Mr. Wu froze slightly, and said with a faint smile: "It's okay not to mention the past! My family has long been gone due to the plague, ah, this person, he started to like to recall the past when he got old, but it's just a waste of thinking. Where is there any home, any family to think about!"
Lu Zhong smiled when he heard the words, then he picked up the jug and poured wine for each other, smiled and raised his hand and said: "It's my fault, I brought up the sadness of the husband! Please, sir, I will make an apology to the husband as Lu!"
Mr. Wu picked up the wine glass with a smile, and the two touched each other and drank it all while laughing.
Miao Cuilan couldn't help but said: "Who said Mr. Wu is old? I don't think he is old at all, just right! Mr. Wu, don't blame me for talking too much, you should consider marrying a wife!"
Mr. Wu was choked by the wine and coughed violently. He coughed so badly that he shook his lungs, leaned over and slapped his chest vigorously.
"Mr. Wu, are you okay!" Lu Zhong hurriedly asked with concern, and at the same time cast a reproachful glance at his wife.
"I'll make you a cup of hot tea!" Miao Cuilan stood up, feeling very innocent in her heart, and said to herself that I had good intentions! This Mr. Wu is really strange, why is he so old that he refuses to marry a wife! As long as he is willing to nod his head, I don't know how many people are waiting in line to marry their girls...
Lu Xiaoshu looked at this and that with his big eyes open, and thought to himself, hey, Mr. Wu seems to be a man with a story, he choked like this when he heard my mother talk about marrying a daughter-in-law. hurt? I don't know if his sweetheart died because of his confidante, or he kicked him because he thought he was a poor scholar! Or is it because the family is wrong and the elders beat the mandarin ducks
Either way, it seems pretty pathetic...
And Dad, when he speaks, he doesn't consciously bring out a taste of gentility. He doesn't look like an ordinary farmer. Could it be that he is also a person with a story
Lu Xiaoshu thought back and forth about these two serious questions, and suddenly felt that his little head was not enough, so he fell asleep again.
"Oh! Why are you here!" Lu Xiaoshu was brought back to his senses by his mother's shock.
When she opened her eyes, she saw that there was another person in the yard. The moon was so bright that she could see clearly. This man is a young man of seventeen or eighteen, wearing a lake blue Gebu gown, with hair tied high, with delicate features and a slightly thin body, but he has a good temperament, and he looks like a scholar.
"Sister, brother-in-law, Mr. Wu!" The young man stepped forward to greet him with a smile. Lu Qi cheered "Little Uncle" and rushed towards the young man, the young man smiled "Hey" in agreement, bent down and picked him up.
"Chuhe is here! Come on, sit down!" Lu Zhong greeted with a smile.
Miao Chuhe stepped forward to sit down, and Miao Cuilan looked him up and down, and said, "Why did you come here so well tonight?"
Miao Chuhe is Miao Cuilan's younger brother. When Miao Cuilan broke up with her family and married Lu Zhong, he was only seven years old and still a child.
There is a tough and disgusting stepmother in the family, and her father listens to her in everything. Miao Chuhe's life can be imagined. When he was young, he often came to his sister crying because of being beaten, scolded, wronged, and with many scars. .
Seeing this, Miao Cuilan gritted her teeth with hatred, but she had no choice but to comfort him, give him medicine, cook him a delicious meal, and then persuade him to go back.
Miao Cuilan couldn't help feeling like a knife was twisting in her heart as she watched him turn his head three times in an aggrieved step.
Miao Cuilan could leave home by herself, but she couldn't take her younger brother away. After all, her younger brother was from the Miao family. It is impossible to follow the elder sister who is suffering from family breakdown for a long time.
Her father would definitely not agree, even the stepmother would not be willing to let the family lose a long-term worker who could be dispatched at will.
When Miao Chuhe was ten years old, once Miao Chuhe was beaten so badly by his stepmother that his scalp was broken and his arms and legs were covered with scars. He ran to his sister's house crying and refused to go back no matter what he said. .
When asked why, it turned out that the eight-year-old Miao Tianbao, the stepmother's own son, chased and beat him for some reason. The pain was so painful that he burst into tears, and the stepmother was very distressed. In the past, he had to slap Miao Chuhe a few times when he had nothing to do. How can he be polite with this excuse
In addition, she happened to be arguing with her husband and had no place to vent her anger. These places joined together and beat Miao Chuhe until he ran out of the house crying.
After hearing her younger brother's cry, even though Miao Cuilan had a hot temper, she could only grit her teeth and hold back the tears.
What can she do
To the Miao family, she is already an "irrelevant" outsider, so what qualifications does she have to manage the Miao family's affairs? Even if she wants to take Miao Chuhe in, it depends on whether he is willing or not!
Lu Zhong sighed secretly when he saw it, and discussed with Miao Cuilan, saying that since it is so, it is better to send Miao Chuhe to study in the academy, or simply live in the academy for a long time, and they will pay all the expenses.
Naturally, this couldn't be better, Miao Cuilan gratefully agreed.
But even if they are willing to pay all the expenses, it took a lot of effort and twists and turns to get this done, which gave the patriarch of the Miao clan a lot of benefits, and made the stepmother Xia a good fortune. Bar, this thing is considered a successful conclusion.
From then on, Miao Chuhe finally got out of the sea of suffering, except for the New Year, he never returned to the home where there were only beatings and cursing. During holidays, he quietly ran to his sister and husband's house for a day or two.
Miao Chuhe worked hard to be strong, and was selected as a scholar at the age of fourteen. After that, no one dared to beat him.
Originally, he could follow the exam, but his father passed away last year, so he also delayed.
Today is the 15th day of the eighth month, and it is said that he should worship his father at home for the festival, but unexpectedly, he went to his sister and brother-in-law's house under the moonlight, so when Miao Cuilan asked this question, his face immediately turned a little bit ugly.
This is not good-looking not for him, but for his stepmother, Miao Cuilan thought he was being scolded by his stepmother again.
If this was the case, Miao Cuilan would reprimand her younger brother in addition to annoying her stepmother.
She can't protect him for the rest of his life. Now that he has grown up, no matter how he is the eldest son of the family, he is the head of the family and has the status of a scholar. If he is still bullied by his stepmother, then he is really useless used!
Miao Chuhe smiled "hehe", understood her sister's suspicious and questioning eyes, and glanced back, smiling, "After dinner at home, I have nothing to do, so I want to come and see my sister, brother-in-law, and my nephew and niece! Tomorrow morning I went back to the academy. Hey, who is this little girl? She looks so smart!"
He really didn't want to face his stepmother's cold face and weird words at home, so he came out after a hasty dinner, and she was so angry that she stared blankly at home.
so what? She absolutely dare not do anything to herself now.
She actually asked herself to intercede with her husband and asked Miao Tianbao to study in the academy. It seemed like she couldn't afford to pay even a penny. She had a good plan to ask her to help her find a way to bear it!
"It's my second sister! Little uncle, isn't my second sister beautiful!" Lu Qi said proudly as he broke free from his embrace.
Lu Xiaoshu was very annoyed: You are only two!
"Your second sister!" Miao Chuhe was astonished, glanced at her sister and brother-in-law unconsciously, and muttered in her heart that Xiaoxue was only that big, how could there be such a big second sister
"You don't know yet, do you?" Lu Zhong smiled and told Lu Xiaoshu's background.
Only then did Miao Chuhe understand, nodded and smiled: "So that's it! My sister and brother-in-law are really kind-hearted people. It is also her blessing that this child is protected by her sister and brother-in-law!"
"You're getting better at talking!" Miao Cuilan gave him an angry look, and said with a smile, "You can stay here when you come, and go back to the academy tomorrow, and I'll make your bed for you!"
Now that he is a scholar, his stepmother is his mother no matter what. If he is not careful, he will be charged with "unfilial piety". No one can afford this, so Miao Cuilan said this.
"Well," Miao Chuhe also understood this point very well, sighed lightly and nodded, and said with a smile, "Sister, please!"
"What does my family say is troublesome?" Miao Cuilan smiled and left, leaving the three of them outside to talk.
It wasn't until the moonlight was westward that Lu Xiaoshu's three little ones had already fallen asleep, Mr. Wu also went back, and Miao Chuhe waited until they went into the house to rest.
At dawn the next day, Miao Chuhe got up. When Lu Zhong and Miao Cuilan got up, the fire had already been heated, the water tank was filled with water, and the rice was cooked. Miao Chuhe was in the yard Standing idly under the fruit tree with hands behind their backs.
Seeing her sister and brother-in-law coming out of the room, they greeted her with a smile. Lu Zhong and Miao Cuilan were already used to him doing this. Let’s be a girl! Especially that girl Xiaoshu, if she wakes up and watches carefully so that she doesn’t fall off the kang, that girl is very skinny, she will never be quiet for a moment!”
Miao Chuhe smiled and said "OK" and turned to enter the room.
As a result, there were more people who liked to pinch Lu Xiaoshu's face and play with it. Lu Xiaoshu curled his mouth, and finally burst into tears of grievance.
Woohoo, is she that unpleasant? Wherever my sister is, everyone says she is good-looking and loves her. No one has ever been willing to pinch her face. My own face is almost kneaded into dough!
Seeing her crying, Miao Chuhe was startled, and hurriedly coaxed her. Miao Cuilan hurried in from the outside when she heard the crying, and said with a smile, "You touched her again, didn't you? This girl is very awkward and doesn't like to be touched by others." She, you just let her play by herself, as long as she doesn't wrestle, don't worry about the rest!"
"It's a weird temper!" Miao Chuhe smiled helplessly.
"That's right!" Miao Cuilan also sighed with a smile.
Seeing that he didn't pinch her anymore, Miao Chuhe felt really depressed after crying for a while. Is he so unpopular
But he didn't dare to provoke her anymore, so he just sat on the side, staring at Lu Xiaoshu with his eyes wide open, seeing her staring at him with her big black eyes without any sign of weakness, he couldn't help but find it interesting, hahaha Laughing, she subconsciously reached out to pinch her pink and tender face.
Lu Xiaoshu twisted his body when he saw this, and quickly crawled away. It made Miao Chuhe laugh even more. Such a small doll is so much fun!