Chapter 59 Lin Jin’s Past
Lin Jin has been living in an orphanage. According to the director and volunteers, she seemed to have been thrown into a trash can shortly after she was born.
At that time, the director of the orphanage had just returned from outside. She finally found a trash can to throw away the garbage. As she approached, she saw a pair of eyes staring at her from inside.
The director was so frightened that he nearly had a heart attack, thinking he had come across a dismemberment case. He finally mustered up the courage to approach, only to discover that there was a naked baby wrapped in only a sheet in the trash can.
The baby was Lin Jin. The director thought she was disabled and took her to the hospital for examination without even returning to the orphanage.
After the examination at the hospital, the doctor told the director that Lin Jin was a full-term baby, plump and fair-skinned without any disease.
The dean was also very scared. If he had not happened to go out to throw away the garbage, he might not have noticed Lin Jin's existence.
After all, she lay in the trash can without crying or making a fuss, but just played with her feet.
The director immediately decided to take Lin Jin back to the orphanage. According to her, such a young child would not be able to survive if she was not taken back. There were many orphans in the orphanage anyway, so there was enough space for one more.
In this way, Lin Jin, who was just born not long ago, was taken back to the orphanage.
Although Lin Jin was just born, her body was very round, almost as plump as a baby a few months old, so the dean gave her the nickname Xiaoyuan.
In the past, there were two or three children like Lin Jin who were abandoned at birth in orphanages, if not four or five a year.
According to convention, the dean would not give each child a full name, but would give them all nicknames, and wait for the children to choose one before they go to school.
They can choose their own favorite names without worrying about whose names are ugly, so before that they are all given nicknames.
In the orphanage, Lin Jin was the youngest child and the last child to enter the orphanage.
The dean was very worried that Lin Jin would not survive, so he took her with him personally. After she was over one year old and could walk, she moved into the big room to live with everyone.
In this big room, Lin Jin met her first friend, Liu Xiaohua.
Xiaohua is two years older than Lin Jin. Before Lin Jin came, she was the youngest child in the courtyard. After Lin Jin came, she became the second youngest child.
She was very curious about what babies younger than her looked like, and had been looking forward to living with Lin Jin for a long time, so when Lin Jin really moved in, she was so excited that she couldn't sleep all night.
Xiaohua was the first to get to know Lin Jin, and from that day on, the two of them gradually started playing together.
Xiaohua’s sister is Liu Xiaocao. She is four years older than Lin Jin and is Xiaohua’s biological sister.
She came to the orphanage because her family favored boys over girls and all her family members died out.
Liu Xiaocao has disliked Lin Jin since she was a child, because she felt that she had snatched Xiaohua away. She was obviously Xiaohua's biological sister, but Xiaohua played with Lin Jin every day and didn't care about her at all.
Therefore, Xiaocao targeted Lin Jin everywhere and often made trouble for her.
At that time, Lin Jin was too young to resist Xiao Cao at all, and she suffered a lot.
However, although she is young, she is not a pushover. Whenever she is bullied, she will go to the dean for help.
But the director could not always help Lin Jin. She had to seek help and donations from the society, deal with various problems of the older children, and receive parents who came to consult about adoption.
One thing after another made her feel overwhelmed and she gradually stopped paying attention to the conflicts between the children.
Liu Xiaocao was sensible at an early age. She saw several people bullying Dean Lin Jin but she didn't say anything. She gradually found some ways here.
She would take advantage of the absence of the director and Xiaohua to have someone take Lin Jin away and secretly bully her, sometimes in the orphanage's warehouse, sometimes in an abandoned house near the orphanage.
They would form a group to isolate Lin Jin, not allowing anyone to play with her, and would also vent their anger on her.
This isolation lasted for two years, during which time Lin Jin was five years old and Xiaohua was in the first grade.
Orphanages have a difficult time operating due to various reasons. Even though society provides a lot of help, there are still many gaps every year.
Not to mention new orphans, if they are really found, they will be sent to other orphanages by the director.
Due to the bullying led by Liu Xiaocao, Lin Jin has almost no other friend in the orphanage except Xiaohua.
Whenever everyone went to study, the empty courtyard was the moment when Lin Jin felt most relaxed. But as long as Liu Xiaocao was out of school or didn't go to class, she would do bad things again.
Until one day Xiaohua woke up early from her nap and ran into the yard and saw this scene. She ran over and scolded Liu Xiaocao loudly, and had a big fight with the people who bullied Lin Jin.
It was the first time that Xiaohua and Liu Xiaocao had a serious quarrel.
Since the two sisters came to the orphanage, although their feelings were not as deep as before, they remembered that the other was their only relative and tried not to quarrel if possible.
When Liu Xiaocao saw Xiaohua arguing with her about a stranger, she got angry and hit Xiaohua for the first time.
After beating someone, she still felt unsatisfied, so she directed other children in the orphanage to beat Lin Jin together.
They took various stones and sticks and threw them at Lin Jin. She was forced to come to the wall. There was a big tree in front of her and a wall behind her. Lin Jin, who was only five years old, had nowhere to hide.
Xiaohua heartbrokenly placed Lin Jin behind her to block the attacks for her, and angrily scolded Liu Xiaocao for breaking up with her.
Liu Xiaocao was once again angered by these words, and rushed forward with everyone else to beat Lin Jin angrily.
Lin Jin thought that Liu Xiaocao would not continue after she had vented her anger, but that day was so unfortunate. There were thunder and lightning in the sky, and soon there was a violent storm.
A bolt of lightning struck and hit a big tree in the yard.
The tree fell, hitting Xiaohua and two other children.
From that day on, Liu Xiaocao completely hated Lin Jin and called her a disaster star every day, saying that if it weren't for her, Xiaohua would not have died and she would not have lost her only sister.
He also threatened that anyone who left the orphanage would be beaten every time he saw her on the road.
The director, who had just been discharged from the hospital with great difficulty, saw that the two were not getting along and realized that there was no possibility of reconciliation between them. He also saw that all the children did not play with Lin Jin, so he had no choice but to let Lin Jin move to the utility room.
The utility room is very small, only about five square meters.
From then on, whether in elementary school or junior high school, Lin Jin spent a long time alone in the utility room except when she was in school.
When she was sixteen, the orphanage finally closed down due to poor management.
Among their group of orphans, some adult ones can go out to work to find a way out, and Liu Xiaocao is an example.
If you can read, you can continue your studies and the government will definitely provide assistance.
With her excellent grades, Lin Jin was admitted to a key high school in Anshi and was exempted from all tuition and living expenses.
She also received a monthly subsidy of 500 yuan and an unoccupied dormitory to spend her three winter and summer vacations.
From then on, Lin Jin continued to live alone, eating and studying alone.
Later, she made another friend in Shudian, and the two spent three years together. It was not until she went to college that she met her current roommates.
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