Chapter 17 Good Luck OrphanageAt six o'clock in the morning, the drizzle will stop. On the distant horizon, a few rays of gray sunlight shone through the dark brown clouds, making the thick water vapor in the air hazy. Su Beixun grabbed a handful of rain water from his collar and waded through the muddy ground with the vodka. The orphanage was hidden behind the woods in the mountains. The road leading to it was blocked by a landslide a few days ago, so they had to get off the car and cross the woods. After trekking through mountains and rivers, I was exhausted both physically and mentally. After walking for about half an hour, I finally saw the shadowy buildings when the sky was bright. They are all old houses. A low wall was built with blue-gray bricks and stones, with green algae clinging to it. The iron gate with intervals was rusted, and the wooden sign on the top was blurred and mottled by wind and rain. Looking at the dilapidated state, Vodka couldn't help but be shocked: "It has declined to this point, and it doesn't seem like Jiang Gu Yichuan cares... Did you guess wrong?" Su Beixun shook his head slightly, expressing the opposite opinion: "Golden and magnificent is the most eye-catching, half-ruined is not worth the price... Haha, this actually proves that I am right." He walked forward, and finding no doorbell, he rang the creaking iron door.
After a long time, a half-bald middle-aged man came out from a small room next to the gate with sleepy eyes. Su Beixun saw his confusion and explained with a smile: "Excuse me, sir. My cousin and I are both photography enthusiasts, but our car broke down on the road and was accidentally soaked by the rain... So can you please let us go in and fix it? Of course, we will pay for it." Vodka hung the camera around his neck, smiled foolishly and nodded. "This……" Seeing the guard hesitating, Su Beixun added: "We won't stay long, we must leave before today." The guard reluctantly agreed, opened the iron door a crack, and said, "Then come sit in my room." After the two sat down, the guard brought out two bowls of hot water and said with a smile: "My name is Guchuan Xiong... You two, you must be very cold after being caught in the rain, please drink some hot water. No outsiders have been here for a long time, so please forgive me for the poor hospitality." Su Beixun took it and started chatting with him: "I was really shocked when I arrived just now. I didn't expect that your hospital existed in such a remote place." "Who says it's not true?" Furukawa Yu sighed: "It's been more than 70 years. Time flies. At that time, there was still a village here." Vodka was puzzled and asked, "Village? I don't think there are other people here." Furukawa Yu explained: "At that time, in order to make money, every household ran to the big cities. Over time, there were more and more left-behind children. Because those who left were all young people, after they established themselves in the city, most of them did not want to come back... If a couple left together, it would be ok, they would come back to pick up their children. But those who left alone would often abandon their wives... So slowly, there were fewer and fewer people in the village, but more and more orphans who were unwanted." "Seeing that there was no one to take care of those children, the old village chief at the time gathered them together, requisitioned a few unoccupied houses, and taught them to read and write. Later, slowly, an orphanage was formed." Su Beixun deliberately changed the topic: "It must be very difficult to persist until now, right?" "Yes!" Furukawa Yu lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, "Thanks to a few promising children." As if showing off his outstanding junior, he asked, "Do you know Jiang Gu Yichuan?" Su Beixun looked surprised: "Are you talking about... the head of the Jianggu Financial Group?" Furukawa Xiong blew out a smoke ring and smiled comfortably: "Yes, it's him... His mother is also from this village. One year, she suddenly came back from outside and left a baby at the door of the orphanage." "I was twelve years old that year and was also a member of the orphanage. I was responsible for taking care of him for a long time... Later, when he was six years old, his mother suddenly came and took him away. When he came back in his thirties, I found out that he had become a successful person." Furukawa Yu took out an old pocket watch from his pocket. Inside was a picture of a teenager and a child of about five or six years old. They were dressed in rags but were smiling happily. "This was taken before he left... It is also thanks to him that our orphanage can still be open today."
Su Beixun grasped the key point: "Does he often support you?" "Yes." Furukawa Xiong said gratefully: "After the old village chief passed away, if he hadn't sent us a lot of supplies every year and helped contact people to adopt children, our remote orphanage would have closed down long ago." Vodka felt a little emotional. He felt that Su Beixun must have guessed wrong. Jiang Guyichuan did not make a big report about his support for the orphanage because he probably did not want others to disturb the last pure land in his heart. Su Beixun was silent for a moment, and suddenly smiled at Vodka and said, "Cousin, meeting is fate. Since you don't plan to get married in this life, why don't you adopt a child?" what? Vodka looked confused. Su Beixun ignored him and said to Gu Chuanxiong, "My eldest brother has never been successful in blind dating because of his appearance, but please rest assured that he is definitely a gentle and kind person, and he has a stable job and a good income." Furukawa thought about the previous exchange and felt that Vodka was a simple and honest man. He was surprised and said, "In that case, I will go talk to the dean now!" Vodka reached out his hand towards Furukawa Yu's departing back, but was too late to say anything. I could only angrily question Su Beixun: "What on earth do you want to do? Investigate Jiang Gu Yichuan, why do you want me to... adopt a child?" Su Beixun took a sip of the warm water in the bowl and teased, "With a job like yours, it doesn't look like you can get married. If you don't adopt a child to carry on the family line, do you expect Gin to give birth to a child for you?" Vodka's face flushed red, and he was so angry that he wanted to shoot him. He looked down at the camera again, praying that Gin on the other side would not be angry with him... No! He didn't even hear the best part! Su Beixun laughed twice and said with emotion: "It may be my psychological problem. No matter how touching the story is, the first thing I hear is always loopholes and unreasonableness." Upon hearing this, Vodka swallowed his anger and recalled every word he had just heard, but still couldn't find anything wrong. Su Beixun explained as he swirled the water in the bowl, "Jiang Gu Yichuan took over the consortium in his twenties. Even if his position was unstable in the early days, he didn't have to wait until he was thirty to give back to the orphanage... This is enough to prove that his support for the orphanage was not entirely sincere. But if it was for show, he didn't publicize it at all." Vodka thought about it and was gradually convinced, but thinking about what happened just now, he was still confused: "Then why did you say I want to adopt a child?" Su Beixun was surprised: "How did you get into a criminal organization when you are so honest? This is of course just an excuse. If you don't say this, are you going to sit in the guard room and wait for clues to come to you?" Vodka looked at Su Beixun's obviously underage face and swallowed the words "Why don't you take it yourself" that were about to come out of his mouth. Just as Vodka was sulking. Furukawa Yu came back with a middle-aged woman in her early forties. The dean's name is Shaxi Zhenji. She looked at Vodka's ferocious, fleshy face suspiciously and asked tentatively, "Is this gentleman... going to adopt a child?" Su Beixun tried to smooth things over: "My cousin's looks are natural, but he is definitely a good person." Seeing that the dean still didn't believe it, Su Beixun continued, "Time will tell. You can let your cousin live here first and watch you around. Don't worry, we will pay for it." Shaxi Zhenji was in a dilemma. She was always wary of the two of them and hesitantly said, "I'm afraid it's not very convenient. We don't have any extra rooms here, so..." Su Beixun nodded in understanding: "I am sorry for being abrupt, but can we go see the children first?" Shaxi Zhenji knew he couldn't refuse anymore, so he nodded and said, "They should have just woken up now, come with me." The pace is a bit slow, but I don't want to write the first story too sloppily... After thinking about it, it seems that the only way is to update more every day... I'll try to write more tomorrow.
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