Chapter 6 Wu Sixteen: Cicada Transformation

"Master—" My beloved cried out, and jumped up suddenly.Cold sweat dripping down, and lower abdomen hurts.She reached out her hand to her leg, touched the sticky wet spot, raised her hand, her fingertips were blushing, she couldn't help saying "ah", she had a clear mind - she was already a big girl! Suddenly, she remembered the promise made to her by the angels and devils: When she becomes an adult, she can speak!And the devil once smiled ambiguously, implying a baptism of blood, could it be... She tried to speak: "Master—Master!" The pronunciation is slurred, but word for word-she can speak!She can finally talk!She can speak!

"Mom, Dad." She said softly, over and over again, from a small voice, trying to let go of her voice, and finally shouted: "Mom—Mom—" "beloved." Lu's mother was frying eggs downstairs, when she heard the cry, out of her mother's instinct, her first realization was that something had happened to her daughter, but then she realized that her daughter couldn't speak.So, who is calling mother? Why does it sound so strange and familiar, as if it came from the depths of my memory? She shouted loudly: "Old Lu, Lao Lu, get up!" and rushed upstairs, knocking on her daughter's door: "My dear, my dear, is that you?"

Xinai jumped out of bed, didn't forget to roll up the sheet and threw it under the bed, then put on her morning jacket and staggered to open the door. Seeing her mother's frightened face, she suddenly felt infinitely bitter.Having been a mother and daughter for more than ten years, she seemed to see her mother clearly for the first time. This is her mother, and she borrowed her body to return to the world.In the past ten years, how much mother has worried about her!Now that she can finally speak, if anyone wants to share this happiness with her sincerely, who else but mother? She threw herself into her mother's arms, with tears streaming down her face and articulate: "Mom."

Mother Lu was stunned and couldn't believe her ears.who is it?Who is calling mom?She grabbed her daughter's shoulders and pushed her back a little, staring at her mouth: "Dear, did you call me? Call me again, call me again." "Mom." Xinai called clearly, then raised her head, looked over her mother's shoulders, cast her eyes on her father who had just come upstairs, and called again, "Dad." Mr. Lu had to grab the handrail so hard that he didn't fall down the stairs. He almost scrambled and rushed over: "Dear, you call me Dad? You call me Dad! Call me Dad again! Call me Dad!"

How happy they are!Happy to shock!So happy I can't believe it! The beloved's tears became more turbulent, how could she repay the love of childbirth?She worked hard and said more generously: "Father, mother, I, will, say, talk." "Beloved——" Lu's mother was finally convinced, and couldn't help but hugged her daughter violently and began to cry.How many years have I had such a dream, dreaming that one day my daughter will suddenly call her mother.Is everything in front of me real?Can all this last?She hugged her daughter a little harder, and then secretly pinched her arm. It was real, not a dream!She cried even louder, and she worked hard to raise her head to look at her husband: "Old Lu, did you hear that? My beloved is calling me mom. She can call mom now!"

It is a matter of course that a child is called mother, and it is the most basic happiness of mothers in the world.And this happiness, how many years late! This day is a big day for the Lu family.Just as happy as the day my beloved was born.No, happier than when my beloved was born - beloved was born in a time of turmoil, and Lu's family was miserable at that time - it should be said, as happy as the day Lu's father and Lu's mother got married. Mother Lu was so excited that she almost missed Buddha, she kept saying, "God opened his eyes, and my heart loves to talk. Let it go in the past, and I should go to the temple to pay back the gods."

Mr. Lu laughed: "Where is there anything else to do now? If you really want to do good deeds, it is more realistic to go to the orphanage to give alms." "Then go to the orphanage. I'll contact you tomorrow." Mother Lu said enthusiastically.If such a big happy event happened, I would feel bad if I didn't do something.So I planned to invite relatives and friends to celebrate, to avenge the shame - everyone knows that the Lu family has a dumb daughter, and now I want to show them who is as smart and beautiful as my beloved, perfect! Mr. Lu has another opinion: "It's too early to invite guests. My beloved just started talking. I have to observe the situation for a few days. It's best to go to the hospital to see what the doctors say, and give some time to practice." It’s not too late to tell relatives and friends when you speak fluently; second, you need to find a good time and a good reason, if you treat someone just for your beloved to speak, it will look awkward, like a zoo exhibition, it will make people laugh .”

A common saying made Lu's mother nervous: "I still have to go to the hospital? Could it be that my beloved's situation will be repeated? Are you worried that she will only speak back when she speaks?" "What is the flashback? I think you are so happy that you are confused. You don't know how to use words." Mr. Lu shook his head helplessly, comforting his crying and laughing wife. Wrong?" But experts have no opinion.Opinions are also vague.A young Ph.D. even said jokingly: "Some people speak late, maybe it's a bit too late." Mr. Lu couldn't laugh or cry, so he had to take his daughter home again. He defined himself: "No matter what, it's always a good thing. Maybe God saw us doing good deeds and wanted to take pity on us."

So I started to plan the next step: doing good deeds and fulfilling my vows. This matter was carried out by Lu's mother with her daughter.I originally planned to go to a children's welfare home to care for children who were once disabled like my beloved, but because it required a lot of procedures, it was not easy to do, so I had to change to a nursing home.Only then did Lu's mother realize that doing good deeds is not something that can be done just because she wants to, it's not as easy as it is in the movies.Entering an orphanage or an orphanage is as difficult as entering a prison, and you have to pass ten or eight checkpoints.

The nursing home is located in the suburbs and was rebuilt from a house donated by a wealthy family.Xinai looks very familiar, I don't know if it is the Lu Mansion back then.At that time, I was young, and I couldn’t remember the direction clearly because I didn’t step out of the gate, and the buildings here had changed a lot, so I couldn’t be sure if they were somewhat similar—the houses of big families were basically the same. Even after nearly forty years, past and present, she still clearly remembers the first time she walked into the gate of the Lu Mansion with Gu San who could plant peach blossoms—like all the big families, the Lu Mansion also has a very special relationship. The top of the door is high, and there are double rings of bronze animal heads on the door. Looking in from the outside of the door, you can see the crowns of the big trees in the garden, and a corner of the embroidered eaves flying out of the theater building.

It was the first time in her life that she walked into a rich family's house—it was not through the gate, but through a corner door next to the gate—and it was also the first time she saw the garden and the theater building, which were so delicate and beautiful, like a painting. Like the real scene.She even forgot to admire, her beautiful eyes lingered, and she stumbled a little. Gu San carried the peach blossom tree on his shoulders, and looked back at her from the branches of the flower tree, but she didn't pay attention, there were more peach blossoms in front of her eyes that caught her eyes, making her fascinated, like a butterfly strayed into a flower bush, I don't even know which one to perch on. They went well - because the flower tree couldn't enter the door, the master actually came out from the door in person, which was simply a great honor for Gu San.Holding the trembling peach blossoms on his shoulders, he greeted the master with a red face, and asked the girl to kneel down for the master. The girl hesitated for a moment, then knelt down.The peach blossoms are reflected on her head and face, as if she is also a flower bud, far more lively and fragrant. The master identified her appearance among the flower branches, smiled and said, "It really is a beautiful flower." Then he asked, "How old are you?" Gu San couldn't figure out whether the master was asking about flowers or people, so he had to answer vaguely together: "I gathered the trunks together, and it has been more than ten years; she is my newly hired daughter-in-law, her name is girl, and she is twelve years old. She is old and very capable, please take her in." "Really?" The master laughed with great interest, and said a few more words, "Really? Really?" Gu San still couldn't figure out whether he was asking about flowers or about people. If he was asking about people, was it because he suspected her age, her ability, or because she was his wife.He had no choice but to not answer, lowered his head and laughed, rubbing the mud on the upper of his shoes alternately with his left and right feet—after changing his clothes and taking a shower, he just forgot to clean up his shoes. What a dissonance there is. The master turned his head and told the housekeeper: "Take her to change clothes, wash her face, and put it in my room... Then go and plant the tree, and give a lot of rewards." The latter sentence was said to Gu San.Gu San instinctively thanked him, but his expression was ugly.He didn't expect to put the girl in the master's room. It turned out that the wife said that there was a lack of a rough girl who washed and picked vegetables in the kitchen, so he asked him to pay attention to find one in the countryside. He thought of multiple opportunities to let himself and his wife It's good for the children to get together more, and the working life is not so difficult, and it is the woman's initiative to go to the city to help work, and she can also save a few cents for the marriage. It can kill two birds with one stone, so why not do it.However, now that he changed his mind temporarily, the master actually asked to keep her in his room. Once the master has spoken, it cannot be changed; but how can this be done?The girl in the master's room, the girl that the master personally asked for, is there still a clean one? Gu San walked into the garden in a daze, dug a hole in a daze, broke the soil, and dug with a shovel, not knowing what it was like in his heart.The freshly excavated soil had a soft and thick fragrance, which made his heart sore.When he planted the peach tree properly, he saw the girl again. Wearing a brand new dress, she walked along the green brick road behind the butler, and walked to the master's upper room—the girl who had taken a bath and changed into new clothes was indeed much fresher, even her figure became slimmer, and her braids were again. It has been re-knotted, no longer two crooked ones, but a big black one at the back of the head, drooping sharply, adding a refreshing and civilized meaning.He had seen that all the girls in the mansion had braids like this, but no girl with such braids looked good. What would happen to such a pretty girl in the master's room? As the wind blew, a flower bud fell from the tree and landed in Gu San's palm.He grasped it lightly, and looked at the girl's back. For the first time, his young heart was filled with unspeakable worries and vicissitudes... My heart looked around, and there were a few trees planted here and there in the yard, but they were not peaches or apricots, but locust trees. It was June, and a tree was full of white flowers. The Lu Mansion has nothing to do with it.But after the baptism of the "Civil War" and "Cultural Revolution", it is normal for Zhu Yan to change her appearance.What about people?If those old friends meet face to face, will they still know each other? While thinking this way, she vaguely heard someone call "Aunt Xing" softly, the voice clearly contained temptation and suspicion, and she couldn't be confident.Xinai was taken aback, and looked up for the speaker, but saw a group of old people staring at her, all with flat mouths and dry faces, and couldn't tell who was calling just now. When a person gets old to a certain extent, he is a half-immortal.Either the spirit is dead and has become dull; or the person has known the destiny and is extremely sensitive. What about the person calling himself?Is it a human or a ghost?Friend or foe? My beloved suddenly felt a little creepy.She didn't know whether she was more eager to meet old acquaintances or more afraid of being exposed, so she had to lower her eyes again to distribute gifts, pretending not to pay attention to the cry just now. However, this voice is already in the bottom of my heart. Aunt Xing.In her history, there was a period called "Aunt Xing", which cannot be erased.The story of the beauty and the white hair was actually humiliating and unfair. She didn't mind it in her previous life, but she didn't think so in this life. The past is sleeping at the bottom of the river, like mud, even in a dream, I don't want to look back.However, the old man's plausible call stirred up all the sediment and rocks. "It really is a beautiful flower." The old man asked, "How old are you?" "Butler Li, take her to change clothes, wash her face, and leave her in my room..." "Put it in my room..." "Put it in my room..." As if she was a decoration or a pet, she could be picked up and put down at will. However, she herself was not ashamed, she was willing and took the initiative. She leaned forward, "Master, let me help you." "Master, you can't ask me so vaguely." "You want me for no apparent reason." "Unclearly want." She actually wanted him to "want" her.She was actually afraid that he would not "want" her.She just wished he "had to" be more formal. What a shame! And in my beloved memory, there are actually more humiliating and terrifying stories than the "Aunt Xingniang" era—— That day at the pier, after she got separated from the Lu family, she frantically shouted and searched for her, and squatted on the pier in the wind and rain to wait, but none of them came back to look for her.She didn't give up and wanted to wait all the way. The dock workers come and go there every day. When they finished work, they noticed this beautiful girl with anxious eyes and a haggard face. She could guess what happened to her—these things happened almost every day on the dock, but usually it was the elderly or Little child, it is rare to have such a lucky beauty waiting for a rabbit. If the dock is a "plant", then I don't know whether it should be said that she waited for them or they waited for her. They came forward and offered to take her to her man.She believed it, stood up and followed them.Recalling that she has suffered a lot in her life, suffered from hunger and tiredness, but she has never been deceived by anyone, and she has not yet learned how to guard against and suspect.She didn't know how to defend herself, and she followed them into a dirty and narrow work shed. Naturally, there was no man in the work shed, but there were many people who wanted to be her man... She cried and begged in a small voice: "I'll be with you." It hurts... let me sleep for a while, tomorrow, tomorrow, okay?" Her obedience and petiteness actually made these vulgar people have a heart of pity and tenderness. With the thought of flowing water, they kept fighting, and asked her with a smile: "Can you cook?" "Yes. I can do a lot of things. I can cook and wash clothes for you. I eat very little..." If it weren't for her submissiveness that made them relax their vigilance and allowed her to sneak out while they were asleep, maybe her whole life would be spent in that dark and smelly work shed, and she would become the cook and wife of dock workers ever since. public plaything. It was the most tumultuous and terrible night of her tumultuous life.If she wasn't such a patient and dull personality, maybe she would be crazy; if she was a strong woman, she might commit suicide, maybe she should commit suicide; if she had a clearer understanding of her love And pursuit, she will feel hopeless, and will be numb, withered, and helpless because of her despair. But she is forgetful by nature, or in other words, there is an instinct of choosing the good in her disposition, which makes her avoid the important ones, feel happy easily, and bear all the inescapable troubles and sufferings, and forget them in a flash.She endured the torture as if she had accepted that the sky would naturally darken after the sun went down.She will not pay even one cent more attention to the pain she endures than the actual situation. She is born with an objective spirit and calmly faces all the things that have happened; at the same time, she always has an inexplicable longing for the future and goodness , Wishful thinking that it must be better and smoother.This kind of confidence and hope supports her, so that she can always overcome dangers and go through all the thorns and twists in life. Just like this morning, she had just escaped from the dirty and smelly work shed, and she forgot all the disasters that just happened—maybe not forgetting, but deliberately putting it aside.Isn't it already over?Now that it's over, why bother thinking about it?This is her philosophy of life.With this kind of philosophy, she survived like a transplanted peach blossom tree in the strange soil, and no matter what kind of wind and frost she went through, she could still be beautiful. She instinctively followed the old road back to the pier, like an old horse that knows its way, and returned to the place where she was separated from the Lu family.She didn't believe that they would abandon her like this, especially that the young master would ignore her.But she thought comfortingly to herself: He is still sick, and he can't take care of himself. Thinking of this, she became worried for him again, wondering if he was feeling better now, and also didn't know how many people were left behind, maybe she wasn't the only one, maybe everyone lost everyone. It's not that they lost her, it's that she lost the young master. What if he can't be found or seen in the future? She hugged her shoulders and cried, squatting very low, crying very hurt.However, it was okay to cry, and I began to think about what to do next. Probably because the people from Lu’s family can’t be found, and they can’t wait here to die. The dock workers come and go, and they don’t know if this group is the same group as yesterday. Will I encounter the same attack and humiliation again. She decided to get up and walk.But I don't know which way to go.Should I go to the street and knock on the door of each store to ask if I want to find someone to help me, or go from house to house to beg for food before I talk. There are so many cars, cars, trams, and rickshaws on the street, no one gives way to anyone, they are all rushing to catch up, I don’t know why they are so eager; and the lights here are also weird, some flashing, some turning Yes, there are also flashing and turning, turning on and off for a while, and they are also very busy. She dodged and staggered between those cars and lights.When passing by the embroidery village, she thought that she had also studied embroidery for two years in the mansion, so she might be able to work as a female worker here.But then she thought again, she didn't have a guarantor, and they wouldn't use her; when she passed the restaurant, she wanted to go in for a meal first, and then honestly said she had no money when she was full, and then begged the boss to let her work to pay for it.But looking down at his rags, he gave up.Xiao Er would never let her in.She couldn't fool anyone; when she passed the newspaper office, she thought or should go in and publish a missing persons notice, so that the Lu family would know where to find her.But without money, how could the newspaper be willing to let her publish it? In this way, she walked through many places, with many thoughts on and off, until she was hungry and tired and could no longer walk, she stopped in front of a cheerful building with neon lights and music.Seeing many beautiful cars parked there, she wondered if she could find a job cleaning cars; seeing the golden and emerald "Paramount" on the neon lights, she couldn't help guessing what kind of building it should be; When I went to the beautiful woman billboard erected in front of the door, I felt envious, and at the corner of the billboard, in a very inconspicuous place, I saw a line of small words: High salary to hire female backup dancer. Backup dancer?what does that mean? At this moment, the music inside changed its tune, and it was a waltz.She was overjoyed, and almost had the cordial joy of meeting an old friend in a foreign land. She couldn't help forgetting her hunger and tiredness, and walked around in circles several times. ——Destiny will be revealed in the waltz music. Destiny is like a rough road, the most important thing is not to go fast, but to know which intersection to turn. If you choose the wrong one, you will cast yourself into a trap, and you will end up in a dead end;Whether it is a broad road or going astray is purely a personal choice, and you have no regrets. After returning from the nursing home, Xinai suddenly became resolute, with a resolute look on his brows and eyes, and suggested Duoduo: "Father, Mom, I have made up my mind, I want to treat guests well, but not at home, nor at home. Hotel. If you want to do it, you have to do it formally, grandly, and vigorously!" "It's just a treat, why is it such a big deal?" The Lu family couple couldn't figure it out.The daughter who spoke suddenly seemed to be a different person, which made them unable to adapt for a while. "I want to hold an art exhibition." Xinai said with certainty. Fortunately, I have been separated from the world.Even though she still has the eyebrows and eyes of Aunt Xingniang, she already has the identity of Zhen Xinai, and no one can confuse them anymore.In this life, whatever she says, she must live a wonderful and dignified life! "I did a rough calculation. Since I was a child, I have probably had nearly a hundred paintings, which is enough to hold an exhibition. We can release news to the media in advance, use my sudden words as a gimmick, and invite people to interview me. Promote the art exhibition, and then contact the gallery for sponsorship. With the help of the media, the gallery will definitely be willing to provide a space for this free advertisement. In this way, we can do a lot of things with a small amount of money and maximize the impact. " "Hold an art exhibition?" Lu's mother couldn't keep up with her daughter's train of thought.Although they have believed for a long time that their daughter is very talented in painting, and have spared no expense in hiring famous teachers and professors, they have always regarded it as a hobby or interest, just to keep their daughter from being too lonely or inferior. What a big achievement.Holding an art exhibition?Is it too presumptuous? "Yes, to hold an art exhibition." Xinai said with high spirits, "Don't you want all your relatives, friends and friends to know that I have spoken? Send them invitations. But it is not to invite them to the banquet, but to invite them They go to the art exhibition to see who dares to look down on us, whose daughter is the most up-to-date!" "This, okay?" "Okay. Sure!" Xinai encouraged her parents, "If you don't believe me, you can find some experts to appraise my paintings to see if they are of a good enough level to hold an exhibition. The teacher has always said that my paintings have a unique style and are self-contained. , I have long wanted to persuade you to help me hold an art exhibition. I myself did not agree, so I have been procrastinating until now. Now is the best time to hold an art exhibition. It's worth it. Maybe the whole world will know the name Zhen Xin'ai because of this, and I will become your pride, a miracle of the times!"