Chapter 132 It All Depends on Fate
After about a cup of tea, Ding Hao suddenly made a sound of "ah-hmm" and his face gradually became rosy, and his lips also turned bloody.
"It's done!"
Mr. Lu quickly adjusted the needle.
When he finished moving the last needle, Ding Hao really burst into tears.
"Oh, Master Lu, thank you for letting you go. You are truly the reincarnation of a living Buddha, Guanyin Bodhisattva." When Zhu heard her son's cry, she knelt on the ground and kowtowed repeatedly with tears of joy.
Ding Rong also quickly knelt down after her.
Master Lu hurriedly said, "Hurry up and get up and hold the child!"
The couple then went to hug the child crying.
Here, Master Lu instructed Uncle Jiu: "Go find some clothes that Xingluo wore when he was a child for this child."
He smelled urine when he was giving acupuncture just now. After hearing what the Zhu couple said, he knew that the child must have wet his pants, but had no pants to change.
The Lu family doesn't have any extra things now, but there are a lot of childhood clothes left by the Lu Xingluo brothers, so it wouldn't hurt to give him some.
After Uncle Jiu went to get the clothes, Master Lu told Ding Gui and the village chief frankly: "This child is angry and resentful. I don't know what happened to him, but he must be worried."
Ding Gui looked at Zhu and Ding Rong thoughtfully. The couple often beat Ding Hao. Maybe the little guy was very depressed, but he couldn't say it out loud, which led to what happened today.
Lai Fu spoke frankly, "Ms. Zhu, Ding Rong, did you two hear what Master Lu said? Stop using your child as a punching bag. You think the child has no feelings, but he's actually sad too. Do you understand?"
"I heard it clearly."
"Master Lu, please rest assured. I will try not to hit him in the future." Zhu smiled awkwardly, feeling a bit embarrassed and a bit flattering. After she finished speaking, she hugged Ding Hao and knelt down to kowtow to Master Lu, then moved to the front to kowtow to Madam Lu.
Mrs. Lu quickly helped her up: "Hurry up, look how well this child has grown. You must treat him well in the future."
"Yes, we will listen to Mr. and Mrs. Lu."
Both the husband and wife smiled.
Lai Fu then said goodbye to the Lu couple, picked up the clothes that Uncle Jiu had brought for Ding Hao, and left with Ding Rong and his wife.
If he stayed any longer, he, the village chief, wouldn't know where to put his face.
Just now, Zhu and Ding Rong ignored the life and death of their own children and looked at everything in the Lu family with shining eyes. Anyone who saw that expression would feel embarrassed.
After they left, Ding Gui finally had the nerve to talk about business.
"Mr. Lu, Mrs. Lu, I want to borrow a horse from your family!"
Ding Gui had been holding these words in for a long time and had practiced them in his mind for a long time before he could say them out loud.
In the past, a horse would be nothing to the Lu family, but now horses are so scarce that most people would not lend them to others.
Amid the Lu family's astonishment, Ding Gui told them the whole story of Wang Dafeng's disappearance.
Zhang Xiu was a little emotional for a moment, tears welling up in her eyes as she spoke, "No one wanted this to happen, but the villagers slandered her, saying that Ding Gui abandoned the old woman. Some even said that Ding Gui killed her... I can't even imagine such a thing as a son killing his mother. They just said it without hesitation. They even said they wanted to drive the three of us out of Yangliu Town."
"There's such a thing?" Madam Lu's expression became serious, and her eyebrows furrowed. "These people are truly lawless and unreasonable."
Lu Chenhe, who had been silent the whole time, had a tense face: "Aunt, Uncle, Xiaodie, you should move to the Lu family!"
Mr. Lu nodded and said, "Yes, you should move to the Lu family. At least you'll be safe here. It seems that someone in Aozigou Village is trying to cause trouble. There's little food and a large population, so they're targeting others and want to take a few people away."
"That's not Xiaodie's turn. The three bags of food we gave them yesterday were discovered by Xiaodie's family. If they hide them quietly, what will those people eat?"
Lu Xingluo was extremely angry. Xiaodie's family was so kind, but those people were so ungrateful.
In fact, given the character of the Lu family, Ding Gui had expected them to say these things. The Lu family was really kind-hearted, but he would never agree to it.
"Thank you for your kindness, but we can't move here. We have to continue living in the government office."
Xiaodie continued, "We have to wait until we find grandma and clarify the truth about her disappearance. Otherwise, no matter where our family of three goes, we will be blamed."
"But it's not in the city. Do you want to go out of the city to look for it?" Lu Xingluo asked anxiously.
Ding Gui nodded. "Yes, Second Young Master. Judging from my mother's behavior these past few days, she can't even walk with a bend, so I guess she will just walk along the official road after leaving the city. But it's so hot now, I don't know how long she can hold on."
It seems that Ding Gui's family is also a tough group of people, and it seems that it will take a while to convince them to move in now.
But Mr. Lu was very clear about one thing, and he reluctantly advised, "Brother Ding Gui, let me tell you the truth. The guards the Lu Mansion sent out a few days ago to investigate the whereabouts of the Desert Soldiers haven't returned yet. I'm worried they might have met with an accident. So... if you really want to leave the city to look for your mother, it's best to go at night. During the day, you'll be too conspicuous. If the Desert Soldiers are hiding in the woods by the roadside, it would be very dangerous. As for Old Madam Ding, we can only... rely on her luck!"
“…”
Ding Gui was choked and speechless for a moment.
Mr. Lu had no need to lie to him, and he also discovered with great pain that some things could not be done by force.
Looking back at his wife and daughter, their eyes also told him that Mr. Lu was right. At this point, everything depended on the old woman's luck, and they could only go out to look for her at night. There was no other way.
In this case, I can only stay at the Lu family and wait for dark.
Knowing that something like this had happened to the Ding family, and that the Lu family had also suffered heavy losses in population due to escorting the desert soldiers, and had also experienced an earthquake, a lot of food was also damaged.
So now the little girls of the Lu family are not as funny as last time!
Everyone walked in and out very carefully, for fear of disturbing anyone.
Mrs. Lu took Zhang Xiu to her room to talk, but Mr. Lu chatted with Ding Gui. Ding Xiaodie lay idly on the corridor railing as the sun was about to set.
Although there is no sunlight here, the air is still hot.
An apple suddenly appeared in front of Ding Xiaodie.
There were still water droplets on it, as if it had just been washed. The fingers holding the apple were thin and long, and the nails were neatly trimmed.
"Eat it, it's sweet." Lu Chenhe pulled her little hand over and put the apple in her palm.
Hiss, it’s actually a cold fruit!
(End of this chapter)
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