I rewrote family history

Chapter 160 Yearning for Birds
Go back to my uncle's house.

The fat Mrs. Li said "Good morning", she carried the broom, and whispered to Miss Yu's ear, "Master heard that you went to Master Xu's house, and you are still angry in the living room, Miss Yu, you can directly I admit my mistake, my wife has ordered you to prepare some gifts for you in the front room, and you will behave yourself later..."

The front yard was usually where the servants of the house lived.

Separated by a courtyard wall, it is difficult to see the front yard from the living room in the inner courtyard.

The prepared gifts are packed in a bamboo basket, which contains a box of persimmon frosting sugar and a base of cherries.

It is now June, and the cherries have already ripened, which is a seasonal fruit.

"Stand!"

A majestic voice rang in Miss Yu's ears.

She was startled, and instantly straightened up as if doing gymnastics.However, her two apricot eyes did not follow the trend to look forward. Instead, after she carefully retracted her left foot that fell into the house, she just stared at the threshold, not daring to lift it up again.

"Stand by the window for half an hour..."

Liu Changda was sitting at the head seat in the living room. He glanced at his niece and gave the order of punishment.

He has been the deputy county magistrate for quite a while, and his demeanor can be seen in every word and deed.

This temperament is indescribable.

Most likely... even if he was wearing ordinary clothes and standing among a group of gentry, the gentry would shrink their necks like chickens and ducks, lest they be taller than him and block his light.

"She went to Xu Cong's house, not to anyone else's house..."

"There's no need to get so angry."

Ms. Lu waited for Ms. Yu to stand obediently by the window after listening to the reprimand, and persuaded her.

"look……"

"She still misses you and brought you a gift."

Her tone is gentle.

"Yes!"

"She went to Xu Cong's house..."

"I don't worry about Xu Cong, he will take good care of Yu'er. But the problem is... she is not married yet, she is a girl. Just like this, she ran to another man's house for a night, in case any rumors spread. How can I Tell my sister and brother-in-law..."

Liu Changda smoked half of the Three Fortress cigarette held between his fingers, and said in a deep voice.

Outside, the sun is shining.

In the season at the turn of spring and summer, the morning is neither hot nor cold.

Miss Yu was standing under the window. She thought the whole shopping basket was too tiring, so she carried it with one finger.With her uncle's and aunt's double reeds in her ears, she gradually felt bored, so her eyes moved from the lattice fan in front of her to the patio in the courtyard.

Through the fence of Hanbaishi, you can see several purple irises.In addition to irises, there are orchids, impatiens, periwinkle, peonies.

In the courtyard, there are clumps of wild flowers growing.

There are all kinds of wild flowers, including white, yellow, purple, and blue, which are not named.

She didn't expect her uncle to have the skill of tending flowers and plants.At night, he would cover the potted plants with felt cloth to prevent the night from being too cold, which would freeze the flowers and plants to death. In the morning, he would remove the felt cloth again.In case of windy showers, scorching sun, he will also use these flowers and plants to block the rain and sun.

He refused to let his servants do these chores, and he always did them himself.

She stared at the purple petals of the iris. Suddenly, it shook a few times, as if being blown by the wind.Immediately afterwards, drops of rain fell on the white square bricks at the bottom of the basket, dyeing them pitch black.

"It's raining."

Aunt Li in the front yard was shouting, and Uncle Zhang was shouting.

They rushed back and forth in the rain in a hurry, moving pieces of utensils from the rain curtain.

The rain was in a hurry, and the iris flower she was staring at was blown away by the wind and rain with a few petals, and like its sisters, it became a residual flower and no longer very beautiful.Pieces of petals were scattered around the patio, making the black ground more purple and no longer monotonous.

The whistling wind.The patter of rain.

Seeing that her uncle lost his manners, she lifted the front of his robe and ran quickly towards the courtyard.His sleeve robe is very wide and large, and he has a different voice when he runs.

In a few moments, a drowned chicken hid under the eaves with three or four potted plants in its arms.

"Just let the servants do these things, what are you going to do..."

Ms. Lu took out a handkerchief from her bosom, and wiped the rainwater off Liu Changda's body, "Go into the house and change into clean clothes again, don't get caught in the cold..."

Both she and Miss Yu are women, and it would be disrespectful to let their clothes soak in water.

Therefore, Liu Changda had to do it alone to move the potted plants in the patio.

"I just wet my clothes... If I ignore them, they may be soaked to death in the rain..."

"How much is a life, since it is taken care of, it must be taken care of to the end."

"You can't just watch them die."

Liu Changda drained the rainwater from his robe, and replied casually.

"Yu'er, you and I go to the kitchen and make some ginger soup for your uncle..."

"Dispel the cold."

Half an hour of penalty standing has not passed.Ms. Lu couldn't bear to let Ms. Yu stand outside the window all the time.Letting her go to the kitchen with me to make ginger soup is a good way to ease the embarrassment and estrangement between uncle and nephew.

It was difficult for Liu Changda to refuse this excuse.

After all, it is for his own good.

As the casserole of ginger soup in the kitchen slowly gurgled and splashed, the rain outside the house gradually began to lighten up, from a downpour to a drizzle.

Where there is a gain, there is a loss.

Although the potted flowers in the yard suffered disaster, the petals that fell to the ground burst out their own fragrance in the bursts of rain. This fragrance mixed with the cold moisture, fell on the faces of Xu Cong and his wife. Let their whole pores feel comfortable.

"Master, Miss Yu."

Xu Cong was walking down the corridor, just as he closed his umbrella, he met the second daughter who was holding ginger soup.

"How did you come?"

"Before I came, I didn't say hello..."

When Ms. Lu saw Xu Cong coming, she was a little happy. She smiled and said, "Yuer and I were in the kitchen just now. If you had notified me earlier, I would cook with her and cook some meals, so that I could entertain you."

"Miss Yu said it, she said... Mistress, you want to see me."

"No, I'm coming."

"Besides, it's also because I'm a little worried about Ms. Yu to see if she's back, so I'll come here in person to make sure she's safe. There's nothing wrong with being careful."

Xu Cong said in harmony.

"Miss, hello."

After Xu Cong finished greeting, Chen Xian'an also stepped forward and said sweetly.

She was holding a bamboo basket in her hand, which was very similar to what Ms. Yu had carried earlier, except that it contained different gifts.She handed it to Ms. Lu.

"Master, after my husband and I got married last time, we had to go to Yanjing because we were in a hurry, so we didn't have a chance to meet you... Please don't blame me..."

She bowed slightly.

When they were in Hongwen Hall, Liu Changda and Ms. Lu always took good care of Xu Cong.

Be like a teacher like a father, like a teacher like a mother.

Chen Xian'an is very clear about this.

"What is there to blame? Didn't he write me a letter to apologize?"

Ms. Lu waved her hand to signal that she didn't care.

She took a closer look at Chen Xian'an, "Xian'an, you are really beautiful, no wonder you don't marry Xu Congfei. To tell you the truth, I discussed with his teacher before and planned to betroth Yu'er to him, but I didn't expect him, Not happy, along the way, very dull, didn't even talk to Yu'er, causing her to complain to me after returning home..."

Some words, it is better to explain clearly.

Seeing that Chen Xian'an looked at Miss Yu with an unnatural expression, she immediately thought of what happened yesterday.Also, it is indeed inappropriate for a girl to run to Xu Cong's house, and it is not normal for Chen Xian'an not to think too much about it.

At first, she didn't agree with Miss Yu going to the countryside, but she couldn't hold back... Miss Yu's soft-heartedness.

"And this..."

"This is the first time I've heard of..."

Chen Xian'an blinked and told a lie.

A group of people were talking loudly, and Liu Changda, who was resting in the bedroom, also went out when he heard the noise, and rushed to greet him.After meeting up, several people sat down in the living room.He took a sip of persimmon frosting sugar, and then sipped a cup of hot ginger soup, "Today... why did you rush over to see me?"

The ginger soup had a good effect on dispelling the cold, and he felt that his clammy body was warmed up a bit.

This time, it was not Xu Cong or Chen Xian'an who answered, but Ms. Lu who replied, "Students take the time to come and see you... Is it not enough? Why ask so many questions."

With these words, Liu Changda gave up questioning.

Women's colleges do not stay.

Although he doesn't know why Miss Yu went to the countryside to meet Xu Cong, but he understands the boundaries between elders and younger generations.For some things, it's not good to ask in too much detail.

Next, he asked Xu Cong about his studies in Yanjing.

"Yanjing is much more developed than Xinye..."

"When I was in Yanjing..."

As Ms. Yu stepped away from the living room, the voice of the conversation she heard gradually became smaller until it disappeared.The reason why she was so anxious was not for anything else, but to meet the gray and white fox.

Now that Xu Lailai is here, if he ran into the fox fairy, wouldn't it prove that yesterday's rhetoric was all false.

Less leaning, inside the house.

Miss Yu hugged the fox in her arms tightly.

"Don't go out, I'm here..."

she whispered.

The gray-white fox was comforted, it rubbed against the old wife's face affectionately.

This face, it never gets tired of.

……

The sky was clear, and a few small sparrows were jumping around on the light wires.In the winter of last year, Hemiao Street was connected with cables, and there were seven or eight circuit lights at the same time.After the heavy rain, the clear sun is more dazzling than the sun of the previous few days, dazzling and dazzling.

Huagou and two girls like him ignore the scorching sun.

They kicked the shuttlecock.

Qiu He sat on the chair.It was a padded chair, and it was very comfortable to sit on.The sun was shining outside, but inside the house, the sun was extremely warm.She enjoys basking in the sun.

With narrowed eyes, she saw a couple walking past.

Women wear foreign skirts, while men wear robes.

They held hands and flitted before her eyes, like the swallows in the rain before, leaving her only a glimpse.

She couldn't see the woman clearly, but she vaguely remembered the figure of the man.

Very distant memory.

She wanted to get up and see for herself.But the belly got too big, and she got pregnant again.The belly is pointed and big, like a large spinning top.People say that a boy is born with a pointed belly and a girl is born with a round belly.Her belly is pointed, and this time she is supposed to have a boy....

The tinsmith returned to the shop, clutching an old hen in his dead bamboo hand.The chicken's feet were tied up with hemp rope, and he held the old hen's wingtips with his big hands, letting it flop around.

"This chicken has been raised for three years, and it can make up for you."

"After giving birth to this child, we... will not have another child."

He sat on the saddle, with his face close to his wife's belly, listening to the slight sound of his son in the belly.

Qiu He looked at her husband tenderly, "You don't know, when you left, he kept kicking me. I think he also wanted to come to this world. He kicked me hard. He must be a boy. When I read my brother, when the two of them kicked me, they didn't make such a big noise..."

"is it?"

The tinsmith's tense face relaxed and smiled.His face was very black, tin was melted all the year round, and his face was dry, cracked, withered and blackened by the oily smoke.Although he is only in his thirties, his face is no different from that of an old man in the country, both are the same dark and have the same number of wrinkles.

"I'm going to kill the chicken and cook for you..."

He picked up the chicken and went to the back kitchen.

After the tinsmith left, Qiuhe waved to Huagou, Pandi, and Niandi to come over.She looked at the two daughters, "Brother Pan, Brother Nian, will you sleep at Yu's house tonight? Go and sleep with your Aunt Lanhua. Huagou, you have to take care of the two of them..."

"Well, Auntie, I will, I have this!"

Huagou took out the wooden gun pinned from his waist, and slapped it on the table, "My father said, if you have a gun, you are a man. I am a man, and I have a gun. I will take care of the two of them... "

"Mom, I'd like to go to Aunt Lanhua's house..."

Brother Pan and Brother Nian shouted in unison.

When they went to Yu's house, Lanhua would give them sweets and a lot of snacks.

Of course they would like to go to Yu's house.

Huagou led the two sisters out of the tinsmith shop.

"How did the two of them go?"

"Forget it, let's go..."

"Eat more, nourish more, for the sake of the son in your belly..."

When the tinsmith came out of the back kitchen, he didn't see his two daughters. Although he felt strange, he didn't pay much attention.

A cup of greased chicken soup was placed in front of Qiuhe.

She took a sip with a spoon and tasted it, "Lack of salt."

"I'll get the salt."

The tinsmith nodded and walked in the direction of the kitchen, ready to fetch salt,

However, before he could turn around and take a few steps, Qiu He's cry of pain came from behind him.He turned his head eagerly and found that his wife was clutching her stomach and screaming for pain, and the chair covered with mattresses was also stained red with blood.

"It's not good, miscarriage... miscarriage..."

Qiu He broke out in a sweat on his forehead and gritted his teeth.

She looked at the tinsmith with regret, as if she was blaming herself for not giving birth to him a son.

"Miscarriage?"

"No, you're seven months pregnant, and it's not time for a miscarriage yet..."

"I'm going to ask the midwife to give birth to him..."

The tinsmith was burning with anxiety, and hurriedly said.

He ran towards the midwife's house like a gallop, leaving only Qiuhe at home.

After the tinsmith left, Qiu He straightened up. She looked down at her big belly, and with trembling hands, she punched her stomach one after another, and poured a cup of chicken soup into her stomach by the way.

Her dislike for her husband never ceased for a moment, even if he was nice to her.But after all, she was just a property bought by the tinsmith.She didn't want to give birth to a man who enslaved her.

One punch, another punch, until a ball of flesh and blood fell from the crotch.

She was exhausted and collapsed, lying on the seat with her head tilted feebly.There is still a trace of red saliva flowing from the mouth.Immediately afterwards, she heard the sound of birdsong outside, so with the last bit of strength, she turned her head to the direction facing the outside of the shop, staring blankly at the blue sky, watching the birds outside on the cable. Jumping up and down, chirping....

She closed her eyes.

A few birds fluttered through the air and left from near the electric light.

(End of this chapter)