Lu Anru stood up and hooked his arms around his neck, leaning against his chest.
Listening to the strong heartbeat, he said happily: "Xiao Ming is here, I miss you so much."
"I miss An Ru too." Sheng Ming placed a deep kiss on Lu Anru's head.
He slept less than ten hours in three days and completed the task ahead of schedule. I was exhausted physically and mentally, but when I thought of the agreement with Lu Anru and that cute little face, my fatigue was completely covered up by my longing.
When I came back and saw her sweet sleeping face, I felt that all the hard work was worth it.
Lu Anru pulled Sheng Ming onto the soft bed. He sat on the head of the bed, with her clingy little tail nestled in his arms. She chatted with him about the recent strange things and the results of his handling.
After a vivid and exaggerated description, Sheng Ming praised: "An Ru is so brave. Even if I have nightmares continuously, I may not be able to resolve the problem with the perseverance and courage like An Ru."
"Xiao Ming is being too modest. In fact, I just solved the dilemma in my dream today. I was basically chased by a ghost doll and ran away."
Lu Anru was too shy to tell the truth and had a small calculation in his mind.
She wanted to play Xbox online games with Sheng Ming, so she carried two machines from home just so that Sheng Ming could have some free time and the two of them could play games happily together. I quit online games that cheat money, and I only have small hobbies like playing handheld consoles and watching masters play games.
He raised his head and looked at Sheng Ming expectantly, but the words of invitation were stuck in his throat. Instead, he urged: "Xiao Ming rest here, and I will help grandma work. At noon, I will cook by myself and make your favorite lion head and My favorite is braised prawns.”
Sheng Ming's face was so bad that she couldn't even sleep well during the exam. Going on a mission would only make it harder.
"It's okay, I'm not sleepy yet, I can stay with An Ru again."
Sheng Ming took out the cooler from his bag, opened the lid and took out a stick of chocolate-flavored ice cream, handed it to the petite girl, and set the rules: "When the weather is cold, one stick a day, the whole box will be enough for you to eat before school starts."
"Thank you, Xiao Ming." Lu Anru took it happily.
Tear open the paper packaging, lick the top of the pure black chocolate, squint your eyes with satisfaction and savor it for a few seconds, then take another lick.
After eating it in one bite, he raised his eyes and met the beautiful eyes of Sheng Ming's inherited mother. The shallow smile in it seemed to indulge her in all her excessive demands, including playing games.
Before selfishness took over his mind, Lu Anru stood up decisively and announced: "Sleep well and listen to me. I am your sister."
"Taller than me, better than me, let's talk about sister issues."
Shengzhao leaned on the head of the bed, stretched out his hand forward, and easily placed it on the head of the upright man.
Lu Anru knows that it is difficult to surpass Sheng Ming in terms of strength, but her height is 23cm shorter than him, which is always a thorn in her heart. There is a big gap between the image of the dwarf and her sister.
He clenched his small fist, hit Sheng Ming on the shoulder twice, raised his lips and hummed: "Xiao Ming seems to have reached the rebellious stage. He is not as cute as when he was a child. When he was a child, he would call me sister sweetly. I am angry and decided to break off the relationship with you. Half a day, unless you sleep well to make it up to me.”
"Okay, I'll get up after two hours of sleep and play with An Ru."
Lu Anru's selfishness was exposed, and Lu Anru felt warm in her heart, but she kept pretending to be angry and adhered to the principle: "Two hours is not sincere enough. If you say half a day, it must be half a day, not even a minute or a second less."
He took out his computer from his pocket, turned on the screen, and said seriously: "It is now 7:11 in the morning. I will come over at 1:00 to call you for dinner. Before that, you must see you wandering around in or outside the house, and the punishment time will be automatic. Double."
Sheng Ming curled up the corner of her mouth in an extremely helpless manner and agreed in a deep voice: "Okay."
Lu Anru turned around proudly and walked towards the door. Halfway through, he turned around and asked, "Have you had breakfast?"
"have eaten."
Sheng Ming lay down on the bed that was filled with the faint fragrance of lily, took a deep breath of the scent that belonged to Lu Anru, and closed her eyes.
Lu Anru stopped the torture and left the room quietly.
Go downstairs and say hello happily to my mother and grandma.
"Mom, morning grandma."
"Good morning, my dear." Grandma responded with a youthful wave of her hands.
Lu Anru jumped up and down to the old man, took the special storage bag for shopping, and said, "Grandma, let's have breakfast first. After that, I will go shopping with you."
"The dishes in the morning market are fresh. Your mother is making breakfast. You stay at home and wait."
Grandma pointed to the kitchen, winked at her, and whispered, "Your mother doesn't know about Xiao Ming's return. Go ahead and tell her."
"Didn't Xiao Ming say hello to you?" Lu Anru was surprised. If this was the case, she would have to talk to Sheng Ming. A person should not only be strong, but should also be polite to his relatives.
Grandma raised her index finger in front of her mouth to make a shushing gesture, and explained: "Xiao Ming got home after four o'clock, and your mother hadn't gotten up yet. I was a light sleeper, and when I found him back, I asked him to park the hover car in the backyard, thinking It’s a surprise for you and your mother. Xiao Ming had the right idea. He just promised to surprise your mother and went to see you on the second floor. "
Lu Anru calculated silently, Sheng Ming stayed by her bedside for three hours from 4 to 7 o'clock.
She suppressed her heartache, clenched the storage bag, and showed that she had a good idea. She said softly: "When Xiao Ming gets up, he can surprise his mother in person. I will go shopping with you."
Lu Anru stubbornly held the old man's arm, and the old man had no choice but to go out with her.
"Anru, go this way. The vegetables at Nanji Market are fresh. They are all vegetables grown by the neighbors for sale."
Grandma turned and pointed forward.
Lu Anru didn't do anything. She stubbornly accompanied the old man to buy groceries. It was hard for him to listen to her layman's opinions when choosing a market.
Keep your eyes straight on the road and walk forward, strictly asking yourself not to glance around, especially not towards the houses on both sides.
After walking to the market safely, Lu Anru relaxed in the lively atmosphere.
Here I want a glutinous rice cake to eat, and there I want a milk and soy milk to drink. After shopping all the way, not only my hands are full of vegetables, but my stomach is also full.
"It turns out that going to the market is so interesting."
Lu Anru took the old man's arm with one hand, waved the other hand widely, and shook Spinach out.
Stick out the tip of your tongue at grandma, take the initiative to admit your mistake and avoid being told: "I'm too bad, I'll pick it up."
In two steps, he ran to the place where the vegetables fell, picked them up and put them back into the bag, and buckled the storage bag to prevent them from falling out next time.
He glanced to his side with his peripheral vision to determine Grandma's position. By chance, I stood in front of the Cui family's door, and by chance, I saw the Cui family's yard through the crack in the door. The once towering tree was the same as in the dream, only the stump remained.
Lu Anru couldn't calm down, she thought the tree would slowly wither. Facing the straightforward ending, even though she was mentally prepared, she still felt extremely sad.
"I heard that lightning struck the old peach tree last night, causing a fire. The nearby neighbors put out the fire and cut off the scorched parts. I hope the tree will sprout next year."
Grandma walked to Lu Anru, grabbed the originally heavy storage bag, and tried her best not to pull it over.
Lu Anru shook his head, his eyes filled with irreversible melancholy, and said in a deep voice: "It won't sprout."
"Well, what?" Grandma didn't hear clearly.
"It's okay," Lu Anru stopped talking, handed the storage bag to her grandmother, and warned, "Please step aside and walk back slowly while I take care of some personal matters."
"Okay." Grandma didn't ask carefully, knowing that young people have young people's secrets.
Lu Anru watched her grandmother walk a short distance away and came to the wall of Cui's courtyard. She grabbed the crack in the wall and climbed to the top of the wall. She looked down and did not see the figure that just flashed by.
She recognized the thin figure as Xiaobai.
Also disappearing with Xiaobai was the old tree stump. The tree stump that five or six people could not wrap around disappeared out of thin air. It must have been transferred away by Xiaobai's energy.
After experiencing all the things that happened to the peach tree spirit before her death, her obsession with finding the heart of the annual ring has long since faded.
However, it was as if someone had given this thing to her, and it was up to her to decide how to deal with it. Xiaobai just took it away, which made her a little unhappy.
Besides, holding on to dead wood will only hurt your feelings, okay? After thinking about it, it's actually a good thing that Xiaobai didn't meet and fight. If she did meet, it seems that she wouldn't be able to take away the peach tree spirit's only relic.
Sitting on the wall, I was stunned for a moment, then jumped back to the ground. She didn't have Xiaobai's ability to appear out of thin air and move things around. All the nearby villagers knew that she was here to see her grandma, but they couldn't let anyone catch her climbing over the wall and embarrass the old man.
Let's talk about it when we go back, and quickly catch up with grandma.
When the old man and the young child returned home, she put aside her worries and looked into each other's eyes. The grandfather and grandson continued to keep the secret tacitly.
After the old people finished their breakfast, Lu Anru and Xiao Luan were responsible for washing the dishes, and suddenly realized that they had been cheated.
He slapped his dishwashing gloves on the shelf and muttered, "Bad guy."
Open the refrigerator, take out the small cakes grandma bought in the morning, and walk upstairs.
Xiao Luan hurriedly followed her and said weakly: "You can rest from now on. I'll wash the dishes. There's no need to buy a dishwasher."
Lu Anru paused, turned around and stared at Xiao Luan in confusion, wondering, "What do you mean?"
Xiao Luan glanced at her with bright black eyes, lowered her head, and asked in a soft voice: "Madam insists on buying a dishwasher for my hometown, but the old lady doesn't agree. Are you unhappy about washing dishes?"
"No, you go watch TV." Lu Anru raised the cake packaging box in his hand and explained more: "Xiao Ming is back, I will deliver breakfast to him, please remember to keep this matter secret."
"Okay, I'll finish packing the last things and watch TV." Xiao Luan's worries came and went quickly, so she turned around and walked back to the kitchen.
Lu Anru opened the bedroom door, walked quietly to the bedside, and left the cake on the bedside table.
Take out the note paper from your bag and write this line: If you wake up in the middle of the night and eat the cake, I will prepare a new set of toiletries for you in the bathroom.
Stick the sticky note on the front of the cake box, leave the room with small steps, and go downstairs to find something to do.
She had breakfast a few days ago, and on the pretext of going back to the house to catch up on some sleep, she actually went to look for ghost dolls and peach tree spirits in her dreams.
Sheng Ming occupied her bed today, mainly because she didn't want to go back to her dream. In the morning, she found that dreams and reality mirrored each other in some places.
Xiaobai removed the tree stump, it is very likely that the Cui Family Courtyard in the dream also had no tree stump. I don’t know how to enlighten the ghost doll, and I’m worried that it won’t be able to accept this.
Wandering through the hall, the ever-changing first aid records were playing on the TV. I was faced with many entanglements and had no leisure to watch the pain of others.
After leaving the hall, wandering into the yard, I saw my mother holding a small shovel and filling the flower pots with soil.
Lu Anru walked over, squatted in front of the white flowerpot, put her hands on her chin and asked curiously: "Mom, what flowers are you helping grandma plant?"
There is a long bare branch in the white flowerpot, the type of which cannot be identified.
"When I first came here, I saw the old peach tree at the east end of the village and I fell in love with it. I cut a section of it. These days, hydroponics stimulated it to send out roots. It came out this morning and I can plant it in the soil."
After listening to Mother Lu's gentle words, Lu Anru's smart eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked excitedly: "Mom, was this hair-root peach sapling taken from Aunt Cui's house?"
"Yes." Mother Lu replied with a smile.
"Great!" Lu Anru applauded and went to Xiaobai to exchange peach tree saplings for peach tree stumps.
Peach tree stumps that have been harvested for hundreds of years are hard to come by. If you have hope of getting them and making up for them, of course you have to work hard.
Thinking of this, An couldn't help but ask her mother: "Mom, can you give me the peach saplings?"
"Yes, but the roots may not survive. You have to take good care of it. Water it with 1:2000 B12 water every two days. After a week, add a trace amount of potassium dihydrogen phosphate to increase its ability to trap bacteria. In the morning The sun is weak and suitable for it. Move it to the yard to dry it from nine to eleven, and then move it back to the house under the window, and only give it polarized light from noon to afternoon. "
Lu Anru took out his computer and recorded in the memo: "Okay, please rename the drug and I will buy it now." After feeding it, he will give it to Xiaobai to prevent secondary damage to the love bug.
"No need to buy it. Your grandma has all these things. Just remember the portion and the number of days."
Lu's mother took off her farm gloves and gave them to Lu Anru, encouraging: "You can fill in the remaining soil, so it doesn't cover the edge of the flower pot."
Lu Anru took the gloves and put them on, operating them carefully. I felt so happy that I felt a little dizzy, as if everything was destined to happen.
Maybe it's the peach tree spirit who always does good deeds, and good deeds will be rewarded.
After the operation, he wiped his forehead with his sleeve and looked at his mother. Every time he looked into her mother's gentle and firm eyes, Lu Anru always felt that he could not hide the secret.
The chicken thief smiled, looked away and said, "Mom, I have a surprise for you."
"Xiao Ming is here." Mother Lu replied calmly.
Lu Anru said in frustration, "Huh?" 'Sound, wondering: "How do you know?"
Mother Lu pointed to the backyard and said softly: "There are traces of the hover vehicle running over the grass."
"Okay, the secret is revealed. Xiao Ming also said I would give you a surprise."
After finishing her good words for Sheng Ming, she received a tolerant smile from her mother.
Sit on a stool next to the flowerpot and let the peach saplings sit in the sun for two hours before moving them back to the lower part of the window inside the house.
Xiao Luan came over, saw the branch itself, and sighed: "You are planting peach blossoms. This seedling is very qualified."
Lu Anru shook his head at her and said seriously: "No, I am planting love."
Xiaobai’s lost love.
As soon as Xiaobai's name came to mind, new worries appeared.
How does she contact Xiaobai? You can't catch a bug and ask her. The second reason is that she doesn't understand the language. Bugs that haven't evolved can't understand what she wants. It goes against their nature.
After placing the peach saplings, he and Xiao Luan sat back on the sofa, seemingly watching TV, but actually thinking about ways to do it.
The man who hadn't caught up on his sleep thought for a few minutes, then leaned down on Xiao Luan's lap and fell asleep due to sleepiness.
Entering the dreamland, hearing the familiar ghost cry.
Lu Anru strode to the original tree stump and proudly announced to the ghost doll: "Stop crying, the peach tree spirit is saved."
There were tears on the ghost's baby face, and he didn't bother to wipe them away. He floated up from the open ground, met Lu Anru's eyes, and asked urgently: "Really?"
(End of chapter)