Chapter 98 Big...Big Brother? Where did this little sister come from?
After thinking about it for a day, Wen Yue sighed once again at how poverty diminishes ambition, and decided to go and check out that restaurant.
She didn't make an appointment in advance. She thought she would wander around the neighborhood first, firstly to see what the restaurant was like, and secondly to see how likely she was to run into Mrs. Lou, before deciding whether to go in for the interview.
Wen Yue followed the address, but the further she walked, the more uneasy she felt. "Isn't this all orphanages?"
When she looked up, she discovered that a restaurant had indeed appeared on the wall of the orphanage. "Can our orphanage open a restaurant? Was it too poor and sold by Aunt Wen? But the orphanage is public property now, right? Can it still be sold?" A series of question marks popped into Wen Yue's mind.
"Huh? Are you here for an interview?" Xu Sannian was both surprised and delighted to see someone standing at the restaurant entrance looking at job advertisements as soon as he opened the door.
"Ah, I...I'm not." This restaurant is inside the orphanage; it would be easy for Aunt Lou to catch them!
A thought popped into Wen Yue's mind: Run!
Xu Sannian was just asking a question, but when she saw the person trying to run away, she instinctively grabbed them, saying, "You're here for an interview!"
Wen Yue struggled, but the other person was too strong, and she couldn't break free. She said anxiously, "I'm not, I was just passing by!"
Xu Sannian, seemingly possessing some unknown source of knowledge, confidently declared, "You are it!"
Then, Wen Yue's vision blurred, and she was pulled through the door. For a moment, Wen Yue wondered if she had encountered human traffickers, but the next instant, she saw a handsome face. That...that was her older brother?!
"Big...Big Brother?" Wen Yue called out uncertainly.
"Huh?" An Fusheng originally wanted to ask who the person Xu Sannian was pulling was, but the person suddenly called him "Big Brother"!
Where did this little sister come from?
"So you two know each other? No wonder you were too embarrassed to come in!" Xu Sannian pushed Wen Yue in front of An Fusheng. "Your sister is here for a job interview."
Wen Yue: "..."
An Fusheng: "..."
Xu Sannian then said, "We're all family, why don't we just accept it?"
Wen Yue: "..."
An Fusheng: "..."
"Where did these 'family members' come from?"
Hearing a familiar voice, Wen Yue looked up and saw Lou Lan coming out. In despair, Wen Yue covered her face with her hands.
"Yueyue?" Lou Lan asked in surprise.
Wen Yue could only take her face out of her hands and force an awkward but polite smile, "Aunt Lou."
"Are you here looking for a job?" Lou Lan had already overheard Xu Sannian's words to An Fusheng from inside.
Wen Yue was still hesitating about what to say when Xu San Nian answered for her, "Yes, she was waiting outside the door early this morning."
Wen Yue: "..." No, I've only been standing outside for less than two minutes, do you believe me?
Nobody believes it.
Wen Yue looked at Lou Lan with a guilty conscience. Lou Lan's mother used to tell her to study hard, find a good job in the future, and live a good life. Now she was in a small restaurant, interviewing for a waitress position. It didn't seem like a good idea at all.
Lou Lan didn't show any disappointment on her face. She asked kindly, "Really?"
Wen Yue nodded in a defiant manner, "I just resigned and haven't found a suitable job yet. I was thinking of finding a job to tide me over, and I happened to see this job posting, so I came to see if it was suitable for me."
An Fusheng roughly guessed where this little sister came from; it turned out she was a little sister who had come from the orphanage.
Lou Lan nodded and said, "If you haven't found any other suitable jobs yet, you can work here. Your older brother works here too."
Wen Yue glanced at An Fusheng. Why was her older brother working here? Could it be that he couldn't find a job and needed to take a waiter job as a temporary measure? Wen Yue instinctively felt it was unlikely and asked, "What is your older brother doing here?"
Lou Lan said, "The chef."
Wen Yue was greatly shocked: "Big brother can cook?" How come she didn't know that?
Lou Lan explained, "I learned it later. Your older brother is a great cook now. This little restaurant was opened by your older brother and Niannian."
Wen Yue looked at An Fusheng with admiration. She knew that her transition was different from her older brother's. She transitioned to being a waitress, while her older brother transitioned to opening a restaurant!
Big brother is still the best!
But why did my older brother go to learn to be a chef? With his abilities, it shouldn't be difficult for him to get an internship at a law firm, right?
However, Lou Lan quickly explained the reason to her.
After listening to Lou Lan's explanation, Wen Yue looked at her older brother's busy figure in the kitchen and was filled with mixed feelings.
Although Wen Yue is a year younger than An Fusheng, she is actually only ten months younger than him. Although the children in the orphanage grow up together day and night, few of them are actually close. However, Wen Yue's feelings for An Fusheng are different. They are the only two children in the orphanage who are physically healthy and of normal intelligence but have never been adopted.
Normal children from welfare homes are easily adopted, except for Wen Yue and An Fusheng.
Wen Yue had a criminal record for 'returning an adopted child,' which made others hesitant to adopt her. An Fusheng, on the other hand, was left in the orphanage because the director at the time firmly believed that his family would come looking for him. He didn't let anyone adopt him when he was young, and later, when he grew up, he didn't want to be adopted, so he stayed in the orphanage.
Wen Yue has lived in the orphanage for over twenty years. Her younger siblings have come and gone, but her eldest brother has always been there. Although he is busy studying every day, he is mostly helping the director with some things when he is not studying. He rarely talks to Wen Yue, but Wen Yue feels that her eldest brother is different from the other younger siblings. Even when she was in puberty, she had some inexplicable feelings for her eldest brother.
Of course, what made Wen Yue feel conflicted was not these things, but that her older brother had been outstanding since childhood. He was good-looking, good at studying, and could help the director with many things at a young age. Wen Yue always thought that her older brother was an eagle. He was still in the small world of the orphanage because he had not grown up yet. Once he grew up, he would fly to the vast sky that belonged to him. She never dreamed that the eagle that had flown away would fly back. She wondered if it was fate playing tricks on her.
"Yueyue, let me teach you how to operate the ordering system." Xu Sannian peeked out from behind the computer, "So you can experience the joy of having a constant stream of customers."
“Okay.” Wen Yue ran over and sat down next to Xu San Nian to look at the computer screen.
"Ah!" Wen Yue suddenly shouted.
Xu Sannian was startled. "What's wrong?"
An Fusheng, who was chopping vegetables, turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Wen Yue pointed to the restaurant name on the ordering system and said after a long pause, "Starry Sky Cafeteria!"
Xu Sannian: "Yes."
Wen Yue's eyes widened: "Is this our house?"
Xu Sannian: "Yeah, didn't you see our restaurant's name when you came for the interview?"
Wen Yue said, "That's not the name shown in the job posting."
"Really?" Xu Sannian opened the job posting he had published. "Oh, it shows the full name of the restaurant's registration. It is indeed different, hahaha."
Wen Yue: "Did my older brother cook this meal?"
Xu Sannian: "Mmm."
For the first time in her life, Wen Yue was so flustered: "All the dishes in our family are super delicious!"
Xu Sannian proudly declared, "That's right!"
Wen Yue glanced at An Fusheng's slightly hunched back as he chopped vegetables, and said to Xu Sannian, "My older brother is so handsome!"
An Fusheng: "..."
Wen Yue was incredibly grateful that Xu San Nian had forcibly dragged her in; starting today, she could eat super delicious food every day! Lin Yuan Yuan was green with envy!
No wonder Aunt Lou just said that my eldest brother's cooking is so delicious now! Wow! How is my eldest brother so amazing? He can do everything so well!
"Calm down, calm down." Xu Sannian patted Wen Yue.
Wen Yue tried to calm herself down.
Lou Lan led Wen Xingrui and Wen Xinglan over, saying, "Brothers, come and say hello to your big sister."
Wen Xinglan and Wen Xingrui were pushed in front of Wen Yue and looked up at her.
Mrs. Lou introduced, "These are Xingrui and Xinglan. You know Xingrui, and Xinglan only came a few months ago. He is one year and eight months old now, and he is also the youngest in our orphanage. You can call him Xiao Ba."
When Wen Xingrui came to the orphanage, Wen Yue was still there. Back then, when Lou Mama took in Wen Xingrui, she helped take him to the hospital for emergency treatment. However, when she left the orphanage, Wen Xingrui was still a tiny, limp little thing, lying in his crib every day and unable to even turn over. I never expected him to grow up so much now and even be able to walk.
"Can Xingrui talk now?" Wen Yue asked.
Lou Lan: "I can only say a few words."
"That's great too," Wen Yue said with a smile. "We'll talk about it more and more in the future."
Wen Yue squatted down and shook Wen Xingrui's hand: "Long time no see, Xingrui. I'm your sister Yueyue."
Wen Xingrui said in a serious tone, "Okay."
Wen Yue was both amused and exasperated: "You're really not being polite."
Lou Lan explained with a smile, "All he can say is 'okay' and 'Mom'."
Wen Yue shook Wen Xinglan's hand again, "Hello, Xiao Ba."
Wen Xinglan said, "Hello, Xiao Ba."
Lou Lan smiled and said, "Call me 'elder sister'."
Wen Xinglan glanced at Lou Lan with her big eyes, then looked at Wen Yue and said, "Call me sister."
"Hahaha!" Wen Yue pinched Wen Xinglan's chubby little face and said, "Sister."
Wen Xinglan: "Sister."
Wen Yue: "Hey!"
Wen Yue helped Lou's mother take care of her younger siblings from a young age, so she knows exactly how to teach children to speak.
"What about the other younger siblings?" Wen Yue asked Lou Lan, looking up at her.
Lou Lan said, "There are six others: Miaomiao, Mangmang, Xinglin, Xinghe, Shisi, and Xingmou. You know them all. They've all gone to school. It's Friday today, and you'll see them when you come home from school tonight."
When Wen Yue was in the orphanage, An Shisi and Wen Xingmou were still babies crying for milk, and Wen Xinghe, whose eyesight was poor, was still learning to walk. I never thought they would all be able to go to school now.
"Then you and Aunt Wen must be feeling a bit more relaxed than before," Wen Yue said with emotion. "The orphanage is getting better and better, that's wonderful."
Lou Lan said, "Yes!"
Wen Yue grew up in an orphanage and witnessed firsthand how hard Lou Mama worked.
Most of the children taken in by the welfare home are infants a few months old. In ordinary families, it is already exhausting for a mother to take care of one child, but Mrs. Lou has to take care of several at a time.
That's not all. There are also children with physical disabilities or intellectual impairments who need to be watched over at all times. Some of the children are older, disobedient, and strong. Taking care of them is like fighting a war. Sometimes when they have an attack, they will hit their mother. Only when the eldest brother is at home, and he beats them when they are disobedient, will they behave a little.
Wen Yue often wondered if she had hurt Lou's mother. If she hadn't stopped Lou's mother when she left, Lou's mother wouldn't have suffered so much. Was Lou's mother's divorce also for their sake? But Lou's mother told her that it was her own choice and had nothing to do with anyone else.
Fortunately, the welfare home was later incorporated into the larger welfare home. Xingchen Welfare Home did not have enough caregivers and its medical rehabilitation equipment was incomplete. The children with physical disabilities and intellectual impairments were transferred to other large welfare homes, which made things a little easier for Mrs. Lou.
Now those little brothers and sisters have grown up and can go to school. Wen Xingrui has started to talk and walk, and Xiao Ba is a healthy and normal child. Wen Yue feels so good. Lou's mother finally doesn't have to work so hard anymore.
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