Across the Market

Chapter 17

The winter in the south is very humid, and the wind is soaked in water, and it blows on people's faces like a knife.Looking at the two simple thatched huts in front of her, Zhu Fu thought of the shabby huts she saw in the countryside when she was young.

The thatch on the roof was blown to the ground by the wind, and the window paper pasted on the windows was also torn by the wind. Standing outside, one could see the broken wooden bed inside the house through the gap.

It's not so much a bed, but a board placed on two long stools, which can fall off if you move too much during sleep.Before entering the house, there was already a musty smell, a sour rancid smell, as if it hadn't been exposed to the sun for a long time.

"Grandma, grandma, I'm here to see you. I brought a lot of food to see you." Sister Nuan was very excited. She stood at the door and shouted in a high-pitched voice. After shouting twice, she went around to the donkey. In front of the car, he jumped happily and said, "Brother, let's carry in the things for grandma. Grandma must be hungry. Let's cook for her."

Zhu Lu touched Sister Nuan's head. Although he didn't speak, he had already turned around to move rice noodles and pork.

After a while, a woman came out of the thatched hut. The woman was thick and strong, with a smile on her round black face. When she saw Zhu Fu, brother and sister, her eyes were shining Light.

"You came here when you came, why do you still bring so many things? You can keep them for yourself." Even though she said this, when she saw that Zhu Lu was holding white rice noodles and pork, she was so excited I didn't know what to say, so I kept saying hello, "It's cold outside, come in quickly, come in."

"Second aunt, where's grandma?" Sister Nuan walked up to the woman and looked at her with her little head raised.

Yu Shi, the second aunt of the Zhu family, picked up Sister Nuan, nodded her delicate little nose and said, "Grandma is in the house. She just heard our Sister Nuan call her, so she's happy. Let's go." Auntie will carry you in to see grandma, okay?" After speaking, he looked at Zhu Fu with a smile and said, "The last time Brother Lu came, he said that girl Fu fell into the water, but she can take care of herself?"

Zhu Fu nimbly turned around in front of Mrs. Yu, and said with a sweet smile, "Second Aunt, look, I'm already well and nothing has happened. Otherwise, my mother wouldn't have let me take Sister Nuan with me. I came with my brother together." She stretched her head and looked into the room, thinking about what the idiot said just now that someone often bullied her cousin Zhu Gui, she asked, "Auntie, where is brother Gui? He's not at home ?"

While hugging Sister Nuan, Yu took Zhu Fu's hand and said, "Come on, let's sit in the room and talk."

There are two thatched cottages in total, one is lived by Zhu Er and his wife, and the other is lived by the elderly Guo and his grandson Zhu Gui.

Mrs. Guo lived with her grandson in the east room, and Zhu Er and his wife lived in the west room. There was a small room next to the corner of the west room. When Zhu Fu approached, he raised his head and looked. It was a kitchen.

If I hadn't looked closer, I would have thought it was a toilet. It was too old, broken and smelly.

"Is it Sister Nuan? Was it Sister Nuan who was talking outside just now?" Mrs. Guo lifted off the dirty, heavy quilt with a special smell, and struggled to sit up. Mrs. Yu hugged Sister Nuan Son, strode to the bed and said, "Mother, it's Sister Nuan, Brother Lu and Sister Fu, they brought a lot of rice noodles and meat to see you, it's your grandson who honors you."

"Grandma, we bought meat for you to eat, you must get well soon." Sister Nuan struggled out of Yu's arms and sat on the edge of the bed, "Let Second Sister cook for you, eat the meat, Your body will be fine."

Guo Shi looked at the two granddaughters who looked the same, and then at the more handsome grandson, she sighed slightly.

Yu said: "Mother, this is good, why are you still sighing?"

Guo's hair is gray. Her hair was originally combed to the back of her head and pulled into a bun. Because she slept on the bed for a long time, the bun fell apart, and the gray hair was blown against her face by the cold wind that entered the room. , her sallow face became more and more emaciated.

"Where is your brother?" Guo looked around and saw that there was no one at the wooden table in front of the window. She looked at the young daughter-in-law and frowned, "You let your brother go up the mountain with his father to dig wild vegetables? Gui My brother is good at studying, and the teachers in the private school all praise him, why do you always delay his study?"

(End of this chapter)