Chapter 147 He's Crazy
Besides, the child mentioned Chenchen, so Xu Yangyang started to ask questions using the name Chenchen.
"Did the dean do anything to Chenchen after he came out? Why don't I see any child named Chenchen here?"
After Xu Yangyang and Jiang Linan arrived here, the dean told them the names of the children here.
There were so many children at that time that Xu Yangyang didn't remember them all, but she knew clearly that there was no child named Chenchen among them.
"After Chenchen got out, he started living with us, but it seemed like something wasn't right with his brain."
The children here have no way to describe mental illness, and can only describe Chenchen using words that they understand.
In their memory, Chenchen was a madman who often cried for no reason, hid when he saw adults, and ate very hard, almost choking to death several times.
However, Xu Yangyang, who had studied medicine, understood that the child was suffering from stress.
If he hasn’t eaten for a long time, when he sees food he will know that he must eat more, otherwise he will have no food for the next meal.
He is afraid when he sees adults because these adults only beat him and never give him any love.
No wonder when Xu Yangyang saw Chenchen, he didn't trust adults at all and only believed the aunt who gave him food.
"And after Chenchen got out, he ran away one day with several children. Afterwards, these children and Chenchen never came back."
Through the older child's words, Xu Yangyang learned that after Chenchen escaped with those children, the dean arrested them and locked them up in the solitary confinement room.
Maybe Yunyun also knew that they would leave that day, so she realized that Xiaohua was locked up in the solitary confinement room.
"Then do you know where the detention room is?"
The child shook his head: "I don't know. In fact, although we here know that they were imprisoned, we have never been there."
That’s right. The children who go in cannot come out, and the children outside will be afraid so they won’t make mistakes and won’t be locked up in the solitary room. Naturally, they don’t know where the solitary room is.
But based on Chenchen's behavior when he was beside her, Xu Yangyang could guess that this confinement room must be a very scary place.
In order to continue to understand the structure of the entire welfare home, Xu Yangyang simply found a chair to sit down and let the children gather around her.
It looked like Xu Yangyang was telling them a story, but actually she was asking about the whole welfare home.
"The dean said that our activities are limited to this small courtyard and we are not allowed to go anywhere else."
"When Chenchen escaped, he said there was a dog hole not far away, but we were afraid of getting caught and didn't dare go there."
The children chattered with Xu Yangyang about what Chenchen was planning at the time, and Xu Yangyang also roughly outlined the map of the welfare home based on their descriptions.
The welfare home does cover a large area, and there are still many places that have not been developed, as well as many abandoned houses.
These houses are very short, the tallest one is only two or three stories high, and many of them contain the files of children from the welfare home.
No one cleaned the house, it was full of rats, cockroaches and a lot of moss, and the whole house smelled musty.
Many of the areas where children play look bright and beautiful. I guess the director also wants to make a good impression on the superiors who come to inspect.
"Auntie, they are lying to you. We are not living well here at all. Can you rescue us?"
The children all wanted Xu Yangyang to save them and leave, but Xu Yangyang understood that calling the police directly when no evidence could be collected was the worst option.
"Auntie will definitely rescue you, but you don't even know where the confinement room is..."
"I know," suddenly, a little girl hidden in the crowd came up to Xu Yangyang and grabbed her hand. "Auntie, there's a rusty iron door in the mobile home at the back. I saw a child being dragged in there."
"A rusty iron door?"
Xu Yangyang immediately thought of the iron gate that she wanted to touch that day, but was stopped by Teacher Li. It seemed that her intuition was not wrong, and there were indeed many suspicious points there.
"I don't dare to say it out loud. If the dean finds out, he'll beat me. I don't want to go to the detention room either. Auntie, please don't say that I told you, okay?"
The little girl immediately burst into tears, her body shaking constantly, as if the person in front of her was not Xu Yangyang, but the dean who only knew how to beat and scold her.
Xu Xuyangyang was so angry seeing the children like this, so she hugged her and kept coaxing her: "Auntie will definitely rescue you, don't worry, don't cry."
With Xu Yangyang's assurance, the children felt much more relaxed and looked more like children than before.
Xu Yangyang felt heartbroken. She spent a lot of time playing with them and almost forgot about Jiang Linan.
When Jiang Linan came to him with an ugly face, the children were frightened by him.
"What's wrong with you?" Xu Yangyang asked, suddenly remembering that he had been chatting with those women in there for a long time, and then he thought of the division of labor between the two of them.
"How are you in there? What did they say to you?"
"Guess what?" Jiang Linan's temper was almost uncontrollable. Those women only wanted him to meet Teacher Li, and some even recommended themselves!
The activity room was filled with sarcastic voices, which gave Jiang Linan more headaches than holding several meetings in a row!
If it wasn't too late, they would have planned to cook, and Jiang Linan wouldn't have been able to come out yet!
"It's nice of you to be here chatting with the kids!"
Jiang Linan noticed that several children around Xu Yangyang had cried, but he did not lose his temper in front of the children. He just grabbed Xu Yangyang's hand and took her back to the room.
"What did you say to the children outside? Did they tell you where Yunyun and Xiaohua were?"
Xu Yangyang nodded immediately: "Of course they told me, but that confinement room is not easy to enter. I need to get closer to investigate."
If Xu Yangyang remembered correctly, there was only a house behind the rusty iron gate. If the closed room was really a lonely house, it would be very easy to find. A person as insidious and cunning as the dean would not do things so obviously.
Jiang Linan could see Xu Yangyang's dilemma, so he decided to take the initiative to find the confinement room.
"Are you going over there?" Xu Yangyang hurriedly stopped him. "No, a grown man like you walking around in here will easily attract their attention."
After all, there is a huge difference in physical strength between men and women, and Jiang Linan's actions will attract more attention from these women than Xu Yangyang.
"Should we let you go? Even if the dean isn't here, can you be a match for them alone?"
Jiang Linnan didn't want Xu Yangyang to take risks, as they clearly had a better way.
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