertible with your own panoramic sunroof. ”

"Poofhahahaha, then I'll trouble you, by the way, I still owe you a meal, the old rules, the cafeteria"

Ji Chuan was secretly happy in front, stepping on the iron shoes and finding nowhere to go, and the opportunity to be alone was sent to the door by himself.