Chapter 135 Instinctual Fear
After hearing what Jiang Linan said, the dean looked at the children who were eating around them.
"Maybe it's because I'm soft-hearted. When I saw the children were struggling to get enough food, I took over this orphanage from the previous director and have been able to develop it to this day."
The dean looked very melancholy and pretended to be heartbroken in front of Xu Yangyang: "But we are too far from the city, and few people come here to adopt children."
He looked at the skinny and small children and said, "I'm also very poor and can't take care of so many children. As a result, they are not as white and plump as the children in the city welfare institutions, and there are fewer people willing to adopt them."
You liar, you are so shameless. His face is split in the middle and stuck to the other side. Half of it is shameless and the other half is two-skinned!
Xu Yangyang cursed the dean in her heart, her hands clenched tightly, and she wished she could actually curse him.
Seeing this, Jiang Runan hurriedly clasped Xu Yangyang's fist, so that the dean wouldn't notice her anger. Then he continued, "Then we've come to the right place. I told you before that I wanted to adopt a few more children, but the children here are very young, and I don't like them very much. It's my wife who has been insisting."
Jiang Linnan's implicit meaning was that Xu Yangyang had the final say on all adoption matters.
The dean really set her sights on Xu Yangyang. "Madam is still soft-hearted, but it seems that Madam likes all the children here. Can't she choose?"
Xu Yangyang suppressed the anger that surged in her heart and forced a smile: "I'm having a hard time choosing. After all, the children here are all very obedient."
After hearing Xu Yangyang's words, the dean nodded in satisfaction: "No wonder, they all want to be adopted, so naturally they will behave more obediently."
Xu Yangyang didn't say anything and ate slowly with Jiang Linan, but her mind was frantically thinking about how to rescue these children from the dean's hands.
While eating, she suddenly felt something touch her feet, and then she heard the dean's very calm voice: "Why are you so careless?"
Xu Yangyang looked down and saw a thin little girl who was about to walk over with food in her hand, but accidentally fell down.
The ground here is made of bricks, so it is naturally uneven. Children can easily fall if they cannot walk steadily.
The food spilled onto the ground. The child trembled after hearing the dean's words, and looked up at them with fear in his eyes.
Xu Yangyang couldn't bear to see the child like this, so she quickly reached out to help him, and her words were very gentle: "Baby, are you okay? Get up quickly, auntie will help you get some food again, okay?"
But the child didn't look at Xu Yangyang at all, her eyes were always on the dean.
Even though the dean looked calm and didn't blame her, her body continued to tremble.
Then, in front of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Linan's shocked eyes, the child suddenly knelt down and kowtowed to the dean: "Dean, this is all my fault. Please forgive me."
Such a young child doesn't have any fancy words to apologize, the only thing he can do is kowtow repeatedly and say sorry.
It was clearly not her fault, but she actually knelt among the scalding hot food, hoping that the majestic dean in front of her would show leniency.
Her body was shaking with nervousness, and she seemed unwilling to get up unless the dean said he forgave her.
Xu Yangyang looked at the dean and pretended to be puzzled and said, "Dean, this is..."
The surroundings suddenly became quiet, and the only sound in the huge cafeteria was the sound of children kowtowing.
Under the gaze of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Linan, the dean reached out his hand with a kind smile, helped her up, and gently brushed off the vegetable leaves stuck on her body.
"What's the big deal? Don't be scared." The dean said calmly, as if he didn't care what happened to her. "It's just the food. Go wash it and get another one."
The child burst into tears the moment the director held her hand. She shrank back, as if she was really afraid that the director would hit her.
"You see, with outsiders here, the child doesn't dare to speak loudly." The dean naturally attributed the child's insurance to the presence of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Linan.
If Jiang Linan hadn't stopped her, Xu Yangyang would have really cursed!
The dean didn't seem to notice Xu Yangyang's expression. He still had a kind smile on his face and said to the aunt who came over, "Hurry up and take her downstairs to change clothes before coming back for dinner, otherwise the food will get cold soon."
The aunt immediately took the child downstairs. If Xu Yangyang was not mistaken, the child seemed even more frightened when the aunt took the child downstairs.
"Sorry for making a fool of yourself." The dean's smile remained on his face, but Jiang Linan could see that his smile did not reach his eyes and was very fake.
Xu Yangyang naturally saw it, but now was not the time to tear her face with the dean, so she could only suppress her anger and said with a fake smile: "It's okay, but I think this child seems to be very afraid of adults. Did he go through something before?"
The dean naturally expected Xu Yangyang to ask this, and immediately replied, "She was very pitiful. She was old enough to remember things, but one day her parents passed away in a car accident. No other relatives were willing to raise her, so she was abandoned and sent to me."
"The relatives who abandoned her said a lot of vicious things to her, and since then her mental state has been unstable. She trembles when she sees adults angry or making mistakes." The director said as he watched the aunt pick up the food on the floor, "She's actually a very obedient child. Don't overthink it."
Xu Yangyang pretended to nod thoughtfully, but when the child knelt on the ground begging for mercy, she still saw a scar on the child's back.
If nothing unexpected happens, it was also caused by a whip.
On the surface, she pretended not to see it, but in fact, she had already clenched her teeth to prevent herself from cursing.
The dean was also observing the expressions of Xu Yangyang and Jiang Linan, and saw shock in their eyes.
In fact, when they agreed to live here, he had some doubts about the identity of the couple.
The environment here is very bad. Many people who come to adopt just take the children and leave. They won't stay here for a night.
So he had always been suspicious of their identities, thinking that they were not here to adopt a child, but he really wanted to come here to investigate.
Xu Yangyang and Jiang Lunnan exchanged a glance, each seeing caution in their eyes. Xu Yangyang then spoke, "It's really you, Dean, who are so observant and know every child so well. Otherwise, we would still be curious about why the child became like this."
"Yes, you've taken great pains to take care of so many children. You're so kind, and I'm sure your life will be much better in the future." Jiang Lunan also spoke at the right time, trying to dispel the director's doubts: "After we adopt the children from you, we will definitely spread the word so that you can get more donations from the society."
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