Chapter 35 I know where you want to go
Mrs. Meng looked at the wet nurse in surprise, and the wet nurse shook her head.
Qing'er usually plays in the backyard and seldom goes out. I haven't seen her playing with this boy.
Shitou had been silent since he entered the yard. Now he suddenly spoke up, "Qing'er didn't lie."
Gu Xixi thought of something and said, "The hole in the wall in the backyard?"
Stone nodded.
A few days ago, he accidentally discovered this hole in the wall and curiously looked inside.
As a result, I saw a little girl squatting there alone watching ants moving.
Shitou said in a muffled voice, "Qing'er asked me to play with her, and it just so happened that no one outside was willing to play with me."
The nurse suddenly realized, "I was wondering why the young master always squatted under the back wall. It turns out that..."
Mrs. Meng said, "So you often come here and play with Qing'er through the hole in the wall?"
Stone nodded again.
"I recognize you." Mrs. Meng looked at the stone.
"Your last name is Zhang, and you specialize in selling fruit tree seedlings."
Shitou looked away. "Oh, you already know everything."
Gu Xixi was stunned.
She had never seen such a complicated expression on a child's face.
A mixture of pain, ridicule and fear hidden beneath reluctance.
At this time, the maid brought some ice drinks to entertain the guests.
Mrs. Meng picked up a small bowl from the tray with her own hands, raised it and stretched it in front of the stone.
The stone shuddered, closed his eyes tightly, and said loudly, "If you want to splash it, then splash it. If you want to scold it, then scold it."
"I didn't do anything wrong anyway!"
Madam Meng laughed, "Wouldn't it be a waste if we threw away the good basil peach drink?"
She pressed the bowl into the boy's hand and said, "Drink this to quench your thirst."
Shitou seemed to be startled by the coolness of his palm and suddenly looked up at Madam Meng.
"ah?"
He subconsciously looked at Xixi again.
Gu Xixi sighed in her heart, wondering what this child had experienced before.
She smiled and pulled him to sit down, saying, "Drink if Madam Meng asks you to."
Shi Tou looked at Gu Xixi and nodded at him with a smile, then hesitantly picked up the bowl and took a sip.
The basil peach drink is made with nectar and crushed ice, and is extremely refreshing.
Shitou's brows suddenly relaxed, his eyes sparkled, and he drank it down in big gulps like a calf.
Gu Xixi and Madam Meng both laughed when they saw this.
No matter how much you pretend to be an adult, you are still a child after all.
Shitou finished the drink in one gulp, wiped his mouth with a look of satisfaction and stood up, "Thank you for the treat."
"I was wrong this time. I'm sorry."
He bowed to the ground and said, "I won't bother you again. Goodbye."
Mrs. Meng stopped him, "Wait."
The stone had no choice but to turn around.
Mrs. Meng smiled and said, "When you are free in the future, can you come and play with Qing'er?"
"I'm usually too busy to spend time with her, and she doesn't have any brothers or sisters of the same age, so she's inevitably lonely."
Shitou said in disbelief, "You...you want me to play with Qing'er?"
"Yes." Madam Meng nodded, "But next time, come in through the front door, don't go through the hole in the wall again."
Before Shitou agreed, Xiaoqing clapped her hands and said happily, "That's great!"
"Qing'er still wants to play with Brother Shitou!"
Shitou's tight mouth finally showed a little smile, "Well! I'll come and play with you another day. You have to be good and listen to your mother."
Gu Xixi was very interested in Shitou's family's livelihood, "Does your family sell fruit tree seedlings?"
"What kind of fruit trees are there?"
Shitou suddenly became alert, "Why are you asking this?"
He was like a little hedgehog with its fur standing on end, his whole body on alert.
Gu Xixi smiled amiably, "You run a business, don't you allow customers to ask questions?"
"Don't ask!" Shitou said fiercely, "I won't sell it to you, no matter who asks!"
He said this and ran out.
While Gu Xixi was wondering, Mrs. Meng sighed and talked about Shitou's family.
The Zhang family has been in the fruit tree business since Shitou’s great-grandfather’s generation.
They have their own nursery and all the fruit seedlings are grown by themselves.
Among them, the peach and pear trees were the most famous. Due to the prosperous business, the family was once very well off.
But in the year that Shitou was born, for some unknown reason, most of the fruit trees in the nursery died within a few days.
He suffered heavy losses himself, and as the news spread, fewer and fewer people went to his house to buy fruit seedlings.
Two years later, Shitou's mother fell seriously ill and several clinics in the city were unable to cure her.
In order to treat his wife's illness, Shitou's father sold half of his nursery and spent all the family's money.
But in the end, Shitou's mother's life could not be saved.
Gu Xixi sighed, "He has been through so much at such a young age, no wonder he is so strong-willed."
She asked again, "Does he live with his father now?"
Madam Meng sighed and shook her head, "Otherwise, this child has a miserable life."
"At the beginning of the year, his father was helping a relative repair a house and was hit on the head by a fallen tile. He died that night."
"Some people say he has a tough life and will bring bad luck to anyone who gets close to him. Not only do his relatives not dare to control him, but the adults around him also don't want their children to play with him."
"I don't know how a six-year-old child survives alone at home."
Gu Xixi was shocked to find that Shitou was actually an orphan.
No wonder he said he used to go to school but not now.
No wonder he feels like thorns all over his body whenever he hears something about his family.
No wonder he only dared to play with Qing'er secretly.
On the way here, he was even prepared to be beaten and scolded...
Gu Xixi stood up and said goodbye to Madam Meng.
The two returned to where the donkey cart was parked. Gu Xixi wanted to take the driver's seat, but Mu Nanzhao got there first.
"Hurry up, there's still time to go to the bun stall and ask for directions."
Gu Xixi was startled. "Dumpling stall?"
Mu Nanzhao still had a bad face, "Don't you want to go see the fruit tree at that kid's house?"
"Oh, okay!" Gu Xixi quickly sat on the car board and steadied herself, "Let's go."
Donkey carts swayed slowly through the busy city.
Gu Xixi stared at the back of Mu Nanzhao's head and hesitated for a while before asking, "How do you know where I want to go?"
Mu Nanzhao said calmly, "Even Madam Meng can see that you have sympathy for that boy."
Gu Xixi refused to admit, "I just want the fruit trees."
Mu Nanzhao paused and sneered, "That's right, you never work in vain, and everything you do will be rewarded. In this regard, you and I finally have something in common."
There was a big fire in Huachidu Village, and we helped farmers improve their land.
The former and Gu Xixi would suffer together, so they had no choice but to do it.
The latter Gu Xixi exchanged it for a flatbed truck.
Gu Xixi did not comment on Mu Nanzhao's words, "Only when you gain something can you have the ability to continue doing good things."
"If you only do good without expecting anything in return, you will be burned out. What else can you do in the future?"
The bun stall was still there, and Gu Xixi bought a basket of mutton buns and a basket of eggplant and vegetarian buns.
Ask the boss to divide it into three paper bags equally.
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