CHAPTER XLII
A nosebleed flowed down, warm and warm, Lu Chen didn't dodge and was really beaten by the other party. Qian Duoduo whimpered and screamed, and Qian's mother, who didn't dare to step forward, was also taken aback, and with a surprised face, she no longer had any scruples and stepped forward to pull her husband again.
"Old money! Why are you beating other people's children?! ”
"Hit?!" Father Qian was furious, and pointed at Lu Chen's nose with a mouth full of wine and scolded, "Not only did I beat him, I wanted to kill him?!" ”
"A child who is so obedient, if it weren't for him?! It's all him, our son is broken, not only is he disobedient, but he also learned to talk back to me, huh? ”
The more Qian's father spoke, the more excited he became, and he raised his slap again to make a gesture to hit the other party, but the startled Qian mother repeatedly dragged and persuaded him, trying to pull the other party into the back room.
"Shut up, you don't deserve to be my dad!!" Suddenly, Duoduo, who had been hiding behind him and trembling, shouted loudly, staring at each other with dead eyes, his face turned crimson with anger, and the hand that tightly tugged on the corner of Lu Chen's clothes trembled, and even his voice trembled. "Do you really think you're a good person? You want me to be obedient?! Than just want me to be obedient to you...."
He didn't say the last few words, Lu Chen covered Qian Duoduo's mouth tightly in his arms, he whimpered in pain, tears dripped down and fell onto Lu Chen's hand who covered his mouth.
"Uncle Qian." Lu Chen struggled to control his emotions and said in a deep voice, "I respect you as an elder and respect you. I also hope that you and you can act like an elder, Duoduo is your son, but he is also my wife, and I am determined to take care of someone for the rest of my life. If someone wants to be bad for him, I don't think about who the other person is! ”
"You're still trying to scare me?" The palm that had just been raised whistled down with the sound of breaking wind, but this time, Lu Chen dodged neatly, pulled up Qian Duoduo and said goodbye to Qian's mother apologetically, and pulled the other party out of Qian's house.
Raising his hand and wiping away the blood from his nose with his sleeve, Lu Chen rubbed the other party's hair by the way.
"Don't cry, Duoduo." Turning around his shoulder, Lu Chen took the other party into his arms and comforted him softly.
"I'm sorry...."Qian Duoduo apologized vaguely.
"Why do you have to apologize?"
"My dad hit you."
"It's okay, I'm not broken, you're fine. Lot. Lu Chen's tall figure blocked the shadows towards the other party, holding the other party's face with both hands, "Everything I said today is the truth. ”
“?” didn't understand the meaning of the other party's words, Qian Duoduo wiped his tears and looked up at the other party, his eyes were red and swollen like rabbit eyes.
"I mean." Lu Chen deliberately paused before continuing, "I said that I would take care of you for the rest of your life. ”
“......”
The tears fell again, like translucent crystal beads, reflecting the color of happiness, Lu Chen no longer cared if there was anyone around, leaned down and quickly pecked the other party's mouth.
"Wow! What are you two doing? ”
A girl's surprised scream sounded not far from the two of them, this scream was like a cannonball thrown into the valley, and the two of them immediately stiffened, and they quickly got up in embarrassment, and there was a slight distance between the two.
"What are you two doing here?" The female voice came from far and near, and it was actually the girl who was selling pasta at the stall in the west.
"Huh? Are you crying? When the girl walked in, she saw the boy dressed in white with unkempt hair, red and swollen eyes, and tears on his face that had not been wiped off.
"I... I'm fine....." Qian Duoduo wiped his face with his sleeve in embarrassment, trying to adjust his emotions.
"You guys quarreled?" The girl asked relentlessly, looking like she wouldn't stop gossiping if she didn't break the casserole and asked in the end.
"No!!" Lu Chen was dissatisfied with the other party's gossip spirit, and was embarrassed to say too heavy words, so he scratched his hair irritably.
"It's okay if there is...."The girl felt that something was wrong, and muttered quietly, and then the expression on her face became brisk again, looking at the two and asking.
"Did you two eat?"
"Not yet, what's wrong?" Lu Chen asked puzzled.
"It would be nice if you didn't." The smile on the girl's face was even stronger, and she stretched out her hand, which had been behind her back, and in that hand she was carrying a transparent white plastic bag, which contained a small half-bag of unknown things.
"My pickled winter vegetables, I originally wanted to go to your house to find you, but I didn't expect to meet them on the road."
"For me?" Lu Chen's expression became even more surprised.
"Yes, my family has a bit of pickled this year, so I'll give you some." The girl smiled sweetly, revealing two cute little tiger teeth.
"But...."Lu Chen was still full of question marks, hesitating to reach out to take it, but seeing that the other party didn't want to hand it to him.
"What is it! Let's go! The girl turned around as she spoke, and after taking a few steps forward, she looked back and saw that the two had not moved, so she stopped again and urged them.
Lu Chen and Qian Duoduo looked at each other the same, and both of them saw deep doubts in each other's eyes.
"Where are you going?" Lu Chen asked.
"You're at home." The girl replied.
"I.... My home?!!! Lu Chen's expression was even more surprised.
"yes, I'm looking for you for something." The girl continued to answer, "Let's go?" ”
Although he was still quite puzzled, Lu Chen didn't know what he was asking, so he took Qian Duoduo's shoulder and followed the girl in the direction of home.
"How do I get there?" In front of the intersection at the corner of the street, the girl stood and stopped, turned around and asked Lu Chen with her eyes.
"I thought you knew my family?!" Lu Chen walked a few steps briskly, passed the girl, and turned left at the corner of the street.
"Haha, how could I." The girl smiled cheerfully, "I saw you walking down this street." ”
"Then if you don't run into me, how can you go to my house to find me?"
"Ask people, a mouth under the nose, ask a few more people to touch your door."
"Sounds scary."
Pushing open the door, the small courtyard was a little dark because the lights were not turned on in the house. Qian Duoduo turned out to be a bag of winter vegetables and went directly into the kitchen, and the girl followed Lu Chen into the house.
Turning on the light, everything in the room was exposed to the light, and the girl was surprised again. "The house is so neatly tied, is this really just the two of you?"
"That's right." Lu Chen replied.
"Isn't there anyone else to clean up for you?"
"No, it's all in Duoduo's way of cleaning up."
"It's amazing." The girl looked admiring, "It's cleaner than what I cleaned up." ”
"You mainly have to sell things and make steamed buns every day, unlike when we have a lot of free time."
"Yes." The girl nodded and sat down casually on a four-legged bench in the room.
"What are you looking for me?" Lu Chen arrived at the glass of water and handed it to the other party, and asked his own questions by the way.
"Oh." The girl smiled again, "I'm here to ask you about that world." ”
"......." Lu Chen was speechless, "Your curiosity is really heavy." ”
The girl smiled and didn't answer, she thought for a moment and asked. "That, Lu Chen, what are the streets like there, it's different from here, right?"
"It's not the same, we have there, the street is very prosperous, there are shops selling things on both sides of the street, sometimes there are stalls selling things on the street, and the streets are full of cars and cars..."Lu Chen described it in a full voice.
The yearning expression on the girl's face became stronger and stronger, she didn't know what she was thinking, and interrupted Lu Chen's still talking, "By the way, do you people there also ride bicycles or walk when they go out?" ”
"That's not all." Lu Chen replied, "You can also take the bus or drive a private car, that's it..."Lu Chen explained to the other party, "There are also electric cars and motorcycles." ”
"Are those four-wheeled ones like trucks?" The girl wondered.
"No, it's two-wheeled, but you don't have to push hard, you can use electricity or something to power it, and it's fast."
"How fast?"
"It's very fast, several times faster than a bicycle."
"Isn't that as fast as a truck?"
"Not yet, but it's about the same, if the trucks drive slower here, the electric cars can easily overtake them."
"Wow." The girl exclaimed, "Wouldn't that be a pleasure to drive?" ”
"That's the case at some point." Lu Chen looked at the other party's eyes that were almost bursting with stars, and thought that the other party must have sketched in his heart at this time the appearance of riding an imaginary electric car.
The door of the house was gently pushed open from the outside, and Qian Duoduo walked in with a small ceramic basin full of vegetables in his hand, inside was a vegetarian dish fried with winter vegetables and lettuce brought by the girl, and some carrots were added to it, which was refreshing.
Putting down the vegetable bowl, Qian Duoduo turned around and walked out again, bringing in the just right rice.
Lu Chen got up and took out the dishes and chopsticks from the cabinet and put them in front of the girl, "Let's eat together." ”
"Oh, no." The girl waved her hand embarrassedly, "I won't eat it, I'll go home and eat it later." ”
"Let's eat here, it's not a good dish." Qian Duoduo said politely.
"Yes, thank you for sending the side dishes." Lu Chen also persuaded.
"Well, I'm embarrassed." The girl leaned over and looked at the two of them embarrassedly, and picked up the dishes and chopsticks.
How could she eat so much....... Lu Chen looked at the gobbling girl in surprise, the girl had returned to the bowl three times since she had just started the meal, and according to the trend, she still had the intention of having another bowl.
Although Qian Duoduo on the side was still calmly eating with his head down, his eyes peeked at the other party from time to time.
The girl obviously saw the surprise of the two, put down her rice bowl and smiled embarrassedly, "I ate too much." ”
"No, no." Lu Chen said against his will, "You can eat, it's not enough to have it in the pot." ”
However, when he looked at the rice pot on the table out of the corner of his eye, he had already seen the bottom of it, and he could barely make up a bowl of it with hard work.
"No, I'm full." The girl wiped her mouth with her sleeve and burped.
"Then I'll go home."
The girl felt so embarrassed that she had eaten at a stranger's house, and had eaten so much at once, and scrambled to help clean up the table.
It was already dark, the girl stood at the door and said goodbye to the two, looking at the dark alley, Lu Chen hesitated, "Or.... I'll send you. ”
"Ah, no, no. I'm used to walking at night. The girl was embarrassed to shirk.
"Hmm... I'll send it to you. Lu Chen was a little embarrassed to let a girl walk alone at night.
"You send her." Qian Duoduo, who had not spoken, suddenly opened his mouth. Lu Chen looked back at the other party uncertainly, only to see that he was still smiling, and he didn't see anything unhappy.
"Alright then, thanks."
The street removed the noise of the day, and returned to silence again, Lu Chen looked up at the sky, and the missing moon was hidden in the thin clouds. The night sky was clean and there was still not a single star.
"By the way, what's your name?" It wasn't until this time that Lu Chen remembered that he hadn't known the other party's name yet.
"My name is Ogika."
"Ogika?" Lu Chen remembered a poem he had learned before and read it out casually, "Xunyang Jiangtou sends off guests at night, and the maple leaves and flowers are in autumn." ”
"Wow, you can still read poetry." Girls envy compliments.
"No, just casually."
"By the way, what's your name?" The girl asked.
"Lu Chen."
"Lu Chen...."Dihua muttered the other party's name, suddenly stopped, looked at Lu Chen, and his expression became extremely serious.
"Lu Chen, can I ask you something?"
"What's the matter?" Looking at the other party's extremely serious appearance, Lu Chen couldn't help but become serious as well.
"That.... Can you take me out into your world? ”