After more than 20 years of separation, the welfare home has been renovated inside and outside. The house is several stories taller than before. The exterior walls are covered with ceramic tiles. Not only are there trees on the playground, but flowers are also planted. It is much better than the broken bricks and tiles she remembers, but it still looks backward and old compared to the metropolis.

She remembered that when she was pregnant with love, the dean called her and said that the government had allocated funds and rebuilt the welfare home. It was very beautiful, and asked her to come back to see her. But she was inconvenient at that time, so she said she would come back in the future. After this, it took twenty years for accidents...

Xu Kewei couldn't help but wet her eyes when she thought of the old dean's kind smile. She wiped the corners of her eyes and walked to the security office. When the security guard saw someone, she immediately stood up, but looking at her unique dress and temperament, she opened her mouth but couldn't speak.

"I want to see your dean." Xu Kewei said, wiping the corners of her eyes with a tissue, "I grew up here before."

The security guard nodded blankly, and while guiding her to the dean's office, he thought: Seeing her dressed in a very rich manner, is she going to donate to the welfare home?

The dean's office is in the same location as it was more than 20 years ago, but the facilities are much better and are only targeted more than 20 years ago.

Xu Kewei walked to the door of the office and saw a 50-year-old man and two women in her thirties washing their hands for a child. The child was covered in dust, his face was full of tears, and he sobbed and said that someone was beating him.

Xu Kewei remembered that when she was a child, she also fought with people. She came here early, about five years old. She had no impression of what happened before. The earliest memory was that when she first arrived at the welfare home, she cried and looked for her mother. The child who arrived first told her that her mother didn't want her anymore, otherwise she wouldn't be here either.

Of course, she started fighting with the other party. After the fight, she ran out of the gate of the welfare home alone, carried a hand-sewn small cloth bag, and walked along the exterior wall of the welfare home, wanting to walk all the way home. As she walked, she encountered a wooden truck pulling coal, and she wanted to climb up, thinking that the ride would be faster.

Later, the dean found her back, and as he saw her, washing her face and hands, comforting her gently, and taking her to bed together at night.

Xu Kewei recalled the past and stood there in a daze. The people in the office found her and asked in confusion: "Who are you, are you okay?" Are you here to find the child? Or adopt the child?

Xu Kewei came to her senses, lowered her head and wiped the corners of her eyes: "My surname is Xu. I grew up here before, and I called me in the morning."

"Oh" a woman suddenly realized, "I answered the phone!"

The old man next to him is the current dean. He immediately called her in. After he asked her to sit down, he advised the crying boy: "Don't cry anymore. Xiaojie and the others are not good. My teacher and I will punish them. You should be good too. Don't fight with others in the future. If someone bullies you, tell the dean and the teacher..."

It took a few minutes to coax the child, and the dean asked someone to take him down before sitting down to chat with Xu Kewei.

The dean was a teacher here for a long time and taught Xu Kewei, but Xu Kewei was not impressed by her. When the two of them talked to each other, they both thought about it and recalled the past with emotion. The dean naturally asked her how she was doing over the years. Xu Kewei summarized her experiences in a few words in front of him and in front of her relatives.

"I got married at the age of 22 and gave birth to a daughter when I was 23. My husband was in college, but someone had a child in college. Later, someone came to the house and we divorced... I lived with my daughter alone, and later I got sick again. Life was not good enough, so I didn't send money here."

"Will we still care about that little money?" said the dean. "If you don't send the money, you can write a letter at least? Dean Shen and I are afraid that something will happen to you, but we are not easy to ask, afraid that you think we want money... Alas, when Dean Shen left, he was still thinking about you."

"I also miss her..." Xu Kewei asked, "Where is she buried? I want to see her."

"Okay, I'll take you to find her family first."

Xu Kewei nodded and followed him to the staff dormitory to find the Shen couple who were cooking medicine for their children. Recently, the cold was severe, and the school firmly believed in Chinese medicine. If you have nothing to do, boil some medicine for your children to drink to enhance immunity.

Xu Kewei smelled the medicine and her memories surged up again. She was the same when she was a child. How could the welfare home have money to buy medicine? When the seasons came, or if she found that a child had a sign of a cold, Dean Chen immediately went up the mountain to dig herbs according to folk remedies, took them back and cooked them in a pot, and then fed them to a child. At first, no one liked to drink it, but later, because there was no good food to eat, he even ate it as a rare candy snack.

Alas, it was so pitiful at that time.

Dean Chen’s son and daughter-in-law are older than Xu Kewei, and their daughter-in-law are also orphans here. When they were young, they often took everyone to play games. Although they have not seen each other for more than 20 years and have become unfamiliar with each other, they can get close to each other quickly when they mentioned it.

Everyone saw that it was getting late, so they took Xu Kewei to visit the grave and chatted while walking on the road.

Nowadays, cremation is also advocated in remote counties. Although there are still many burials in Yongning, President Chen received the state salary, so he naturally responded to the national call. Her son and daughter-in-law were reluctant to leave, but there was no way.

Xu Kewei looked at the loving smile of Dean Chen on the tombstone, and while raising incense, she thought: If I die, just cremate, all dust will return to dust, soil will return to soil...

Suddenly a cold wind blew, and she shook her body, opened her eyes and looked at the tombstone. Seeing that Dean Chen's smile seemed to be a little bigger than just now, she couldn't help but feel numb and almost fainted.

Xu Kewei took a deep breath and said softly: "Director Chen... I'm late." Looking back on Dean Chen's care and affection for her, she couldn't help but say something about her, but she was still concise, but she said a few more words to the current Dean just now, "I got married again last year, and now this husband is pretty good. Dean Chen, don't worry about me. My daughter is in college and I'll take her to see you..."

After scanning the grave, Xu Kewei asked about the financial situation of the welfare home and said, "My current husband is doing business. If he is asked to support some welfare business, he will definitely agree."

"Don't!" The dean hurriedly stopped her. Judging from her clothes, he guessed that her husband was not rich. He probably had a big career. "If you are willing, just send some things that the children use. Don't let your husband do big moves. You are greedy! They know that there are not many people who use them in the end..."
Chapter completed!