"Okay, okay! Yi Mo..." Rong Bo looked at Ming Yao in front of him and looked at Shen Yi Mo in confusion.
"Uncle Rong, Yaoyao injured her eyes when she was in a car accident. She can't see you for the time being, but she can have a corneal transplant. As long as the operation is successful, she can completely regain her sight!"
“Really? Yaoyao, you’ve suffered so much... Uncle Rong thought he would never see you again...” Although Rong Bo has become more open-minded about life and death at his age, Mingyao is young after all. Seeing her current appearance, he still can’t help feeling sad.
"Uncle Rong, don't worry about me! I have Yi Mo by my side, he will take care of me. If one day he doesn't care about me, you can beat him with a rolling pin like when we were kids! Break his butt in two!" Ming Yao felt much better when she heard Uncle Rong's voice. She remembered that when she was a kid, she asked Shen Yi Mo to steal the jujubes from Uncle Rong's tree, and was chased by Uncle Rong with a rolling pin all over the alley. In fact, Uncle Rong was just threatening, and he never really did anything.
"Okay! If Yi Mo treats you badly in the future, Uncle Rong will be the first one to not let him go!" Seeing that Ming Yao still liked to joke like before even though she was blind, Uncle Rong felt much more relieved.
Shen Yimo also laughed when he heard his wife's words. He put a handbag he brought with him in front of Uncle Rong: "Uncle Rong, I came here today to tell you something happier. Yaoyao and I are getting married! Here are the wine and candies I brought for you! You must accept them!"
"Really? That's great! We must collect this wine! We must also eat the candy!" Rong Bo took it with a smile.
"Uncle Rong, I'm hungry. Please make me a bowl of beef noodles! I haven't eaten it for half a year, and I miss it so much!" Ming Yao looked at Uncle Rong and said a little coquettishly.
"Yes, okay, Uncle Rong will do it for you right away! I'll do it right away!" Uncle Rong stood up with a smile, walked to the side and started to get busy.
Rong Bo's beef noodles were made very quickly, and in a short while, the beef noodles were placed in front of the two people. Shen Yimo handed the chopsticks to his wife. Mingyao took the chopsticks and smelled the long-lost fragrance, and tears suddenly fell. Shen Yimo immediately took out a tissue to help his wife wipe her tears, and reached out to hold her hand gently in his palm.
Mingyao sniffed and looked ahead blankly: "I thought... I would never be able to eat Rong Bo's beef noodles in this life..."
Sitting opposite Mingyao, Rong Bo looked at the poor child and comforted her: "In the future, whenever Yaoyao wants to eat, let Yi Mo bring you here! Rong Bo is still very strong. When your eyesight recovers, come here alone..."
"Well, thank you, Uncle Rong..." Ming Yao smiled with tears in her eyes, lowered her head and started eating beef noodles.
The two of them ate and chatted with Uncle Rong, talking about their childhood, Uncle Ming, and finally Yu Xiao.
"Uncle Rong, do you still remember the girl I brought last time?" Shen Yimo looked at Uncle Rong and asked.
"Yes, of course I remember. She looks 70% similar to Yaoyao, but also a little different!" Rong Bo had a deeper impression of Yu Xiao than ordinary people. The main reason was that her face was very similar to Mingyao's, and people would never forget it once they saw it.
"You would never have thought that she is Yaoyao's biological sister!"
"Biological sister? How is that possible? I remember when Yusong and Bingyan were getting divorced, they only had one daughter, Yaoyao?" Uncle Rong was a little surprised when he heard the news.
"At that time, Yaoyao's mother was pregnant and returned to her parents' home, but Yaoyao's father didn't know. Later, Yaoyao's mother passed away, and the child was entrusted to a good friend of hers to take care of. However, her good friend happened to be infertile, so she kept the secret. We only learned the truth some time ago."
"Oh, God is really watching over us! Good, good! That's great!" Rong Bo couldn't help but feel deeply moved when he heard this, and was happy for Mingyao's family from the bottom of his heart.
Eating the beef noodles made by Uncle Rong and chatting with him was a happy and gratifying thing for Mingyao. They finished the beef noodles quickly, and the two said goodbye to Uncle Rong. Shen Yimo took Mingyao back to the old house.
The fate of Shen Yimo and Mingyao dates back more than 20 years ago. Both families lived in Rongjia Hutong. They were not neighbors, but there were two or three families between their houses. When Mingyao was a child, her father was away from home for a long time, and her mother was busy taking care of the family and her grandparents. Maybe it was because her parents didn't care much about her, so she had a lively and cheerful personality, or a little naughty. Whose child was stung by a wasp, whose child broke his leg while climbing over the wall, and whose child smashed the window glass of someone else's house, in the end, you can always find Mingyao in the end. As time went on, the adults in the hutong didn't like their children to play with Mingyao, including Shen Yimo's parents.
This situation continued until Mingyao was five years old. Her mother Yao Bingyan was dissatisfied with her husband's dedication to the tea garden and returned to her parents' home in anger. Without her mother, Mingyao sat at the gate one afternoon, crying alone. I don't know if Mingyao's heartbroken cry touched the seven-year-old Shen Yimo. From then on, he often followed Mingyao's buttocks. When someone bullied her, he would stand up to fight for justice. Mingyao did not look at him differently because of the appearance of this neighbor brother. She would still make trouble for him like before, but Shen Yimo never had the same opinion with her. Because he found an interesting phenomenon, Mingyao could bully him and make trouble for him at will, but when others made trouble for Shen Yimo, Mingyao would be like a little hedgehog, instantly erecting all the thorns on her body and standing on his side strongly.
In Mingyao's memory, Shen Yimo's shadow is everywhere. Hearing the creaking sound of the weathered wooden door, childhood memories suddenly emerged from a corner of her heart, and everything seemed to be clearly displayed in front of her. Shen Yimo held her hand and walked towards the door of the house step by step.
"Silently..."
"What's wrong?"
"Is that persimmon tree still there?" She remembered that there was a persimmon tree in the corner of the yard, which produced a lot of persimmons every year. She remembered that one time Shen Yimo picked the persimmons and tried to dry them like an adult, but they all turned into a puddle of mud, which Mingyao playfully smeared all over his body.
"Yes, there are! There are a lot of them this year. I'll take you to pick them later!"
"President Shen, do you still remember how to roast persimmons? Will it turn into a puddle of mud again?" Ming Yao asked him jokingly, recalling the past.
"Definitely not this year! I promise they'll all taste as good as you!"
"Hateful! Aren't you afraid of getting nauseous from eating too much?" Ming Yao smiled at him in a reproachful manner. Perhaps it was because Shen Yimo was with her, as soon as she returned here, her naughty nature began to slowly reveal itself.
"You won't know until you try it!" Shen Yimo leaned close to his wife's ear and answered with a smile.
"It's still unclear who will eat whom!"
"Wife, I'm really looking forward to you turning into a wolf grandmother tonight!"
"So you are Little Red Riding Hood?"
Shen Yimo hugged his wife to his arms and tapped her nose lightly: "Well, absolutely obedient Little Red Riding Hood! You can bully me!"
"Great! Then wash yourself and wait for me in bed that night!"
"Wife, are you seducing me nakedly?"
"Why? No way?"
"Okay! It has to work! It has to work no matter how hard it is!" Shen Yimo hugged his wife and laughed out loud.
In one afternoon, Shen Yimo took Mingyao to visit the two old houses and went to visit the neighbors. At first, Mingyao felt that she could not see and there were still some psychological barriers. With Shen Yimo's guidance, she gradually felt relieved.
Now she is powerless to change the fact that she is blind and can only adapt herself to her current life.
The two of them went to meet old neighbors. Everyone knew their past very well. They couldn't help laughing when talking about their past. Mingyao was surrounded by strong family affection and love, and her heart was gradually warmed. Dinner was at the home of the third grandmother next door. Because they couldn't resist her hospitality, the two of them stayed together and invited Uncle Rong to come. Because they were all neighbors who were particularly doting on her when she was a child, after dinner, Mingyao was much more talkative than before.
After dinner, after saying goodbye to Third Grandma and Rong Bo, Shen Yimo took Mingyao to walk around Rongjia Hutong. Finally, when they were tired, they returned to Mingyao's old house together. In fact, Shen Yimo had thought of bringing Mingyao back to see her some time ago. He knew that she was much more fragile than ordinary people psychologically, so he decided to cure his wife's mental illness before her eyesight was restored. This was the main purpose of bringing his wife back to the old house.
The bed and bedding were all new. Shen Yimo had bought a wooden barrel and placed it here. He took some cold water from the water pipe and put it on the simple stove. He then took matches and firewood to start the stove. Although he was the president of a group that everyone looked up to, he could really do this kind of work. Mingyao sat next to him, and the two chatted while boiling water. The water soon boiled. Shen Yimo poured all the hot water into the wooden barrel, and then added appropriate amount of cold water. When it felt about right, he let Mingyao go in to take a shower, and he took a cold shower with cold water.
Time passed a little more, and when Mingyao finished washing, Shen Yimo pulled her out of the water and carried her to the bed. He used the prepared bath towel to wipe her body clean, and then lay down on the bed with her.
"Am I useless? I'm like an eighty-year-old old lady and I need you to serve me in everything!" Mingyao felt extremely guilty for being served in such detail by him.
Shen Yimo held his wife in his arms, thought about the question and answered: "I remember a story about two people walking in the desert and getting thirsty. Finally, they walked into the same small house together. There were two bottles of water on the table in the house, and each bottle was only half full. One of them sighed and said, "Oh, there is only half a bottle of water left. How can I get out of this desert?" The other person looked at the bottle and exclaimed in surprise, "Great! There is still half a bottle of water. I can get out of the desert." The same thing, but the results were different in the eyes of the two people. The disappointed person did not get out in the end, while the overjoyed person got out smoothly. The desert. This story is actually very simple. It tells us that we should think positively about everything. When you think about things from a different perspective, you will find that things are not as bad as you think. Although you are blind now, you experience life more attentively than before. Many things that you could not feel before, you can now feel deeply. I remember that you had complaints about your father when you were very young. You felt that your father was largely responsible for your mother leaving your life. At that time, I still remember you said angrily that your father did not love you. But after you became blind this time, did you find that he loved you more than you thought? " (To be continued)