Chapter 11: Miss
"Miss?" She smiled, and looked at the photo on the table again, as if she was caught in the memories of the past, "That is the honorific title of my mother by the people in the town, there are so many unmarried girls in the town, but only Lu Shiming's only daughter is worthy of the word eldest lady, so that after she got married, everyone still called her that." Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info”
"Of course, I haven't seen her brilliance when she was a girl, but according to others, she is not only beautiful, but also heroic, proficient in female red, and especially good at horseback riding, her riding skills are taught by my grandfather, although my grandfather is a businessman, but he is not a person without ink, our Lu family has been an imperial merchant since the Qing Dynasty, and the family is well-off and knowledgeable, both civil and military, this alone, how can she compare?"
"She?"
She paused, then turned the subject back to the mother she was proud of.
"My mother in my memory was a person who was devoted to her husband, she was deferential and considerate to him, but she also had her own persistence and stubbornness, she never let herself cry to be seen by others, especially my father, even if she quarreled with him fiercely, I never saw her shed a single tear in front of him. I am the only one who has seen her cry, because she only cries silently when she is alone with me. ”
"Quarrel? Could it be that they have a bad relationship? ”
"Looks like you've been deceived by his sanctimonious appearance," she said, holding up the picture on the table, "and how unforgettable it seems to have been enshrined for decades with the picture of my ex-wife, but I heard him say to her, 'I wish you were dying in front of me,' and my mother was pregnant at the time." ”
She looked at Wu Xi with a stunned look on her face, and snorted coldly, "Don't you believe it?" But what is it to be cruel, he has done even more terrible things. ”
"Something even more terrible...... What does it mean? Wu Xi stared at her eyes tightly.
"Ruomei, you're finally willing to come back."
Liu Changsheng's slightly tired voice came from behind him, he was in a wheelchair, and was pushed into the house by his wife, followed by Ren Le's parents.
Hearing this, Liu Ruomei put the photo frame on the table with a snap, raised her eyebrows and looked in the direction of her father, "I have long advised you to put this photo away, putting it here and pretending to be useless will not help, but it is easy to let yourself be frightened, you see, maybe your illness is scared." But it's strange, as the saying goes, don't do bad things and don't be afraid of ghosts knocking on the door......"
"Sister, you're enough, Dad heard that you were back, so he rushed to see you regardless of his body, is this your attitude to talking to Dad? What's more, there are juniors here, aren't you doing this to make people see our jokes? Ren Le's mother was angry with her sister, and her face turned red and white for a while.
"Forget it," Liu Changsheng stopped her second daughter, "It's good to come back, Dad hasn't celebrated the New Year with you for a long time, and my body is not as good as a year, I'm afraid I don't have much time to ......."
"Don't pretend to be pitiful in front of me," Liu Ruomei picked up the bag on the table and walked towards the side house on the north side of the courtyard, and lowered her head in his direction as she passed by her father, "Do you know why I don't want to come back?" Because I hate to see your hypocritical face. ”
"Liu Ruomei, stop for me." Ren Le's mother chased after her sister angrily.
Liu Changsheng couldn't help but reddened his eyes when he looked at his daughter's departing back, and seeing this, the woman behind him put her hand in his palm, and the hands of the two were tightly clasped together.
After Yu Xiong's matter was dealt with, Wu Xi and Ren Le sat next to the pool, throwing stones into it without a match.
"What is the final conclusion of the police?" Wu Xi asked Ren Le.
"Although it has not yet been conclusively determined, the police suspect that he sneaked into the Lu family in the middle of the night to steal money, but I can't figure out why he would do such a thing after decades of friendship with the Lu family."
"Lele, don't think about it, the matter hasn't been decided yet," Wu Xi comforted her, "However, although it's your family matter, I still want to ask more, how did your grandfather and grandmother meet?" ”
My grandmother was a very good rider when she was young, and once she went riding a horse in the suburbs, but she was frightened and fell under the bridge, and even the servants who followed her got lost with her. Unfortunately, a group of Japanese soldiers happened to pass by on the bridge, and my grandmother hid under the bridge and did not dare to say anything, and only when they were far away did they dare to come out from under the bridge. However, one of the officers and soldiers was in a hurry to relieve himself, and he stayed behind, and happened to bump into his grandmother, who was covered in mud and was about to climb up from under the bridge. When the soldier saw that my grandmother was born with a water spirit, he had evil thoughts and moved his hands and feet against her. At that time, it was getting late, and it was a suburb there, so my grandmother said that the earth should not be spiritual, thinking that her innocence was going to be ruined here. But just when the Japanese soldier was about to succeed, he was smashed in the head from behind and killed at that time. This person is my grandfather, he fled from the south, when the war in the south was tight, many people fled to our side, my grandfather was separated from the family when he fled, so he came here alone, but he accidentally saved my grandmother.
Grandpa is a teacher, temperament elegant and gentle, but born a talent, grandma fell in love with this man who saved her at first sight, my grandfather saw her thoughts, so she was married to my grandfather. We all felt that my grandfather was selfish at that time, he was such a daughter, and he wanted to keep her by his side, although his grandfather was penniless, but he had no relatives and no reason, if he married his grandmother, he would be able to stay and join the Lu family, so that his daughter would not have to marry far away.
"So the two of them got married so naturally?"
"Is this still called natural? It's a legend, okay? Ren Le looked at Wu Xi with a surprised expression, "By the way, where did Xu Xing go, I haven't seen him since I came back." ”
"He has an acquaintance in town who went to stay with him last night." Wu Xi lied absentmindedly, but he was secretly anxious in his heart, Xu Xing had been gone for so long, and it was said that it would be impossible to deal with ordinary demons and monsters with his strength, but why had a night passed, and he hadn't come back yet.
Her thoughts were interrupted by Ren Le's mother's voice: "Lele, you send this bowl of noodles to your aunt, I don't want to see her now, in vain your grandfather is still thinking about whether she eats or not." Then she put down her rice bowl and went back to the main house.
"Xixi, you can send it over for me, I suddenly have a little stomach upset." After Ren Le said this sentence with bared teeth, he hurriedly ran away.
Wu Xi came to the north guest room with the bowl, and was just about to push the door in, but found that there was a person who had arrived one step ahead of her.