misplaced survival

"Welfare home?" Jiang Xiyan was a little surprised, but he also knew that he couldn't ask more, so he thanked, "Thank you, Captain Huang."

Although Captain Huang didn't specify which orphanage it was, he remembered that when he saw his little brother, he was carrying a bag in his hand. He must have come to the market to buy, so he probably lived not too far away.

The orphanage closest to the market seems to be called the Sacred Heart Orphanage?

Even though he knew Song Zhou's past now, Jiang Xiyan admired him even more when he thought of his current achievements and appearance.

Everyone has their own shining points, but in his eyes, Song Zhou is particularly bright.

When Jiang Xiyan returned home, it was already dark, and the shoes at the door showed that his parents had already returned home.

Jiang Yi and Zeng Wen, who were eating, were surprised to see the child who opened the door and came in, so they immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks and got up.

"Son, when did you come back?" Jiang Yi asked.

Jiang Xiyan put on his slippers, "I came back this afternoon and went to see a senior."

Zeng Wen hurried into the kitchen, took out the bowls and chopsticks, "Xi Yan, you eat something first, and Mom will cook something for you!"

"Don't bother, it's fine like this." Jiang Xiyan looked at the dishes on the table and sat down calmly.

After going to college, he spent much less time going home, and gradually cared less about his parents' feelings for him, but he still remembered that he was their son.

"Okay." Zeng Wen sat back in her seat, put food in Jiang Xiyan's bowl, "Eat more."

Jiang Yi asked: "It's not the weekend, why are you back?"

Jiang Xiyan swallowed the food in his mouth, and replied: "The team gave me a vacation."

"That's good." After Jiang Yi finished speaking, he felt his wife kicked him, and seeing her eyes signaled, he immediately understood what she meant, and asked Jiang Xiyan, "How many days are you staying at home this time?"

"Go back tomorrow afternoon."

Zeng Wen coughed twice, and asked tentatively, "Son, do you have a favorite girl in the police station?"

Hearing this sentence, Jiang Xiyan almost choked, quickly took a sip of water, and denied, "No."

"That's it—" Zeng Wen pursed her lips, "Mom's old classmates and relatives of your aunt's family have been asking me about you these days. Let's meet, if you are free tomorrow..."

"No time." Jiang Xiyan flatly refused, "I have more important things to do tomorrow."

He has just graduated from university for a year, so there is no need to be so anxious.

Seeing that his mother continued to ask questions, Jiang Xiyan immediately went upstairs after eating the rice in the bowl, "I'm full."

He hurried back to the room and leaned against the door for a long time without saying a word. He wanted to see Song Zhou more than those girls.

"Song Zhou..."

Jiang Xiyan murmured softly, took out the diary from his bag, and held the pen for a long time without knowing what to write.

He let out a long sigh, holding his diary in thought, recalling the graduation ceremony that year, with a smile on his face unconsciously.

If at that time, he had been brave enough to approach Song Zhou and tell him what he thought, would they have been together earlier?

What together?

When Jiang Xiyan realized it, he was taken aback.He rushed into the toilet, washed his face with cold water, looked at himself in the mirror, "I... what am I thinking!"

Song Zhou who was sitting in the car sneezed, not understanding how he caught a cold in the current weather.

Or maybe, in his heart, he really didn't want to go back to this place.

He has been telling his adoptive parents that he has long forgotten what happened when he was a child, but he knows very well that he has been brooding about his past for so many years.

Countless nightmares at night, he dreamed back to when he was a child, sitting alone on the steps with the bear in his arms.

When he was a child, he didn't like to talk, and he was not a pleasing child. Many uncles and aunts didn't like him when they came to the orphanage to look after the children.

He watched helplessly as other children were wanted and happily taken away.And he was always alone, and he got used to it over time, and he was a child that no one wanted.

Later the Song family couple found him and asked him if he would go with them, he agreed without hesitation, he didn't want to be alone anymore.

Since coming to the Song family, he has learned to smile, take the initiative to share the housework, and strive to make everyone like him. After school, he worked hard and returned home with good grades in order to repay his adoptive parents and hope that they would not abandon him.

In the past days and nights, he was thinking that if he hadn't met the Song family couple, if he didn't do well enough and was abandoned, he would be alone again.

As he approached this orphanage, the unpopular memories of the past rushed into his mind, making his heart poke.

Tao Yiran saw that the captain's mood was not right, and asked with concern: "Captain, are you okay?"

Song Zhou shook his head, "I'm fine, get out of the car."

Ming Wei, the director of the orphanage, heard that Song Zhou was back, and was waiting at the door early. Seeing him get off the car and coming, she waved and said, "Long time no see, I should call you Xiao Song now."

Song Zhou smiled and nodded politely, "Hello, Dean."

"Let's go in and chat!" Ming Wei signaled Song Zhou to come in.

Song Zhou's face froze, and he put aside his personal feelings. He came back to investigate Yanyu's affairs, thinking, he stepped into the orphanage silently.

"After you called me, I checked the information." Ming Wei handed the file to Song Zhou, and then poured him a glass of water, "When this child first came to us, he was already eight|nine years old. But he and..."

Mingwei said, noticing that Song Zhou didn't come alone, so she changed her words: "He was lonely when he was a child, and he always stared at his hands in a daze. The adults in the orphanage were very worried, and no parents were willing to accept him. But as soon as someone came to adopt the child, he immediately changed into a docile, cute, obedient and sensible person, and was taken away not long after."

Speaking of this, Song Zhou has a little impression. When he was a child, there was indeed such a person in the orphanage who did not speak like him, but he left within a few days, so his impression was not deep, and he did not match up for a while. Number.

Song Zhou looked at Yan Yu's information, and the record of the return visit in it was cut off for a long time two years after Yan Yu was adopted, so he asked, "Why did the orphanage contact him during this time?"

The dean explained helplessly: "Not two years after he was taken away, his adoptive parents sent him back, saying that they would return Yan Yu and adopt another one."

"Where is this?" Tao was puzzled.Children are not commodities, how can you say you want it, and say you don’t want it.

"Yeah! I didn't agree at the time." Dean Ming said, pointing to his arm, "but a teacher saw that Yan Yu's arm was full of burns from cigarette butts. I clearly remembered that he didn't have it before. I questioned the Yan family. Did the couple have domestic violence, turned around and found that Yan Yu had run away by himself."

Song Zhou frowned. He came here to find Yan Yu's criminal motives, but he was also not ashamed of what Yan's parents did.

"and after?"

She sighed, "Later, Yan Yu didn't go back for a long time. I asked someone to find out where the child worked. After a long time of persuasion, he finally agreed to go home."

But when she said this, she felt ashamed, "A few years before Ansheng, his adoptive father owed a foreign debt, and asked Yan Yu, who was still in college at the time, to help him pay it off. He rushed home and beat people like crazy. Now he The adoptive parents completely severed the relationship with him. At that time, he was already an adult, and the orphanage could not manage it. But we were relieved when we heard that he would work part-time and study so that he could support himself.”

"Debt?" Song Zhou thought over and over again, it seems that Yan Yu went home to make trouble just to break the relationship.

After Yan Yu and his family were completely wiped out, he worked part-time at school to earn living expenses, and things could be connected with what he learned at Jianglong University.

He asked the dean, "How much do you know about Yan Yu before he came to the orphanage?"

Ming Wei thought for a while, then shook her head and said, "I don't know, and he didn't want to say it himself. The day he came, it happened to be our open day here. A parent brought him and left. He seemed to realize something. , sat on the chair without crying or fussing."

Tao Yiran took out Ou Yue's photo and asked, "Did this person bring it?"

Ming Wei recognized it for a long time, "Like, but not quite. It's been more than [-] years, I really don't remember."

In fact, they run orphanages, and they are used to this kind of thing. Some parents are really not parents, and they abandon their children with a heart of stone, without even looking back.

But what did the child do wrong?

"Dean, please think back to the matter related to Yan Yu." Song Zhou said, looking at Tao Yiran, "Yiran, you are in charge of recording."

Tao Yiran looked at the captain as if he had something to leave, and nodded knowingly: "Okay."

Song Zhou walked out of the dean's office, stood in the small courtyard of the orphanage, and looked back at the dilapidated backyard.

After a sleepless night, Jiang Xiyan's mind was full of self-reflection, and he showed his usual spirit of inquiry when doing math problems, but he still couldn't figure out why.

He got up early in the morning and glanced at the navigation map on his phone. It only took half an hour from home, not too far away.

Before leaving, he thought that there were still many children in the orphanage, so he deliberately took a detour to the supermarket to buy some food and clothing.Not many gifts, but more or less a treat.

At the end of the tree-lined path is an iron gate. Looking in through the railing, I saw a teacher leading the children to do morning exercises. Seeing the arrival of the guests, the children were full of surprises and gathered at the door.

Looking at the childish smiling faces, Jiang Xiyan smiled knowingly, leaned over and asked them, "Is your principal teacher here?"

As an outsider, it's inconvenient for him to enter at will, so it's better to say hello to the dean.

Upon hearing the news, Dean Ming came, Wen Sheng dispersed the children blocking the door, "Children, let's go have breakfast with the teacher!"

"it is good--"

Watching the children walk away, Ming Wei turned to look at the stranger at the door, and asked, "Hi, what's the matter?"

Jiang Xiyan straightened his wording and said, "My friend said that he used to live here, but he's been busy recently and has no time to come back, so I'll come over for him to take a look."

Although his purpose is not pure, but directly naming his purpose, I am afraid it will disturb Song Zhou now, and he does have some intentions to visit the child today.

Dean Ming looked the visitor up and down, seeing that his lips were red and his teeth were white, and his expression was innocent, he didn't seem to be lying.

So she opened the iron door and welcomed, "Come in!"

Jiang Xiyan handed the gift he had brought to the dean, "Just show some kindness, don't be disgusted."

Ming Wei smiled and waved her hands, "Since it's your wish, give it to the children later, they seem to like you very much."

Jiang Xiyan was slightly taken aback, he was quite happy to see these children from a distance, but in fact he rarely had contact with so many children, under the expectant eyes of the dean, he could only bite the bullet and agree.