Chapter 4: The Dusty Years

This is the fourth day that Xu Lanru has come back, and in the past few days, in addition to going to Zuo Chongxiang's hometown that day to get some change of things for her husband, the main thing is to go back to see if it is raining so heavily, and to see the extent of rain leakage in that adobe house, because that house contains a coffin of Xu Qingming. In the countryside of the countryside, it is generally a burial, Xu Qingming has been in poor health all these years, and last year I wanted to do it for Xu Lanru together, but there was no money, so it was not done, and the two sections of wood saved were wrapped in plastic sheeting by him and placed next to his coffin.

There are two places where the rain is leaking, she found two plastic basins, and suddenly the sound of rain hitting the plastic basins sounded, the driver and the secretary followed behind Xu Lanru, looking at this poor home, thinking about our vice president who has lived here for 36 years, there is a sense of sadness and sadness in my heart.

At night in the hospital, the slightest drizzle was blowing in the wind. The street lamps in the corridor of the courtyard are faint, giving people a sense of fear.

Xu Lanru didn't let the driver and secretary take her to the ward, she told them to go to the hotel early to rest, and asked them to return to Shenzhen tomorrow.

"Qingming, are you sleeping?" asked Xu Lanru.

"Well, Lan Lan, am I going back to the light? As soon as I close my eyes, I think of everything you did when you were a child. "Xu Qingming has been much better in the past two days, and when he looks at Lan Ru, he is also in a much happier mood.

Xu Lanru didn't want to pick him up, because she wanted him to rest early. She sat next to him, holding his hand, and found it a little cold, so she helped him put it in the quilt. He still took it out and put his hand on hers, for fear that she would leave.

Soon, he fell into a state of sleep, not sleep, and his mouth was musbling. Sometimes the sudden screams startled Xu Lanru.

Thirty-six years ago, on that winter evening, the sky was covered with snowflakes, and on the mountain road, the snow was not deep, and the feet made a clicking sound when they stepped up. Yesterday, my uncle came and said that my son was going to marry his daughter-in-law, and asked him to return the 100 yuan he lent him three years ago.

When he came back, it was almost dark, and when he passed by the Mass Grave Mountain, he was a little scared in his heart, this place is called the Mass Grave Mountain, and because of the ten miles and three townships, all the people who died before they were adults were buried here. Suddenly, he was startled, he seemed to hear a cat barking, stopped, listened again, and found that it was like a baby's cry, and he drank some wine at his uncle's house for dinner that day, and he looked for the cry step by step by the gall of the wine, and found that a baby was crying with a bamboo mat. The hoarse sound is getting quieter. He opened it and saw a child wrapped in a few pieces of cloth, and he took off his clothes and wrapped her again and brought her home.

The mother was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut. He is forty years old, and his home is surrounded by walls. When my mother was thirty years old, my father died, leaving them orphaned and widowed. How can such a family marry a daughter-in-law?

The child who picked it up was really cheap, the mother boiled the water, put a handful of salt, and when it was just a little hot, the mother put Lanru into the basin, making her cry and scream, her throat was hoarse, he was a little distressed, snatched it from his mother's hand, put his face on her face, and stopped crying all of a sudden.

Early the next morning, he rushed to his uncle's house and told his uncle that when he went back yesterday, he picked up a child in the Mass Grave Mountain, and now he wanted to return his uncle's money yesterday, and his uncle was also a very enlightened person, saying that he had used twenty, and now there were only so many, and if he wanted to, he would take it.

He took it back, bought two packs of milk powder in the township supply and marketing cooperative, eight yuan a pack, ate sweet potatoes that morning, his mother said that he had not taken a name for so long, and our surname was Xu Nan Feed, until later when he read, the teacher felt that the name was not good, so he found a homophone. Called Xu Lanru.

Xu Qingming will never forget these in his life, he suddenly came to his senses and found that Xu Lanru was holding his hand tightly and putting his hand on her delicate face. and slept peacefully.

At that time, Xu Lanru's arrival made the family even worse, in order to supplement her nutrition, the family raised two eggs laid by the chicken mother-in-law for her to eat, I remember when I was three years old, a chicken fell into the toilet of the third uncle next door and drowned, he said that the door of the toilet was not closed, and he went to someone's house with a knife, and he wanted to fight with them, and then forced people to pay a hen to him, according to his idea, so as not to end Lanru's nutrition.

Seeing that her husband is now asleep, Xu Lanru gently put the hand that had been held warm for him into the quilt, she took out her mobile phone, and prepared to send a message to her father, telling him that she had received one million yuan, and her heart was also extremely moved. She looked at the time, her father flew back to China today, where it was, she didn't know, listening to her father, her mother died when she was born, and now there is no one around to take care of her, and she feels extremely guilty.

"Dad, I received the money, I heard that you have returned to China, where are you now?" Xu Lanru couldn't help but send a message to her father. She wasn't used to speaking to her father's face. Anyway, her sudden appearance of her father has always been unacceptable to her heart.

"I'm in Shanghai. Shortly after getting off the plane, you can tell me if the money is less. Take care of yourself in your hometown, and after a busy few days, I'll come to see you. ”

Qin Tianhe didn't all want to see his daughter, but wanted to see a man who was forty years older than his daughter, so that his daughter couldn't leave him for a moment.

And with such a huge amount of wealth, sometimes there is not even a person to say a word of confidant!

Qin Tianhe was on the way back to the hotel from the airport, with his eyes closed, leaning on the seat in the back. I sighed in my heart and thought to myself, when you are in the toilet, if you are given a piece of paper and money, what will you choose? Sometimes money is also a useless piece of paper.

County Magistrate Ouyang stood in the corridor, through the glass window of the ward, quietly watching Xu Lanru holding Xu Qingming's skinny hand and clinging to his face, he was stunned, what maintained the emotion between them, what made her love him so truly? His heart hurt a little. It wasn't until the nurse came to check the ward and quietly told Xu Lanru that Xu Lanru saw him standing outside the window, and she didn't know what he was doing at this time. But she still politely let him into the ward, and said very gratefully: "Thank you, County Magistrate Ouyang, the 100,000 yuan of serious illness relief funds solved by the county are not needed, and the money my father gave me is enough to maintain my husband's current expenses, and the condolences brought by the leaders to visit my husband the day before yesterday totaled 53,000 yuan, and yesterday I entrusted the secretary to donate all of them to the Shancheng County Civil Affairs Bureau." Used to help children who have been separated. ”

Ouyang Feng's eyes were hazy with tears. Looking at the gentle, beautiful, decent, and generous woman in front of him, a strong love for Xu Lanru unconsciously rose in his heart. He didn't know what to say, and quietly turned around and left the ward. It also gave birth to an inexplicable strange feeling in Xu Lanru's heart.

She immediately walked out of the door of the ward and watched Ouyang Feng leave silently until she disappeared at the end of the corridor......