Chapter 102

Gu Ci was picked up by the director at the entrance of the orphanage.

He couldn't speak at the time and slept in a small basket. Apart from the clothes on his body, he only had a piece of paper.

Someone had written the word "Gu Ci" on the note, which was the name his parents abandoned together.

When Gu Cigang was sensible, he asked the dean why he had this name. The dean said that this name was given to him by his parents.

Gu is because his surname is Gu, and Ci means farewell.

Little Gu Ci tried hard to think and digest this sentence: "Did mom and dad give Gu Ci this name because they wanted to say goodbye to me?"

It turns out that naming is so simple.

Xiao Gu Ci kept this answer in his heart.

The orphanage where Gu Ci works has many children but few staff. Some children who are eager for emotional needs cry instinctively because they don't get enough attention.

Little Gu Ci seems to be an outlier among a group of children who earn a lot of money from toys all day long.

He seldom cried or spoke. What he did most was sit in the corner with a few colored pens and write and draw.

The more the child cries, the more candy he gets, and the more well-behaved the child is, the less he is taken seriously.

The staff at the orphanage gave all the energy that should have been focused on Gu Ci to those children who were more likely to cry and get angry. When little Gu Ci took the initiative to express his needs and seek help, they were always worried about the other children in their hands. Things are delayed or ignored.

In this way, little Gu Ci gradually learned not to seek emotional and material satisfaction from outside the world as he grew up.

He gradually became the "unsociable" child described by the employees, and the children in the orphanage also preferred to play with lively people.

Fortunately, although little Gu Ci is reserved, he is also smart and good-looking.

Not long after he entered elementary school, he was adopted by a couple who had been unable to have children for a long time.

The couple's family was in good condition and the people were kind. Coincidentally, their surname was also Gu.

After learning Gu Ci's name, the hostess covered her mouth and was about to cry with excitement. She told her husband over and over again that it was God's will that they met Gu Ci, and that he was the child God prepared for her.

After being adopted, Gu Ci was very well-behaved in this family and was often praised by people around him for being sensible and smart.

At this time, the hostess would hug Gu Ci proudly and say proudly: "Of course, this is my son."

Little Gu Ci was taken seriously by others, and he was not used to this happy and harmonious environment.

The hostess may be too excited to be a mother for the first time, and she has to do everything about Gu Ci herself.

She cooked the food herself, bought Gu Ci clothes and toys, took him to and from school, taught him to ride a bicycle...

His new mother took him through all the things that little Gu Ci had never experienced in the orphanage.

His father is an executive in the financial industry. Although he is often busy until late at night, he will always take a look at Gu Ci when he comes home.

They all cherished Gu Ci as their own son, and poured all their love for their children into this boy.

Little Gu Ci gradually has a smile on his face, and he will also start to actively communicate and share his trivial matters with others.

Of all the emotions, the one he knew most now was the feeling of happiness.

Little Gu Ci began to look forward to tomorrow and his future.

He wants to stay with his parents all the time, but they send him to his grandma to live with his grandma for a few days every month.

Little Gu Ci asked where his "grandma" and "mom and dad" were, but grandma just told him to go to the hospital for a checkup.

When little Gu Ci continued to ask questions, she stopped talking and would only take out snacks and toys to divert his attention.

Xiao Gu Ci has a good memory and a strong thirst for knowledge. If there is no answer to a question in his head, he will keep thinking about that question.

So when his parents took him home, little Gu Ci couldn't help but ask them what tests they went to the hospital for.

His parents, who almost responded to his every request, hesitated and did not answer after hearing his words.

After Dad reacted, he only replied perfunctorily: "Of course I'm going to check my body to see if I have any picky eaters or tooth decay."

Xiao Gu Ci didn't believe it when he got the answer, because he heard his parents quarreling in the room that night. .

Gu Ci, who had just been woken up, was in a daze. He couldn't hear or understand the sounds coming from the door. Only the collapse and anger in his voice were clear.

After coming back to his senses and realizing that his parents had quarreled, little Gu Ci felt uneasy like never before. He got up and opened the door without seeing his parents, so he went to hear their voices clearly.

"...Then what do you want me to do?! Over the years, I have taken medicine and had my fortune told. I also listened to your mother's advice to do more good deeds and go to the orphanage to adopt a child with the same surname." The mother's voice sounded helpless and helpless. Breaking down, "Don't we all have a son now? Why do we continue to spend so much money traveling around the world to see doctors and take medicine!"

Dad's voice burst into flames, and he yelled: "But he is not his biological son!"

On weekdays, The gentle and elegant man gritted his teeth at this moment: "Before adopting this child, didn't I already say that this was our backup plan to avoid the risk that we would never have a child in the future."

"Don't tell me that you planned to do it because of him . Give up having children." The man's voice was undeniably authoritarian, "If this is true, I will send him back to the orphanage tomorrow!"

The mother's cry came over, and Gu Ci subconsciously heard all this. I feel like I shouldn't be in front of them right now.

...Maybe not just now.

Gu Ci became restrained again, and he spoke less and less when he went home. His mother, who always picked him up from school, thought it was because he was feeling unwell at first, but later she began to care about whether he was being bullied at school.

After confirming that there was no problem with all this, her mother felt that Gu Ci had grown up and had her own thoughts and privacy.

After that night, the atmosphere in the family dropped to freezing point. Dad never came home again, and mother never called dad.

Until one day my mother suddenly started to feel nauseous and retching.

When Gu Ci saw his mother's pale lips and face, he was worried and nervous, but his mother looked very happy and even called his father after a long absence.

Dad came home soon and took mom to the hospital.

They looked so anxious that they forgot to send themselves to grandma, leaving him alone at home.

Fortunately, when we came back in the evening, my parents seemed to have reconciled, and the smiles on their faces could not be hidden.

Dad happily kissed him several times and kept saying to himself: "You are really the little lucky star of our family!"

Although little Gu Ci didn't understand what they were talking about, he felt happy when he saw them happy.

After mom and dad reconciled, dad went home more often, and grandma also lived in this home.

My mother began to stay at home often to rest and take various supplements, and the person who took her to and from school became her grandmother.

The house became full of laughter and laughter, but Gu Ci felt that something was wrong with him.

He couldn't feel the happiness of his parents and grandma.

He always felt that the joy in them was caused by another person and was placed on another person.

Gu Ci didn't know that his mother was pregnant until his mother's belly protruded. He was going to have a brother or sister.

Grandma and mother seemed to be even busier, and the person who accompanied Gu Ci to and from school became him.

That day, when Gu Ci came home after school, he found that the door was locked. He knocked on the door, but the leader was knocked out.

The neighbor's aunt said that my mother went to the hospital to give birth and was not at home now.

Little Gu Ci knew that his parents had gone to the hospital to pick up his younger siblings, so he sat obediently on the doorstep and waited.

After finishing the homework assigned by the teacher, he closed the book and saw his name on the cover.

Gu Ci, who realized that his younger siblings didn't have names yet, excitedly wanted to give them names.

He remembered what the dean had said before and wrote two names squarely on top of the blank exercise book.

"Gu Kai" "Gu Xin"

Little Gu Ci wanted to tell his parents the news, but he waited until he was hungry and they didn't show up.

It was getting dark outside and the air was getting colder.

I don’t know if it’s because of boredom or my biological clock. Gu Ci just sat on the steps and fell asleep leaning against the wall.

When he was woken up, it took him a long time to realize who was in front of him.

"...Dean?"

As if something suddenly occurred to him, Xiao Gu Ci raised his homework and asked the dean with a smile: "Are you also here to help name your younger siblings?"

The dean heard this. He didn't answer, just sighed and rubbed Gu Ci's head: "Good boy, we are going back."

Little Gu Ci returned to the orphanage again, and it was not until many years later that he knew that he had been abandoned.

When the dean wanted to take him away from that home, Gu Ci once cried, but he stopped after hearing the dean say that his parents asked him to be taken away.

Little Gu Ci returned to the orphanage and became truly withdrawn.

He closed himself off and refused all communication with others, and his material desires were surprisingly low.

A child who is only a few years old has no interest or desire for toys and snacks.

The dean was worried about Gu Ci's mental health at first, until one day he happened to see him carefully stroking a stray cat.

He has not lost interest in the world, but he prefers contact with animals than people.

Animal emotions are much more straightforward and simpler than those of humans.

Gu Ci, who did not get enough emotional feedback from people, instead learned the basic emotions of facing the outside world from cats.

As for complex emotions such as jealousy, vanity, and affection, Stray Cat does not have them, and Gu Ci does not have them either.

The simple-minded Gu Ci looked dull and dull among a group of children of the same age who were running and jumping.

Most adoptive families who come to the orphanage pay more attention to their children's emotions and personality, and emotionally disabled people like Gu Ci are not among their choices.

They will always be attracted by Gu Ci's conspicuous appearance first, and then become disappointed and regretful when they find out that Gu Ci is neither family nor clever when they are alone.

Gu Ci would be selected by someone almost every day, and would watch the dean send them away every day.

When they left, most of them would say the same thing: "It's not good to raise them well."

Gu Ci didn't know what this sentence meant at first, but later he gradually became less interested in knowing.

The people in the yard changed one after another, and the children left one after another.

The stray cat in the backyard disappeared somewhere and never appeared again, and the dean has reached the age of retirement.

With the help of kind-hearted people, the orphanage began to be renovated, and the staff was replaced by more patient and professional teachers.

Time is taking the orphanage forward step by step, and everything seems to be developing in a good direction.

But it seemed to have forgotten Gu Ci.

Time left only Gu Ci himself and took away all the familiar things around him.