Chapter 0282 – Jiujiang Children’s Welfare Center
”Yes, Fan Yu’s sister is a spider, the specifics are a bit complicated, if you have time, can you come to the Children’s Welfare Center today?”
”Yes, is it okay if I go over at six or seven in the evening?”
”No problem, thanks for your cooperation.”
Hanging up the phone, Chen Ge’s mind recalled the last words of the orphanage staff, “Fan Yu’s sister is a spider?”
Fan Yu was the first special visitor to the House of Horrors, and a very pitiful child who had witnessed his father murdering his mother and his aunt pushing his father into a well, and who himself had lived under the same roof as the murderer for several years.
”That child no longer has any relatives in this world, in all reason, I should go over and take a look.”
Originally, Chen Ge was still thinking about washing his face later and running under the sun to draw a prize, but because of this call from the orphanage staff, he was not in the mood.
Afternoon business soon began, busy to five thirty, the number of tourists still did not reduce, forced Chen Ge they had to extend the visit time, until almost seven o’clock before the end.
It was already dark, Chen Ge ticket income can not care about accounting, wait until Xu Wan after work, hurried to the orphanage.
This was Chen Ge’s first visit to the Jiujiang Children’s Welfare Institute, and the kind of cold, dirty, poor environment he saw in the TV series of the orphanage is different, Jiujiang Children’s Welfare Institute is very cozy, has its own courtyard, which is filled with all kinds of flowers and plants planted.
”Hey! What’s going on? We can’t let outsiders in here.” The old man at the gate stopped Chen Ge.
”Hello, my name is Chen Ge, I’m Fan Yu’s family. At noon today, your staff here informed me to come over.”
”Fan Yu’s family!” The boss took a few careful looks at Chen Ge, and his attitude changed instantly, “Wait, I’ll go in and ask.”
The oldest didn’t use his cell phone, and ran into the courtyard and shouted towards the upstairs.
It didn’t take long for a woman who looked about Chen Ge’s age to walk out of the building, she was wearing a nurse’s uniform, her features were soft and she gave off a friendly feeling.
”Mr. Chen, you’re finally here.” The nurse signaled Chen Ge to walk with her, “Introduce yourself first, I am Fan Yu’s ‘mom’, you can call me Xiao Liu.”
”You’re his mom?”
”En, we have adopted a lot of street children and abandoned babies here, in order to make them feel the warmth of home more, so we usually let them call out ‘mom and dad’ directly, but we don’t force them, most of them are voluntary by the children.” The female nurse was very good at talking, she was rather shy and didn’t dare to look Chen Ge in the eye when she spoke to him.
”It’s quite good, I actually admire you guys.” Jiujiang Children’s Welfare Center was like a big family, completely different from the ones Chen Ge had seen in TV dramas.
The female nurse smiled a sunny smile, and she was about to open her mouth when the window on the other side of the courtyard opened, and a middle-aged man with a cup of tea rushed at the female nurse, “Xiao Liu, running around again? Don’t hurry back! From now on, you keep a close eye on Jiang Ling and Fan Yu! They’re getting too much!”
The man’s voice was a bit angry, Xiao Liu wasn’t afraid when she heard it, but she was a bit embarrassed, “En, got it.”
The female nurse led Chen Ge into the middle of the small building, the walls were plastered with cute decorations and the corridors were cleaned very well.
”Who was that person just now? The dean?” Chen Ge casually asked.
”He’s Dr. Chen, very bad-tempered, but very nice, used to work in a big hospital, resigned and became our doctor here.”
”Dr. Chen? The orphanage is specially equipped with a doctor?”
”Yeah, we have doctors, nurses, caregivers, and cultural instructors, we all have different divisions of labor, but they are all ‘mommy and daddy’ to this group of children.”
Chen Ge nodded, comparing to the orphanage founded by the old principal of Mureyang Middle School, this place seemed much more formal.
As they walked in the middle of the long corridor, a door next to them suddenly opened, and two children ran out after them, holding a toy.
”Jiang Jin, Jiang He! Don’t fool around in the corridor, it’s past eight o’clock, quickly go back!” The female nurse said a few words, and the two children went back inside a bit reluctantly.
As the door to the room closed, Chen Ge looked inside, two rooms and one hall, there were about six children living in one room.
”Your living environment here is quite good, the children still have toys and new clothes.” Chen Ge looked towards the watercolor cards on the door, which had one name written by the children themselves, “Strange, how come all your children here have the surname Jiang?”
”They are all children from Jiujiang, so their last name is taken from Jiujiang City, and many of the street children and abandoned babies here who don’t have names have Jiang as their last name.” The female nurse smiled awkwardly as she said this, “Of course there are some children that are used to their previous names, we won’t force them to change.”
The nurse led Chen Ge to the first room on the left side of the third floor, she walked straight in without knocking.
”Dean, Chen Ge is here.”
Next to the windowsill was an old man in his sixties who was watering the flowers, he was wearing old-fashioned glasses and looked as if he was a retired teacher.
”But it’s finally here, feel free to sit down.” The old man looked like he had seen a savior, which made Chen Ge even more puzzled.
”Old man, just tell me what you have to say, did Fan Yu cause trouble in our orphanage?” Chen Ge felt like he was here for Fan Yu’s parents to attend the parent-teacher conference, or the kind of parent who was left until the end and talked to by the teacher alone.
”Then I’ll be blunt.” The old dean gave the female nurse a look, as if she was afraid of bad influence, and told her to close the door first: “You are the guardian appointed by Fan Yu’s immediate family, and you should know more than we do about Fan Yu’s situation, this child, he’s not a misfit, how can I put it? He is completely devoid of concepts like family, collective, and happiness, we have tried everything to help him, but the results have been poor.”
Chen Ge had to know Fan Yu better than anyone else, so he understood the confusion on the part of the orphanage, “Trouble for you.”
The dean waved his hand, “This is nothing, I’ve seen children with even more withdrawn personalities, the main problem right now is that not only has this child’s personality not been corrected by us, he’s also brought down a few other children who are receiving treatment here.”
”Bringing them down?” Chen Ge suddenly understood why that Dr. Chen was so angry when he saw Xiao Liu.
”Many children who have been abandoned by their families or have had tragic experiences will have psychological problems to a greater or lesser extent, and will need psychological counseling to do so.” The old dean let out a bitter smile, “Fan Yu is also one of them, but this child always sings against the doctors, not only does he not cooperate with the treatment himself, but he also says strange things to other children. There were a few children whose condition worsened just because of his words, and we had no choice but to send those children away.”