Chapter 62 - Orphanage Director (1/2)

The old director’s words made the others feel sympathetic.

But Su Min quickly recalled that this was a horror movie. Su Min didn’t know if the orphanage was going to close but the one thing that he was certain of was that they would die here.

He even suspected that the old director may be the one behind everything.

Yan Jing Cai comforted him: “It won’t. We will come back often in the future. Even if it closes, you can still continue with your life.”

The old director smiled at him.

Soon he said: “Found the key.”

The old director pulled out a key that was slightly rusty and proceeded to open the door, “This was the room Su Min and Jing Cai used to stay in.”

The room wasn’t big. There was a total of six beds. Each side of the wall had three beds against it representing the six children who stayed there.

Opposite the door was a window which was currently being blocked by curtains. The curtains fluttered as wind outside blew in.

There was a musty smell in the room. At first glance you could see that no one had lived here for a long time and it was only recently cleaned up.

The old director touched the wall to turn on the lights and said: “I just finished cleaning it up yesterday and left the window open to air the room out. If you find it cold later, you can close it.”

The bed wasn’t too big or too small. Su Min silently examined it and saw that an adult could sleep on it.

As for why the beds were so large, you would need to ask the movie director himself. It was probably because it was more convenient shooting this way.

Every bed was labelled with a name and number.

Su Min saw his name written on the bed on the left side of the window and the number above it was 3. Yan Jing Cai was diagonally opposite him and he had the number 5.

It was probably a counter for the beds.

Su Min naturally left his suitcase next to his bed. When he saw the yellowed sheets and blankets, he couldn’t help but sigh.

Should he be feeling grateful that he had the foresight to bring along new sheets from home?

Yan Jing Cai sat on the bed and asked: “Director…….Should I stay in another room with Yixiang?”

He couldn’t leave his girlfriend behind.

The old director looked at Xu Yixiang. His emotions were all obscured by his wrinkles. He only spoke up when the smile on Xu Yixiang’s face stiffened: “I have arranged a place for girls. Can you stay there?”

Xu Yixiang and Yan Jing Cai looked at each other.

After a long time, Xi Yixiang said: “Okay, thank you director. I’ll go and stay there. Will other girls be coming to stay?”

The old director smiled and nodded.

The orphanage accepted children regardless of their age and gender so there naturally were girls. In fact, sometimes there were more girls than boys.

Because it was more than ten years ago, many people abandoned female babies. Even today, many still continue to do that.

After they dropped off their belongings, they accompanied Xu Yixiang and the old director to the other room.

The room was diagonally opposite, and it had the exact same structure as their room. Xu Yixiang’s bed was the second bed with the number 2.

Xi Yixiang had already prepared for this before she came so she wasn’t dissatisfied with the conditions. She still smiled happily.

After sorting things out, the old director said: “You should take a rest. I’ll go heat the food up.”

Yan Jing Cai asked: “It was made by the director? I’ll help out.”

“No, no.” The old director waved his hand and explained: “Although there are few people here, there’s a social worker here called Xiao Chen. You will meet later when you come down to eat.”

Yan Jing Cai let out a sound of understanding.

The old director slowly left the room.

Yan Jing Cai chatted with Xu Yixiang while Su Min returned to his room.

Because it was a room for orphans, there was almost nothing there. On the walls were many strange drawings.

They were things that were drawn with the mind of a child.

Su Min’s side didn’t have that. The walls behind the beds next to him were all very colourful. There were drawings of various stick figures holding hands.

It easily could be mistaken to be a ghost drawing.

When looking at the stick figure drawings in dim lighting, it looked like those horror comic book drawings.

He also didn’t know who these children were and whether or not they would be amongst the people returning this time.

There was a total of seven children at the orphanage. Adding onto that the social worker that they haven’t met yet and the director, there was a total of nine people.

The number was quite high.

Su Min speculated that there probably won’t be many people returning. At most, it wouldn’t exceed half of the people currently staying at the orphanage.

Afterall, the more people there were, the more people they needed to film.

Not long later, knocking was heard.

This was then followed by Yan Jing Cai poking his head in and reminding: “Su Min, it’s time to go down and eat.”

Su Min nodded: “Okay.”

Although he had already eaten before, he would still go down. Perhaps he would be able to see something during dinner.

The three of them moved downstairs and returned to the dining room earlier.

Three more bowls of rice were placed there. They were probably prepared for them. They just happened to be on the opposite side. Su Min and Yan Jing Cai sat opposite each other while Xu Yixiang sat next to Yan Jing Cai.

The old director’s seat was at the end of the long table.

Because there were only a few people eating this time, they were all concentrated on the left side.

The old director walked over, “You came just in time. It’s time to eat. There’s only four dishes and one soup tonight. I hope you don’t mind.”

Yan Jing Cai said: “We won’t.”

Su Min’s eyes fell over onto the table. He saw that there was no soup there.

As he thought this, footsteps were heard coming from behind. A man in an apron walked in with a pot of soup in his hands.

What drew Su Min’s attention was his face.

His face was like those of the driver and front desk lady from “Death Show”. It was both pale and cold, and it looked very lifeless.

Su Min subconsciously frowned. Things were starting to become strange.

The old director introduced: “This is Xiao Chen.”