After Xu Mu left, Ji Ruan let out a sigh of relief.
Lu Feng stuffed his homework into his arms, looked down at the pastry in Ji Ruan's hand, and asked, "How are you and that Langjun?"
"Don't ask so much, kid." Ji Ruan reached out and pressed Lu Feng's head, and the two walked towards Lu's residence.
Lu Feng pushed her hand away and said, "Dad asked me what you were doing today, but I was distracted by my homework."
Ji Ruan hummed to show that he knew. Li's attitude towards her is actually not much better than others. She may have been thinking of the last time she had cleared the siege before she treated her nicely. She was also unwilling to force the other party. behavior, but if things go on like this, there is absolutely no possibility between the two.
Seeing that she didn't want to say more, Lu Feng didn't mention it again.
…
When Xu Mu returned to "Sweet Baiwei", Mrs. Li was packing her things and asked casually, "Where did you go just now?"
"Watching others build a snowman outside." Xu Mu wasn't lying, he was really watching Lu Feng and Xu Yu building a snowman just now.
Li looked at his son. The little boy was nine years old this year. Although his face had not grown, his appearance was bright and beautiful. Li took Xu Mu to sit down, touched his face and said, "Daddy doesn't object to you going out, but don't get too close with women, understand?"
Li was thinking about Xu Mu's reputation. He was still young, and if he was older, he would definitely be gossiped by talkative people. For a man's family, nothing is more important than reputation, otherwise how can you be a good wife and owner in the future.
Xu Mu naturally understood Li's words, and gently rubbed his cheek against the palm of his hand, and humbly hummed.
He said that he was afraid that the Li family would be worried, and naturally he would not stay away from Lu Feng in private.
Li packed up and took Xu Mu home. Before going to bed at night, Xu Mu took out a piece from his arms, which was the badge of the Lu residence given by Ji Ruan, and then he remembered that he forgot to return her when he came back.
Xu Mu put away the waist card, ready to see Ji Ruan tomorrow and give it to her. Ji Ruan was interested in his father, but he was not afraid that she would not come.
Mr. Li had a busy day during the day, and Mrs. Zhang washed the tableware and chopsticks at night.
Mr. Zhang put the washed bowls away, wiped his wet hands on the apron, and glanced at Mrs. Li, who was sitting on the low stool boiling water, with some hesitation on his face, wondering if he should go over.
After all, he is not a big family, and he has to boil water himself to take a bath. Li previously boiled a pot of water and gave Xu Mu a bath first. In the winter, the water gets cold quickly, and a pot of water cannot wash two people, so Mr. Li re-fired a pot.
He caught a glimpse of Zhang Shi who was hesitant to speak, and took the initiative to say: "Dad, if you have something to say, just say it."
Only then did Mrs. Zhang pull over a low stool, sit beside Mrs. Li, and put her hand to the stove to bake the fire, "Son, I've seen a woman come to our shop to fight with you these days, and that person doesn't even look at you. like you hired..."
As soon as Mr. Zhang spoke, Mrs. Li almost knew what he meant, "That's General Ji who lives in West Street... He helped me out of the siege before."
"Then does she like you?" Mrs. Zhang looked at Mrs. Li's face with a cautious tone, "Then how do you look at her?"
Li pursed her lips and said, "Father, he is a general, so don't think about it... I want to run the shop well now, and I will make a dowry for candied fruit in the future. I have never thought about anything else."
Zhang Shi sighed, "Dad doesn't want to think too much, you think about candied fruit, because that's your son, but you're also my son... Although my mother and I are not old, we won't be able to accompany you for long. The person next to the pillow is better... Dad knows you don't like to hear this, and also knows that you haven't put down Xiao Xu, but since people are alive, they should look away."
"The candied fruit is still young, you orphans and widows still have a woman to rely on, so that the candied fruit will not be bullied in the future... Today another ice man came to the house to talk to you, but I rejected it, I just hope you can Pick the one you like. I think the one in the store is good, but it's up to you to decide whether it's good or not." After speaking, Mrs. Zhang reached out and patted Mrs. Li's hand on his lap, and stood up with his hands on his knees. , back home.
Looking at the crackling firewood burning in the stove, Mrs. Li clenched the clothes under her palm with her fingers, and her eyes slowly turned red.
Candied fruit took his hand when his mother died, and said to him, "The days will be long and short, and it will be difficult for you to live with a son. If you meet a good one, you can remarry. As long as the other person treats candied fruit well, I will be satisfied. Now, the fate between you and me is too short, after I die, don't have to suffer yourself to be a widow for me."
… The water in the pot was already boiling, and Mrs. Li regained her senses. She reached out her hand to wipe away her tears, and got up to wash herself with water.
When I woke up in the morning, it was snowing outside again. After dinner, I came to "Sweet Baiwei", Xu Mu was waiting in the room for Ji Ruan to come over, but he heard someone call him, "Little Sheep."
Hearing this title, Xu Mu frowned, and when he turned around, he saw Xu Yushou clinging to the door frame, hooking his head and calling himself into the room. Seeing him turn around, Xu Yu was obviously very happy, and whispered to him, "Going to build a snowman?"
Xu Mu walked to the door, looked outside, and only replied "Okay" when he saw Lu Feng standing not far away.
After talking to Mrs. Li, Xu Mu went out.
Lu Feng, who was standing not far away, is now squatting in front of a firewood stack with his back to them, as if he is looking at something.
"Lu Feng?" Xu Mu stretched out his hand from his sleeve, wrapped his head around her back, put his cool fingers on her face, and asked her with a smile, "What are you doing?"
Xu Mu's fingers were a little colder, colder than his face when the wind blew outside for a while. Lu Feng reached out and patted his hand off his face lightly, grabbed his wrist with one hand and pulled him to squat down, and pointed to something in front of him with one finger.
Beside the firewood stack, there are two newborn kittens. The cat seems to have just been born, and it is still wet, with eyes closed and nose arched, meowing.
Xu Yu stretched out a finger and touched the cat, only to find that the kitten had an umbilical cord attached to its belly button, and the quiet one had frozen to death, so he retracted his finger and stretched his head to look around, "What about the big cat?"
The place where the three of them are squatting now is outside the wall of a family, surrounded by pure white, with only the footprints of a few people behind, and nothing else.
"The big cat should not want them anymore," Lu Feng glanced at the kitten that was still alive and frowned, "This kitten won't live for long." After leaving the big cat, no one was feeding the kitten, and the kitten was not at all. Can't survive.
Xu Mu pursed his lips, reached out and held the live kitten in his hand, his palm on the kitten's belly, and he could even feel its beating heart.
"At least it's still alive now, we can't leave it alone." Xu Mu looked at Lu Feng while holding the cat.
Lu Feng met Xu Mu's wet eyes. Originally, he couldn't say what he said if he couldn't support him, "Then take it back and try..."
Xu Yu found a shovel, found a big tree, dug a deep hole with Lu Feng, buried the dead kitten, covered it with soil and covered it with some snow.
The snowman made an appointment was a waste, and the three of them took the kitten to Lu Feng's house.
Mu Tou was a little surprised to see that Lu Feng brought a young son back to the house, but Lu Feng ordered her to find some goat milk without giving her time to react.
The Lu family does not keep cats, so naturally there are no big cats to bring kittens. The cat that Xu Mu was holding was hungry and was barking weakly.
There was a fresh life in his hand, and Xu Mu was particularly reluctant to let it go.
After finally finding a small half bowl of goat milk, Xu Mu found a small spoon and fed the kitten's mouth. The cat was too small and didn't know how to suck at all, and everything that was fed in spilled out.
The three of them were helpless in front of the new nest for the cat. Xu Yu watched for a while, and the kitten's meow became weaker and weaker. It was obvious that it couldn't last for today, so she went back first.
Xu Mu squatted in front of the cat's nest, unwilling to get up, reached out to hold the kitten in his palm, and softly called "Mimi".
The cat's breathing is getting weaker and the meowing is getting lower and lower. Xu Mu held the cat, and when it barked, he replied softly, so that the cat that was abandoned at birth would not be alone when it was about to die.
Lu Feng knew from the beginning that the kitten would not live long, so he didn't feel much in his heart, but it was very uncomfortable to see Xu Mu.
"It's so small, it's meowing at me," Xu Mu's eyes turned red, he looked up at Lu Feng who was standing beside him, and said in a crying voice at a loss, "Lu Feng... I wanted to save it, but I did. no it…”
Tears rolled down his cheeks, and Xu Mu felt particularly uncomfortable when he looked at the kitten in his palm. He can be indifferent to people, but it is difficult to be indifferent to a small animal.
Lu Feng looked down at him, raised his hand and touched his head. Xu Mu followed her movements and leaned his head on her lap.
In the end, the kitten didn't survive, and in the warm palm of Xu Mu's hand, she walked the last leg of her short life.
Lu Feng took a small shovel and took Xu Mu back to the tree where the cat was buried before, dug the hole gently, and put the kitten in it.
Xu Mu squatted on the ground beside him, his eyes were red.
Lu Feng didn't quite understand why Xu Mu had such deep affection for the cat that was only half a day old, but seeing his red eyes, Lu Feng could only attribute it to the boy's soft heart.
"Let's go." Lu Feng called him softly.
Xu Mu raised his head and looked at the person standing in front of him looking down at him. For some reason, he felt very uncomfortable. He reached out and tentatively grabbed the hem of Lu Feng's clothes. Seeing that she didn't say anything, he pressed his forehead against her calf and began to cry.
The depression and discomfort in my heart may not only be because of the cat, but also because of the unbelief and worrying about gains and losses for so many days after the rebirth.
He was afraid that Mrs. Li would be worried, so he didn't dare to show the slightest in front of him. Everything was suppressed in his heart, and today's events gave him an outlet. He could use this to cry a lot and let all the depression in his heart cry. come out.
Lu Feng is still alive, he is indeed living again, all this is not a dream.
For the first time, Xu Mu felt the reality of his rebirth.
Lu Feng was startled and stiffened, not daring to move. Since the first meeting, Xu Mu has been crying when he sees her, and now she is crying again, and she is overwhelmed by crying.
"The kitten can't live, it's not that you didn't save it." Lu Feng crouched down, hesitated for a while, but reached out and patted Xu Mu's back, "If you like it, I'll give you a cat that can only survive. …”
Xu Mu shook his head, it wasn't just about cats. He raised his head with tears in his eyes and looked at the person in front of him. Without hesitation, he stretched out his arms around her neck, buried his face in her neck, and called, "Lu Feng, Lu Feng."
Lu Feng, Lu Feng... These two words seem to be trying to call out to her heart and awaken some memory.
Feeling the warm liquid soaking up the front of his inner shirt and sticking to his skin, Lu Feng stiffened for a moment, pursed his lips, and then answered in a hoarse voice, "En".
Even if he was obsessed with cleanliness, Lu Feng still didn't push the person in his arms away, raised his stiff arms, hugged him back in an unnatural way, imitating the posture of an adult coaxing a child, stroked Xu Mu's back, and said softly :"I am here."
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Crazy all the way: The sweet confectionery is too sticky, it may be melting, so I have to eat it quickly, so as not to spoil
Sweet treat:… _(:зゝ∠)_