Chapter 125: My Daughter
"Yes, yes! I've got you thinking!"
Chu Yi stared at his wife's little face full of piety, if she hadn't had fun with Yuan Shuang every day, she would have really believed it!
Then he shook his head, took the basin of water on the side, and carried out the regular project of the evening for the small couple, and soaked their feet together.
Shen Luzhu saw that Chu Yi didn't respond to him, so he quietly moved his foot soaked in hot water forward, and his big toe moved to Chu Yi's foot little by little, and stepped lightly: "You don't believe me? I really miss you!"
"Well, we Azhu are asleep thinking about everything!"
Well? If you don't believe it, forget it, how do you feel that there is a slight ridicule in these words!
Shen Luzhu raised his good-looking curved eyebrows, narrowed his eyes, and slapped the water surface with his foot, the water in the basin was impacted, splashing everywhere at once, seeing that Chu Yi was frightened by this sudden situation, Shen Luzhu smiled so much that the whole person was spread on the kang behind him!
Chu Yi helplessly wiped the water stains on his wife and himself: "Naughty!"
The recent business in the shop is not busy, except for the occasional buying and selling of paper money, and then it is to organize the paper money sent by the workshop and the new families, but it is not a laborious job, Chu Yi has been staying in the shop alone most of the time recently, Chu Li has to go to school, and Uncle Chu has to stare at the workshop from time to time. Shen Luzhu himself accompanied Yuanshuang to make wedding dresses almost every day, so he simply took Xiuxiu with him.
First, it is convenient for Xiuxiu to ask if she encounters any words when she reads, and secondly, Xiuxiu is thirteen or fourteen years old this year, and it is a little early in the village near them, and they have already decided to marry at this age, Uncle Chu is not in a hurry, Shen Luzhu also feels that girls should not be too early to get married, but it is good to let her follow her to see if she does such work as making clothes and embroidering patterns, after all, no matter whether they get married or not, when they get married, these skills can be used in the future.
On this day, Chu Yi was staying in the shop, chatting with Chu Ping, who came to pass the time with nothing to do, when he saw an aunt who seemed to be a little familiar pushed open the door of his shop.
After the visitor entered the shop, he stared at Chu Yi behind the counter for a long time, and then asked uncertainly, "This is the Chu family's shop, right?" You are...... Chu Yi?"
Chu Ping's father turned his head to look at the person who came, feeling very familiar, and then frowned, as if recalling who this person was: "Wu?"
The person who was called the Wu family also turned his head to look over, as if he had finally seen a familiar face, as if he was relieved: "I live next door, Xiuxiu her cousin, yes, it's me, Wu!"
Chu Yi only remembered at this time who this Wu family was, wasn't it the wife before Uncle Chu, Chu Xiuxiu, her mother!
After Wu greeted Chu Ping and his father, he turned to Chu Yi who was still stunned again: "You are Chu Yi, I am your third aunt!"
Chu Yi paused, and the phrase "three aunts" still couldn't be called out, so he only called "auntie."
"You've grown so big, if you usually meet you while walking in the village, you really won't recognize it!"
Wu didn't react when he saw Chu Yi after speaking, so he could only speak again with his own thoughts: "Xiuxiu, she's at home, right? I'm here to see Xiuxiu......
Chu Xiuxiu, as usual, accompanied Uncle Chu in the workshop for a while, then walked from the backyard to the guest room in the front yard, and as soon as she arrived in the front yard, she was just in time for Chu Yi to push open the back door of the shop and enter the courtyard.
Chu Yi stopped when he saw Chu Xiuxiu, and then said, "Xiuxiu, you come with your cousin, someone wants to see you."
Chu Xiuxiu was stunned for a moment, she couldn't figure out who wanted to see her, but it was impossible for her cousin to lie to herself, so she shook the travelogue in her hand: "Cousin, then I'll put the book on my cousin-in-law first."
Chu Yi took two more steps forward: "It's okay, give it to me, I'll send it to you."
Chu Xiuxiu nodded noncommittally, handed over the book in her hand, and then was about to step forward and push open the back door of the shop, but was stopped by Chu Yi again.
"Xiuxiu."
"What's wrong, cousin?"
"It's you, Auntie."
"A-Niang?" Chu Xiuxiu
The hand that was about to push the door, as if it had been electrocuted, suddenly retracted it, her aunt and her father were separated from that year, she was only five years old. Over the years, her mother has never come back to see her daughter, except for the very beginning, Chu Xiuxiu also made trouble to find her mother, and then slowly never mentioned it again, and now even the memory of what she looks like is very vague.
When that incident happened, Chu Yi was already fourteen years old and a big child, so many things are still deeply remembered, and seeing his cousin behaving like this, he didn't know what to say for a while, after all, even he was startled by the first third aunt Wu who suddenly came to the door!
"Cousin, I'...... Did she say what was the matter with me? Doesn't my dad know yet?"
Chu Yi shook his head, just now Wu made it clear that he didn't want to meet with the third uncle, Chu Yi originally planned to wait for Xiuxiu to go to the shop, and then he went to the backyard to inform the third uncle Chu, but now seeing that she didn't seem to want to see Wu's appearance, he changed his mind, who said that when A-Niang wants to see the child, he must give her to see!
"I'll go and call the third uncle, Xiuxiu, you go to find your cousin-in-law first."
Listening to Chu Yi's words, Chu Xiuxiu breathed a sigh of relief as if she had let go of some burden, and then thought of the shop in front of her that no one was watching, and she was a little entangled: "Cousin, where is the shop?"
"It's okay, Uncle Cousin is here."
"Then I'll go to my cousin-in-law and Sister Yuanshuang first!" After speaking, Chu Xiuxiu trotted into the guest room in the west wing.
Shen Luzhu was putting the finishing touches on the wedding dress with Yuan Shuang, and when he saw Xiuxiu pushing the door in, he asked casually, "Which travelogue are Xiuxiu going to read today?"
"Sister-in-law, my aunt is here, and now she is in the front shop!"
Shen Luzhu didn't react for a while to this title that appeared for the first time, he was obviously stunned for a moment, and hurriedly put down the work in his hand and asked, "Xiuxiu, who did you say is coming?"
Shen Luzhu had heard a little about Uncle Chu's marriage before, but he only knew that it was a long time ago, when Uncle Chu broke his leg and left, and he didn't know anything else, and he had been married to Chu Yi for so long, and he hadn't heard anyone in the Chu family mention it, let alone come to see Xiuxiu, no wonder she almost forgot that there was still this person!
"Did she say what she was doing at home?"
"My cousin said she wanted to see me."
As soon as Shen Luzhu heard it, he knew that Xiuxiu hadn't seen her aunt yet, and after looking at Chu Xiuxiu's expression, he probably had a guess in his heart, stretched out his hand and pulled the little girl in front of him to his side, lowered his head and asked her softly, "Does Xiuxiu want to see her?"
I saw Chu Xiuxiu hesitate, and then shook her lowered head on her chest: "I don't know......
Shen Luzhu gently stroked Chu Xiuxiu's back, comforted her and said, "It's okay, Xiuxiu can see it if you want to, if you don't want to see it, you can't see it, there is no reason to be a parent who wants to see it, you must give them to see it, the decision is in your hands, it doesn't matter if you can't think of it for the time being, just wait until you think about it, don't think too much, and don't think about others!"
As he was talking, Chu Yi knocked on the door and walked in, "I just told the third uncle."
Shen Luzhu looked back, and didn't see the third uncle, so he asked, "What did the third uncle say?"
"The third uncle said that he won't come, as for Xiuxiu not seeing her, just listen to Xiuxiu's own, see it if you want to, and don't see it if you don't want to see it."
Shen Luzhu smiled and touched Chu Xiuxiu's hair: "Do you want to go and see Xiuxiu?"
Chu Xiuxiu hesitated for a long time before she nodded her head seemingly nonchalantly: "Is my sister-in-law with me?"
"Okay!"
The little couple took Xiuxiu to push open the back door of the shop, and Chu Ping's father saw that the person had come back, so he got up and said goodbye: "Ayi, you are busy first, I will go back first!"
"Okay, thank you Uncle Cousin for helping us look at the shop!"
"What's the wait?"
At this time, the Wu family was already waiting impatiently, and there seemed to be a girl hiding behind the young woman who came out, and she hurriedly stepped forward to grab Chu Xiuxiu's arm, wanting to pull the person out from behind Shen Luzhu!
"Xiuxiu, is it Xiuxiu? I'm your mother!"
Chu Xiuxiu was originally a little resistant to seeing the Wu family, but the sudden arrival of the Wu family directly scared Chu Xiuxiu into becoming even more reluctant to come out from behind Shen Luzhu.
Shen Luzhu noticed that Chu Xiuxiu was obviously stiff, and hurriedly reached out to help stop Wu's hands that were still messing around: "Auntie, why don't we sit down first?"
Wu looked at the young woman standing between him and his daughter, and his tone was a little unkind: "Who are you?"
Shen Luzhu naturally noticed the other party's unkindness, and said with a proud face, "The mistress of this family!"
Then he ignored Wu's reaction, and pulled Chu Xiuxiu and Chu Yi to take the lead and sat down on the side of the counter.
Wu was choked, and he also turned back to sit back in the chair he was sitting on: "Oh, you are Chu Yixin's daughter-in-law, you came to Chu's house late, I guess you don't know me, I'm your third ......"
"The third uncle's ex-wife, Xiuxiu's aunt, I know."
Seeing that this junior looked like he was not communicative, Wu quietly pursed his lips and focused his attention on Chu Xiuxiu, who was pulling Shen Luzhu's sleeves over there: "Xiuxiu, I'm your aunt!" Why don't you know me? Come over to A-Niang, let A-Niang take a good look at you! My Xiuxiu is now a big girl!"
Chu Xiuxiu turned her head and glanced at Shen Luzhu, as if she didn't know what to do, Shen Luzhu gave her a reassuring look, and then patted her arm to cheer her up.
Xiuxiu turned to the Wu family on the opposite side again, and pouted, but she still couldn't say anything, but in the eyes of the Wu family, all this became Shen Luzhu controlling and threatening Chu Xiuxiu, not letting her get close to her!
also secretly said in her heart, sure enough, as the sister-in-law Wang said, her daughter is about to become a marionette! I didn't talk about outsiders all day long, and now I even forgot about my mother!
"Eh, why did my Xiuxiu become so timid, I don't dare to recognize Ah Niang, I haven't been by Ah Niang's side for so many years, I really suffered, woo woo woo......