In the evening, Yu Yin's family and A Xiang's family had a get-together.
A Xiang's three children are all a bit younger than Yu Yin's. Yang Shu has been promoted in recent years and is now a regimental commander. His future is limitless.
Yang Shu was filled with emotion when he talked about the children in the orphanage. His unit also had such orphans of martyrs, and he and his comrades would send them money regularly.
"Can you guarantee that the money you send will actually be spent on the children? Are they living with their mother or with relatives?"
Yu Yin suddenly recalled a news report from her later life about a martyr's orphan who was being bullied by relatives and whose martyr's pension was being misappropriated. The child was too young to understand these things and was only rescued by the local government and the army after being exposed by people from the same village.
“Most of them live with their mothers, and some are children whose mothers have remarried and who live with their grandparents. We really haven’t looked into whether this money will actually be spent on the children, especially since their mothers aren’t around.” Yang Shu kept this in mind and decided to go back tomorrow and discuss with his comrades how to prevent this from happening.
Yu Yin went to great lengths to donate supplies because she was afraid that the money wouldn't be fully used for the children.
"Ah Xiang, how much does it cost to build a house in this area now?"
Yu Yin felt a lingering fear when she thought of the orphanage building, worried that it might collapse at any moment.
"I really didn't know that?" Ah Xiang hasn't built a house in the past few years and has never been involved in this kind of thing.
Yu Yin didn't know much. Their house was arranged by Brother Liang and built by Huang Qiang, which cost a lot of money.
She really doesn't have the resources to replace the orphanage with a brick house right now, and she doesn't know if there are any other options.
"We'll ask around then. Brick houses aren't cheap, but mud-brick houses like stilted houses might be cheaper."
Ah Xiang knew that the stilted houses in their village were relatively cheaper, since many of the materials were sourced locally.
Yu Yin plans to hand this matter over to Zhong Liang tomorrow, as she believes Zhong Liang is capable of anything.
After dinner, Yu Yin and her family returned to the guesthouse. Yu Yin told Zhong Liang what had happened, and that He Haifeng and the others would receive the goods tomorrow and begin their work.
Yu Yin and her team received the goods the next day. The ham sausages were stored in a temporary warehouse that A Xiang had found for them. Cotton and fabric were the main items. The fabric and cotton for making quilts were taken out and processed by someone found by A Xiang. The other fabrics were processed by a clothing factory that Dean Zhang had found, and the sizes were also measured.
It's a bit like schools making uniforms, specifying how many sets of each size there are, generating standardized data, and then processing them uniformly.
Yu Yin and her friends chose pure cotton fabric. The boys' clothes were military green, and the girls' clothes were plaid. Each girl had two sets: one set of long pants and a long-sleeved shirt, and one set of shorts and a short-sleeved shirt.
There were also sandals that Yu Yin had bought from Huaiguo, seven or eight hundred pairs of all sizes, as well as some vests, shorts, and other odds and ends, quite a lot. These could be distributed by the dean.
When the supplies arrived at the orphanage, Yu Yin saw so many children for the first time. Few of them were fat, and their clothes had many patches, but they were clean.
The director said that the children wash their own clothes; otherwise, with so many children, their limited staff simply couldn't take care of them all.
The older one is thirteen or fourteen years old, already very sensible, and capable of doing many things.
Yu Yin gave the supplies to the dean and gave each child two sausages so they could taste them.
This was the first time the children had ever seen a sausage. It was red and looked like a stick, and they didn't know how to eat it. Some children took a bite right away, and the result was...
Slowly and carefully, she picked up a sausage, bit open the seal, peeled off the skin, and started eating. The children saw this and followed suit, also tasting the sausage.
It smells so good; it's the most delicious thing they've ever eaten.
An'an and the others took out the gifts they had brought and gave them to the children. Pingping was already like a young man; although he was only fourteen years old, he was already over 1.7 meters tall. An'an was shorter than Pingping; she was almost 1.65 meters tall.
Kuai Kuai and Man Man are eleven years old, and they are still like children. Kuai Kuai, in particular, can quickly get along with unfamiliar children and play and chat happily.
Yu Yin and Director Zhang learned about some things at the orphanage. It was a state-run orphanage with a fixed monthly financial support; any special circumstances required a report. The local government was also in a difficult situation; everyone was struggling.
Yu Yin didn't make any promises. She didn't want to say something she couldn't keep. It would be better not to say anything at all. Giving hope only to disappoint people is worse than not giving anything in the first place. She knew this all too well.
At noon, Yu Yin and the others ate lunch at the orphanage. Kuai Kuai had the most pained expression among the children; he thought the food was unpalatable. However, he didn't spit it out and finished the rice in his bowl, refusing to ask for more.
The children at the orphanage were eating very well. Today, there was a dish of stir-fried potato slices with ham sausage, which was delicious.
The supplies have been delivered, and Yu Yin and the others are preparing to leave the orphanage. The clothes and bedding will take another two days to be ready.
As Yu Yin and the others got up to leave, several children ran over. They were all teenagers, a little nervous and apprehensive.
"Aunt……"
Dean Zhang was also surprised, wondering what had happened. "What's wrong?"
“Auntie Dean, we heard that the aunties came from Shanghai, and our parents came from there too. Do you know them?” The eldest child spoke up. She remembered her father; she was old enough to remember things when he left.
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