Chapter 64 Twenty-eight

Lingguang Nursery is located in a remote corner of Zhonghe Township. I crossed Yingqiao according to the address and went straight down. After crossing a few streets and turning into the bottom of Nanshan Road, I saw a few red brick bungalows surrounded by a fence. One was completely isolated. It's a bit like a rural primary school.There is a scorched wooden sign on the gate, the words "Lingguang Nursery School" have been blurred, and there is an inscription of the Society of Jesus in the lower left corner.I entered the door, and on the right side of the front yard was a playground for children, with seesaws, swings, and wooden horses. There were seven or eight children playing in it. The children were all wearing white bibs with the three red letters of little angels embroidered on them.An old man and an old lady were looking after the group of children. A fat boy was sitting on one end of the seesaw. As they went up and down, the two boys were shrieking excitedly.The two brick buildings on the left are classrooms. From the window of one building, I saw teenagers of different ages sitting in class, and a priest in a black robe was standing on the podium giving a lecture.In another classroom, a music class was being held. With the accompaniment of the organ, the first-class mixed voices of boys were singing a hymn that made people feel inexplicably sad.Behind the two red brick classrooms, there is a small church. The church is very old, and the red bricks are covered with green moss.It suddenly occurred to me that Mr. Guo told me that when Ah Feng was in the Lingguang Nursery, she behaved perversely and rebelliously. She often knelt and cried alone in the church in the middle of the night, probably in this Lingguang hall.

Are you looking for someone?The door of the church opened, and an unusually tall old priest came out. The old priest was wearing a long black cloth robe, a black velvet square hat on his head, and a dark square face wrinkled and cracked. It was Mr. Fu Chongshan who asked me to come, and I hurriedly replied that he couldn't come by himself. He wanted me to see Fu Tianci's illness and give him an apple.I hold up the apple in my hand. Oh, a kind smile appeared on the old priest's dark face, Fu Tianci?He is much better today. After taking the special medicine prescribed by the doctor, the fever subsided.

The old priest led me around the church and walked to another red brick building behind. Are you Brother Sun?I tentatively asked, and I heard the old priest's accent with a thick northern accent. The old priest turned his head and looked at me with surprise. How do you know me, brother? I remember Mr. Guo said that there was an old monk from Henan in the Lingguang Nursery, and he was the only one in the courtyard who loved Ah Feng.Mr. Fu also mentioned that there is an old northern monk in the courtyard. He is very kind and takes care of disabled children in the courtyard. He takes care of Fu Tianci who has no arms the most.

Mr. Fu mentioned you to me.I said. Mr. Fu is so kind, Cultivator Sun praised, he is really generous to the children in our courtyard, the child Fu Tian bestowed all these years depends on him. Brother Sun, do you still remember Ah Feng?I quietly glanced at the old priest and asked.I remember Mr. Guo told me that Brother Sun often accompanied Ah Feng, knelt in the church and recited the Rosary, trying to influence him. When Cultivator Sun heard my question about Ah Feng, he stopped and looked at me thinking for a while. Ah Feng?Alas, Cultivator Sun let out a long sigh, his cracked and dark face showed a look of disappointment, that child was brought up by me, how could I not remember?Ah Feng is so weird that others don't understand him.I tried my best to help him, but it was useless. After he ran away, it was said that he became depraved and suffered such a tragic end, which is really painful.In fact, Ah Feng's child is not bad in nature.

Brother Sun mentioned that Ah Feng suddenly became excited. Standing under the stone steps behind the church, he recalled with me some of the words and deeds that were different from ordinary people when Ah Feng was in Lingguang Nursery many years ago.He said that Ah Feng had many strange omens when he was a baby. When he started babbling, he would cry when he was taught to call him father and mother.Brother Sun said that he had never seen such a crying baby, and the more he was coaxed, the more he cried, until it turned into screaming.Once he held Ah Feng in his arms. Ah Feng was only eight or nine months old, but Ah Feng kept crying for two hours. , the doctor gave him a sedative to save him.It seemed that the child was born with a stomach full of grievances, and he couldn't stop crying.In fact, Ah Feng is a child born with extraordinary talents, and his kind of understanding is also rare. No matter what he learns, as long as he puts his heart into it, he will always be several times faster than others, and he will be much higher than others.He memorized catechisms fluently, and knew the stories of the Bible from beginning to end. Brother Sun taught him Chinese, and he had just finished a piece of "Peach Blossom Spring", and he was already fluent and memorized word for word.

But Cultivator Sun hesitated and said, his eyes were full of confusion, that child, somehow, did something, but was always so perverted and rebellious, unreasonable, just as our dean said, that child has At that time, it was like being bewitched and possessed by a demon.Over the years, I have been saddened to think of his tragic end, and I have often prayed for him, that his soul may be blessed by the Lord and find peace. The old priest became a little sad, shook his head and sighed: Mr. Fu told me that he had seen Ah Feng the day before the accident, which was unexpected. Cultivator Sun led me to the door of a dormitory, but stopped, looked at me, and asked with a kind smile:

And you, boy, what's your name? Li Qing.I said. Oh, Li Qing, the old priest nodded, pointed to the apple in my hand and said, what a big apple, Fu Tianci will be very happy. The children in the dormitory are all disabled children, there are five in total, one has no legs at all, sitting on an armchair with only half of his body left.Two of them were probably morons, sitting on the floor and playing with building blocks, yelling all the time.The other one is older, probably in his teens, but his head tilted all the way to the left and then bounced back. This movement was extremely fast, constantly ups and downs, like a spring was installed on his neck, and he obviously couldn't control it. He moved, with a look of pain and helplessness on his face.There are three old ladies in the dormitory who are taking care of these disabled children.Mr. Fu told me that these old men and women in the nursery are all voluntary to help, some are church members, some are not, and their children feel lonely at home when their children grow up.

Fu Tianci was lying on the bed. He was a six or seven-year-old, very frail child.He was wearing an old sky-blue short-sleeved shirt on his upper body. Because he had no arms, the sleeves of the shirt hung down empty. He probably just had a fever, and he was still weak, his face was blue, and he had no blood.Mr. Fu sometimes talked to me about Fu Tianci at home. He said that the child was congenitally deficient. suffer. Grandpa Fu asked me to come and see you, Fu Tianci, I stood in front of Fu Tianci's bed and said to the child lying on the bed with nothing in his sleeves, are you cured?

The child opened a pair of deep-set eyes, looked at me curiously, his mouth was tightly closed, and he didn't make a sound. Not burnt at all.Cultivator Sun touched the child's forehead with his hand and said. I just ate a bowl of cereal and I have a good appetite.An old woman next to him interrupted with a smile. Where is Grandpa Fu?the child asked suddenly. He can't come today, he wants me to bring you apples, you see.I took out two apples from the plastic bag. The apples were more ripe after a night, with a sweet fragrance.I put the big bright red apple next to the child's pillow.The child struggled to move his body, tilted his head, and sniffed the apple next to the pillow with his nose.

Is it fragrant?Cultivator Sun bent down and asked. The child nodded and smiled. Look at your gluttonous appearance, just after eating, the old lady interrupted with a smile, and after eating, grandma will cut it for you. When is Grandpa Fu coming?the child asked again. He will come to see you in a few days.I said. Oh, the child replied, he breathed a sigh of relief, but closed his mouth tightly again, refusing to make a sound. Because I was worried about Mr. Fu and wanted to go to President Shi Pai Rong, I bid farewell to Brother Sun and Fu Tianci.Brother Sun escorted me all the way to the entrance of the nursery school. When we passed the classroom, the orphans inside were still singing those sad hymns, and they sang so hard and so unevenly.

That child Fu Tianci is very happy today, Cultivator Sun smiled at me standing at the gate of Lingguang Nursery. I will tell Mr. Fu when I go back.I said.