Chapter 54 Childhood Memories Love Line
This was a very long dream. In the dream, Sang Luo returned to her childhood when her family still lived in Houtu Village. Her father, mother and sister were all by her side.
It was spring in the dream. Long green buds sprouted on the willow trees, swaying gently in the spring breeze. The peach and pear trees in the village were all in bloom, with white and pink flowers stacked together, dazzlingly brilliant.
My younger sister Sang Ruo was standing under the pear tree, chewing her fingers with saliva dripping from her mouth. Her little round face was frowned, and her face was full of unhappiness.
She bit her finger and hammered the tree with her fist: "Sister, where are the pears? I want to eat pears! Mom said this is a pear tree, why doesn't it bear pears?"
Sang Luo stepped forward and pulled her up: "Ruoruo, stop making trouble. I told you that trees only bear fruit in autumn. Why are you so greedy? If you keep making trouble, mom will scold you when you get back!"
The younger sister was dragged away by Sang Luo unwillingly, still mumbling: "You can scold me, as long as I can eat delicious food, I am not afraid of being beaten! There is clearly a bag of candy in the cabinet, why didn't mom let me eat it? You stingy guy!"
Little Sang Luo sighed and said like an adult, "Alas, Mom has already told me that those candies are for entertaining guests during the Chinese New Year. You have eaten them all now. What will we put on the table when relatives come during the Chinese New Year?"
Sang Ruo pouted unhappily: "The New Year is still so far away. By the time the New Year comes, the candies will have expired. It would be a waste if we don't eat them!"
Sang Luo sighed: "Even if they are expired, they still have to be put on the table, otherwise the table will look ugly with nothing on it. Anyway, just give up on this idea and don't think about those candies. Mom asked me to watch over you, so I have to keep an eye on you!"
Sang Ruo turned her head away: "I have no pears to eat, and I can't eat candy. I'm so bored. I'll complain to mom when I get back and say you bullied me!"
Sang Luo suddenly felt overwhelmed, but she still humbled her sister: "Okay, okay, don't be angry, let me think of a way. If you must eat snacks, I have a place to go."
"Where?" Sang Ruo suddenly widened his eyes.
"Xiaoyu's house. I've taken you there before." Sang Luo pointed to a small earthen house in the east.
Sang Ruo's face drooped again: "No, their house smells too bad, a strong smell of Chinese medicine. Every time I go there, they are boiling medicine. I don't want to go to their house!"
"Do you still want to eat candy?" Sang Luo asked.
Sang Ruo hesitated for a moment, but finally nodded: "I want to!"
"Then come with me." Sang Luo pulled his sister and walked eastward.
This time, my sister stopped struggling and followed Sang Luo obediently.
"Alas, you are really the reincarnation of a hungry ghost. I don't know how long you were hungry in your previous life to be so greedy in this life!"
Sang Luo sighed, then knocked on the Ruan family's door. After a while, a sturdy woman opened the door. When she saw the two girls, she smiled warmly:
"Hey, isn't this Xiaoluo? Are you here to play with our Xiaoyu? Come in quickly!"
"Hello, Auntie. We are here to look for Xiaoyu." Sang Luo lied reluctantly and pulled his sister into his house.
In fact, Sang Luo didn't like Xiaoyu. If she had a choice, she would never come to play with Xiaoyu, because Xiaoyu was too beautiful. Everyone who saw Xiaoyu would praise her looks and completely ignore the two sisters of the Sang family. So Sang Luo hated Xiaoyu a little in her heart.
However, Xiaoyu's family has a lot of snacks. In addition to candy and melon seeds, Xiaoyu's family also has many desserts. Every time Sang Ruo feels greedy, Sang Luo will take her here for a big meal.
The two sisters went straight to the inner room after entering the door. A man with paralysis in the lower body was sitting on the bed, his face was a little blue. When he saw the two sisters coming, a smile appeared on his face instantly:
"Hey, kids, here we come, come and get my stuff!"
The man pointed at the cabinet, and the woman immediately bent down and took out several things from the cabinet, including crispy sesame candies, a box of Beijing Eight Snacks, and canned yellow peach fruits.
Upon seeing this, Sang Ruo automatically jumped onto the kang and sat down obediently. The woman put the small table on the kang, then unpacked the snacks and put out two cups of hot water for the children to eat slowly.
Sang Ruo held a piece of dessert in each hand, taking a bite on the left and a bite on the right. She was almost too busy to handle it. While eating, she said to Sang Luo:
"Sister, please eat quickly. These snacks are obviously from the city. We have never seen them before. Eat them quickly or you will miss out!"
Sang Luo poked his sister with his hand, signaling her to be polite. At the same time, Sang Luo felt a little strange. Everyone said that the Ruan family was the poorest family in the village. The man was paralyzed, the woman was the head of the family, and they couldn't grow much land in a year. Why did his family have so many snacks?
Just as Sang Luo was thinking, she felt a pair of gazes behind her. She slowly turned her head and looked out the window, and saw a snow-white child standing under a pear tree. The child's skin was flawless and as white as jade.
It's her again. Sang Luo is a little annoyed. This Xiaoyu has stolen all the limelight. If it weren't for her sister, she would not have come to find Xiaoyu!
Seeing that Sang Luo was also looking at him, Xiaoyu revealed a gentle smile. He opened his eyes and smiled, his elegance surpassing that of the pear blossoms on the tree.
Seeing how beautiful she was, Sang Luo was even more unhappy, but after all, she was eating someone else's food, so she had to do some face-saving work, so she took the initiative to wave out the window:
"Xiaoyu, come in, we're here to play with you!"
Hearing Sang Luo's words, Xiaoyu quickly ran into the house happily and sat down next to Sang Luo. Sang Luo moved his butt uncomfortably.
Sang Ruo was still wolfing down her food, and Sang Luo finally asked the question she had been curious about for a long time: "Auntie, where do you get these snacks?"
Xiaoyu's mother waved her hand generously: "These are all sent by our relatives. Please eat as much as you want. If you don't have enough, there are more!"
Sang Luo nodded, and the woman said to the man sitting on the bed: "Hey, come on, what have you thought about this matter? My sister has been coming to our house for the past few years, and she comes to give us gifts every few days. If it weren't for the help of my sister and brother-in-law, would Xiaoyu have grown up so big? She said that we should move out, have you thought about it?"
The man shook his head in frustration. "I know she has done us a favor, but I really don't want to move away so easily. Living here, at least I'm surrounded by fellow villagers who can take care of me if I need anything. If I go to the capital, where I'm unfamiliar with the place, how can I expect to live well there?"
The woman put down what she was holding and retorted, "You are wrong. My sister and brother-in-law also moved from the village to the capital. They now run a small shop and live a good life. If they can do it, why can't we? The capital is not as terrible as you think!"
The man waved his hand again: "I grew up in Houtu Village and have gotten used to life here. We are a family of three and we are living a good life. Why do we have to move to the capital?"
The woman slammed the table and said, "Good? You are living a good life, lying in bed every day without doing anything, but what about me? I work like a cow and a horse every day, and I have to serve you when I come home. My life is more tiring than a dog! Do you know what the villagers say about me? They all say I am more manly than men! No matter what you think, I can't live like this anymore. I must go to the city to try my luck! Think about it carefully. You must give me an answer by the end of the month at the latest!"
The two adults started arguing, and the three children realized that the atmosphere was not right, so they hurried out. When Sang Ruo left, she took the box of snacks in her arms.
Walking into the yard, the three of them started playing games. After all, they had said they were here to play with Xiaoyu, and they couldn't just leave after eating snacks.
The most common game for children in the village is playing house. There happened to be three of them, so they played house. Sang Luo played the husband, Xiaoyu played the wife, and Sang Ruo played the child, because children can eat.
Sang Luo wiped the sweat from his forehead, pretending to have worked hard all day, and handed the snack box in his arms to Xiaoyu: "Here, honey, this is the prey I brought back today, you come and cook!"
Xiaoyu took the box attentively, took out the remaining snacks inside, picked up the stones on the ground, washed them, picked a few pear blossoms, made a beautiful platter on the stones, and finally put the snacks on it. This was considered "cooking".
Then Sang Ruo, who was in charge of playing the role of the child, came over and ate a lot. She liked this part the most. When Sang Ruo finished the snacks, the game was over.
"We're leaving, bye!"
Sang Luo pulled his sister up, waved to Xiaoyu, and then prepared to leave.
"Wait, I..."
Xiaoyu suddenly pulled her sleeve and said shyly, "Sang Luo, have you heard of it?"
"What have you heard?" Sang Luo was puzzled.
Xiaoyu gritted her teeth and said, "We...we have already been engaged. When you grow up, you have to marry me!"
Sang Luo immediately shook off his hand: "Go away, I won't get married!"
Although Sang Luo is young, she knows many people in the village. She knows very well that after a girl gets married, she will have to do laundry, cook, and take care of children. If she is unlucky, she will have to fight with her parents-in-law. She doesn't want to live that kind of life.
Xiaoyu didn't give up after hearing this, but just changed the question: "Then can I marry you? As long as I can be with you, I don't care about these!"
Sang Luo waved his hand carelessly: "Let's talk about it later!"
After saying that, she quickly pulled her sister out the door.
The alarm clock rang early in the morning and Sang Luo woke up from her dream. Thinking back on the dream, she suddenly felt extremely familiar.
This is not a dream, it really happened!
These were her childhood memories, but she had forgotten them. Ruan Yu was Xiaoyu, her childhood playmate.
Sang Luo never imagined that Xiaoyu, who was prettier than a girl, was actually a boy. She had misunderstood her entire childhood!
Thinking of the tall and handsome man next door, Sang Luo swallowed and compared him with the child in his dream. He found that they were indeed somewhat similar, but the child's facial features were more three-dimensional.
Could it be... that this kind of good thing that fell from the sky really happened to her?
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