Chapter 101 If you don’t get in the car, there will be no driver?

In the afternoon, Li Zhuo was fully armed and her makeup was very delicate.

Her smooth black hair was tied behind her head, and two large metal rings were hung on her earlobes, revealing her slender neck and charming cleavage.

At first glance, she is a strong woman with great ability to get things done, but in the February weather in the capital, she looks a little freezingly beautiful.

Somehow in the morning, Cheng Cheng's words "my grandfather" disrupted her thoughts.

She suddenly realized that she didn't know Cheng Cheng's past and had never heard Cheng Cheng talk about his parents and relatives.

"Then what kind of grandfather is his? His biological grandfather? Mr. Cheng has been dependent on his grandfather since he was a child?" Li Zhuo couldn't help but let her mind wander. She was a little excited to be able to participate in Cheng Cheng's life.

"Let's go." Cheng Cheng walked out of the elevator, waved to Li Zhuo, and headed straight for the parking lot. Li Zhuo hurriedly followed.

While waiting, Li Zhuo had already called the driver. When the two of them arrived at the parking lot, the driver had already warmed up the car in advance and was standing next to the car respectfully.

When Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo appeared, he quickly opened the car door, stretched out his hand, and protected the door frame, fearing that Cheng Cheng would bump into it.

Cheng Cheng bent down and was about to get in the car, but suddenly he made a circle naturally, went to the driver's seat and sat in.

The driver was fooled by a shot, and froze in place while protecting the car door. He didn't understand:
What's going on? I pressed the wrong key, right?

Li Zhuo also had a question mark on his face and asked, "Boss Cheng, are you going to drive yourself?"

Cheng Cheng nodded as a matter of course.

Li Zhuo didn't understand: "Why?"

Cheng Cheng argued:

"Just think about it, after I go there, my grandfather will definitely ask me how I got here. If I say I came by car, he won't know whether I took the bus or the subway, but if I say I came by car, he will know that I bought a car. If you don't return to your hometown when you are rich and powerful, it's like wearing fine clothes at night."

Li Zhuo was defeated by Cheng Cheng's idea: It makes so much sense!

The driver trembled and asked, "Boss Cheng, should I still go?"

Cheng Cheng was puzzled: "Why don't you go? If you don't go, there will be no driver in the car, right?"

The driver fell into deep thought...

Li Zhuo and the driver got into the car with strange looks on their faces. Li Zhuo sat in the passenger seat and the driver sat in the back seat. In order to avoid suspicion, he tactfully sat in the seat behind Cheng Cheng, but he still felt uncomfortable.

Soon, Cheng Cheng drove to a toy store and went on a shopping spree until he filled the trunk and the back seat.

Li Zhuo looked a little surprised and didn't understand why Cheng Cheng bought so much:
Is it a big family?

After that, they drove for another two or three hours until they were almost out of the imperial capital before arriving at an orphanage. Cheng Cheng stopped the car and said, "We're here."

"Is it here?" Li Zhuo said, "Mr. Cheng, did you grow up here?"

Cheng Cheng nodded: "Well, this is my home."

Li Zhuo regretted his previous thoughts.

Behind the iron gate, there was a little girl with a dirty face.

Looking at the slowly stopping car and the handsome men and beautiful women getting out of the car, her dark eyes sparkled with curiosity, and she asked in a tender voice:
"Who are you? Are you here to adopt us?"

A little boy who was playing with sand nearby put down his shovel, looked at Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo carefully for a while, then shook his head and retorted seriously:
"You are so stupid, that's definitely not the case! Only aunts and uncles will adopt us. Brothers and sisters this young won't adopt a child."

As he spoke, he looked at Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo who were approaching, verifying his thoughts: "Brother and sister, am I right?"

Cheng Cheng squatted down and asked, "What are your names?"

The little girl replied in a baby voice:

"My name is Nannan. It's not the Nan in the south, but the Nan in the mouth."

Cheng Cheng waved to Li Zhuo, and Li Zhuo bent over and leaned over to listen.

"This woman has the qualities of an empress," Cheng Cheng said seriously.

Li Zhuo:?
The little boy replied: "My name is Xie Zhenhua!"

Cheng Cheng: "Hello, Xie Zhenhua."

Seeing the situation here, more and more children gathered around.

There are about 30 or 40 of these children, most of whom have congenital problems, some are lame, some have birthmarks on their faces, some have syndactyly, some have cleft lips, some have albinism, some are sickly, and some are disabled.
Some of them were sent here by their biological parents, and some were picked up and sent here by kind-hearted people.

There are two types of children sent here by their biological parents. One type is that the mother got pregnant before marriage and they don’t know how she got pregnant. After the baby was born, they didn’t want to raise it, so they sent it here. These children are okay and relatively healthy. The other type is that they were born with various congenital problems. Their families didn’t want to raise them and had no place to deal with them, so they also sent them here.

The children looked at Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo with various eyes, and said in unison:
"What beautiful brothers and sisters~"

"It's a big car!"

"Are they here to see us?"

“I like good food.”

“The candied haws are delicious.”

The little girl Nannan who first discovered Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo was convinced that they were here to adopt a child, and she stopped the other children from seeing the child:
"I was the one who discovered my brother and sister first, you are not allowed to look!"

Somehow, Li Zhuo's eyes were a little red.

Cheng Cheng took out a handful of candy from his pocket and distributed it to the children. He specifically said to Nannan:
"We are here to look for the Dean. Can you help me call him over?"

So you really aren't here to adopt a child? Nannan was a little sad, but she managed to calm down, took the candy and ran back, shouting as she ran:
"Grandpa, Grandpa, someone is here to see you!"

The other children also shouted:
"Grandpa, your brothers and sisters are here to see you!"

"Grandpa, come out quickly! Big brother is here!"

Soon, surrounded by the children, a hunchbacked old man with gray hair came over.

When he saw Cheng Cheng, he was a little afraid to recognize him at first, but when he got closer and saw him clearly, his eyes immediately became moist. He opened the door and hugged Cheng Cheng, his body trembling:

"Chengcheng? You're here?"

"Grandpa," Cheng Cheng called out sincerely.

The call of "Grandpa" came from both his original identity and respect for the old man in front of him.

The old man in front of me has dedicated his whole life to this orphanage.

When he was young, his own child was lost, so he built this orphanage. He hoped that his lost child could be taken in and well taken care of by kind-hearted people like him.

"I'm glad you're here! Xiaojun said something happened to you before, but Grandpa knows that you have been kind since you were a child, and you would never do those things."

The old man patted Cheng Cheng's shoulder:

"It's good that you're here. It's good that grandpa can see that you're okay. There are no difficulties in life that you can't overcome. No matter how difficult it is, you can still come back to this orphanage."

Cheng Cheng smiled and said, "Grandpa, I've come this far. You're right, it's no big deal. Being alive is the most important thing."

The old man held Cheng Cheng's hand tightly. His hand was warm and rough.

"You are right to think so. Only by living can there be hope, and you have to live well."

Li Zhuo listened at the side, feeling full of emotion:
Who could know how many storms, crises and desperate situations were hidden behind Cheng Cheng's calm tone? He just didn't say it. He just acted calmly because he didn't want to make the old man in front of him worry.

The old man took Cheng Cheng's hand and said, "Come in quickly. You haven't been back for many years."

"Wait a minute." Cheng Cheng said, "I bought some toys for my brothers and sisters."

Cheng Cheng looked into a pair of dark eyes and said, "My name is Cheng Cheng. I'm your elder brother. I also grew up here. Can anyone of you help me? Help me move some things into the car."

The children raised their hands one by one: "Me! Me! Me! Me!"

Cheng Cheng said: "Let's all go!"

The group of kids then followed Cheng Cheng to unload the goods.

They asked random questions as they walked.

There was a lame little boy who asked innocently, "Brother, can we grow up to be as tall and good-looking as you?" The little boy Xie Zhenhua said seriously, "You won't be as good-looking as you. Ugly children will never become good-looking when they grow up! That's what the auntie who came that day said."

As he said this, he asked Cheng Cheng for his approval with a shameless face: "Really, brother?"

Cheng Cheng said: "Others are lying to you. I was also ugly when I was a child."

"Ah, is that so?" The children were all surprised.

Others asked: "Brother, when I grow up, will I be as rich as you?"

Cheng Cheng: "Yes, I will."

Walking to the side of the car, Cheng Cheng opened the trunk. In an instant, all the children in the audience screamed:
"Wow, toys!"

“What a big little car!”

"Cute doll!"

A little boy, who was not even as tall as Cheng Cheng's trouser pocket, pulled Cheng Cheng's trouser leg and said, "Brother, brother, is this for us?"

Cheng Cheng: "Yes, they are for you, but you need the dean to divide them among you. Each of you can take one back, okay?"

"Sure!" the children shouted happily.

In the distance, the dean was watching all this, his face full of kindness and warmth.

"I want the car!"

"I want to take the doll~"

Cheng Cheng distributed all the toys in the trunk and the back seat, but in the end, Nannan got nothing. She burst into tears, "The other kids got everything, but I don't have any."

Seeing this, the little adult Xie Zhenhua said, "Stupid, the gifts haven't been divided yet! The brothers and sisters just asked us to take them back."

"But there will always be children who don't have one," Nannan cried again, even louder.

Cheng Cheng said, "They will all be available. I'll ask the driver to go buy them later."

"Really?" Nannan wiped away her tears.

"Really." Cheng Cheng promised, "I'll let him go now."

"Won't the driver be tired?"

"If I give him more money, he won't be tired anymore and he's very happy."

"But wouldn't that mean my brother's money is wasted?"

Cheng Cheng said: "I have a lot of money. Can you count how many stars there are in the sky?"

Nannan shook her head: "I can't count them all."

Cheng Cheng said: "My money is as countless as the stars in the sky."

Nannan was pleasantly surprised: "Wow, brother is so rich!"

Li Zhuo sat nearby, looking at him with gentle eyes, thinking that Mr. Cheng would not go crazy at any time, so he was not crazy at this moment.

-

After having a lively dinner with the children, the dean, and the uncles and aunts working in the hospital, Cheng Cheng and Li Zhuo came to the dean's office later.

The office's facilities were simple, but everything was in order. An old-style desk was placed by the window, on which were stacked collected painting assignments, which were colorful and full of childlike innocence and imagination.

There is an entire wall of photos of him and his successive children. One of the yellowed photos contains Cheng Cheng, but the staff of the orphanage at that time is no longer there, and the old man’s wife is also gone.

Each photo bears witness to the aging process of the elderly.

Cheng Cheng asked: "Grandpa, have you read The Little Prince that I sent you?"

Speaking of this, the old man was both pleased and sentimental:

"I've finished reading it. It's a really good book. Chengcheng, you're a good kid. Grandpa really wasn't wrong about you. You're even better than I thought. I almost couldn't recognize you."

Cheng Cheng got straight to the point and said, "Grandpa, I'm telling you the truth. I came here this time to ask you to come out and manage the Little Prince Children's Care Fund."

The old man had not expected this at all, and was at a loss for a moment: "Me?"

On the side, Li Zhuo was also a little surprised.

The old man waved his hands quickly, his face full of embarrassment: "I can't do it, I have children to take care of, and I don't know anything, I can't do it, I'm old."

Cheng Cheng said, "Grandpa, don't worry. Listen to me. I know you are very busy and you don't know much about this. But it doesn't matter. I will ask professionals to assist you. You just need to supervise the flow of funds and make sure that every penny is used in the right place to avoid abuse or even embezzlement. I believe that you have been running an orphanage for a lifetime and will be able to do this job."

The old man refused to agree: "But I am old, and there is still this orphanage."

Cheng Cheng said, "Grandpa, you are only fifty-five, and you still have decades to live. You don't have to worry about this orphanage. I will invest one million and hire someone you trust to manage it. You can come back anytime you want in the future."

Li Zhuo looked at the old man a few more times. She didn't expect that the gray-haired old man in front of her was only 55 years old.

You know, there is a male star in the entertainment industry who is almost 60 years old and still insists on filming action scenes. If you put him together with the old man in front of you, they look like two generations.

The old man was still a little hesitant, not only because he was afraid of difficulties and timid, but also because he was reluctant to leave this place.

From 27 to 55, he devoted most of his life here and trapped himself here.

Ever since his child went missing, he has been trapped in that day. Time has moved forward, but he has not gotten out.

He didn't dare to come out, nor did he want to come out.

Cheng Cheng said: "Grandpa, for the sake of more children, please come out. You have been the director of the orphanage for your whole life. Only when you take this position can I feel at ease."

In fact, Cheng Cheng also has his own selfish motives. If nothing unexpected happens, the Little Prince Children's Care Fund will go down in history.

He wanted the old man in front of him to take the position of the first president. Although he knew that the old man did not care about the name and social status, it was a recognition of his lifelong dedication.

Cheng Cheng looked at him: "Grandpa, come on."

Cheng Cheng's words "for more children" moved him. The old man moved his lips, and after a long while, he finally agreed:
"it is good!"

-

The deal is done, it's time to go back.

Nannan: "Brother and sister, and driver uncle, will you come to see us again?"

The driver went back this afternoon and found a toy store and bought the toys, so Nannan was also impressed by him.

Li Zhuo touched her head and said, "Yes! If you miss us, we will come back." She felt a little guilty when she said this:

What if I came here and tricked their grandfather away?

Nannan said innocently: "But Nannan will miss you tomorrow~"

Xie Zhenhua was somewhat dissatisfied with her:

"Don't think about it. Brothers and sisters are different from those uncles and aunts. They will definitely come back if they say they will. Brothers and sisters also have to be busy, and adults have to go to work."

Li Zhuo said: "Yes, brother and sister can't come tomorrow, but they will definitely come as soon as they are free."

-

The car started and slowly drove away with a low engine sound.

A group of little people clung to the iron gate, watching the red light of the car's taillights become weaker and weaker in the darkness, and finally completely disappeared from sight.
I don’t know who started it, but a few cries suddenly rang out, and then they became one after another. Many children didn’t know why they were crying.
The old man didn't know whether to laugh or cry, and comforted them: "Okay, children, it's time to go back to bed. Whoever stops crying first will get the gift first tomorrow!"

When the children heard the old man's words, their crying gradually stopped. They turned to look at the old man, and as if competing, they held back their tears one by one to prove that they were the first to stop crying.

The old man smiled, reached out his hand and patted their heads gently, and comforted them: "Don't worry, there are gifts. Go to bed now, and I will distribute the gifts to you tomorrow morning."

At this time, the moon was at its zenith, and the bright moonlight shone into the yard and on the old people and children. The whole picture was exceptionally harmonious.

(End of this chapter)