Su Qingluan originally watched her sister fall a few steps in front of her, and it was obvious that her arms were not long enough to catch her small body. Her heart seemed to be tightly grasped by an invisible big hand, and it seemed as if it could not beat.
When I found out that my sister was not injured but was stopped, the feeling of my heart tightening slowly disappeared.
After coming to her senses, Su Qingluan realized that she had been holding her breath because she was too nervous. She quickly took deep breaths to relieve the squeezing pain in her chest and the dizziness.
"Thank you, sister... well... brother-in-law!" The little girl thought for a moment and finally remembered the new name she had just learned from her brother, father and mother in the past two days. Everyone said that since my sister was getting married, whoever married her would be "brother-in-law".
For a five-year-old girl, she still couldn't clearly understand the meaning behind "brother-in-law", but in short, she understood that although she and Mr. Mu were only in the same village before, now because her sister was "married", Mr. Mu was their "family".
Every "family member" has a fixed name, Dad, Mom, Sister, Brother, and the new Mr. Mu is called "Brother-in-law".
The word "brother-in-law" brought Su Qingluan back to her senses. She realized that it was Mu Xingzhi who had saved her sister. She quickly straightened her sister up and checked her from head to toe to make sure that the little girl was not hurt. She turned to look at Mu Xingzhi and said, "Thanks to you." Then she looked at Su Xueyan and said, "Although I know you miss me very much, you must not run like this anymore!"
The little girl almost fell down and was a little frightened. She nodded obediently when she heard this: "Sister, I understand!"
As he was speaking, Su Xuanhe came over breathlessly. He first greeted and saluted Mu Xingzhi, then looked at Su Qingluan: "Sister..." He seemed to have something else to say to his sister, but suddenly found that he couldn't say anything.
After a while, Su Xuanhe lowered his head and glared at his sister: "Didn't you say you wanted to catch crickets? Why did you run away?"
The little girl was obviously feeling guilty, and she immediately lowered her head and pretended to be good and kept silent.
"Why are you here?" Su Qingluan asked with a smile, "Where are my parents?"
"They're busy at home," Su Xuanhe said with a somewhat helpless smile. "Sister, you don't know our parents' personalities. If they weren't elders, it wouldn't be appropriate for them to go out and greet the younger generation. They'd be eager to come and pick you up themselves. So, they sent us two 'advances' here."
Then he turned around and asked Su Xueyan to hold his hand. This time the little girl didn't make a fuss.
After exchanging pleasantries, Su Xuanhe led his sister in front, while Su Qingluan followed Mu Xingzhi's wheelchair and Song Bo behind. She sighed and said, "I didn't realize you were so agile."
Mu Xingzhi tilted his head slightly to look at Su Qingluan: "Although it is inconvenient, I think I am still quite agile. Besides, your sister just happened to fall in front of me, so I just helped her."
Su Qingluan teased: "Now, according to etiquette, Xueyan is also your sister."
Mu Xing was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "That's true."
After all, the two families were in the same village. Even if they walked very slowly, a village was only that big, and they would soon be able to see the Su family's white low wall.
Su Guangfu was actually fine. He was naturally quiet, so he was relatively calm. So, even though he missed his daughter terribly, he was able to sit still. He wasn't very good at hiding his feelings, and the purple clay teacup beside him was almost patinated by Su Guangfu's hands.
But relatively speaking, Yang's character was more bold and straightforward. She knew that according to etiquette, as an elder, she could not go out to greet her daughter and son-in-law in person, otherwise she would be laughed at by others and cause trouble for her daughter and son-in-law.
But it is said that a mother worries about her son even when he is a thousand miles away. Although Su Qingluan is not that far away, let alone a "thousand miles", even a "hundred miles" is not that far. However, in Yang's cognition, things are different after getting married.
Although she knew that Mr. Mu was alone and her daughter didn't have parents-in-law to take care of, she still had to worry about everything. She was worried that Su Qingluan wouldn't get used to her new living environment, that taking care of Mu Xingzhi was too tiring, and that Mu Xingzhi and her daughter had different tastes and her daughter wouldn't be able to adapt to the food...
All these messy things were tangled together, making Yang feel more and more uneasy, so she simply paced back and forth in the front hall.
"Old lady, can you please take a break?" Su Guangfu was finally getting a little dizzy from his wife's constant chatter. He couldn't help but look up and said, "You're almost wearing out the ground. Our Daya will be here soon. And if you miss her, you can go see her. We're from the same village, so we won't be separated forever."
"Pah, pah, pah! It's the happy day for my daughter to return to her parents' home, and you're talking nonsense!" Yang glared at Su Guangfu fiercely. "They're newlyweds, and it's time for the couple to be so sweet and happy. Why should an old woman like me mess around? Besides, how can a mother-in-law go to her son-in-law's house every day? It's not nice or not!"
"It doesn't sound good, so what? I think you're going to be lovesick for your daughter!"
"What's this about lovesickness? Don't you miss your daughter..."
Just as the couple was arguing in the main hall, they heard Su Xuanhe's loud voice outside: "Father, Mother, who do you think is back?"
Although he had pretended to be calm, Su Guangfu rushed ahead of Yang after hearing his son's cry. However, he stopped running out of the room the next moment, and was mocked by Yang behind him, who sneered, "You're still talking about me? There are people who run faster than rabbits!"
The Su family did not have the kind of ramp that Mu Xingzhi's family had for wheelchair access. In order to make it easier for his son-in-law to enter the house, Su Guangfu put wooden boards together at the door's threshold several days in advance to form a gentle slope for wheelchair access.
To prevent it from collapsing under the weight of a wheelchair and an adult, Mu Xingzhi filled the gaps underneath with soil and compacted it firmly. To make the formwork appear less gray and more festive, Su Guangfu even painted it red, creating a red carpet feel that blended seamlessly with the red threshold.
"Dad, Mom, I'm back!" Su Qingluan said loudly as she stepped into the doorway.
Although her "marriage" was a pretense, in the eyes of others she was indeed married, so when she came back again, her mood was subtly different.
"The son-in-law pays his respects to my father-in-law and mother-in-law." Unlike Su Qingluan's casual and natural salute, Mu Xingzhi's salute was very standard and elegant - even though his lower body was in a wheelchair, his upper body, whether it was the height of his raised arms or the arc of his bending waist, was absolutely textbook perfect.
But this person saluted while sitting, and there was no awkwardness at all. His every move was very graceful, without any feeling of inferiority or awkwardness.
Yang and Su Guangfu exchanged a satisfied look without leaving any trace, and went to help the young couple up.
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