Chapter Forty-Eight: The Queen Mother is Entrusted
The old lady went downstairs on crutches again, sat in the courtyard and watched her thin granddaughter fetch water by the well, and then went upstairs to clean the old house.
Thinking about the future days of her grandparents and grandchildren, her heart went up and down, and her wrinkled hands rubbed and rubbed on the handle of the cane, constantly thinking about it. Growing vegetables? She can't afford to toss anymore, raising chickens? She didn't have that energy. Go to the village for help? She is not the only one.
Don't talk about the old day, as soon as the old lady thinks of her granddaughter's beautiful face of Na Xiao's mother, she feels that she can protect her safe and sound, and she should eat fast and recite Buddha. When my daughter-in-law first got married, didn't she also provoke some idlers to hang around the neighborhood often? If it weren't for the vicious dog that came to the family, something might have happened.
yes, it's time to go get a dog back...... Alas, people are dying of hunger, what kind of dogs do they have?
The old lady thought about it, and suddenly her eyes were certain, and she thought about it carefully, and felt that maybe this was a way, so she decided to fight this old face and beg her. My niece has always been enthusiastic, and she has been on a foreign business, and the family is not short of money, so for the sake of relatives, she may nod her head to help.
Thinking of this, the old lady's heart settled a little, and she sat down peacefully on the wicker chair and let out a long sigh of relief.
After Wang Bai finished breakfast, he saw that his mother was tidying up things again, so he asked, "Mom, are you going to see Zha Si again?" ”
Wang's mother was packing up some pastries and other things, and also carried a basket of fresh eggs, "You can't eat in the detention center, this is for your aunt and grandmother, I have a holiday today, so go back to see her." After that, she had to live alone, and it was pitiful to think about. ”
"Do you want me to come with you?" Wang Bai asked, "I see a lot of things." ”
"No, you stay at home and do your homework, you have to compete in the afternoon, don't delay your homework." Mother Wang quickly lifted several bags, grabbed the basket of eggs and went out.
Dozens of minutes later, Wang's mother came to the vicinity of Lu's house, and after some inquiry, she touched the door of Lu's house, and saw that there was no one in the courtyard, and the door on the ground floor was open, and there was no one in sight, so she shouted at the top of her voice: "Auntie, are you at home?" Maotou has come to see you. "Wang's mother is the youngest among her peers, and when she was a child, her elders gave her a nickname Maotou, and she has been called until now.
Grandma Lu was helping her granddaughter lay the futon, and when she heard this shout, she immediately responded: "Alas, it's coming." She greeted her granddaughter in surprise: "Lu Lu, quickly, go downstairs with grandma and meet your little aunt." ”
Lu Lu didn't know anything about the relatives of the Lu family, and when she heard that it was her little aunt, she thought it was her relatives, so she quickly cheered up, "Oh, okay." ”
The grandparents and grandchildren came down from upstairs, and Grandma Lu happily welcomed her niece into the house, "Maotou, it's not easy for you to come here, why do you still bring so many things, I'm so embarrassed." "Those pastries were nothing, but eggs were real things, and the old lady couldn't open her eyes with a smile, and she was really happy.
"Look at what you said, it's rare to come once, how can I be embarrassed to be empty-handed." Mother Wang put the things down, looked Lu Lu up and down, felt a little kind, and asked, "This is ......?"
"This is my little granddaughter Lu Lu, her uncle sent her back early this morning."
"Huh?" Mother Wang was immediately surprised when she heard this, "Does her uncle care about her?" How can this be! ”
Seeing that she was a little indignant, and both her grandparents and grandchildren were a little embarrassed, Lu Lu said: "I want to come back by myself, grandma is at home alone, I don't worry." ”
After hearing this, Mother Wang hugged her distressedly, "Oh, this kid is really sensible!" Auntie look, well, looks so pretty, like your mother when she was young! Auntie, do you say that this child and sister-in-law are really carved out of the same mold. ”
"Who said it wasn't," Grandma Lu said in her heart, I'm not worried, it's not just liberated these years, it's easy to get into trouble if I'm beautiful, "white and clean, I look like a lovely person." ”
The two sang and harmonized, making Lu Lu embarrassed, rubbing his ears and saying, "Little aunt, sit down, talk with grandma for a while, I'll pour you tea." ”
She ran into the back hall with a cigarette, went to the kitchen to pour tea, and after a while, her son Kung Fu waited for her to come out with a teacup, and saw Grandma Lu throwing her crutches aside, and was about to kneel down to her little aunt solemnly!
How could Mother Wang let her aunt kneel, and hurriedly helped her up: "Yo! What are you doing here, you hurry up, you have something to say, it's all a family, let's not do this, what difficulties do you have, just ask! ”
Lu Lu hurriedly put down the teacup, and also stepped forward to support the old lady: "Grandma, what are you doing?" ”
Grandma Lu's lips trembled, tears rippled: "My old woman is useless...... I really can't take care of this little granddaughter, the old man left early, and the relatives of the Lu family never regarded me as their own...... I am an orphan and a widow who has supported this family to this day, and I really can't hold it anymore...... Woo...... Edamame, my aunt has never begged anyone in her life, I don't know what to say, I can only kneel down for you! ”
Saying that, the old lady was about to bend her knees again, but Mother Wang held her alive and said, "You have something to say!" There's nothing I can't say, I don't dare to come here if you do this again! ”
Grandma Lu looked at her granddaughter and said, "You have also seen this child, he is a good child...... I can't let her suffer and starve with my old woman, and I'm this age, I don't even have a janitor dog at home, in case, if she has three long and two short, how can I be worthy of her dead father! …… Edamame, I beg you, take her away, my aunt will repay you by being a cow and a horse in the next life! Woo......"
Lu Lu's face turned pale when she heard this, it turned out that her grandmother was doing this for her, she muttered: "Grandma, I won't leave......" Tears fell unobeyedly.
"Silly child," Grandma Lu said as she stroked her head, "Grandma doesn't recognize you, Grandma is really worried about you." If you refuse to leave, you're going to kill your grandmother......"
Mother Wang has always been soft-hearted, and when she saw their grandparents and grandchildren like this, she cried silently, covered her mouth and said, "Woo...... Auntie, don't worry...... Well, I will, I will take care of the child, you can rest assured that I will leave it to me! If she's missing a hair, I'll kowtow to you! Woo......"
Then she persuaded Lu Lu: "Child, let's go with my aunt, go home with me, so that your grandmother can rest assured, and your brother can also be reformed with peace of mind inside, and when he comes out, it will not be too late for your family to reunite." ”
"But, but grandma, she ......" Lu Lu has already been moved, she also has to think about her future and future, this family is so dilapidated, even poorer than her uncle's family, here she is really afraid that she will not even be able to finish high school, but she is still worried that her grandmother is not settled alone.
"It's okay, my aunt has a way," Wang's mother wiped her tears and said, "Auntie, there is a nursing home for the elderly in Guanglin, the environment is much better than the nursing home, if you don't mind, I'll take you there, okay?" You don't have to worry about the cost, I'll arrange it for you, only in this way, I see that this child is willing to go with me with peace of mind. ”
This decision was not made by her temporarily, but was calculated before she came, and it was also a decision she made after she promised Zha Si to take care of her aunt in the detention center.
"This, is this appropriate...... Grandma Lu has also heard of the nursing home for the elderly, the conditions are indeed good, the old people have someone to take care of them, but the monthly expenses are thousands, which is really not something that ordinary families can afford.
"What's so suitable or inappropriate," Wang's mother said, "You can rest assured that you will retire there, don't want you to pay a penny, count me as a junior to honor you." If you really don't want to go, I will tell your two grandchildren, and when I am old, I will return this love! ”
Grandma Lu said excitedly, since she got married, she regarded herself as the Lu family and did not interact with her mother's family, but since her husband died, she has not been angry with her mother-in-law's family. Who knew that when Lu Dao was old, he still had to receive the favor of his mother's family, and he was really grateful and burst into tears.
Since grandma can also be properly placed, the pimple in Lu Lu's heart is gone, but she still has a doubt, just now from her grandmother's words, she can clearly hear that the relatives of the Lu family do not care very much about their family, so this little aunt is not her father's sister-in-law, so what kind of relative is she?
Auntie, aunt...... Lu Lu suddenly understood that this little aunt should be grandma's own niece, it turns out that this is the case, grandma broke off contact with her mother's family after she got married, but this little aunt is a warm-hearted person, which is really good. And she is willing to bear the cost of her grandmother going to the nursing home, indicating that her family conditions should be okay, and I hope that I will go to her house to borrow it, and it will not cause her too much trouble......
I just don't know what kind of person my sister-in-law is, but it's not the same person who doesn't enter the door, my aunt is like this, and my uncle must be kind-hearted, but I don't know how old their children are, are they younger than me? If only it were a younger sister, we would be able to sleep together, and I wouldn't have to stay in the room.
The reason why Lu Lu lives now is because after her cousin got married, she couldn't spare a place to arrange a bed for her, when she was a child, she lived in the same room with her cousin and slept in separate beds, and then she could only sleep on the sofa bed in her aunt's room.
She hasn't had a room of her own since she was a child, so she's content to have a sister to share a room with.
But in fact, this matter is much more complicated than she expected, the aunt's child in her imagination is not only a boy, but also the same age as her, and that person is Wang Bai.
Lu Lu's clothes were all packed up, and before he could open them, he went on the road again, this time from the Lu family to the Wang family. Grandma Lu still has to pack her things, and it is not possible to enter the nursing home immediately, so Wang's mother first wrote down the identity information of her aunt, and prepared to go to the nursing home to help her complete the check-in procedures first, and then come back to pick her up.
And Lu Lu had to go to make up classes in the afternoon, so she simply followed Wang's mother back to Guanglin first. The aunt and nephew said goodbye to Grandma Lu and went out of the village together, walked a kilometer to the avenue to stop the car, Wang's mother talked to her, asked about her when she was a child, the more she listened, the more she felt pitiful, and wanted to take her into her arms and hug her.
After calling a taxi, Lu Lu heard her little aunt say that she was going to Shuiqiao Jingyuan, and she couldn't help but be shocked, thinking that she would not be neighbors with Wang Bai in the future.