Chapter 13: Will She Come Back?
The vine shook twice, and the bunches on the vine began to expand rapidly, and when they reached the size that Lin Ruan wanted, the color of the bunches began to turn from green to purple.
Lin Ruan picked one with his hand, peeled it and threw it into his mouth to taste it, the sweet and sour juice made Lin Ruan squint his eyes happily.
Sitting under the vine and having a good time, Lin Ruan got up and cut some branches and sturdy weeds with a kitchen knife, and began to weave baskets.
There was no basket at home, so when she went up the mountain, she only carried a kitchen knife. These grapes can't stand the squeeze, so they can't be carried around with clothes.
Lin Ruan is not very good at manual work, and he can't make a shape after weaving for a long time.
Just as she was annoyed, her eyes caught sight of some finger-thin vines on the tree next to her.
Pregnant!
Manipulating the ability, Lin Ruan made the vines entangle each other to form a simple but unusually sturdy basket.
Chop down the "basket" with a kitchen knife and spread the weeds in it, so that it can be used.
Picking all the grapes and carefully putting them in the basket, in order not to squeeze the grapes, Lin Ruan also carefully spread thick weeds between each layer of grapes.
After all this, the sun is already in the west.
He took the basket of grapes, cut a branch of grapes with a kitchen knife and put it in the basket, and then returned to the village by the same route.
Old mansions.
It's getting late, and it's getting dark. Xiuxiu snuggled on the edge of the gate, with tears in her eyes, her little hands clutched the corners of her clothes tightly, and her mouth was tightly pursed, as if she could cry in the next second.
Lin Han's face was not good-looking, so he went to the door to pull Xiuxiu.
"Let's go, let's eat."
Xiuxiu refused to leave, and stood there stubbornly, "Sister hasn't come back yet, I'm going to wait for her to come back and eat together." ”
"She's so big, if she wants to come back, she will be back long ago! If she doesn't come back, you'll just die standing here, and she won't come back. ”
Xiuxiu is a little girl who admits death, and after listening to her brother's words, she stalked her neck and said loudly: "No!" Sister will definitely come back! ”
Lin Han thought of Lin Ruan's abnormality, and when she was in the Lin family two days ago, she proposed to leave the Lin family, and her face became more and more gloomy.
This afternoon, after he and Xiuxiu woke up, they found that she was gone, he searched everywhere, and even went to Lin's house once, but he didn't find any trace of her, and his heart began to think about it.
Looking at Xiuxiu's eyes, Lin Han's heart twitched uncomfortably, but he didn't know how to express it, so he had to order in a cold voice:
"Go back to the house, I'm going to close the courtyard door."
Xiuxiu held the courtyard door with her little hand and refused to go in.
"I don't want it, I'm going to wait here for Sister Ah to come back."
Lin Han shouted angrily: "She won't come back!" It's useless for you to wait to die here! ”
Xiuxiu was stunned, and tears rolled out of her eyes as soon as she snapped.
"No, if you talk nonsense, Sister will definitely come back!"
Lin Han felt uncomfortable in his heart, no matter how strong and sensible he was, he was only nine years old, and he had just left the Lin family, and he had no bottom in his heart. Now that he found out that Lin Ruan, who grew up with him, suddenly changed like a different person, and he had the intention of leaving the Lin family before, he was even more panicked.
What should Lin Ruan do if he really left secretly?
Just thinking of this possibility, Lin Han's nose was sour.
The stubborn child refused to admit that he was afraid, so he had to hide his panic with a hard voice.
"I said she wouldn't be back! If you don't get in, I don't care about you! ”
Xiuxiu is a little girl who admits death, she firmly believes that her sister will come back, and roars back in her voice: "I don't want you to care, I have to wait for my sister to come back!" ”
"She's not coming back, you come into the house with me!"
Lin Han was about to pull her as he spoke, but Xiuxiu was so anxious that she cried, grabbing the frame of the door and refusing to let go.
Seeing that the two were in trouble, Lin Ruan's voice suddenly came from a distance.
"What are you doing? Fighting? ”
The two children were stunned suddenly, and looked in the direction where the voice came, only to see Lin Ruan returning in the twilight, carrying a big blue child in one hand, carrying a living creature of a small size in the other, and a few rabbits wrapped around their waists, the shape was a little funny.
"Sister!"
Xiuxiu reacted and ran over crying.
Lin Han's eyes flashed with surprise and relief, and he also ran a few steps over there, but he paused suddenly, and stood at the door with a pouted face and refused to move.
Lin Ruan looked at the little girl who rushed over, and hurriedly said, "Xiuxiu, Sister can't spare her hand to hug you, go, go home quickly." ”
Xiuxiu hurriedly turned her head sensibly and ran back, returned to the gate of the courtyard, and snorted heavily at Lin Han: "Big liar, look, Sister is back!" ”
Lin Han's eyes flashed, suppressed the ecstasy in his heart, and stepped forward to pick up the basket in Lin Ruan's hand.
That basket was not light, it was twenty or thirty pounds, and Lin Han almost couldn't catch it.
Lin Ruan was afraid that he would break the grapes, so he carried the basket into the yard by himself.
Lin Han followed behind him and complained in a low voice: "When you go out, won't you say hello to me?" You don't know me...... Will Xiuxiu be worried? ”
Lin Ruan didn't bother to pay attention to him, carried his things into the door, threw the fainted roe deer to the ground, carefully placed the basket containing the grapes on the ground, and finally untied the rabbit hanging from his waist.
Hung upside down all the way, the rabbits' mental state was not very good, Lin Ruan was afraid that they would die, so he quickly used his ability to restore their blood, and then went to the bucket to drink water.
Xiuxiu is so big, she has never seen so many wild things, and the roe deer is big, she is a little afraid to look at it. But those rabbits, Xiuxiu was rare, and hurriedly went outside to pull the grass and came back, to feed the rabbits to eat.
Hares are different from domestic rabbits, they are afraid of people, and they all stare at Xiuxiu vigilantly and refuse to eat grass.
Xiuxiu was so anxious that she was sweating: "Sister, why don't these rabbits eat grass?" Are they sick? ”
Lin Ruan poured two large bowls of water in a row, then stopped, took out a bunch of grapes from the basket, and beckoned to Xiuxiu.
"Leave those rabbits alone, come and see what this is."
"Grapes! Sister, how can there be grapes? ”
Xiuxiu's eyes lit up, and she immediately threw the hares that didn't give her face behind, and Baba ran to Lin Ruan. When she saw that the basket was full of grapes, the little girl covered her mouth and stomped excitedly on the ground with her two little feet.
At this time, grapes are a rare thing, and they are extremely difficult to serve, ordinary people can not afford to eat, and no one grows grapes in the entire Linjia Village.
There is a picture in the memory of the original owner, last year Lin Zhong took a large family to the county to catch a big gathering, and happened to see a few bunches of grapes on someone's stall. Lin Mei was clamoring to eat, Wang had always loved her, so she ruthlessly spent a few copper plates and bought a small bunch.
Xiuxiuren was greedy, and when she saw Lin Mei eating so sweetly, she was so aggrieved that she cried, but she was scolded by Wang's ears.
The original owner felt sorry for Xiuxiu, so he went to Funiu Mountain to look for a day, and only then brought back a few bunches of small and unpalatable wild grapes to relieve Xiuxiu's hunger.