Chapter 129: Admiration

Besides the room for teaching Pinyin knowledge, there was another room where children were learning musical instruments.

A Xiahui Person was teaching the children how to play the recorder.

This is not a very expensive instrument; if cheap, one can purchase a recorder for about 500 Tana. It is unknown who made these children's recorders, but in any case, they can produce fairly decent tones.

It was unexpected that this great philanthropist, who has some reputation in Tana City, would actually provide music lessons for the children.

Passing by another room, one could actually see the well-known dancer Yezi teaching a dance course to the children.

These children were relatively older in age. It was unexpected that a dancer, whom nobles might not even be able to hire for hundreds of Silver Tana, would actually teach these children to dance for free.

By comparison, the methods of the Wisdom Church are truly too crude and simple.

They actually haven't done as well as an ordinary philanthropist...

Finally arriving at the innermost room, Andrew was currently looking at the business situation of the new Believers during this period.

Mengmeng and Mengmeng's cake shop has had the best business situation recently; large orders from nobles have made their shop a somewhat famous establishment.

Every day, people queue up in the shop to buy cakes and cookies, and furthermore, as long as one passes by that shop, no one would not want to stop and take a look.

Next is the restaurant opened by Half-Sugar Cherry; the private rooms of this restaurant are already booked until next month, and its popularity is no less than that of Mengmeng and Mengmeng's pastry shop.

With these two shops holding things up, Store Street is guaranteed to make a profit.

At least for the Orphanage, there is no need to worry about problems like insufficient Grain, and the teachers' salaries can also be paid.

The bookstore is currently in a state of losing money, but the grocery store is operating well; a while ago, it sold quite a few Spiritual Materials and obtained a large sum of money.

However, how to operate subsequently is a problem, after all, Spiritual Materials are not so easy to obtain.

"Ahem, come in." Hearing the knock on the door, Andrew closed the ledger, took a sip of Coffee with some drowsiness, and then saw the person who entered.

Judging by the attire, this decent gentleman should be a Believer of the Wisdom Church; after all, someone like him wearing gold-rimmed glasses could only be a Believer of Wisdom.

"Very happy to see you, I am the director here, Andrew White." Andrew extended his right hand and politely shook hands with the other party.

Santos said with a smile: "My name is Santos Price, a mathematics teacher at Lancaster University."

"It seems you came here hoping to adopt a child?" Andrew stated the other party's thoughts directly. He had encountered quite a few such people recently, and nobles came even more often, but not a single one could accept the conditions he proposed.

The main point is that these nobles only wanted to do some "good deeds," not to improve the lives of these children.

Andrew knew very clearly that when some orphans were adopted, they were just treated as serfs to be cultivated, especially children over ten years old; once adopted, they were thrown to the serfs, letting them be the same as serfs in the future, farming for the nobles.

Therefore, he arranged a great many tasks for those nobles, for example, doing volunteer work at the Orphanage for a month before adoption, and teaching at least five extracurricular activity classes for the children, donating five books...

In short, these requirements made the nobles unable to accept them, and they could only give up in the end.

"I certainly hope to adopt a few children. I see you have quite a lot of children here; the burden must be very heavy, right?" Santos knew the nature of these philanthropists; they only hoped these children could be sold for a good price.

Only this time, Santos was a bit unable to understand.

Andrew took a document directly from inside the desk, "These are our adoption conditions; you can take a look first before deciding whether to adopt."

"Adopting children over 10 years old, the male age should be over 50; adopting children under 10 years old, the age should be over 25?" Just from this one condition, Santos was already excluded from the adoption criteria.

He frowned and said: "Is this condition a bit too harsh?"

"You have to know, there are also many beautiful young girls among the commoners, and we must protect their rights and interests." Andrew said with a solemn gaze, "We are a true charitable welfare organization, not those organizations that trade in human beings to the nobles under the banner of charitable welfare. Moreover, you need to look at our subsequent conditions; if it is indeed a couple without children, they can adopt a child under 10 years old after completing half a year of volunteer work."

"But if it's like this, wouldn't I still need to get married?" Santos looked shocked.

"Doesn't adopting a child require married people to adopt? A child needs a father and a mother. We have many people here willing to be parents for the children. We don't look at how much money the adopter can give; we only hope to see the children have a healthy family to grow up in. The couple responsible for teaching the children to sing comes from the Edmond Theater; they originally had two children, but one child passed away during the witch incident, so they are currently doing volunteer work here."

It could be seen that this Andrew was truly doing charity.

Santos looked at the manual again; it detailed the adoption specifics.

It was entirely for the sake of finding a family where the child could grow up healthily.

The various rules and regulations inside were actually copied from modern adoption conditions. Although some conditions were indeed too harsh for modern times, placed in Tana City, they were absolutely for the children's good.

Originally suspicious of this orphanage, now Santos could only feel that this orphanage was much better than he had imagined.

If it weren't for the fact that he needed to go to work and still needed to teach at the Weekend School on weekends, he might have chosen to come here to help Mr. Andrew.

"When I have a chance in the future, I think I will come here to adopt a child. If you can accept more children, can I also send them to you?" Santos said with some admiration.

"Of course you can. We can currently receive fifty more children here. A while ago, a portion of the children were sent to the blacksmith to learn skills; I think they can all become qualified blacksmiths and have a world of their own in the future." Andrew said with a smile, "You are a child with a loving heart. Looking at you, you should be very learned. If you can donate some books to the children, I think the children will all thank you."

"Of course I can. Our school library happens to be clearing out some unused books recently; I can discuss with the principal about placing them here." A joyful expression appeared on Santos's face.

(End of chapter)