Chapter 484 A small fishing village with many crabs
Su Xiaoya glanced at her husband's eyes and responded to her old classmate: "No, I'm too busy over there. I'm not sure if I can have lunch today."
"It's okay. I'll wait for you."
"Well……"
Su Xiaoya glanced at Lu Tian again, only to find that Lu Tian was slapping Lu Yuanqiu, while Lu Yuanqiu was huddled in the corner, looking at his father in confusion, not knowing what he had done wrong.
In the afternoon, Lu Yuanqiu brought some fruits from home. He walked into the ward and found that in addition to Bai Qingxia, there was also a woman in simple clothes. When he came to the bedside and put the fruits on the bedside table, Lu Yuanqiu discovered that there was a little girl standing next to the woman.
The little girl was very small and was blocked by the hospital bed so I couldn’t see her.
"Who are these two?" Lu Yuanqiu asked.
Bai Qingxia was wiping her father's face with a hot towel. She turned around and introduced him, "It's Aunt Zhang, who I told you about before. The one next to her is her daughter Ranran."
"I remember, I remember. Hello Aunt Zhang, hello Ranran." Lu Yuanqiu greeted them quickly.
The plainly dressed woman smiled and nodded, then pulled her daughter to her side and rubbed her head: "Ranran, hurry up and call Brother Qiu."
So she knows me. Bai Qingxia must have mentioned it, Lu Yuanqiu thought. He looked at the little girl and found that her eyes were dull. Bai Qingxia had told him that the little girl was blind.
When the two families met, it was just a group of miserable people trying to keep each other warm, Lu Yuanqiu couldn't help but think in his heart.
He quickly peeled the apple, cut it into pieces and put it in a cup with hot water. Ranran, who was standing beside the bed, sniffed her nose and smelled the fragrance of the fruit.
"Where is Aunt Zhang from?" Lu Yuanqiu started chatting with the woman. The fruit he blanched was intended for the little girl.
The woman was also very reserved towards the younger generation and quickly responded, "I am from Tasmania."
"Oh, Lin Province, it's pretty close."
"Not really. My hometown is in a very remote coastal fishing village in eastern Tasmania."
The woman explained to him seriously, and the little girl standing beside the bed suddenly spoke in a soft voice: "There are many crabs there~"
Hearing Ranran talking, Bai Qingxia looked back and smiled.
"Really? How many are a lot?" Lu Yuanqiu touched her head.
Ran Ran seemed to be confused. She moved her mouth for a moment and insisted, "There are just a lot of them."
Aunt Zhang smiled and explained: "Yes, there are a lot of them. When the tide goes out, crabs crawl into my house in large numbers. Sometimes, even when I'm sleeping, I can see crabs in my bed. Haha... This is almost a special feature of my place."
"But there are no young people willing to stay in my place anymore." Aunt Zhang sighed when she said this.
Lu Yuanqiu nodded. In fact, he had only been to the capital of Tasmania and seen the West Lake, but had never been to other places.
Bai Qingxia wiped her father's cheeks, then turned around and took three bottles of Yolemei to make some hot water. Seeing that the apples were ready, Lu Yuanqiu poured the hot water in the cup into the toilet and handed the cup to Ranran: "Eat the apples."
"Thank you, brother." The little girl stretched out her hands, but went in the wrong direction to receive the cup. Seeing this, Lu Yuanqiu quickly placed the cup accurately in her hands.
"Will Lao Bai be okay?" Aunt Zhang asked, looking at the man on the bed. There was a complicated expression on her face, and Lu Yuanqiu seemed to see the complex emotions of "hoping for him to get better, but also hoping to stay the same" from it.
"Yes."
Lu Yuanqiu responded that this was what Bai Qingxia wanted and what he wanted too.
Aunt Zhang smiled and nodded: "That's good, that's good."
The Youlemei was ready. Bai Qingxia handed two cups to Aunt Zhang and one to Lu Yuanqiu. She wrung the hot towel in the basin and continued to wipe her father's neck and hands attentively.
Come on, she can't wait for this day.
…
Nightfall.
After taking a shower, Zheng Yifeng found a relatively nice piece of clothing from the closet, then blew his hair in front of the mirror with a hair dryer.
Stepmother Ye Hui glanced inside his room as she passed by, and asked hesitantly, "It's so late, are you going out?"
Zheng Yifeng turned his head: "Yeah."
Ever since Zheng Yifeng went home for the holiday, she hasn't had a good chat with him about college life. Considering the rather awkward relationship between them as "mother and son", Ye Hui hesitated many times and didn't open her mouth, even to ask casually.
"Come back early, it's cold."
"good."
The conversation was very brief, and after Ye Hui finished speaking, she turned around and went to do other things.
"Ding ding ding~" A message suddenly came from the mobile phone, and Zheng Yifeng took it to check.
『Teacher Liu』: I just remembered that tomorrow is Teacher Su’s birthday. She has no friends in Lucheng. Since you guys are back together, why don’t you spend it with her? I sent a message to Lu Yuanqiu during the day, but I don’t know what he was busy with and he didn’t reply. The same goes for Bai Qingxia.
Zheng Yifeng was stunned.
『Zheng Yifeng』: Teacher Su has no friends in Lucheng?
He clearly remembered that Su Miaomiao said she would meet friends in Lucheng before the New Year.
"Teacher Liu": Yes, she is from Zhucheng and has only been in Lucheng for a few years. Although she seems cheerful and loves to laugh, she is actually not sociable and is a homebody. I have been too busy at home and school these days to take care of her, otherwise I would have gone to accompany her.
『Zheng Yifeng』: I understand, teacher.
Zheng Yifeng put down his phone, turned around, looked at the clothes on the bed, and put them on one by one.
After waiting for another hour or so, the owner of the cake shop finally sent me a message on my phone saying that the cake was ready.
Zheng Yifeng changed his shoes and went out. When he pushed the door, he suddenly heard a voice from behind.
"Are you...talking to a girlfriend?"
Zheng Yifeng turned around with a look of surprise and saw his stepmother Ye Hui appearing behind him. She was wearing pajamas inside and a coat outside, and seemed to be ready to go to bed. After hearing the noise, he couldn't help but walk out of the room and ask this question.
Zheng Yifeng shook his head: "No."
Ye Hui nodded and said "Oh". When she was about to return to her room, Zheng Yifeng said to her, "Mom."
Ye Hui was startled and turned to look at him, her eyes widening.
Zheng Yifeng stood at the door and said, "If I talk about it, I will tell you."
Ye Hui smiled and nodded: "Okay, be careful on the road, go home early, and don't stay outside too long."
Zheng Yifeng smiled back: "Okay."
After he went out and closed the door, Ye Hui stood there, staring at the closed door. After looking for a moment, she smiled and walked into her room. The moment she closed the door, the woman paused and smiled again.
Room 706 in a hotel 500 meters away from the community.
The TV in the room was playing noisily. Su Miaomiao sat on the bed with the remote control in her hand, but her attention was not on the TV screen. Instead, she turned her head to look at the dark night sky outside the hotel window.
It was ten o'clock in the evening, and she felt as lonely as the night sky. There were not even stars dotting the sky. It was like she had only two hours left for her birthday, but at the moment there was no one to talk to.
(End of this chapter)
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