Chapter 32: Doubts
"Maybe the wind blows the sound of the window, you go to bed early, and your mother is outside." Aunt Wen tucked the quilt for Su Yunjiao and patted her head comfortingly.
"Mother, you can sleep with me." Su Yunjiao was a little scared, and when she saw that she was leaving, she hurriedly pulled her sleeve and begged softly.
"This..." Aunt Wen hesitated for a moment and agreed, no matter how smart and sensible her daughter is, she is only seven years old, and she will definitely recognize the bed.
In the middle of the night, a thick white mist floated in the air, and the peaceful and simple grange fell silent during the day, and there was some eerie and terrifying for no reason.
"Hurry up!"
"What is urging, isn't this coming?"
The two people who walked out of the dense fog, one tall and one short, were described as the Zhou family and the Bai family servant woman in the daytime.
The Bai servant woman grabbed the Zhou family and hesitated, "Are we really going to take that aunt's money?" If you get caught, you're done! ”
Zhou smiled coldly and said, "Do you regret it now?" Then why are you hiding outside people's windows and peeking? ”
Bai stammered and couldn't speak.
Zhou's face softened, and he comforted her: "I know that you are honest on weekdays, but you don't want to think about it, your man is lying on the bed with a broken leg, and now a whole family is asking you for food with their mouths open, what can you do, can you conjure it out of thin air?" ”
Bai's eyes flickered, and his expression was still a little struggling.
"We're just asking for money, and it's not killing people, it's a big deal that we can help more in the future after taking the money, and besides, I see that the young lady is a sick man, and the main family will definitely send a copy of it, and they won't starve to death." The more Zhou spoke, the more impatient he became.
"Then let's go." Bai made up his mind and followed Zhou to the courtyard of Su Yunjiao's mother and daughter.
The two stood at the door, thinking about whether it was better to pick the lock or climb the wall, and finally Bai pulled Zhou to a courtyard wall, and pushed through the grass to reveal a dog hole.
"Okay, you." Zhou was pleasantly surprised.
"Stop talking, get inside." Bai was nervous to death, urging Zhou to drill the dog hole.
"Who? Who's over there? A crisp female voice sounded.
The two of them suddenly flew out of the sky, and the Bai family hurriedly pulled out the Zhou family and plunged into the dense fog as if they were dying.
"Humph! Dare to drill the dog hole in your aunt's yard and scare you to death. Tie Lanlan stood in front of the dog cave with her waist crossed, with a smug expression.
Then she twisted her eyebrows, sighed, muttered "I can't hold it back", and hurriedly ran away holding her stomach, it turned out that she got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet.
The fog thinned and the high-pitched rooster crow woke people up from their dreams, and in a short time the sky was bright.
Qing'er boiled hot water early in the morning and brought it to the courtyard of Su Yunjiao's mother and daughter, but she was standing hesitantly outside the door curtain, and she was about to make a sound when a call came from inside.
"Someone." Aunt Wen woke up and habitually called only to remember that she was in the grange, and the maids were injured and sick, and one was afraid that she would not be able to count on it.
Qing'er heard the call and hurriedly lifted the curtain and entered the house, put the basin on the top of the shelf before saying crampedly: "Slave, slave maid fetched water, do you want to serve you to wash?" ”
Aunt Wen was a little surprised, she came back to her senses and said, "Put it here, and then go and get a basin of water." ”
Qing'er was very happy to see that she had done the right thing, and happily went to fetch water.
"Mother?" Su Yunjiao woke up and didn't see Aunt Wen, but saw Qing'er setting the meal.
"Miss, you're awake, my aunt has gone to see Sister Forsythia, and the slave maid will serve you to wash and eat." Qing'er wrung her fingers and said worriedly.
After Su Yunjiao finished washing, she sat on the big kang by the window after eating, holding her face with her hands, and swinging her feet boredly, when there was a knock on the door in the yard.
Su Yunjiao looked outside through the window, Qing'er went to open the door, and a girl with two bags and a yellowish complexion stood outside the door.
"Miss, this is..."Qing'er was snatched up before she finished speaking.
"My father is the head of the village here, his name is Tie Niu, my name is Tie Lanlan, what is your name?" The little girl said familiarly, not at all restrained because Su Yunjiao's status was higher than her.
Although her father received the news that the third lady in the house was coming to recuperate, in fact, many people speculated that the third lady or Aunt Wen made a mistake, and she was disliked and driven over anyway.
Tie Lanlan is a bold and refreshing girl, neither restrained by Su Yunjiao's noble status, nor despised because she is hopeless, she is happy to make a new friend.
And she also brings sincerity to make friends.
"Miss..."Qing'er looked at Tie Lanlan with dissatisfaction, she felt that this person had no rules at all.
Su Yunjiao was feeling bored, and now that a little girl of her age wanted to be stubborn with her, she still felt very interesting in her heart.
"My name is Su Yunjiao."
The two little girls exchanged names, ignoring Qing'er who was standing on the side with a pouted mouth, and after a while, they touched their heads and chatted very hotly.
Through small talk with Tie Lanlan, Su Yunjiao mastered the basic information of this grange:
Because the fruit trees planted here produce large and sweet fruits that are particularly delicious and called sweet fruit villages, more than 10 families of all sizes around are employed in the village to take care of the fruit forest, unified by the head of the village iron cattle jurisdiction, but in the past two years, the harvest on the village is not good, those fruit trees are more fruitless, there is no harvest and to pay commissions, so Mrs. Tai is a little disgusted here, and the salary is also issued from time to time.
"Look at you are bored in the house every day, and if you are not sick, you will get sick, so it is better to go out with me for a while and move your body." Tie Lanlan instigated Su Yunjiao.
The relationship between the children is very simple, but after chatting for a while, we can go out and play together.
"But my mother hasn't come back yet." Su Yunjiao hesitated.
Qing'er stopped talking on the side, and at the same time rolled her eyes at Tie Lanlan several times, hearing this, she couldn't hold back anymore, and said loudly: "Miss, if you go out, you won't be in a hurry if your aunt comes back and can't see it." ”
"Oh, it's okay, let's play for a while and come back, and I can't go far, I'll take you to see the pear, don't look at it ugly, it's crisp and sweet after peeling, you must like it." Tie Lanlan blinked seductively.
Su Yunjiao was really tempted, her face was fascinated, and she couldn't wait to follow immediately, but she was a sensible little girl, and she still remembered to say hello to her mother.
"Qing'er, you go and talk to your mother, just say that I will go out with Lan Lan and come back in a while." Su Yunjiao said with a smile.
Qing'er couldn't figure out her temperament, and she didn't dare to stop her, so she simply went to find Aunt Wen.
"Lan Lan, now that no one is around, you can say whatever you want." Su Yunjiao was still smiling shyly and shy, but what she said impressed Tie Lanlan.
"Huh! How do you know that I have something to say to you? Tie Lanlan looked at Su Yunjiao in surprise.
Looking at Bai Bai and tender like a bun, how can he be so smart?
She was a child of a poor family, and she was very precocious and sensible, and she was very clever, and she thought that she had eaten more salt than this young lady who had not gone out of the door, and she was very proud.
"It's not important." Su Yunjiao waved her hand, pretending to be serious and old, but there was a cunning light in her eyes.
Tie Lanlan looked at her and thought it was too cute, her eyes stayed on her white and tender apple muscles, and she felt that her hands were so itchy that she wanted to pinch it.
"I'll show you something." Tie Lanlan opened the window and motioned for her to look.