Chapter 17: What's wrong with you, girl?
On the second day after Fang Mumu returned to his parents' house, before dawn, Yu Cai got up in the dark and prepared to go to the kitchen to cook some porridge for Fang Mumu. As soon as she walked out of the side room lightly, she was startled by Fang Jian who was standing at the door of the side room, and almost screamed.
"Master~"
After Fang Jian glanced at Yu Cai, he didn't say a word, turned around and went into the main house.
Yu Cai watched Fang Jian leave, listened to the sound in the side room, and found that there was no movement, so she walked quickly towards the kitchen.
The sky was slightly bright, and the smoke from the chimney became faint and clear.
Yu Cai first brought Fang Jian's meal into the main house, and after putting down the meal, he brought the porridge and pickles prepared for Fang Mumu to the side room and placed them on the small kang table.
"Mumu, get up and eat." Yu Cai kept calling Fang Mumu in Fang Mumu's ear.
Maybe she was tired of listening, maybe Fang Mumu really woke up from her dream, she woke up slowly, opened her empty eyes woodenly, and didn't look at Yu Cai, but stared at the depths of the beams that were still dark under the light.
Yu Cai didn't force Fang Mumu to get better immediately in one night, after all, it was because Fang Mumu had been in such a state that the old Huai family asked the couple to take Fang Mumu back.
Yu Cai saw Fang Mumu open his eyes, knelt beside Fang Mumu, picked up Fang Mumu's whole person, moved her to the folded quilt, and let her sit on the quilt.
Yu Cai picked up the bowl containing the porridge, sandwiched some pickles, stirred the porridge and pickles together with chopsticks, put down the chopsticks, picked up the spoon, scooped a small bite and blew it gently, and tried the temperature of the porridge in the spoon to cool down before handing the porridge in the spoon to Fang Mumu's mouth.
"Mumu, come and have something to eat."
Fang Mumu stared blankly ahead, without any reaction.
"Good Mumu, come open your mouth and eat something." Yu Cai was not impatient, and patiently coaxed Fang Mumu to eat porridge again.
Fang Mumu blinked, his eyes were still empty, and he didn't have a look, but he reacted, his mouth opened slightly, as if he was waiting for Yu Cai's feeding.
"Mumu is really good." Yu Cai said and fed the porridge in the spoon to Fang Mumu's mouth.
It stands to reason that if Fang Mumu can open his mouth to feed, he should know how to eat. But who expected, Fang Mumu's mouth kept slightly open, even if the porridge was fed to her mouth, her mouth was not closed, and the spoonful of porridge fed into her mouth all flowed out along the corners of her mouth.
Seeing this, Yu Cai panicked and held the bowl in one hand, quickly grabbed the pillow towel next to him with the other, and hurriedly wiped it for Fang Mumu.
"Mu Mu, if you open your mouth to eat, you can't eat if you keep your mouth open like this." Yu Cai put the pillow towel on his lap, continued to hold the porridge, scooped a spoonful of porridge and blew it.
Fang Mumu's gaze slowly moved to Yu Cai, and his eyes kept watching Yu Cai blow porridge without blinking.
Yu used her lips to test the temperature of the porridge, and when she was about to feed it, she touched Fang Mumu's eyes, and she looked concerned, "Mumu, what's wrong?" ”
Fang Mumu didn't speak, her eyes that had turned red after staring for a long time finally blinked slowly in Yu Cai's inquiry, and the flickering light in her eyes was gradually retracted by her. She slowly turned her gaze back and continued to stare in front of her, her mouth open again.
"Good Mumu, do you know if you want to eat it this time?" Yu Cai lowered his head and blew on the cold porridge on the spoon again.
Fang Mumu didn't respond, Yu Cai didn't wait for Fang Mumu to respond, and directly fed the porridge to Fang Mumu's mouth, this time Fang Mumu obediently closed her mouth and ate, but her movements were very stiff, like a robot being fed by humans.
"Mu Mu is really good, besides, let's eat some more."
Yu Cai fed Fang Mumu three mouthfuls of porridge so repeatedly, and when he fed the fourth mouthful, no matter what Yu Cai said, Fang Mumu no longer opened his mouth, and Yu Cai had no choice but to give up.
"It's okay, leave the porridge here to dry, and we'll eat it later."
As he spoke, Yu Cai moved the kang table to the ground and put the food on it. After that, she climbed back on the kang and sat down in front of Fang Mumu.
"Mu Mu, do you want to sleep for a while, or will your mother go out with you for a while?" Yu Cai faced Fang Mumu and looked at Fang Mumu's empty eyes.
Fang Mumu slowly closed his eyes, and a tear slipped down his cheek.
"Okay, let's sleep a little longer." Yu Cai wiped away the tears on Fang Mumu's face, then picked up Fang Mumu and put Fang Mumu into the quilt, she did not leave, but followed and lay beside Fang Mumu, holding Fang Mumu, "Good, mom is here, sleep in peace." ”
When Fang Mumu slept about to sleep, Yu Cai helped Fang Mumu up again and fed her some porridge, she couldn't eat a few bites and stopped eating, Yu Cai didn't force it, helped Fang Mumu to take a turn in his yard, and then fed a few more bites, at the end of the day, Fang Mumu barely ate the bowl of porridge in the morning. Although compared to a normal person, Fang Mumu's bowl of porridge a day is pitiful, but compared to the forty days after the death of the stupid groom, she has eaten a lot on this day.
Yu Cai used this method to let Fang Mumu eat every day, and as time passed, Fang Mumu ate a lot of food, and his body improved a lot.
During the time that Fang Mumu was recuperating at his mother's house, the handful of old ladies chatting and gossiping at the head of the village finally had fresh gossip to talk about.
"I'll tell you something, don't tell me."
"How old are our sisters, and they have been tight-mouthed all their lives, don't say it, don't say it, you hurry up and say yours, don't sell it."
"Two days ago, I passed by the door of Fang Da's house, and the door of his house was open, so I inadvertently glanced back, guess who I saw?"
"Fang Da has found a little wife?"
"If the big boss can find a little wife, my wife must be a wine bottle. Don't you look at it, when you walk past our sister every day, his drunken appearance, which woman's eyes have become skull holes, and she can fold herself and fall in love with him. ”
"Who else could there be? Isn't he and his mother-in-law left in his house now? ”
"I saw his married daughter."
"Hey, what kind of novelty should I be, maybe that girl will go back to her parents' house to sit for two days."
"I don't look like that."
"Hearing what the old sister said, I heard something about that girl here."
"Can it have something to do with going back to my parents' house this time?"
"I think it must be related, otherwise I can see his daughter in his yard and feel that something is wrong? After all, my wife's eyes have also seen the world. ”
"Two sisters, don't worry, listen to me tell you slowly."
"Don't take your time, you have to speak quickly."
"Hey! According to one of my distant cousins' granddaughter, the girl's foolish husband drowned in the river, and the in-laws thought that it was the girl's broom star fate that killed the fool's husband, and they didn't even let the fool's husband for a hundred days, so they let Fang Da's head and his mother-in-law bring the girl back overnight. ”
"And this? It stands to reason that this dead man's matter can't be kept so tightly hidden. ”
"It's not strict, I heard that the fool drowned in the morning, and was buried in the afternoon, and the body was not at home overnight, saying that he was afraid that the bad luck contaminated from the girl would stay at home again, and bring disaster to the father-in-law and mother-in-law. This funeral was done quickly, and secondly, it was not notified to people from other villages, and it did not spread. ”
"No wonder I didn't hear the wind."
"How? I'll just say that my wife's eyes have seen the world, and as soon as I saw the girl in his yard, I knew that something big must have happened. ”
"At first, I thought that the girl finally came to work, turned over and found a good family, but I didn't think that in the end, she ended up being a widow."
"This person, all his life, don't think about fighting against fate, you have to learn to accept fate, a broom star is a broom star."
"Okay, okay, just a few of our old sisters to talk about it together, don't spread it again, after all, that girl is still a hard worker."
"Who can our sister say to her, people now dislike our sister for losing her front teeth, and her speech is leaky and she doesn't like it."
"My front teeth are still there, they don't leak air, they don't leak air."
"My grandson gave me a pair of dentures, and they don't leak."
These old women who gathered at the entrance of the village to talk about gossip pulled the topic to their teeth one by one, and as they talked, several people laughed at each other.
The so-called good things don't go out, bad things spread thousands of miles, especially the bad things that were known by a few gossiping wives, and it hasn't been two days, basically the entire crockpot village knows that Fang Mumu was driven back by his in-laws. Qi Qin even blatantly went to Fang Jian's house to verify the specific situation under the guise of visiting. After overcoming Yu Cai's three pushes and five evasions, she twisted her elderly waist and swayed into the side room.
"Yu Cai, what's wrong with your girl? Why are you like a fool? Wasn't he kicked out by his in-laws? What's the big deal. ”
It's good that Qi Qin didn't say this, but after saying this, Fang Mumu's indifferent eyes instantly shifted to her, and he glared at Qi Qin without emotion.
"Yo, Yu Cai, you still have to be grateful to me, you see that your daughter is so irritated by me." Although Qi Qin was stunned by Fang Mumu's heart, he still pretended to be calm and joked.
"Sister Qin, you are also old, and you insist on squeezing into other people's houses and picking up other people's family backgrounds, aren't you afraid of retribution one day in the future?" Yu Cai grabbed Qi Qin's arm and said while pulling it out.
"I don't know if I have retribution myself, but I have seen someone's retribution." Qi Qin pushed Yu Cai's hand away, with a mocking ugly face, and responded to Yu Cai while looking back at Fang Mumu.
"Qi Qin, you won't go to the door in the future, at least don't come to my family's door again, I'm really afraid that I can't help but do something murderous and illegal, after all, your mouth is really too capable of causing disaster."
"Ouch, isn't it just that my daughter doesn't have a mother-in-law, your life is like this, what's the matter? Don't you want me to be a little common man? ”
Yu Cai suppressed the words on her lips, she knew that some people love face when they are old, but the older some people are, the more they don't know what face is, and Qi Qin belongs to the latter. Even if she says tens of millions of words here, her shameless heart is still the same. The only thing Yu Cai regrets now is that he didn't stop Qi Qin just now, let Qi Qin go into the house and stab Fang Mumu with his words.
"Why don't you speak? How? Do you know that you are in this life? Qi Qin didn't care, she thought that Yu Cai knew that she couldn't talk about herself, so she became more and more intense, "That's it, you have such a life, don't be afraid of what others say!" To be honest, if I hadn't treated you as a sister, I wouldn't have come here to visit your daughter, you said that it was not a parent, why would I have to run this trip..."
Yu Cai bit his lip tightly, pulled Qi Qin out of the door, and spat at Qi Qin, "Phew! Then he didn't pay any attention to Qi Qin, and closed the door with a bang. Qi Qin's scolding voice still sounded outside the door, Yu Cai was too lazy to listen to a word, and walked into the side room quickly, now the only thing she cared about was Fang Mumu in the side room.