Literary Heroes of the Republic of China

The old woman Li Zhenyao hired to take care of these children was surnamed Wu, and Li Zhenyao called her Mama Wu.

Follow Mama Wu to walk in, and there is a small yard when you enter the door. The ground in the yard is paved with stone slabs. At the moment, there are four or five disabled children lying on the slabs to bask in the sun.

There were men and women, they looked at Mu Qiong and Li Zhenyao with wide-open eyes, their eyes were dark, but there was no spirit inside, they looked dull.

Wu Ma said: "Miss came to see you, don't you kowtow?"

Hearing this, they immediately got up and kowtowed skillfully.

One of the children had both legs broken, but he supported it with both hands, and his head hit the stone slab heavily. When he raised his head again, his forehead was a little blue.

"You don't need to kowtow to me!" Li Zhenyao hurriedly said, and then looked at Wu Ma with dissatisfaction: "Wu Ma, don't say these things to them!"

Mama Wu said in a low voice, "Miss, you feed them, they should kowtow to you."

Li Zhenyao did not take in these children to make them kowtow to herself, she was extremely embarrassed at the moment, looking at Mu Qiong very embarrassed, afraid that Mu Qiong would misunderstand her.

"Let's go see other children." Mu Qiong said.

Li Zhenyao nodded, and continued walking inside with Mu Qiong.

Behind the yard is a place to eat and entertain guests. This room is quite big, because it is not meal time, and there is no one in it. There are two doors on the left and right sides of the room. patio.

In this courtyard, seven or eight children gathered and were playing with throwing stones. When they saw Li Zhenyao, they knelt down together and kowtowed: "Hi, Miss!"

"Get up!" Li Zhenyao was even more embarrassed, and said to Mu Qiong: "They were not like this before..."

"Miss, I taught them. They didn't know the rules before." A teenager jumped up, a little proud: "Thank you, miss, for taking care of me!"

"I don't need you to kowtow." Li Zhenyao said.

"Even if Miss doesn't want us to kowtow, we still have to kowtow. How can we not kowtow when we meet the savior?" The child's eyeballs rolled cunningly.

When the children next to him heard the words, they immediately kowtowed again.

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Mu Qiong looked at all these children and found that these children were roughly divided into three categories.

One type is used to being mixed up in society, sweet talk comes out as soon as you open your mouth, and you are good at planning for yourself; the other type is insensitive, living day by day, and the whole person looks lifeless; They are not as "smart" as the former, nor are they resigned to their fate like the latter, they live cautiously.

And this third category is mostly those who have just started wandering.

Of course, although they are divided into three categories, they still have something in common. What they have in common is that all of them are very thin, so thin that their thighs and calves are as thick, and so thin that their heads are big and their bodies are small.

When Mu Qiong first wore it, the original owner was already thin enough, but far less skinny than these children. Compared with these children, the original owner's life couldn't be happier.

Muqiong chatted with these children.

The most talkative among them was the one who asked a group of children to kowtow to Li Zhenyao, but he didn't say a few truthful words, but complimented Li Zhenyao one after another, clumsily flattering Li Zhenyao.

As for the other children... Some children don't speak at all, and some children are obviously seven or eight years old, but they can't speak well, answering questions wrongly, and there are a few more reliable children who don't dare Talk too much.

They were all wary of him.

The three of Mu Qiong stayed in this yard for more than an hour before leaving. By this time, they were already used to the unpleasant smell here.

Outside, Mu Qiong said to Li Zhenyao. "I will come over tomorrow, you don't have to worry about them, I will take good care of these children."

"Thank you." Li Zhenyao said.

"You don't need to thank me, I'm helping these children." Mu Qiong smiled, and said again: "By the way, you two don't come out to find someone casually like today...Girls, pay attention to safety .”

He asked Li Zhenyao to write back to him, and then he went to find Li Zhenyao, so he didn't even leave his real name, only his pseudonym—anyway, the crippled old man at the door received the letter and sent it all to the office.

In the end, Li Zhenyao came to him without writing a letter.

This little girl is very courageous, if she meets someone with bad intentions, she can coax her a little...

"You won't harm us!" Jun Yang Yu said, "You are Lou Yuyu."

"What if it's not me who wrote to you?" Mu Qiong said.

Yang Yujun and Li Zhenyao looked at each other, feeling a little scared now.

Mu Qiong sent the two girls to the bustling road first, and then returned to Ping An Middle School.

It took a long time on the way back, and it was completely dark at this time, but the lights in the cafeteria were still on, very bright.

When Mu Qiong went in, he saw Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu doing their homework at the dining table, while Feng Xiaoya and Zhou Laosan were washing and scrubbing.

"Mr. Mu, you are here! The rice is reserved for you!" Feng Xiaoya saw Mu Qiong, and immediately brought out the food that was warming in the iron pot. Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu cleared the table and gave it to Mu Qiong. Give up the place to eat.

"Brother, where have you been?" Mu Changyu asked curiously.

Zhu Wanwan was more interested in those two girls: "Who are those two girls who came to look for you?" She was not there when Li Zhenyao came to look for Mu Qiong, and she was too embarrassed to ask people afterwards, so she didn't know many things.

"It was Li Zhenyao and her tablemate who came to see me, and they took me to see the street children they took in." Mu Qiong said.

The letter Li Zhenyao wrote at the beginning was read by Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu. They were no strangers to Li Zhenyao, and they knew more about Li Zhenyao's taking in street children. Now hearing what Mu Qiong said, it suddenly dawned on her.

In the evening, Zhu Wanwan made braised pork, and Mu Qiong ate the meat quickly, and then told Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu everything that happened today.

Zhu Wanwan is an emotional person, she felt sympathetic after hearing this: "Those children are so pitiful."

But Mu Changyu said: "Brother, there are many people like this, you can't help everyone... When we couldn't make it through, wouldn't there be no one to help us?"

"Because others don't come to help us, we don't help others. Under such a vicious circle, isn't this society getting worse?" Mu Qiong smiled.

It is not surprising that Mu Changyu would have such an idea.

Without seeing those children and only listening to his description, it is impossible for Mu Changyu to have much sympathy for those children.

"Okay." Mu Changyu said.

Mu Qiong said again: "In the next two days, I will go over there to watch...Changyu, I will let someone else pick you up then."

"Brother, you don't need to find someone else to pick me up, I can do it by myself!" Mu Changyu said, "I know the road from Chongxin School to Ping'an Middle School very well."

"Qiong'er, let me pick Changyu up. I'll pick up Changyu and come back to cook in time." Zhu Wanwan also said.

Both Chongxin School and Ping'an Middle School are in the concession, and the middle is quite bustling. It's not a big problem to walk during the day. Mu Qiong thought about it and agreed to Zhu Wanwan's proposal: "Mother, then you can pick up Changyu from now on. Wait for me here after dinner, I will pick you up later."

Both Zhu Wanwan and Mu Changyu agreed.

After chatting with them, Mu Qiong went to find Wei Ting and asked Wei Ting for leave.

He planned to spend two days to take care of Li Zhenyao's simple orphanage.

If those children don't take good care of them...it's okay to be sick, and maybe bullying and the like will happen, then it will go against his original intention.

Wei Ting was reading in his hut, and after hearing about Mu Qiong's intentions, he agreed and asked about the children.

Mu Qiong said one by one.

"In this world... the most difficult thing is children." Wei Ting said, "Do you have enough money? I still have some here, do you want to take it?"

"No need," Mu Qiong smiled wryly, "Actually, what is lacking is not money to take care of these children."

To feed and clothe those children, he only needs a few oceans a day, which he can afford by himself, but he can't keep them like this all the time.

If they are used to getting something for nothing and without education, what will they be like when they grow up?

After returning home that night, Mu Qiong first wrote "I'm in a Hundred Years Later", then deleted, deleted, revised and wrote some plans.

The next morning, Mu Qiong and Zhu Wanwan arrived at Ping'an Middle School as usual, and then went to find Sheng Chaohui.

"Are there many people who want to subscribe to the monthly educational magazine?" Mu Qiong asked.

"Yes." Sheng Chaohui gave an affirmative answer: "Counting the postage, ordering is actually a bit more expensive than buying alone, but there are still many people ordering."

"When mailing the educational monthly, do you need to add a package?" Mu Qiong asked again.

"It's natural." Sheng Chaohui said: "I've seen other publications, and they will wrap the publications in kraft paper envelopes. I will buy some when the time comes."

"I'll find someone to make this envelope." Mu Qiong said: "The little girl who came yesterday has taken in many orphans. I plan to find some work for those children. It would be good to let them help paste the envelope."

Mu Qiong hopes that those children can learn some useful knowledge or technology and become useful people to this society in the future, but he can't find anyone who is willing to teach these children.

Moreover, it may not work to let these children who don't know how to obey the discipline and even can't speak clearly go to study immediately-most of them won't listen.

After thinking about it, he chose such a job of pasting envelopes for them.

After discussing with Sheng Chaohui, Mu Qiong and Sheng Chaohui decided that the children would do the work, and immediately went to buy some kraft paper, a paper cutter and envelope samples.

Adding these things together, he bought a full cart. In addition, he also bought more than a dozen catties of pork and a basket of eggs, and hired someone to take them to the yard that Li Zhenyao rented.

He had already explained yesterday that he had something to tell these children today, telling them not to go outside, and these children were obedient, waiting for him, just sitting or standing, with different postures.

Calling these children together, Mu Qiong said: "I found you a job of pasting envelopes."

Some children didn't react at all, but the leader of the children who brought many children to kneel down to Li Zhenyao yesterday curled his lips.

Mu Qiong glanced at him, and said again: "I bought meat and eggs and come over. If I work well, I can eat meat and eggs."

These children all looked at Mu Qiong in shock.