Chapter 17: The Dean's Story (Part I)
"Young Master."
Lu Ze turned his head stiffly and looked at the two people in suits who were bending down in salute in front of him.
"You... Are you calling me? ”
"Yes, young master."
"Why do you call me young master?"
"Because the boss pays us, let's protect you."
"Then why didn't they come?"
"I don't know, our job is only to protect you." The man in the suit is neither humble nor arrogant.
"Go, you go, I don't need your protection." Lu Ze pushed them away like crazy and walked into Weiyuanju.
"Please, child, let us go." The middle-aged woman wanted to go up and catch Lu Ze, but was stopped by the man in the suit.
"Boss, I want to take a leave of absence." Lu Ze's voice was a little hoarse, and the whole person seemed to have lost his soul.
"Oh, okay, it's okay, Aze, why don't you go up up there and take a rest." Lu Ze's appearance startled the proprietress for a moment, her eyes were red, and her face was pale, as if a gambler who had lost all his money was about to jump off a building.
"It's okay, thank you hostess." Lu Ze walked out step by step, and knocked his foot when he stepped out of the door.
Yun Yi, who was still eating, saw Lu Ze like this now, and was afraid that Lu Ze would do something stupid, so he immediately didn't even eat and chased after Lu Ze.
"Wait a minute, Yunyi." Yun Yi left, Tang Xiaoxiao hurriedly checked out, and then chased after Yun Yi.
One of the two men in suits stopped the middle-aged woman, and the other followed Lu Ze closely. It was their dereliction of duty that caused the protected person's mood to change so drastically.
Lu Ze didn't think about jumping off the building, but slowly walked along this familiar road to his home, Huacheng Orphanage.
Lu Ze didn't know why he wanted to go back, he just had such an impulse to go home, and the orphanage was his home, although he was poor, it was very warm.
At noon, the orphanage was deserted, the children went out to play or sleep after eating, only one rocking chair creaked in the whole courtyard, and the director was lying on the rocking chair, his kind and quiet face contrasted with the rocking chair.
Lu Ze opened the door and walked towards the dean step by step. He had a lot to say to the dean, but he found that he couldn't say a word now.
Lu Ze sat on the ground next to the rocking chair and looked at the sky quietly, the sky was very blue, and the trees blocked the sunlight, so that Lu Ze would not be exposed to the sun.
"Grandma Dean, did you pick it up at the door of the orphanage?" Lu Ze spoke.
"What's wrong? Aze. The dean slowly opened his eyes and found Lu Ze sitting on the ground.
"Grandma Dean, did you pick it up at the door of the orphanage?" Lu Ze spoke again.
"Hmm... When people get old, they forget a lot of things, as if they are, and as if they are not. What's wrong? Is something happening? The dean closed his eyes again.
Lu Ze stood up and leaned against the big tree: "Today, someone suddenly came to me and said, 'Actually, you are not an orphan, you are a person with parents, and your parents are still alive', I don't understand, since they know me, why don't they come to me?" ”
"Aze, you're feeling confused."
"Well, Grandma Dean, what do you think I should do?"
The dean did not speak, but opened his eyes and looked at Lu Ze, who also turned his head and looked at the dean. For so many years, Lu Ze has long regarded the dean as his own grandmother.
The dean just glanced at Lu Ze and looked away.
"Want to hear the Dean's story?"
"Is that okay?" Lu Ze looked at the dean, for so many years, he never knew the name and identity of the dean's grandmother, only that the dean's grandmother's surname was Luo.
"Do you know that 'educated youth go to the countryside'?" The dean did not answer Lu Ze, but asked Lu Ze a question.
"You know, history has been studied, things from the 50s to the 80s."
"yes, it's so far away." There was a feeling of reminiscence in the dean's eyes.
"The dean was one of the first group of educated youths in the countryside, I was a young lady at that time, I couldn't do anything, and going to the countryside not only made a mess of my own life, but also made a mess of other people's lives."
"I don't know how to embroider, I can't plow the fields, I can't cook and stir-fry, I can't even wash clothes. However, everyone in the countryside is very simple, they don't complain about me at all, they reject me, they even help me do things, and they teach me all kinds of life skills seriously. ”
"They feel that they have low knowledge, and I am an intellectual, and my hands are used to teach students and do great things, so they asked me to teach the children in the township to read and write."
"In order to repay these simple villagers, I taught the children to learn words very seriously, and the children worked very hard, and I am very happy that I can also be needed by the village name."
"It was also at that time that Grandma met Grandma's lover." Speaking of this, Grandma Dean couldn't help but smile on her face, even though her face was covered with wrinkles, it was still so charming.
"He is also an intellectual young man who took the initiative to go to the countryside, but he is better than me, he can do anything, and as far as I am concerned, he is all-powerful in my opinion."
"We got closer and closer because of teaching, but at that time, we were very close to the so-called right people. In fact, some of my family members are officials, and their family is a native of the peasants, although under the leadership of the chairman, the countryside is getting better and better, but in fact, many people in the city still look down on the rural people. ”
"At that time, I didn't think about the question of the right person, but I still cared about it, and we agreed to be together forever, so I wrote a letter to my family, in which I mentioned his personality, his excellence, and used all the words to praise him, but I never dared to explain his family."
"I don't know if my family will agree to be together when they know that his family will approve of us being together, and the family will see that I describe him so well in the letter, and they will praise my vision in reply."
"However, the family's reply still mentioned the man's family, and I knew that there was no escape, so I replied truthfully."
"Unexpectedly, because of this family problem, our family felt that the door was not right, and we were not allowed to be together, the love at that time was still so pure, I begged bitterly, but the family still refused, and even mentioned in it that if there is no or insistence, then I will be expelled from the house."
"I panicked, I didn't know what to do, I found him and told him about it, and he didn't have a good way, after all, family can't choose."
"I didn't feel hopeless, it happened to be the Great Revolution, and when an accident came, the two of us were forced to separate, I went back home, and he returned home, but we still have a thread holding us together, and that is our emotional line."
"On the day of parting, it was very windy, and I never expected that it would be the last time we would meet." The dean also paused at this point.
Lu Ze could vaguely see the tears in the dean's eyes.