I am reciting the Classic of Mountains and Seas in the interstellar

Xia Yuanfang knew these two names, and she fell silent for a moment.

After a while, Xia Yuanfang said: "Give them a stick of incense for me and tell them that I will not let their death be in vain."

Xia Chujian nodded: "I know, aunt, and I won't let their death be in vain."

You have to make that person pay the corresponding price!

…

Because we were going to Zangge Star to pay homage to two classmates who passed away, we didn’t hold any activities in the first class cabin.

Everyone is staying in their own cabins.

Someone took advantage of this time to start writing a summary of the expedition.

Xia Chujian was also "writing", but she asked Qilu to write it for her.

She planned to read what Qi Lu had "written" and then revise it.

There was still time left and she wanted to get some sleep.

After all, she had just "recovered", and her weakness was obvious to all.

When I woke up, I had arrived at the airport outside the atmosphere above Changliu County, the capital of Zangge Star.

Xia Chujian has been here before.

Before going to college, the Special Security Bureau arranged for her to go to Kanli Planet to participate in flight training. Because she had to fly over the asteroid belt for a competition, she flew from Kanli Planet to Zangge Planet.

Zangge Star is the base camp of the Quan family, and the ancestral home of the Quan family is here.

Xia Chujian also stayed at Quan's ancestral home for a few days.

She came out of the spaceport of the starship, followed her classmates onto the aircraft, and looked at the city below in trance.

The orphanage where Gudemao and Pan Nanjie were located was on the outskirts of Changliu County.

This orphanage is not a big orphanage on Zangge Planet.

However, even though they were mentally prepared, they were still a little dumbfounded when they stood at the door of the very dilapidated orphanage and looked at the "Gupan Orphanage" sign that was in danger and was about to fall down.

This orphanage is not an ordinary shabby one!

Chen Yanjun pointed to the house sign and said, "This is called Gu Pan Orphanage. Are all the orphans here surnamed Gu or Pan?"

Jiang Sheng said: "It's probably an orphanage jointly run by a man named Gu and a man named Pan, right?"

There were eight of them, all wearing the military uniforms of the Empire's First Military Academy, standing at the entrance of the dilapidated and messy orphanage, very eye-catching.

The courtyard door opened, and an old woman as old as a wrinkled potato stood in front of them and asked doubtfully: "Who are you looking for?"

Xia Chujian said: "We are classmates of Gu Mao and Pan Nanjie, and we came here specifically to see them today."

The old woman suddenly understood, and there was a trace of moisture in her cloudy eyes.

She raised her sleeves and wiped the corners of her eyes, then silently opened the big iron door and invited them in.

Xia Chujian walked in with his classmates.

This orphanage is located in the suburbs of Changliu County, the capital of Zangge Star, but it is not the kind of wealthy suburb where the upper class or rich people live.

Instead, it is near a desolate and depressed village.

The stone exterior walls are dilapidated and mottled, covered with green vines and moss.

The tall iron gate is rusty, gloomy and heavy.

The top of the iron gate is full of spikes, like a javelin, piercing towards the sky.

Each iron rod is decorated with complex patterns, but now it is impossible to see clearly what the patterns are.

There are two symmetrical iron rings on the iron door. The surface of the iron rings is also full of traces of wear and rust, revealing the dark reddish-brown bottom layer.

The bottom of the iron door close to the ground has completely rotted and turned gray-brown. It seems that if you kick it casually, the big iron door will fall down in the wind.

The crooked sign about to fall off was hanging on the stone wall to the right of the iron gate.

From the dusty old castle-like house of the orphanage to the big iron gate, there is an abandoned yard.

The ground is overgrown with weeds, and the flower beds on both sides of the bluestone road are also abandoned.

The ground in early summer was dry and dry, but there were still a few unknown egg-yellow wildflowers standing out from the weeds.

The further we walked in, the more moldy and damp smell hit us.

Xia Chujian looked around and couldn't help but ask: "Is this an orphanage?"

The old woman nodded silently.

Xia Chujian said: "...Then why didn't you see the child?"

Even if it is a dilapidated orphanage, children should be let out to play in broad daylight, right?

Even in prison, there is still time to relax...

Unexpectedly, the old woman smiled and said: "We took them all... Ever since Amao and Ajie... passed away, kind-hearted people came here and took those orphans to the orphanage in the city. went."

"It's better there. You can have enough to eat, go to school, and you don't have to work all day long."

"Those children have gone to a good place."

Xia Chujian raised his eyebrows and was very surprised: "Did you just pick him up recently?"

The old woman nodded: "Only ten days."

"They sent Amao and Ajie back, and gave our orphanage a sum of money, saying it was some kind of pension..."

"I didn't understand anything, so I asked if I could use this money to send the children to a better orphanage."

"And I'm getting old. I don't know when I will be buried."

"What will happen to these children if I leave?"

Chen Yanjun was listening quietly and couldn't help but ask: "How were you doing before?"

The old woman sighed and said, "All the previous funds have been used up, and donations from kindhearted people are getting less and less."

"Then it was the orphans who went out to work when they grew up, and occasionally sent some money back."

"Amao and Ajie were originally the most outstanding orphans in our Gupan Orphanage for hundreds of years."

"They have deep feelings for this place."

"Before going to college, they worked everywhere to earn money to buy nutrient solution for their younger brothers and sisters."

"Even if it was low-quality nutrient solution, it was nutritious enough and they wouldn't go hungry."

"They are both amazing. They found stable part-time jobs right after entering high school."

"They also got very good scores in the college entrance examination, ranking in the top 20 on our Zangge Star!"

"They went to military school, and there were kind people who sponsored their tuition and living expenses, so our orphanage didn't have to pay!"

"When they went to school, the money they sent back every month doubled!"

Chen Yanjun's words seemed to open the old woman's chatterbox, and she started mumbling.

After listening, Xia Chujian asked curiously: "Where did they find part-time jobs? Did they also have part-time jobs when they went to Beichen Star to go to college?"

Jiang Sheng was also very curious, and muttered: "They are both in school all day and night, and have never left the school. I don't know where they found them... Could it be remote work?"

This is all possible.

The old woman frowned and said, "I don't know, anyway, they are all good kids, they will never do bad things!"

"The money they brought back was all clean!"

Xia Chujian said hurriedly, "You misunderstood, that's not what we meant."

"We just want to hear more about the two classmates."

The old woman relaxed her brows and continued to chatter with them about the interesting stories of Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie from childhood to adulthood.

While Xia Chujian listened, he followed him into the very dilapidated stone castle of the orphanage.

Although it was daytime, the hall was still very dim.

Because the windows here are tall and small, like a narrow gap.

The sunlight came in through the narrow gap, and you could see dust dancing in the sunlight.

The wooden floor can no longer see its original color, there are cracks everywhere, and it creaks when you walk on it.

In the corner, on the gray-white spider web, a big black spider was quietly lying.

There were several abstract oil paintings hanging on the wall, and there were tapestries with no characters visible, which were severely faded and the frames were black and moldy.

Two rows of broken benches and tables were neatly placed in the middle of the hall, as if they were still waiting for the children who had left.

The old woman led them straight through the hall and came to the backyard of the castle.

In the corner of the backyard, there were two rectangular tombstones standing.

The old woman hunched over, hobbled over, wiped the two tombstones with her sleeves, and said, "They are here."

She then said to the tombstones, "Amao, Ajie, your classmates are here to see you."

Xia Chujian walked over and looked at the two tombstones carefully.

Surprisingly, the material of the tombstones looked very good.

Liang Peng, who was familiar with the mineral deposits, leaned over to take a look and said, "This tombstone is made of corundum, which is very strong and immortal."

After a moment of silence, he said, "...It costs a lot."

Xia Chujian touched it with his hand and asked, "How much does it cost?"

Liang Peng looked at the orphanage and said, "It's probably enough to buy such an orphanage. Buy ten and raise 500 children until they grow up."

Other classmates gasped and touched the two tombstones in disbelief.

Xia Chujian remained calm and asked the old woman, "Excuse me, did you erect this tombstone for them?"

The old woman shook her head, "It's not me. We don't even have food in our orphanage. Where did we get the money to buy a tombstone?"

"This is the tombstone erected by the people who sent them back. By the way, they said they were from your school. Don't you know?"

When Xia Chujian learned that it was his school that handled the funeral for the two classmates, he felt that his heart, which was full of blockages, seemed to have quietly opened a little gap.

This world is not hopeless yet, there are still good people, right?

Chen Yanjun said directly: "At least they did something! Most of the orphans here are taken over by our school and sent to orphanages with better conditions."

Everyone thinks so.

Xia Chujian looked at the gold-plated words on the tombstone, which wrote the names of the two classmates, their dates of birth and death, and another line of words.

"We will remember your achievements, and you will not be forgotten."

Xia Chujian: "..."

It is indeed a bit strange to have this line of words engraved here.

But she didn't think much about it, but quietly used the camera on the quantum optical brain watch carrier to take pictures of the two tombstones.

After the eight people offered incense to Gu Demao and Pan Nanjie respectively, they left 40,000 Beichen coins for the old woman.

Each of them paid 5,000 in cash.

If it is just to maintain ordinary living needs, it can be enough for the old man to live for a long time.

The old man was reluctant to take it at first, and said, "You don't have to give me money."

"I can get a pension now. Five hundred yuan a month, enough for me to eat and drink."

This is the first update, and there will be a second update of a super long chapter at 12:05 noon!

Today is the last day of June!

You can clear your monthly tickets!