Chapter 7: Breakfast
A bowl?
Lu Yunjia looked up at the young man, and was surprised: Where is a bowl enough? Her father and brother had breakfast, at least two bowls of rice porridge a day, and a lot of meat buns and side dishes. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 Info thought about it for a moment, and she said, "Scoop it out again." ”
Hearing this, Yi Shui obediently scooped out a spoonful of water.
"Well, that's pretty much it." Lu Yunjia finished reading it, squatted down to watch the fire, and added some firewood under the stove.
Yi Shui glanced down at her and found that the cotton pants on her lower body were a little long, covering her ankles and dragging them to her heels. His thin lips pursed slightly, and without saying a word, he walked out with a wooden basin filled with hot water.
It seems that I want to talk to the master, and I will go to the county town another day to buy two sets of girls' cotton clothes.
Lu Yunjia found a low stool in the corner of the kitchen, she was too short to step on the bench, and she couldn't see the situation in the pot at all.
She leaned over the small stool, and when she saw that the water was about to boil, she went to collect rice again.
Yi Shui returned to the East House and woke up Dr. Qiu.
Dr. Qiu stayed up for most of the night, and it was less than an hour before he lay down, and then he sat upright and pressed his eyebrows, and asked, "But what happened to that little girl?" ”
Yi Shui put down the basin, took a cotton handkerchief from the shelf on the side, the water temperature had been adjusted, he dipped the cotton handkerchief and handed it to Dr. Qiu, "She's fine, she's cooking." ”
Dr. Qiu took the warm cotton handkerchief and wiped his face, and suddenly reacted to what Yi Shui said, he exclaimed: "She is cooking?" Isn't this nonsense? So a little girl, where can she cook!? It's ridiculous! ……”
Dr. Qiu roared so loudly that Lu Yunjia could hear it clearly in the kitchen. And she also heard it clearly, the young man said to his master word by word: "She will." Master, I saw and believed in her. ”
The voice is firm and warm, like a spring breeze.
Lu Yunjia's heart seemed to be gently touched by something, how long has she not been believed? It's been a long time. It was so long that she only heard these two simple words from other people's mouths, but she couldn't help but burst into tears.
"Heh~ It's stupid." Lu Yunjia wiped the corners of her eyes casually, and said in a low voice, "Isn't it just to make breakfast, and it is also involved in such a big issue as trust?" ”
She sniffed, placed three coarse porcelain bowls on the stove, and stepped on the low stool to scoop rice porridge with her feet.
Yi Shui walked in from outside and asked, "Okay?" ”
Lu Yunjia said: "Well, okay." I saw some pickles in the kitchen, so I cut some of them first and put them on the board, can you see if there is enough for us to eat? ”
Yi Shui looked at the evenly sized pickled vegetables on the plate on the board, nodded lightly, and said, "Enough." ”
Lu Yunjia laughed when she heard this, she really didn't want to say a word. She put the bowl on the tray and walked down the low stool, saying as she went, "You take that stack of dishes." Where are we going to eat? ”
"Hall." Yi Shui said, walked to her quietly, picked up the tray from her hand, and stepped out of the kitchen door in a blink of an eye.
Lu Yunjia was stunned for a moment, and his hands were still in the posture of holding the tray. I heard the young man who had already gone out say, "Pickles, you take them." ”
She turned around, and the pickles on the board lay there unharmed.
Lu Yunjia walked over, looked at the plate of pickles and smiled. The boy didn't want her to carry heavy objects, and he was afraid that if she didn't take anything, he would be harassed by his master when she entered the hall, so he left her with light pickles.
It seems that although the young man has few words, his mind is very exquisite.
In the hall, Dr. Qiu knelt on the futon, and the boy sat on his left side.
Lu Yunjia noticed that Dr. Qiu's house was very different from other villagers in Zhoujia Village, so she said that the ground under her feet was not land or brick land, but dark walnut-colored wooden planks spread all over the house.
When she changed her clothes earlier, she also noticed that there was a long pestle next to the bed in the inner room.
This Dr. Qiu is very particular.
Lu Yunjia lowered his head and looked at the quartet in front of him, feeling uneasy.
Dr. Qiu raised his eyebrows and glanced at her, then picked up the bowl and took a sip of porridge gently.
Yi Shui asked, "Master, how is it?" ”
Dr. Qiu put down the bowl, raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Yunjia, and said slowly, "It's okay." ”
Hearing this, Yi Shui raised his head and said to Lu Yunjia: "Sit down and eat." ”
Lu Yunjia secretly glanced at Dr. Qiu's expression, and saw that he had no objection, so he cautiously moved to sit down opposite Yi Shui.
She picked up the bowl and tasted the porridge she had cooked.
It's okay, it's the taste of normal porridge, it's not hard to drink. But Dr. Qiu didn't seem to be very satisfied with this porridge, could it be that the porridge made by the young man opposite was delicious? But when I saw him cooking on the fire this morning, he didn't look like a person who could cook... Or is it Dr. Qiu's own cooking skills?
Lu Yunjia was full of suspicions, she could feel the kindness of the young man opposite, but she couldn't understand Doctor Qiu.
Even if he was kind enough to save her from Liu's side, it didn't mean that he wouldn't send her back. After all, a child of her age is neither big nor small, and there is no way to raise her into a caring little padded jacket, nor can she be expected to do manual work to help them. What's more, she's still a girl.
So when she saw that Yi Shui couldn't light the fire, she took the initiative to go over to help and took the initiative to cook.
All of this is what she wants to show her value.
Lu Yunjia wanted to tell Dr. Qiu that she was not a useless person.
However, Dr. Qiu was obviously much more shrewd than the young man, and he never expressed his attitude towards what she did.
Lu Yunjia finished breakfast with anxiety. Immediately afterwards, Dr. Qiu also put down the dishes and chopsticks, Yi Shui was the slowest, and after he finished eating, he directly cleaned it up.
Lu Yunjia also hurriedly stood up and cleaned up together.
"Just let Yi Shui come," Dr. Qiu said suddenly, "You follow me to the study." ”
Lu Yunjia's hand to put away the dishes and chopsticks paused, took a deep breath, and nervously followed Dr. Qiu to the southeast corner.
Dr. Qiu sat in a chair behind his desk and looked at her carefully.
Lu Yunjia hung her head and stared at the ground with her eyes restless.
After a while, Yi Shui packed up the dishes and chopsticks, went to the small kitchen with the tray, and after going out, he brought the door very intimately.
Lu Yunjia was even more nervous in her heart, she still thought that if Dr. Qiu embarrassed her, that young man could still help her speak.
Now, she doesn't even have the last support.
The room was quiet for a moment, and Dr. Qiu looked at Lu Yunjia for a long time before saying, "The old man knows that you don't want to go back to Zhou Dahai's house, yes or no?" ”
Lu Yunjia didn't know what Dr. Qiu meant, so he was silent, and then whispered: "Yes, I don't want to go back." ”
"Why?"
"They..." Lu Yunjia paused, closed his eyes and said, "They beat me." ”
She rolled up her sleeves, the scars from the sticks on her arms still bruised.
Dr. Qiu's eyes widened suddenly, he sat up suddenly, and said angrily: "It's just a beast!" Cruelty to young children like this! That's it, you can stay in the old man's house with peace of mind from now on! ”
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(To be continued)