Volume II, Chapter 33: The Yellow Rose
"Mom, don't clean up, I'll come, don't do it." Seeing her mother's disillusioned look, Nan Nan walked to the corner of the kitchen and picked up a plastic broom and a dustpan of the same texture.
"Ah, no, Mommy herself, hiss." The mother suddenly heard Nannan's voice, and then she came back to her senses, and she went to pick up a broken bowl on the ground in a panic, but she was accidentally cut on her index finger. The mother's hand shrank suddenly, but even the other palm with her own spread out trembled, and the rest of the fragments in the palm of the hand were all "clattering".
It slammed into the ground again, and then scattered and shattered. The mother didn't have time to react, she was startled, and her body fell backwards again, and she fell to the ground.
"Mom, are you alright?" Nan Nan was holding a broom and a dustpan and was about to turn back, but she heard the continuous sound behind her, one after another, that is, she dropped the things in her hand, turned around in a panic, and saw the scene of her mother falling to the ground, so she hurriedly stepped forward, bent down, and helped her up.
"I, I'm fine." The mother's face turned pale, obviously frightened by herself, she stretched out her hands to inspect it, and there was a hole in the index finger of her right hand, and a hole in the palm of her left hand, which was slightly shallower than that of her right hand, but it was all bleeding outward.
"Go to the living room, I'll disinfect you and put a band-aid on you." Nan Nan took a closer look at the two openings, they were not particularly deep, and there were no broken ballasts mixed in them. He took his mother's hand and led her to the living room. Then, Nan Nan walked to the front of the locker again, opened the drawer, took out a small box of medicine boxes, and turned around. But when she turned around, she saw her mother still standing in the place where she had just been held, standing in a daze, her head bowed, her hands stretched out in the air, and her eyes staring blankly at her bleeding wound.
"Mom." When Nan Nan saw her mother's appearance, she was really worried and nervous, but she didn't know how to speak, so she had to call softly.
The mother didn't seem to hear it, she still kept the same movement, the same expression, motionless, and never changed in the slightest.
Nan Nan couldn't, she hugged the medicine box with both hands, walked in front of her mother, and called again: "Mom." This time, Nannan's voice was a little louder
The mother seemed to finally hear it, she shook her head violently, and she didn't seem to notice that Nan Nan was standing in front of her. The mother looked panicked, leaned back, and took a step backwards. "What, what's wrong? Huh?" Mother asked.
"Sit on the couch and I'll disinfect you." Nan Nan glanced at her mother, then turned her head to the sofa and gestured.
"Oh, oh, good." The mother hurriedly replied to Nannan, and sat down on the sofa in a hurry.
Nan Nan also sat on the sofa with her mother, and she put down the medicine box she was holding together, and it was separated between the two. Nan Nan opened the medicine box, took out a small bottle of alcohol from it, and a box of cotton wool, she opened the box of cotton wool, took out two small balls of cotton wool from it, and then opened the cap of the alcohol bottle, poured some alcohol on the cotton wool, and then closed the alcohol bottle again, and re-entered the medicine box with the cotton wool box.
Nan Nan first took her mother's right hand, put it in front of her eyes, lowered her brain, and carefully wiped her mother's wound with one of the cotton wools.
At this moment, my mother suddenly opened her mouth and asked, "Nannan, what does that Aunt He Qin look like when you are talking about?"
Nan Nan listened to her mother's phone call, and couldn't help but raise her head and look at her mother, but her mother's eyes flickered, and she turned her head away slightly, deliberately not making any eye contact with Nan Nan.
Nan Nan had no choice but to bury her head again and disinfect her mother, although Nan Nan felt sleepy, she still told her mother the truth: "I said Aunt He Qin, she is very good-looking, her eyes are round, her skin is also very white, and she has natural smiling lips. Her hair was long, jet-black and shiny, and it was particularly conspicuous. As soon as Nan Nan finished saying this, her mother's hand suddenly trembled, and it was also tightened, if it wasn't for Nan Nan to hold it, I am afraid she would have clenched it into a fist.
Nan Nan raised her head again and glanced at her mother, only to see that her mother had opened her mouth wide and her eyes widened, and her two dark brown eyes seemed to bulge out, and her face was full of shocked and disbelievable expressions.
"Mom?" Nan Nan called her mother, she had never seen her mother look like this.
"Huh? Is it sanitized?" As soon as her mother was called by Nannan, she immediately put away the expression on her face, but her expression was still very unnatural, and her mother looked at Nannan, and immediately lowered her head and looked at her hands, as if she was deliberately avoiding something.
"Not yet, there is another hand, let's put a band-aid on it first." Nan Nan didn't ask, since she knew that her mother was deliberately concealing, Nan Nan didn't want to embarrass her. Nan Nan waved the blood-stained cotton wool and threw it in the garbage can, then took out a band-aid from the medicine box, tore open the package, and wrapped it around the wound on her mother's index finger.
After that, Nan Nan put down her mother's right hand, took her mother's left hand, and threw the packaging of the band-aid into the garbage Jane, and then wiped it on her mother's palm with the remaining cotton wool.
"In addition to these, do you know some other things about Guan Yu's aunt?" Mother asked again, her voice trembling.
While helping her mother disinfect, Nan Nan recalled, "That aunt said she liked rosemary very much."
As soon as Nan Nan finished saying this, her mother's hand shrank back forcefully. Nan Nan was a little frightened by her mother's overreaction, and she looked at her mother.
The mother also reacted to how strange her behavior was, and she stretched out her hand in front of Nan Nan again, "I'm sorry, Nan Nan, you continue." ”
Nan Nan looked at her mother, she opened her mouth, but closed it again, still didn't say anything, didn't ask anything. Still bowing her head, helping her mother disinfect and put on a band-aid, when Nan Nan threw the packaging of the cotton wool and band-aids into the trash, she collected the medicine box and said softly: "Mom, you just sit here and rest, I'll just sweep away the debris in the kitchen."
"yes, okay." The mother whispered in response, she lowered her head, put her hands on her knees, and sat reclining in the direction of Nannan.
Just as Nan Nan stood up and was about to put the medicine box back in the locker, she heard her mother's muttering: "Rosemary." ”
Nan Nan looked down at her mother, only to see a few strands of gray hair on her head, and her half-lowered eyelids, Nan Nan shook her head slightly, and went to put the medicine box back in the locker. Then he went to the kitchen again, picked up the broom and dustpan again and swept all the debris on the floor, poured the debris into the garbage can in the kitchen, and wiped off the blood stains left by his mother on the ground with a paper towel.
While Nan Nan was doing these things, she was always thinking about the relationship between her mother and Aunt He Qin. Judging from the mother's expression, at the very least, the mother must know Aunt He Qin, but the mother's reaction was really too weird, she looked too panicked, and it seemed that she was deliberately avoiding something, or even uneasy.
After throwing the blood-stained tissue into the trash, Nan Nan turned back to look at her mother. I was just able to see a back of my mother, and her posture was exactly the same as when Nan Nan entered the kitchen.
Nan Nan sighed, she took a packet of dried rose tea from the kitchen shelf, took out a transparent glass teacup, put three pink and purple rose tea in it, and put the tea bag back on the shelf.
Nan Nan reached out and took the kettle placed on the kitchen cabinet, poured a full amount of water into the teacup, and the three rose teas floated in the water, and by the way, they scattered their colors, which were originally transparent water, but at this time they had turned into a light yellow appearance. Nan Nan picked up the teacup and smelled a sweet fragrance.
Nan Nan took the cup of tea, turned around, and walked towards her mother. After arriving at her mother's side, Nan Nan said softly, "Mom." The mother turned around, but her eyes were scarlet and tearful, Nan Nan was very surprised, and even the tea in her hand almost spilled out.
Nan Nan hurriedly put the teacup on the coffee table not far away, and took out several pieces of paper from the napkin box on the coffee table and handed them to her mother.
After her mother wiped the tears from her face, Nan Nan handed the cup of rose tea to her mother again, and her mother also took it with both hands, but she didn't take a sip, she just held it with both hands and put it on her knees.
After a long time, just when Nan Nan couldn't bear to ask, her mother took a step ahead, "Nan Nan, do you know what the flower language of yellow roses is?"
Mother's father, that is, Nan Nan's grandfather is a child who loves to fiddle with some flowers and plants, Nan Nan often lived in her grandfather's house when she was a child, and she has been exposed to it since she was a child, and she knows a lot about some flowers, although she doesn't know why her mother suddenly asked like this, but she still thought about it carefully, and replied: "I know, it's pure friendship and beautiful blessings, and the love that has passed, and ......" Nan Nan said this, but it suddenly stopped, she seemed to have known what her mother was hiding.
A tear fell from her mother's eyes, just in the middle of the tea, "And, jealousy." ”