Chapter 605

The reception room is spacious.

There are not many furnishings, only a set of sofas, tables, and children's watercolor paintings on the walls.

The old dean pointed to one of them and introduced to them: "Xia Ling's painting."

Li Lei went up to look, and saw a simple graffiti, a scene of spring, with irises in full bloom everywhere. "It's pretty." He admired sincerely, "You're so powerful at such a young age."

Xia Ling glanced at him sideways, seeing that he really liked it, a smile appeared on her lips. In fact, they are not very good at painting. The orphanage cannot afford to hire any good teachers, and it is not expected that these children, who can hardly even maintain food and clothing, will be very successful in art in the future. Learning to paint is just to cultivate their sentiments.

There is nothing commendable about the technique in this painting.

However, it wasn't her technique that Li Lei praised: "Such a bright and random color scheme, with a somewhat abstract style, just like Xia Ling's singing, makes people fall in love with it at first sight."

"She is a good child." The old dean said lovingly, with a hint of nostalgia in his voice.

A good kid who always causes trouble, fights, and grabs sweets for his sister? Xia Ling remembered that she was a problem child at that time. She was not in harmony with the other children in the orphanage. She was always noisy to the teacher and the dean, asking them to allocate funds for her sister's medical treatment. Some teachers said that disciplining her alone is more troublesome than disciplining two or three boys.

Thinking about the past, her eyes were also stained with nostalgia.

The vice president and academic director said: "Mr. Li, Miss Ye, you are welcome to come here. Please take a seat. This is tea grown in the courtyard. Please forgive me for the rudeness."

Xia Ling remembered the old tea tree. When she was a child, the academic dean cherished it as if it were a treasure. He kept saying that the courtyard could not afford good tea, so he had to grow tea for the distinguished guests. Warn the children not to damage the tea tree, saying that everyone's donations, adoptions, etc., all fall on this old tea tree.

Xia Ling lowered her head and took a sip, which tasted both sweet and bitter.

Li Lei also lowered his head to taste, and after a while, he raised his head and smiled: "Longjing, which is more than forty years old? It's really good."

"Mr. Li knows the goods." The dean smiled and said, "No more, no less, exactly forty-five years."

The atmosphere became more and more harmonious and the conversation got to the point. This time Li Lei came with a large amount of donations and various long-term benefits. In the future, he will provide regular physical examinations, vaccinations, and distribution of school and daily necessities to the children. Most importantly, a special fund for major diseases has also been set up for children who cannot be cured.

Thank you very much to the old dean and teachers.

The following photographers took pictures of the entire donation process, as well as a group photo of both parties.

In the picture, Xia Ling, dressed in a simple and elegant dress, and the old dean stood in the middle of the crowd. The two of them held a large donation document together, with smiles on their faces, showing that this was a smooth charity. Standing on the other side of her was Li Lei. His handsomeness only accentuated her petiteness, making him look like an angel.

He deliberately flattered her and gave her the chance to shine on such an occasion.

When the news comes out, everyone will remember her in the center of the screen holding the document, and they will all say that the female star named Ye Xingling is so kind.

He was satisfied.

After the donation ceremony was over, Xia Ling proposed to walk around the orphanage. The old dean wanted to send someone to guide them, so Xia Ling said, "There's no need to bother anyone. It's just me and Li Lei who will wander around casually. We won't take any assistants or photographers with us. The teachers can go ahead as well. There's no need to follow."

Generally speaking, the hospital cannot help but accompany visitors when they come.

But this time, the old dean nodded happily and agreed. He had a very good impression of them. It was rare to find a donor who was so serious about caring for children. Every year, although there were many companies and celebrities from all walks of life who came to donate, most of them would ask the hospital to donate money in order to pursue news effect. The children were called to come forward, and money was donated in front of the children. The children were asked to smile, express gratitude, and bow to say thank you.

The kids are so young, it's not their fault they're poor.

Making them feel that they are being given away over many years will hurt the children's self-esteem.

Xia Ling and Li Lei considered this very carefully. They did not ask the children to come to them at all. Even when the hospital offered to send some children to greet them with flowers at the door, they refused. "Don't disturb them," Xia Ling said to Li Lei at that time, "I used to be a member of the honor guard. I know that feeling."

Li Lei obeyed her wishes.

At this time, the old dean returned the favor: "You two were just walking around in the yard. By the way, Unit 15 in Building 2 was Xiao Xia Ling's residence back then. Ward No. 9 in the building diagonally opposite was Xiao Xia Yu's residence. Now, Both of these places have been preserved as attractions, and you two can take a look if you are interested.”

Xia Ling thanked the old dean and left with Li Lei.

In fact, even if the old dean didn't say anything, she still planned to take Li Lei to see her former residence. That was the place where she lived when she was a child. It was simple but simple.

"At that time..." She led Li Lei away and pointed it out to him, "Every morning when I get up, I rush to the cafeteria to grab steamed buns. There is a limited supply of meat buns every day. If I go late, there are only vegetable buns. .”

Li Lei laughed at her: "Snack."

Down the corridor, several children laughed and ran past them one after another.

The shadows of irises cast mottledly on the ground.

Xia Ling said: "It's for Xiaoyu. She was very picky at that time and only ate a little bit of meat filling in the buns for breakfast. So, I always grabbed two buns and scooped out the meat fillings for her. I ate them. Skin." In fact, she doesn't like to eat steamed buns. What she loves is the tea eggs in the canteen, but each child can only receive one kind of food. In order to let her sister have meat fillings to eat, she has never eaten tea eggs in those years.

Li Lei didn't expect it to be like this and was very distressed, "From now on, I will make meat buns for you to eat every day."

Xia Ling smiled: "Ginseng buns."

"Okay, ginseng buns." Li Lei rubbed her long hair.

Xia Ling took the hand of the man she loved, lowered her head, and walked a few steps. Suddenly, she said without any clue: "Actually, Xiao Yu doesn't like to eat steamed buns either."

"What?"

She took a few steps forward, as if she was sorting out her thoughts. After a long time, she said: "At that time, I was only seven or eight years old, and I was a girl. The meat buns in the cafeteria have always been contracted by older children and boys. Even if If other children or girls snatch the meat buns, they will soon be forced to hand them over.

“I don’t know how many times I was beaten in order to grab the buns.

"Every time I received the meat buns, I would run quickly to the dormitory with my head down. It was safe only after I entered the dormitory and locked the door. However, I was often stopped halfway by a group of older kids, who beat me and snatched my buns... Every time I was beaten to death and tried my best to protect Baozi..."