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After hearing Dong Su's solemn request, she went to prepare some gifts that afternoon.

Although it was just simple food and clothes, she grew up in the countryside and knew what children from poor families needed most in winter.

The next day, Xie Qingzhi personally took Sister Ayuan to the welfare home, and also brought a dozen female nurses to help check the children's health.

There are also grains, fruits, rice cakes, cooked meats, eggs, cooked lard and other ingredients bought by Sister Ayuan, which are enough to load two carriages.

Although the princess attaches great importance to homeless people, the welfare home also has a lot of allocations.

But no matter how good the policy is, orphans without fathers and mothers will at most only be hungry or cold inside, and nothing else.

In the past, orphans and old people were kept together, but when it was discovered that the old man was stealing the children's food rations privately, some older boys united to resist the old man.

It is impossible for the administrator to be in there for twelve hours. As soon as a small group appears, some people will be bullied and others will be bullied.

Xie Qingzhi did not bother the princess with these matters, and took the initiative to separate the orphans and the elderly into two courtyards.

They also selected gentle middle-aged women from the refugees to be responsible for cooking and washing the children, and bullying incidents gradually decreased.

Sister Ayuan has thought about what the children in the orphanage look like. They must be like those in the countryside. Their clothes are old and dirty. Due to poor food, the children have yellow faces and thin eyes.

But when she actually entered the orphanage, she found that things were completely different from what she had imagined. The child's clothes were still warm and not too old.

The food was not bad, there was minced meat in the porridge, and each person had an egg every day.

The sleeping area is also warm. Although there is no ground dragon, there is a fireplace. The bed is covered with straw but covered with quilts. The two children share a quilt.

What shocked her was that only a small proportion of the children here had full legs and healthy bodies.

More of them have disabilities or diseases, some are deformities carried in the mother's womb, and some are disabilities acquired through torture.

Some are blind, some have no ears, some are missing arms, some have harelips...

The most miserable child had almost atrophied legs but extremely long arms.

It happened that this child smiled the brightest. When he saw Xie Qingzhi, he shouted "Sister Xie" loudly.

Ayuan's tears flowed uncontrollably and asked Xie Qingzhi what happened to this child?

Xie Qingzhi also said with red eyes: "He is our patrol and was rescued from the traffickers."

"I heard that they were raised in a jar from a young age and raised as dwarfs to perform in the acrobatic club."

"Not counting him alone, there were more than a dozen children rescued at that time. They were all tortured in various ways. One of them even had a dog's skin sewn up to show off that 'animals can spit out human words.'"

"It's a pity that they all contracted the disease and he was the only one who survived."

Sister Ayuan felt that she had gone through enough hardships. She thought that poor children in rural areas had suffered enough when they were young, but she did not expect that there were so many poor children in the world.

When she was in Dianzhou, she heard Master Bai say that some witch doctors would use children to make medicine and feed their flesh and blood to poisonous insects in order to keep the poisonous insects obedient, but she had never seen it with her own eyes.

The experience of the child in front of me is the real hell on earth!

Holding back tears, she examined the children one by one. When she discovered that an eight-year-old girl named Guier had a huge piece of meat missing from her buttocks, it had grown into a scar as big as a bowl.

The girl could only keep turning sideways, causing the vertebrae in her back to become slightly deformed. She couldn't help but asked curiously:

"How did you get injured?"

Guier's mouth was smiling, but there was sadness in her eyes that was not for her age:

"There was nothing to eat at home, so my mother traded me for food and cut off a piece of meat. Then I was rescued by my brother, a soldier."

A Yuan's eyes were filled with tears again, and Guier comforted her:

"Sister, don't cry. Gui'er is fine now. You see, Aunt Liu taught us how to do embroidery and said Gui'er's hands are very skillful."

"The princess said that when I get older, I can work in the embroidery workshop, earn my own money, and never suffer hardship again."

"Gui'er also joined the choir. We performed during the Lantern Festival and earned a lot of money. Aunt Liu bought each of us new clothes."

Ayuan pressed her wound and asked, "Does it still hurt?"

Guier shook her head: "The pain has stopped a long time ago."

Ayuan then warned: "From now on, you should lie flat on your back when sleeping, and don't turn your body sideways, otherwise you will have a hunched back."

Guier nodded her head and obediently helped to undress the younger child so that Ayuan could check.

Xie Qingzhi stayed for a while and then left. She had other things to be busy with. She brought Ayuan here today to get to know the way and the people.

Now all the officials in the refugee area know that Miss Cai is the princess's cousin and has excellent medical skills. In the future, she will often come to the refugee area to treat everyone, so they all respect her.

A Yuan stayed in the orphanage until it was almost dark, and then set off back to the palace. Along the way, she couldn't help but think of the longing and nostalgic eyes of those children.

She heard from Manager Liu that any child with good health and good character would be adopted soon. The children who stayed had more or less problems.

As for children under one year old, as long as the boy is healthy and cries, he will be taken into custody very quickly. Baby girls are rarely adopted.

There are many abandoned female babies. Long before the princess came to Youzhou, many families would drown and abandon their female babies after they gave birth to them.

Later, the princess issued a death order, severely punishing those caught abandoning babies, and asked the district chief to create a register of pregnant women in the area under his jurisdiction. Even if there is one less newborn, the investigation will be rigorous.

In this way, no one dared to abandon the baby girl at will, so everyone took advantage of the dark and windy night to send the baby girl to the orphanage. The princess said she turned a blind eye to this.

If the investigation is strict, it is strictly forbidden to abandon babies or send them to orphanages. These people will always find a way to make a baby die in an honorable manner. Choking on milk, feeling suffocated by quilt, drowning in bath...

Since they don't want baby girls, they send them to an orphanage. All of them are named Shen, and they are her relatives, Princess Ling, and she will raise them.

When they returned to the palace, the two children were already asleep, and Dong Su and Master Bai were compiling medical school textbooks.

Seeing Sister Ayuan come back, Dong Su hurriedly asked the kitchen to prepare a midnight snack. He smiled and asked her how the children were doing.

Jian Dongsu asked several children in succession who had obvious physical disabilities.

A Yuan knew that Dong Su, like her, had always cared about those poor children.

Zhu made up his mind and said softly: "Dong Su, I promised Miss Yue Jian to go to the medical school to teach students."

"But what I saw and heard in the orphanage today makes me really worried about those children. I want to take care of the orphanage, is that okay?"

She glanced at Tsukimi guiltily, but saw no anxiety or persuasion in his eyes, only respect.

Master Bai asked in surprise: "Orphanage? Guwitang Hall? In the border town of Youzhou, there is also a Guwidow Hall?"

Shen Dongsu chuckled and said: "Unlike the Guwitang Hall in Chang'an and other places, our orphanage in Youzhou does not buy and sell people, nor will we sell the children into slavery when they grow up."

"There will be stewards to take care of them when they are young, and they will start teaching a craft when they are seven or eight years old. Of course, if there are those with high talents who want to study or practice martial arts, we will also support them."

"When you reach the age of fifteen, grow up, achieve academic success, and be able to support yourself, you will be able to stand on your own and leave the orphanage."

Master Bai felt incredulous when he heard this: "After fifteen years of raising Bai, no other government is willing to do this, and only you, Princess Ling of Youzhou, would do this!"

"No wonder along the way, I always hear people praising Princess Ling for her dedication to the people. Now I realize that this praise is not an exaggeration."

Master Bai immediately said to Ayuan: "When I'm healthy, I'll go with you to take care of these children. By the way, how many children are there?"

Sister Ayuan said softly: "There are one hundred and twelve children above the age of two, and fifty-six babies under the age of two."

Shen Dongsu said in surprise: "There were only thirty-two babies a year ago, why are there so many more? This year's harvest is good, I have a tax cut and a New Year's gift, is there still one less child to eat?"

Ayuan added in a low voice: "They are all baby girls picked up from outside the city and placed outside the camp where the patrols rest."

Now everyone understands that there are farmers outside the city. If there are many children in rural areas, baby girls are often abandoned.

Shen Dongsu sighed softly:

"It seems that I have to issue another decree to link population and welfare, regardless of gender. One more person on the household registration will get an extra welfare. Only in this way will the number of abandoned babies be reduced."

At this time, Yue Jian thought of a way to keep A Yuan and Master Bai, and stepped forward and said, "Even if Miss Cai wants to go to an orphanage, she can still become a wife of a medical school!"

"You can go to the medical school in the morning and go to the orphanage in the afternoon. In this way, you can also select some of the orphans who have medical talents, and when they are older, they can be brought to the medical school for medical care."

A Yuan hurriedly asked Dong Su: "Is this okay?"

Shen Dongsu smiled and said, "Of course you can! There are only a few classes a day in medical school, and medical and nursing knowledge cannot be taught by teachers alone. You have to practice more and learn more by yourself."

In this way, Sister Ayuan had a clear plan for her career. She held two positions, that is, being the wife of a medical school and teaching female doctors.

He also manages the orphanage to provide better living conditions for the children there, so that more homeless orphans can grow up safely, learn skills, and have the capital to settle down and live.