Chapter 10: Homecoming
"Second sister!" Lin Xiaohan was overjoyed and ran towards Lin Guyu, hurriedly hugged the bean paste behind Lin Guyu, and said happily, "Mother said that you would come back today, let me come here and wait for you." ”
Although Dousha is very young, it still has weight, and Rao is Lin Guyu, a fourteen-year-old girl, who is tired from holding her arms for a while.
"I'll just hold the baby, you hold the basket."
Lin Xiaohan is half a head shorter than Lin Guyu, he is just ten years old this year, even if he is a man, he doesn't have much strength.
"Second sister, I'm not tired."
Lin Xiaohan struggled to hold the bean paste, but the bean paste didn't like Lin Xiaohan, a pair of round eyes looked at Lin Guyu with tears, his little face drooped, and he looked like he was about to cry.
Lin Xiaohan felt that the bean paste was about to slide down, so he hurriedly leaned up, and his body leaned back uncontrollably.
Lin Guyu looked at Lin Xiaohan like this, for fear that Lin Xiaohan would fall down directly at once.
Lin Guyu put the basket in his hand on the ground, hugged the bean paste back with a smile, and said with a smile, "I'll just hold it." ”
"Call Uncle." Lin Guyu looked at the child in his arms with a smile.
"Uncle!"
Dousha can say some simple things now, and I don't know if it's because of his mother, his temperament is still soft.
"Sister, I'm coming!" Lin Xiaohan said, reaching out to hug the bean paste.
"Okay, you hurry up and carry the basket, let's go back quickly, otherwise my mother will be in a hurry." Lin Guyu said, and then walked directly to the front.
Lin Xiaohan bent down to pick up the basket and keep up with Lin Guyu's steps.
When he was about to arrive at the door, Lin Guyu put down the bean paste and took the little hand of the bean paste and walked towards the Lin family.
Before he reached the door, Lin Guyu saw Zhao standing at the door from a distance, looking forward to it.
Seeing that Lin Guyu and Lin Xiaohan were back, Zhao quickly walked to Lin Guyu's side.
"Gu Yu," Zhao's voice was a little choked, he grabbed Lin Guyu's shoulders with both hands, looked Lin Guyu up and down, and saw that Lin Guyu was fine, so he said slowly, "Fortunately, you're fine, otherwise ......."
"Mother, I'm fine, you don't have to worry."
Hearing Lin Guyu say this, Zhao's tears that he could not hold back fell uncontrollably, Zhao pursed his lips, looked down at the child led by Lin Guyu, and frowned slightly.
Dousha looked at Zhao timidly, and her small body couldn't help but move back, clutching Lin Guyu's clothes with both hands.
"Mother, this is bean paste," Lin Guyu said with a calm face, then squatted down and gently touched the head of the bean paste, "Dousha, that's grandma." ”
"Grandma." The sound of the bean paste was so small that Zhao could barely hear the child's voice.
"Let's go home, I've already prepared lunch." Zhao wanted to lead the bean paste, but the bean paste kept sticking to Lin Guyu's side, Zhao's eyes narrowed slightly, and he leaned into Lin Guyu's ear, "This kid ......"
Lin Guyu glanced at the bean paste distressedly, and said in a voice that only the two of them could hear, "His mother used to abuse him a lot, so he was a little timid, but fortunately, he was still young, so he could raise him." ”
The expression on Zhao's face paused slightly, and the bitterness gradually rippled in his heart, "It's really bitter for you." ”
"It's fine." Lin Guyu originally wanted to say that when Chi Hang's health was better, she would reconcile with him, but it was better to talk about this matter later.
"But your child, just don't be hungry and frozen." Zhao whispered, "There's no need to take care of it so finely. ”
Lin Guyu's brows furrowed slightly, he raised his eyes to look at Zhao, and said calmly, "Mother, I liked this child when I first saw Dousha. ”
She was telling the Zhao family in disguise that she would take good care of this child until she left the Chi family.
"You," Lin Guyu was a dead-eyed person before, and Zhao sighed a little helplessly, "You are really, you have to think about your own children......"
Zhao Shi said this, as if he thought of something, his face was a little ugly, "How is Goro's body?" ”
"You can only lie in bed." Lin Guyu told the truth.
The blood on Zhao's face gradually disappeared, and the guilt in his heart gradually expanded, and he looked down at the child with Dousha.
No wonder Lin Guyu took this child, it is estimated that Gorou's body is no longer good, if this man is gone, the woman can only live on the child.
The most guilty thing about Zhao is that he doesn't know what Gorou went to hunt in the mountains, but now it has become like this.
Her eldest daughter Lixia is gone, so she can only let Gu Yu marry her.
According to what Gu Yu said, Gu Yu hasn't been able to get married yet!
After this girl gets married, if she is still a virgin, she will be laughed at.
When they arrived at home, Zhao hurriedly asked them to wash their hands and sit at the table.
There were three pairs of chopsticks on the table.
Lin Guyu took care of the bean paste while eating.
"This child," Zhao looked at Lin Guyu uncomfortably, women are already very bitter when they are widowed, and they have to help others raise children, "Don't be so used to it." ”
"What my mother said is," Lin Guyu sent the rice soup to the mouth of the bean paste with a spoon, looked at his small mouth bulging, and after swallowing the rice soup, he took a towel and gently wiped the residue on the side of the bean paste's mouth, "I'll get him an iron bowl and an iron spoon when I go back, and let him eat by himself." ”
A mouthful of old blood in Zhao's chest was about to spit out, and his face was dark, "Who has an iron bowl and an iron spoon at home?" ”
Lin Guyu glanced at Zhao, modern people use stainless steel, but in ancient times, iron was a very precious thing, and no one used iron to hit bowls and spoons.
Ceramic is definitely not good, if you accidentally fall, you must not be able to use it again.
Thinking like this, Lin Guyu suddenly looked at Zhao with a smile as if he thought of something, "I'll go back and go to the master to get a small wooden bowl and a wooden spoon." ”
Zhao looked at Lin Guyu with a wry smile, and after a while, he still couldn't help but speak, "With that money, buy some food, and your life can be better." ”
Lin Guyu was feeding the bean paste, she had never seen such an obedient child, it really hurt her heart, "I spent a lot of silver to buy medicine some time ago, and after a while, I should go to the mountains to collect medicine, otherwise just buying medicine will definitely not be enough for Brother Chi Hang." ”
Zhao put the dishes and chopsticks in his hand on the table, raised his eyes to look at Lin Guyu, and said with a cold face, "Shouldn't his mother give him money when he is sick?" ”
Lin Guyu just thought about what to do in the future, and didn't think about it so much at all, but now when he heard Zhao say that, he paused the movements in his hand and ate the vegetables silently.
"What's wrong, isn't it?" Zhao rarely had such a tough time, tears fell uncontrollably, and his voice was hoarse, "What kind of life are you living over there!" ”
When Lin Xiaohan heard Zhao say this, he silently put the dishes and chopsticks on the table, and looked at Lin Guyu with tears in his eyes.
"It's good," Lin Guyu swept his gaze over the two people and said with a smile, "You don't have to worry. ”
"If it's good, do you need to pick up the medicine?" Zhao said with a crying voice, "This Chi family is a rich family, I heard that the family has a few hundred taels of silver, how can you still need to do that?" ”
A few hundred taels?
Lin Guyu's eyes lit up slightly, according to the lowest calculation, even if the Chi family only had one hundred taels of silver, the four of them had four brothers, and the silver was divided equally, and the family still had twenty-five taels of silver.
Eight of the twenty-five taels of silver were given to the Lin family's dowry, and the division family was given ten taels of silver, and there should be seven taels of silver.
When he realized this, Lin Guyu's brows furrowed slightly.
Zhou's person is really ruthless, what is her son's illness, she still wants to take advantage of it.
Maybe the Zhou family never planned to give them silver, but they didn't give a little silver, and they spent ten taels of silver to buy peace of mind.
Lin Guyu held his chopsticks tightly.
I have to say that Lin Guyu ran into a dead mouse this time when the blind cat ran into a dead mouse, she guessed correctly, at the beginning, Zhou thought that it would be good to give her food directly to feed her children, but when she thought of separating from her third son at that time, she couldn't bear it.
The main reason is that Zhou is worried that her man will crawl out of the underworld angrily to settle accounts with her.
"Mother, let's eat." Lin Guyu glanced at Zhou and said lightly, "I know that matter in my heart, so don't ask again." ”
Hearing Lin Guyu say this, Zhao looked at Lin Guyu suspiciously.
After eating, Lin Guyu helped the Zhao family to clean up the house briefly, and the mother and daughter said some thoughtful words, and Lin Guyu planned to leave.
Walking to the door, Lin Guyu looked at Lin Xiaohan who was standing on the side, reached out and touched Lin Xiaohan's head, and turned his head to look at Zhao, "Mother, let Xiaohan go to study!" ”
Hearing Lin Guyu's voice, Lin Xiaohan's eyes lit up, and a pair of bright eyes looked eagerly at Lin Guyu.
"Studying?" Zhao shook his head and frowned, "In our family's situation, where is the money to let him study?" ”
Lin Xiaohan's eyes gradually dimmed.
"Didn't the Chi family give silver?" Lin Guyu grabbed the hand of the bean paste, "Eight taels of silver, a book that can make Xiao Han read for a long time!" ”
Zhao's brows furrowed slightly, according to Zhao's original idea, these eight taels of silver can never be moved, people always have some kind of illness and what is planted, these are the money used as emergency life.
"Mother," Lin Guyu knew that it was a luxury for the countrymen to study, according to the memory of the original body, there was a talent in their village, it was twenty years ago, many people took the Tongsheng exam, and there was no way to move forward, "Xiao Han is studying now, it will definitely be useful in the future?" ”
"It's not that my mother disagrees." Zhao sighed slightly, "You may not know that after those people study, they can't do the work in the field, and they don't read well, so it's useless......"
Although these are facts, they are also Zhao's excuses.
"Mother, if I study, I will also work in the fields when I get out of school." Lin Xiaohan looked at Zhao with a pair of beautiful eyes.
Zhao's face froze.