Chapter 6: A New Beginning (Part II)
An adobe house with a small courtyard enclosed by a stone fence, and to the left of the house was a hut with some miscellaneous items at the door.
Walking into the small courtyard, the scene in the house came into view, there was only a small table for eating in the small hall, a few benches, and nothing else.
On the left and right sides are curtains hung with old cloth as a shield, which should be two bedrooms.
The woman surnamed Lu couldn't help but shake her head and sighed, sighing at the situation of this mother and son......
Just as the woman surnamed Lu sighed, the curtain on the left side was lifted, and the boy who had just taken the lead was walking out with a woman with a somewhat haggard face at this moment.
This woman seems to be in her thirties, but her actual age should not be very old, judging by her facial features, there are not many wrinkles on her face, although her skin is slightly dark, but it is thought that it is caused by years of hard work.
Then I heard the woman speak:
"Mrs. Lao is tired of running, thank you for being here...... concubine" said and saluted.
The woman surnamed Lu hurriedly stopped:
"No need to be polite, it's also my fault with my husband, I should have helped you earlier!"
The woman hurriedly bowed her head and said:
"It's my own life, what do I have to do with my wife? Not to mention that yesterday Village Chief Xiao broke the siege, and today I have to trouble my wife to come to visit, and the concubine can't help it......"
"Okay, even if that's the case, we don't want to see each other like this, you don't want to be called Mrs. Madame, you are older than me, I will call you sister, you can call me Sister Lu. ”
The woman surnamed Lu saw that this woman was reasonable, and thought that she was still silently running a family despite her miserable life, and she was also a woman, so she had more admiration for her.
"This, how can this make the concubine just a civilian woman, how dare she climb high and be commensurate with her lady and sister......" The woman said with some flattery.
"Does my sister look down on my sister?" said the woman surnamed Lu pretending to be angry.
"No, no, no, it's me who has climbed high!" the woman saw that she could not refuse, so she agreed:
"So I'll call you Sister Lu......"
Both of them smiled and signaled, which was considered to be a settled sisterhood, and when the host and guest were seated, the woman asked her son to bring tea, only to hear the woman surnamed Lu speak again:
"I think my sister is reasonable, I seem to know some Wenmo, did you take Heng'er's name?"
"Don't mention the past, I can teach him some literacy and hyphenation, so that he won't make jokes in the future......."
When the woman had finished speaking, she looked lovingly at the boy and beckoned to him:
"Heng'er, come and see my aunt"
"Hello auntie!" the boy was not so restrained this time, and bowed obediently.
"Well, I'll give your mother some medicine later, and then I'll see you. The woman surnamed Lu smiled and nodded.
"Why don't you thank you, auntie?" urged the boy before his mother could speak.
"Thank you, auntie!" This time, without his mother's instructions, he knelt on his knees and was about to kowtow.
Although he had never seen Aunt Lu's medical skills with his own eyes, he would always hear the elders in the village praise her for how good she was, how she rejuvenated her skillfully, and so on.
"You stupid boy, what are you doing, get up!"
The woman surnamed Lu hurriedly helped the boy, took advantage of the situation and quietly investigated secretly, and when she saw that there was nothing unusual, she quietly withdrew her hand and said:
"Okay, Heng'er, you and Rong Rong stay here for a while, and your aunt will come out soon after you go in to help your mother take the medicine!"
When she said the last sentence, she looked at the little girl, who saw her mother looking over and seemed to understand her words, and she spat out her little fragrant tongue and grimaced at her mother.
The woman surnamed Lu smiled helplessly and shook her head, and helped the woman into the back room with a smile.
Only a little boy and a little girl were left in the hall
Although the boy usually talks and laughs with his mother, it seems to be lively, but that is only limited to his mother......
If it were someone else, the boy would immediately become restrained and cramped, not to mention that there was a little girl sitting next to him at this time......
The little girl glanced the boy up and down, and saw that he was sitting honestly motionless with his head down, and suddenly her eyes rolled, and she suddenly asked:
"Hey, isn't my mother good-looking?"
Her voice was as crisp and beautiful as a oriole.
The boy nodded instinctively when he heard such a question
"Hmm!", it took a long time to react, and suddenly his cheeks were hot and the roots of his ears were red, and he buried his head lower.
The little girl was very amused when she saw him like this again, and still asked reluctantly:
"Do you think I look good?"
Don't look at the little girl is only five or six years old, but she is extremely smart, and her mind is far from being comparable to other peers, not to mention that her parents are not ordinary.
The boy was too ashamed to find a place to get in......
He's an eight-year-old boy, but in front of a five or six-year-old girl, admitting that her mother is beautiful, this is not a serious good intention!
At this time, in the face of the little girl's step-by-step pressing, he had to bite the bullet and say again: "um".
It's just that the voice has long been weak
Although the voice was too small, the little girl could still hear it clearly.
She forced a smile, deliberately made a serious look, touched her chin like an adult, and nodded old-fashionedly
"Hmm...... Nice......"
As she spoke, the little girl stood up and walked up to the boy, put one hand behind her back, patted the boy on the shoulder with the other, and said in an old-fashioned manner:
"You're still very discerning!"
Don't look at her smaller than a boy, but she's as tall as a boy.
At this time, she couldn't help but be joking when she saw the submissive appearance of this boy who was older than herself in front of her, and she only heard her say to the boy again:
"Raise your head!"
The boy wants to die at the moment, although he is relatively timid in front of outsiders, but it does not mean that he has to obey anyone.
What's more, at this time, he was still disgraced by a girl younger than himself, think about how depressed it is!
Maybe it's a bit of stubbornness in his young temperament, or maybe he is unwilling to be defeated by someone who is still young.
The boy did not raise his head after hearing the girl's words, but buried it lower, and his blushing cheeks slowly returned to normal......
"Huh?"
The girl was stunned for a moment after noticing the boy's change, and then her eyes rolled again after thinking about it with her little hands crossed her waist.
I saw her slowly approach the boy, stretching out her delicate little hand and pinching the boy's chin to lift him.
The boy was caught off guard by the girl's chin pinched, but he still stubbornly resisted with the girl.
Just as they stiffened each other, the words of the woman surnamed Lu came:
"Rong Rong!"