Chapter 44: The Deception (1)
The Lin family's funeral has been completed until the second day, although compared to the hectic scene on the first day, today's situation will be better. But as Wen Qing'an and Wen's two who helped Lin Shaoyu and his wife in charge of the funeral, there were a lot of trivial things waiting for them to do as soon as they opened their eyes, Wen Qing'an even stayed at Lin's house to keep vigil with him last night in order to let Lin Shaoyu, who had worked hard for several nights, take a break.
When it was still dawn, Wen got up to prepare the day's meal for the three siblings. After everything was done, it happened that the children got up and washed up, so Wen called Wen Anze and Wen Anhao to his side and instructed: "Xiao Ze, you can stay today, Xiao Hao made a mess of the kitchen yesterday, it's really not enough for my mother to clean up."
Wen Anhao heard Wen's complaining tone, stretched his neck and retorted unconvinced: "It's not An'an, it's always pestering me, that's why I made the kitchen like that."
Wen An'an heard that the second brother pushed the fault on himself, pouted and glanced at him with disdain, and then waved his arm and said clearly: "Brother, deceive, deceive"
Where did Wen Anhao think that his sister not only understood what they said, but also debunked him, so he ran to Wen An'an, covered her mouth with a slap and said, "Don't talk nonsense, or I won't give you food later."
These tricks to scare children, how could Wen An'an take it to heart, and grinned at Wen Anhao.
In recent months, Wen Anan is in the stage of teething, and she secretes a lot of saliva, so in normal times, in order not to get her own saliva everywhere, she will pay special attention to not letting the saliva flow down.
But when she grinned just now, she didn't care too much, so the saliva came out along the corners of her mouth, and Wen Anhao, who was instantly paste, was full of palms.
Wen Anhao didn't pay attention to it at first, but then he noticed that something was wrong with the cold palms of his hands, so he let go of Wen Anan and looked down at his hands. Wen Anhao shook his hands in disgust and said dissatisfied: "It's disgusting, it's disgusting, you sloppy ghost, you actually got all the saliva on my hands"
Wen Anze walked to his younger brother's side with a smile, and said unkindly: "Tut-tut, you don't need to wash your hands when you eat later, let's help directly."
Listening to his brother's ridicule, Wen Anhao pouted: "Since this is the case", before he finished speaking, he stretched out his hand and wiped it in the direction of Wen Anze.
However, where was it so easy for Wen Anze to let him succeed, and when Wen Anhao spoke, he jumped backwards. The two of them chased and fled like this, which filled the whole room with laughter, and even dispersed the somewhat heavy atmosphere in the house these days.
Wen Shi watched his sons' fighting, and did not deliberately stop it, but walked to Wen An'an's side, took out a handkerchief to wipe the saliva from the corner of her mouth for her, doted on her little nose and said: "Thanks to our An'an, look how happy my brothers are."
Wen Anhao heard his mother say this next to him, so he ran over and wrinkled his nose and grimaced at Wen An'an, and sneered: "Little sloppy ghost"
Wen smiled and picked up Wen An'an's hand, patted Wen Anhao's head with her hand and said, "Little naughty ghost", and then the mothers all laughed again.
After playing around for a while, Wen Shi saw that the time was almost up, and it would be a little late if he didn't move, so he didn't dare to delay any longer, and put on his coat and was about to go out.
But after a few steps, Wen returned to Wen Anze's side, squatted down and looked directly into his eyes and said: "Anze, my mother's eyelids have been jumping very hard in the past two days, and I feel panicked in my heart, as if something is going to happen."
Speaking of this, Wen felt that maybe the topic he said was too serious, for fear of scaring Wen Anze, so he smiled lightly and said: "But just like your father said, this may be caused by my mother's lack of rest recently, after all, there have been too many things in the past two days, but let's be careful." So when your father and mother are not at home for the past two days, you must take care of your younger brothers and sisters, don't have any problems, if there is any problem, go to Uncle Lin's house to find your father and mother."
Wen Anze listened to his mother's advice, and although he nodded seriously, he still didn't take her words to heart. Wen Anze felt that even if there were only a few children in the family, but after all, they were still in the village, how could something happen. Wen's worries were just scaring himself.
Seeing Wen Anze nodding obediently, Wen was indeed a lot more relieved, and after a few more words, he went out and rushed in the direction of the Lin family.
After Wen left, Wen Anze and Wen Anhao did not act like ordinary children, taking advantage of their parents' absence. Instead, they cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks that they didn't have time to clean up after breakfast, and then played with Wen Anan for a while, before taking out a brush and rice paper from the study, and practicing calligraphy while taking care of their real sister.
When it was close to noon, the two teamed up to heat up the gruel on the pot, Wen Anhao hugged Wen An'an, and Wen Anze fed the rice porridge to his sister spoonful, and the two brothers did not eat until Wen An'an was full.
After lunch, the three brothers and sisters ate in the courtyard for a while, and the two brothers took Wen Anan to take a nap for an hour. After getting up, Wen Anze and the two brothers continued to read and write, while Wen Anan continued to sit on the bed and play with some gadgets in the Nine Links.
Probably before the time, Wen Anze and Wen Anhao were lying on the table and concentrating on practicing calligraphy, but at this time, someone knocked on the door of the Wen family.
The two brothers glanced at each other suspiciously, Wen Anhao put down his pen and scratched his head and said, "At this hour, everyone in the village should be at Uncle Lin's house, how can anyone come to our house?" ”
Wen Anhao obviously didn't understand, frowned and thought for a while but didn't come to any conclusions.
Listening to the intermittent knock on the door, Wen Anze gestured to the outside of the courtyard, and said to his younger brother: "Let's go, let's go ahead and see who goes."
After the two got off the stool, they went straight to the courtyard gate. When they came to the door, Brother Lian didn't open the door first, but stood behind the door and looked out through the crack in the door, and when they saw that the neighbor Tang family's sister was standing outside the door, they were both relieved.
Wen Anze took down the latch, opened the door and asked at the visitor: "Sister Tang, is there anything you have to do at this hour?" ”
Tang Ran stretched out his head and glanced at the house a few times, and then looked at Wen Anze and Wen Anhao with a strange expression: "Hey, didn't Sister-in-law Wen come back?" ”
This sentence confused the two brothers, and after the two shook their heads suspiciously and said no, Wen Anze blinked and said, "No, my father and my mother are at Uncle Lin's house now, how can they come back?"
Tang Ran heard Wen Anze's explanation, frowned and said strangely: "I just came from Village Chief Lin's house, there seems to be something wrong with the Lin family's account, I don't know how there is some silver missing, but I can't find it for a while, so Sister-in-law Wen seems to want to go home and get some silver first, but why haven't you arrived home for so long?" ”
Wen Anze and Wen Anhao heard Tang Ran say this, but they understood a little, because of the Lin family's funeral in the past two days, Wen Qing'an and the Wen family often lent the Lin family the money from the family to deal with the emergency, and sometimes they couldn't get away from it when there were too many things, and they would ask people to give them words and ask them to take the silver.
So now Wen Anze and the others heard Tang Ran say this, and they all guessed that maybe Wen couldn't pull away for a while and didn't come back.
Tang Ran saw that Wen Anze and Wen Anhao didn't look as anxious as they did just now after listening to her words, and said in a somewhat stiff tone: "Do you want you to give me the silver, and I'll help you run and give the money to your mother?" ”
Wen Anhao listened to Tang Ran's words, and just wanted to agree, but Wen Anze pulled his sleeve in the dark, and then he forcibly held back the words that he almost blurted out.
Tang Ran saw that the two brothers were looking left and right and did not speak, and his brows were almost invisibly furrowed, but he immediately returned to his usual gentle smile: "Why, you still can't believe me?" Can I still give away your family's money? If you don't believe me, one of you will take the money and send it to see if what I say is right. ”
This sentence was a shame on the faces of the two of them, and Wen Anze immediately waved his hand and explained: "It's not like this, it's just that my mother told me in the morning to let me take good care of my younger brothers and sisters, so if I go to send money, who will take care of them."
Tang Ran saw their blushing faces, but he laughed a little, and after laughing, he wilted the corners of his mouth with a handkerchief before saying, "Okay, since you can't trust me, it's better to be like this."
Seeing that Tang Ran said this but suddenly stopped, the two brothers raised their heads and looked at her with wide eyes, and their curiosity was clear at a glance. Tang Ran touched the heads of the two of them dotingly and said, "It's better to send one of the two of you to send money to your father and mother, and I will take care of the family for him, it's all right."
Wen Anze heard Tang Ran say this, and looked at her with some embarrassment: "But Sister Tang, you have been out for a while, if you help us take care of the house again, if my aunt is at home..., what can I do if I look for you at home." ”
Wen Anhao, who was next to him, listened to the eldest brother's words, nodded in agreement and said, "That's it, or you will go alone, brother." I'm watching An An at home by myself, and it's not like I haven't seen it anyway, so it's not in the way."
Tang Ran obviously didn't expect Wen Anze and Wen Anhao to think about her, so she stared at the two of them in a daze, until the two brothers who were watching shouted uncomfortably, and Tang Ran came back to his senses.
She touched her lips with a handkerchief to hide her embarrassment just now, and then said softly: "It's okay, I still have this idea time, you can send it with confidence."
Hearing Tang Ran's words, Wen Anze and Wen Anhao glanced at each other a few times, and then stood in front of the door and muttered and discussed.