Chapter 11: Motherhood
Ye Feng didn't mean anything else, he just wanted to meet Lei Feng, because Lei Feng was Tang Qiu's mother, and Tang Qiu was his friend.
Lei Wu looked at Ye Feng's eyes, nodded after a moment, and said, "Of course you can, Miss is actually living in seclusion on the hillside not far from the swallow set, so I'll take you there." ”
He couldn't say why, he believed Ye Feng.
When he looked at Ye Feng's eyes, he saw very simple and clean eyes. Eyes are the voice of the heart, this young man should also have an equally pure heart.
There are people in this world who are like this, he can always make others feel comfortable, and even if they don't know each other, they are willing to trust him. Perhaps, this is called the edge of the eye.
And Ye Feng is undoubtedly this kind of person.
So, Lei Wu was currently leading the way, Ye Feng, Tang Da, and Ji Wushuang followed behind, and walked out of Zhang Laoer's somewhat gloomy restaurant, and walked forward along the street.
Walking on the street, Ye Feng felt as if someone was secretly peeping at him, and when he turned around, he saw from a distance that an old man was looking at him at the base of a wall at the corner of the street.
This old man was dressed in a tattered and old dirty robe, his gray beard and hair covered half of his face in a mess, and he stood there trembling in the cold wind with his hands folded and shivering to look at Ye Feng.
I don't know why, Ye Feng felt that there was something very strange and meaningful in his eyes, but he couldn't tell what it was.
Seeing Ye Feng turn around, Tang Da on the side asked, "What's wrong?"
Ye Feng turned his head and continued to walk forward, saying, "It's nothing. ”
Perhaps, it was just a curious old man asking for food, he thought.
Tang Da also turned his head and looked in the direction Ye Feng had just looked, but he didn't see anything. At this moment, the old man who asked for food was gone.
The place where Lei Feng lived in seclusion was really not far, passing through the town, just on a small hill on the side.
Walking up the mountainside, I looked up and saw a simple thatched hut among the trees.
As they got closer, they saw an old woman sitting in front of the door of the hut.
Lei Wu sighed lightly and said, "That's Miss." ”
It turned out that this old woman was Lei Feng.
After all, Lei Feng should be in her early forties, but the old woman in front of her seemed much older than her actual age.
Her hair was already gray, hastily coiled on her head, and a strand of gray hair was flying in the cold mountain wind.
Her face was full of wrinkles, her figure looked a little rickety, and she sat on the small bench in front of the firewood, with a somewhat wooden expression, and her cloudy eyes stared blankly at the sunset that had fallen behind the mountain, and there were words in her mouth, but she couldn't hear what she was saying.
Everyone stood still at a distance, not wanting to disturb the old woman, just looking at her from such a distance.
For a moment, Ye Feng suddenly took a step and walked over slowly.
Lei Feng, who was looking at the sunset in a daze, suddenly found that someone had come over, squinting his eyes, against the afterglow of the sunset, and trying to look at the young man who came over.
She hesitated and asked softly, "You, who are you?"
Ye Feng looked at the somewhat old Lei Feng in front of him, and thought of Tang Qiu who died in Hangzhou City, and couldn't help but feel a kind of sourness in his heart, this mother didn't seem to know the bad news of her son at all, and was still waiting in front of the firewood, waiting for her son to return home.
He sniffed hard, squeezed out a smile on his face, and said, "Auntie, I'm Tang Qiu's friend." ”
Lei Feng's eyes showed a look of doubt, his eyes stared at Ye Feng's face, and he muttered in his mouth: "Auntie, Tang Qiu, who is Tang Qiu?"
Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, not knowing how to answer.
He remembered that Tang Qiu had told him that since the tragedy in the Huashan Secret Cave, Lei Feng held the head of her husband Tang Ao alone, and walked all the way from Huashan to Jiangnan without sleep, and found his mother's maiden home, Jiangnan Ming's house.
Such a painful experience is really not something that ordinary people can endure. Maybe it was because he was stimulated too much at the beginning, and since then, Lei Feng's mental state has always had some problems, crazy, sometimes good and sometimes bad.
Now it seems that she has committed her madness again, and she can't even remember her son's name.
Ye Feng was thinking about it, but Lei Feng suddenly stood up at this time, staring at Ye Feng with both eyes, a smile appeared on his face, and there were words in his mouth: "I remembered, Tang Qiu, you are Tang Qiu, you are my son!"
Saying that, Lei Feng pounced on him in a few steps, stretched out his hands and grabbed Ye Feng's palm, two lines of hot tears suddenly flowed down from her cloudy eyes, and her mouth muttered: "You are back, my mother is waiting for you at the door every day, looking forward to you, and finally looking forward to you back!"
Ye Feng was stunned for a moment, and a wonderful feeling was born in his heart, he didn't dodge, and let Lei Feng grab his hands.
He felt a choking in his throat, but he seemed to say involuntarily: "Yes, mother, it's the child who is back." ”
Lei Feng raised his hand and wiped the tears on his face with his cuffs, while still babbling: "Why have you been there for so long this time?
As he spoke, Lei Feng stretched out his hand and gently patted the dust on Ye Feng's clothes, looking at him with a loving gaze in his eyes.
Suddenly, she remembered something, slapped her forehead, and exclaimed: "Look at my mother's memory, I am really old, you must be hungry after such a long journey, my mother has already prepared your favorite sweet potatoes, and they are still hot in the pot." ”
"Mother, I always think that you should come back in the next few days, so I prepare sweet potatoes for you every day, and I am waiting for you to come back, but I wait at the door every day, and I see that the sun is going down every day, and you haven't come back. Mother's heart is worried!"
Lei Feng wiped the tears that kept rolling down his face again, pulled Ye Feng's hand and didn't let go, turned around and walked into the house, and said: "Come into the house, my mother will bring you sweet potatoes out, and if you sleep outside for a day, you will suffer." ”
Ye Feng responded a little involuntarily, and obediently followed Lei Feng into the hut.
When these people outside saw that Ye Feng had fallen into an evil spirit, they called Lei Feng his mother, and followed her into the house, they couldn't help but feel a little stunned, and they all looked at Lei Wu.
Lei Wu sighed softly and said in a low voice: "In the past few years, the little master has often been absent, and the madness of the young lady is getting worse and worse, as long as I see a young man who is about the same age as the little young master, I will not let go, thinking that it is the little young master, so that the people in the town dare not pass by here." ”
He shook his head again and said, "But it's the first time I've seen a reaction like Ye Gongzi's. ”
Walking into the thatched house, Ye Feng looked at the furnishings in the house.
Except for a simple table, stool and bed, the room is very simple, almost surrounded by four walls.
But just these simple furniture, all polished brightly, even the floor is spotless, it seems that Lei Feng has been cleaning repeatedly every day, very neat and clean.
As soon as Lei Feng entered the house, he asked Ye Feng to sit down, and then went into the kitchen next to him, and after a while, he walked out with a bowl of steaming sweet potatoes.
Ye Feng sat down at the table, Lei Feng put the sweet potato in front of him, looked at him with eyes full of hope, and urged repeatedly: "Eat quickly, eat quickly!"
Ye Feng responded, reached out and picked up a sweet potato, although it was an extremely ordinary steamed sweet potato, this sweet potato was clearly carefully selected, and the shape was excellent, and the skin of the potato was gently torn apart, revealing a red pulp, and a sweet fragrance wafted out with the heat.
He took a bite gently, the sweet and full feeling filled his mouth, and he nodded vigorously at Lei Feng and said vaguely: "It's delicious, it's delicious!"
Lei Feng looked at Ye Feng and smiled with a satisfied expression on his face.
She reached out and took out a handkerchief from her arms, wiped the sweet potato crumbs stuck to the corners of her mouth for Ye Feng, and said softly: "Look at you, it's the same as when you were a child, such a big person, you still eat all over your mouth, like a little dirty cat." ”
Ye Feng nodded, looking at Lei Feng's loving face in front of him, while chewing the sweet potato in his mouth vigorously, he suddenly felt that his nose was a little sour, and his eyes were a little moist.
For as long as he can remember, Ye Feng has never known what his mother is like. The father said that his mother had passed away when he gave birth to him.
But the strange thing is that over the years, every Qingming New Year's Day, all the other families have helped the old and the young to go to the graves of their deceased relatives, but his father has never taken Ye Feng to visit his mother.
He also asked his father, but his father always said that he was too busy with work to get out, and his mother was buried in the ancestral grave in the countryside, which was really inconvenient. Although this explanation was reasonable, Ye Feng always felt that this was a big regret in his heart.
My father never renewed the strings after that, only saying that he was busy with business and had no energy. So, from childhood to adulthood, Ye Feng grew up taking care of himself by himself.
Several courtiers who had a good personal relationship with their father, such as Zhang Fu, Xie Jin, and Xia Yuanji, the sons in their mansion were of the same age as Ye Feng, and they often came and went, so going to these people's homes to eat became the most common thing for Ye Feng throughout his childhood.
But these children all have their mother's love, and every time he sees them coquettish in front of his mother's knees, Ye Feng's heart always feels empty, as if he has lost something.
He has never experienced what maternal love is, like today, Lei Feng is like a mother to him shushing and asking for warmth, considerate and nagging, this is the first time for him.
He felt a warm current in his chest go up his throat and burst out of his eyes.
But she was not her own mother, and her real son was no longer there.
Ye Feng really didn't know how to tell her the bad news, he really couldn't open his mouth.
At this time, Lei Feng watched Ye Feng eating sweet potatoes with satisfaction, and at the same time, he babbled long and short questions, asking about some situations of wandering outside, such as whether he was full of food, whether he was warmly dressed, where he had been, and who he had met.
Fortunately, she just asked questions on her own, and she didn't give Ye Feng time to answer at all, always one question followed another, so in the end, Ye Feng didn't answer a question at all.
Ye Feng tried his best to calm down his emotions, suppressed his eyes that wanted to cry, and said to Lei Feng after a while: "Mother, we may have to move in the next two days, we have to move to a friend of mine, it is a big house, spacious and bright, good to eat and live, you can enjoy your old age." ”
Lei Feng's eyes were fixed on Ye Feng's face, he didn't even blink, and said in his mouth: "It doesn't matter if the house is big or small, as long as there is you, it will be the same wherever you live." ”
Ye Feng's face darkened, and he said in a low voice: "The child still has some things to do, and I can't accompany you for the time being, my friend will pick you up first, and the child will go to see you when he is done with the things in hand." ”
Hearing that her son was going out again, Lei Feng's face obviously showed a look of disappointment, but she still said in her mouth: "It's okay, it's important to be busy with business, it doesn't matter if your mother is waiting for you, but you should pay attention to your body when you are outside alone, don't get tired." ”
She stood up suddenly, turned her back and walked towards the cabinet in the corner, and said, "Mother, I'll pack a few thick clothes for you, it's cold, don't freeze." ”
While walking, he secretly raised his hand to wipe his eyes with his cuffs, obviously crying again.
Ye Feng silently lowered his head and took a big bite of the sweet potato in his hand, and the corners of his eyes were moist unconsciously.
After a long while, Ye Feng walked out of the house with a bulging bag stuffed with clothes in his hand.
Behind him, Lei Feng leaned on the firewood, looking at his back with tears in his eyes, but he didn't make a sound.
Ye Feng didn't look back, and he didn't dare to look back, for fear that tears would fall unstoppably as soon as he turned around. He quickened his pace and walked straight to the group of people waiting outside.
Everyone looked at his moist and red eyes in some surprise, but no one asked what was going on in the room, they didn't know how to speak.
Ye Feng walked to Ji Wushuang's side, with a hint of tremor in his voice: "Young Master Ji, you can send someone to pick up Lei Feng tomorrow." I promised her to live in a big house, there is no shortage of food and clothing, and I will be able to visit her filial piety often, I hope you can arrange it properly. ”
Ji Wushuang nodded solemnly and said, "No problem, it must be arranged." ”
Ye Feng nodded gratefully, turned his head and walked quickly down the mountain, he still needed to calm down his excitement.
Everyone followed and slowly walked down the mountain.
Tang Dayan, who was walking side by side with Ji Wushuang, smiled at him and asked, "Can Ji Gongzi now understand why this Ye Gongzi has so many friends who are willing to help him regardless of life and death?"
Ji Wushuang looked at Ye Feng's back and nodded.
When his friend is gone, he can treat his mother as his own mother and do his filial piety for others, who would not want to make a few more friends like this?