"We are about to arrive at Danyang Station. Passengers who want to get off the train are asked to prepare their luggage in advance and prepare to get off..."
A pleasant female voice sounded. Ji Qianming slowly stood up from his seat with his backpack on his back. He looked out the window at the familiar scenery with some emotion.
Unknowingly, I have been away for two months. Now that I am back in my hometown again, it feels like I am in another world.
"Before opening the door to Gouchen, cut off your nostalgia for the world."
Ji Qianming whispered the last sentence of the admission notice. Originally, he had nothing to miss, but he still decided to go back to his hometown and see the place where he once lived.
After leaving the train station, he directly stopped a tricycle soliciting passengers. It was not that he had no money. Not to mention the salary he earned after working for one and a half months, Chen Ge gave him a big red envelope of two thousand yuan before leaving. It's just that Ji Qianming's living environment since he was a child made him develop the habit of thrift.
Sitting on a bumpy electric tricycle, a short and old building gradually appeared in front of him. The rusty iron door, the moss-covered walls, and even the large characters on the door had faded to nothing.
Changshan Orphanage.
Looking at everything familiar in front of him, Ji Qianming couldn't help but recall bits and pieces of his childhood. He jumped off the tricycle and walked quickly to the orphanage with his backpack on his back.
After walking through the bumpy playground, he arrived at the door of the small building, where he could faintly hear the sounds of children playing.
"Xiao Qianming!" A surprised voice came from one side of the corridor. Ji Qianming turned his head and looked with a bright smile on his face.
"Aunt Li!"
Aunt Li walked up quickly, gave Ji Qianming a big hug, and then looked at him carefully: "Little Qianming has grown up. He is much stronger than when he was a child."
"Aunt Li is still as young as before." Ji Qianming said with a smile but felt sad in his heart. In his memory, Aunt Li still had black hair, but now she has turned gray, and the wrinkles on her face are also very obvious.
"You have such a sweet mouth, why are you back today?" Aunt Li covered her mouth and smiled, asking.
"I'm in college, so I came back especially to visit."
Aunt Li was startled, and then a burst of joy suddenly appeared on her face. She clapped her hands and said, "Okay, another college student has come out of our orphanage. Go and see the director. He is very happy to know the news."
After that, he took Ji Qianming to the dean's office, the wind blowing under his feet.
The dean's office was a small, cramped office. The sign on the door could no longer be seen clearly. Aunt Li knocked on the door.
"Please come in." An old voice came from inside the house, and Aunt Li walked in quickly.
"Dean, look who's coming!"
Ji Qianming walked in from the outside with some embarrassment. He saw an old man with golden eyes sitting behind a shabby desk. He was holding a newspaper in his hand. His face was full of vertical wrinkles and age spots. When he saw Ji Qianming Qian Ming narrowed his eyes and looked at it carefully for a while.
"Is this Xiao Qianming?" the dean asked tentatively.
Ji Qianming bowed respectfully: "Dean, Qianming is back to see you."
"Dean, Qianming has been admitted to college!" Aunt Li reminded with a smile.
"Oh?" The dean's cloudy eyes lit up, he walked up to Ji Qianming and smiled, "Okay, I thought Qianming had a bright future. Qianming, has he been admitted to a good university?"
Ji Qianming was silent for a long time and nodded heavily: "Dean, I went to the best university."
The dean nodded happily and suddenly remembered something. He took out a metal box from the locked drawer of his desk and slowly placed it on the table.
"Qianming, actually even if you don't come back today, I will have to call you back later. You are an adult and I can tell you some things." The dean's old voice sounded, and Ji Qianming was shocked.
"Dean, is it about my parents?" Ji Qianming asked hurriedly as countless possibilities flashed through his mind.
The dean nodded and Youyou said: "Because you were too young, I didn't tell you before. This matter may be a bit cruel to you."
Ji Qianming's heart was beating wildly. "Parents" was such a strange word to him. What kind of people were they? Why did they abandon themselves in the orphanage as infants and let themselves live a miserable life without a father and a mother?
He once hated his parents. No matter what the reason was, since he brought himself into this world, why was he unwilling to take responsibility for himself? As he grew up and became more mature, his hatred for his parents had dissipated and he just regarded them as two strangers. However, when he heard the dean mention them again, he still couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart.
"It was one night in 1999. I was resting in the office when I suddenly heard a baby crying. I followed the sound to the door of the orphanage and saw a man in weird clothes knocking on the door with a baby in his arms. "
"Dressed weirdly?"
"Yes, he is wearing a kind of clothes that I have never seen before, like a robe, with many mysterious patterns embroidered on the edges. The most important thing is that he is covered in blood."
Ji Qianming felt that his heart skipped a beat. Who was his father? Is the blood on his body his own or someone else's? Ji Qianming vaguely felt that his identity as a father must be extraordinary.
"Later, he entrusted you to me and told me your name was Ji Qianming. He asked me to raise you well. He also left something for you."
As he spoke, he pushed the metal box on the table over. Ji Qianming swallowed and slowly opened it.
Inside is a jade pendant. This jade pendant is very large and engraved with a pattern that Ji Qianming has never seen before. It looks like two yin and yang fish, but it is far more mysterious and mysterious than that.
Ji Qianming carefully held the jade pendant in his hand, and a cold touch came from his hand, which made people feel inexplicably reassured.
"At that time, he also gave me a luminous pearl as alimony, but I haven't been willing to sell it for so many years. Now I will give it to you too." The dean took out a delicate red box from nowhere, and inside it was There is a luminous pearl, and little bits of light spilled out from it. You can tell at a glance that it is not ordinary.
Ji Qianming was about to refuse, but Dean Que spoke first: "Don't refuse. Although I am old, I also know that this night pearl is worth a lot of money. The expenses we have spent raising you over the years are far from worth its value. In the future, when you become successful, just come back and visit us old people more often."
A smile appeared on the dean's old face, and he forced the Ye Mingzhu into Ji Qianming's hand. Ji Qianming could only accept it with a wry smile.
"He also asked me to bring you a message."
"What words?"
"sorry."