Chapter Seventy-Six: The Child
As she spoke, she bent her fingers and counted, Bang Chun listened carefully on the side, and counted with her, but found that there was one missing between Uncle Zhong and Ji, she didn't know why, and thought that Zhong Qing had counted wrong, so she smiled and said: "The second sister is named Zhong Qing, the eldest brother is called Bo Alcohol, and the third brother is called Ji Yuan, so where does the word uncle come from?" “
Because she is good-looking and soft-spoken, she is like a little girl who does not know anything about the world when she asks such questions. Zhong Qing looked at her with a pitiful smile, as if looking at his own child, touched her face and said, "Sister, you don't understand, we still have a child at home." ”
And a child? Wanchun was confused, she had been reborn for more than half a year, and it was clear from inside and out, there were only four children in the Li family's room, except for her, Bo Zhong Qing Ji Yuan had seen it, who else?
The words they said were all caused unintentionally, Wan Chun didn't know it, but Yu Shi and Bo Ol knew it, and it was inevitable that it would not touch the old wounds. Yu Shi looked at her and Zhong Qing, and sighed as if complaining for a while: "Well, what to do with these old things, it's really unlucky." ”
Zhong Qing had to stop smiling silently, and it happened that the child woke up and opened his eyes at this time, and Bool was distracted to tease him, which was a divergence from the topic.
Although this is the case, this matter left a question in Wanchun's heart, because they came this time to say that they would stay for a few more days, so the Fengqiao Mansion had already packed up the guest room, and one person lived separately, and Wanchun still lived in the same guest room with Xiu'er. After seeing the children, the mother Yu rushed Wanchun back to the room to wash and rest, and they got up and down on the train for days without changing their clothes. Wan Chun then took Xiu'er to her room. Seeing that there was no one left and right, she secretly asked Xiu'er: "There is another child that the second sister said. Do you know who it is? ”
Xiu'er shook her head and said, "You haven't known about it in the mansion for so long, and I've only been serving you for a few years." And where will know. ”
Wanchun frowned, confused and thought, when Xiu'er entered the mansion, Wanchun was only eleven or twelve years old, if Xiu'er didn't know, then this child should be older than herself. So, where did he go?
Listening to the meaning of the second sister, it seems that the child is still alive, but looking at the mother's expression that wants to speak. It's like he's reluctant to mention it. This is really strange, the mother always loves her children, at least in her opinion, the four children in the family, the Yu family rarely favors anyone, after all, the same love, the palms and backs of the hands are meat, how could she abandon that child?
While thinking about it, she went to wash up and change her clothes, and when she finished changing, she heard the sound of fluttering footsteps outside the door of the guest room. Because their second floor and the first floor of the ceiling are pierced. In the end, a crystal lamp is hung on the top, and the upstairs is surrounded by a corridor, and the guest rooms are distributed with the surrounding trend. Wanchun's room was at the head of the stairs. In the past, it was Bo Ol's room, and the innermost was the residence of Yu and his father Li Lanfeng.
Seeing someone coming, Wanchun walked lightly to the door. I listened to it behind the door, and saw that the footsteps had walked two or three steps in front of my door and there was no movement. Instead, there was a creaking sound of the door opening, and she knew that it was the eldest brother who had come upstairs. Busy opened the door and smiled: "Big brother, can I go and sit in your house for a while?" ”
Bo Zhuo and Tan Rulin and his wife came back from talking downstairs, the door was only halfway open, and when he heard Wanchun's voice, he waved her to go in with him.
Wan Chun quickly followed him into the house, closed the door with his backhand, and said with a grin: "Big brother, I have something to ask you." ”
Bo Ol loosened his tie and sat on the small sofa chair leisurely, hanging with one hand, tapping the armrest with the other, squinting his eyes slightly to look at Wanchun with a smile or not: "Little ghost, you don't have to ask, I know what you want to say, are you thinking about what Zhongqing said?" ”
Wan Chun nodded, then dragged a sofa chair placed at the head of his bed to Bo Alcohol's side, held his cheeks and said: "I really can't hide anything from you, big brother, since you can guess it, can you tell me, who is the child that the second sister is talking about?" ”
Bo Ol stretched out his hanging hand, rubbed his forehead a few times, and said after a while: "Don't say you don't know about this, even Ji Yuan probably doesn't know." That child was a few years older than Ji Yuan, but younger than Zhong Qing, and his parents named him Shuyun. ”
"Shuyun?" Wan Chun muttered silently, and then said, "Is he a boy or a girl?" ”
Bo Yu said: "It's a girl-very beautiful girl, when I saw her, she was only as big as Zhongqing's child, her small body was wrapped in a quilt, and she would smile when she saw someone coming, and she was very well-behaved." ”
"Where is she now?" Wan Chun asked.
Brool leaned back unexpectedly, sat on his back on the sofa chair and waved his hand, "We don't know where she is." My mother was actually very reluctant at the beginning, but she couldn't help it. The flames of the world war have spread to Suzhou, my father and his troops were far away in Tianjin, and they couldn't come to the rescue for a long time, so she had to hand over the unweaned child to the nurse in Suzhou to raise, and she took me and Zhongqing through the enemy's blockade to go to Tianjin to meet my father. By the time the war was over and the Li family and the Yu family sent people to look for it, the nurse was gone, and it was unknown whether she was dead or alive. Naturally, the whereabouts of that child are unknown. ”
"Original...... That's right. ”
Wan Chun held his heart, and the heartbeat there was really gentle, so slow that it seemed to alarm the child in the dark. She didn't know why she was so sad, she had never met before, and when she heard that she couldn't find it, it was like losing an extremely important treasure.
The room fell silent unconsciously, and Burol hadn't mentioned this disappeared sister for many years, and when he talked about it, he turned over the memories of running around with his parents in the smoke of war when he was a child. I have to say that he and Zhongqing's childhood was not happy at all, his grandfather and grandmother were far away in the old capital, one was busy with state affairs, the other was busy taking care of the Li family, and his father and mother were separated. They could only be led by the servants in Jinxi Yu's house, and the servants thought that they were guests for fear of being hurt, so they never dared to let them go out, and they were not even allowed to go in the small garden, and they looked at the high houses, high roofs, and high windows every day, and he and Zhongqing took cloths and blindfolded them, and played a game of hide and seek day after day.
is like this, and now I feel that it is a rare happiness, compared to Shuyun, who is missing, he and Zhongqing are already very lucky. Of course, this luck can't be compared to Ji Yuan and Wanchun in any case, the two of them were born in the years before and after the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the world was almost peaceful, the Li family in Beiling sat firmly in the first place in the old capital, and the grandmother and mother could always put their minds at ease and concentrate on taking care of the two of them.
Thinking about it, Bo Zhu smiled at Wan Chun's face, and said after a while: "Actually, that child is very similar to the fourth sister, especially when you are both young, so your mother is always reluctant to fake you to others, and she is personally raised." ”
Wanchun lowered her eyebrows and smiled, no matter how similar it was, it was not the original one. When my mother saw her, in addition to chatting for comfort, I am afraid there was also an element of guilt, right? Losing a child for no reason is a fatal blow to any woman who is a mother.
As a person who has lost a child, she can understand this feeling very well.
Taking a deep breath, Wan Chun didn't expect that she would inquire about such a sad inside story, no wonder her mother was reluctant to say it at the time, she paused, and said to Bo Ol: "I was also curious to come and ask the eldest brother, don't tell the mother that I know." I think my mother still has Shuyun in her heart, but she is too sad to tell me, let's just leave this matter aside, the days have to go forward, maybe one day in the future Shuyun will come to us by himself. ”
"I hope so."
Bo Ol chuckled: "Since then, the family has also received news that the nurse's hometown is actually in Shanghai, and people say that maybe she is back in Shanghai." Mother and father naturally hope that she is still alive, and her aunt has been asking her to find her for many years since she was married, but unfortunately there is no news. ”
Wan Chun nodded, seeing that Bo Ol's complexion was not as good as before, and felt that he couldn't say more on this issue, so he stood up and said, "Big brother, you rest, I'll go downstairs to see what my mother and second sister are doing." ”
"Go ahead." Bool waved his hand, but he was still sitting there on his back, and Wan Chun got up and opened the door and came out by himself.
Cuizhi had been away from the Li family for a long time and hadn't seen Na Lin and Xiu'er for a long time, so she found Wan Chun's room, and the two of them chattered and laughed, Wan Chun walked to the door and heard it, and she smiled unconsciously. Thinking that they might have their own selfish things to say, they didn't push the door in, and walked straight down the stairs.
In the living room, Zhong Qing sat with Yu, brother-in-law Tan Rulin may have gone out, Wanchun didn't see him when he went downstairs, so he also sat next to Yu and asked, "What are my mother and sister talking about?" ”
Zhong Qing said: "I'm talking about the eldest brother, my mother said that the eldest brother has dropped out of Japan, I'm really surprised." Fang Cai Rulin was also there, and everyone persuaded the eldest brother to say a few words, but he probably didn't want to listen to it, and he had already gone upstairs. Alas, I'm really not worth it for him, the finance major he studied, is now very popular in Shanghai, those who hold the exchange job, there is not necessarily one in ten who can compare to the eldest brother's talent, if he returns to China after completing his studies, he will be the leader wherever he arranges, I really can't figure out, why did the eldest brother go to open a school. (To be continued.) )