Crossing 1992: Contracting a barren mountain and becoming a huge demolition household

A regular welfare home should be able to receive assistance from the state, society and groups. Although it may not be taken seriously and receive much help, it should not be in such a dire state, right?

Ye Ke initially thought that someone was corrupt and had taken the money. She even suspected that the bad guy was the director, so she insisted on visiting the welfare home.

But seeing this situation now, it is obviously not the case.

The director's room had a lattice window facing the courtyard. Through the lattice window, one could see three children in the courtyard laughing and playing intimately. Their innocent faces showed no worries. As long as they had enough food and water every day, that was happiness for them.

The director held Lele's nervous and sweaty little hand and nodded in response: "Yes, this is not an orphanage."

Suddenly, there was another knock on the courtyard door. Ye Ke looked out through the window. The dean said to Lele, "It must be Xiaofeng who is back. Go and help him."

Lele looked at Ye Ke hesitantly, and finally nodded and walked out. Ye Ke saw Tongtong carrying a small stool and slowly walking towards the door.

The person outside the door seemed to have sensed it tacitly. Apart from knocking twice at the beginning, he had been waiting quietly outside the door.

Tongtong was stopped by Lele just halfway when she walked. Lele took a few quick steps and opened the door. Another child with short hair came in, who was slightly shorter than Lele.

Ye Ke no longer easily defines the gender of these children.

The child was carrying a small bag in his hand and limping slowly to the stone table in the yard. Only then did Ye Ke realize that there was something wrong with his legs.

"He's Xiaofeng, the only boy here. Xiaofeng is good in every way, except for some problems with his legs."

The dean looked out the window with a distressed look in his eyes and introduced Ye Ke in a low voice.

Xiaofeng put the bag on the table and took out the contents with light movements: a large handful of green vegetables with wilted leaves, three small, ugly tomatoes that were still slightly green, and two potatoes with big black scars.

The children around the table cheered and jumped for joy along with his actions, giving full emotional value.

"Wow! It's vegetables! I can drink sweet vegetable soup today!"

"And tomatoes! The tomatoes are so red today! They must be delicious!"

"It's potatoes! Potatoes can be kept for a long time! We can eat them next time when we're hungry!"

"Brother Xiaofeng is really amazing. He picked up so many things today!"

Xiao Feng waved her hands shyly. "I found a good spot today. If I go earlier tomorrow, I'm sure I can pick up more!"

After saying that, he couldn't help but laugh along with everyone. There weren't many discarded vegetables in the market, and there were a bunch of "competitors". This was the first time he had picked up so many trophies.

After a few laughs and jokes, the group began to work together, some fetching water, some carrying basins, and some sorting the dishes. Everything was in perfect order, as if they had worked together thousands of times before.

Ye Ke felt depressed and couldn't bear to watch it any longer, so he turned his head to look at the dean.

The dean chuckled, "See, they are all very good children."

Unfortunately, no one cherishes it.

"Yes, they are all good." Apart from this agreement, Ye Ke didn't know what to say.

The director didn't mind at all and continued, "This is indeed not an orphanage. Lele is the first child to come here. She is my nephew's child, so she should call me aunt."

"Lele's parents had already given birth to three daughters before Lele. When they were pregnant with Lele, they had been hoping for a son, but they didn't expect that their wish would come true. They initially planned to pretend that they accidentally threw Lele into the river, but I caught them there."

There was a hint of disgust in the dean's eyes, but because she was not in good spirits, it was not strong. If Ye Ke had not been staring at her, she probably would not have noticed it.

"So you couldn't bear it and took Lele home to adopt him?" Ye Ke guessed reasonably?

The dean nodded. "Right! At first they wanted to ask me for money, but I said I was just being kind and wouldn't ask for anything if they didn't want to. But if the child ever died or disappeared, I would report them to the police. So they gave Lele to me."

"Are other children like this too?" Ye Ke asked.

The dean shook his head. "I didn't originally live here. I moved to another place to avoid being pestered by Lele's parents."

"As for Xiaofeng, I didn't pick him up. An old man who was picking up trash found him. Later, when the old man was dying of illness, he entrusted Xiaofeng to me. I couldn't bear it, so I kept Xiaofeng like this. I just thought of finding a little friend for Lele."

As for why Xiaofeng was abandoned, it was of course because of his unhealthy legs and feet.

"The fact that I adopted Xiaofeng might have been noticed by someone with ulterior motives. One morning, Tongtong was abandoned at my doorstep. Later, the other three children were all born in the same way..."

She always thought that as long as she did more good deeds, her two children would be born into a happy family in the next life, right?

The dean had been married before, but unfortunately he met the wrong person.

When she was young, her first child was a daughter. After giving birth, she fainted from exhaustion. When she woke up, she was told that her daughter had been in her body for too long, so...

She was heartbroken, but she had no doubts about her birthing process. After all, her delivery was indeed difficult. Later, she pulled herself together and got through it with the constant comfort of her husband.

Her second child was also a daughter. When her husband told her that he could not raise her daughter, she began to doubt.

Impossible... She saw the baby right after it was born! It was rosy and healthy!