Chapter 29: Be My Daughter
Later, Mingfang went to the forest farm as usual to sieve the birds, and the lasso to catch the hares. Old man Lin was already waiting for her on the forest path where she came in a thick cotton jacket.
Old man Lin beckoned to her from afar: "Man, is the wine coming?"
Mingfang looked guilty, she was so busy saving people in the morning that she had forgotten about drinking. The rehmannia they dug is still drying on the roof of her house, and people won't collect it if they don't dry it.
"Man, I'm sorry, I forgot! I went to Hejiaji Town the morning ago, and when school was over, the principal came out to teach me a lesson, telling me not to come to the school gate to sell things. As a result, before I could say anything, he suddenly fainted, and I gave him artificial respiration to save him, and finally rescued the person......"
Lin Guozhi nodded at her with a solemn face: "You did the right thing." At that time, it was like being on the battlefield, of course, it was important to save people. ”
Ming Fang looked at the old man: "Man, have you ever been on the battlefield and fought?"
"Yes, little ghost, Lao Tzu came out of the rain of bullets!" Old man Lin looked serious, looking into the distance, not knowing what he thought.
"Man, what about you...... Where are they? You won't patronize the war, and you haven't gotten a wife yet, have you?" The so-called phoenix off the shelf is not as good as a chicken, an old man who looks at the forest, Ming Fang is not afraid of him, these days the two have been together for a long time, they can say everything freely, and Mingxin will not talk big or small.
"Yes, Lao Tzu has a wife!" Lin Guozhi came back to his senses, took the small pickaxe in Ming Fang's hand, and the two walked towards the earth slope with rehmannia, "However, now it seems that having a wife is no different from not having a wife, and people have already drawn a line with me......"
Another poor man. It's not terrible for people to be in adversity, but it's terrible that your family doesn't understand and understand, and you fall apart, so what warmth and thoughts do you have in your heart?
These days, taking medicine, coupled with Mingfang's acupuncture treatment, the old man's asthma is much better, walking, and basically no coughing or asthma in daily life. The old man's eyes were much kinder and kinder when he saw Ming Fang.
"So, what about your child?" Old man Lin took a small pickaxe and shaved the ground out of the ground, and Ming Fang squatted down to pick it up in the basket.
"I have two sons. The eldest is nineteen this year, and the second is about the same age as you. Hey, girl, I just don't have a daughter, you don't dislike the old man's words, let me be a girl, okay?"
"Be a girl?"
"That's right, the old man likes you girl, let me be my daughter, okay?" Old man Lin looked at Mingfang eagerly, for fear that she would not be willing.
Ming Fang smiled, and said in her heart that she already had a mother and a brother inexplicably, and she was afraid of having another father?
"Uncle, I don't need to be your daughter, I will be a health doctor for you, I will take care of you and accompany you like a daughter, it's the same!"
Lin Guozhi was stunned for a moment and was unhappy: "If you say that, you also dislike the old man!"
Hey, where do I dislike you, I just don't want to climb you! Ming Fang bowed to Lin Guozhi: "Okay, dad is above, please accept your daughter's worship!"
"Haha!ha!" Lin Guozhi laughed, and hurriedly hugged Mingfang, so happy that tears hung in the corners of his eyes, "Ouch, good girl, my girl!
Old man Lin was so happy that he hugged Mingfang and didn't let go, and kept patting her on the back: "Good boy, the old man is no longer alone here." ”
Ming Fang stretched out her hand to gently wipe the tears from the corners of the old man's eyes: "Actually, since the day I came to your hut, you are no longer alone, and we will depend on each other." I'm your doctor!"
Ming Fang likes to listen to everything Lin Guozhi says, and he thinks that her voice is as moving as a silver bell. He couldn't stop nodding, his face was full of laugh lines: "Yes, yes, my daughter is my health care doctor, my little padded jacket." ”
"So, you have to listen to me about health care, for now, you rest, I'll dig myself. ”
The old man was indeed a little tired, and when he talked about his baby daughter, he was excited: "Okay, the old man listens to Fang'er." ”
Hey, that's it!
Ming Fang didn't pay attention to it at the moment, she unknowingly fell in love with a big person!
The weather is overcast and it looks like it's going to snow. Ming Fang dug up a small half basket of rehmannia and hurriedly called it a day. She picked up a branch in the woods. The winter is dry, and the dead branches are blown by the cold wind and fall one after another. It was easy to pick up branches in the woods, and Ming Fang's hands were fast, so she picked up a lot of them without much effort. She carried the branches to the door of the hut one by one, saying that she would wait for the evening and tell her brother Mingli to carry them home.
It's going to snow, and Mingfang thinks that after the snow, she has to heat the greenhouse. A few days ago, the brother and sister had been in the shed, and a long fireplace was built out of adobe against the north wall. If it's too cold, it will burn for a while after dinner, and when the fireplace is hot, the shed will naturally be warm.
Old man Lin watched his daughter work and praised it in his heart. When she was done, Old Man Lin went into the hut and took out a hare he had caught yesterday and put it in Mingfang's basket.
Mingfang acted like a trick, and took out a canned bottle from under the sack at the bottom of the basket, and the empty canned bottle was asked by Mingfang for Aunt Daling. At noon, Zhang Meiyu made rabbit offal soup, and Mingfang took it out first and put it in a canned bottle.
"The rabbit offal soup is here, and I'll give you a tooth sacrifice. ”
Old man Lin took it: "Haha! Okay, I've eaten my daughter's cooking." ”
"Man, this is my mother's doing. If you want to eat the food I cooked, it's hard to say, it's a long time coming, it's a long time coming!"
Old man Lin seemed to think of something while holding the canned bottle, and said Wait, he entered the hut, and after a while, the old man came out with a few bills in his hand: "Girl, take it, I don't have anything to give you at the moment......"
This is the only savings that Old Man Lin has!
Ming Fang hurriedly waved his hand to shirk it: "I can't ask for it!" You know, I catch hares, catch sparrows, dig rehmannia, and sell it for money every day. Look, I've got money!"
"Fang'er, today the old man is happy to have a daughter, you have to ask your father to express something?"
Mingfang laughed, but his father was embarrassed to shout: "Oh, you help me catch hares and dig rehmannia, this is the best expression!"
Looking at such a sensible and clever girl, Old Man Lin was overjoyed, "Hey, otherwise, Dad will give you the radio!"
Listening to the news, listening to the opera, and passing the long time of the sun and the moon, in a certain sense, this radio is more important than his wife, and it can be said that it is his spiritual sustenance.
It can be seen how much the old man likes Mingfang!
Seeing Old Man Lin happily take out the radio from the hut, Mingfang's eyes were moist: "You gave me the radio, I don't dare to take it home?" It should be strange for others to see it, in the situation of my family, others have seen it, thinking that I stole it from somewhere, and it is time to cause trouble." Besides, you'll have to listen to the news!"
Old man Lin knew that she was telling the truth, so he didn't insist.
Mingfang smiled: "Well, do you have bullet casings, military merit medals or something? I heard that bullet casings have commemorative significance, can you send me a few?"
Old man Lin nodded when he heard this: "Haha! There are many bullet shells on the battlefield." Hey, other old men don't have it, but they got a lot of military merit medals, but ......"
Ming Fangxin said, what, reluctant to give?
Old man Lin smiled: "That thing was left at home, I didn't bring it." I knew that girls were rare, so I just brought them. ”
I see.
"It's okay, then you owe it first. Mingfang smiled and picked up the basket, "It's not too early, I have to go back." You'll be hot up and eat the rabbit offal soup in a moment!"
Old man Lin waved his hand: "Girl, slow down on the road, don't fall!"
Mingfang promised to run away early.