Chapter 048 Sanwei Real Fire
Things were full of the whole car. I sat on the co-pilot. Xiao Tingting drove. After the windy Q7 slowly drove out of the parking lot, he drove arrogantly on the wide street.
"Tingting, where are we going?" After walking for half an hour and seeing the car get on the third ring road, I said puzzledly, "This doesn't seem to be the way to the company."
"Who said we went to the company?" Xiao Tingting didn't have the charming look on her face just now. She smiled at me and said, "Let's go to Wufeng Village."
"Wufeng Village." I'm a little confused. I've been in Fuzhou for seven or eight years. I don't know this place at all.
"I haven't heard of it." Xiao Tingting smiled at me gently and said, "Then stay here and I'll call you later."
After Xiao Tingting said that, she drove attentively. I picked up a piece of information about the beauty game that the vice president put on the car. I browsed boringly. Although the car was broken, it at least the navigation system was installed, so I was not worried about Xiao Tingting getting lost.
After walking down the Third Ring Road for nearly 40 minutes, Xiao Tingting's car slowed down and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated courtyard.
"It's here." Xiao Tingting pointed to the compound and said faintly,
I frowned. The courtyard is located alone at the foot of a hill. The dilapidated bricks and tiles and low shrubs are intertwined and messy. It may be that the building is relatively old, and the wall of the outer wall of the courtyard has long fallen off. If I hadn't seen someone walking around in the courtyard, I would have thought it would have been abandoned. At the gate is a pile of stones. Next to the pile of stones stands a rusty sign, Wufeng Sunset Courtyard,
Xiao Tingting didn't look much. When she got out of the car, she opened the trunk and moved down all the big and small bags inside.
She was busy. There was a flash of people in the courtyard, but a modestly dressed aunt came out of it. A few meters away from us, the aunt greeted us in a non-standard Mandarin: "Two bosses, you are from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd."
I was slightly stunned. Could it be that this aunt is a hermit? You can know our identity at a glance.
I didn't say anything. The little girl lifted the hair on her forehead with her hand and smiled at her aunt, "Hello, auntie, I'm Xiao Tingting from Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. and Zui Hongchen Charity Foundation. I contacted you in the morning."
"Oh, oh, I can remember your voice." The aunt's weather-beaten face was suddenly full of smiles, and then she quickly walked to Xiao Tingting: "You said you would come today. I didn't expect it to come so soon. We didn't prepare anything."
"Auntie, we are all our own people. Why are you so polite?" Xiao Tingting was familiar with her everywhere. After greeting her aunt warmly, she pointed to me and said, "This is the boss of our Haitian Network Technology Co., Ltd. Yu Wang. After hearing about the situation in our Wufeng Xiyang Courtyard, he took time out of his busy schedule and insisted on coming with me to pay New Year's greetings to the elderly."
"Oh, hello, Mr. Yu." My aunt suddenly showed respect in her eyes and said to me nervously, "I'm really, really grateful that our small sunset courtyard can get special care from you."
"Well... Auntie, you... You're welcome." Hearing what my aunt said, my old face turned red and stammered. I was covered in my bones all the time. If Xiao Tingting hadn't brought me here, I'm afraid I wouldn't have taken a look at the sunset courtyard in my life.
"Auntie, do you have a trolley here? It's not easy to move so many things." Xiao Tingting seemed to see that I was at a loss and opened the topic.
"Oh, oh, I've been just saying hello to you. Wait for me, and I'll call someone to help." With that, the aunt hurried back to the compound,
"Tingting, what's going on?" I ran to the trunk and asked depressedly while helping Xiao Tingting unload her things.
"You can't see it yet." Xiao Tingting smiled and said, "The Spring Festival is approaching. Let's express our company to comfort the lonely elderly. It's that simple."
"How do you... know there is a nursing home here?" I said puzzledly,
"It seems that you certainly didn't care about this information before." Xiao Tingting gave me a white look and said, "Wufeng Sunset Courtyard is funded by local kind-hearted people, and a fixed investment is invested every month. It is said that more than 200 lonely elderly people were taken in in the heyday. Later, the kind-hearted man unfortunately went bankrupt in business, and Wufeng Sunset Courtyard gradually declined, and now it is only adopted. Fifty or sixty people."
"Ah." As an ordinary person, I don't have time to care about these things, but when I heard that kind-hearted people funded the establishment of a nursing home, I was also awe-inspiring: "The kind-hearted person you mentioned can't continue to contribute, and the government department doesn't care about it."
"This nursing home is a non-governmental organization. Although it has been recognized by the government, it is not enough with that little minimum guarantee." Xiao Tingting's eyes were slightly red and she sighed, "I heard that the old people here only have 30 yuan of pocket money a month, and they can only eat half a bowl of rice per meal. They can't be sent to the hospital in time when they are sick... Hey."
"How could this happen?" I frowned and said, "Don't the old people's homes charge fees. Besides, these old people don't have sons."
"Charge, most people don't have the ability to work. How can they charge?" Xiao Tingting gave me a depressed look: "Can you grow a little brain? If you have a son, they will live in such a broken nursing home."
"Well..." I was scolded by Xiao Tingting and had no temper at all. Thinking about it, if I really can't accompany the elderly because of work or other reasons, even if I send them to the elderly, I have to choose one with good conditions. The conditions of this Wufeng Sunset Courtyard are really... rotten to the extreme,
As we were talking, several 40 or 50-year-old aunts came out of the compound, pushing the car in their hands, saying Fuzhou dialect that we couldn't understand, and happily pushed the things we brought in.
"These are the local villagers, which is equivalent to volunteers in society." Xiao Tingting explained something to me, and then took me and these volunteers to move the things to the storage room on the second floor.
After finishing the work, I didn't know what to do. Xiao Tingting didn't look outside at all and didn't think the old man was dirty. Together with the volunteers, she helped some elderly people with limited mobility out of the room, and then helped to remove and wash the sheets. She was very happy.
Maybe those old people regard me as a very identifiable person, so no one wants to get close to me. They chat in local language, and I can't get in. Although I ask myself that I'm not a very ** person, I feel a terrible feeling from their eyes. Loneliness,
"Mr. Yu, do you think it's boring?" The atmosphere in the nursing home was a little depressing. I was about to find a place to smoke a cigarette. An old man about 80 next to me stood behind me on crutches.
"It's not boring, it's not boring." I stood up in a panic and moved a chair from the side: "Old man, please sit down."
"Thank you." The old man smiled at me and sat down and said, "Don't blame those old brothers and sisters for not paying attention to you. Long-term loneliness makes them a little closed. It will take a long time to melt this barrier."
"It's not strange, of course it's not." I shook my head with a wry smile: "I'm not afraid of your jokes. This is my first time to come to the nursing home, and I don't know what I should do."
"Yes, there is a first time for everything. Just get used to it in the future." The old man took out a bag of five-yuan Gutian cigarettes from his pocket, handed me one, and said, "But it's really rare to take the initiative to care for us at your age."
"You... are overempt." I took the cigarette with a guilty heart, bowed my head and said,
Maybe my modest attitude has been recognized by the old man, or maybe the old man has not communicated with outsiders for a long time. After smoking half a cigarette, the old man said again, "Let me tell you a story."
"Hmm." I listened carefully,
The old man's turbid eyes have a memory: "I don't know if you ever felt like this when you were a child. When you walk at night, you always feel that there are a pair of eyes staring at you behind you, and you always feel that someone is following you... Then you look back, but you can't see anything. The more so, the more you mutter in your heart, thinking, those Ghosts and monsters, maybe they will come out and kill you.
The old man said funny, and I nodded hurriedly: "You're right. I'm afraid most people will be like this when they are young."
"Yes." The old man nodded and smiled, "Later, my old mother told me, she said that everyone has three lamps, one above his head and the other two on his shoulders. This is the human [three flavors of real fire]. When we walk at night, no matter what sound we hear, don't look back. The light will not go out, as long as the light is on, No matter how fierce the demons are, they dare not come close to you.
I didn't say anything. I have seen such a legend in supernatural novels.
"I listened to my mother's words, and when I walked at night again, I was no longer afraid." When the old man said this, he turned around and said, "Mr. Yu, what do you think I should have done when I was young?"
"Well..." I was stunned and subconsciously guessed, "Entrepreneur."
"Haha, you really can't guess." The old man laughed and said, "Let me tell you, I was a member of the Fujian swimming team when I was young."
Me: "..."
Seriously, I have a little pain. There are thousands of professions in the world. It would be strange if I could guess that.
"At the beginning, my grades were excellent. When the car was not popular in China, I owned a private car. Ha ha, after a race, I drove tiredly and collided with a truck opposite me. My best friend died on the spot on the spot. Although I survived, But the comminuted fracture of my left leg also made me completely say goodbye to my favorite career.
"Ah." My heart tightened, and the importance of legs to normal people is self-evident, not to mention to a swimmer,
I secretly feel sorry for the old man in my heart, but to my surprise, when the old man said this, there was no sadness on his face except for a little memory of the past.