inspire-indiana Chapter 438 Whose Child is This?
Chapter 438 Whose Child is This?
"Humph, you really thought you got a gold ingot!"
The fat lady muttered with disdain and rolled her eyes.
The fat lady became angrier the more she thought about it, and her steps became more and more hurried.
"Why don't you hurry up and arrange the marriage for this girl while she's still confused?"
The fat lady returned home, drank a cup of tea, and thought bitterly:
When they grow up and become strong enough, will they still recognize you?
By then, I'm afraid it will be difficult to even see this girl!"
The fat lady muttered to herself as she quickly walked to the edge of her field and her eyes fell on her busy and silly son.
With a smile on her face, she quickly walked to Tiechui and patted his shoulder gently:
"Hammer, look at that girl from your Aunt Wang's house. She's really pretty!"
When Tiechui heard his mother's words, he stopped what he was doing and looked up.
He wiped the beads of sweat from his forehead with a towel, and a shy blush suddenly appeared on his sun-tanned face.
He lowered his head somewhat embarrassedly, revealing a row of white teeth:
"Mom, what are you talking about!
I don’t care about whether I’m a girl or not. I don’t have the time to care about these things now.
Let’s talk about it after I finish turning over this piece of land.”
After Tiechui finished speaking, he buried his head and continued to turn the soil, as if he wanted to put all his energy into the work.
The fat lady couldn't help but shook her head, what a fool!
My daughter Honghua is four years younger than Chui'er and she is already a mother of two children. Chui'er is 28 years old and still a bachelor!
The fat lady thought: I'm going to get that girl. My own son is easy to deal with. As long as I can convince the couple, nothing is impossible!
Under the dim candlelight, Old Man Wang and his family sat around a worn wooden table, preparing to have dinner.
The so-called dinner was actually very simple. It consisted of a few palm-sized crucian carp that Old Man Wang caught in the river, and some rice that Fatty brought.
Wang Po fried the crucian carp and melon seed fish over a low fire, made fish soup, and placed it in a worn porcelain bowl.
The girl sat at the table, her eyes fixed on the small fish.
She carefully picked up a fish with chopsticks, hesitated for a moment, and ultimately did not put it into her mouth. Instead, she gently handed it to Wang Pozi.
Mrs. Wang licked her dry lips and put the little fish into the girl's bowl.
Her thin body looked so long in the candlelight.
The girl naturally couldn't bear to eat it, so she picked up the fish and gave it to Old Man Wang.
The family of three just watched the little fish quietly, and no one was willing to pick up the chopsticks first.
The girl hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but speak: "Auntie...Uncle...
You see, although these fish are small, there are still quite a few of them!
How about this, let's each have two fish, with some fish soup and rice!"
The girl put the crucian carp and melon seed fish into the bowl of the two elders without saying a word.
Old Man Wang's eyes were moist. He stared at the fish in the bowl and shouted:
"It's still... it's better to have a daughter! She understands the difficulties her parents face!"
The family of three had dinner like this.
After Old Man Wang went to that room to rest, only Old Woman Wang and the girl were left.
Mrs. Wang took the girl's hand and looked at her carefully under the candlelight. After a while, she whispered:
"Girl, I treat you as my own daughter.
The fat lady came to deliver eggs today, and I sent them back to her in the afternoon!
She has no good intentions and wants to find you a marriage partner, so she came to our house so enthusiastically to give you gifts!"
The girl blurted out:
"mother……"
When Mrs. Wang heard the cry, she was stunned.
She suspected that she had heard it wrong. After all, no one had called her mother in all these years!
She shook her head in confusion, then used her hands to pick at her ears, as if this would help her hear more clearly.
"mother……"
The girl's voice came again, this time louder and clearer than last time.
Mrs. Wang finally came to her senses, and an expression of disbelief appeared on her face.
She stared at the girl in front of her with wide eyes, and was stunned for a moment.
"Hey...hey..."
Mrs. Wang finally came to her senses and responded quickly with a trembling voice.
She seemed to suddenly remember something, stood up hurriedly, and walked quickly to the shabby table.
The drawer of the table was broken. She fumbled inside for a long time and finally found half of a silver lock.
Mrs. Wang held the half silver lock carefully in her hand, as if it was the most precious thing in the world.
Then she turned around, walked up to the girl and handed her the half silver lock.
"Poor thing, God must have pity on us!
Send a beautiful girl here!
Here, since you called me mother, this is what mother wants from you!"
Mrs. Wang's voice was choked with sobs, and tears welled up in her eyes.
The girl took the silver lock, then knelt on the ground, and no matter how hard Wang Po tried to pull her up, she couldn't get up. She cried and complained:
“I don’t know what kind of person I was before.
But, you rescued me from the cliff, and you did your best to take care of me.
Mother, go and promise Fatty Sister-in-law that I am willing to marry you!"
Hearing this, Mrs. Wang became very anxious. She pulled the girl up and said that marriage was a big matter and should not be treated lightly. Your father had a quarrel with the fat lady because of this this afternoon!
The girl's eyes were filled with tears, and she said in a daze:
"mother……
I haven't finished yet, you can marry me, and all the betrothal gifts will be left to you and your parents for their retirement!"
Suddenly, Wang Po scolded her loudly with a hint of anger:
"You silly boy, are you going to sell yourself?
No matter how poor our family is, your father and I will never let you make such a sacrifice!"
"mother……"
The girl threw herself into Wang Po's arms and burst into tears.
Mrs. Wang touched the girl's hair and comforted her:
"Cry, cry, my dear child! Won't your illness be cured soon?
It doesn’t cost much to prescribe medicine for you and see a doctor!
When you're well, I'll teach you how to embroider, and then we can sell it to wealthy families. With hands and feet, how can you still starve to death?
The girl didn't know when she fell asleep. It seemed as if she cried for a long time and then fell asleep.
In a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness, she vaguely heard someone calling her:
"Mother, mother..."
The voice was soft and urgent, as if it came from far away, yet so real.
The girl slowly raised her head and looked around with sleepy eyes.
It’s strange, why are there two strange children?
She couldn't help but shout, "Mom, where are you? Mom...whose child is this?"
No one knew where Mrs. Wang had gone, and the girl didn't respond no matter how she called her.
There were two children, one tall and one short. The taller one looked a little older, about seven or eight years old.
The shorter one was probably only three or four years old, with a round face, chubby hands, and a pair of big blinking eyes. He was very cute.
The older boy was looking at the girl suspiciously and asked her:
"Mother, why are you wearing such shabby clothes?"
Before the girl could answer, the three or four-year-old child grabbed her hand and asked her impatiently:
"Mother, did you bring glutinous rice balls for Jin'er?"
The girl was anxious for a moment. Whose children were they? She hurriedly called out to Mrs. Wang:
"Mother...Mother...where are you?"