Chapter 13: Dragon Scales Flying
"Auntie, please have tea." Wu Ming said and handed the cup to Long Xirui.
"Thank you, Xiao Ming is so good." Long Xirui reached out and took the cup, praising him in his mouth, but his eyes never left the picture frame on the coffee table.
Seeing her attentive appearance, Wu Ming was very curious, and when he found that she was staring at the photo frame, he turned his head and asked, "Grandma, why hasn't Aunt He come to see us for so many days?" β
"Alas, your Aunt He is so busy with work, how can she have so much time!" After speaking, grandma turned to Long Xirui and said with a smile, "Girl, we orphans and widows, today is really thanks to you!" You're a doctor, right? β
Long Xirui smiled faintly and replied, "My surname is Long, I am not a doctor, but I have learned a little medical skills. Mother-in-law, is Xiao Ming taken care of by you alone? What about Xiao Ming's parents? β
The old man hesitated slightly, and said to Wu Ming: "Xiao Ming, go and have lunch, the meals are all in the restaurant." She saw Wu Ming running towards the restaurant, so she lowered her voice and said to Long Xirui, "Miss Long, I won't tell you, Xiao Ming is not my own grandson, but the child doesn't know about this matter at all." β
A hint of surprise flashed in Long Xirui's eyes, and then she smiled faintly to show that she was interested in the old man's story.
"Back then, I was just a lonely old woman picking up garbage in the countryside, and suddenly one morning, I found an abandoned baby in front of my house, a boy, with a big birthmark on the corner of his right eye."
"Xiao Ming is that boy?"
The old man nodded, and then said, "There is a note in the swaddling clothes, probably left by his biological parents, with the time of birth and the name that has been chosen for him - Wu Ming. β
Long Xirui put down the water glass in his hand and listened silently.
"You think, how can I, a lonely old woman, be able to feed a baby! My neighbors also gave me the idea to send my children to the police station or to an orphanage. But Xiaoming's child rarely cries, very cute, as soon as I pick him up, I am reluctant to put it down, and finally I grit my teeth, planning to raise this poor child alone. Speaking of which, these years were really bitter for this child, and from time to time he had to follow me to starve and freeze, but fortunately, God has eyes, let us be bitter and sweet, Xiao Ming and I have met the great nobles of life. She said, raising her eyes to look at the picture frame on the coffee table.
"Is it Xiao Ming's Aunt He?" Long Xirui asked.
"Miss He, she's such a good person!" At the mention of her nobleman, the old man seemed to be a little overjoyed. "I still remember when we met Miss He for the first time, I remembered that the situation was similar to today, and she was just like Miss Long, she was beautiful and kind."
A smile spread across Long Xirui's face, and that smile made her look both beautiful and kind.
"It was a winter a few years ago, and I can't remember the exact time, but the snowy road was frozen that day, and I broke my leg when I fell on an old bone." As she spoke, she patted her left hip with her hand and muttered, "What did the doctor say it was called...... Bone neck ......"
"Femoral neck fracture?"
"That's right! That's what the doctor said. At that time, I was lying on the ground and couldn't move, it was painful and frozen, and Xiao Ming, who was only a few years old, only knew that he was standing next to him and crying. There are a lot of people passing by, but when they see me picking up rags, and I am old, I don't want to do much. At this time, Miss He happened to pass by, she sent me to the hospital, and paid for my medical expenses, which is a lot of money! It can be said that she saved my old life. As he spoke, the old man's eyes turned a little red.
Long Xirui handed a tissue from the table.
The old man wiped the moist corners of his eyes and continued: "As the old saying goes, it takes a hundred days to break your muscles and bones. I was in the hospital for three months. Miss He not only came to visit me often, but also helped me take care of Xiao Ming, bought him candy to eat, and took him to the park to play. Xiao Ming is also a likable and well-behaved child, and she says that she likes Xiao Ming very much. When I was discharged from the hospital, she not only didn't want me to pay for my medical expenses, but also told us to move to her house in the city. How dare I accept such a big favor from her, but she said that it would allow Xiao Ming to go to school in the city, and her house was idle, so we could just show her the house. You say I've been blessed in my lifetimes! Let me meet such a wonderful person as Miss He. She wiped her eyes again, a happy look on her face.
On the one hand, the female devil in the eyes of colleagues, and on the other hand, the great benefactor in the heart of the old man, Long Xirui looked at He Like in the photo frame and said, "It sounds like Miss He treats you and Xiao Ming like a filial daughter and a kind mother." β
"That's right! Although I never thought that my cheap life could be sent to the end, Miss He really didn't say anything to me. The love she gave Xiao Ming was far better than her mother's love, if Miss He could recognize Xiao Ming as a godson, I would die and close my eyes. But for so many years, Miss He has been a lonely person, I have persuaded her a few times, but she only said that she thinks it is good now. She also often said that she was very happy when she saw Xiao Ming. β
At this time, Wu Ming had already finished lunch and returned to the living room.
"Xiao Ming, go to the room and sleep for a while, I still have to go to school in the afternoon." Grandma said.
I saw Wu Ming's mouth flattened and shouted: "No! I don't want to go to school! β
"That's nonsense! How can a child not go to school! β
"Nope! I'm never going to that school place again! When it comes to school, Wu Ming is like seeing a ghost, and the expression on his face is a little daunting.
"You can study in the city, it all depends on your Aunt He, don't you even care about Aunt He's hard work?" To deal with a sometimes naughty and willful little boy like Wu Ming, the three words "Aunt He" are like a "tight spell", which can make the "little grandson monkey" become obedient all of a sudden, and it has been tried and tested repeatedly. So, in a hurry, my grandmother recited the "Tightening Mantra" again.
"Nope! I don't want to go to school! I don't want to see those bad guys again! But at this moment, even the "Tightening Spell" actually failed. Wu Ming's little face was like a taut balloon.
"What are you talking about, kid!?" His words not only surprised my grandmother, but also made my grandmother feel a little confused.
"IβI sayβnever going to school again!" Wu Ming yelled like crazy, then turned around and opened the door and ran out.
"Huh! Xiao Ming, school bag! At this time, the old man was still subconsciously thinking about the child's schoolbag. She couldn't help but stand up, and a sharp pain suddenly reminded her of her unhealed arm, and she couldn't help but moan.
"Mother-in-law, don't worry, I'll chase Xiaoming." Long Xirui said as she picked up her schoolbag and ran out.
Wu Ming ran fast, and Long Xirui ran faster, but neither of them was as fast as the other. Wu Ming entered the elevator and immediately pressed the button on the first floor, but at the moment when the two middle doors of the elevator were about to close, they suddenly stopped strangely, leaving a crack in the door. Wu Ming saw through the crack in the door the figure of Long Xirui flying in. In the blink of an eye, the elevator door opened again, and a silver shining thing fell down from the sky, and at the moment when it was about to land, Long Xirui raised his right foot lightly and kicked it into the air, and then his right arm was slightly extended, and he had grasped the thing in his hand.
Wu Ming was stunned by this rapidly changing scene, he looked up at Long Xirui with a round little face, his eyes were full of curiosity and envy. "Aunt Long, what kind of spell did you use just now?" Accustomed to watching cartoons and anime, he asked with a serious face.
Long Xirui immediately smiled and said, "Xiao Ming, stretch out your hand." β
Wu Ming spread out his little hand very obediently, only to see Long Xirui's right hand clenched into a fist suddenly open his five fingers, and a coin-like thing fell into his palm. He picked up the coin with a dragon on one side and a flower on the other, looked at it carefully, and asked Long Xirui: "Aunt Long, what is this?" β
At this time, because Wu Ming pressed the button on the first floor, the door of the elevator began to close automatically.
"Xiao Ming, this is called Dragon Scale Flying Flower." Long Xirui said as she grabbed the coin and turned around and ejected it with her thumb and middle finger, and the coin was stuck between the two doors again at the moment when the elevator door closed, making a "click" sound. The elevator door closed and opened again, and the coin had stopped spinning and fell freely, only to be caught by Long Xirui. The whole process was done in one go, the timing of the shot, the essence of the fingertip strength, both were indispensable, and they were all taken to the extreme by Long Xirui.
"That's amazing! It's amazing! It's amazing! Wu Ming clapped his hands and shouted, "Aunt Long is so amazing!" The dragon scales are so powerful! He seemed to be fascinated by Long Xirui's magical "spell", and his taut little face suddenly relaxed, revealing that virgin expression again. "Aunt Long, can you teach me this trick of dragon scale flying flowers?"
The doors of the elevator finally closed automatically, and the elevator began to descend.
Long Xirui squatted down and held Wu Ming's shoulders with both hands, and said, "Of course you can!" Xiao Ming, but Auntie has a small condition. β
"What conditions?"
"You have to tell Auntie why you don't want to go to school."
"Hmm...... If you don't want to, you don't want to, there's no why! Aunt Long, teach me dragon scales and flying flowers! β
"Xiao Ming, you let Auntie teach you, of course you want Auntie to teach you sincerely, right?"
Wu Ming nodded.
"Of course Auntie wants to hear the truth in Xiao Ming's heart, so it's fair, right?"
Wu Ming nodded again, his eyes widened, and said, "Okay, actually, I don't want to see those bad guys again." β
"Who are those bad guys?"
"My classmates, they often gang up to bully me."
"Why?"
"Because I transferred from a primary school in the country, they all looked down on me and laughed at my name, their name was either four or three words, but my name was only two words, and they always said that I was not the same person as them. And they called me ...... Call me ......"
"What do you call?"
"Call me a wild child! Because I don't have parents! Wu Ming said as he spoke, his face was full of resentment, and his eyes were about to erupt with fire.
"So did you tell the teacher about these situations?"
"I told Ms. Pi that at first, she was very good to me and criticized the classmates who bullied me, but then she actually wronged me just like those bad guys."
"What did you wrong?"
"Together, they wronged me for stealing!"