Chapter 27 Seeing the Essence through the Phenomenon
"Even if Hua Qingmei's parents want to push the matter onto you, they can't succeed. This matter has nothing to do with you." Huo Beixi continued. said.
Hua Xiali just stared at him with her eyes wide open. She thought what he just said meant, 'Don't be afraid, I'm here.' But in the end, he wanted to tell her this. She Smiling self-deprecatingly, what are you hoping for? Besides her family, who else in this world would care about her?
Slowly retracting his hand, Hua Xiali stood up and moved his limbs to relieve his embarrassment, "Huo Beixi, thank you today. It's getting late, so you should be early. Go back and rest!"
Huo Beixi looked at his empty hands and felt a little disappointed for a moment, then he took his hand back awkwardly and coughed, trying to cover up his embarrassment.
Afterwards, he returned the teapot to Hua Xiali, "The tea is delicious."
Hua Xiali took the teapot and thought silently in her heart, tea with spiritual spring water is naturally very good. Drink, after all, spiritual spring water can make everything taste better.
Her parents and brother-in-law had not yet drank such a good thing, but he drank it first.
Hua Xiali put the flashlight into Huo Beixi's hand. After closing the courtyard door, he pressed his forehead against the door panel as if suppressing something. After a while, he turned around and entered the house.
She fell asleep on the chair in the evening and did not eat dinner. Now she felt a little hungry, so she went to the kitchen to heat up the food. After eating, drinking and washing, she went back to her room to rest.
After lying down, she kept looking at the roof in a daze, and it took a long time before she fell asleep.
The next morning, after having breakfast and taking care of Hua's father with Hua's mother, Hua Xiali went out with the basket.
There is a large bamboo forest in the river bend. She has never seen anyone eating bamboo shoots since she was a child, so the bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest are now available to her.
Where she went to dig sand before, the river was too wide and there was no bridge, so she couldn't cross at all. She had to go downstream. The river downstream was narrower, the water was shallower, and there were several large blocks in the river. The stones are connected into a road for everyone to cross the river, and the villagers come here to wash their clothes.
Hua Xiali came to the place where everyone washes clothes downstream. There were several aunts in the village washing clothes here. Seeing Hua Xiali carrying a basket, she asked curiously, "Xia Li, you are so big Good morning, what are you going to do?”
"It's not like the vegetables in the fields haven't grown yet. I don't have any vegetables to eat at home. I just wanted to come back and see if there are any wild vegetables and pick some wild vegetables to eat back." Hua Xiali smiled faintly.
She wanted to be silent like Hua Qiuli, but the aunts in the village were very active in fighting. If you were silent, people would say you were uneducated and that your parents had problems. In order to protect Just talk nonsense about your own reputation!
“If you want to pick wild vegetables, you can go to the field to pick them. Now there are malanthus and bitter hemp, shepherd’s purse and mugwort have already grown old and bloomed.” An aunt said.
Hua Xiali smiled and nodded, "I know, I'll take a look here first."
After that, Hua Xiali left the place of right and wrong and walked towards the bamboo forest. Go, the bamboo forest is ten minutes' walk from here. No one can see her hiding in the bamboo forest breaking bamboo shoots.
When she came to the bamboo forest, Hua Xiali squatted down and carefully broke off the bamboo shoots. She placed the broken bamboo shoots directly on the ground. When there were so many, she put them directly into the spiritual spring space.
After breaking it off like this for several hours, Hua Xiali was very tired, her waist was sore and her legs were numb. This also made her feel that breaking the bamboo shoots was a waste of time, but if she didn’t break them while they were fresh and tender, , after this season, all of them will grow into bamboo. Hua Xiali sat down on the ground, feeling a deep sense of powerlessness for a moment.
After drinking a cup of spiritual spring water and regaining her strength, she continued to break bamboo shoots. As long as she could make money, she could not back down, let alone just because of this hard work. .
You know, in her previous life, she endured enough hardships to raise her children. What does this little hardship mean now?
I had to rush to my fourth uncle's house in the afternoon, so Hua Xia Li didn't break up for too long. After a few hours, everyone went back with the basket when it was almost time for lunch, but there were some Malan heads in the basket. After all, she What I told people in the morning was to pick wild vegetables. If I don’t take some wild vegetables with me when I go home, wouldn’t others think too much?
This is how it is in rural areas. Everyone pays special attention to other people's affairs. Everyone knows about every little trouble. Unlike people in the city, even the next door neighbor doesn't even know his or her name. It is even less possible to pay attention to other people's daily lives.
At this time, most people were having lunch at home, so I didn’t meet anyone along the way. However, on the way into the village, I met a boy sitting on the grass beside the field ridge. , looking up at the distant sky.
Hua Xia Li knows this boy. His name is Lu Xiaozhi. He is twelve years old this year. When he was a child, he was the cutest boy in the village. As a teenager, he was the most handsome boy in the village. It can be said that they The most handsome boy in Huazhuang village group must be him.
But his parents have passed away, and now he lives with his grandparents. They keep an eye on him very closely and don't even let him study. The village cadres came to visit him many times, but all failed.
Others thought that his grandparents valued him and did not want to let him go, but Hua Xia Li, who had lived an extra life, could see the essence through the phenomena.
It’s not that his grandparents couldn’t bear to leave him, but that since their son and daughter-in-law were gone, they had no protection and were afraid that their grandson’s wings would get stiff and fly away, and no one would care about them from now on, so they thought Break his wings so that he doesn't even have a chance to fly.
They only think about having someone to take care of them in their later years, but they don’t want to think about what their grandson, who knows nothing, will do after the old couple passes away.
However, Lu Xiaozhi in his previous life did not let his grandparents get what they wanted, because he chose to use his departure to resist the oppression and exploitation of his grandparents.
At that time, Hua Xiali was at Wang Liang’s house, with two young children, and had to deal with the troublesome eldest aunt and father-in-law. She didn’t know these things. It had been several years. From the village Only then did people learn about this child's misfortune. When everyone talked about this handsome little boy, they all shook their heads and sighed with regret.
It's a pity to say it all. Just wait two years and you'll be old enough to go out and work to earn money to support yourself.
Seeing that Lu Xiaozhi did not notice him, Hua Xiali quickly used the cover of the basket to move two bamboo shoots out of the Lingquan space, and then walked towards Lu Xiaozhi.
"Lu Xiaozhi." Hua Xiali shouted.
When Lu Xiaozhi saw that it was Hua Xiali, he stood up from the grass and looked at Hua Xiali awkwardly, "Sister Xia Li."
She is a polite child.
(End of this chapter)