Chapter 43: The old couple quarreled, and Luo Xinxin suggested breaking up

Zeng Daya scratched her head a few times and found a live louse in her hand. She stuffed the louse into her mouth, chewed it a few times, and said with a silly smile, "It's delicious."

After saying that, she reached up to grab some more on her head, wanting to catch a few more to eat. She thought these things were better than grass roots and tasted like meat.

Unfortunately, it was too small and not even enough to fill the gaps between her teeth.

"vomit……"

Old Mrs. Luo stared at the girl with wide eyes from the moment she was catching lice, until she ate the food and her stomach suddenly started churning. She ran outside and vomited a few mouthfuls of water.

Luo Xinxin was fine, after all, she had gone through the same thing as a child.

Without adults to take care of them, children growing up in the wild are no different from wild beasts in the mountains. Being alive is their biggest luxury, and staying clean and tidy is out of the question.

"We wash our hair too."

Zeng Erya lowered her head in embarrassment and explained in a low voice.

She and her sister sometimes went to the ditch to wash their hair. If they didn't have shampoo, they would pick soapberries. However, they only washed their hair in the summer because the water was too cold in the winter.

One winter, they washed their hair and took a bath, and they got a fever at night, which took several days to recover. After that, they didn't dare to wash their hair or take a bath in winter. It was very itchy at first, but they gradually got used to it. Moreover, the lice grew fat, and they could catch a few from time to time to improve their food.

"It's okay, just take some medicine and wash it off. You should take a bath and wash your hair regularly from now on, okay?"

Luo Xinxin is very patient with the two sisters. Raising them is like raising her former self, and she feels a special sense of accomplishment.

"Just shave it all off."

Zeng Erya was very straightforward. She thought it was too troublesome to wash with medicine, so it was much easier to just shave it all off.

"Shave your head and become a monk!"

Zeng Daya agreed with a smile and wanted to catch lice to eat, but was stopped by her sister.

"No, it's dirty."

Zeng Erya whispered that Sister Luo didn't like it, so they had to be clean and smell good in the future to please Sister Luo.

"No more."

Zeng Daya's answer was not so straightforward. She didn't think it was dirty, but she never contradicted her sister because she was stupid and her sister was smart.

"Yes, from now on you are not allowed to pick lice and eat them, and you are not allowed to lick your fingers. Forget it, I will teach you slowly later. Go wash your hands, use soap to wash them clean before eating."

Luo Xinxin couldn't help laughing. She patiently taught the two sisters how to wash their hands with soap, even cleaning the spaces between their fingers. After dinner, she would shave their heads, and then they would take a bath and change clothes. They had to be clean from head to toe.

Old Mrs. Luo came in weakly, holding her chest. Seeing her granddaughter being so gentle to two dirty beggars, she couldn't help feeling jealous.

The damn girl was so disrespectful to her elder, but was so nice to outsiders. She really couldn't tell the difference between inside and outside.

"Xinxin, where did you bring these beggars from? They're so dirty! Get them out now! Or the house will be full of lice!"

Old Mrs. Luo was three or four meters away. Although she spoke Shanghai dialect, the disgust on her face was so obvious that even Zeng Daya could feel it.

"It's not dirty, it smells good."

Zeng Daya walked towards Old Lady Luo and stretched out her hand for her to smell.

She rubbed it with soap many times, and it was very clean and fragrant. She couldn't help wanting to lick it several times, but Sister Luo told her not to lick her hands, so she had to obey.

"Ah... don't come over here, that little Xishi..."

Old Mrs. Luo jumped up in fear and uttered several Shanghainese slurs.

Luo Weian was dumbfounded and looked at his wife in disbelief.

After pulling weeds for two days, old lady Luo had no intention of taking care of her image. In the past, she would dress up exquisitely and beautifully at home, and even spray some perfume. Even when she went out to take out the trash, she had to look beautiful.

Now Old Lady Luo is unkempt, her clothes are wrinkled, and there are even a few pieces of grass stuck in her hair. She has no image at all and is swearing at people with foul language.

She is completely different from before.

"Yin Zhang, how can you be so vulgar, you are simply..."

Luo Weian couldn't continue speaking, his eyes were full of disappointment.

"I want to be elegant, but how can I be elegant when I have to mow so much grass every day? Master, you stay in the office every day, and you don't have to stand and talk without getting a backache!"

Old Mrs. Luo, who was filled with resentment, put her hands on her hips and roared angrily at Luo Weian, mixing in a few words of Shanghainese.

Luo Xinxin listened and learned silently. She didn't expect that the old lady had so many swear words. She had to collect them for future use.

"You...you are totally unreasonable!"

Luo Weian was so angry that his whole body was shaking. After decades of marriage, this was the first time his wife had contradicted him. She was so rude, so vulgar and so disrespectful.

"If I had known you were such a vulgar person, I would never have married you!"

An angry Luo Weian said something he didn't want to say, and he regretted it after he finished speaking. He wanted to say something soft to smooth things over, but he heard Mrs. Luo scolding: "If I had known you would be unlucky, I might as well have married Xiao Wang!"

Xiao Wang was exactly the young man that Old Lady Luo's parents had their eyes on. He was a young man who dispensed medicine in the pharmacy. He had a clean family background and was now living a good life in Shanghai. At least he didn't have to come to the northwest to cut grass.

"Okay, you finally spoke your mind. Fine, go find that Xiao Wang now and see if he still wants you!"

Luo Weian's mind was turned into a paste with anger, and he blurted out.

"You've delayed me for decades. Now I'm old, and you want to abandon me? You're a black-hearted Chen Shimei. I... I won't live anymore!"

Old Mrs. Luo was stunned for a few seconds, then she beat her chest and cried, and summoned her parents-in-law in the underworld and her children and grandchildren overseas to accuse Luo Wei'an of his "evil deeds" that were "unspeakable."

"If you don't want to live together anymore, then we can break up. Grandma, you can get a divorce and return to Shanghai to enjoy your life."

Luo Xinxin impatiently suggested that if they couldn't live together, they should just get a divorce.

Mrs. Luo's crying stopped abruptly, and she quickly said, "Who wants to break up? Don't talk nonsense!"

Although mowing the grass was hard work, it was inappropriate for her to go back to Shanghai alone. She was not a heartless person.

"If you don't want to break up, then just live your life well. What are you arguing about? You're old and still jealous. If you don't find it embarrassing, then I am!"

Luo Xinxin put her hands on her hips and scolded him with a stern face. The old couple stood there obediently, not daring to say a word.

"Stop standing there and eat!"

She roared.

Luo Weian breathed a sigh of relief and turned to walk towards the dining table. Old Mrs. Luo glanced at Zeng Daya and her sister with disdain and whispered, "Xinxin, why did you bring them here? They're so dirty!"

"I'm a legitimate working-class descendant, and you're a hated walker. What do you dislike?"

Luo Xinxin yelled at her.

There was a small winery on the farm, and my great-father was an employee there, with a very clean background.

Old Mrs. Luo choked to death. She said angrily, "There are so many lice. If one jumps onto the bed, the whole family will be trapped."

"Just ask grandpa to prepare some insecticide, what's all the fuss?"

Luo Xinxin rolled her eyes. Many people on the farm had lice. Sooner or later, she would have to get used to it.

"I'll get the prescription filled tomorrow."

Luo Weian agreed cooperatively. He did not ask about the origins of Zeng Daya and her sister. Anyway, the granddaughter had the final say in the family, so he just listened.

"Give me some more pagoda candy!"

Luo Xinxin took the food out of the bag and threw it on the table like a small mountain.

Old Mrs. Luo originally wanted to say a few more words, but when she saw so many delicious foods, she didn't care about anything else and only had eyes for the delicious food.