Volume 1 Bath in Fire Chapter 16 Freemasonry (2)
Lu Dashu wanted to persuade peace, but was pushed down by Wu Guiqin, Lu Dashu's left leg was disabled, and his center of gravity was unstable, like a towering tree cut down, and he fell to the ground in embarrassment and sadness.
Luo Yingchun threw down the cow rope and hurriedly went to help.
The long-tongued women laughed again, roaring like machines or shrill as electric drills.
"Uncle Lu Biao......"
Luo Yingchun was very struggling, Lu Dashu struggled on the ground, and used the support of his arms to get up, he was embarrassed and annoyed, but he was helpless for such humiliation.
"You push him?!"
Luo Yingchun is both questioning and accusing, she wants to cry, but she has to endure it; She only felt that the world was so desperate for her, that she had never experienced justice.
She regards herself as a flower in the water and a willow on the shore, and wants to denounce the drift against the current, but she sighs for her own insignificance, and can only be washed away with the waves until she is torn apart by the waves, and will never be in the vast water waves.
"Uncle Lu and I are the same kind of people! It's the same kind of people who are bullied, and the kind of people who are looked down upon! She told herself more than once.
"I just touched him lightly and he fell! You see, it scared me! ”
Wu Guiqin spread out her hands and pretended to be innocent, just like a vulture that pecked at a dead corpse and complained to her fellow citizens that the flesh of the dead corpse was difficult to swallow.
Meng Qingquan is always like rain in time. As his figure approached, the chatter of the long-tongued women came to an abrupt end. They knew that Meng Qingquan and Luo Yingchun were close.
"Brother Quan!" Luo Yingchun saw the savior, far away, she waved to him.
"Alright! It's all scattered! Scattered! Go back to doing housework! One of the long-tongued women shouted;
"Auntie, you guys are bullying Uncle Lu Biao again!"
Meng Qingquan asked in a joking tone, but his expression was extremely serious.
"Ouch, we're having fun!" Wu Guiqin slapped her palms, pretending to be innocent;
"Oh! Joke, this joke is too big! ”
Meng Qingquan was cold and stern, Wu Guiqin didn't defend herself anymore, pulled the long-tongued women, and walked away like mourning dogs. In the courtyard, no one was willing to offend the Meng family, even if the Meng family did something excessive, others could only dare to be angry and dare not speak.
"Brother Quan! They did it on purpose! You don't know the temperament of those eight women. ”
Luo Yingchun was angry and complained, she was unwilling to insult people and ran away like this.
"I know for sure! There is nothing to do when you are full of food and drink, and the parents are short and play right and wrong. ”
"Damn it! Very hateful! A shrew who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard! ”
"Don't be upset! How old are we, how old are they? When they enter old age, the whole yard will be our world! ”
Meng Qingquan comforted Luo Yingchun, and he felt the same for her anger and humiliation.
The aggrieved Lu Dashu's face was like earth, and his expression was lonely. He shook off the dry ash between his trousers, turned and staggered away in the direction of home.
"Uncle Lubiao, are you injured?"
Luo Yingchun looked at Lu Dashu's thin back and asked, and a burst of sourness rose in his heart.
"No, Yingchun, you guys are busy with your going!"
Lu Dashu didn't look back, he stretched out his thick right hand and swung it, limping and making difficult movements, so that the green midsummer beauty burst into bursts of late autumn loneliness; Looking at his distant back, Luo Yingchun couldn't help it, she thought, humble life can never withstand the stormy waves of fate.
The breeze whispers, the grass and trees sway, the sun shines, and the ears of corn shine brightly, like surging golden waves, dazzling.
Meng Qingquan was close to Luo Yingchun, and he enjoyed this comfortable feeling.
Luo Yingchun just looked at the mountain opposite, in her opinion, the mountain was an obstacle blocking her way, it made her unable to see the scene on the other side of the mountain; At the same time, in the face of Meng Qingquan, she was a little overwhelmed, which she had never done before, if she hadn't bumped into Meng Dailu's secret, she wouldn't have felt so guilty and uneasy.
"I heard that last night, there was a quarrel in your house?" Meng Qingquan asked tentatively, his words tactful;
"Yes! Grandpa came home yesterday, but Yue Fengyi provoked trouble again! Luo Yingchun replied bluntly;
"The two sisters of the Xue family are also making trouble for you?"
"Of course, you know, they and I are mortal enemies, how can they tolerate me."
"Oh. That ......" Meng Qingquan stopped talking, his gaze moving back and forth between her wind-blown ears and hair.
Luo Yingchun is like the beautiful Zhang Wanying. The eyebrows are like distant mountains and shallow daisies, the eyes are like the still water of the autumn pool, and the face that resembles a pebble is shining in the elegance...... Even if he is dressed plainly, he can't hide the scorching light at all. But the people of Qingyun Bay are insulated with beauty, and they can't find beauty.
At this time, her smooth and graceful side face was facing Meng Qingquan, and he just looked at it like that, and the dark tide in his heart surged.
"What do you want to say, Brother Quan?"
She turned her head, her eyes met, and the moment she met his gaze, the shameless picture of Meng Dailu and his mistress swept over, and she hurriedly looked away, but involuntarily landed on the big stone.
"Grandpa Luo returned to his hometown and found his relatives?"
It filled her with guilt. She had a strong ideological struggle again. She asked herself, should she tell Meng Qingquan about Meng Dailu's scandal?
"Hey! Am I asking you? You're always wandering today. ”
"Oh!" She was a little embarrassed; "What did you just ask?"
"I asked, did Grandpa Luo find his relatives when he returned to his hometown this time?" Meng Qingquan asked with a smile;
"Nope! His siblings died of illness many years ago! That's what he told me before. ”
"I see, let's not talk about it!"
Luo Yingchun's mind reappeared with the image of that photo. The waves and the coconut trees, she thought, she was afraid that she would never be able to go to such a beautiful place in her life!
"Although he has no relatives, his grandfather has contacted his comrades-in-arms and has been his playmate since childhood."
"Comrade-in-arms? I know Grandpa Luo was a soldier! ”
"That's right, what about 'Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea'!"
"It's what the textbook says!"
"Yes!" Luo Yingchun decided to share Luo Chaoqian's experience with him; "But, his comrade-in-arms was captured by the enemy, and then went to Taiwan, and then to a foreign country, oh, it's the United States, yes, the United States."
"Taiwan? United States! How could you go so far? Meng Qingquan was incredulous, he pointed to the sky in the distance, and exclaimed incredulously;
"It's true, Brother Quan." Luo Yingchun replied seriously; "I've even seen the pictures! And letters sent from the United States. ”
"So, is Grandpa Luo planning to go to the United States to see his comrades-in-arms?"
"It's too far away, we don't have any money, and we can't find the direction where we go."
"That's right, the United States is far away, you can only reach it by crossing the ocean, and in geography class, I saw the map and the globe." Meng Qingquan's mind recalled the position of the plate above the globe; "His comrades-in-arms can come here from the United States, and it is said that foreigners are rich."
Luo Yingchun hurriedly shook his head; "That won't work, his comrades-in-arms are already in wheelchairs, and they are in very bad physical condition, they are unable to move, they come and go, and they will be tossed to death."
"Are you going to never see each other again?"
"You can write a letter! Grandpa said, when I grow up, know more words, and learn English well, let me lead him again! ”
Luo Yingchun smiled and looked forward to it.
"It's almost the day of school!" Meng Qingquan took a deep breath so that the fragrance of the grass could invade his whole body; "Don't worry, Yingchun, don't be afraid in the new school, Brother Quan, I will take care of you!"
"Thank you so much, I don't know how to survive in the yard without you."
The more Meng Qingquan treated her, the more guilty she felt.
"Say something to see!" Meng Qingquan's smile is like bright sunshine, and his curved eyebrows are like a small bridge that smiles and bends over; "I forgot, you see......"
He took out two "True Knowing Sticks" from his trouser pocket, handed them to Luo Yingchun with strawberry flavor, and kept the milk-flavored ones for himself.
"Wow! It's been a long time since I've eaten sugar! ”
Luo Yingchun's eyes lit up, tore open the package, stuffed it into his mouth impatiently, and sipped it with relish.
"Look, our mountain here is so high! So high that you can't see anything! Meng Qingquan glanced at the towering mountains around him;
"Hmm. I want to see the sea, where I can see farther and wider. ”
"You see, there are some people who have never walked out of Qingyun Bay until they die all their lives, and they never know how big this world really is."
"Hmm. For example, the group of long-tongued women, who have hardly been out of here since they were born. Luo Yingchun pointed to the ground under his feet;
"It's sad to think about it!" Meng Qingquan lowered his head and sighed, his handsome face was especially obvious in the sun; "So, when I finish my studies and earn more money, and then I go around the world, just like Magellan, when the time comes, I will take you with me."
"Okay, great, then I have to study hard and earn more money in the future!"
"Let's go to Southeast Asia first, then to Europe, and finally to the Americas......" Meng Qingquan was full of anticipation, as if what he said was about to become a fact; And Antarctica, Arctic, to see penguins and polar bears! ”
"Good! All right! That's it! ”
Luo Yingchun clapped his hands. A flock of birds skimmed overhead, chirping and relaxing. This allowed her to see the beauty of the distance.
However, how do they know that young dreams are easy to make, but it is difficult to realize them!