Chapter Seventy-Six: The Moonlight That Night
When the peasant woman saw that the little doll was dirty, she would scold Huo Yu loudly, and then carry the little doll to take a bath, but the little doll was very resistant, crying earth-shattering every time.
The peasant woman slept very deeply at night, the little doll would wet the bed almost every day, in the morning, Huo Yu would help the peasant woman to dry the quilt in the yard, every time, the peasant woman would lose her temper, saying that if it wasn't for the more money given, she wouldn't come to wait for the little doll.
Complaining is complaining, the peasant woman is still good to her two children, and has never let them go hungry.
One night, when Huo Yu was sleeping in a daze, he heard a knock on the door outside, someone called the door, it was a man's voice.
The peasant woman stumbled up, worried about waking up the two children, and looked at them one by one, Huo Yu closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, and the peasant woman quietly got out of bed and walked out of the house.
Huo Yu hurriedly got up and got off the kang, and tiptoed into the hall, the door of the hall was hidden, and in the moonlight, he saw that the peasant woman was talking to a person, and the person did not deliberately lower his voice.
He said to the peasant woman: "What are you afraid of, people give five hundred taels, five hundred taels, we can't earn five hundred taels for a lifetime, listen to me, go into the house and take the little girl out, let's send her over, collect the money, and hide in my second aunt's house for a while, that person is a foreigner, his eyes are black, and he can't find us." ”
"The money owed by my mother-in-law when she was sick was repaid by the lord for us, and he was kind to us, besides, he also gave money this time, so he gave a few days of children, and he gave a full hundred taels." The peasant woman's voice was sad and panicked.
The man took a sip: "Our mother is sick and only owes fifty taels, plus the one hundred taels given this time, it is only one hundred and fifty taels together, but people give five hundred taels, five hundred taels, think about it, with this money, we can open a shop in the town, and let our baby study in the school in the town, what a good thing." ”
The peasant woman thought for a while and said, "The second aunt is the most snobbish, if we go to her house to avoid the limelight, she will definitely not be happy." ”
What the man said, Huo Yu didn't hear, he jumped off the kang, tiptoed to pick up the little doll that was still sleeping, he stepped on the stool and climbed to the back window sill, took off the gown on his body, followed the example of the peasant woman carrying the child, used the gown as a rope, tied the little doll to his back, and then jumped off the windowsill......
When the peasant woman and her husband entered the house, they found that the two children were all gone, and when they saw that the window was open in the back, the man chased them out.
The yard of this farmhouse was dilapidated, and Huo Yu had lived here for a few days, and he had already found that there was a gap in the back wall, which was not big, and a five-year-old child and a one-year-old child could easily get through.
Huo Yu hid in the half-human-tall grass and watched the man run past him scolding.
It's strange to say, the little doll who usually cries at every turn doesn't cry when she wakes up that night, but she doesn't cry, her big eyes are shining, and she looks at everything around her curiously.
Old lady Ming came back the next morning, and when he found the two children, they were curled up together and sleeping soundly.
The two children had been hiding in the grass outside the back wall, but the peasant woman and her husband, seeing that the two children were missing, searched for them in the middle of the night but could not find them, and were worried that someone had taken the children away before them.
It was also thanks to their weak hearts that they did not continue to search, otherwise two children who were so young would have no chance to escape.
This time, Mrs. Ming did not come back alone, he was followed by a young woman in her twenties, and the woman was holding two children about three or four years old, who looked exactly the same.
Afterwards, the young woman hugged the little doll and cried, and the old lady Ming shook her head, sighed, and took Huo Yu and walked out.
"Where's my grandfather?" Huo Yu looked at Old Lady Ming with blank eyes, didn't he go to find his grandfather? Why didn't my grandfather come?
"Your grandfather can't come to meet you in person, so he found a master for you, and asked me to send you to your master, and when your grandfather is busy with the business at hand, he will come over to see you." Old lady Ming said.
That afternoon, they left the farmhouse, and the next day the old lady Ming sent him to the house of his master, Gao Ziying.
When he was about to leave that day, he stood at the door of the house, and saw that the young woman was still wiping her tears, and the little doll saw him and grinned at him......
After that time, he didn't see his grandfather until half a year, but his grandfather came to see him alone, and A-Niang didn't come with him.
Later, he learned that after he lost it, A-Niang went out to look for him, and never came back, and his grandfather had been looking for A-Niang outside for half a year when he lived in the master's house.
After my grandfather came back, he fell seriously ill, and someone came to visit and asked about A-Niang, and my grandfather said that A-Niang had remarried and gone to other places.
Doctors can't heal themselves, my grandfather was a doctor, but he couldn't cure himself, his illness was good and bad, and after a few years, he died......
"Master, it's not early, it's time to sleep."
The sound of cabbage came from his ears, Huo Yu retracted his thoughts, he couldn't help but want to laugh, as he grew older, many of the things he had forgotten when he was a child, the appearance of the little doll had long become blurred, and occasionally he remembered that he only remembered those bright and curious eyes under the moonlight.
It wasn't until that day on Yunmeng Mountain, when he stood on the persimmon tree and looked at the girl below, that the little face that had long been blurred in his memory became clear again.
The next morning, when Master Ming woke up, he remembered Huo Yu who lived in the guest room last night, he didn't expect this kid to drink so shallowly, the wheel war had just begun, and it was over, and the resentment in his heart was not spilled, and Huo Yu's kid was drunk into a puddle of mud.
That's it, you still want to be the son-in-law of the Ming family?
The Ming family in Xicheng is all good at drinking, this is given by their ancestors, and they are born with ability, but the Ming family is a scholar and usually hides it deeply......
Thinking like this, Master Ming suddenly remembered that he hadn't tried Chen Hongshen's amount of alcohol yet, but he hoped that he wouldn't be as unproductive as Huo Yu.
However, Master Ming remembered Huo Yu's embarrassment last night, and while he was contemptuous, he was still a little sorry.
Therefore, on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month, Master Ming did not mention the matter of retiring his relatives again.
In a blink of an eye, it was the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Huo Yu still lived in Zaoshu Hutong, there was no intention of leaving, it was a big holiday, of course, the Ming family couldn't open his mouth to drive people away, but fortunately, he was self-aware, and went out with his entourage cabbage early in the morning.
Hearing that Huo Yu was out of the house, the eldest lady threw away the account book in her hand and said angrily: "The old lady is too biased, and she ignores her grandchildren, but she wants to find a prince for her daughter." ”