Chapter 37: Knowing Teenagers 5
Fubao didn't understand: "Why? I often collect firewood in the mountains."
I do this kind of thing often, since I was three years old. I'm used to it. How could I hurt my hand?
Xiao Dingkun was silent for a moment, looking down at the soft and sticky little thing.
Indeed, it is normal for country kids to do this.
But she is different...
Xiao Dingkun couldn't explain why Fubao was different from others, but he vaguely understood that Fubao shouldn't work so hard and shouldn't do these things.
He said in a deep voice, "Stand aside and wait for me to break off some branches for you."
Fubao looked at Xiao Dingkun. He was very tall, much taller than herself. After thinking about it, she agreed and stood aside to watch him.
Xiao Dingkun's hands were very strong. He pulled down the large branch and broke it abruptly. Then he broke it into short dry branches with his bare hands and placed them in Fubao's small bamboo basket.
Afterwards, he picked up the small bamboo basket with one hand and took Fubao's hand: "Come on, I'll take you back."
Fubao looked at the bamboo basket full of apricot branches, and calculated that it would be enough for making fire today. He was very happy and happily took Xiao Dingkun's hand and went down the mountain with him.
She even skipped and jumped along the way.
Xiao Dingkun looked down at Fubao, who was smiling broadly, and could tell that the little guy was very happy.
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When they reached the middle of the mountain, Fubao stopped and said, "My brother and sister and I agreed to meet here. I have to wait for them here."
Xiao Dingkun: "How old are your brothers and sisters? Are they good to you?"
Fu Bao looked at Xiao Dingkun in confusion, then counted on his fingers: "My brother and sister are both seven years old. They are both very good to me, especially my brother. He loves me very much."
Xiao Dingkun: "Oh? How many brothers do you have?"
Fubao: "I have three brothers born to my father and mother, and three more born to my eldest and second uncles, a total of six brothers."
As she spoke, she looked up at him and said, "If you bully me, my six brothers will beat you together."
Xiao Dingkun was silent for a while, then squatted down and looked Fubao in the eye: "Fubao, let's make a pact, okay?"
Fubao: "What?"
Xiao Dingkun looked at Fubao, who was only six years old. She was too young and didn't understand anything.
He pondered for a moment, then said, "Don't tell anyone that I gave you fried noodles, and don't tell anyone that you met me in the mountains."
Fubao: “Why?”
In her mind, he was so good that she couldn't wait to go back and tell her parents and brother that she had met such a good older brother and ask him to fry some flour for her.
Xiao Dingkun: "No reason, just keep this as a secret between the two of us, okay?"
There was a touching tenderness in the boy's voice.
It was natural for a child like Fubao to agree easily, not to mention that Fubao didn't think it was a big deal.
She was gentle by nature, and would not resist even if she met someone like Nie Lao San's wife who would beat and scold her at any time. Even when she was almost pushed into the well by Sheng Yin, she never thought of harming anyone. Therefore, she naturally had no defense against Xiao Dingkun, who fried flour for her.
After thinking about it, she smiled, nodded, and said obediently, "Okay, this is a secret between us two."
Xiao Dingkun stretched out his fingers and looked into Fubao's eyes, which were as clear as a mountain spring.
Her eyes are pure, reflecting the towering mountains and the clear blue sky.
He stretched out his hand, and gently hooked his slender and neat little finger: "Fubao, let's pinky promise."
Pinky promise?
Fubao smiled, revealing her neat little white teeth like shells. She likes to make pinky promises.
Because we have made a pinky promise, it means that it will not change in a hundred years or ten thousand years.
She went from the nunnery to the Nie family, and then from the Nie family to the Gu family. She was only six years old, but she had changed three homes in six years.
She doesn't like to change. She just likes to stay the same for her whole life. How nice it is to be stable.
She stretched out her little finger and hooked it around Xiao Dingkun's finger.
Two little fingers, one long and one short, one soft and one hard, hooked together.
"Make a pinky promise, hang yourself, and don't change for a hundred years."
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After saying goodbye to Xiao Dingkun, Fubao waited there for her brothers and sisters with a small bamboo basket on her back. After waiting for a while and seeing that her brothers and sisters still didn't come, she looked in the grass by the roadside to see if there were any wild vegetables she could dig up.
As I was digging, I heard someone say in surprise, "Fubao?"
Fubao looked up in surprise, and felt a little uncomfortable when he saw it.
This person was none other than her ex-mother, Nie Laosan's wife.
She looked at her carefully, her face wary.
Nie Laosan's wife was also surprised when she first saw Fubao.
Today is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. She originally wanted to ask Shengyin to go up the mountain to pick up dead apricot branches, but Shengyin refused to go up the mountain, saying that she was afraid of meeting Fubao and that she was afraid of Fubao.
Nie Laosan's wife thought about how Shengyin had been having nightmares since she fell into the well, and she kept saying how bad Fubao was. Although she was a little angry, she didn't force her after all because she was her daughter who she had carried for ten months.
But she needed apricot sticks, and she didn't want Shengjin to go out in the cold weather to pick them, so she had to go up the mountain herself.
Who knew that I would meet Fubao as soon as I went up the mountain, and Fubao was alone.
Looking at the little Fubao in front of her, she found that Fubao was much more handsome than when he was at her home. His eyes and eyebrows were the same as those in the New Year pictures, and his face was clear and pink, which made the surrounding mountains and soil shine.
Nie Laosan's wife's heart skipped a beat and she remembered some rumors among the neighbors.
They said that Fubao was blessed and was the reincarnation of a little boy who served Guanyin Bodhisattva. They said that whoever adopted Fubao would have good fortune, and that her twins were brought by Fubao.
Nie Laosan's wife naturally didn't believe it at first. She thought Fubao was just an unlucky guy, a reincarnated jinx. Nothing good would ever happen to him. How could she say Fubao was a lucky charm? How could that be possible?
But thinking back on the prosperous days of the Gu family, especially the recent prosperity of the fourth branch of the Gu family, Nie Lao San's wife began to doubt.
Could it be that Fubao is really a lucky doll that can bring good luck to others?
If this is true, why didn't the Nie family benefit from her before?
Nie Laosan's wife had doubts in her heart and had always wanted to find Fubao to test it out, but she never had the chance. Today, they happened to meet, so naturally she wanted to talk to Fubao.
However, when she saw Fubao's cautious look towards her, she immediately became angry and couldn't help but want to scold her: "Fubao, you said I raised you for four years and you called me mother for four years. How come when you see me now, you don't even know how to call me mother?"
Fubao had often been beaten by Nie Laosan's wife before. Now he suddenly saw Nie Laosan's wife, and they were on the mountain where there was no one around, so he was naturally a little scared.
She took a step back nervously, bit her lip, and whispered, "You, you don't want me anymore, you don't let me call you mother..."
It was Nie Laosan's wife who slapped her and told her not to call her mother, not that she didn't want to.
Nie Laosan's wife was furious when she heard this: "How dare you be so stubborn? You talk back to me? Fubao, I'm asking you, did you run over to Gu Jiawang and the others? Did you bring all the good fortune to the Gu family?"
Fubao was confused: "I don't understand what you are talking about."
Seeing that Fubao was still pretending to be stupid, Nie Laosan's wife raised her hand in anger.
Fubao had been scared by being beaten by Nie Laosan's wife before. When he saw her raise her hand, he immediately shrank back with fear, stepped back, staggered, and almost fell to the ground.
Seeing Fubao so frightened, Nie Laosan's wife felt helpless. Thinking of what Fuqi had said, she gritted her teeth and held back, "Fubao, I don't mean to hit you. I just... I just feel uncomfortable when I think of you."
Fubao looked at her carefully, not understanding why she suddenly said that.
Nie Laosan's wife: "Fubao, do you hate me in your heart? I asked you to call me mother now, but you don't want to?"
Fubao lowered his head and whispered, "But I already have a bride..."
Nie Laosan's wife choked: "Are you so heartless? Now that you have a new bride, you don't want your old wife anymore?"
Fubao: "I'm sorry, but I..."
She was already a member of the Gu family, so why was she still clinging to me? Wasn't it her own decision to not want me anymore?
Fubao didn't understand.
Nie Lao San's wife was about to say something when she heard footsteps not far away and the voices of Gu Shengtian and Xiuni.
When Nie Laosan's wife heard this, she felt guilty and quickly said, "I'll talk to you again when I have a chance!"
After saying that, he quickly took a detour and slipped up the mountain.
Fubao finally breathed a sigh of relief when he saw her leave. He looked up and saw his brother and sister, and hurriedly went to greet them with a smile.
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After Xiao Dingkun separated from Fubao, he did not leave immediately.
He was hiding in the dark and watching Fubao.
He was worried about going down the mountain like this, as he wanted to see what kind of person Fubao's brother was.
Later, he naturally saw what Nie Laosan's wife did when she forced Fubao to confess.
He narrowed his eyes and followed Nie Laosan's wife up the mountain.
When Nie Laosan's wife was walking on the mountain road, he took advantage of no one's attention and kicked her down.
When Nie Laosan's wife fell down and was knocked unconscious, he stepped forward and covered her eyes with a large leaf. Then, without saying a word, he raised his hands and punched her in the face left and right.
Although he was not very old, he was very ruthless when he slapped someone.
Nie Laosan's wife screamed at first, but then he stuffed a mouthful of dry leaves into her mouth, so she couldn't scream anymore and could only struggle vaguely.
After slapping her seven or eight times, Xiao Dingkun remembered Fubao's timid look when Nie Lao San's wife raised her hand. Thinking that she must have been beaten often when she was young, his eyes suddenly became full of anger and he sneered.
He doesn't care about men not hitting women.
He has never been a good person.
He narrowed his eyes, raised his foot, and kicked Nie Laosan's wife again.
Nie Laosan's wife screamed in pain.
After a long time, Nie Laosan's wife didn't hear any movement, so she secretly looked around. Seeing that there was no one around, she quickly got up, took out the dry leaves from her mouth, and then burst into tears.
"Oh my God, what's going on? I'm being robbed in broad daylight!"
"Fubao, that unlucky guy, it's all her fault. If I hadn't run into her and talked to her, how could I have encountered such a thing..."
Her face was already swollen, and the tears dripping onto it were burning with pain. She cried with her teeth bared, struggling and limping down the mountain: "What kind of world is this? It's so unfair, so unfair..."
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