Chapter 54: The Cathedral of Tianfutang
Liu Xing is right, just like when he was a student.
The teacher is giving a lecture to the elementary school students who are standing in front of the Tianfu Hall.
"Students, next, listen carefully to every word that the teacher and the aunt say. Whether I can write this essay well when I go back is a matter of doing so. ”
Yi Tian followed behind this group of elementary school students and entered the gate of Tianfu Hall.
The docent first started with the missionary couple who founded the Tin Fook Church at that time, and the elementary school students listened attentively.
Individual students still have 100,000 questions about why.
Of course, there are a few more active boys who are obviously not very interested in this, and most of the teachers' eyes follow behind such students.
When the young girl mentioned that Tin Fook Tong was once a welfare home before and after liberation.
Yi Tian's eyes lit up.
When the children were resting in place in the square in front of the Tenfuku Hall.
Yi Tian found the young commentator, a young face with a particularly sunny smile.
This girl named Yang Xiaoyan is a native of F City, and after graduating from the tourism school, she came to Tianfutang as a docent.
From the mouth of Miss Xiaoyan, Yi Tian knew some things that were not in the explanation.
For example, 30 years ago, the director of the Tianfutang Welfare Institute, a director with the surname Bai.
The dean surnamed Bai and Xiaoyan's grandmother are relatively good friends, Xiaoyan heard Grandma Yang say that life was not very good in that era, and the hardships of the welfare home can be imagined.
Grandma Yang was a nurse at the hospital at the time, and although she could not provide financial help at that time, she could only provide regular health check-ups for the orphans in the hospital on her own.
Yi Tian seemed to see hope, but he didn't expect that there was nowhere to find it when he stepped on the iron shoes, and it took no effort to get it.
But Miss Xiaoyan's next words were like a basin of cold water pouring down from her head.
Xiaoyan said her grandmother had passed away a few years earlier. It is a pity that the key person who can find the answer directly is no longer alive.
Anyway, I've finally found some sources. Xiaoyan's family should know some clues more or less.
Xiaoyan was also very cooperative, saying that when his father was young, he often followed his grandmother to the welfare home to help, and he should know better.
Xiao Yan gave her father, Yang Xingli, the phone number.
F City Library, Yang Xingli, who worked as a librarian, was more than 50 years old at the time, and more than 30 years ago, he was already more than ten years old, so he should have a better understanding of the Tianfutang Welfare Institute at that time.
Yang Xingli was more talkative, and he answered Yi Tian's questions while sorting out and classifying the books in his hand.
He said that life in the 70s was a bit more difficult, with five children at home and his parents' salaries were not high.
Although life is not very good, his mother is a very good person.
Because of work, I often deal with Tianfutang.
To put it mildly, it is that some children are often abandoned in the hospital.
These children were finally sent to Tianfu Hall, and after coming and going, Yang's mother became familiar with the dean of Tianfu Hall.
In my impression, Dean Bai of Tianfutang is older than Mother Yang, a particularly kind dean.
At that time, I seemed to have heard Yang's mother say that Dean Bai was a good person, she was never married, and of course she had no children of her own. She treats all the children in the orphanage as if they were her own.
On weekends when they were in elementary school and junior high school, Yang Xingli and his two older sisters would always be taken by their mother to help in the welfare home.
The two older sisters help with the children's laundry and sweep the floors themselves.
The dean will leave them to eat together, and the food in the welfare home is not very good, often it is porridge, and each person has a steamed bun slice.
But at that time, he thought the porridge was very delicious.
In particular, the spectacular scene of so many children sitting in a row drinking porridge and drinking makes people feel very appetizing.
When Yang Xingli said this, he still looked unsatisfied.
He said that it was a pity that at that time, even the porridge was not extra to drink, and each person could not exceed two bowls.
The two sisters are very sensible, and they took the initiative to put down the dishes and chopsticks after just drinking a bowl and left their share to other children.
When Yi Tian asked if there was a boy about two years old in the welfare home who was adopted by a foreign couple in 1980.
Yang Xingli said that he didn't know much, but he knew that at that time, many children in the welfare home were said to have found foreign mothers and were led abroad by foreign mothers to live a good life.
He said that when he saw relatively small children, he generally did not have much contact, and was taken care of by special aunts, and it was difficult to remember them after decades.
For that Dean Bai, Yi Tian felt that there was not much hope, Yang Xingli said that Dean Bai was older than his mother, and the hope of being alive was a little slim.
As expected, Yang Xingli said that Dean Bai died earlier, probably in the year that Tianfutang was reclaimed.
At that time, he also took his mother to the funeral of Dean Bai.
As for where did the orphans in the orphanage go after the dissolution of the orphanage, and where are the employees in it now?
Yang Xingli couldn't provide more clues.
He said that at that time, he had only heard that the orphans in the orphanage had been shunted to other welfare institutions. At that time, he was already in college out of town, and he didn't have a chance to pay attention.
As for the staff inside, I remember that there were only three slightly older aunts at that time, one was in charge of things in the kitchen, and the other two were in charge of the children's daily life.
obviously saw hope, but the hope came to an abrupt end, which made Yi Tian feel a lot more depressed.
When I came out of the library, I asked for a bowl of beef noodles at a noodle restaurant on the street.
Beef noodles The beef is authentic and chunky, with a mix of star anise and bay leaf flavors.
Of course, it is spicy enough, even though he told the boss that it is slightly spicy, it is still spicy enough.
When his tongue was numb, he poured half a bottle of mineral water.
I couldn't eat it, so I sat there and breathed into the air.
I felt really unwilling, so I took out my mobile phone and made a call to Yang Xingli.
"Mr. Yang, take the liberty of asking, which hospital does your mother work in?"
"Municipal People's Hospital."
"Back then, was your mother the only one who dealt with Tianfutang? Or are there other colleagues in the hospital? ”
Yang Xingli pondered for a moment: "I don't know much about this, but I remember that Aunt Gao Ligao, who was working with my mother at the time, would sometimes go to the welfare home with us. ”
"So, do you know anything about Aunt Golly?"
"Aunt Gao, she passed away last year."
"Well, may I ask what your mother's full name is?"
"Li Qiufang."
"Okay, thank you very much, Mr. Yang, if you can remember anything back then, please give me a call."
"Of course, it is the duty of every citizen to cooperate with the police in handling the case."