Chapter 8 Exploring the Heart under the Yellow Light
As soon as the woman inside heard Lin Long's voice, her face was overjoyed, and she quickly turned around to open the door, only to see the girl floating in from outside with a cold wind, and a wolf bรจi on her body, and hurriedly took her hand and said angrily: "On such a rainy day, the second master is also too deceitful, he should have stayed with you for a night, and let you come back in such a heavy rain?" Fell on the road, right? โ
The gentle man in blue on the side stepped forward with a smile, but as soon as he heard Aunt Green's words, he looked at the girl covered in mud and water, and hurriedly said, "Where is the injury?" I've brought medicine with me, just to show you? "When I stepped forward, I had to grab Lin Long's hand and check it.
Lin Long avoided his grasp with one side of his body slightly, and saw his stunned expression, so he took Aunt Green's hand and smiled at Doctor Cao: "It's no big deal, I'll just let Erniang take some medicine when I go back, Doctor Cao sit down, it's such a rainy day and trouble you to come to the door......"
Doctor Cao's hand stopped in mid-air awkwardly, and his face shuffled back into his hand, only then did he realize that he was abrupt, and his ordinary and warm face was covered with redness, "It's okay, but you have to be careful after all when it rains, Aunt Green, you quickly boil hot water for Miss Lin to wash, and I'll go back and grab a pair of anti-cold medicine for you." "Put the medicine box on your back and walk with your feet up.
When Lin Long heard this, he hurriedly said: "Doctor Cao, no need, I am just a trivial matter, why do I need to open a bill?" โ
"If a minor illness is not treated, it will be troublesome if it becomes a major illness." Doctor Cao said with a straight face, "You wait, I'll go back." After speaking, regardless of Lin Long's obstruction, he walked away, almost bumped into Mama Su who wanted to enter the house, and walked forward in the wind and rain after a few words of apology.
Aunt Green glanced at the back of Dr. Cao leaving, glanced at Lin Long, with a smile in her eyes, and told Mama Su to boil the water, and then urged Lin Long to change his clothes.
"I'll go see Brother Dong first." Lin Long raised his feet and went to the inner room.
The boy was about ten years old lying on the simple bed, his face was very pale, but his eyebrows were very good, his face was slightly similar to Lin Long, but he didn't have his sister's good complexion, when Lin Long's warm hand touched his face, he woke up, blinked, and heard the gentle voice of the eldest sister in his ears, "Noisy with you?" โ
Lin Dong shook his head slightly and struggled to sit up, "Sister, are you back?" Mo Yan saw her sister's muddy hair, and she guessed what was happening, and her eyes became more and more gloomy, "It's all because I'm not good, I've been sick, and I've dragged my sister down, otherwise I wouldn't have been ...... Ahem...... The second aunt made an excuse to drive us to live in this old ancestral house, and she was afraid that I would ...... "It is unlucky to die in the mansion."
The last half of the sentence was blocked by Lin Long's hand, and she saw a stern expression on her face: "Don't say such things in the future, my sister doesn't like to hear it, everyone knows what kind of person the second aunt is, and if we haven't been kicked out by her, we won't necessarily have a good time." Helping my brother to lie back on the bed, "You are now the only bloodline of your father, you have a sister and a second sister in your heart, a second mother and a grandmother, then get better quickly, don't think about death all day long, I still expect that one day you can get a fame and glory to let your sister live a good life, and don't let the people in Daddy's room be looked down upon, do you hear?" Besides, if you have three long and two short, my sister's life will be even more difficult. โ
Lin Dong's heart warmed as soon as he heard his sister's words, in this dilapidated home, his illness was the most expensive, not only that, but the eldest sister also let him eat the best food to condition his body, and looked at the books on the shelf opposite, piled up a few zhang high, at that time, the third uncle wanted to go, but the sister refused to give it, saying that he would also study in the future to gain fame, and would rather not have other valuable things, this book will also be brought to Suzhou.
The past and reality were intertwined, his eyes were full of tears, his skinny hand wrapped Lin Long's hand, and said, "Sister, I will definitely get better, I will definitely ......"
"Well, that's right." Lin Long pulled out his hand and stuffed his hand back into the quilt, "Don't get cold, this time the second uncle was more generous, gave us more than one or two silver, and I will add red ginseng to your medicine when I go back, after the beginning of spring, the disease will get better day by day, now sleep well." I touched the top of his head and cared for him, and when I saw my brother obediently closing his eyes, he turned around and walked out.
I didn't see Aunt Green after leaving the room, I thought I should be busy in the kitchen, thinking of my sister Lin Qi, I turned into the room on the other side, at this time there was only a faint light in the room, and there were a few basins with dripping water next to it, she looked up, it seemed that the water leakage in this room was getting stricter and stricter.
Frowning slightly, a girl of about thirteen years old was obviously asleep on the bed, still holding a half-beaten veil in her hand, her bangs covering her eyebrows, and only vaguely she could see that her slightly upturned lips were obviously dreaming.
Lin Long stepped forward to flatten her body, put the half-beaten yarn in her hand into the box on the side, grabbed the old quilt with a large patch and covered it for her, and heard the little girl talking in her sleep, "The rouge ...... of Fengshengde"
Her action was a pause, and then she smiled speechlessly, how old a person is Su Ri, who likes rouge gouache the most, and even dreams of it, shook his head, took the box full of the rope to the side of the table, and then tiptoed out of the house to the kitchen.
Aunt Green and Mama Su were pouring hot water into the small bathtub, and when they saw her, they took her hand and entered the bathroom, and told Mama Su to get a change of clothes, and then peeled off the wet dirty clothes on her body, and saw that she was in a hurry to take out the more than one or two pieces of silver, and exclaimed: "When did the second master become so generous?" โ
Lin Long sat in the narrow bathtub while telling the ins and outs, and saw Aunt Green's face blue and white when she heard it, so she smiled and said, "Erniang, don't you think I'm back well?" This is all over, if I don't ask for compensation, how can we get these extra copper coins? โ
Aunt Green poured a scoop of hot water on her head, "I'd rather not want these copper coins than you to take risks, what kind of family is that?" You even got into the carriage boldly, what if those individuals got excited when they saw it? If you have three long and two short, I don't know how to explain to your father when I get to the underworld......" Thinking of the dead man, my heart was full of misery, and the tears in my eyes couldn't stop falling.
When Lin Long heard this, he looked back at Aunt Green who was crying and red-eyed, and suddenly remembered the appearance of this woman when she entered the mansion that year, she was a famous Oiran, I don't know how many people spent a lot of money to see her, but she was infatuated and handed over to her father, and finally was willing to marry her father as a concubine in a gambling game.
At that time, she was only five years old, but her mother who had just given birth to her brother was just a cold bystander, she thought that her mother was unhappy, and she hated this woman who took away her father to death, and she always wanted to find an opportunity to rectify her, and she was happy to see her disgraced, for which she was scolded by her father, and even sent rattan, but she didn't care, just wanted to take a bad breath for her mother.
Later, when her father died, and her mother left their siblings behind and couldn't wait to remarry, she realized why her mother was often unhappy, because her heart was not in her father's body at all. The reason why she married her father back then was just that she was fighting with that person, and she didn't give birth to a son and a half daughter to her father for several years, and then she didn't know why she suddenly changed her mind and was willing to have sex with her father, so she had her, with the birth of her second sister Lin Qi and younger brother Lin Dong, but the frowning eyebrows were like snow on an iceberg that has not melted for thousands of years.
Her father's flattery couldn't make her smile, and in order for her to have some reaction, her father would bring back the glamorous Aunt Green, but her mother only glanced at it, and no matter what her father did, her mother would not respond. The corners of his mouth hooked disdainfully, and only after the matter passed that he realized why his mother would let go of her brows after receiving a few words from that person, and her face had a blush that belonged to a girl.
Thinking of this, the corners of her mouth were tightly pursed, her fists clenched underwater, and her eyes moved to the woman in front of her, who was wearing a gray narrow-sleeved shirt, covered with a blue flower on a white background, and wearing a plain skirt, where was there any bright face? However, at the age of twenty-seven or eighteen, she was forced to be polished into a woman in her thirties, and I was afraid that even the benefactor of the year would not recognize her when he saw her.
She stretched out her hand to hold Aunt Green's hand, and said seriously: "Erniang, why don't you remarry, you see that even that woman doesn't care about us, you ...... It's still young, and we're not your own children, you...... Find a good family to marry, and life will not be so hard...... "Since her mother remarried, she no longer calls her mother."
Aunt Green stopped crying when she heard this, took out her hand and scooped a spoonful of hot water on her head, snorted, and said faintly: "Sister Long, do you think Erniang is in the way?" โ
"No, Erniang, don't be too careful," Lin Long hurriedly explained, .......
"That's good, I don't like to hear this, Sister Long will mention it again in the future." Aunt Green said lightly, "I have identified your father in my life, even if everyone says that there is no true love for the trick, but I just want to be your father's woman." "Even the man never loved her until he died, but so what? She just loves him.
Lin Long's eyes were full of mist, "I'm just afraid that I've wronged Erniang." โ
Aunt Green laughed and wrung the water on her with a big scarf, wrapped it in a big scarf, and then rubbed it gently, thinking of Lin Long's behavior in Lin Gang's mansion, she changed the topic and said: "I'm afraid that your second aunt will hate you even more this time, and she won't even give some copper coins in the future." โ
Lin Long got up and put on the clothes brought by Mama Su tremblingly, and said with a sinking of his eyes: "I can't help but think about that situation at that time, if I don't force her like this, where will I get a tael of silver?" If she obediently took that copper coin, she would not even have a copper coin in the future? โ
Aunt Green sighed while tying Lin Long's belt, "I blame me for not even being able to keep the money left by your father back then, otherwise how could people deceive you so far?" โ
"Erniang, you are just an aunt, which is your turn to call the shots in the house?" Lin Long comforted her heart and said, "Besides, it was the woman who took the initiative to hand over the silver money and the title deed of the shop to the second uncle in order to get out earlier, and we couldn't even stop it, and we can only blame her for not leaving us a way back." As for the second uncle, he wouldn't want to make a big deal about it, otherwise he wouldn't be able to speak in the clan, what benefits could he get? โ
Aunt Green thinks about it, because of a big official like Lin Youde, Lin Gang is very prestigious in the clan, and he likes to find him when there is a dispute or land sale in the clan, and he can indeed make a lot of profits in the middle of the year.
Mama Su pushed the door in, "Girl, Dr. Cao turned back to bring medicine to the girl." โ
As soon as Lin Long heard that Dr. Cao had turned back, he was busy putting on his shoes and going out, but was stopped by Aunt Green, "What's the hurry?" Haven't combed your hair yet? Taking the wooden comb handed over by Mama Su, Mama Su went to greet Dr. Cao, looking at Lin Long's crimson complexion because she had just come out of the bath, and in a blink of an eye, the naughty girl had also reached the age when she should get married, so she pretended to ask casually: "Sister Long, what do you think of Dr. Cao?" โโโ
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