Chapter 248 Wonderful Life
Chapter 248 Wonderful Life
However, to their surprise, it was nearly an hour later that the remaining group of people stealthily appeared at the gate of the yard.
It’s my uncle knocking on the door.
After hearing the noise, Lu Yuanqiu hurried to the door and opened it. As soon as he opened a gap of less than half a meter, his uncle urged, "Hurry up, hurry up, go in while there's no one around."
He was like a bugle soldier on the battlefield, standing guard at the door counting the soldiers ready to charge into battle, and pushing them in one by one.
The aunts and sisters rushed in one after another, a total of eleven people, with Lu Tian at the rear. He stuck his head out and looked around, and only closed the iron door after confirming everything.
But Bai Qingxia felt that Uncle Lu's temperament was not like that of a warrior, but rather that of a traitor...
"You should thank me! If I hadn't liked to rob bird nests in the back woods when I was a child, how would we be able to enter the village today?" Lu Tian said proudly after closing the door.
He looked at his eldest brother again: "Brother, do you still remember that you used a stick to teach me a lesson because of this matter? Do you feel a little ashamed now?"
"I just praised you a few words on the way, and it would be bright if you gave me some sunshine..." Second uncle Lu Xuan glanced at him.
Su Xiaoya also felt that her husband's problem of wearing a conspicuous bag had come back, so she patted him on the shoulder and said, "Shut up, what kind of rubbish are you carrying? Qingqing even stepped on dog shit."
Upon hearing this, Lu Yuanqiu looked at his third sister and found that her right leg was still raised. She had a sad face, as if she felt that she could not keep her right leg.
"Change your shoes quickly." Lu Yuan ordered his daughter.
The people around her were all laughing and pinching their noses.
Lu Yuanqiu came forward and sniffed it, then said with a serious expression: "Third sister, based on my many years of toilet experience, this smell should be from human feces..."
After hearing this, Lu Douqing's face froze and she looked at her mother crying. Third Aunt was at a loss whether to laugh or cry. She comforted her daughter but also stayed away from her.
“The shoes are coming, they are coming!”
It was still Lu Cao who doted on her granddaughter. She brought over a pair of thick cotton shoes and bent down to help her granddaughter put them on without even thinking about the dirt.
"Thank you grandma~" Lu Douqing said in a soft voice.
Bai Qingxia leaned over to look and found that the cotton shoes were homemade. They were shaped like a boat, a bit retro, but visibly warm.
Erye was still venomous: "You are so useless. You can even step on shit. Can't you lower your head and look at the road?"
Lu Douqing was scolded so much that she didn't dare to look up.
It was almost noon and there was no time to prepare a big meal. Several aunts were busy in the kitchen, cooking a whole pot of dumplings that Lu Cao had made yesterday.
Bai Qingxia brought out two bowls, handed one to her father, and walked towards Lu Yuanqiu with a clear purpose for the remaining bowl. Lu Tian was about to reach out to take it, but Bai Qingxia had already handed it to Lu Yuanqiu. The father and son turned their heads to look at each other, and the scene was awkward. After a moment of hesitation, Bai Qingxia quickly handed the bowl back to Uncle Lu.
Su Xiaoya stopped him and accused her husband: "How can you be so tactless? Xiaoxia brought it to Qiuqiu, why are you reaching out to take it?"
"No, I..." Lu Tian was incoherent, and then said: "Yes, yes, give it to him."
Bai Qingxia gave the bowl to Lu Yuanqiu and hurried to the kitchen: "It's okay, I'll get another bowl for uncle."
"No, no, you should go and eat. You must be starving after sitting in the car for a whole morning." Su Xiaoya handed the bowl in her hand to the girl.
She then snickered and headed towards the kitchen.
Bai Qingxia stood in the yard and looked back at her father. She found that her father and Lu Yidong were sitting at a small table and eating quietly. Then she took her bowl of rice and went to find Lu Yuanqiu.
At this moment, Lu Yuanqiu was squatting at the gate of the yard eating with a bowl in his hand. Bai Qingxia watched from the side and suddenly smiled inexplicably.
"What's wrong?" The boy turned around and looked at her.
Bai Qingxia shook her head, smiled and said nothing. She also squatted beside him, imitating Lu Yuanqiu.
Lu Yuanqiu: "Do you think it's a bit odd that someone as handsome as me is so down-to-earth?"
...I originally thought so, but after Lu Yuanqiu said it himself, Bai Qingxia suddenly didn't think so anymore. She ate quietly without responding to him.
After Lu Yuanqiu turned around to make sure the iron door was closed, he sat down on the ground. Bai Qingxia turned her head and took a look, but she didn't want to dirty her clothes, so she didn't follow him.
"Actually, after I turned 30, I preferred to live in the countryside," Lu Yuanqiu said.
Bai Qingxia didn't find it strange. She nodded and asked, "Why?"
Lu Yuanqiu smiled. What he said was actually his thoughts from his previous life, but Bai Qingxia definitely thought he was imagining the future.
"There's no reason. When I had this thought, I simply felt that life was too exhausting. But now my mindset has changed... Now I am more like a young man full of vigor than before, so my idea is that I should live the rest of my life brilliantly and without regrets."
Bai Qingxia put down the dumpling in her mouth, feeling a little uncomfortable. Lu Yuanqiu's tone made it sound as if he had a terminal illness.
"What does it mean to be wonderful?" the girl asked.
"I want to ask you this question, too. You go first."
Bai Qingxia thought for a while and responded: "I am already very wonderful now."
She smiled and took big bites of the dumpling.
This was the first time she had eaten dumplings in seven years since her brother's accident.
Lu Yuanqiu looked at her in a daze, forgetting to say what he thought a "wonderful life" was like.
……
After lunch break.
The New Year’s Eve dinner has to be prepared from now on. As the only able-bodied man in the family, Lu Yuanqiu stands at the door of the chicken coop with a heavy responsibility.
He took off his coat, rolled up his sleeves, and in the glaring light, he spit on the palms of both hands, rubbing his hands together, eager to give it a try.
"Open the door and let the dog out!"
Lu Yuanqiu was just about to rush into the chicken coop when he suddenly heard his sister shouting.
He glared at Lu Yidong, and the little girl ran away instantly in fear.
After arriving at the chicken coop, the women at the scene gathered outside to join in the fun and shouted encouragement to Lu Yuanqiu.
"Pooh! Pooh!" Lu Yuanqiu lay on the ground, missing several times and getting a mouthful of chicken feathers.
The grandmother was the only one who was extremely worried: "Slow down! Slow down! Don't fall!"
Su Xiaoya smiled and said, "Don't worry, Mom. Qiuqiu has thick skin and won't get hurt."
"Even if my own son doesn't feel bad, I do." Mrs. Lu Cao rolled her eyes at her, and she immediately scolded, "Where are those grown men? How can you let a child do such a thing?"
The second master said sarcastically, "The four guys are huddled in the room, each with a computer, and one is constantly on the phone. The youngest one is sleeping, snoring louder than a pig."
Grandma got really angry when she heard this. She turned around and said to the aunts, "Call them out! They think they are so noble for letting my grandson do such a thing? If my grandson falls or gets hurt today, I will make them cry for the New Year."
Su Xiaoya didn’t know whether she should be happy or sad, and hurriedly followed her three sisters-in-law to call their husbands.
The four sisters next to them stood in a row like a signal grid, with melancholy faces. Their grandmother was extremely biased towards boys.
Lu Cao turned angrily and looked towards the chicken coop, and was stunned for a moment.
There was a new girl in the chicken coop, and Bai Qingxia was helping Lu Yuanqiu catch chickens.
(End of this chapter)