Heartfire Chapter 24: Red eyes, red face.

Su Wei forgave me, and she concluded the matter with the reason for my youth and ignorance.

I lay on Su Wei's lap, my eyes closed, my hands flat on my stomach, and Su Wei used a fan to help me cool off.

"It's been so long? Are you still thinking about the Seven Monarchs? Su Wei looked down at me.

I didn't speak, but held out my hands, each counting how many days had passed.

"Don't count, it's been more than half a month." Su Wei raised her head and looked at the stars at night.

"I miss her so much." I put my hand down again and gazed at the night sky with her.

"She's actually very warm-hearted, so it's no wonder you like her." Su Wei stroked my hair with both hands.

Recalling the day I saw her, everything was as it was the first time.

At that time, I was still very young, and I don't remember how old I was, I only remember that when I was just sensible, Su Wei led me on the road. There was a woman who was ragged, and the clothes on her chest seemed to have been torn apart, and even though the plaster covered her white skin, the snow-white skin could not help but show itself on the exposed shoulders, and she looked haggard, and bowed her head, and when she saw us looking at her, her guard made her take a few steps back. The long hair had not been taken care of for a long time, it had been knotted into a ball, and it was mixed with yellow mud, and when I brought her back, I still changed many buckets of water and a few people to comb it, so that the hair was straight.

That was the scene when I met the Seven Monarchs for the first time.

"I still remember that no matter how hard she tried, she would give the things she begged back to give the animals around her a little food, she was always so kind, she never thought about herself." I say.

"It's good that we met her, and we gave her a home." Su Wei said with a smile.

"Now that she's gone, I never believed she had left me." I rolled over and looked ahead, and her scene was unfolding before my eyes.

"Recently, I have seen that you are preoccupied, and I know her place in your heart." Su Wei continued to pick up the fan and fan the wind.

"I remember the people who were good to me, and I remember the people who were bad to me."

"I've been looking for her."

"Have you gone to her now?" I looked up.

"I have a friend who works as a detective agency, and I asked him to look for it, and after so long, no one should have an answer." Su Wei slowly got up and stretched.

Later, Su Wei was in charge.

Of course, the food expenses are kept by Su Wei.

Therefore, often if the food is unappetizing or a little light, they will not trouble Wu Xu, the first person who will ask is Su Wei, sometimes Qiu Feng comes back to eat, and the two sisters will question whether they are making money from it.

That day, I saw Su Wei tinkering with her "garden", she squatted down and carefully trimmed the flower branches, I saw her at a glance and quickly raised her hands to let her see me, although she was short and thin, and she looked weak, but I still saw her at a glance, she was wearing a dark blue floral pleated skirt, and she carried a watering can in her right hand. The wind was so strong that it blew her skirt up, and her long hair was blown by the wind and covered her eyes like seaweed, and she stood up, one hand running through her hair, and the other hand beckoned to me, and I ran at Suvi, until she took a step back, almost knocking her down.

"Today, Ah Mao praised me for practicing calligraphy well." I bared my teeth and looked up at Su Wei, tugging at the corners of her skirt and bouncing.

I will never forget the moment when I threw my whole body into her arms, her arms around me, and the scent of roses in her ears, which was her favorite smell.

"Child, what do you want to eat and what your mother buys." As I spoke, I put my hands on her shoulders and tilted my head to look at her and smile.

Then, I jumped up and down and took her to the snack shop I frequented.

"Whatever you want to eat, take it yourself." Aunt Lu pointed to the snacks in front of her and said.

"I want this sugar gourd." I took two sugar gourds and pasted them on both sides of my face, my eyes wide open, and I looked at Su Wei with a smile.

"Take it if you like it." Su Wei said.

I love Su Wei as much as I love myself, unreservedly loving and depending.

I think that in this family, everyone can love me as much as Su Wei cherishes me.

I ate all the way home.

When it was time to eat, Wu Xu had already finished cooking a table of dishes, and Qiu Feng also came back. In the time I went up to the second floor, the dish was already half cold, and the chicken thighs were missing two.

Seeing us step down the stairs, Xinwen glanced us from head to toe, frowning.

"Today there is only the main dish of the chicken, the chicken has not two chicken legs, not even a green vegetable, the soup is as clear as boiled water, and I have enough food expenses every month, it shouldn't be someone who makes oil and water from it." Xinwen asked.

I hid behind Su Wei, grabbed Su Wei's right hand with two hands, and only showed one eye to look at Xinwen.

"What do you mean by this, the tavern is doing so badly now, it's already very good, I can still see those two chicken legs when I go out." Su Wei pointed to the plate of chicken and said.

"Don't talk so much, maybe I secretly packed that chicken leg up and sent it to your big girl." Xinwen lowered her breath and rolled her eyes to look at us again.

Qiu Feng continued: "Don't tell her so much, just pry her daughter's mouth open, smell the smell and know." ”

"Let go, don't touch my Sissy." Su Wei dragged me back hard.

I didn't say anything about how I didn't eat chicken legs, I didn't even have the courage to explain myself, I just hid behind me. At that time, I didn't have the courage to say a word, so I could only follow Su Wei step by step.

"What for!" The Commander came down from the second floor.

Qiu Feng looked at Xinwen, made a look, and sat down at the round table to eat.

Jin'er leaned next to my ear and whispered, "I ate those two chicken legs, I didn't finish them, and I threw them away." Then he covered his mouth and snickered there.

I watched Jin'er as I ate until she finished eating.

After eating, Su Wei pulled me back into my room and locked the door, and I watched her take a deep breath.

"Xixi, will your mother take you to your grandmother's house tomorrow?" Su Wei held my cheeks with both hands.

"Going to grandma's house? Okay, I miss my grandmother. ”

Su Wei took out a red, white and blue bag from the drawer under the wardrobe and packed up all the daily things, Teng Zhi went to Huaiji for several days and didn't come back, Su Wei felt more and more tired.

I took out some clothes from the closet, and after tidying them up, Ruosheng stuffed them all into a bag. Su Wei lifted the ears of the red, white and blue bag and hung it on her arm, she was very short, and after carrying the bag, it seemed that she pressed people down. She didn't know how much courage she had at the time, and walked out of the house, carrying a red, white and blue bag in one hand and holding me in the other.

"Take so many things, where to go?" Aunt Wang, who was next door to the yard, opened the door and looked at us.

"Go to your mother-in-law's house and stay for a few days." Su Wei said with a smile.

Aunt Wang scanned us from head to toe with an incredulous expression.

"Go ahead!" She seemed to see something and waved goodbye to us.

The journey to my grandmother's house was very close, but it always felt very far on the way that Ah Mao Chang sent us there.

There was a section of the road where the car could not drive in, so I had to get out of the car and go.

After getting out of the car, Ah Mao picked up the bag for us, sorted it out, and started again. I stood next to the bag and tried to hold the bottom with my hands, but I couldn't exert any strength at all.

Along the way, I tossed, paused, rested, and came to my grandmother's house.

When the neighbors saw Su Wei, they were all asking how to take so many things, but Su Wei just smiled and didn't make any answer.

"What's going on?" Grandma looked at us in horror, and I didn't dare to speak, just looked at Su Wei.

Su Wei told her grandmother the whole thing in detail.

Grandma sighed: "Your dead ghost old man is useless, he will only protect his daughter, and Gu Tengzhi is also nervous." She put her hands on either side of the wooden chair, her right leg on her left, cocked, shook her toes, and her shoes fell to the ground.

"I've had enough of this, so let his daughter point at our nose and scold."

"Both father and son are the same death." Grandma sat on a stool and looked out the window, as if thinking about something.

My grandmother was a very simple person, and she could only be seen in the vegetable field in the afternoon.

The pond was still reflecting the setting sun, the transpiration of the water was silent, I closed my left eye and stared hard at my right eye to lie down, catching a cricket alive, and I carefully dissected the poor little insect. When I looked back, it was my grandmother who was carrying two buckets of bulky water on her shoulders, and she was standing up to me for a while, and the water couldn't help but splash around, as if she couldn't help but dedicate herself to this vegetable patch dried by the scorching sun.

The sun was dazzling, but I could see my grandmother's face red through the cracks.

This relatively large vegetable field, there is a pond in the middle, the pond is not very full, I heard my grandmother say, children should not go into the water easily, because there is a water monster in it, it will devour you, so that you have to give it your life, and then you will be a water monster, looking for the next stupid prey. So I can find that although the water is not deep and no one goes into the water, only my grandmother is not afraid of this legendary water monster, and resolutely walks to the edge of the pool full of buckets of water to irrigate the "vegetable baby" behind her who needs to be taken care of.

Come to think of it, life is a water monster, which devours a person's years, energy, and patience, and makes you end quietly.

I would follow my grandmother's shadow to the vegetable garden, and I found that the sunset was actually red-faced, and I couldn't help but run and jump because of the colorful clouds in the sky, and I wanted to hug this vegetable garden that belonged to me and my grandmother. I actually found a small black hole in the wall with a snake, I swayed from side to side, tiptoed into my grandmother's arms, my grandmother was not afraid, she looked fearless and did not know the height of the sky, picked up the burden, said to poke it, I didn't expect the snake to come out like this, I immediately applauded. In the future, even though I can't see the snake, I will still deliberately challenge the snake in the "black hole" and ask it to come out to "fight", and every time my grandmother will scare me, "The snake is out!" "The warrior's courage in me will fall away at once.

In the past few days, we have all slept together with three of us, and we must recite a Tang poem before going to bed every night, and she smiled at me, "Flying down three thousand feet, what is the next sentence, you are not allowed to sleep if you can't memorize it." I was secretly happy, and replied with my head high: "I suspect that the Milky Way has fallen for nine days!" "Even though I knew I couldn't answer, my grandmother put me to sleep.

I was woken up early in the morning by this unpleasant rooster crow, and I vaguely heard Aunt Li next door calling her grandson, and my grandmother had already made an early morning and waited for me to get up.

Then my grandmother pedaled on her bike, and I sat behind her, driving me around, but every time I didn't think it was pleasant, every time I went out, I had to cross the crowded street, opposite the front of the oncoming bicycle, and rush over a very steep slope to come to a relatively wide greenway.

Grandma hurriedly took off her straw hat, fanned the wind, and lowered her head slowly.

"Wake up early and watch the sunrise with grandma."

At this moment, I saw my sweaty grandmother with a flushed face.