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Chapter 31 Yellow leaves falling in the autumn wind (15)

Collected Works of Lu Yao 路遥 4149Words 2018-03-20
After eating dumplings on the morning of the National Day, the family divided into three groups: Lingling went to the school to participate in the performance;Needless to say, Lu Ruohua loves his sister dearly in his heart.Since the death of his parents, apart from Lingling in this world, she is the only relative who is related to him by blood.After his mother passed away, he couldn't bear to leave his younger sister who was under 20 years old alone in his hometown, so he brought her to him.He was always ready to help her with his strong hand.He will create conditions for her, encourage her to review her homework, and try to get into a good university.He wanted them both to be respectable people in their lives.He could see that Ruoqin was a very promising girl, intelligent, precocious, and very assertive in situations. Although she was not yet twenty years old, she was quite independent in daily life.He believes that the only thing lacking is that he is not deeply involved in the world and does not understand the complexity of life.

Generally speaking, Lu Ruohua likes her sister's independence very much.Because he himself left his parents in his teens and made his way in society alone. However, he felt that her consciousness was too strong, even a little too much.He was quite dissatisfied with his sister's attitude towards his marriage with Liying.Normally speaking, no matter what, she should always stand by his side and think about her brother.But she took a critical attitude toward this important event in his life, and it made him very unhappy.What's more, she actually stood on Gao Guanghou's side to comment on this matter.She seemed very stubborn about the matter, as if defending some sacred principle.Lu Ruohua couldn't help feeling sorry for his sister: Poor child!You haven't really started living in this world yet!When you really know the real face of the world, your view of the problem will be closer to reality!

Yes, he was also young, and he also insisted on some principles of right and wrong like her, and then gradually realized that such a philosophy of life cannot be tolerated in this world.Later, when he went to society, he corrected his stubbornness.If the younger sister continues like this, she will have to run into trouble in society!Besides, love, can you tell clearly what is right and wrong here?It seems that people have to go through a process to mature - he thought deeply.From this point of view, no matter how his sister attacks him as "immoral" in marrying Liying, he also forgives her magnanimously - because she has not yet gone through that "process".Besides, she was his own sister.In the past month, he has been thinking about her not coming home in a fit of anger.But he knew it was not easy to rush to convince her, just as it was not easy for her to convince him.He thought about it for a while.So for more than a month, he didn't take the initiative to contact her, and he didn't send a message to ask her to come back.Ever since he heard the wind saying that his sister and Gao Guanghou were a bit "numb", his heart just "thumped"!He panicked all of a sudden: how could he not have thought of this terrible question?Of course, he thought it might not be true.But after all, it has had an impact.How disgraceful it would be to him in the county!And what's even more sour is that people will laugh at him that Lu Ruohua traded his younger sister for a wife!

Like an ant on his back, he felt extremely uncomfortable after hearing the rumor.He thought sensitively: Maybe this matter has spread among the cultural and educational system or among the cadres in the county!This is really "a wise man who thinks a lot will make mistakes"! He decided to talk to his sister soon, mainly to tell her to change schools as soon as possible.Therefore, two days ago Liying wanted to ask Ruoqin to bring her son to celebrate the festival, but he did not object.He didn't care about how Liying missed her son, but he wanted to take this opportunity to have a good talk with Ruoqin...

Now the two brothers and sisters are walking on a small dirt road outside the city, chatting about some homely things.The autumn sun shines on the colorful fields.The sky is blue and high, clean and clear, not even a trace of cloud can be seen.In the fields on the outskirts of the city, the crops and vegetation began to turn yellow.The leaves of some trees had been beaten deep red by the early frost, and they looked like burning flames in the sun. "Ruoqin, can I change the school for you? Wuliwan Primary School is actually on the edge of the city. Oh, it's there!" Lu Ruohua suddenly changed the subject, and pointed to a village not far away with his slender fingers.

"I have already told you that I will teach at Gaomiao. I am already familiar with it..." Lu Ruoqin took a few red pear leaves in her hand and rubbed them lightly with her fingers. "I hope you can listen to my brother, I'm all for your own good..." "Isn't it the same everywhere? Anyway, it's teaching!" "Ah!" Lu Ruohua sighed, hesitated for a long time, and then said hesitantly: "The atmosphere in this society is really stupid now! A soft knife can kill people..." "What do you mean?" Lu Ruoqin stopped Footsteps, ask brother.

Lu Ruohua was silent for a long time, then turned his head, looked at the opposite mountain, and said, "Someone spread the news about you and Gao Guanghou..." Lu Ruoqin bit her lips with her teeth, and tears swirled in her eyes.She also turned her head to the other side, and said, "I never thought that these rumors could spread to the city..." She suddenly turned her head and asked her brother excitedly, "Do you believe these bad words too?" Lu Ruohua turned her face and said: "It's not that I don't know you! I also know Gao Guanghou! He is an honest man! Besides, he is ten years older than you! But, who can pull out the tongues of these rumormongers!... Ruoqin, You'd better listen to me and change schools! Or, stop teaching at all, just stop in the city and review your homework!" "I don't want to eat for free!" She curled her mouth.

"Then you go to Wuliwan to teach!" "I don't!" She said earnestly, "If I change schools, from the eyes of everyone, it seems that Lao Gao and I really have something inexplicable." "Ruoqin! Please be considerate and considerate of me! I have reached a critical moment now, and the county party committee is preparing to promote me! You can save me some face, and don't let me worry about these things anymore!" Lu Ruohua said painfully Spreading his arms and grinning, he almost pleaded with his sister. Lu Ruoqinqin was not moved by his pitiful look. She looked at him and said, "You are always thinking of you! It seems that you are doing it for my own good, but actually it is for your own good..." She's getting a little mean.

"For both of us!" he corrected. "Then you don't even think about it, how is Gao Guanghou now? He is pitifully dead now! Could it be that this has nothing to do with you?..." "Where did it go! Can you stop mentioning that?" Lu Ruohua was a little annoyed.Lu Ruo turned around angrily and walked back, she was not going to continue walking. Ruohua hurriedly turned around and rushed forward, saying, "You will always be a child! Don't just leave without saying hello like last time... You should go after the festival no matter what..." It seems The subject of the conversation today is that it cannot go any further. "

Lu Ruoqin slowed down and said, "I won't leave today, but I have to go back tomorrow..." "Tomorrow is Sunday!" "I have to go back on Sunday," she said. "Why?" "Tomorrow night, our school will have a cultural performance, and all the villagers nearby will come to see it." She continued, "Can you borrow an accordion for me at the county cultural center? You know me well! If you can borrow it , I can entrust the villagers who go to the market to take it back tomorrow. I will lead soldiers tomorrow, I am afraid I won’t be able to get it..."

"Okay..." He said helplessly: "Then let's talk about the things just now." Lu Ruoqin became impatient: "Brother! Can you stop talking about such nonsense? I'm so annoying!" Lu Ruohua sighed In one breath, he said, "Then let's go back..." The two brothers and sisters followed each other silently and went to the county cultural center. Liying hugged Bingbing and played on the street all day long. Today she does not miss that comfortable home.She took her son with her, and reveled in the sweetness between mother and child in a public place-all of which had left her life for more than a month. She hugged Bingbing, and kept kissing her son's face, hands, hair, and buttocks with her lips.She joked with him, with tears in her eyes.The mother and son were playing and walking without any specific destination. She used her mother's care to dress up Bingbing as a little girl.She likes to dress her son up like this.She tied a pigtail on his head with a red ribbon; dyed his cheeks red with paint; and put all the good clothes she bought on him. Bingbing seemed a little strange to her at first.But soon fell in love with her more than before.His two small arms hugged her neck tightly, for fear that she would disappear suddenly again. All this makes Liying feel like a knife is twisting in her heart.poor child!He couldn't comprehend his situation at all now—he would have to leave his mother again soon!Probably when he grows up, he can understand all this, right?At that time, could he forgive his mother?Liying carried him around the store first.Bingbing bought whatever he wanted.She is not like the mother back then, who has money on hand. Later, she took him to the county stadium.In the corner where the children were playing, she made Bingbing sit on a seesaw.He dare not let the slide go up, he is too small.Then, they went to a piece of grass by the county river to catch bugs and pull wild flowers. They sat on a big rock by the river, ate the various snacks she brought, and then returned to the street.The movie theater is showing a cartoon.Although she doesn't like to watch this kind of movie, she is very grateful to have this movie.She hurriedly bought a ticket and took soldiers to see it. Bingbing's eyes were wide open, and he watched with great interest, clapping his little hands and screaming with his little mouth.In the dark, her lips had been pressed against his hair, kissing, weeping. She was acutely aware that no other feeling could ever replace her affection for her son.She now regrets that she gave Bingbing to Guanghou when she divorced, instead of insisting on keeping her own flesh and blood by her side.It's too late now. Now she saw that Bingbing was very strong and his appearance was more beautiful.This shows that Guang Hou raised his children carefully.She also knew that Guanghou loved Bingbing as much as she did.Only then did she realize that the honest man was taking the child.Must have suffered a lot.He is so sincere about the affairs of the public, and he is probably often too busy to even take care of food.Now that she has left Gao Guanghou, she has a calm judgment on her original husband in her heart.Yes, he was undoubtedly a good man.Even in the past, in all fairness, she didn't hate him, but just felt that he was useless.It doesn't match her own request.Now, in her heart, she felt a little sympathy for him. She suddenly thought again: Will he find another woman soon?And what would this woman do to her soldiers?Ah, the heart of the stepmother of the scorpion's tail!How can you be nice to Bingbing!Thinking that her son will live in the hands of a vicious stepmother, her heart is about to break!When the movie was over, she hugged her son tightly and went to the sunny street again.Most of the children watching movies are brought by their parents.The happy children held their father's hand in one hand and their mother's hand in the other, and walked up and down.This scene is another stimulus to Liying. At this time, Bingbing must have also been inspired, and suddenly shouted to her: "I want daddy! I want daddy!" Liying suddenly didn't know what to do.She didn't know how to coax the child well. Liying was anxious and uncomfortable, so she hurriedly carried him to the non-staple food store and bought him many snacks, only then did she divert the child's consciousness. She looked at her watch: six thirty-five in the afternoon.She was startled!She knew that it was too late for her to be outside today, let alone the time for cooking, and the time for eating!She hurried back home with Bingbing in her arms. Lu Ruohua was cutting vegetables in the kitchen, seeing her back, he didn't say anything to her, just cut his.He was obviously angry.She asked Bingbing to play with the car on the ground, then she came over and asked timidly: "Where is Ruoqin... I'm late, let you..." "Ruoqin went to pick up something for them. Why did you come back so late?" He turned his face and asked gloomyly, "Lingling was screaming from hunger! You see for yourself, what time is it now!" he said After finishing, the knife chopped vegetables fiercely on the chopping board. Seeing his appearance, Liying was so frightened that she didn't know what to do. She was about to snatch the kitchen knife from her husband in order to make amends, but Lu Ruohua's finger was cut by the kitchen knife. He slapped the knife on the chopping board, grabbed hold of the other with one hand, and ran to find gauze and tape.Over there, he pulled the drawer loudly and cursed: "Damn it..." It was the first time Liying saw her well-mannered husband being so rude.She was stunned, and then she couldn't help but threw herself on the bed and cried. Bingbing saw his mother crying and knew who made her cry.He ran over with his chest upright, raised his chubby hand, and slapped Lu Ruohua's leg, who was bandaging his fingers, then ran over, hugged his mother's leg and howled. Lu Ruohua clutched her fingers and left the house angrily. At this time, Lingling, who had just run out of the apartment, saw this scene, cried and rushed to the door and shouted to Lu Ruohua: "Dad! I want to eat! I will be the first one in the school show tonight..." Lu Ruohua didn't seem to hear , and left without looking back. On the night of the National Day, thousands of households are probably having a feast, but this family is crying...
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