Chapter 457 Thank you, Auntie
I saw the little black boy Zhou Shian tilting his head and wiping his little pocket lovingly.
Lu Miao couldn't help but laugh happily again.
He shook his head to the chirping of summer cicadas, bent his lips and lowered his head to continue his work.
In the main room, Zhou Shian looked at his pocket with round eyes, then pursed his thin lips and looked at Tang Mei.
Tang Mei smiled and silently raised her chin towards the other room.
Zhou Shian immediately understood who had sewn the pockets on his jacket.
Past life experiences are in the few memories that still retain an impression.
Zhou Shian remembered that he was always being sent here and there.
Zhou Shian is now over four years old and can barely understand a few things.
A little earlier, when they were still ignorant, they were bound to cry and make a fuss.
But after being beaten, looked down upon and scolded, the young Zhou Shian gradually figured out a set of survival rules that would stop him from being sent around.
Until his grandmother died, he was brought from the northeast to the capital.
His father sent him to the Fu family compound, and he thought this time would be the same as before.
The family would beat and scold him, but it didn’t matter. As long as he was sensible, didn’t fight or compete, and behaved quietly, he could avoid being beaten and scolded.
However, this family was nothing like what he had imagined.
There was no scolding, and no one looked fierce.
He eats whatever his younger brothers and sisters eat.
When my uncle comes back from outside, he will hug him after hugging his younger brothers and sisters.
My aunt is so gentle too.
Always touch his face with a smile and teach him to wash his hands before eating.
Now I'm sewing pockets for him...
Zhou Shian touched the kitten's head in his pocket, and his little chest felt swollen.
In the evening, Zhou Hong came to pick up his son.
Zhou Shian followed his father to the entrance of the yard, hesitated, broke free from his father and ran back.
The little guy raised his head and hugged his aunt's legs, "Thank you, aunt."
Lu Miao has always known that Zhou Shian has a twisted and sensitive personality.
Lu Miao naturally noticed his subtle transformation.
Slowly squatting down, Lu Miao kissed the little guy's face as he usually did with his two children, and stroked his soft stubble of hair and said:
"Come early tomorrow, your brothers and sisters are waiting for you at home."
Zhou Shian scratched the side of his head with his small black hands, feeling quite helpless.
He nodded shyly, and rarely waved to Dabao and Erbao beside him:
"Brother and sister, I'll come back tomorrow!"
"Goodbye, brother!"
"Goodbye, Brother Shi An. Come early tomorrow!"
Zhou Shian looked back every few steps, took his father's hand and walked out of the alley and sat in the passenger seat of the pickup truck.
In the dim light, Zhou Shian looked at himself in the car mirror. Finally, his face became stern and he looked down at his own dark hands suspiciously.
My younger brothers and sisters are so white and clean.
On the other hand, he is dark and looks dirty.
From today on, he will also be a hygienic child, wash his hands and face frequently, and take a bath!
Zhou Shian put his legs together, sat upright in the passenger seat, and said:
"Dad, go back and get me some water. I want to take a bath!"
The rough man Zhou Hong didn't think much about it. He just thought it was because the weather was hot and his son was sweating and sticky, feeling uncomfortable. He grinned and agreed immediately:
"OK!"
That night, in a simple residential courtyard in the suburbs.
Zhou Hong, shirtless and wearing shorts, was standing by the well in the yard, carrying his naked son.
He fetched a bucket of water and poured it directly over his son's head.
"No, Dad, no, I'm cold!"
"Why are you cold? It's summer time, it's only cold for a moment. You'll be gone after you take a shower."
The Zhou family was different from the Fu family. They rented a single room in a large tenement house, which was so small that it only had space for sleeping.
We buy steamed buns outside for our daily meals because we don’t even have a stove at home.
This is the only way to take a bath.
It’s hot in the summer, so it’s okay to wash like this.
Zhou Hong spoke with conviction, and after thinking about it, Zhou Shian felt that what his father said made sense.
I stood under the big stream of water that my father was pouring down and scrubbed carefully.
While washing, the father and son started a water fight by pouring water on each other, laughing and joking.
It was not until someone in the yard shouted "Keep down" that the two, one big and one small, stopped laughing.
After a quick bath, Zhou Hong held the bucket in one hand and hugged his naked son with the other.
I returned home with water dripping along the way.
Children's physique is not as good as adults. Zhou Shian was soaked in well water the night before and felt cold all over. The next day, he had a runny nose.
Zhou Hong was used to being alone and didn't notice it at all.
After sending the child to the Fu family courtyard before going to work in the morning, Zhou Hong left in a hurry.
It was Tang Mei who discovered it.
The season change has long passed, and the weather has been steadily hot recently. A sudden runny nose seems abnormal.
Tang Mei asked several times before she finally understood the whole story, and she couldn't help but nag for a while:
"Can children be like adults? They are so ignorant!"
After talking about Zhou Hong, Tang Mei started talking about Fu Jingyou.
They said Fu Jingyou always came back sweating and washed his hair with cold water by the well, which was bad for his health.
This is the point of competition between the elders and the younger generations.
She talked about her things, and he continued to do his own thing.
In the morning, he made some ginger soup for Zhou Shian. At noon, Fu Jingyou came back, and Lu Miao asked him to take Zhou Shian to the health center by bike.
Fu Jingyou took Zhou Shian there as instructed. The doctor at the clinic said it was nothing serious and that he just needed to go back and sweat it out.
Fu Jingyou was worried, so he asked him to prescribe two pills and asked him to take them home as a precaution.
The child is pitiful because he has no mother, and his father is not a careful person.
After getting a general understanding of the Zhou family's situation, he was afraid that Zhou Hong would give the child another cold shower when he returned.
From that afternoon on, Tang Mei always checked the time and, when the sun was shining brightly, she would press a bucket of water and put it outside to dry.
By the evening when the sun sets, the bucket of water is just slightly warm, sometimes even a little hot to the touch.
It is perfect for bathing and saves firewood.
Tang Mei took the children in the yard to bathe one by one, and asked Zhou Shian to finish bathing here before going back.
Zhou Shian couldn't let go at first. He hid around naked with his little bird covered, not letting Tang Mei get close to him.
He is small, how can he really hide?
In the end, Tang Mei forced him to sit in the basin, and rubbed his ears and feet carefully.
Zhou Shian couldn't wash himself cleanly, so Tang Mei pressed and rubbed him several times.
His body became clean and refreshed, and his dark little face looked much more handsome than before.
Erbao always looks at Zhou Shian with a pair of eyes like black pearls underwater, and likes his brother even more.
Later that night, Zhou Shian took some cold medicine back home, and Zhou Hong only then realized what had happened.
The next day, Zhou Hong brought Zhou Shian over again and also brought a box of canned fruits to his door.
Zhou Hong apologized and thanked Tang Mei, feeling helpless. He could only ask Tang Mei to take care of the place he couldn't reach.
What can Tang Mei say about him?
Even though I didn't ask him to bring anything, he still took it.
If I let him take it back, I'm afraid he'll feel bad about it.
In the end, I still collected the things, and I put his mind at ease about the child's matter.
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