Chapter 14: Budo's Life Story
When Mrs. Wu returned home, it was close to the beginning of winter, and the pomegranate tree next to the stone bench at the entrance of the courtyard had been baptized by the autumn frost, and the leaves had already fallen. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Before the trees had time to pick a few pomegranates, they were all ripe and cracked, revealing red agate-like pomegranate seeds, like a group of naughty dolls laughing at themselves. This bright red, alone in the gloom, although it seems a little abrupt, brings some comfort to Mrs. Wu, who is immersed in sadness.
Mrs. Wu picked a few pomegranate seeds and put them in her mouth and tasted them slowly, a little sour, a little bitter, and a trace of sweetness hanging on the tip of her tongue that could not be driven away. If only I could have a doll of my own, I would make her grin every day.
Mrs. Wu walked into the house with a sigh, Wu was lazy, she didn't clean up anything, and the tables and chairs in the room were covered with a layer of fine ash. Mrs. Wu rolled up her sleeves and got busy after making water, she liked to clean and tidy up the bed and wardrobe that Wu Da messed up.
Their house is still an old-fashioned stone house, with small windows and low ceilings, and small insects often fall off the roof. The ground is also potholed and uneven, especially in the summer rainy days, the house does not shine into the sun, the ground is particularly damp, and there will be a lot of mildew on the four corners of the tables and stools. If the dust is covered and the soil sticks, the house is sticky and slippery, and you can't even walk well.
Therefore, Mrs. Wu will clean very carefully every time, and with the fabric decoration sewn by hand with various colored linen fabrics and various flower branches inserted in the porcelain vase, although the home is simple, it looks very warm and tidy.
also blames himself for not doing anything for this family over the years, so he ran around chasing children. Why is there nothing wrong with both of them, but they can't get pregnant? Obviously, the doctor said that she and Wuhan University were normal in all examinations, but why couldn't they get pregnant!
Dad's greatest wish before his death was to look forward to Mrs. Wu and her brother each having a child. Thinking of Father Wang, Mrs. Wu unconsciously shed tears, his old man had worked hard all his life, and he left without knowing it. There is no news from the driver who caused the accident so far, she must find that person and ask him in person, how can she be so cruel to an old man who is over half a hundred years old? Aren't you afraid of retribution? But the police have no clue so far!
Mrs. Wu finished scrubbing and cleaning, and made lunch, but she never saw Wu Da come back. I remembered that I secretly came back to surprise him and didn't tell him, so I took out my mobile phone and called him, he loves to play cards, maybe he went to a nest to touch the cards. The phone rang for a long time before Wu Da answered: "Hey." ”
"What's the matter, it's been so long to answer the phone, where are you?"
"You're at home, when are you coming back?"
"At home? Why didn't I see you? ”
"Where are you? Are you home? Didn't you say on the phone yesterday that you won't be back until the day after tomorrow!? Wu Da's voice on the other side of the phone was a little weird, he couldn't take it anymore, and there was no joy in his voice, so it seemed to be frightened.
"Well, Mom asked me to come back, where are you? I didn't see you! "Didn't you hear yourself coming back in the East House?
"Oh, I'm here, I'm at my sister-in-law's house. I'll go back in a while, and you'll wait for me. After Wu Da finished speaking, he hung up the phone in a hurry.
Mrs. Wu walked to the fence of her house, cocked her feet, and looked carefully into the courtyard of her sister-in-law. Isn't it, the gray denim jacket of Wuda is hanging on the clothesline in the yard of Jifu's sister-in-law's house. That coat was bought by Wu Dalin before she went out to work, she went to the clothing store in the town to buy, this kind of clothes is dirty, wear-resistant and windproof, and it is most suitable for going out to carry work.
This Wuda doesn't know what to do in a widow's house to avoid suspicion? It's a pity that I can only see half of the yard clearly in my yard, and I can't see the side of the main house clearly. After a while, I saw Wu Da tugging on the coat on the clothesline and walking towards the porch while wearing it, and Sister-in-law Fu followed behind. Mrs. Wu walked out of the courtyard and walked straight towards Sister-in-law Fu's house at the bottom of the slope, and met with Wu Da and the two on the way. Wu Da trotted all the way, his face was flushed, and there were fine beads of sweat hanging on his neck.
"What are you doing? Carried her alive? It's a cold day, and I'm sweating like this. Mrs. Wu asked with concern while wiping the sweat on Wu Da's forehead and neck.
"Oh, oh, yes, it's alive, this big brother is gone, she can't do the heavy work and ask me to help."
"What, what's the heavy work?" Mrs. Wu's face was full of doubts, Wu Da had never gone to Sister-in-law Fu's house before, and she disliked Sister-in-law Fu's bad reputation, and was afraid that people in the village would gossip.
"Oh, there's no heavy work, just a few bags of wheat. She said that she was afraid of attracting insects, so she asked me to carry her to the main house. ”
"You're not afraid of gossip? What are you doing when she comes out? ”
"I knew you were peeking at our house, what's wrong, don't worry about your husband."
"It's not that I can't rest assured, I'm just curious. I'm a hundred reassuring to you, but I'm afraid that the people in the village will embarrass you again. ”
"She left me to eat at her house."
"Then why don't you eat at her house? Working for nothing and not eating people's food? ”
"Isn't this still thinking about your daughter-in-law, by the way, didn't you say that you would stay for a month, why did you come back now, and you didn't let me pick you up."
"Our mother doesn't worry about you, let me come back early to serve you!"
"Waiting, how waiting? Well? Wu Da smiled and slapped Mrs. Wu's buttocks, put a hand on Mrs. Wu's shoulder, and carried her into the courtyard gate. After entering the courtyard, Wu Da glanced at the low and broken wall, and muttered, "This wall should be repaired and heightened......
"By the way, why did you come back, by car? Our brother sent you back? Where is he? Wu Da picked up the chopsticks and ate a few bites of food before remembering to ask.
"No, I don't want my brother to send it," in fact, her father had an accident, and she was a little resentful of her brother. "I wanted to take a ride back, but it happened that Wudo was working in the town and went back, and he brought me back." Mrs. Wu is a little grateful to Wu Duo now. That day, she was only anxious and sad about Father Wang's affairs, and she didn't think about how Wu Duo could appear at her door early in the morning. When I asked today, I found out that Wu Duo was afraid that something would happen to Wang's mother and her, and he had been waiting outside the gate of her house and didn't go home all night. It was so foggy that day, his coat was wet, it was really hard for him.
"Oh, Buta!" Wu Da thoughtfully stopped talking, the three of them have been getting along for all these years, Wu Duo knows exactly what Mrs. Wu thinks, but Wu Duo has no father and mother since he was a child, lonely and has no family, he pities him and takes care of him and treats him as a younger brother. The most important thing is that he is confident that Mrs. Wu will not look down on Wu Duo for anything. What is he Wuduo, a dirty wild child who has been asking for food since he was a child, can compare with himself? He was the first person in the village to go to high school!
"Okay, if I have any heavy work to go out in the future, just ask him to help, and he will be idle when he is idle!" Although Wu Duo sometimes can't grasp the proportions of what he does and speaks, he can still trust his character, and he must not do anything out of bounds.
"People have changed their minds now, and now, they are moving bricks for people on the construction site in the town. The guy is very good, but it's a pity that he doesn't know how to work hard, if he had known to work hard to earn some money, maybe he would have married a daughter-in-law now. Mrs. Wu couldn't understand why Wu Duo was suddenly willing to work to earn money. He used to eat and drink in the village, helping the owner carry a grain and build a wall for the west family, and when he finished his work, he would stay at someone's house to eat, and when he met a good-natured person, he would give him a few bags of grain or old clothes that his family couldn't wear.
"He, hmph, the mud can't support the wall, the roots can't. Look at his big house, do you know where it came from? Wu Da pretended to be mysteriously leaning into Mrs. Wu's ear and said.
"How? I also wondered, his family should have been quite good before, right? You see, that big house is better than ours. "It's also a shame that his parents left him that house, or a child wouldn't even have a shelter from the wind and rain. The house of the Wujia family is in the center of the village, which is a small courtyard house composed of five main houses made of stone and east and west wings, although it has been in disrepair for a long time and is somewhat dilapidated, but you can still see the scenery of the past. There are really not many houses built in this mountain to build a courtyard house, just like the Wu family, a five-room main house was considered a good house at that time.
"Do you know how his parents died?"
"Don't say it, I really haven't heard anyone mention it, and I haven't thought about it, since I knew him, he didn't have a father or a mother, I thought he didn't have parents in the first place." Mrs. Wu was asked by Wu Da only to know that she really knew too little about Wu Duo before.
"Her mother used to work as a nanny for other families in a big provincial city, and let the head of the family sleep on her stomach and didn't want it, so she came back to her hometown to find Wuduo's father. said that they gave a large sum of money before sending it back, and when they came back, they cleaned up such a yard and found such a door-to-door son-in-law as his father. The old people joked that their mothers exchanged their big bellies for a big yard, and it was worth it! Later, probably his father was angry, drinking and beating his wife all day long, her mother couldn't stand it and ran away, his father was drunk and climbed on the roof to scold his mother, fell down and died! ”
"What, what's the matter? No wonder the people in the village call him a wild child. I thought it meant that he didn't have a father or a mother, and that meant it. ”
"Didn't you look at his house, and no one paid for it? Haunted house! I don't think even her mother knows whose seed he is, what is it if he is not a wild child? ”
"Then he's pretty pathetic...... What the, didn't you come back to see her? "Mrs. Wu is really a little distressed by Wu Duo now.
"That kind of woman can come back after she runs away? I've been happy with other men for a long time, and I still remember having a son!? Some people also said that his mother went to find his old friend again. After Wu Duo finished speaking, he stared at Mrs. Wu seriously, and said solemnly: "Let me tell you, this kind of indecent woman has no good end!" When I go out in the future, you'll have to take care of yourself at home, tighten your belt, you know! ”
Mrs. Wu listened attentively, she was immersed in Wu Duo's life story before she could react, and her face was dazed. When she came back to her senses and knew what Wuda said, she angrily threw down the chopsticks in her hand and walked to the bedroom. Stinky Wuda, he followed him innocently, he never had two hearts for him, he dared to humiliate her like this.
Wu Da saw that she was angry and followed in, sat beside her and comforted: "I'm just in a hurry, I'm just talking about it, I'm joking with you to tease you, why are you angry!" Speaking of which, daughter-in-law, you have been to our mother for so long, we haven't had that for a long time......" As soon as he finished speaking, he pushed Mrs. Wu down on the bed, pulled her trouser belt, and found his destination with one hand.