The old lady in the well
After hearing his mother's muffled voice, Xu Tianyi turned around and saw Jiang Rushi running towards him at a very fast speed after falling.
Ding Hui and Xu Wanrong behind also put down their bowls and walked towards Jiang Rushi.
"Auntie."
"sister in law."
Xu Tianyi carefully helped his mother up and checked her injuries. "Mom! Can you still speak?"
Xu Tianyi helped Jiang Rushi up while looking around. The threshold was five or six steps away from where her cousin was sitting.
Jiang Rushi was dusty and dusty when Xu Tianyi helped her up. She looked at the stone on the ground that had tripped her. She angrily kicked the stone far away and turned to scold Xu Wanrong: "Wanrong, you've been home all day, don't you know to sweep the floor?"
Xu Tianyi glanced at the stone that Jiang Rushi had kicked away. He frowned and looked at Jiang Rushi: "How could it fall down when it was fine?"
Xu Wanrong was naturally not convinced by Jiang Rushi's reliance on her. Although it had rained in the morning, the ground was covered in mud.
Xu Wanrong saw that the front of Jiang Rushi's clothes was covered with mud, and she looked extremely embarrassed. Then she met Xu Tianyi's sharp and accusing eyes and immediately became unhappy: "Auntie, look at this yard, it's all mud, how are you going to sweep it?"
At noon, he said he treated her as his own sister! But that look just now made Xu Wanrong feel unfamiliar.
After hearing what Xu Wanrong said, Jiang Rushi also noticed that there was not only mud in the yard, but also puddles, making it difficult to sweep the floor.
But it was really humiliating for her, an adult, to fall down like that. A girl with a normal mind couldn't blame her, so she looked around again and saw Xu Roujun.
Jiang Rushi covered her mouth and said to Xu Tianyi, "It must be the bad luck from Dani that has passed on... If she hadn't looked at me just now, I would have definitely noticed the stone under my feet." As she spoke, tears flowed uncontrollably from her eyes. It was so painful when her chin hit the threshold!
Xu Roujun: “…”
It's good to put a big hat on her without any reason.
Red blood slowly oozed out from between Jiang Rushi's fingers. Seeing his mother's chin bleeding, Xu Tianyi didn't really think it was a big deal. He immediately said he would take his mother to the hospital for a checkup, but Jiang Rushi waved her hand: "Just clean it up at home..." She spoke in a halting and labored manner. "It's OK... wuwuwu..." Her emotions were completely unstable.
Xu Tianyi couldn't persuade his own mother, so he helped Jiang Rushi go into the house to clean the wound.
Inside the room, Jiang Rushi would ask Xu Tianyi from time to time: "Is my face not disfigured?"
Xu Tianyi answered patiently: "No."
"But it's all bleeding."
Xu Tianyi: “…”
Listening to Jiang Rushi's howling coming from the room, Xu Roujun felt for the first time that this was the sound of a fairy, and she felt much happier while eating.
After Xu Roujun finished her meal, she placed the bowl in the corner against the wall, just like the original owner had done before, and then slowly limped back to the woodshed.
When Xu Tianyi came out of the house again, he no longer had the appetite to continue eating. He felt extremely bored watching his cousin mechanically going back to the woodshed to sleep.
A few familiar boys just happened to come to the door and said, "Tianyi, do you want to go play marbles?"
"I'm not going today!" Xu Tianyi said to his friend in the house.
Jiang Rushi naturally heard the noise outside, and she waved to let Xu Tianyi go out and play.
Xu Tianyi: "You are injured."
Jiang Rushi: "You can still feel the pain for my injury, or stay by my side so that I can recover immediately. Go and have fun and don't worry about me. I need to take a shower later, and you can't help me. I need to ask your sister to help me."
Xu Tianyi was half-heartedly kicked out of the house by Jiang Rushi.
Before Xu Tianyi left, Jiang Rushi specifically told him not to get his clothes dirty, after all, he had just taken a shower.
Xu Tianyi responded twice before going out with his friends.
As soon as he went out, Xu Tianyi's childhood friend and classmate Shi Yipeng saw Xu Tianyi's pretty cousin returning to her room.
As soon as Xu Tianyi came out, Shi Yipeng asked him, "Is your cousin feeling better?"
Xu Tianyi glanced back at the dark woodshed before turning back to Shi Yipeng and saying, "I don't know, but my sister can speak today."
When Shi Yipeng heard this, he immediately asked, "Is your sister okay?"
"No, she said there was Polygonum multiflorum on the dead tree over at Dongpo. She stayed at home all day, how could she know where it was? My grandma said she was trying to escape again."
Others said, "Maybe your sister's illness has healed, and you're just pretending to be stupid."
Xu Tianyi didn't care: "Whether she pretends or not, she's still my sister."
Xu Tianyi's voice came in from the small window of the woodshed. He was still talking, but as they walked away, Xu Roujun could no longer hear clearly.
Xu Roujun stared at the small window of the woodshed in silence.
Xu Tianyi got all the benefits, while others took care of the dirty work.
As it grew darker and everyone in the Xu family's courtyard returned to their rooms, Xu Roujun dared to practice walking slowly in the woodshed alone.
The slightest pressure on her right leg caused excruciating pain.
She could wait for the bones to heal slowly and then walk again, but she was afraid that by then she would have already married Wang Yingjun, so Xu Roujun absolutely could not sit and wait for death.
She used a cane to help her practice walking until late at night, and she was sweating profusely. She was so tired that she leaned on her cane and went to the patio in the yard and fetched a bucket of water.
As soon as the water was pumped up, Xu Roujun heard footsteps behind her. From the sound, she knew it came from Old Lady Xu's room. Although her footsteps were very light, in the quiet night, no matter how lightly she moved, Xu Roujun could hear the movement at night.
Xu Roujun didn't act rashly, but instead took a large bucket of water and drank it. When she couldn't finish the water, Xu Roujun washed her face again. Considering that Old Lady Xu was watching from behind, she felt that she couldn't do something that was too normal for a normal person, so... Xu Roujun poured the bucket of water back into the well...
Old Mrs. Xu's scream completely broke the silence of the night.
Xu Roujun was so frightened by the sound that she dropped the bucket in her hand.
Old Lady Xu's voice came from her room: "You money-losing idiot! What are you doing?"
In the moonlight, Xu Roujun saw the old lady Xu, who was over 1.6 meters tall, rushing towards her from the darkness with her teeth bared. She pushed away Xu Roujun, who was leaning on a crutch, and then went to get the bucket of water. The ground was slippery at night, and the old lady Xu was impatient. She lost her balance and fell directly into the well.
Xu Roujun looked at Old Lady Xu who was holding the onion upside down, and she felt a little disgusted with the well.
Xu Roujun didn't want to find a corpse in the well she was drinking from, especially since she would have to drink water from the well in the future. She reached out and grabbed the rope next to the well.
Because of Old Lady Xu's howling, the other people in the room were also woken up. The first one to come out was Xu Laoer. As soon as he came out of the room, he saw Xu Roujun standing by the well with a crutch. He shouted at Xu Roujun: "What are you doing here in the middle of the night?"
Xu Roujun pointed at the well: "Grandma."
It was pitch black at night, so Xu Lao Er couldn't see Xu Roujun's gestures clearly. "What is that?"
Xu Lao Er, who was woken up, shouted at Xu Roujun: "Go back to sleep! Don't fucking stand here!"
Xu Laoer saw Xu Roujun still standing there motionless and said, "Are you itching for trouble?" and prepared to go over and beat Xu Roujun up.
Xu Roujun pulled the bucket, and the old lady in the well finally turned herself around in the well. Her head had just come out of the water and she had just made a little sound when she was submerged in water again. She pulled the bucket hard, and Xu Roujun pulled the bucket back hard again.
Only then did Old Lady Xu’s entire head emerge from the water.
“Help!”
"Second brother! Help!"
Old Mrs. Xu's miserable howl immediately drew back Xu Laoer's attention. He immediately looked around and finally realized that his mother's voice came from the well.
There was a sound of water coming from the well from time to time.
"mom!"
Xu Roujun was pushed away by Xu Laoer, causing the rope on Xu Roujun's hand to loosen. Without the pulling force of the bucket, Old Lady Xu immediately sank and floated in the water.
Old Lady Xu: “Woo…”
Xu Roujun: “…” What a filial son.
Xu Roujun looked at the scene of loving mother and filial son and tried not to laugh out loud.
Xu Laoer dug into the dark hole and called out several times, "Mom! Are you still alive? Can you answer me?"
Xu Roujun sat up from the ground and, using the moonlight, felt for the last bit of rope by the well.
She pulled back a few times, and soon the rope in her hand felt taut, and this time Old Mrs. Xu's head finally emerged from the water.
She was listening to Xu Laoer calling her from the bottom of the well.
Xu Laoer, who was lying at the mouth of the well, burst into tears of joy when he heard his mother cough.
At the bottom of the well, Old Lady Xu had long lost her initial spirit. She pulled the bucket and said to Old Second Xu, "Old Second, pull me up quickly."
If Jiang Rushi hadn't come out of the house with a kerosene lamp, Xu Roujun would have wanted to kick Xu Laoer down when she saw him grabbing the well and pulling his mother.
Jiang Rushi narrowed her eyes and asked, "What's going on?"
Xu Laoer was digging in the well and was a little anxious. He said to Jiang Rushi, "My mother fell in."
Ding Hui, who was in another room, heard that Old Mrs. Xu had fallen as soon as she came out. "Our mother fell down!" She and Old Second Xu rushed to the well.
Xu Roujun: “…” They are indeed a couple, two different people can sleep in the same bed.
Xu Roujun felt that Old Lady Xu in the water was pulling harder and harder. She could understand the strong desire of the person in the water to cry out, but she was a cripple, and it was unlikely for her to pull the person up, so Xu Roujun moved to the side to let Old Lady Xu feel the existence of the rope.
Xu Laoer felt a tight rope in the dark night, and he grabbed it immediately. When he felt the rope extending into the well, Xu Laoer immediately pulled the rope outward with force.
As for what Old Lady Xu said, Xu Roujun didn't care. After all, her current personality was that of a fool, right?
Seeing how hard Xu Laoer was working, Xu Roujun naturally sneaked back to the woodshed.
Xu Laoer pulled the man up with all his strength, and Ding Hui and Jiang Rushi assisted from the side and it took a lot of effort to pull the man out of the well.
Xu Roujun, who was sleeping in the woodshed, heard that Old Lady Xu who came up could still speak, so she could lie down and sleep with peace of mind. No one had ever died from this well, so she could continue to drink the water when exercising in the future.
Xu Laoer only has this one mother, and his father died early, so when Old Lady Xu came out of the well, he surrounded her and asked about her situation.
After vomiting out most of the water in her stomach, Old Lady Xu said, "Dani, you unlucky thing!"
Xu Laoer quickly asked the reason.
After learning that it was Old Lady Xu who saw Xu Roujun pouring the water for washing her hands into the well and that he was here to teach this girl a lesson, which was why she slipped into the well, he immediately said to Old Lady Xu, "Mom, I'm going to call this damn girl out to apologize to you!"
Old Mrs. Xu said nothing, apparently waiting for the fool Xu Roujun to come out and apologize to the old woman.
Xu Roujun saw how rough Xu Laoer had been with her before, and immediately remembered the head-butting incident. If this guy came in, he would definitely throw her into the well.
Xu Roujun didn't intend to let Xu Laoer come in and drag her to apologize to that old woman with triangular eyes.
She picked up a stone in the dark woodshed.
Xu Laoer stumbled and fell forward.
Xu Laoer subconsciously held onto the ground with his hands, but unfortunately this was a woodshed, and at the door was a place where he had casually placed his axe after chopping wood last time.
Xu Laoer's palm directly covered the sharp axe. His other hand also subconsciously retracted its force. In the silent night, a "bang!" sound was heard at the door of the woodshed.
Xu Roujun knew it was the sound of the chin hitting the door sill, so she lay down with peace of mind. He probably didn't have time to bother her anymore.
“Woo!”
At this time, Xu Laoer not only felt pain in his chin, but also in his palms.
Xu Lao Er endured it for a long time, but finally couldn't bear it anymore and roared out: "Ah!"
Zuo Ling and You She naturally heard the sound.
The sound was like a fairy product. Xu Roujun covered her belly with straw. Tonight was destined to be a peaceful night.
Because of this matter, the Xu family was busy until late at night.
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