Chapter 2 Chapter 1 Why did I cry in the orphanage?

When I heard the well-dressed children singing "My mother only gave birth to my body, and the glory of the party shines on my heart" in the Datong Orphan School, I couldn't help but burst into tears... I know a fact: where there are human beings, there are orphans; I also know a fact: many orphans in China enjoy the sunshine and rain that other countries cannot have. However, I can't help pointing out that there are still some people in society who have lost their basic moral principles, and they are still making the tragedy of orphans. In the last autumn of the last century, I went to an orphan school in Datong, Shanxi.This is a public welfare interview. Unexpectedly, in this almost forgotten world, I saw the lives of hundreds of orphans, and learned about countless heart-wrenching stories behind their lives.

Using the word story is actually not very accurate, because everything here is what is happening at this moment. This is for sure, if Zhang Hongtu hadn't founded this orphan school with kindness, I would not have been able to tell readers about this group of children who lost their family ties; It's hard to believe that there are still such tragic things happening around us... Zhang Hongtu is the owner of a coal factory. He spent tens of millions of dollars on running the coal factory. He and his family had nothing to enjoy, but he did an unbelievable thing: he went to all over the country to adopt some fatherless For orphans, run a school for them, so that they can go to school and have a warm home.You may not believe it, but he has adopted more than 600 such children from all over the country!

More than 600!It was already night when I went to the orphan school, and because it was late at night, I didn't disturb these children.I was woken up by the chirping sound in the early morning of the second year. I opened the glass window upstairs in the hostel of the school and looked down: Wow, it was so dark...they were together in twos and threes, but few children were happy Most of the children are sitting on the stone slab beside the school playground and on the steps beside the front wall of the apartment, silently doing some extremely boring things that only they know: such as digging soil, such as catching insects , such as playing with fingers, such as simply holding your hands and thinking about something.This kind of situation can only be seen in such a special group of children - there is hardly any joy, no interaction, and even no normative behavior...

Most of the clothes they wear are ill-fitting, either too big or too tight, worn or old, and many children's shoes don't match.The teacher at the school told us that most of the children's clothes are subsidized by all walks of life, so they can only look like this. Their faces were dull, numb and bewildered. They were full of curiosity about strange visitors like me, but they just watched from a distance but did not come forward to say hello to me. At first I thought they would be nervous and timid when I asked them, but when I approached them, I unexpectedly found that these interviewees were not timid at all, and regardless of their age, they all remembered their family affairs very clearly. The place where I was born, why I became an orphan, and when did I come here.

The girl Chen Hongmei said: I am now in the fourth grade.My hometown is in Sangzhi, Hunan. My mother hanged herself after my father was crushed to death by a rock on a mountain during construction.Later, Grandpa Zhang took me here. Boy Wu Xinwen said: I am in the third grade.My home is in Xinhua, Hunan.My father died while working in Hubei, and my mother was run over by a train.It was the aunt of the Provincial Youth League Committee who sent me here. I lived in Grandpa Zhang’s house for a long time, and then moved to the school when I grew up. The boy Lin Shiyang said: I am from Hainan.I was 12 years old when I came here, and I came with my sister.My parents were fishermen, and they capsized and died while fishing.

"Hey, sister, come here." Xiao Shiyang took the initiative to call a little girl who was walking out of the love apartment to me. So there is the following conversation between me and Xiao Shihui: "After coming here, have you thought about your parents?" "I've dreamed about it. I can't remember what they looked like..." "Are you afraid of being here for the first time?" "No, Grandpa Zhang is very kind to us." "What is the most impressive thing here?" "It's snowing. We don't have snow in Hainan."

"What do you want to be when you grow up?" "Sing, win a prize. For my brother to go to college." "What about yourself?" "Hainan." "why?" "Missing my little friend..." "What is in your hand?" "Instant noodles." "Who bought it for you? Can't you get enough food in the cafeteria?" "No, I can eat a few big buns every day. But I really want to taste the taste of instant noodles..." "Money, how do you have money?" "Grandpa Zhang gave it every month." "Every month? How much?"

"Big brothers and sisters who are in middle school are 10 yuan a month, and our primary school students are 5 yuan." "Do you keep the money yourself, or give it to the teacher?" "All of them. I asked my brother to keep them." "If I take you home now, will you go?" "Don't go." "why?" "Grandpa Zhang and the teacher are kind to us and want us to finish middle school before going to university." "Are you determined to go to college?" Xiao Shihui looked at her elder brother standing aside with embarrassment and said, "Yes."

That morning, I asked about 20 children in a row, and to my surprise, they all answered me fluently. When the children talked about their limited tragic memories, they showed amazing calmness, which just made me Feeling very sad... Wang Bing, a young man from Xiji County, Ningxia, is only half a head taller than me.He said that he lost his parents since he was a child, and followed a poor cousin who lived far away to herd cattle for a living.On the vast Gobi Desert, Xiao Wang Bing works with cattle every day for a long time. Apart from a few hoarse chants of driving cattle, he can't even say a word to address people.Xiao Wang Bing is thin and thin, and because of his unkempt and wild appearance and his ability to howl a few screams that even the wild animals are afraid of, he was given a poignant name by the locals—Little Wolf Boy.

Tessa, a very beautiful girl with shawl hair, if she dresses up a bit, she is definitely a beautiful girl who can be on the seven-color light show.And she stood in front of my eyes with only tears... She said that her family is in Shenzhen, because her parents divorced, her mother went abroad, her father abandoned her, and she has been wandering on the streets for several years at a young age.After she came to the orphan school, she always hid behind others, and her eyes full of hatred flickered with thieves from time to time.But everyone found that when little Tessa was holding something, her hands would keep shaking, and she couldn't even hold an egg steadily. It was because I was very hungry on the street that day, and when I went to a store to eat something, I sometimes The illness that fell after someone crushed my hand hard with a big foot.Little Tessa, who had been living on the streets for several years, could only remember this incident. It was an unforgettable scene, and because of this, her young and delicate limbs were permanently disabled.

Cheng Shan is also a little girl from Guangdong. Her admission card states that she is 12 years old, but she looks so weak, like a kitten that hasn’t eaten for many months. No one believes that this child is already a child. This age.When asked who her biological parents were, she shook her head; when asked how old she was, she shook her head; when asked what her name was, she thought for a long time and still shook her head.I knew that there were three different parents, but none of them treated me well, and they didn't want me anymore... In Xiao Chengshan's memory, there were only three parents who also treated her like a cat or dog. Wang Zhongyin, 13 years old, was the only child who chased after me to talk to me.I asked him about his family situation, and he could tell me back and forth: at first, his father disappeared, and later his mother disappeared, so he could only wander around with one brother and one sister, working as a little cowherd for others, working as a cowherd. He worked as a brick-and-mortar worker, and he also sold blood in the past... He especially loves reading and singing.You don't believe me to sing for you... So he first sang "Sing a Folk Song for the Party" to me. one time".Seeing this innocent child stretching his neck and singing such a song loudly, I couldn't help but frown, but I didn't know that Xiao Zhongyin was going to recite Tang poems for me all the time, and he also recited a song that was repeated for me. a.Just when I couldn't figure out how such a child with a high IQ became an orphan, a teacher came over and yelled at him: "It's alright, alright, Mr. He has other things to do!" Xiao Zhongyin fell silent. up.Later the teacher told me that Xiao Zhongyin had just been discharged from the hospital. Recite some English for you..." For some reason, my eyes were filled with tears by his words. What an unfortunate child. But what lucky children they are!If they hadn't met Grandpa Zhang Hongtu, where would they be now?What kind of miserable life do you lead?I dare not imagine.The teacher at the school told me that Zhang Hongtu spent a lot of painstaking efforts to adopt these children here. On that day, after several days and nights, Zhang Hongtu and several assistants found a man lying on a bed with a thousand sores in a small wooden lintel overgrown with weeds next to the warehouse of a certain unit that had been abandoned for many years in the suburbs of Taiyuan, Shanxi. The dying girl on Baikong's mat is Bai Tingting, the daughter of criminal Bai Jianrong.A good girl, because she lost the love of her relatives, she wandered all over the world alone for several years. No one knew her name, and no one knew her home.Zhang Hongtu and the others learned from a prison in Shanxi that inmate Bai Jianrong committed suicide several times because he didn't know the whereabouts of his young daughter.Of course Bai Jianrong deserved what he deserved: When he set up a stall in Taiyuan that year, he met a Guangzhou native through someone's introduction.Eager to make a fortune, Bai Jianrong handed over his hard-earned more than 10,000 yuan to a Guangzhou native for investment, only to find out afterwards that he had been cheated, because he had not heard from that person for more than a year.Coincidentally, one day after more than a year, Bai Jianrong accidentally met his enemy at a friend. At that time, Bai Jianrong, who was dizzy, beat the person severely and took away more than 15,000 yuan.Bai Jianrong was sentenced to heavy punishment and imprisoned.But what he didn't expect was that after he went to prison, his wife ruthlessly abandoned Xiao Tingting, who was under one year old at the time, and never came back.Xiao Tingting's grandfather died young, and her retired grandmother has to pay for Bai Jianrong's younger sister to attend technical secondary school.In addition, Bai Tingting's mother and Bai Jianrong were cohabiting illegally, and they did not go through the marriage procedures, so Bai Tingting became a black child.The miserable little Tingting was never recognized since she could walk. brunette.The black girl has suffered countless hardships. In her childhood memories, Bai Tingting only knows that there are often old or young bad men who always make fun of her. To nibble on it is to burn her immature breasts with a cigarette butt for fun... The doctor said that if Zhang Hongtu and the others hadn't been rescued in time, the little girl would have died long ago... Almost all of the more than 600 orphans in front of me had similar fates and experiences as Bai Tingting. Zhao Xiucai, an orphan from Shanxi, also had many experiences of being abandoned.I don't know if the parents who dropped their children to see the King of Hades at a young age expected their children to become scholars of Guangzong Yaozu after their death.It is impossible for them to know that the poor children will not even have a full meal in the years after losing their parents.The first day this young scholar from the Zhao family saw a large bowl of hot white flour schoolchildren brought by Grandpa Zhang Hongtu, his eyes flashed white, and he rushed over to grab it and eat it.No matter how the uncles and aunts at the side tried to persuade him to eat slowly, it didn't work. This little scholar of the Zhao family ate 42 meat-filled dumplings in just a few minutes.All the people present were stunned, and what was even more shocking was still behind: within a quarter of an hour, Zhao Xiucai suddenly yelled, "It hurts, it hurts."At this time, someone muttered: "Who made him eat so much?" "What is gluttony? Have you been hungry for three or five years? But this child lives by begging and picking up other people's leftovers. He has been a beggar for seven years! Seven years!" Zhang Hongtu, who took Zhao Xiucai in, heard this. He stomped his feet angrily. On the first day when the children came to the orphan school, almost all of them had the same gluttonous problem as Zhao Xiucai. After a few meals, they all complained of stomach pains. Listen, it was only later that Grandpa Zhang Hongtu became civilized when he could eat so much good food every day. But strange things still keep appearing. A child pointed to preserved eggs and asked Zhang Hongtu suspiciously: "Grandpa, why are you feeding us bad eggs? Look at these eggs, they are all black and yellow." Another child held a sausage in his hand, happily took He Yuxia's hand out of the cafeteria, and ran to the venue, happily asking the aunt and mother to give him some firecrackers—a child who had never seen a sausage mistakenly thought Chundu was a firecracker... … The few young teachers who manage life here finally dragged the group of filthy children to the bathing pool like ducks, but facing the hot pool water, the children shrank and dared not enter the water. "Go on, what a hot water!" The teachers were so anxious that they had to drive the children into the pool like ducks, but these poor children didn't know how to take off their clothes in the bathing pool. Wearing a coat and hat like cooking dumplings, jumping into the clean hot water pool... Just after peeling off the dumpling wrappers for the children in the bathing pool, Zhang Hongtu called several medical staff. He wanted to treat these children without parents, so blood tests were inevitable.But what Lao Zhang and the teachers didn't expect was that many children burst into tears, saying that they didn't want to roll up their sleeves and let the doctors draw blood. "Grandpa Zhang, teacher, please let me go, please let us go home..." This time, Zhang Hongtu, who thought he was well-informed, was confused: "Baby, what are you talking about?" Do you want to go home? Do you think the food given by your grandfather and teacher is not good? Or the clothes you live in are not warm?" At the bedside of Xiao Chunmei from Tongxin County, Ningxia, who cried the most, Zhang Hongtu tried his best Some all patiently pondered the answer.Shrunken into a ball because of fear, Xiao Chunmei finally opened her mouth to tell Zhang Hongtu a past story: After Xiao Chunmei became an orphan that year, she was taken home by a kind-hearted man from a foreign country. Later, the kind-hearted man took him to the hospital on the street to draw blood every now and then. Seeing the bright red blood being sucked away by a large needle, Xiao Chunmei was so frightened that she fainted again and again, while the kind-hearted man kept going. He told her with a livid face: as long as you drink a few mouthfuls of salt water, nothing will happen.Although Xiao Chunmei was young, she was so scared when she saw her blood that was almost exhausted being drained away by tubes!Finally one day she escaped from the clutches of the black-hearted man who took in orphans and sold their blood for money.Since then, Xiao Chunmei has been terrified when she sees someone trying to draw her blood, and she is not the only orphan in the same situation as Xiao Chunmei! Zhang Hongtu's heart was broken when he looked at the group of children who knelt down and begged him not to draw blood. "Good boys, get up quickly! Grandpa asked the doctor to draw blood for you to check your body, just to prevent you from being drawn even a drop of blood in the future!" Zhang Hongtu, who was in his early fifties, was only half Kneeling on both legs, one by one gently lifted the children who were afraid of the blood test... Zhang Hongtu took in these hundreds of poor children with his great mind that surpassed that of a loving father, established the first and only Datong Orphan Education School in China, and served as the principal himself.On the opening day, Mr. Sun Qimeng, former vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and leaders of Shanxi Province also went to the school to attend the opening ceremony. All the orphans here are lucky. They have found their home, their father's love and mother's love here, and their chance to go to school.Now they are growing up healthily and living happily. However, we know that the more than 600 children who have no family and no father and mother love that Zhang Hongtu took in, there are still many, many children in the whole country. There are too many to count; similarly, even though they have their own children, we have no way of counting the number of widowed and lonely old people who are not supported and live a miserable life... Aren't they the group we should pay the most attention to and need the most love from?They can use their patience and hardships to maintain their own lives and lives, but there is only one thing they desire and call for most, and in their opinion, it is far more precious than giving them gold and silver mountains-that is human affection! Heh, love on earth, where are you?