Chapter 2 (1/2)
Xu Lian heard the conversation between Xu Ning and Tao Yunchuan when she was cooking in the kitchen. She knew that Xu Ning was injured.
”Sister, it's no big deal. It's just some skin injuries.”
Facing Xu Lian's concern, Xu Ning responded.
Looking at his own blood sister, Xu Ning tried to keep calm.
Xu Lian was worried. She came forward and had a careful look.
”It's all right.” Xu Lian looked at it for a long time. When she saw that there was no big event, she put down her heart, but her eyes were still distressed. ”Go and change your clothes, and the meal will be ready.”
”I see. I'll go now.”
Xu Ning took another look at Xu Lian and Tao Yunchuan, then turned and went to his house.
Just now these simple conversations made Xu Ning feel some pressure.
Looking at Xu Ning's back, Tao Yunchuan suddenly sighed.
He looked at his wife Xu Lian with a lonely expression: ”it's strange that I don't have the ability. You've suffered with me. Xu Ning is almost getting married. In turn, he has to let you support this family with me...”
”Don't say that.”
Xu Lian looked at her husband: ”if you hadn't married me, Xu Ning and I might have died on the road of wandering. Don't say these depressed words, life would be better in the future.”
Xu Lian holds Tao Yunchuan's hand.
”Well...”
Facing his wife's encouragement, Tao Yunchuan nodded silently.
……
Xu Ning returned to his room.
I wanted to adjust my mood, but as soon as I opened the door, Xu Ning saw a girl with sheep horn braids sitting on her bed. She was playing with two wooden toys and muttering to herself.
Hearing the sound of pushing the door, the girl turned her face.
At this time, the setting sun was falling and the house was dark, but the girl's big eyes looked very bright.
Seeing Xu Ning, the girl piled up a smile on her face.
”Uncle!”
Uncle?
Xu Ning heard it and remembered it in an instant.
The girl in front of her is the daughter of her sister Xu Lian and her brother-in-law Tao Yunchuan. She is also her niece, Tao Tao.
Tao Tao saw Xu Ning come in, put down his toy and jumped out of bed.
”Uncle, how did you come back?”
Tao Tao looked up at Xu Ning.
”I...”
Facing Tao Tao, Xu Ning hasn't figured out how to deal with it for a while.
”Eh?”
Tao Tao suddenly raised a question. She looked at the holes and blood on Xu Ning's pants and tightened her small eyebrows.
”Uncle, why is your leg broken?”
Tao Tao put his mouth to Xu Ning's wound as he spoke.
She puffed her cheeks and blew hard at Xu Ning's wound.
”Peach, what are you doing?”
Xu Ning asked subconsciously.
”Does it still hurt?”
Tao Tao looked up at Xu Ning again.
Xu Ning remembered that if Tao Tao broke her skin after wrestling, her sister Xu Lian would blow her wound like this and use the cool wind from her mouth to relieve the pain of the injury.
Thinking of this, Xu Ning suddenly smiled.
He touched Tao Tao's head: ”it doesn't hurt.”
”It really doesn't hurt?”
Tao Tao doesn't seem to believe it.
”It really doesn't hurt.”
Xu Ning pulled Tao Tao's pigtail: ”you go to dinner first, and I'll go there after I change my clothes.”
Tao Tao opened Xu Ning's hand: ”then I'll go out first.”
But as soon as he left, Tao Tao turned back and took out some green dates from his two clothes pockets.
Tao Tao's hands are small. He can't hold three or four in one hand.
”Here you are, uncle.”
Tao Tao stuffed the dates into Xu Ning's hand.
Xu Ning took over: ”you waited for me in the house just to give me the date?”
”Yes.”
Tao Tao nodded.
She didn't stop either. She left with her pigtails.
Xu Ning looked at the short figure and looked down at the green jujube in his hand.
”The child...”
Xu Ning's mouth wore a smile he didn't even notice.
He stuffed a green jujube into his mouth and chewed it.
”Hiss...”
Xu Ning took a slight breath of air conditioning.
It's so sour.
”Maybe everything is fate...”
Looking at the remaining dates in his hand, Xu Ning mused.
For a long time, he looked up and it was dark.
Unconsciously, the estrangement from the world seems to be melting a little.
……
Xu Ning changed his clothes, roughly wiped the wound with the spare ointment in the room, and then returned to the main house for dinner.