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Chapter 18 Yellow leaves falling in the autumn wind (2)

Collected Works of Lu Yao 路遥 1391Words 2018-03-20
For some reason, the beauty Liying has become more and more cruel to her husband recently.She threw pots and bowls all day long and cursed.Poor old Gao buried his head lower, as if he had done something shameful.His wife scolded in the kiln, so he led Bingbing to the yard.He didn't talk to his son either, just hugged him, stared blankly for a while, and then kissed his red apple-like face lightly or heavily.He didn't hold back until his son said "I love you so much". Sometimes, when he was kissing the child, Liying came out to the yard cursing again, snatched the child from him, and went back to the kiln cursing, as if to indicate that the child belonged to her alone, Gao Guanghou. No right to kiss him.

At this moment, Gao Guanghou's two thick lips were trembling, and he was standing in the yard with his long arms hanging down, feeling as uncomfortable as a child whose candy was taken away by a chicken.He remained silent, like a lifeless stone. He was obviously powerless to do anything about it all, and he was numb.But the cursing of the wife in the kiln became more and more violent, and it was mixed with the sharp cries of the child, as if some disaster had happened in this small mountain bay. Liying's cursing is always just that, nothing more than complaining that she "planted flowers on the pile of shit", saying that her fate is unlucky, and she has found a man who "wolves don't eat dogs and don't smell."

Whenever this happened, Lu Ruoqin felt very uncomfortable.She deeply felt that this is a family without happiness.She sympathized with poor old Gao, but she herself was a girl under twenty years old, and she didn't have the courage to comfort a grown-up.She had no choice but to leave this annoying place, come out from the school yard, go down a small slope, and come to the simple road.With an extremely depressed mood, she wandered aimlessly on the simple road.Sometimes, when she was strolling like this, she would see a bicycle slowly approaching on the road ahead, on which was a mature and dignified man in black fine cloth.This is my dear brother, who has been visiting her more and more in Gaomiao lately.She was very sorry, and told her brother several times that she was used to it here, and she didn't want him to come here often.My brother always smiled and said: "I'm not busy with work recently, and the road is not far away, so I'm going out to pursue my ambitions..."

In late September, the continuous rain began to fall non-stop.During the day, the rain sometimes stops for a while, but the weather never means sunny.The earth and people's hearts are soaked in the wet rain, and they look very heavy.The school yard was flooded with water; the road below the yard was turned into muddy mud, trampled by the feet of pedestrians. This kind of weather is the most irritating, just listen to Liying's intensified cursing at Gao Guanghou.But Lao Gao can't listen to this old program these days.Because the soil next to the school cave was soaked by the rain, the parents were too scared to let their children go to school.Gao Guanghou was afraid of delaying the dolls' homework, so he was so anxious that he ran day and night.He arranged for her to give lessons to the dolls in the idle kiln of the production team near the school, and he ran to Sheke Village by himself.He walked out early in the morning amid Liying's cursing, and walked back in the evening amidst her cursing.When he came back, Liying didn't leave him any food.He squatted by the stove by himself and pulled up the bellows.

Lu Ruoqin went to his house to report on the day's situation. Seeing him like this, she always wanted to help him, but felt embarrassed. She is a clever girl, so she took the opportunity to take Bingbing to her kiln, took out the snacks brought by her brother, stuffed them into the child's hands, and taught him: "Eat it, and give it to Dad. Okay?" After Bingbing agreed, she carried Bingbing back to his home.She hoped that Lao Gao could eat a few pieces of her snacks to fill his stomach first.Poor man!He hasn't eaten a bite for about ten hours, right?She knew that a self-respecting Lao Gao would not eat at a student's house.Bingbing was such a good boy, he stuffed the dim sum into Gao Guanghou's hand, and shouted with his small mouth, "Auntie's dim sum, let's eat it!"

At this moment, Gao Guanghou stopped pulling the bellows, kissed Bingbing's red cheek, grinned, and said, "Thank you, aunt? Ah! Dad is not hungry, you and Mom will eat." He glanced at Liying who was lying on the Kang and reading novels. Liying dismissed her husband's almost humble tenderness, and even turned over in disgust, and turned the back of her beautiful head to the stove. At this moment, Lu Ruoqin couldn't help her nose sore, she lowered her head and hurried out of this suffocating cave dwelling.
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