The villain in the Taoist temple

Chao Yang and Leng An were stunned, Aunt Xu smiled again, and explained to them: "Because there are many girls in the courtyard, besides me, there are three female teachers who take care of the children now... Well, there are no adult men here, did you two find the wrong place last night?"

Leng An and Chao Yang looked at each other, and both could see the surprise in each other's eyes.

It is impossible to find the wrong place. The door last night was this door, but the person who opened the door was indeed an old man with a very bad attitude.

It's just that now is not the time to discuss this, neither of them said anything, and followed Aunt Xu into the dean's office.

"You guys sit down first, I'll look for information... I have an impression of Fu Chunming, there are very few boys in the yard, and it's even rarer to see good hands and feet..." Aunt Xu seemed to like talking, she babbled While speaking, he opened a cabinet full of materials, and at the same time, he did not forget to ask Chao Yang and Leng An to find a place to sit down, and asked them to pour water by themselves.

This orphanage is not big, even the dean's office is pitifully small. There are only one chair, one stool, one table and one cabinet in the whole office, and there are two very old-fashioned thermos bottles next to them. The two looked at it. Look, I didn't sit down or drink water, I just waited there.

However, Leng An was aroused by Aunt Xu's words. Just now they walked along and saw the children having breakfast. In fact, almost all of them were girls, and the only boy still lost his arms.How could a healthy boy like Fu Chunming, to put it bluntly, earn a lot of money by reselling it, be sent to an orphanage, and be adopted by Lu Qing by such a coincidence...

If the person behind the scenes could raise zombies from more than ten years ago, and set up a layout in No. [-] High School nine years ago, is it possible to set up a bureau for Lu Qing or Wuyun Mountain even further before?

But use your own son...as a pawn?

"Hey, I found it." Aunt Xu cheerfully took out a yellowed file book, found a page and showed it to the two of them, "Oh, it's been more than [-] years, and at that time I just Take over this orphanage."

Leng An reached out to take the file, and looked at the time on it, it was indeed 23 years ago, but at that time, Fu Chunming was already six years old.

"Six-year-old should remember things, right?" Leng An whispered to Chao Yang, when Aunt Xu next to her heard it, she let out a "huh" as if remembering something, reached out and took the file book and looked at it for a while. A little hesitant: "How can I remember that when Xiao Chunming was thrown at the gate of the orphanage, it seemed that he had a high fever and was finally cured, but he didn't remember anything."

Abandoned due to serious illness?This is possible again.

Leng An continued to look at the file. The file was actually very brief. It only recorded the time when Fu Chunming was adopted and when he was adopted, as well as the clothes and some characteristics of Fu Chunming at that time, so that it would be easier to deal with when someone came to find the child later. .

At that time, the six-year-old boy's clothes could only be regarded as covering his body. In the cold winter, the boy was dressed in blue cloth clothes. In the small cloth bag beside him, there was only a piece of paper with the boy's name and birthday written on it, and nothing else. there is none left.

There are no characteristics, but there are surnames and names.

"Some people are like this. When the child is sick and can't afford it, he throws it at the gate of the hospital, and takes it back when he is well." Aunt Xu seemed to be lost in memory, "The dean before me met it many times. , and now the economic conditions of each family are better.”

Speaking of this, Aunt Xu chatted with them about the source of income for the orphanage—it was a meager grant from the government, which could only maintain the children's normal daily life. If someone got sick, they could only go to the nearby infirmary Prescribe some medicine, as long as you can take it well, if you don’t take it well... there’s nothing you can do about it.

After chatting for a while, I didn't get any information, and the children all came out to play in the yard after breakfast.Leng An stood in front of the window and watched for a while, and saw that the little girls were playing with old rubber bands and worn-out sandbags. The rest of the children didn't even have toys, so they could only jump on the ground or go to the side to play. earth.

It's not bad, it's just sad.

Chao Yang also guessed what Leng An was thinking, and he couldn't find anything from the orphanage, so he planned to come back at night.After the two said goodbye to Aunt Xu, they went out for a stroll and found a toy store. They bought some toys that were not expensive but could be played for a long time, and then bought a wave of sportswear in different sizes suitable for girls. , After eating lunch, he returned to the orphanage with this pile of things.

The children had already finished their lunch and were taking a nap. Aunt Xu who came to answer the door was a little surprised to see them coming back, but when she saw the things they were carrying, she immediately changed her expression and welcomed them in with a touch of emotion.

"Thank you, thank you..." Aunt Xu said, and took out another notebook from her cabinet, flipped through a few pages, raised her head and asked with a smile, "What's your name, young man?"

"Ah?" Leng An didn't react for a while, so Aunt Xu raised the booklet in her hand and explained: "Every donation and gift received in our courtyard will be recorded clearly so that the children can see it. There are still many people in society who care about them.”

Leng An touched the back of his head when he heard the words. Although he felt that what Aunt Xu said was quite right, he was a little embarrassed to leave her name or something: "It's not that many things..."

"That should also be remembered."

Aunt Xu's attitude was very firm, and Leng An had no choice but to leave Chao Yang's name behind.However, this brochure provided him with a new way of thinking - no one would not feel sorry for his son, if Fu Chunming was really sent here by his father to lure Lu Qing to the bait, would Fu's father secretly give it to him? Donate some money or things to the orphanage to make sure your son is better off?

After obtaining Aunt Xu's consent, Leng An flipped through the booklet, and saw that the beginning was last year: "Aunt Xu, do you still have any previous records?"

"Yes, it's all here."

There are probably a lot of people who come to the orphanage intermittently to check on their children, and Aunt Xu has nothing to shame her here, so she is very happy to give the information.

Leng An moved the stack of notebooks, and simply sat on the ground and flipped through them one by one.

Although this orphanage is not big and doesn't even have an official name, it can be seen that every director is very responsible and careful. Since more than 60 years ago, the records of this donation booklet have not been broken, but sometimes there are more and less. Sometimes don't even donate for a whole year.

He rummaged through it patiently, and according to the time stamp, he found the year Fu Chunming was adopted, and he found a clue.

One named "Mark" donated some food, clothing, and play to the orphanage every month on average, and he persisted in this way for nearly two years.And the time when he stopped donating happened to be the time when Fu Chunming was adopted by Lu Qing and taken away from the orphanage.

Leng An was afraid that she would read less, so she turned a few pages back, and saw that she really had never seen this Mark again.He poked Chao Yang and motioned him to look at the brochure.

Chao Yang looked down for a moment, and saw that Leng An's pale finger was pointing at a line of words on the booklet.He was in a daze for a moment before he saw the line clearly, and then frowned slightly: "Mark?"

"It must be a fake name." Leng An said with certainty, "But any English cram school asks me to give myself an English name, and every boy wants to be called Mark!"

Chao Yang also felt that he had heard it somewhere before, so he nodded, and didn't pay much attention to the name. He just looked at the time according to Leng An's instructions, and raised his eyebrows slightly to indicate that he understood.

Even if this record can't help them find out who Fu Chunming's father is, it also proves that there is such a person who has been following Fu Chunming from the very beginning. It can even be said that Lu Qing's acceptance of Fu Chunming as his apprentice may also be Under the guidance of this person.

"How did Uncle Lu know Fu Chunming?" Leng An asked Chao Yang with his head slightly tilted. Chao Yang seemed to be thinking for a moment, but he shook his head: "I don't know exactly, but I also heard my master mention that Uncle Lu When I went out to do ceremonies, I met a child, and when I saw it, I took it in as an apprentice."

"Hey, hey, Xiao Wang, Xiao Wang!" Aunt Xu hurriedly shouted when she saw a female teacher walking over with a basin, "Xiao Lier is asleep?"

"Hey, Dean." The person named Xiao Wang was a relatively young woman. She looked at the two strange men in the dean's office, couldn't help but lowered her head with a reddish face, trying to cover her face with her long hair. face, she said in a low voice, "Yes, I just fell asleep."

"That's good, thank you for your hard work." Aunt Xu sighed, Xiao Wang shook his head shyly, hugged the basin in his arms and ran away.

Aunt Xu sighed again, and smiled again when she turned her head to look at Leng An and Chao Yang, and said, "Xiao Lier is a girl we adopted recently, she is only two years old, she was born with a cleft lip, and her personality is also very introverted... ..."

The children in the yard are all a little bit wrong, and Leng An also understands, but he doesn't have time to pay attention to that child now, so he just asked: "Aunt Xu, that teacher Xiao Wang just now..."

"Xiao Wang, she also grew up in our courtyard, and now she graduated and came back here... Like Xiao Lier, she also has a cleft lip, and she also underwent surgery when she was a child, but..." Aunt Xu was a little emotional, "At that time, there was no money, and the level of medical technology was limited..."

Leng An nodded, then raised his eyes to look at Chao Yang, both of them had similar suspicions in their eyes.

Although that teacher Xiao Wang quickly lowered his head and covered his face with his hair, but at a glance, the two still saw that this teacher Xiao Wang was [-]% similar to the man they met last night, even the scar on his upper lip all the same.

Strange.

Leng An quietly inquired with Aunt Xu about that teacher Xiao Wang, and learned that she entered the orphanage at about the same time as Fu Chunming, and was never adopted after that. Then came back to the orphanage.

As for her parents and relatives, she had never heard of them.

Leng An and Chao Yang didn't leave. They told Dean Xu that they had to check things in the town and wanted to stay here for a few days. Then they donated a sum of money to the orphanage and found a room. I lived in an empty room and didn't plan to wait until dark to see it.

The work and rest of the orphanage was very regular, and soon after nightfall, the whole yard became quiet.The small room where Chao Yang and Leng An lived was very small, with only one bunk bed. According to Dean Xu, this room used to be used by two support staff. If there were no support staff in the courtyard, the room would be empty.

The room is far from where the children live, but it is very close to the gate. At eight o'clock, Chao Yang went out for a walk alone, but when he came back, he shook his head at Leng An: "There is nothing."

Leng An frowned: "Go and see the guard room at the door?"

"I've seen it. It's empty. The door is locked from the inside." Chao Yang didn't understand either.