Chapter 99: Empathy

What was the original promise?

Kim Hyun-tae is really confused about this.

After all, he didn't know these 'little friends', especially Selena, a Latino girl who was cheering in front of him, and even he didn't have the slightest intersection with her.

But that unscrupulous alien elementary school student, I don't know what kind of way to make these children familiar with him and have the memory of 'living' with him, which makes Kim Hyun Tae have to face the 'reality'.

"Brother William said at the beginning that he would make a lot of money, and when he made money, he would come back and bring us a better life, help us pay for our tuition, buy good food, and good clothes......"

Selena, who was elated, gushed endlessly to the children around her who didn't know this, and told Kim Hyun Tae what she knew about this promise in the past.

This also made Kim Hyun-tae finally understand the inside story.

He looked around at the children around him and noticed that these children, big and small, all had some malnutrition on their faces.

When he found out about the situation, he knew it in his heart.

To be honest, he also had the experience of living in an orphanage in his previous life, so he can be said to know a lot about the living conditions of the children in the orphanage.

It is true that the mothers are very dedicated to the care of the children.

But it can't really take care of everything.

The monastery has limited manpower and funds, and basically relies on voluntary donations from the local community to maintain its expenses.

But most of the people living around this community are black families from Mexico, who earn the lowest wages in the United States and don't live well.

Therefore, the days here in the monastery can be imagined.

Most of the clothes worn by the children in front of me were donated by the locals, so many of them did not fit well or were even a little shabby, but these children did not care at all.

For children, it's nice to have clothes to wear, and who is picky about whether they are old clothes or not.

In his previous life, when Kim Hyun-tae was an orphan, he was basically very satisfied when he could be fed and clothed, and he would not have too many extravagant hopes at all.

Come to think of it, these children are similar to him at the beginning.

Because he thought of his background in his previous life, as well as his life and experience, Kim Hyun-tae looked at the children in front of him and felt very empathetic for a while.

There is sympathy, there is pity, there is distress...... And in an instant he made a decision, he thought he might really be able to help these children.

Although he can't help more children now, these children in front of him should be able to help with his current financial resources.

Thinking of this, Kim Hyun Tae looked at him with adoring and longing eyes after listening to Selena's talk about the 'past', waiting for himself to tell everyone that he was coming back to fulfill his promise, and then slowly spoke: "Yes, I will not only come back this time to fulfill my promise, but also to give you a new home." ”

The children were all stunned, and they didn't understand the meaning of Kim Hyun-tae's words for a while?

A new home?

Isn't this everyone's 'home'?

But what does Brother William mean by that?

Could he have been able to contact some families who would like to adopt a convent child?

His remarks caused random speculation among the children.

Some of them even think that a child like themselves, even if there is a family to adopt a child, will not want to come here to find it, right?

You know, they grew up in the notorious San Juan area.

The general environment here is notoriously bad, so it also leads to the reluctance of families who want to adopt to come here, for the simple reason that they are afraid that the adopted children will have some bad habits.

Therefore, the children of the Convent of San Juan, basically there are no adoptive families willing to adopt at all, and those families prefer to go to the better welfare homes to find their children, and the children in the convent are very aware of this, all of them who are intellectually able.

So what exactly does Brother William mean?

"I'll keep this a secret for now, and you'll find out in a while. However, when I came back this time, I did bring a sum of money to donate to the monastery to improve your life, and the bald uncle over there brought you a lot of books. ”

Kim Hyun-tae didn't tell the children about his plans, which caused the children to 'protest and disagree' about it, to which Kim Hyun-tae just grinned and coped with it.

Some of the younger children, when they heard that Dave had brought a lot of books, immediately cheered, and a group of people ran to Dave's side, who was talking to the middle-aged nun, and it was obvious that these children were more concerned about books.

However, Selena, who was older, stayed with a few boys and girls, and looked at Kim Hyun Tae with an inquiring expression.

Heo is this girl named Selena, and her memory should be the kind that Kim Hyun Tae is 'very familiar', so after a period of silence, it is she who breaks the dull atmosphere.

"William, what the hell are you doing?"

Selena was referring to the fact that Kim Hyun-tae said he wanted to keep it a secret.

The girl didn't know what Kim Hyun-tae was planning, so it didn't seem like a bad thing for him to act like that.

But in the end, curiosity prevailed, and the girl couldn't help but ask for an understanding.

Looking at the girl with an inquiring look on her face, who didn't let go of herself without making it clear, Kim Hyun Tae kept a smile on her face and looked at her.

At the beginning, the girl was still very brave to look at Kim Hyun Tae, but gradually the girl's courage slowly disappeared, and was replaced by a thick shyness, which made her start to avoid Kim Hyun Tae's gaze, which made the boys and girls left around laugh.

"Selena, you were no match for Brother William's before, and you are the same now, do you think your gaze is really that fierce!"

"Hehe, what do you know, Selena has other ideas in her heart, so she will be defeated by Brother William, after so many years, don't you know?"

Listening to those little guys talking about not looking for the edge, Kim Hyun Tae didn't have the heart to joke, he was worried that after a while, these bear children would say something even more indecent.

At the same time, Kim Hyun Tae seemed to hear something, as if the memory of this girl named Selena meant something to him.

Oh, my God!

Kim Hyun-tae groaned in his heart, he really couldn't imagine that the funny Namek star elementary school student would instill that kind of false memory information into such a little girl.

quickly looked at Selena, whose expression on her face was not very natural, as if she had been told something in her heart, Kim Hyun Tae was completely speechless.

It's a little embarrassing now.

But in the end, it was Kim Hyun Tae, who had the soul of an old man in his thirties, who coughed and attracted the attention of young men and women, and was ready to change the topic to alleviate the somewhat ambiguous atmosphere at the moment.

But before Kim Hyun-tae could speak, Selena here looked at Kim Hyun-tae with an extremely resentful tone, coupled with that kind of resentful eyes.

"Don't say that, please don't forget Sister Xiaoxiao. ”

When Selena mentioned the name 'Xiaoxiao', the boys and girls who were still teasing each other instantly changed their expressions.

Xiaoxiao?

Kim Hyun-tae's mind turned, and he knew who it was.

Come to think of it, this is the girl I haven't seen in this time and space.

Is her name Xiaoxiao?

It's a very good name, but it's a little red-faced.

Seeing that the atmosphere was even more dull, and even began to permeate with a faint melancholy and grievance, Kim Hyun-tae felt a little depressed.

"I want to buy a piece of land in Los Angeles and build a welfare home by myself, so that everyone can move there together, away from the environment here in San Juan, after all, the environment here is not good for everyone to grow?"

In order to break this atmosphere, Kim Hyun-tae decided to tell the children about his plans.

Sure enough, when Kim Hyun-tae said his plan, the attention of the boys and girls was distracted.

"Brother William, is what you said true? You want to build a big house for all of us to live in?"

"Brother William, are you so rich? We have so many people, but it costs a lot?"

"William, you have to do what you can, in fact, it's not bad for us to live here, don't be a tough guy. ”

Looking at the boys and girls who were actually very happy in their hearts, but they still had to think about themselves, Kim Hyun-tae's heart couldn't help but be surrounded by a warmth.

He knows too well that children living in this environment are much more precocious than their peers, and they are much more comprehensive in their considerations.

So, they're really planning for themselves, not just talking about it.

Selena also opened her mouth and said to him at this time: "William, we don't know how you are now, but it seems that you should be developed, but even if you have money, it is impossible to feed so many of us, right?"

You know, here in the monastery, there are more than fifty children. Just eating and drinking every month requires a lot of money, not to mention those of us who are still in school. ”

Kim Hyun-tae gently patted Selena on the shoulder, an action that made the girl blush.

"I can afford it! I promise, I can. And the grandmothers of the monastery are not young, and the donations they collect every month are decreasing, how long can they last in the current situation?"

Before coming to the convent, Kim Hyun-tae also did some homework and learned a little about the current situation of the San Juan Convent.

Therefore, he still knows a little about the current situation in the Convent of San Juan.

Obviously, Selena and the older children also knew the current state of the monastery, so when Kim Hyun-tae said this, she and the other children fell silent.

"Don't worry, I'm a very successful writer now, and I can get a good royalty share every month, so I can buy a piece of land, build a welfare home by myself, and let everyone move there, no problem at all. ”

The children have seen it in the media that William is now a fiction writer, but no one knows how much money William can make.

can look at William's big package, it seems to be very profitable.

"Really, aren't you a swollen face and a fat man? Sister Xiaoxiao said in the past that you boys like to do this kind of boasting about Haikou the most, as if only in this way can you show that you have manhood. ”

Selena was skeptical, apparently not believing in Kim Hyun-tae that much.

Belch!

As soon as the little girl spoke, Kim Hyun-tae froze.

Uncle, I have a net worth of tens of millions, will I deceive you bear children?

Kim Hyun-tae, who came back to his senses, looked at Selena with a disbelieving expression on her face, and complained in her heart.