Chapter 695

Meng Huo returned to Ninghai in the afternoon before the release of the magazine. Because he had to perform on the day of the release, Li Qin was afraid that he was too tired and asked him to go home for a night's rest.

This evening, Meng Huo received a call from Alice.

"Meng Huo, get up early tomorrow. I'll take you to a place for a walk."

She suddenly said on the phone, making Meng Huo very strange: "what time tomorrow morning, where to go? Don't you have to prepare for the show? "

He knew that Alice was preparing for his performance in Ninghai, but her tone didn't seem to be about the performance.

"Wait at the gate of Jiayuan community at 7:30. Don't worry where you go. Just listen to my arrangement."

Alice replied with a smile, but her attitude seemed to be a little tough for some reason. She didn't even give Meng Huo the chance to continue to ask. After she hung up, Meng Huo thought that she would be tough once in a blue moon. He was even more curious. Tomorrow is the selling day of "the spirit of chess". Where would she take herself?

With doubts, Meng Huo had a sleep. The next day, he arrived at the gate of the community at 7:20 ahead of time, but unexpectedly, Alice was earlier than him. By this time, the red Porsche had already stopped at the side of the road.

As Meng Huo walked by, the front passenger's door opened automatically.

"Good morning..." he sat up and saw Alice eating bread in the car. "Are you ready for me?"

"Yes, I didn't expect you to eat any more. Let's do some first."

Alice reached out and put a paper bag between them. Meng Huo looked at the paper bag. There were some delicious looking bread, desserts and milk in it. He took out a packet of bread and butter.

"This bread is good. Where did you get it?"

"A bakery outside my house."

They were eating and chatting. It was exactly 7:30 when they finished eating. Alice got out of the car and threw the garbage into the garbage can. Then she went back to the car and drove south.

"Is this the way out of Ninghai? Where are we going? " Meng Huo asked strangely.

"Suburban..."

Alice answered only two words.

Today is the day when the weekly youth is on sale, and it is also the day when the spirit of chess is launched. Along the way, they passed many bookstores, and they can see the ranks outside the bookstores - a great achievement for ordinary cartoonists, but they are not optimistic in their eyes.

"Your response to the launch of the new cartoon is very bleak..."

"It seems so." Meng Huo had no choice but to smile. Indeed, there were readers queuing outside the shops they passed by. But the number of these readers is small, it seems rustling, from the road, the scene is very bleak.

Of course, it's not really bleak. The fact that we can get rid of the store means that there are still many people in it. The number of these readers can already make others envious. However, for He Xi, it was a bleak scene that he had not seen for several years.

You know, it's summer now. The bookstore in Ninghai has been open since 6:30. An hour has passed, and it's also the peak period of going to work and school. At this time, the flow of readers should have reached the maximum. He Xixin's comic book is always launched, and it's always busy outside at this time.

But now it seems that some of the doors are deserted, and there are only two or three people outside some bookstores, which makes people feel that they may disappear at any time.

"It seems that we can't believe all of them in advance."

Alice said that previous surveys have shown that readers are still eager to buy the spirit of chess, but the situation is not as strong as they think.

"But it's hard to say..."

She quickly denied her own words, in the "spirit of chess" this cartoon, the reader's desire to buy can not be compared with other comics. Maybe most readers will buy it, but after all, it's a small number of comics. Even if readers want to buy it, they won't actively queue up early in the morning.

"You seem to have confidence in the spirit of chess?" Meng Huo was surprised to see Alice's self denial, and he didn't look worried because of the situation of the bookstore.

Alice said with a smile, "I saw the spirit of chess yesterday. Do you think I'm confident?"

"..." Meng Huo was stunned. He came back with a smile on his face: "I think there should be."

Instead of mentioning it, he was suddenly attracted by another thing. On the other side of the bridge, the traffic of office workers heading for the city was crowded, while on this side, the bridge heading for the suburbs was unobstructed.

It is the boundless ocean that takes Meng Huo's eyes. The sunshine on the sea seems to make people smell the warm sea."It's beautiful..." Alice opened the window and let the sea breeze blow in. Her long hair was blown up and there was a light golden light in the sun.

Meng took a breath. The air was moist. Alice was wearing the perfume in the sea. He laughed and said, "is this the sea view you brought me to see?"

This is indeed an excellent scene, but in Meng Huo's memory, his experience in the extreme East is obviously more beautiful. Sitting on the train running along the coast, all the way is the scenery created by cherry blossom, ocean and mountain forest - obviously more moving than the present scenery.

"Why, I didn't show you the scenery."

Alice said with a smile that she didn't bring Meng Huo here for him to enjoy the beautiful scenery. Although the scenery here is good, if we want to enjoy the beautiful scenery, Alice still has more good places to go: "after crossing this bridge, our destination will soon arrive."

She said, but... The bridge took them ten minutes. After driving over the bridge, the scenery in front of us changes. Although there are not so many tall buildings in the suburbs of Ninghai as in the city center, they are still prosperous and lively.

Alice pulled up in front of a compound in her Porsche.

"Orphanage..."

Meng Huo looked at the plaque above the compound in amazement, "the fifth orphanage in Ninghai city." it said that although it was different from the welfare home in the previous life, the word "orphanage" was very easy to understand.

"Are you going to adopt an orphan?"

Meng Huo looked at Alice in a daze.

"No, don't think about it. I just brought you here to have a look." Alice glared at him, then took out a pair of sunglasses and a hat: "dress me up, don't let them see you."

"Oh." Meng Huo dressed up with doubts and then got off with Alice.

Alice made a phone call, and soon an old woman came out and said with a smile, "Miss Alice, you haven't been here for a long time."

"Yes, granny." Alice said hello to the woman, then introduced Meng Huo and said, "this is a friend of mine. I'll show him around."

The woman observed Meng Huo for a while. Although she was surprised at his dress, she nodded: "welcome, come in!"

She turned and wanted to go back, but Alice stopped her again: "wait a minute, granny, we'll take the present... You can help me."

She looked at Meng Huo, and then opened the back door. Meng Huo had found a lot of things on the back seat long before, and he was not surprised. He helped Alice take out the gift. They followed the old woman to the orphanage. Before they went in, they heard the noise.

"Don't rob, don't rob, follow the order!"“ Be careful, don't tear it. If someone tears it, there will be no lunch at noon! "

There was the cry of adults and the noise of children. When Meng Huo followed Alice into the yard, he saw the children in the yard. Then he was stunned - "these children..."

The children in the orphanage think differently from him. It should be said that these children are different from ordinary children. Two of them broke their hands There was a girl with a deformed calf and several ugly Boys - not many normal kids.

"Orphanages everywhere are like this. Children with good looks and no problems in head and body are generally adopted, while the rest are disabled children who are not adopted. Many of them are abandoned directly by their parents." Alice said in Meng Huo's ear.

Meng Huo frowned slightly. Those parents were so cruel.

At this time, the children found two people's arrival, see Alice's moment, they rushed over: "Aunt Alice!"

Alice was immediately surrounded by the children. Meng Huo almost laughed at the word "aunt", but her eyes were attracted by the things these children were holding in their hands - "weekly youth, or today's, why are there comics here?"

He thought of the cry just now. Could it be that the adults in the orphanage were distributing comic magazines to these children just now? Why?

"This is a free cartoon. Our orphanage has received the fund support from cartoonist He Xi." Hearing Meng Huo's words, the old woman said with a smile, "children like comics very much, and their chances of receiving higher education are very low, so we hope to give them more choices and train them to draw."

"If they have a certain skill, they can survive even when they become cartoonists' assistants in the future..."

Meng Huo was stunned. He looked at the scene in front of him. Alice was distributing cakes. It seemed that the children around her had never seen such beautiful cakes before. They all looked around her. But Alice first gave the cake to the boy with weekly boy. He had only one hand. If he took the cake, he had to put the magazine down."..." Meng Huo looked at the boy and found that his throat moved. Then he turned around and ran away with weekly youth in his arms.

"This child is 12 years old. Although he has never been to school, he is very sensible. Since we invited some painters to teach painting, he has been studying seriously. Now he is very good at painting, and he can go out to help in two years."

The old woman said with a smile: "it is said that there is a shortage of people who can draw. Phoenix company is willing to help these children find jobs as painters. If only they could learn comics well."

Meng Huo turns to look at Alice. He thinks he knows why Alice brought him here（ Want to know more about big comics? Now open WeChat, click the + + on the top right, select add friends in the official account, search "Qidianzhongwenwang", pay attention to the official account, and never miss every update!