Chapter 1650: Chapter 1079: Orchard (Part 2)
Sometimes, when you weren’t paying attention, I’d squeeze through the fence below to grab a reachable fruit to eat. Actually, I knew you were intentionally turning a blind eye.
Now, I can finally come to the orchard openly. Fifth Grandpa, consider these dumplings my apology to you. Every time I come back, I’ll visit you and apologize, okay?"
This so-called fruit stealing incident was my doing. On the way here, when Zhao Yulan and Li Aiyuan brought up past stories, that’s how I found out, and now it’s just the right time to make use of it.
"Uncle, this is my daughter, and these two are my grandchildren..." Zhao Yulan quickly introduced herself to the old man, "I’m Yulan from Old Zhao’s family, do you still remember me?"
"Remember, remember, of course Uncle remembers..." The old man squinted his eyes in a smile, "I heard you’re doing well now, I’m happy for you. This little girl is called Chuxia, right?"
Chuxia quickly responded, "Fifth Grandpa, I’m called Chuxia."
"I heard you married into a good husband’s family, that’s great. It’s your blessing, and also your mother’s blessing. It’s wonderful. People from Old Zhao’s family have good hearts, so the kids are good too. People must have kind hearts..." After a long chatter, the old man finally stopped, feeling a bit embarrassed, "Well, you guys go ahead. I, this old man, won’t chatter here and be annoying."
This meant he accepted the dumplings. The few exchanged a couple more words of courtesy and then headed deeper into the orchard carrying the mat.
The two little ones were visiting the countryside for the first time; everything was new to them. In the depths of the orchard, they wobbled around, waving their small hands, and tried to investigate everything new they saw. If they couldn’t see standing up, they’d squat down, and if that didn’t work, they would lie half down to study.
Helplessly, Chuxia had to pick the two little ones up, lay down the coarse cloth she brought, and seriously instructed them, "You two can only play on this mat. There are lots of bugs on the ground; if you lie down, they could crawl on you and bite you. It’d hurt a lot, understand?"
To better illustrate, she caught a hopping grasshopper and gently poked each of their hands and asked, "Does it hurt?"
Both little ones quickly nodded.
"Good that you know it hurts, don’t crawl down..." She pointed to the edge of the mat, "Stay within here, understand?"
Both little ones nodded more vigorously.
"Lazy bums!" Chuxia helplessly stared at the twins, "Obviously you can speak, but you insist on nodding and shaking your heads. You just keep quiet, if you don’t start speaking well, you won’t even find a wife in the future, hmph!"
The two little ones couldn’t comprehend what their mom said, but seeing her expression, it was clear she was chiding them, so they exchanged a glance and gave her a flattering smile.
"Who wants to smile with you two, go play by yourselves." Chuxia waved at the twins, then sat next to Zhao Yulan, "Mom, Eldest Aunt, why are they lazy in speaking?"
Actually, two months ago, they could say some simple words. Other kids learn faster as time goes by, but with them, they’ve gone completely mute."
"There’s no need to worry about that; looking at the way Nannan and Beibei are, they are smart. Maybe they just feel clumsy in speaking and are lazy to open their mouths. When they do decide to speak, their words will surely flow smoothly..." Li Aiyuan paused and added, "Some kids are just like that.
In our village, there’s a kid even older than your older brother; he started saying words when he was seven months old, but then went silent, and only began speaking again suddenly at one and a half, saying full sentences. A few years ago, he went to join the army, and I heard his eloquence got him into the performing arts troupe, quite a success."
"There really are such cases?" Chuxia relievedly patted her chest, "That’s good. I was worrying all along, thinking if they couldn’t speak properly in the future, it’d be a headache."
Zhao Yulan glared at her daughter, "You’re worrying for nothing. I’ve told you. It’s nothing, kids have early and late speech, speaking before two years old is all normal."
"Hehe..." Chuxia awkwardly chuckled and changed the topic, "Fifth Grandpa is really diligent, look at this orchard, it’s weeded so cleanly and feels great."
"Sigh..." Li Aiyuan sighed, "The old man is straightforward; giving him that nickname was unfair. His stubbornness only applied to unjust matters.
Back then, when they were conducting struggles and demanded he testify against a landlord in the village, he firmly refused, saying when he was poor, that landlord helped him out, and he couldn’t be ungrateful.
As a result, others who had been helped by the landlord came out to testify, but only he spoke for the landlord and defended him, and got beaten for it.
The landlord’s son didn’t want to face scorn at home, so he ran off with his wife and child, leaving just the old couple behind. Later, when the old couple passed away one after the other, it was Fifth Uncle who handled their funeral arrangements, such a good man!
But for such a good man, he spent his life without children, lost his spouse early, and guarded this orchard alone, quite frankly, sometimes heaven is unfair, really..."
"Yes, sometimes not everything is fair..." Chuxia sighed and directly shifted topics, "Eldest Aunt, you brought mom and me to the orchard to talk about Aunt Yuying, right?"
"Hmm." Li Aiyuan heavily sighed, staring intently at the field for a long while before drawing her gaze back and seriously said to the mother and daughter, "I tell this matter to both of you because I really don’t know how to handle it.
But after hearing it, you both must not be anxious or rash and need to work with me to think of a solution. Absolutely don’t act on impulse and end up putting Yuying in a difficult position."
"I promise."
"I promise too."
Knowing Li Aiyuan’s character, her serious discussion of this matter indicated it was quite thorny, so the mother and daughter readily promised to be calm. (The novel ’First Married, Deeply Loved’ has more fresh content on the official WeChat platform, along with 100% raffle prizes for everyone! Open WeChat now, click the ’+’ icon at the top right to ’Add Friends’, search for the public account ’qdread’, and follow it, hurry up!)(To be continued. If you enjoy this work, feel free to visit Qidian (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets; your support is my greatest motivation. Mobile users, please read at m.qidian.com.)
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