Wind Chaser: Rebirth in the 18th Year of the Republic of China

Wei Ruola saw this and helped Jinzhen pick up some food for Shen Tunan.

"Brother, you should eat more. Jinzhen says every day that you are tired and thin."

Seeing the two of them being so attentive to each other, Shen Tunan felt very relieved. At least their relationship had been stable.

After seeing his brother off, Shen Jinzhen told Ruolai about his brother's opinion and discussed the matter with him.

"If you really like it, go ahead. It's good to take care of children."

Wei Ruolai couldn't always be with Jinzhen because he had to work, but he knew she would be bored at home and it was okay for her to do something she liked occasionally.

With Ruolai's support, Shen Jinzhen was in a good mood. He chose a morning when the weather was not too cold, changed into a cotton skirt and went out.

According to the address her brother gave her, she found the orphanage.

The situation at the orphanage was worse than she had imagined. The entire yard looked smaller than the Shen Residence. The houses were dilapidated and covered with moss and weeds, and the gate looked shaky and unreliable.

"anyone there?"

Shen Jinzhen shouted at the door. After a long time, an old man wiped his eyes and looked up from the window in confusion.

Seeing a beautifully dressed woman standing at the door, he wondered if she was some important person who discovered him slacking off and hurried out of the house to open the door for Shen Jinzhen.

"Hello, ma'am. Why are you here?"

The old man looked at Shen Jinzhen's dress and secretly guessed her identity.

Could it be that some rich lady abandoned her child?

"Hello, I'm here to help. I heard that there's a shortage of staff here, and I happened to have some free time recently so I wanted to come and help the children."

Shen Jinzhen replied politely, and when he saw the situation in the orphanage, he began to worry about the children.

If they are so poor, I'm afraid the children's food and clothing are not very good.

The old man didn't expect that someone would come to this poor place that everyone wanted to stay away from on their own initiative. She was really a kind and beautiful lady.

"We have almost no sponsorship here. We were relatively well-off a few years ago, but after the war, the orphanage was also affected, and the children had a very hard time."

The old man opened the door and sighed as he told Jinzhen about the situation in the yard.

The orphanage's expenses come from government subsidies and donations from caring people in the society. Now it has only a meager income and it is difficult to maintain daily expenses.

The teachers and caregivers in the school are also struggling to make ends meet, and their salaries are far lower than those of other workers in the same profession.

"The Japanese side has evil ambitions and continues to infringe upon our country's interests. The government only sees cold numbers, but the first to suffer are always ordinary people," Shen Jinzhen is indignant seeing the current situation.

If the Nationalist government had discovered the conspiracy of those people in advance, things would not have turned out like this.

"Who says it's not? But those people can't see us. Besides, our location is remote. Ordinary people won't come here to hang out for no reason."

The old man took Shen Jinzhen to a room where a teacher was teaching students.

Through the paper-covered window, she saw that the children's clothes were patched. It was winter and they were all wearing thin clothes.

“Won’t the government provide subsidies?”

Shen Jinzhen remembered that the National Government would provide special subsidies to specific groups every year. How could it become like this now?

The old man shook his head, he didn't know this.

"The dean is in charge of all the payment issues. It has nothing to do with us."