The modern me and the Republic of China her

Chapter 474
Dusk fell.The winter sky was already pitch black.

A bullock cart, which is common in the countryside, rushed to the gate of the city after the whole day's running and fatigue on the dirt road.

The driver was a little sleepy, and the few dry sorghum pancakes he had with him had been eaten.I'm not hungry, so I'm not in a hurry to find a place to eat.

He grabbed a handful of hay under his buttocks to feed the cows, and smiled kindly at the people in the car with his wrinkled face:

"Madam, the inner city is ahead. Where are you and the little girl going? I'll see you off first, and then I'll deliver the food."

"Old He, thank you for your hard work. There is no need to send it off. We will get off the car right away."

At the front of the car, the old calico curtain was lifted.

The woman gave some change to the coachman, and dragged the girl who came with her along slowly.

The wind blows, and the cold air sticks to the face.

Although it was night, Lin Mi's flexible eyes kept turning.

She avoided the row of portraits that had been eroded by wind and rain and then pasted on the gray city wall in fear.

"There must be me, my father, and my cousin. If you don't see it, don't panic."

Her small body trembled, half from cold, half from worry.

The woman looked at the shivering girl with concern, and lightly pinched the sleeves of her coat:

"Is it cold? It's still a little thinner. Make a new jacket when you go back."

"It's not cold, I'll take you to Qilan's yard right now. Except for the school dormitory, Brother Chen probably lives there."

Mrs. Chen took off the scarf around her neck and put it on Lin Mi carefully.The movements are gentle, like a mother treating her own daughter.

The girl quietly looked at the row of portraits behind her, touched her heart, and secretly rejoiced.

If Chen Xing's mother recognizes that she and her father are wanted criminals plastering the streets and alleys of the city, can they calmly allow them to stay at home?
The figures of the two are close together, and the plain clothes on their bodies are well matched.In the eyes of passers-by, they look like a mother and daughter from the countryside, without attracting the attention of plainclothes on the street.

It is not so easy to find an unremarkable small courtyard in the city on a dark winter night.

Lin Mi was full of confidence at first, completely forgetting that he was a road idiot.

I was confused by similar houses one after another, and knocked on the doors of several wrong houses.

I have seen the astonished expression of the hostess and the hostess, and I have heard enough of the dog barking from behind the door.

Finally, amid Chen Xingniang's patient apologies again and again, she found the right way by relying on the fragments of her memory.

Unfortunately, it was almost midnight.

Looking at it from a distance, there is no light in the yard at all.

"Mrs. Chen, I'm sorry to take up your time. This is the place, you can't go wrong. I'm afraid people have already fallen asleep. I have the key. I won't disturb them to get up and open the door."

The key was given to her by Qilan himself.

It's a pity that I rummaged through it carefully in my pocket, but it just wasn't there. I don't know if it was lost on the road or forgotten in the room.

"Son, you didn't bring it?"

"Yes." Lin Mi's face flushed with embarrassment, "Now I have to knock on the door."

The small palm patted on the rough wooden door several times.Inside suddenly became lively,

There was the intermittent barking of a dog, mixed with the crowing of a rooster.

Mrs. Chen listened to the rooster crowing through the door for a while, then giggled:

"Xing'er even lied to me that Dahuahua was gone, so it turned out to be hidden at a good friend's house in the city!"

The footsteps at the door came softly, Lin Mi heard the familiar rhythm, and his heart beat wildly.

Seeing no one else around, I couldn't help but close the door and whisper:
"It's me, and Brother Chen's mother!"

The door opens as soon as it turns.

The boy quickly took them in with the little white dog in his arms, and quickly locked the door firmly.

"I just said why they are still so excited in the middle of the night, so it's a distinguished guest!"

Qilan led them straight to the east room, afraid of disturbing other people's rest.

The three in the room lay in bed early after eating.

However, the fighting during the day is still vivid, and the wounds on his body are still painful.No one can sleep well.

In the dark night, Xiao Jin was the first to open his eyes.

Only two female guests came, and they walked very lightly.

The sensitivity of a professional killer still made her sit up vigilantly from the bed, hold her breath, open the window and flash outside the room in an instant.

Mrs. Chen arrived at the room on the east side, and just as she sat down, there was a series of hurried footsteps outside the door.

With a little candlelight, Lin Mi saw Chen Xing with disheveled hair and swollen eyes like a panda.

It really is a mother-child bond.

"Mother! Miss Lin brought you here!"

He was wearing thick clothes, and his upper body was "fat".People who didn't know thought it was a big fat man.

The mother doesn't think the son is ugly.

Mrs. Chen stretched out her hands and hugged her son who was a head taller than her tightly, and let out the tears and words that had been held back for a day:
"Xing'er, are you alright?"

"In the past two days, my eyelids have been twitching and I can't sleep well. I'm worried that something happened to you."

A dirty head rolls mischievously in her arms,
"Mom, I'm fine, don't worry. The holiday is late this year, and there will be five more days."

Chen Xing lied carefully, not daring to look at his mother.

I had been home a week early at this time last year, no wonder my mother was upset and wanted to come from the countryside to find someone.

"Auntie, you rest, I'll go get some food."

Qilan got into the kitchen, picked up the remaining firewood in the stove with tongs, and blew on it.

As soon as the pot was put on the stand, water was added to boil the soup, when there was a creak, a figure came in.

"Aren't you going to sit with your aunt?"

"The stove in the east room is too warm. I was dressed like this, so hot that I was sweating all over, and the sweat was salty, and the incision hurt from biting."

"Who told you to sneakily put on two cotton-padded jackets? I didn't even have time to wear my jacket, it smelled of sweat."

Qilan turned the spoon and made a motion to knock it on his shoulder. Chen Xing shrank his head away in fright.

The wind that squeezed in through the cracks of the window shook the oil lamp again and again.

He slowly took off his thick "shell" like a tortoise, revealing the bloody clothes inside.

"It would be nice to take it off earlier, but now that the blood is dry, I can't take it off."

There was another light and crisp voice outside the door:
"How do you know if you don't try?"

Xiao Jin stepped in and took out a bottle of ointment from his sleeve as if by magic.

Thinking of the sourness of her acupuncture point, Chen Xing instinctively hugged his arms tightly, like a calf waiting to be skinned.

"Xiaolan, tear off your clothes, wash them with hot water, and apply medicine. I'll go out and wait. I have something to ask you after I'm done."

She backed out and closed the door behind her.

According to her instructions, Qilan cut the clothes, washed the wound, applied plaster, and took out a candy from the cupboard and handed it to Chen Xing, who was grinning in pain.

"I don't want to take it now. This medicine is so cold that it's cold, colder than ice."

As soon as the words fell, a thick padded jacket was placed on the shoulders.

"I secretly hid this milk peanut candy, otherwise it would have been eaten by the little white dog. Eat it, it won't hurt anymore."

"My mother's eyes are very good, she just doesn't expose me. But I can clearly feel the shaking of her hand holding me"

(End of this chapter)