Siheyuan: Cooking journey

Let's leave here and go out tonight.

Mother Lou looked determined, and her tone was too serious to allow for discussion: "You have to come with us."

"I won't leave..."

Lou Xiao'e retorted reflexively, and then panicked:

"Mom, why do you want to leave? Isn't life good now?"

"We are living well. Have you ever thought about your uncle and aunt, and the other people in our Lou family?"

Mother Lou's eyes were filled with melancholy, and her voice was low: "Have you ever thought about how their lives are going?"

"We can help, we don't have to leave."

Lou Xiao'e said anxiously: "He Yuzhu is the deputy director. Let's find a way to bring them all to the courtyard."

"it's useless."

Mother Lou shook her head and sighed bitterly:

"The person who got us out is in trouble. If we don't leave, someone will come to settle the score soon, and trouble will only come again."

Lou Xiao'e was stunned for a moment and said anxiously:

"Don't worry, He Yuzhu knows a lot of people, just find a helper."

"Silly boy."

Mother Lou touched her head and sighed:

"When we were at home, mom protected you too well. After you married Xiao He, he also took good care of you. You don't understand and don't know how terrible this matter is. Look at what happened to others. Xiao He can help once, but not twice. In the end, our Lou family will only implicate Xiao He."

"How could this be?"

Lou Xiao'e's eyes were moist and she hugged her tightly: "Mom, can you not leave? I can't bear to leave you."

"No, we have to leave tonight. We have to leave."

Mother Lou said firmly, "You have to go too. You can't stay, or you will be implicated."

"mom......"

I know my mother has made up her mind.

Lou Xiao'e wiped her tears and sobbed:

"Then I'll go talk to He Yuzhu and ask him to prepare."

"We can't tell him. He won't go with us."

Mother Lou held her back and shook her head seriously.

"Don't go back tonight. Just tell him you want to stay with me. We'll leave in the second half of the night."

"What?"

Lou Xiao'e was flustered and in disbelief.

"Why don't you tell He Yuzhu? Why don't you take him with you? I can't survive like this."

"Why!"

Mother Lou said seriously, “Because he is now the deputy director of the special team;

"If he finds out, he will definitely stop us. This is our only chance. If we are discovered, we won't be able to leave, and he won't go with us."

"No, no."

Lou Xiao'e shook her head, her eyes full of disbelief:

"He's not that kind of person. Have you forgotten that he reminded everyone to go out together last year? Now that I'm pregnant with our child, if I want to leave, he will definitely go with me and won't stop me."

last year!

Mother Lou was in a trance, and she was almost breathless with regret. She said firmly: "That was then, and this is now; he is now the deputy director, and he has ascended to power overnight;

“People will change their minds because of an overnight wealth, and they will also become hardened because of a stable position;

"He has so much power now, and he can handle this situation with ease, so why would he leave? Mom can't gamble the fate of the entire Lou family on whether he has changed."

"Now, order is disrupted. This is our Lou family's only chance. We can't afford to lose, and we can't lose."

"Will not."

Lou Xiao'e argued anxiously,

"He Yuzhu is not that kind of person. He hasn't changed, and he won't do that kind of thing."

"You forgot that he was the one who found someone to help rescue you. How could he change? He is sincere to me and our family."

Sincerely?

Mother Lou struggled, hesitated for a while, and finally sighed:

"He is sincere to you, I have no doubt about it. That is why he asked for help to rescue us. He loves us and loves everyone in our house. But now it is us who want to escape, not him who is saving us. The nature of the situation is completely different. He can't just leave it alone." After a pause, Lou's mother sighed again:

“You said he was sincere to our family;

"You've been married for five years, when has he ever called me mom?"

"Uncle and aunt, you have been calling them that for five years. If you really mean it, wouldn't you even be willing to call them mom and dad?"

"How come you've been calling me uncle and aunt for so long?"

"Is there anything wrong with calling me that?"

Lou Xiao'e looked at her with doubts and grievances, tears in her eyes, and retorted in confusion:

“It’s just a name, what can it mean?

"My brothers-in-law all call me mom and dad in a very affectionate way, but when something happens in our family, if anyone lends a hand, it's fine if they just stand by and watch, but it's good enough if they don't add insult to injury."

Lou Xiao'e became angrier and angrier as she spoke.

“Only He Yuzhu was willing to help, and only He Yuzhu rescued you;

“A sincere uncle or aunt is a thousand times, ten thousand times better than a parent;

“How can you say that about him, question him, and not believe him!

“If he doesn’t leave, I won’t leave either;

“I don’t want my child to be born without seeing his father;

"I don't want to leave him even more. I will be with him no matter he lives or dies."

Lou Xiao'e wiped her tears and turned to leave. She felt that her mother had changed. She was no longer the reasonable mother she used to be. She had become suspicious and strange.

"Moth."

Mother Lou pulled her anxiously, her eyes dim and tears quietly fell:

"You are my only daughter, are you going to abandon me too?"

Lou Xiao'e looked at her, feeling sad, and choked up:

“You will always be my mother, I have not abandoned you, but why don’t you want to believe He Yuzhu? He is not that kind of person, and he has not changed;

"We can go together."

Mother Lou looked hesitant and remained silent.

Lou Xiao'e looked at Lou's father again: "Dad, don't you believe him either?"

Father Lou avoided her gaze, lowered his head and said nothing.

"Since you don't believe me, go away. I won't leave."

Lou Xiao'e felt wronged and cried even more sadly.

"Moth..."

Mother Lou pulled her, tears in her eyes, and shook her head firmly:

“Mom really doesn’t dare to gamble. If he is willing, then that’s fine.

“What if he doesn’t want to?

"Here, he has power and influence, old friends,

"He has a younger sister. Would he be willing to abandon her? Would he be willing to let his sister get hurt?

“Even if he is willing, and he hasn’t changed, can he abandon his own sister?

“If he takes his sister away, who can guarantee that his sister will not tell others if she knows about this?

“His sister works on the streets;

“Order is in disarray, people’s hearts are unpredictable, everything has changed, anything is possible, I really don’t dare to gamble;

“We can’t let more people know about this;

“We can’t rely on the thoughts of others for the future of the Lou family;

"Mom has made a mistake once, I can't make the same mistake a second time..."

Lou Xiao'e is smart, but she is also a little scared.

But she knew what she was thinking, so she hugged her mother tightly and cried:

"Mom, I won't embarrass you anymore, and you don't embarrass me either. If He Yuzhu doesn't leave, I won't go anywhere either."

"That won't do. You have to go."

Mother Lou stamped her feet anxiously: “You have no idea how serious this is;

…… ...

“Your sisters have all written letters to report our family and distanced themselves from us;

"You are the only one who hasn't done this. If we leave, the people above will track us down and find out that you are the one protecting us. As a child of the Lou family, you will be implicated."

"I do not care."

Lou Xiao'e shook her head and said firmly, "He Yuzhu will protect me."

"You don't understand. This is not simply a matter of being afraid or not."

Mother Lou tried to calm herself down, thought about it, and asked seriously,

"Do you think He Yuzhu will risk his own safety, or even his life, for you?"