Chapter 10 The Lin Family
In the rain, one person and one horse struggled to move forward in the rain, for Lin Xiu, no matter what your god does, it can't stop the homesick heart in the fiery chest. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
"Old man, it's raining so hard, you won't come over to help clean up."
Zhang was busy taking the freshly dried leather into the house.
"This ghost weather, it was sunny just now, and now it's like a dead ancestor, and I want to smash a hole in the ground." Lin Mao stood with his hands behind his back, looking out of the door to respond to his mother-in-law.
After putting away the skin, Zhang moved a chair and sat next to Lin Mao, chattering: "You said that our family Xiu'er is doing now, I wrote a letter at the beginning of the year and came back, it's been a few months, I don't have any letter at all, and I don't know how this child is doing." ā
"Who knows?" Lin Mao turned around and sat down against the edge of the door: "I have been dreaming of Xiu'er when I have been sleeping recently, and in my dream, our Xiu'er looks old and handsome, no worse than him Lao Tzu!" ā
Hearing this, Zhang laughed: "Okay, why am I worse than you, you don't look at your appearance, you are all half-buried people!" As he spoke, both of them laughed faintly.
For the second elder, the most common topic is Lin Xiu, at the beginning, Lin Mao went north to run the leather business, and his family was wealthy, but somehow, he was nearly forty years old, and Zhang's stomach had not moved, which was in the eyes of his fellow villagers, that is, Lin Mao had done evil, and God did not leave him seeds.
Lin Mao does not believe in evil, he asks for visits everywhere, and in the ninth year of thirty, Lin Xiu was born, which can make him very happy, and he held a feast in Linshui Village for fifteen days, but then strange things came, his own business was much worse, so bad that he could only make ends meet, Zhang's could see it, with Xiu'er, it was stronger than anything, and then Lin Mao was also relieved, and no longer took business so seriously, after all, Xiu'er was born smart and clever, and he was a good seedling, and he was old and had a future.
Later, Lin Mao spent his best to find a husband for Xiu'er and worship the master, and finally Lin Xiu became the only student in the four cities and 28 counties of the Northland to be admitted to Shengde Academy as a child of the Ping family.
"Don't be nonsense, if you want to eat something, I'll make it for you, it's not too early to see the sky!" Zhang stood up, intending to get some food. At this time, Lin Laomao suddenly stood up and walked out of the door in the heavy rain.
"What are you doing? It's still raining, old dead ghost, what kind of wind is pumping! Seeing this, Zhang quickly took an oilcloth umbrella and followed. Lin Mao braved the rain to come to the door and looked into the foggy distance.
"What are you doing here? Do you really think your body is made of iron? Don't look for anything and get back to the house. Zhang scolded dissatisfiedly.
"I seem to have heard Xiu'er call me just now." Lin Mao looked at the echo, and when he heard this, Zhang didn't say anything more.
The rain was still falling, and there were already many small puddles on the muddy road. Zhang held up the oil-paper umbrella to cover Lin Mao, and after a while, Zhang said with rare gentleness: "Don't look at it, when will you come back, it won't be today, go back to the house, or wait for the day to be better, let's go to Licheng to see, you are suspicious here." ā
Listening to her mother-in-law's words, Lin Mao looked very lonely, and the whole person seemed to be a few years older, and she was still babbling: "I really heard the voice of the show." ā
"Let's go, the dampness under this heavy rain has to be a little heavier, go into the house quickly, or you will have to commit the old problem of back pain."
Lin Mao listened to the nagging, let Zhang's help, stepped through the stagnant water in the courtyard, and entered the house.
Although Zhang's said that there are many old men in Xiaolin, and his temper is not good, he scolds a few words at every turn, and even does his hand, but over the years, the relationship between the two is still very deep.
Zhang threw the burlap aside, propped up the oilcloth umbrella, and walked towards the gate, complaining incessantly: "Who? Neighbors, knocking on the door will not be light, flashing arms does not matter, smashing the door of my house, it is indispensable for your purse to have a baby. The implication is that you will pay for the damage.
Lin Mao looked at the appearance of the mother-in-law, and smiled helplessly, this mother-in-law was brought back from the plug by the merchant back then, except for the knife mouth, there is nothing bad. Zhang said a few words casually, but he didn't expect to knock on the door louder, and there was a faint neighing of horses.
Zhang picked up the long skirt, walked two steps quickly, and put down the door bolt at the same time, his mouth was still not idle: "Don't knock, people don't come, knock your arm again, your mouth won't squeak, knock as if you're urging." ā
"Squeak", the door of some years opened with a sound, and Zhang, who was still complaining, suddenly fell silent the moment the door opened.
There was a brief silence, and the whole world seemed to stand still, except for the sound of raindrops "ticking". After a while, familiar but a little coquettish words floated into Zhang's ears: "Mother, flashed your arm, don't you feel distressed." ā
In front of him, Lin Xiuchong smiled sweetly at Zhang's family, strands of sideburns scattered by the rain were attached to his cheeks, and his face was a little pale and haggard after days of hurrying, and his clothes that were clean on weekdays were also stained with yellow mud and water stains at this time, but the delicate and fair face and dark and deep eyes all showed Zhang's that his son Lin Xiu was back.
Lin Xiu looked at her mother, although she smiled, but her eyes couldn't stop souring for some reason, Zhang's had already stopped complaining at this time, she stretched out her rough hand and trembled and stroked Lin Xiu's face, two years later, Lin Xiu's size has grown taller again, and the original childish face has already appeared manly, and even green sideburns have been born under the chin.
"Mother, I've been on the road for a long time, and my stomach has been ringing for a long time, so I started calling my father and mother from afar, but you closed them again after you came out!" Lin Xiu spoke softly, interrupting the calm
"Hey, I'm back, it's good to come back, you see that my mother is old, what is the hair, come into the house, go into the house." The Zhang family, who had recovered his strength, didn't care about the umbrella, so he grabbed Lin Xiu's already thick arms and hurriedly walked towards the house.
Lin Xiu was very satisfied at this time and let her mother pull her. Lin Mao stood at the door of the house, he had already seen Lin Xiu, his old face bloomed with a strange brilliance, and he repeated proudly: "I said that Xiu'er came back, you still don't believe it..."
After entering the house, Lin Mao looked at Lin Xiu, only to find that Xiu'er had changed so much, and her body bones alone were already half a head taller than when she left.
As soon as Lin Xiu entered the house, he knelt down and kowtowed to Zhang and Lin Mao a few times: "Dad, mother, the child let my father worry about it." Lin Xiu's move made Lin Mao and Zhang's even cry out, and Zhang's quickly pulled Lin Xiu up and scolded him with love.