I run a food city in the last days

Sanhao Orphanage, at 8:30 pm, most of the children have already gone to bed.

It was winter at this time. In order to save costs, the orphanage strictly controlled the time when the electric heater was used every day. Therefore, the children were rushed to bed shortly after dinner and asked to wrap their quilts tightly to keep warm.

But this is of no use to children who find it difficult to eat enough. There is too little energy stored in the body, so how can it keep them warm?

Jiang Yiyin shrank until only half of her head was still outside the quilt, trying to use the hot breath of her breath to warm up the temperature inside the quilt little by little, but half an hour later, she was already shivering slightly from the cold.

I don’t know how many years this quilt has been used. The quilt cover has been washed until it is hard and brittle. If you pull it with your fingers, you can tear out a hole. The cotton batting inside is not very thick and has long been lost due to long use. Part of the insulation effect was useless no matter how tightly she pressed the sides together.

Finally she couldn't stand it anymore and decided to take another risk.

She sat up quietly and fumbled to put on her clothes using the brightness of the moonlight reflecting on the snow outside. She tried not to make any noise, but there was still a slight movement, but no one paid attention to her. Some children might really sleep. Some of them may be as cold as her and unable to sleep, but they will only bury their heads deeper into the quilt, not wanting to move even a little bit, lest the trace of heat that has finally accumulated in their hearts disappear.

Jiang Yiyin stepped on the shoes whose cotton had almost escaped from the holes and left the room quietly.

In order to save money, lights were not turned on in the corridor unless necessary. Fortunately, for the same reason, two-thirds of the windows did not have curtains, so she could still see the situation clearly through the moonlight reflected in the snow.

But there was nothing to see. The staff were not that responsible. In such cold weather, they had spontaneously stopped patrolling at night. Those who could go home all left after dinner. The few staff who could not go back , also went back to the dormitory early - according to regulations, electric heaters can be used all night in staff dormitories.

So she felt at ease and slipped directly into the kitchen. The dinner was gruel, and there were only two or three pickles per person. The child was growing up, and she started to feel hungry almost as soon as she ate the dinner.

In fact, ever since she could remember, Jiang Yiyin had never tasted what it felt like to be full because she was dumped at the gate of Orphanage No. 3 when she was still a baby.

It happened that on the same day she arrived, something happened to one of the sponsors of the orphanage, and the amount of funding that was originally sufficient was reduced by more than half. According to the memories of the older children, there was always one meal a day where they could see something. It was oily, but from that day on, the children couldn't taste anything meaty for a month.

The timing of her arrival was too coincidental. The dean always associated her with the withdrawal of funding. In addition, she was not a person who liked to please. She was silent and stubborn most of the time, so she gradually became more and more worried. The less he is liked by the dean.

So the porridge I was given was the thinnest, the steamed buns were the smallest, the clothes were the oldest, the shoes were the worst, and even the quilt was the thinnest and hardest...

when--

An enamel basin fell to the ground, making a loud noise in the silent night, immediately pulling her out of her memories.

While startled, she quickly squatted down and listened to see if anyone came to check on the situation.

Fortunately, the staff dormitories are all upstairs, and it is estimated that even if they hear the sound, it will not be very loud, so they will most likely not come down to check the situation just because of such a small sound.

As for the place where the director lives, it is also in the orphanage, but it is on the other side of the playground, and nothing can be heard.

Jiang Yiyin breathed a sigh of relief, picked up the basin and put it back on the stove, feeling very disappointed.

The kitchen was cleaner than her pocket, and there was nothing to eat. Even the briquettes and burned cinders were locked in two cabinets, not to mention the ingredients, which had three locks on them.

My plan to find something to eat failed, but maybe because I was moving, and because I was scared just now, my body wasn't that cold anymore.

But now it seemed that there was nothing else she could do except go back to bed and feel the coldness again.

She returned to the corridor, and when she passed a window, her eyes were attracted by the warm yellow light on the other side of the playground.

Suddenly I thought that after dinner, the director called away some of his favorite children. They still didn't come back until everyone was rushed to bed. Now that most of the lights in the main building of the orphanage were turned off, would they be in the director's room? Where's your home?

She was suddenly curious about what the dean asked them to do. After staring at the light-emitting window for a while, she poked her head around and started to prepare.

It was impossible to go through the main entrance, which was locked and only the dean could open it from the outside.

There is another road leading to the outside world upstairs. There is a door at the end of the corridor of the staff dormitory. Outside the door, there is a metal staircase extending down the wall of the orphanage. You can go there directly to the playground.

She could only choose that path, it was just a little risky.

However, Jiang Yiyin felt that she was quite adventurous. Perhaps life in the orphanage was too boring, so she went upstairs without hesitation.

The stairs that were in disrepair would make a creaking sound no matter how lightly you stepped on them. Fortunately, the people hiding in the dormitory had no intention of coming out to see who it was.

They all thought that there must be a fool in the men's/women's dormitory. He actually went to patrol downstairs in such a cold weather. If he ran out to see who it was at this moment, what if the other party invited them to come with him? So it's better to act stupid.

This made Jiang Yiyin very convenient. She quickly slipped along the wall through the corridor, opened the door and walked to the stairs.

There wasn't much snow on the iron stairs. Most of the snow on the ground was left behind when it snowed heavily last night and in the morning. After the snow stopped at noon, the adults organized the children and moved them to what they called "key positions." "I cleaned it up and cleared away the snow.

And this staircase is one of the "key locations" they call it. At this time, it gives her a little more safety during her night adventure.

However, after walking the last step, no one cleared the snow on the ground. As soon as she stepped down, the snow came over and covered most of her feet. They got in through the holes, and because of the temperature rise, The high temperature quickly turned into ice-cold snow water, which wetted the remaining cotton. It also penetrated through the cotton and reached her rotten socks, making her tremble with the cold.

Jiang Yiyin smiled bitterly, how could he forget that his rotten cotton shoes were not waterproof.

But now she felt it was not worth it to ask her to turn around and go back. Her shoes were wet but she got nothing, and her curiosity was not satisfied. Anyway, she would definitely be punished if her shoes were wet tomorrow morning, so she might as well endure it and at least get rid of it. It was clear what the dean was calling those children.