In the yard, the boy stood there and looked at Lu Sheng obediently.
Sparse yellow leaves rolled on the ground with the wind, and a few rolled to the boy's feet.
He lowered his head and kicked twice, then continued to look at Lu Sheng.
Lu Sheng looked at him and asked with a smile, "You are Mrs. Ma, right?"
Ah Tai paused, as if she didn't expect that Lu Sheng would know him.
"Who are you?" he asked warily.
He had met many people, but Lu Sheng was completely unfamiliar to him.
He was sure that he had never seen this person.
"I'm your father's friend's... child."
Lu Sheng pushed open the fence door and walked in.
Ah Tai frowned and took a step back, "My father has been dead for many years."
"I know."
Lu Sheng looked around and asked in a low voice, "They all went out for a wedding, why didn't you go with them?"
"Aunt won't let me go."
Ah Tai lowered her head and pursed her lips to answer.
Along the way, Lu Sheng heard the mother-in-law talking about Aunt Aunt, so it was not surprising to hear Auntie's answer.
"Then what did you eat this morning?"
A Tai shook her head upon hearing this, but did not speak.
"Then what do you want to eat? Shall I take you to the town to eat?"
Lu Sheng felt that he was a bit like a human trafficker at the moment, trying to lure a child.
But she forgot that her current age was only four years older than Ah Tai.
Ah Tai shook her head, "I don't want to eat, I want to go home."
He feels that life here is no different from before.
It's just another person who continues to despise him and order him around.
"Why? Did your uncle treat you badly?"
"Uncle is very good to me, but he has no right to speak in this family."
Auntie said with a cold face: "He is in this family, even his cousins and cousins look down on him, his aunt calls him a coward, and aunt's parents call his uncle a waste."
Uncle couldn't protect him even if he wanted to protect him. Uncle was used to this kind of life, but he was not happy.
After his mother died and his stepfather was taken away by the yamen, he didn't feel sad, but felt a sense of relief.
The reason why I was willing to follow my uncle was because I was a little scared at the time.
"When uncle comes back, I will go home."
He got up early this morning and packed his things. He planned to wait for his uncle to come back and tell him to go back.
Lu Sheng nodded, "Then I'll wait with you."
Anyway, Liang Ping said that he would go back to the village in a bullock cart, so she didn't have to go back to pick him up.
A-tai looked at her, then at the carriage outside the door, she didn't agree or object, but turned around and walked back.
Lu Sheng led the carriage into the yard, took a bench, and sat under the eaves.
"Auntie, Auntie!"
After a while, I saw a burly man walking in with two bowls.
"Huh?"
Da Zhuang glanced at the carriage in the yard, his face full of doubts.
Ah Tai who heard the voice ran out, seeing that it was Da Zhuang, she hurriedly shouted: "Uncle."
"Are you hungry? Uncle brought you something to eat. The banquet hasn't started yet, so you can eat as much as you can. Uncle will go back to help chop the meat."
Da Zhuang said, bringing a bowl of rice and a bowl of pork offal.
"Thank you uncle!"
After she thanked her, she took it, looked at Da Zhuang who was still smiling innocently, and said, "Uncle, I'm going home."
The corner of Da Zhuang's mouth paused for a smile, his face full of ashamed expressions.
"It's useless to be uncle, and you will suffer along with it."
Atai said with a sincere expression: "Uncle, when I have money in the future, I will take you there to take care of me."
(end of this chapter)