Chapter 290: The House of Love
"Let's go, Yanyan, it's almost time."
Ye Luo was urged by the people behind him and entered it with white smoke.
Fortunately, it looks shabby on the outside, but it's pretty good on the inside.
Because they are inhabited by children, the walls are full of colorful paintings, as well as syllable stickers that children can use when they babble, and pictures that test their eyesight.
It looks like a breath of life.
The orphanage that Ye Luo imagined before was lifeless and empty, but this place was different from what she imagined, and the atmosphere of life was very strong.
Completely unexpected with what she thought.
The children inside all looked normal, at least in Ye Luo's eyes.
They played like ordinary children, laughing, drawing, and even had an old piano that they could practice if they wanted to learn the piano.
Ye Luo seems to understand why he chose this place.
The person who met them was the head of the orphanage, who was also the director of the school.
Knowing that Ye Luo and the others were here to do charity for the children, the dean smiled and blossomed.
The dean was an old lady, but she was in good spirits, and she couldn't tell that she had a seventy-year-old collar at all.
said that she was the dean, but in fact, she had been retired for a long time, but she had never been relieved that the children would stay here.
"This is the kitchen, do I need to buy the ingredients now?"
The dean was very patient with Ye Luo and the others.
Ye Luo wondered a little in his heart, didn't he communicate beforehand?
There was still a smile on his face: "It's okay, we brought the ingredients ourselves, let's start now." ”
There are not many people here, about a dozen children, except for a few newborn children, there are only twelve children left, but even if there are only twelve children, the amount of cake work to be done is huge.
Fortunately, Ye Luo has not much to do.
There are a couple of assistants who are helping.
She was a little strange why there were so few children in such a big orphanage, and it stands to reason that there should be a lot of children in the orphanage.
But looking at the dean's kind face, she couldn't ask again.
Bai Yanyan looked at Ye Luo, felt that he couldn't intervene at all, and suddenly sat on the small bench boringly, supporting his chin with both hands, and looking into the distance without focus.
Tang Yan's figure suddenly broke into her sight, and she was startled.
Tang Yan, who had always had a cold face, smiled very gently at these children who came around.
There was a girl who came over with her own paintbrush and paper, and he bent down slightly, and listened to the child very seriously, the kind of seriousness that cannot be said, but at a glance you knew that he was really listening to you.
I don't know what the child said, he smiled happily, and even touched the child's head affectionately, and the girl took back her pen and paper a little shyly.
Looking at that face, she was slightly distracted.
Ye Luo found that some strawberries were missing, and came out to find Bai Yanyan and asked her to go with him.
When I went out, I found that Bai Yanyan had been in a daze.
looked along her line of sight and found that the person over there was actually Tang Yan.
She was a little surprised, but after thinking about it, she still didn't bother Bai Yanyan, but went out alone.
Ye Luo was stopped when he walked to the avenue.
"Miss Ye."
Ye Luo identified it for a moment, and remembered that it seemed to be a teacher in the House of Love.
The teacher is a young woman, handsome, smiling all the time and looking very kind.
If you look closely, you can see two tiger teeth.
"My surname is Yu, and I am a piano teacher at the House of Love." She took the initiative to talk and reported her last name.
Ye Luo was a little surprised, she was actually a piano teacher, but she didn't know how she came here to teach children.
"It's not convenient for you to go alone, I'll help you, there are more forks in the road around here, and I know there is the largest supermarket near here."
Ye Luo smiled and agreed.
It was really hard for her to find her way alone.
She said that the neighborhood was really just the neighborhood, but it was only five minutes to walk into a supermarket.
It's the biggest supermarket for them, but a supermarket of this size in the city can only be considered a small supermarket.
However, it is still very well equipped.
All the way over, she could see the fish swimming in the clear water, which looked very fresh, and the price was not high.
On the contrary, when it comes to fruit, it is indeed very expensive.
Strawberries are forty dollars a pound, and they don't look very fresh.
Ye Luo didn't buy strawberries in the supermarket, but he also knew that the price of fruit here was too high.
"Prices here are generally very high." Teacher Yu seemed to see through Ye Luo's doubts and explained.
"But that's too high." If you are a little tighter in cash, you may really be reluctant to buy it.
"It's okay, we're all used to it."
Although Ye Luo felt that the price of such a small city was not ordinarily expensive, strawberries were indeed very scarce, so he still bought a few boxes and went back.
"Actually, we are really grateful that you can come, whether it is for a show or really, I can see that Miss Ye really wants to make delicious cakes for the children to eat, and the children are very happy when they know that you are coming, especially you, after all, children at this age are very fond of eating these small snacks."
She smiled slightly as she spoke, not knowing what she thought, and even her gaze softened.
Ye Luo smiled and didn't speak.
Although Teacher Yu's words were a bit straightforward, Ye Luo did come with the mood of showing off before.
It's not a show, the main thing is that she only cares about her own work, and she doesn't have superfluous feelings about these children.
"I actually have a question, why are there so few children in the Love House?" She pondered for a long time, but still asked the question.
"Actually, Miss Ye, you have also seen it, although the home of love is still like a look now, but it is dilapidated, although we try our best to make it look like a home, but it can't last long if it goes on like this, so these children are actually children who were adopted before, and they have not been adopted since two years ago, except for the newborn children."
"So far, some have been sent away, some have been adopted, and there are only so many children left, but in the near future, these children will also be sent to other orphanages one after another, and this land has been bought, and it is not easy to drag it out until now."
Teacher Yu narrated in a low voice, her voice was very soft, with a little dull lowness, it sounded like a very warm voice, but I don't know why Ye Luo just felt a little cold.
"These children have been in the Home of Love for several years, and they have a deep affection for this place, and I am worried about what will happen if they go to a new place and will not be able to adapt there?"
Ye Luo was dumbfounded, looking at her suddenly low mood, but she didn't know what to say.
She is just a bystander, she can't help much, even a few words of comfort only deepen the scars of others.
"So I'm actually very happy that you're here this time, there are a lot of kids who haven't even eaten cake yet, I just want to make them happy."
Her mood was low, but she had a smile on her face.
Ye Luo's heart was shocked, mixed emotions spread in her heart, and even she didn't know why she had such emotions.
"Those children are actually very lonely, they are very clear about their own life experience, they know that they have no home, and they have no other relatives, so they are very sensible, I feel distressed when I look at it, but my ability is limited, and there is only so much I can do."
Ye Luo's heart was filled with shame when he heard her words.
Although she knew that these children were not happy, she knew very sensibly that the matter here had nothing to do with her, and even if she was really sympathetic, she had a perfunctory attitude.
But the people around me really have that kind of compassionate emotion, and the words they say are also sincere for the sake of those children.
For a moment, she felt her mind darken.
"I ...... Actually......" Ye Luo's face turned red and wanted to explain, but he was interrupted by Teacher Yu.
"Miss Ye, you don't need to say much, I understand that we are very grateful that you can come today, and I can see that Miss Ye really wants to make cakes for these children to eat, so it is enough, thank you."
She tugged at the corners of her mouth, but didn't say anything more.
She had seen the suffering of the people at the bottom, and had been struggling with such a quagmire for a long time.
Even lost the only mother who cared for her later, which made her feel that she had lost the whole world, but soon she had Ye Huan, had her own family, and then was saved by Chu Ran, thinking about it carefully, she is actually very lucky now, at least compared to these children, she still has a time to see hope.
But what about these children? When will they see hope?
Because of Teacher Yu's words, she kept coming back absent-mindedly.
Re-examining these children this time made her discover a lot of different things.
For example, not all children smile happily, and there are also children who stay alone and look into the distance with a pair of longing eyes.
There are even children who are alone in painting, but the paintings are all gray colors, and there is no light at all......
Until someone wakes her up.
She snapped back to her senses.
What is she doing? She said that she wanted to make the best cakes for the children, but she was distracted just now.
Thinking of this, she put aside the cluttered thoughts in her head and devoted herself to making cakes, no matter what happened in the future, at least for now she wanted to see the real smiles on their faces.
After the cake was ready, Ye Luo gave the children cakes one by one.
In order to match the children's preferences, the cake is very interesting to make, and there are a lot of fruits on it.
The children saw the cake one by one, their eyes were shining, and they said thank you obediently, and they looked very happy when they turned their heads to eat it.
Seeing their expressions like this, it finally made Ye Luo feel that his time in the morning had not been in vain.