Chapter 8 Section VIII

Lu Ruoqin was unlucky, Gao Guanghou was unlucky, in fact, Xiao Bingbing was the most unlucky. Four years old, this is an age that needs mother's caress most.For a child, no one's love can replace a mother's love. From this point of view, Liying is guilty.She pursues her own happiness without scruples.But her cruelty to the child was intolerable. Bingbing understands more and more that his mother will never love him again. But he didn't understand why there was no mother.He asked Gao Guanghou for his mother all day long, as if his mother had been hidden somewhere by his father.He was so anxious that he pulled Gao Guanghou's hair with his hands; he was so angry that he bit Gao Guanghou's hand with his two rows of small white teeth, whining like a puppy.

Gao Guanghou had no choice but to coax him obediently with a mournful face, saying that his mother would be back at night. At first, the child believes this to be true. Whenever the sun goes down, this little thing will quietly stand on the side of the school yard, watching all the roads.When the sky darkened, he was completely desperate, so he cried with a "wow". Gao Guanghou was usually cooking in the kiln at this time, and when he heard the cry of the child, he hurried out with his hands in his hands, carried the son back, put him on the kang, and coaxed him obediently with the old saying that has been said so many times.

— all to no avail!The child discovers that the father is a liar.He cried even more sadly.Gao Guanghou was sweating profusely and couldn't think of a better way to calm his son down. He saw his poor son weeping sadly, and his heart hurt like a knife.At such times, he immediately turned into a mental patient, pulling his hair with his hands, twisting the flesh of his face, grinning his teeth, and uttering some strange and painful moans. Seeing him like this, Bingbing felt as if he had seen a devil. He didn't care to cry, his eyes widened in panic, and he screamed in terror. When Gao Guanghou saw how frightened the child was, he broke out in cold sweat.He immediately forced himself to smile through his tears, squatted on the ground, barking like a dog barking like a dog; he straightened his head and walked like Zhu Bajie; with a playful smile on his face, he completely turned himself into a clown in no time.

But this still couldn't calm down Bingbing, instead he howled desperately in fright. Gao Guanghou had no choice but to break through the door and ask Lu Ruoqin for help - he was afraid of making the child sick. He came to Lu Ruoqin's door, wiped the sweat off his face with his cuff, and called softly like a beggar: "Mr. Lu, excuse me, come here to coax Bingbing..." Lu Ruoqin would leave the most important thing at this moment and run over. Later, whenever this happened, without waiting for Gao Guanghou to call, Lu Ruoqin would run over by herself.Sometimes, as soon as she entered the door, she found that Lao Gao was lying on the ground imitating the barking of a dog, and the two of them were suddenly so embarrassed that they didn't know what to do.

Of course, this was also the moment when Bingbing was most proud, he stopped crying immediately, and boasted to Aunt Lu: "Daddy can walk like Zhu Bajie..." The two adults could only smile awkwardly.Lu Ruoqin quickly picked up Bingbing and washed his face, then she tied a croissant braid on Bingbing's head with a red string, and held him in front of the mirror, so that he could see that he had turned into a girl and made him laugh non-stop. At this moment, Gao Guanghou felt as light as a prisoner who had just been released.He hastened to make dinner.He cooks quickly and well, and his skills are even better than Lu Ruoqin's - this is what Liying made.

After the meal was ready, Gao Guanghou had to seize the time to correct the homework for the students while eating, using chopsticks and pens in turn.Lu Ruoqin had already eaten, so she helped feed Bingbing. At night, if Bingbing fell asleep in Lu Ruoqin's arms, she would spread the bedding for him and make him sleep comfortably.If he cries and won't sleep, she will take him to her own kiln, play games with him, teach him simple English, recognize characters, and read the front sounds.She wanted to make some time for Lao Gao to prepare lessons and let him take a break. Gao Guanghou is often moved by Lu Ruoqin's caring heart.But this kind man cannot express his gratitude in words.He just used various methods to give her some practical help.He did all the tedious work in her life, carrying water, chopping firewood, buying grain, grinding flour, carrying charcoal... Once, Lu Ruoqin fell ill, and he heard from a fellow villager that there was a kind of grass in the mountains that could cure the disease, so he went to Go downhill to find this grass.This grass often grows on the dangerous side of high cliffs. He took the risk to climb up to pull it out, and when he came back at night, his nose was blue and his eyes were swollen, but he was happy in his heart...

Gao Guanghou tenaciously supported his daily life.The people in Gaomiao and Sheke villages are very concerned about this poor man.In the past few years, he has trained the children in the two small mountain villages to be more awake than the dolls in the county town.After graduating from primary school, almost none of the children failed to enter secondary school.They thanked him and often let their dolls feed and drink to Teacher Gao and Teacher Lu. After hearing that Mr. Gao's wife divorced, well-meaning farmers persuaded him to find another one, and even ran to the door to introduce him to someone.But Gao Guanghou shook his head with a wry smile and refused.He didn't want to find a stepmother for Bingbing.He is afraid that the child will be wronged.And the most fundamental thing is that although Liying left him, she still hasn't been erased from his heart.He is nostalgic for the family in the past that was not happy in the eyes of everyone.In short, he is not in the mood to find another wife now.