Chapter 7 Chapter VII

One day, when Manzhen came home, her grandmother told her: Your mother has gone to your sister's house. Your sister is not feeling well. Your mother said to go and see her. She probably won't come back for dinner, so we don't have to. wait for her.Manzhen then helped her grandmother heat up and serve the dishes.Her grandmother said again: "Your mother said that your sister has always been uncomfortable since she moved to the new house. Maybe it's because the house is not big, so I didn't find someone to look at Feng Shui."What am I talking about, it’s not that the wealth is rich and the body is weak. Your brother-in-law is so rich now. You remember that when they first got married, they rented a living room and lived in someone’s house. Now it’s really fast to buy land and build a house. We watched him Started it!Your sister is so lucky, this man is really married to her!Cough, it's lucky that I don't have to eat fast!Manzhen smiled and said: Didn't you say that my sister helped my husband luck?Her grandmother clapped her hands and laughed: No, I'd forget if you didn't tell me!That fortune-telling spirit is terrifying to death.Later, I will ask your mother where the calculation was made in the past. Is this person still there? I will ask him to do the calculation.Manzhen smiled and said, "That's what happened when my sister was first born. It's been twenty or thirty years. Where can I find him now."

After dinner, Manzhen went out to teach again.The second time she came back, her mother usually opened the door to let her in, but this day it was her grandmother who opened the door for her.Manzhen said: Mom hasn't come back yet?Go to sleep, grandma, I'll wait for the door.I still have a while to sleep anyway. She waited for more than half an hour, and her mother came back.As soon as he entered the door, he said, "Your sister is ill. You can go see her tomorrow."While locking the back door, Manzhen asked, "What's wrong with my sister?"Mrs. Gu said: It is said that the stomach problem has recurred, and there is also an old problem, muscle and bone pain.In the dark kitchen, she whispered to her daughter again: It's not the problem left over from the previous abortions.cough!In fact, Manlu may have other illnesses, but Mrs. Gu deceived herself, and she couldn't bear it and didn't want to think about it.

When the mother and daughter returned to the room, there was a big lump on the right side of Mrs. Gu's cheongsam. Manzhen had seen it a long time ago, guessed that it was the money her sister gave to her mother, and said nothing.Mrs. Gu did not dare to tell her because Manzhen had repeatedly advised her not to take Manlu's money.When a person is old, for some reason, he is a little afraid of his children. When it was time to go to bed, Mrs. Gu took off the cheongsam and carefully put it on the back of the chair.Seeing that she was not going to make it public, Manzhen asked with a smile: Mom, how much did my sister give you this time?Mrs. Gu was taken aback, she quickly sat up from the bed, reached out her hand to find a handkerchief bag in the cheongsam bag, and said with a smile: "I don't know, let me see how many there are."Manzhen laughed and said: Don't read it, go to sleep quickly, you're going to catch a cold like this.Her mother still opened the towel bag, took out a stack of banknotes, counted them, and said: I said no, she insisted that I take it, and asked me to buy something to eat.Manzhen smiled and said: How dare you buy something to eat, and it ended up being posted on the home page!Mom, how many times have I told you, don't take my sister's money, let the surname Zhu know, I only said that my sister posted money to her natal family, but I don't know how much she posted!Mrs. Gu said: "I know, I know, ah, for such a small amount of money, I'm going to give you such a meal again!"Manzhen said: Mom, that's what I said: Don't be guilty, you use his little money, later he will think that our family is supported by him, his surname is Zhu's temper!Mrs. Gu laughed and said: Now that he is rich, he may not be so stingy.Manzhen smiled and said: Don't you know, the richer people are, the more stingy they are, as if their money is very valuable!

Mrs. Gu sighed and said: Son, don't think that your mother is so unambitious.Your brother-in-law is an outsider after all, am I willing to rely on outsiders, wouldn't it be good if I could rely on you?I really see you working so hard, busy all day long, I feel so distressed.As he spoke, he picked up the handkerchief that wrapped the money and wiped away his tears.Manzhen said: Mom, don't act like this, if everyone suffers for a few more years, they will be over soon.When my elder brother can go out to do things, I will be much more relaxed.Mrs. Gu said: You are a girl, are you busy with your younger siblings all your life?I should like you to marry sooner.Manzhen laughed and said: I'm still early to get married.At least until the big brother is old enough.Mrs. Gu said in surprise: "When will we wait?"How can people wait?Manzhen laughed unknowingly, and said softly: Can't wait to deserve it.She stretched out a white arm from under the quilt, and extinguished the electric light.

Mrs. Gu really wanted to take this opportunity to ask her if Shijun and her had a private life agreement.Test her tone first, and then ask again if you have a chance, and ask her if she knows what Shijun's income is and what his family is like.Mrs. Gu was silent for a while in the dark, then said: Are you asleep?Manzhen said: No.Mrs. Gu smiled and said: Will you agree when you are asleep?At first I thought she was pretending to be asleep, but after thinking about it, she was probably very tired too. After running outside for a day, she was made to wait for the door just now, so she slept very late today.Thinking about it this way, I felt very sorry in my heart, so I stopped talking.

The next day was Saturday, and Manzhen went to visit her sister's sick.Her sister's new house is on Hongqiao Road. Although the location is a bit desolate, fortunately the people living in this area are all car class, so it is not inconvenient to go in.After they moved, Manzhen hadn't been there yet, but her grandmother and mother had taken the children there twice, and when they came back, they said it was very elegant, walking in was like a movie theater, and walking out was like visiting a park.This afternoon, Manzhen passed the garden for the first time. Holly trees were planted on the grass to form a wall, and a gardener creaked and pushed a mowing machine across the wall. A sleepy squeaking sound, and all else soft silence.Manzhen felt that her sister was ill, so it would be very appropriate to rest here.

The interior of the house is of course extremely luxurious, Manzhen didn't have time to take a closer look, and followed a maid, all the way upstairs to her sister's bedroom.Facing the bedroom is a row of glass windows as high as ten feet high, and amethyst-like gauze curtains are hung obliquely in a herringbone pattern, layer by layer, with more than a dozen overlapping hanging.Manlu sat on the bed with her head unkempt.Manzhen smiled and said: sister is better today, did you sit up?Man Lu smiled and said: It's better.Did mom go back yesterday?This place is so far away, I am a little worried about letting her go back alone at night.Next time I will pick her up for two days.Manzhen smiled and said: Mom must say that the family cannot do without her.Man Lu frowned and said: "I didn't say that, you are too frugal, you don't even need a servant.Oh, by the way, I forgot to ask my mother yesterday, where is the treasure I used before?Manzhen said: Wait until I go back and ask Mom.Is my sister looking for her?Man Lu said: I didn't bring her here when I got married because I thought she was too young and I was afraid that she would be unreliable.Thinking about it now, it's better to be an old servant.

The phone rang.Man Lu said: "Second sister, you pick it up one after another."Manzhen ran to pick up the receiver and said: Hello?The other side was stunned for a moment, and said, "Huh, is it the second sister?"Manzhen recognized that it was Hongcai's voice, so he said with a smile: Ai.Brother-in-law, wait a moment, I will ask my sister to answer the phone.Hongcai laughed and said, "Second sister, you are such a rare visitor. You can't even invite me. Why did you think of it today? Manzhen, who came to our place, delivered the phone to Manlu's bed. Along the way, I heard the receiver wow. say something.

Man Lu took the receiver and said: Huh?Hongcai said: "I bought a refrigerator, have you delivered it yet?"Man Lu said: No.Hongcai said, "Damn it, why haven't you sent it yet?"With that said, I'm about to hang up the phone.Man Lu hurriedly said: Hey, where are you now?She promised to come back for dinner, but she was talking, and suddenly died.She put the receiver on the shelf with all her strength, and said angrily: Before he finished a sentence, he had already hung up.Your brother-in-law's temper has changed now!I said he hasn't made a fortune yet, he's going crazy first!

Manzhen turned away and said something else.Man Lu said: I heard from my mother that you are very busy recently.Manzhen smiled and said: Yes, that's why I always wanted to visit my sister, but I couldn't leave.During the conversation, Man Lu suddenly listened intently to the horn of a car outside, she could tell it was their car.After a while, Hongcai walked in with great strides.Man Lu looked at him and said: What?Come back after a while?Hongcai smiled and said: Hey, are you not allowed to come back?Is this still my home?Man Lu said: Is it your home? I want to ask you!Not coming back all day and all night.Hongcai smiled and said, "I won't argue with you!"In front of the second sister, is it embarrassing or not?He sat down with his legs crossed by himself, lit a cigarette and smoked, smiled and said to Manzhen: "It's not your sister's displeasure, I'm too busy, leaving her alone at home is boring If you are not sick, you will get sick if you are bored.Second sister, you don't come to accompany her either.Man Lu said: "Look at you, you have to blame the second sister!"The second sister is so busy, how can she have time to accompany me, she has to go out to teach after work.Hongcai laughed and said, "Second sister, you teach as well, why don't you teach your sister?"I hired a husband for her, he was a foreigner, thirty yuan an hour is equivalent to a month's salary!She was impatient, so she stopped reading after thinking about it.Man Lu said: I am so sick, why do I still study.Hongcai laughed and said: That's why you don't make progress!I really want to study more, but unfortunately I am too busy with work, and I have never had the opportunity to study and study, but I have always had this ambition.How about it, Second Sister, you accept us two apprentices!Manzhen laughed and said: Brother-in-law is joking.With my ability, I am only qualified to teach children.

He heard the sound of leather shoes outside again.Man Lu said to her sister: Probably the nurse who gave me the injection.Manzhen said: What kind of injection did my sister get?Hongcai said, "Glucose injection."Look at the medicines we have here, enough to open a pharmacy!cough!Your sister is really sick!Manzhen said: My sister's complexion is not bad.Hongcai laughed and said, "If her face is painted like this, can her complexion still be accurate?"Second sister, you are talking in layman's terms!Didn't you see those women, even when they were lying in the funeral home, their faces were still red and white! At this time, the nurse had come in and was there giving Manlu an injection.Manzhen felt that it was too embarrassing for Hongcai to hurt her sister like this in front of people, but her sister was silent and pretended not to hear.I don't know since when her sister became so virtuous, and the arrogance of Hongcai is getting higher and higher, Manzhen feels very aggrieved looking at it.She stood up and said she was leaving.Hongcai said, "Let's go together."I have to go out too, I will take you with my car.Manzhen said repeatedly: No need, it's very convenient to go out here and call a taxi.Man Lu asked Hongcai with a sullen face: Why did you have to go out again just after you came back?Hongcai said coldly: You are not allowed to go out when you come back. Do I dare to come back like this?According to Manlu's temperament, she wanted to make a big fight with him and not let him go out no matter what.But no matter what, once a person has money, he has an identity, and he is bound by his own identity.In front of that nurse, of course it was even more inconvenient to have an attack. Manzhen picked up the leather bag and wanted to leave, but Hongcai stopped her again and said: Second sister, wait for me.I'm leaving right now.He hurried into the next room, not knowing what to do.Manzhen then said to Manlu: I won't wait for my brother-in-law, I really don't need to send it off.Man Lu frowned and said: Just let him see you off, hurry up.She was absolutely sure of her sister, knowing that she would not seduce her husband.Although Hongcai was a bit lecherous, it is expected that he would not dare to do anything. At this time, Hongcai had already come out, and said with a smile: "Let's go."Manzhen felt that if she had to refuse, it would be a bit ridiculous to be watched by the nurse, so she didn't say anything.The two went downstairs together, and Hongcai said: "You haven't been here yet, have you?"There are two places you can't help but look at.I took a lot of trouble and asked experts to design it.He was the former leader, went around in the living room and dining room, and said: I am most proud of my study.The murals on the wall were painted by a student from an art school, and they only cost me 80 yuan.If the design expert introduced someone to draw this, it would have to be thousands of dollars!Sure enough, the walls of that room were covered with colorful oil paintings, depicting angels, the Virgin Mary, Cupid holding a bow and arrow, the goddess of peace and the dove of peace, all kinds of landscape figures, densely covered, from the roof to the floor, without an inch of gap .The ground floor is paved with Arabic-style mosaic multicolored small square bricks, and the windows are inlaid with multicolored glass, which makes people dizzy even more.Hongcai said: "Sometimes when I come back, I feel tired, so I just rest in this room."Manzhen almost burst out laughing, and laughed out loud.She remembered that her sister said that he was insane, even if he was a good person, he would become insane if he rested more in this room. Walking out of the gate, the car is parked at the gate.Hongcai said again: I was fooled when I bought this car!Immediately said an astonishing number.Anyway, he can't stop bragging, but whether bragging or not is the same for Manzhen, she is not familiar with the market price of cars at all. As soon as he sat in the car, he could understand why Hongcai went to another room to take a look around just now. Apart from plastic surgery, he obviously also sprayed a lot of perfume.In the occluded air in this carriage, the aroma was so strong that people couldn't help but notice it.When a man puts on perfume, it seems to be something for a boy to dismantle the white party. It really makes people feel strange to be a middle-aged philistine with a scent all over his body. The driver turned around and asked: Where are you going?Hongcai said quickly, "Second Sister, I'll treat you to coffee. It's rare to meet you. You're a busy person, and I'm a busy person too."Manzhen smiled and said: I still have something to do today, so I was in a hurry to go back, otherwise I would have to sit for a while, so it's rare to see my sister.Hongcai could only smile and said, "It's really rare for you to come here. I hope you will come to play often in the future."Manzhen smiled and said: I will always come when I am free.Hongcai said to the driver, "I'll send Miss Er first."Do you know Miss Er at home?The driver replied that he knew each other. The car drove silently.Hongcai is proud of the speed of this car, but today he hates it for going too fast.He had always thought that Manzhen was an unattainable figure; although the saying goes that money is a man's courage, and one's courage naturally grows with money, but he was a little afraid of her after all.He sat in a corner of the carriage, whistling one or two times in a bored manner, without any tone.Manzhen didn't know what to say, she just let out a cold air quietly.Hongcai emits a fragrance quietly. The car drove to Manzhen's house, and Manzhen said to the driver: It's better to park outside the alley.Hongcai said, "Go in, I'm coming down too, I'll talk to my mother-in-law, I haven't seen her for a long time."Manzhen smiled and said: Mom happened to take the children to the park today.Today, grandma is watching the door alone at home, and I will go out in a while.Hongcai said: Oh, do you want to go elsewhere?Manzhen said: A colleague asked me to go to the movies.Hongcai said: "Just now I know that I will send you there directly."Manzhen smiled and said: No, I want to come back once, then Mr. Shen agreed to come here to pick me up.Hongcai nodded.He rolled up his sleeves and looked at his watch, and said, "Oh, it's almost five o'clock, and I have an appointment, so I won't come down, I'll come see you some other day." That night, Hongcai played outside until dawn before returning home.Drunk, he staggered into the room without taking off his leather shoes, and fell on the bed.He didn't turn on the light, but Man Lu turned on the desk lamp in front of the bed. She hadn't slept all night, with red eyes and disheveled hair, turned over and sat up, and said loudly: Where did she go again?Don't tell me the truth, I really fought with you today!This time she came aggressively, Hongcai pretended to be drunk even if he wasn't drunk, let alone he really drank too much.He was lying straight, closing his eyes and ignoring her, so Man Lu threw a pillow and hit him on the face, angrily said: You pretend to be dead!You play dead!Hongcai threw the pillow off, but called Manlu in a low voice!Man Lu felt very surprised, because it had been a long, long time since she had seen such tenderness from him.She thought he must still love her, and today he showed his true emotions after drinking.Her attitude softened involuntarily.Responded: Huh?Hong Cai stretched out his hand to hold her hand again, Man Lu feigned anger and said: What are you doing?Then he turned around and sat down on the edge of his bed. Hongcai put her hand on his chest, looked at her and said with a smile: From now on, I will listen to you and not go out, but there is one condition.Man Lu suddenly became suspicious, and said: What condition?Hongcai said, "You don't want to."Man Lu said: Tell me.Why didn't you say it again?I guess there is nothing good about you!Hmph, don't tell me, don't tell me she pushed him hard and punched him, causing Hongcai's wine to pour up, and Hongcai shouted: "Ouch, ooh, I'm going to vomit already!"Tell Wang Ma to pour me a cup of tea.Man Lu became courteous again, and said, "I'll pour it for you."She stood up, went to pour a cup of strong tea herself, and Tingting Tingting brought it over, and fed it to him in mouthfuls.Hong Cai took a sip and said with a smile: Man Lu, why is the second sister getting more and more beautiful?Man Lu changed color and said, "What about you, you're getting more and more insane!"She put the teacup on the table and ignored it. Hongcai looked up into the sky in bewilderment, and said: Actually, if you want to say that you are beautiful, there are people who are more beautiful than her. I don't know why, but I think about her all the time.Man Lu said: Thank you for having the face to say it!Stop dreaming as soon as possible!Let me tell you, even if she is willing, I will not be honest. To be honest, my sister, I have earned money to educate her for these years. It is not easy. I sacrificed myself to create such a person. Is the boss still a concubine?Don't think that all the girls in the Gu family are concubines, and then said: "Come on, they are playing with you, why can't you afford to provoke them?"I ignore you, the head office? Man Lu was so angry that she would not let it go, she kept cursing: I knew you had bad intentions a long time ago!Eating in the bowl and looking at the pot.Even if you have two coins, you will become the emperor, thinking that there is no one who refuses, and everyone only recognizes money.If you don't think about it, even me, I didn't marry you because I thought you were rich!Hongcai sat up suddenly, and said, "Just say this sentence every now and then!"Who doesn't know that I used to be a pauper, and you, what are you!Dirty!shameless! Man Lu didn't expect him to hurt people, she was stunned for a while, and said: "Okay, you scold me!"Hongcai propped his hands on the edge of the bed, looked at her with red eyes, and said: I scolded you, so what if I beat you?Beat you shameless scumbag!Seeing him like that, Man Lu covered her face with wine, as if she was going to hit someone.If there was a fight, and it would be a disadvantage for me, I could only shed tears and burst into tears, saying: "You fight, you fight something without conscience!"I deserve it too, who told me to admit the wrong person!It deserves you to be beaten to death!As he spoke, he fell down on the bed, covered his face and wept bitterly.When Hongcai heard that her tone had already softened, he still sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her. After a long while, he suddenly yawned a long way, then lay down on his side, still sleeping on him.His snoring started gradually, but her crying didn't stop for a long time.Her original intention of crying may be to use this to step down, but after crying, she felt sad from it, and felt that the future was boundless and unimaginable. It was already bright outside the window, and a desk lamp in the room was still on. very. Hongcai hadn't slept for more than two hours, and the maid came to wake him up as usual, because speculation was the most urgent in the morning. Although there were several telephones in the house, and there were direct calls to the office, he still rushed out early in the morning.Anyway, he has a long room in the hotel, and he can go to sleep at any time. That afternoon, Manlu's mother called and told her the address of the former young lady, Abao.Manlu didn't use Ah Bao before, because Hongcai often liked to strike up conversations with her, and Manlu felt it was a bit dangerous.The situation is different now, but she feels that it is good to have someone like Ah Bao by her side, or she can hold back Hongcai.She didn't expect that Hongcai is not what it used to be, how could he care about such a young lady. At the moment she wrote down Abao's address, her mother said: Yesterday your second sister came back and said that you are better.Man Lu said: It's much better.I'll come and see mom when I'm well.She originally said that she would invite her mother to stay for two days, but she didn't mention it now, and it was also because of her sister's relationship. She thought it would be better to keep a distance.Although her sister was not at all to blame for this incident, let alone her mother, her tone of voice on the phone was a little cold, maybe unconsciously.Although Mrs. Gu is not a caring person, but her daughter is too rich now, and there is a huge disparity between rich and poor. In some places, she has to have more snacks.Immediately said: "Okay, come and play as soon as you get better, grandma is thinking about you too." Since the phone call this time, Mrs. Gu hasn't visited her daughter for two months.Man Lu has not communicated with them either.On this day, she went shopping in the city, and stopped by her mother's house to have a look.She hadn't been back for a long time, and she was sitting in a very large, long and latest model car, and the alley spectators and some neighbors stood there watching, so it could be regarded as her return home.Her younger brothers were learning to ride a bicycle in the alley, and a young man supported the bicycle for them. Manzhen was also standing at the back door, leaning on the door with her arms folded and watching.Manlu jumped out of the car, Manzhen smiled and said: Hey, my sister is here!The young man seemed to be very attentive when he heard this address, and turned his eyes to Manlu's side, but Manlu's eyes were like lightning, and he was also looking at him there. looked elsewhere.All he got was a middle-aged lady in a fur coat.It turns out that Man Lu is striving for the top right now. In order to match her status, she has given up her stage makeup, false eyelashes, dark eyes, and red rouge.Little did she know that she was automatically disarming herself.Time is cruel. At her age, heavy makeup makes her look more haggard, but suddenly she looks like a middle-aged woman, and she only looks more like a middle-aged woman.Man Lu didn't think so at first, but when she went to the silk shop to buy fabrics today, she picked up a purple-red one to have a look, and while she was thinking about it, the ignorant guy strongly recommended a dark blue one, saying: Are you wearing it yourself? ?This blue is good and generous.Man Lu was very angry and thought: Do you think I am an old lady?I'd rather buy the red one!Although I bought it in a fit of anger, I was very unhappy in my heart. Her mother was not happy today because her little brother Jaymin broke his leg.Manlu went upstairs, where her mother was bandaging Jiemin's knee.Man Lu said: Oh, why did you fall so hard?Mrs. Gu said: Blame him!Must learn to ride a bike, I know I'm going to get into trouble!With this bike, everyone will go crazy, you can ride and I can ride too!Man Lu said: Is this bicycle new?Mrs. Gu said: "It's your elder brother who said that his school is too far away. It's more economical to take the tram every day instead of riding a bicycle."Always wanted a bike, but I didn't buy it for him.Recently Mr. Shen bought one for him.Having said that, she frowned tightly.Shijun gave them a bicycle, she was very happy at the time, but now because she loves the child, she can't help but turn her anger on Shijun. Man Lu said: Who is this Mr. Shen?I saw someone at the door just now, but it was him?Mrs. Gu said: Oh, you have seen it?Man Lu smiled and said: Are you a friend of Second Sister?Mrs. Gu nodded and said, "It's one of her colleagues."Man Lu said: He often comes here?Mrs. Gu pushed Jiemin away, and just now she laughed in a low voice: This has been here almost every day.Man Lu laughed and said: Are they engaged?Mrs. Gu frowned and said with a smile: That is to say, I am also wondering here, I only see two people together all day long, why don't I hear the word of getting married.Man Lu said: Mom, why don't you ask Second Sister.Mrs. Gu said: "It's useless to ask."Asked her, she said silly things, saying that she would not marry until her younger siblings were older.I said how can people wait!But looking at it like this, Mr. Shen is not in a hurry.It made me anxious by the side.Man Lu suddenly said: Ah!Miss, don't be fooled by others, right?Mrs. Gu said: Then she won't.Man Lu said: Don't tell me, the more inexperienced you are like Second Sister, the easier it is to be fascinated.This kind of thing is not certain.Mrs. Gu said: But Mr. Shen, I think he is an honest man.Man Lu smiled and said: Hmph, honest man!I think his eyes are pretty bad, and he slips straight towards people!As he spoke, he couldn't help but raise his hand, stroking his hair triumphantly.She didn't expect that Shijun paid special attention to her just now, because he knew her history, so he couldn't help being curious about her. Mrs. Gu said: I think he is quite honest.If you don't believe me, you'll find out after talking to him later.Man Lu said: I want to talk to him.I have met many people, what kind of person he is, I will never be mistaken.Because Man Lu is married now, Mrs. Gu didn't object to her getting close to Man Zhen's boyfriend, so she said, "By the way, help me take a look." Just as she was talking, Manlu suddenly heard Manzhen talking to her grandmother at the top of the stairs, and hurriedly gave her mother a wink, but her mother fell silent.Then Manzhen walked into the room, opened the cupboard door and took the coat.Mrs. Gu said: You want to go out?Manzhen laughed and said: Go to the movies.Otherwise, I won't go, the ticket has already been bought.Sister, you can play for a while and eat here.She hurried away.Shijun never came upstairs, so Manlu had no chance to observe him. Mrs. Gu and Manlu stood side by side in front of the window, watching Manzhen and Shijun leave, and watching the children learn to ride bicycles and ride around in the alley.Mrs. Gu said leisurely: A Bao came here a few days ago.Abao is now a servant at Manlu's place.Man Lu said: Yes, I heard her say that a letter from the country was sent here, and she came to get it.Mrs. Gu said: No.Uncle, is this always the same?Manlu knew that Abao must be meddlesome, so she reported Hongcai's recent behavior of drinking and drinking to his mother-in-law, and laughed: This Abao is so talkative! Mrs. Gu smiled and said: You are going to say that I am talkative again, but I want to persuade you, don't make trouble with him as soon as you see him like this.Hurtful.Manlu remained silent.She was unwilling to complain to her mother, although she needed to cry to someone, and there was no one more suitable than her mother, but her mother's words of comfort never scratched the itch, and often made her feel both funny and funny.Mrs. Gu said quietly again: How old is my uncle this year, maybe forty?Don't say that men don't like children, but at a certain age, they want them very much!I thought, you have nothing else to do to him, only this one.Manlu had had two abortions before, and the doctor said she would not be able to have another child. Mrs. Gu said again: I heard you say that no one in the country has a son, only a daughter?Man Lu lazily said: "Why, didn't Ah Bao tell you?Someone from the country came out and brought the child out.Mrs. Gu was very surprised when she heard that, and said: Oh?Didn't you follow her mother all the time?Man Lu said: "Her mother died, so now I brought it to her father."Mrs. Gu was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Is her mother dead?"real?Ah, child, your grandma has always said that your life is good, it is good to dare to love your life!I'm not as calm as you!As he spoke, he couldn't help but smile all over his face.Manlu just smiled faintly. Mrs. Gu said again: I want to persuade you again, the child without a mother is also a pity, you should treat her better.There was a shoebox in the package that Manlu bought on the street just now. She gave it to her mother and said with a smile: Here, look, I bought leather shoes for her here, and I am still teaching her how to read , what else?Mrs. Gu smiled and said: How old is the child?Man Lu said: Eight years old.Mrs. Gu said: "What's your name?"Man Lu said: Call Zhaodi.After hearing this, Mrs. Gu sighed again, and said: It would be great if I could give her a younger brother!Cough, you said you were lucky, why did you happen to be childless?Man Lu's face suddenly sank, and she said bitterly: "One sentence to the left is good luck, and one sentence to the right is good life, you know that I am full of bitterness here!"As she spoke, she turned around and turned her back to her mother, only to hear her impatience tapping on the glass window with her fingertips, making a sound.Her nails are extremely long and pointed.Mrs. Gu was silent for a while, then Fang said: "Look away, my miss!"Unexpectedly, as soon as these words were said, Man Lu burst into tears.Mrs. Gu stood beside her, but was speechless for a while. Manlu blew her nose with a handkerchief, and said: The man changed his mind so quickly. At that time, he was willing to commit bigamy and marry me. Now his wife is dead. I want him to go through the marriage procedures with me again. What's wrong with him? He didn't agree either.Mrs. Gu said: Why do you need to go through any formalities? Aren't you officially married?Man Lu said: That doesn't count.His wife was still there at that time.Mrs. Gu frowned and looked at Man Lu, saying: I don't understand.She didn't understand, but she also understood Manlu's situation in her heart, which was very dangerous anyway. Mrs. Gu thought for a while, and then said: Anyway, don't make trouble for him.Even if he has someone else, there is also a first-come-first-served Man Lu said: "What is first-come-first-served? The mother who recruited my younger brother is a role model. I really feel chilled. They are still married. They died in the countryside, or they were all members of the clan." He bought her a coffin with money.Mrs. Gu sighed for a long time, and said: After all, it's still the same sentence, if only you had a son!It would have been easy to handle in the past, the wife decided to find someone for the master, and borrowed someone else's belly to raise a child.I know you won't listen to this.She herself also felt that this kind of thinking was too outdated, so she couldn't help smiling when she said this.Man Lu forced a smile too, and said: Come on, come on, Mom!Mrs. Gu said: Then you take a child.Man Lu smiled and said: Come on, the family already has a motherless child, how about getting another one to open an orphanage? The mother and daughter were just talking, and before they knew it, it was getting dark and the room was dark. It was Mrs. Gu who stretched out her hand from the outside, turned on the light, and said with a smile: Why are you sitting here in the dark? Where did you go?Is my aunt eating here today?Mrs. Gu also said to Manlu: I'll make you two lighter dishes, so you won't be spoiled.Man Lu said: Then I'll call back and tell them not to wait for me. She called back, half of which was to investigate Hongcai's actions at any time.Abao came to answer the phone and said: Uncle just came back, do you want him to answer the phone?Man Lu said: No need.I'm coming back too.She hung up the phone and said she wanted to go back.Her grandmother didn't know where to go, and kept her for dinner again and again, her mother said: "Let her go back, her uncle is waiting for her to eat." Man Lu hurried home, went upstairs and came to the bedroom, just met Hong before going out, it turned out that he came back to change clothes.Man Lu said: Where are you going?Hongcai said: You don't care!He slammed the door shut easily.Man Lu opened the door and chased after him, and Hongcai had already gone downstairs with a gust of wind, a gust of fragrant wind. The little girl named Zhaodi ran out at this time. She was very excited because Manlu told her before going out today that she would buy leather shoes for her.She was playing in the maid's room, but when she heard the sound of her high heels, she ran out, shouting, Ah Bao!Mom is back!She called Manlu mother, originally the maids taught her to call her that way, and it wasn't the first time Hongcai heard her call that way, but today he didn't know why, deliberately trying to make things difficult for Manlu, he said loudly at the foot of the stairs: What the hell, you call her mom!She deserves it too?When Manlu heard it, she immediately picked up a magnetic flowerpot and wanted to throw it down, but Abao hugged her desperately. Man Lu was so angry that she couldn't speak, Hongcai had gone far away, she just scolded: Who wants her snotty girl as a daughter, a beggar, a country bumpkin, I don't even want to give it to me!She hated that child to death. The child blinked his eyes and stood by, watching the performance of this scene.If the child's mother has a soul, she must feel very happy. Manlu seems to hear her triumphant laughter in the air. Ever since Zhaodi came here, Man Lu originally thought that as long as she wins over her well, this child can also become a bridge of feelings.But this child is not only not a bridge, but a fuse. The couple quarreled, and with her in the middle as a bystander, Man Lu was even more unwilling to lose her temper, so the quarrel became more violent. The girl was thin and dark, with a piece of white wool tied into her braid, she stood there blankly looking at her.She really wanted to slap him.She tore apart the shoebox she had brought back in twos and twos, and two small patent leather shoes rolled down to the ground, and she lifted her feet and stomped on them.Such things as leather shoes are very strong, and it is impossible to destroy them.As a result, she threw those two shoes downstairs. In Zhaodi's eyes, she must feel that Man Lu is also moody just like her father. Man Lu went back to her room and went to bed without eating dinner.Abao brought a hot water bottle and stuffed it under the bed for her.When she saw Ah Bao, she suddenly remembered, and said, "What did you say to your wife last time?"I hate the servant for telling the story like this.Abao still calls Manlu the young lady and her mother the wife.Ah Bao hurriedly said: I didn't say anything, it was my wife who asked me Man Lu sneered: Oh, it's still my wife's fault.Ah Bao knew that she was full of anger and had nowhere to vent, so he didn't dare to speak.Quietly packed up and went out. 今天睡得特別早，預料這一夜一定特別長。曼璐面對著那漫漫長夜，好像要走過一個黑暗的甬道，她覺得恐懼，然而還是得硬著頭皮往裏走。 床頭一盞檯燈，一隻鐘。一切寂靜無聲，只聽見那隻鐘滴答滴答，顯得特別響。曼璐一伸手，就把鐘拿起來，收到抽屜裏去。 一開抽屜，卻看見一堆小紙片，是她每天教招弟認的字塊。曼璐大把大把地撈出來，往痰盂裏扔。其實這時候她的怒氣已經平息了，只覺得傷心。背後畫著稻田和貓狗牛羊的小紙片，有幾張落在痰盂外面，和她的拖鞋裏面。 曼璐在床上翻來覆去，思前想後，她追溯到鴻才對她的態度惡化，是什麼時候開始的。就是那一天，她妹妹到這裏來探病，後來那天晚上，鴻才在外面吃醉酒回來，倚風作邪地，向她表示對她妹妹有野心。被她罵了一頓。 要是真能夠讓他如願以償，他倒也許從此就好了，不出去胡鬧了。他雖然喜新厭舊，對她妹妹倒好像是一片癡心。 她想想真恨，恨得她牙癢癢地。但是無論如何，她當初嫁他的時候，是打定主意，跟定了他了。她準備著粗茶淡飯過這一輩子，沒想到他會發財。既然發了財了，她好像買獎券中了頭獎，難道到了頭兒還是一場空？ 有一塊冰涼的東西貼在腳背上。熱水袋已經冷了，可以知道時候已經不早了，已經是深夜，更深夜靜，附近一條鐵路上有火車駛過，蕭蕭地鳴著汽笛。 她母親那一套媽媽經，她忽然覺得不是完全沒有道理的。有個孩子就好了。借別人的肚子生個孩子。這人還最好是她妹妹，一來是鴻才自己看中的，二來到底是自己妹妹，容易控制些。 母親替她出主意的時候，大概決想不到她會想到二妹身上。她不禁微笑。她這微笑是稍微帶著點獰笑的意味的，不過自己看不見罷了。 然後她突然想道：我瘋了。我還說鴻才神經病，我也快變成神經病了！她竭力把那種荒唐的思想打發走了，然而她知道它還是要回來的，像一個黑影，一隻野獸的黑影，它來過一次就認識路了，咻咻地嗅著認著路，又要找到她這兒來了。 她覺得非常恐怖。