Chapter 50
Looking at the two people talking, I thought about it and decided to change from Li Feng to Li Youzhi in order to avoid trouble.
I took nimble cat steps and silently approached the two people who were immersed in conversation and didn't notice me. Finally, I squatted safely at Li Ying'an's feet and looked up at Li Lan's thin face.
Li Lan was really thin, similar to Teng Zheng whom I had just met. However, Teng Zheng had family members to take care of him, so his complexion was much rosier than Li Lan's. Li Lan's complexion was pale, and she even had dark circles under her eyes. Even with a light layer of makeup on, it was obvious that she was exhausted.
"No matter what, you have to protect yourself."
I turned my gaze to Li Ying'an and looked at his serious face in confusion, not understanding what he meant by this sentence.
Li Lan twisted her neck upwards, just to loosen up her stiff muscles, then she sighed deeply, her hoarse sigh unable to hide her exhaustion: "Then I won't wait for your kitten with you. I only have this day off, and I have to rush to the supermarket to buy some things. I'll be leaving first."
Li Ying'an did not try to persuade him to stay: "Be careful."
Li Lan didn't answer him, but just waved his hands vaguely.
After watching Li Lan walk out of the community, I stretched and stood up, rubbing around Li Ying'an's ankles.
At this time, Li Ying'an lowered his head and found me.
"When did you come back, you little brat?" He picked me up from the ground. "I didn't even see you."
When I squatted beside him, he was chatting enthusiastically with Li Lan. It would be a miracle if he could notice me!
I pretended to be unhappy because he ignored me, and deliberately ignored him. I lay in his arms, stretched my legs and paws, forming the shape of a cat strip, stretching lazily in comfort.
Of course, Li Ying'an would not be so angry with me as to abandon me because of my indifference. He would just hold me tightly, acting as my agile and strong limbs, and take me back to his home.
As soon as I entered the door, I jumped off him, walked a few steps to the table, and then naturally transformed into Li Feng's appearance.
As I expected, Li Ying'an left breakfast for me.
Teng Zheng's appetite is more than twice as much as mine. I reluctantly ate the portion of food at the hospital to express my admiration for the food, so I really had no room left for the food made by Li Ying'an at home.
Li Ying'an expressed his understanding. He put my portion of food in the refrigerator and said that if I was hungry, it would not be too late to eat after I woke up.
It was already half past ten. If it were the night, Li Ying'an would have already washed up and gone to bed. But now he had no intention of going to sleep. Instead, he sat upright on the stool opposite the dining table, staring at the table thoughtfully, his expression as serious as when he was downstairs.
I nodded my index finger curiously, and the crisp sound of my fingertips tapping on the table quickly woke up Li Ying'an who was in deep thought. He smiled at me apologetically, but I just wanted to know what he was thinking.
"Li Lan went to the welfare home." He repeated.
Of course I knew about this matter. Li Ying'an had told me about it before after he exposed my true identity. I have never forgotten it. I don't quite understand why he brought it up again.
Li Ying'an pondered for a moment, then finally told me the truth by asking, "Do you know why she gave up her previous job and went to the welfare home?"
Of course I didn’t know that, so I shook my head: No.
"Because she knows a secret. This secret was told to her by a little girl named Qiqi who lives with her." Li Ying'an looked me straight in the eyes and then lowered his voice unnaturally. "The little girl told her that there is a shady trading chain in the welfare home."
My eyes widened in disbelief for a moment.
It was for this reason that Kiki desperately wanted to find a couple to adopt her, and this was also the reason why she fell into autism after being adopted.
She has lived in an orphanage since she was a child. She has walked through every corner of the orphanage. It is like a book. She knows exactly what words are written in which place.
So it was no accident that she discovered the problems in the welfare home. The changes here could not escape her sharp eyes. She was sensitive and could raise her vigilance according to the changes around her. She could also judge whether good or bad things would happen based on the expressions on everyone's faces.
When a black glass van similar to a funeral car frequently came in and out of the welfare home, she realized that something was happening. One night, she used the excuse of going to the toilet to sneak into the dormitory of the administrator on duty that night and overheard them discussing the organ issue and where these organs would come from.
She was ten years old at that time. Living in such an environment, she was much more insightful and sensible than her peers. Especially when she heard the next day that a child had died for unknown reasons, and even after such news appeared one after another, she knew that she would also be a desperado. She was very afraid of becoming a target for others, so she couldn't wait to find her adoptive parents.
Fortunately, her efforts were noticed by others, and she successfully escaped from that hellish place and found a good teacher.
After many heart-to-heart talks, Qiqi finally told Li Lan what was in her heart. Li Lan did not choose to back down, but resolutely quit his job to search for evidence.
Li Lan said that even if she didn't do it now, when this crime accumulated to a certain extent, there would be many people who would do it in the future.
Of course she knows that being a hero comes at a price, but she doesn't think of herself as being a hero. She is just doing something that she feels is more meaningful to the progress and development of society. This thing may have meaning to her personally, but it is very small and definitely not worthy of the great title of hero.
She was particularly encouraged by the news of the last human trafficking village being shut down. She believed that this inhumane thing would eventually be destroyed.
Now she has been gone for nearly a month, and she has harvested a lot in this month, which also verified what Qiqi said. This kind of gray transaction that cannot be made public really exists in the welfare home.
Besides Qiqi, she only told Li Ying'an about this matter.
She trusted Li Ying'an. Even though they had only been friends for a short time and did not know each other well enough, she still used her female sixth sense as an excuse to confirm that Li Ying'an was someone worthy of telling such a secret to.
Li Ying'an certainly would not let her down, so he chose to tell me about this matter. As the saying goes, strength lies in numbers, and one more person means one more possibility. Let's discuss this matter together.
But we don't have much information right now. After much thought, I can only think of one way, which is to turn into a cat and sneak into the welfare home.
Li Ying'an thought so too. He believed that I had the appearance of a cat and the thinking of a human, and that going to the welfare home to find out what was going on was the only appropriate option at the moment.
I learned more about this welfare home so that I could plan my future actions: So which welfare home does Li Lan work in?
Li Ying'an didn't think about it: "Sunshine Welfare Home."
The words and expressions I was about to say froze the moment I heard the name of the orphanage. The scrolling memories in my mind paused, and I caught many afterimages, all frozen in a certain spot before my eyes. The most profound of them were the two friends who had been associated with the Sunshine Orphanage.
Sui Yusheng, I clearly remember that he was the child adopted by Deng Yu and her husband from the Sunshine Welfare Home; another one is Teng Zheng, whose past experience I have been ignoring recently.
The time when Teng Zheng was hospitalized and was taken care of by his family made me forget that he had been maliciously abducted for many years, and he was found in an orphanage, the Sunshine Orphanage.
A guess suddenly emerged in my mind: Was Teng Zheng deliberately abducted by the staff of the welfare home from the very beginning?
Is their purpose in taking the children away to maintain the industrial chain within the institution?
Teng Zheng did not suffer any harm in those years perhaps because the matching was unsuccessful, so he had been waiting for a match in the welfare home. However, during this process, the god of luck descended upon him and he found a home before death.
As for Sui Yusheng, the old man once said that Sui Yusheng's biological mother sold him. As for who the buyer was, it is now self-evident. The welfare home bought Sui Yusheng perhaps for that unknown industrial chain. Just like Teng Zheng, Sui Yusheng was lucky enough to be recognized by Deng Yu who came to adopt the child.
Li Ying'an didn't know about Teng Zheng's situation, but he knew Sui Yusheng. His guess was consistent with mine. We almost all believed that it was the Sunshine Welfare Home that had had contact with the trafficking village.
So I must collect evidence. Just like the last time I cracked down on the trafficking village, I must severely punish the Sunshine Welfare House this time.
August has passed, but the weather around September still makes people feel stuffy and breathless. There is no wind at noon, and even if there is wind, it is hot. It blows on the body like stepping into a bathroom where someone has just taken a shower, and the whole body is hot.
But compared to midsummer, the early mornings and evenings in autumn are no longer so hot that it makes you dizzy and nauseous. As the temperature drops, even the wind becomes gentle, feeling cool on your face.
It was already past seven in the evening when I got on and off the bus. The sky was gray, and the remaining sunset glow obscured the monotonous and lightless sky, like Li Ying'an's eyes as he looked at me gently.
I walked west along the street. The cars coming and going did not catch my attention, and the high-rise buildings standing side by side did not attract my attention. The pedestrians talking and laughing were not worth my attention. I just kept moving towards the destination that Li Ying'an told me, looking for the source of the evil.
The speed at which humans walk can never compare to the speed at which cats wander. Thinking that I was about to get closer to my target, and I happened to be a little tired, I changed back into the form of Li Youzhi, which was several times smaller than a human, in a place where no one was paying attention, and went into battle lightly.
I wandered around this strange place, and finally my hard work paid off. A few hundred meters away from the train station, the big golden words "Sunshine Welfare Home" appeared before my eyes.
The welfare home is not located in a remote area, but in a prosperous area close to the train station. There are three or four people coming and going every hour of the day.
Although the geographical location is excellent, for some unknown reason the director decorated the gate of the welfare home so secludedly. Instead of neatly planted trees, the outer edge of the yellow brick wall is surrounded by a dense bamboo forest, giving it the feeling of a quiet and elegant courtyard. Only there are crooked trees on both sides of the gate, and under the trees there is a bench where an old man sits and drinks tea leisurely with a palm-leaf fan.
When I thought of myself as a cat, I had nothing to worry about and walked to the door of the welfare home in a swagger, not forgetting to glance at the comfortable old man provocatively, until a pair of slippers came.
The old man stood up from the bench, holding the slipper on his other foot in his hand, and stepped on the dirt ground with his bare feet. He pointed the shoe at me angrily, as if I had committed a heinous crime, and shouted at me at the top of his voice: "Where did you come from, wild cat? Get out of here now! Don't let me catch you, or I will skin you alive!"
This wrinkled old face already showed an evil look, and suddenly it frowned and looked even more ferocious. My scalp was numb from his glare, as if I was really going to be caught and thrown into a frying pan. I was so scared that I wanted to turn around and run away, but suddenly I remembered what I was doing here, stopped my feet, and rushed towards the closed iron gate.
As the old man shouted, I nimbly passed through the artistically carved iron gate, ran to the statue in the center of the courtyard, and disappeared.
I didn't know where I was now. The structure inside this welfare home was similar to the school I had visited before. Buildings were next to each other, lights were flickering, and children's singing or laughter floated out from the screen windows. Such a beautiful moment covered up the sins in my memory. I began to feel dazed, thinking that I had come to the wrong place. But when I looked closely, I realized that this was the Sunshine Welfare Home.
Yes, this is just a false cloak of sin.
"By the way, Xiao Chen."
I quickly retreated into the shadows, pricked up my ears, and listened attentively to the two people passing by me whispering to each other.
"Someone's coming to the small gate to deliver something," the woman said in a low voice. "Remember to greet them."
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