Chapter Twenty-Eight: Borrowing
After eating, the fluttering light rain outside turned into a heavy rain, the sky was already dark, Xiao Lang lived in a shack in Xiaoliuzhuang, not far from Qinghe Bay, more than a mile away, but it was enough to choke on a rainy night, not to mention a twelve-year-old child.
The old lady made a bed for him in the west, and said that she would not let him go home in the rain, "What are you going to go? You are not allowed to go, where is the rain going? You will live here today, and I will go to the village chief tomorrow and say, in the future, you will borrow and live in Grandma's place, when your mother was divorced and had no place to live, Grandma asked her to move with you, but she refused to die, she had to go back to her mother's house to live." ”
Xiao Lang's eyes were red, and he stood aside in a daze, feeling a little unreal, and he didn't react until Lin Qing pushed him into the west.
A new set of coverings, new and brand-new, warm not only the body but also the human heart.
Lying on the bed, the old lady patted the good grandson's back, and then remembered and asked, "What did the good grandson think, why did he think of bringing food to the child." ”
"It's okay, once I went out to play and fell, he passed by and helped me up, I remember him, I heard that he was not doing well, he was always hungry, I wanted to give him a bowl of rice so that he could have a full meal. Lin Qing casually made a reason, and asked the old lady again: "Milk, aren't you angry?"
"Don't be angry, it's good to repay that. The old lady first praised a sentence, and then talked about the borrowing, "Grandma let him borrow to live in our house in the future, and he also wanted to pull the child, a few years ago, your uncle had a fever that was terrible, and the milk went to the county I don't know, or Xiao Lang's mother carried your uncle to the township health center, this kindness, your uncle remembers, and the milk also remembers, now Xiao Lang's mother is gone, the child is in trouble, why do we have to help." ”
Lin Qing nestled in the old lady's arms with an "um", and soon fell asleep, and fell asleep after a while.
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At dawn, the rooster in the backyard was still crowing and crowing, and the old lady had no sleep, so she woke up early and lay on the bed waiting for dawn, but it seemed to be a rainy day, it was dawn, and it was still dark.
The old lady did not intend to lie down any longer, so she sat up gently and began to dress.
Lin Qing slept in a daze, squinted and rolled his body, and talked to the old lady half-asleep: "Milk, you sent me to the bed for the first time, I dreamed that it kicked its legs and died......"
The old lady glared, and when she saw that Lin Qing was asleep in a daze again, she got out of bed and slipped up Chu Yiti, who was sleeping in the basket under the bed, and looked at it carefully.
Strictly speaking, the first day of junior high school is not yet full moon, but Lin Qing secretly fed a lot of good things, the strong ones are bigger than the full moon kittens, and the body is very clean, there are no fleas or anything at all, the old lady thinks it is her own credit, and she is very satisfied: "I am not blind to my rice soup, look at this spiritual head, why can't I kick my legs to death!" After speaking, he stuffed Chu Yi into Lin Qing's quilt, and from beginning to end, Chu Yi obediently let the old lady move.
Xiao Lang, who was sleeping in Xili, heard the sound of the old lady opening the door, got up and dressed neatly, and wanted to go out to help the old lady do something. Yesterday an old lady said that he would let him live here in the future, in addition to being moved, he did not intend to refuse hypocritically, he needed a chance, a chance to completely get rid of the constraints of his uncles, he didn't want to be bleak in the second half of his life, he would prove that he was no worse than anyone else, the old lady's kindness, he remembered it for a lifetime.
It's still raining outside, it's much smaller than last night, and you can't get your feet down in such weather, so you can't go to work and you can only have a day off.
The old lady took the bucket and went to the backyard to carry water. The Lin family is the only one who digs a well in his own yard, in the early years, the old lady has always been to the east of the village to carry water, and then she was inconvenient, so she found someone to dig a deep well in the backyard, compared to the well in the village is not bad at all, when there was a famine in the first two years, the land was dry, and the well in the village was not enough to eat, all relying on the deep well in the old lady's yard to save the emergency, saving the lives of many people in the village.
"Grandma, I'll carry the water. Xiao Lang couldn't help but snatch the old lady's bucket and walked to the backyard in the rain. The well in the backyard of the Lin family is very famous, and Xiao Lang naturally knows about it.
"Oh, no, no, how can you let a child carry water?! Give grandma quickly, grandma still has the strength to carry water. The old lady followed behind uneasily, while constantly persuading.
Xiao Lang turned around and smiled at the old lady: "Grandma, I'm not very old, but I'm tall and have a lot of strength." ”
That's right, Xiao Lang is more than one meter and six meters tall, taller than the old lady, although his figure is very thin, his skeleton is slightly larger, and he looks like fifteen or sixteen when he looks at his back.
Xiao Lang's movements were very neat, and after a while, he got two buckets of water, picked them up with a flat pole and picked them up seemingly easily, and picked them back to the kitchen with steady steps.
The old lady looked staggering, and at the same time felt a little gloomy, in the end, it is good to have a strong laborer at home, she carries half a bucket and half a bucket of water on weekdays, and then she thinks of her own age, a person in her fifties, how long can she live?
"Grandma, the water is poured into the water tank, and if you are not satisfied, I will go and pick two more buckets. Xiao Lang carried the bucket and went to the backyard again, and the old lady didn't have time to speak.
When Xiao Lang came back with two buckets of water again, the old lady's eyes suddenly lit up when she looked at him.
When the old lady was young, after a lot of wind and rain, she had also seen all kinds of people, and she thought that she still had a little eyesight to know people, Xiao Lang, this child has an elegant face, clear and open eyes, and is not very old, but he has a plan and ideas in his heart, and he is not a dead brain who accepts his fate.
Thinking of this, the old lady had some ideas in her heart, but this matter was too big, and she had to discuss it with the old man, so that the old man could see people, and with the old man's vision, anyone could see a few points.
"Grandma, the water tank is full. Xiao Lang went out of the kitchen to talk to the old lady, but why did the old lady look at him strangely?
"Ahh The old lady came back to her senses, "It's good, when it's full, grandma will go to make breakfast, after eating, you go to the village chief's house with grandma, and grandma will feel comfortable when it's done early." ”
Xiao Lang nodded gratefully to the old lady, and followed the old lady into the kitchen to help light the fire.
Breakfast was a thick rice porridge, not mixed with bud rice or anything, pure rice, Xiao Lang straightened his eyes, "Grandma, why don't you mix some bud rice or something?"
The old lady shook her head: "Ah Qing can't swallow that thing." Since Lin Qing was one year old, he couldn't swallow the coarse bud rice porridge when he drank porridge, and he vomited all over the ground, and the old lady never mixed bud rice in the rice porridge again, and she was reluctant to let her good grandson suffer, isn't it rice?
Xiao Lang was stunned, and finally said dryly: "Grandma is really good to her granddaughter." "I can't find a second one in the whole country.