Chapter 304: Thousand-year-old female corpse vs. the last warlord (25)
The old man with white hair and beard looked at the two children running wildly in the yard, feeling extremely anxious.
He didn’t know whether to chase them or not. “Grandpa, be careful. Your hands and feet have just recovered. If you fall again, you will really have to lie in bed.” The woman stuck her head out of the kitchen window, and it could be seen that she was wearing a beige apron.
“Well, you guys are bullying my old bones.” The old man reluctantly leaned against the wall and sat on the rocking chair. A nostalgic look flashed across his face, and he whispered, “If it were the old days, I would definitely catch you two brats and give you a good beating.”
“Grandpa, you forgot your cane again.”
The old man didn’t want others to remind him of his aging, so he put his fingers in his ears, lay down on the rocking chair, and pretended to fall asleep.
"The older you get, the more you act like a child. Fortunately, the old man has been in better spirits in recent years." The woman who was older than the woman in the apron had short hair and wore a padded jacket. She was very skillful in making dumplings.
"That's right. All these years, it's thanks to your care." The woman in the apron was full of gratitude.
"What are you talking about? It's a new China now, and we should take care of each other and help each other. Women nowadays are different from before. Now we can hold up half the sky." The short-haired woman's fingers flew, and her face was so happy. "That being said, if it weren't for you and your grandfather helping me take care of my two children, I, a widow, would not know what to do?"
"Both children are very cute. We all like them." The woman in the apron looked calm and gentle, "This yard always has more energy with two children. It's hard for you to always come to accompany us."
"We're just separated by a wall, why are you being so polite?" The short-haired woman bumped her arm, "Don't mention such things again, being too polite doesn't make us seem like a family."
As the short-haired woman spoke, she thought of her dead husband and couldn't help but complain, "Look at the past era, it was so chaotic, with so many forces fighting and vying for power. Our Fushun thought he was smart, so he followed a junior officer under a warlord, thinking he could do something big to impress his fellow townsmen. But not long after he joined the war, he was solved, leaving us an orphan and a widow. Think about those years, they were really hard."
"We're almost through it. I just said this is the new China. Women hold up half the sky." The woman in the apron shook her hand, "When the two children grow up, you'll enjoy your life."
"That's what I said, but there are still more than ten years to go." The short-haired woman wiped her tears with the back of her clean hand, afraid that she would affect the other party by being too sad, so she quickly changed the subject, "Look, there is only a little stuffing here, I can do it myself. Go and light the fire, and when the water boils, we will put the dumplings in the pot. You Yaochuan people are used to eating steamed dumplings. Today, I will show you my skills. Try our special sesame dumplings. Eat them with soup, they are much better than steamed dumplings."
"You are really good at eating." The woman in the apron scooped water from the jar to wash her hands.
"Why are you always making and eating dumplings? Is it because you don't know how to make other dishes? I can teach you today." The short-haired woman had just finished making the last bit of stuffing, put down her chopsticks, and counted the dumplings on the table. It was enough for today.
The woman in the apron was suddenly stunned. After a long while, she wiped her wet hands on her apron and said slowly: "When my husband went out at night, he told my grandfather that he wanted to eat dumplings the next morning, but he never came back."
The short-haired woman didn't expect that there was such a sad past behind this. Her face was embarrassed and sad. She thought of her own experience and said, "We are all wanderers in the world."
"My husband has never broken his promise to me. My grandfather and I believe that he must be alive, just waiting to open the door and eat dumplings one day." The expression on the face of the woman in the apron was still so gentle and graceful, but there was a hint of sadness in her eyes.
"She is a good woman." The short-haired woman held her hands and suddenly realized that her hands, which had just been washed, were stained with flour again.
"Excuse me, is this Lv Shiyi, Miss Lv's home?" Standing outside the door was a short man. "No, no, let's go." The old man thought it was another man who came to propose marriage, so he was not in a good mood. He didn't even open his eyes and couldn't help muttering: "What's the matter? These men follow wherever I move. My grandson's daughter-in-law is also someone you can covet. When my grandson comes back, be careful to blow your heads off."
"Someone asked me to send you a message saying that he is back to eat dumplings." The short man was not angry because of his attitude, and his words were still so gentle.
"Go away, if you want to eat dumplings, go to the restaurant by yourself. We are not a restaurant here, we don't have this business." The old man got angry and turned over from the rocking chair, ready to take his crutches to drive the men at the door away, so as not to affect the mood of his grandson's wife.
"I'm not going to the restaurant." The little man was also very persistent and repeated again, "I'm coming back to eat dumplings."
"It's really annoying." He walked out the door with his crutches, threatening the little man at the door as he walked, "Are you going to leave or not? If you don't leave, I'm going to beat you up."
"Grandpa, I want to eat the dumplings you made." He opened the door, and a tall and thin man wearing a black hat walked out of the walled gate.
"Is it really you?" The old man was a little unbelievable, and the crutches in his hand suddenly fell to the ground, making a sound that scared the two children, and the children screamed.
"What's wrong? Are you naughty again?!" The two women who heard the noise outside came out of the house.
Across the people in the yard, he saw his sweetheart who had been away for several years at a glance.
"I'm back." He saw that her expression was suddenly stunned for a moment, and his hands wiped on his apron unconsciously again and again.
He walked around everyone in front of him and walked towards her. He only had eyes for her.
"Come in and eat dumplings. They're just made." She hurried into the door, leaving him with her back.
"You guys are busy, you guys are busy." The short-haired woman suddenly understood something and walked towards home with her two sons.
"For so many years, I..." He was about to explain, but the woman suddenly turned around and hugged him, murmuring, "Just come back safely. Just come back safely."
He lifted her face, her eyes were red, filled with tears.
"It's the first time I see you cry for me." He licked the tears from her cheeks carefully, as if he were a treasure.
So nice. After so many years, she is still the same as when they first met, not changed at all.
[Mission completed, harvest [Promise]]
(End of this chapter)
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