Chapter 392: – Accompanying Xia Tian
Love Orphanage’s actual name was really Love Welfare Institute.
Lin Jin searched for information about this orphanage online, but she found that there were many places around the country all with the name Love Welfare Institute. This made it much more troublesome for her to filter through the information.
She frowned and had searched online for nearly ten minutes before finally finding some confirmed news about the Love Welfare Institute in Xiamen.
This news was from two to three months ago. Just like the taxi driver had said, a volunteer had exposed the scene of an auntie in the welfare institute scolding and hitting the children.
Actually, Lin Jin could still accept some scolding and hitting. After all, those children were only three to five years old, each more naughty than the next. Spanking their butts or palms was still okay, but this news said that the auntie in the welfare institute used sewing needles to prick the disobedient children and even burned them with cigarette butts. Moreover, only a portion of the toys and snacks that the volunteers brought were actually given to the children. The rest were either eaten by the aunties themselves or taken home for their own children.
The background of the welfare institute was also mentioned in this news piece. It said that it was founded in the 1980s by an old man in their fifties. That old man would probably be over eighty now, probably the director the children talked about.
The director seemed to have stopped managing a lot of the things, so the staff under him started to mess around. This was what she heard from the fat auntie in the welfare institute.
Hmm... a bit troubling.
She didn’t know if that welfare institute was good or bad. Maybe she should wait until tomorrow and go ask the children? That fatty should tell the truth, right?
Lost in her thoughts, Lin Jin received a call from Xia Tian. Xia Tian was hoping that Lin Jin could go over to his rental unit and appear on camera to increase viewers or something.
After all, Xia Tian hadn’t found a proper job yet and his living expenses were entirely dependent on the live streams. With Lin Jin's presence, the stream would get more viewers and more gifts, which would increase next month’s salary.
Since Lin Jin had nothing to do that night, she agreed to run over to Xia Tian’s place and appear on stream.
Many of the viewers in Xia Tian's stream were those who were originally brought over by Lin Jin. At this time, they were all excited to see Lin Jin again. The bullet barrages of this one to two thousand viewer stream exploded, covering the screen with comments and all kinds of gifts. All the viewers were asking for Lin Jin to do a dance or something live on stream.
Lin Jin didn’t mind dancing. She was no longer the amateur dancer she used to be. After practicing during this period, although she still only knew three or five dances, she could now improvise and freestyle while listening to the music. It wasn’t very elegant, but at least she could get the rhythm right.
After two impromptu dances, Lin Jin was a bit out of breath. She sat on a chair next to Xia Tian and leaned her head toward the camera as she started promoting the video she had released last weekend.
"It's like this, don't you guys like watching me dance? I posted a dance video last week. Do you want to watch it together?" Lin Jin seriously asked the viewers.
Seeing the enthusiastic chat messages fly across the screen, Lin Jin immediately opened a webpage, found her video, and clicked play…
"I want to do it."
"Dance Pomp and Circumstance live" x10
"How much for a day?"
Seeing these strange comments floating by, Lin Jin's face darkened. Only after turning off the barrage messages did she feel much calmer.
While the video was playing for the viewers, Lin Jin turned her head and asked Xia Tian beside her.
"Do you plan to go to the welfare institute with me tomorrow?"
"The welfare institute?" Xia Tian was stunned for a moment. Adding in Lin Jin's previous call about it, this was the second time she had mentioned it. "I usually need to look for a job during the day, I mentioned it to you last time."
Of course Lin Jin remembered Xia Tian’s reason for refusing before, but she still tried to persuade him: "I went there today, that welfare institute is almost shutting down. I want to help them a bit. If you come with us for a few hours in the afternoon and stream it, it might even boost your popularity, right?"
"Almost shutting down? What's going on?"
"The whole welfare institute is in terrible condition. There are dozens of orphans inside, but most of them have disabilities, they either have issues with their hands, feet, or brain." Lin Jin tried to make it sound as miserable as possible to make Xia Tian feel pity for the orphanage. "And I've heard that the aunties in that welfare institute often abuse the children and treat them terribly. Of course, I didn't see any of that when I visited yesterday, but there was news about it two months ago."
"Listening to the children inside the welfare institute, they said that their director seems to be in poor health. I searched on Baidu and it said that the director was at least eighty years old. So I’m thinking that if there’s no problems with the staff at the welfare institute, I would like to donate some money or something." Lin Jin gave Xia Tian a firm pat on the shoulder. "This is such a charitable cause! Could you still be planning to refuse? And it would boost your popularity too!"
Xia Tian's expression changed several times, clearly in a heavenly conflict. After thinking for half a day, he finally hesitantly nodded.
"Will the welfare institute let me livestream with my phone?"
"Should be fine. I had a friend go in to film some video today and they didn't mind." Lin Jin shrugged. "We're going to expose the dark side of the welfare institute. When we get there tomorrow, I need to really talk to those children and see if we can find the director."
"Sounds quite grand." Xia Tian’s mouth twitched, completely clueless why Lin Jin wanted to get involved in this mess.
"Of course it is! A pretty girl like me is just as beautiful inside as she is outside, okay?" Lin Jin lifted her head, feeling as if she was doing something amazing. "For the children! I've decided! If that welfare institute isn't problematic, then I'll rally my friends to donate! At least let their meals improve a bit!"
Though Lin Jin felt her donation might not make much difference. Even if a few thousand yuan was given to the welfare institute, it could only allow those children to eat well for about a week, right? After all, there were dozens of children. There were too many people, thirty children each eating ten to twenty yuan’s worth a day and would need six hundred…
"Okay, then what time should we meet up tomorrow?"
"Two in the afternoon, at the bus stop across from your place. Including you, there'll be four of us."
With that, Lin Jin also managed to drag Xia Tian overboard, yep.
That Wu Min guy was also going again tomorrow. Maybe Xia Tian will be like Wu Min and feel reluctant to leave once he meets the children.
After watching the video with the viewers and tricking Xia Tian, the two started their usual two person live stream flow. About two hours later, around ten at night, Lin Jin began to feel sleepy.
"Then I’ll head back?"
"Sure. Do you want me to send you home? It's pretty late." Only then did Xia Tian realize they had actually live streamed until ten.
"No need, it's just a few steps away."