The Sabbath

Xiaomei walked on the lawn in the backyard with a stack of clean sheets.

When Ronggui and Hana came to dry the sheets before, they accidentally dropped the sheets on the ground. That’s not counting. The lawn here is not an ordinary lawn. It’s not lawn grass but herbs. The grass seedlings that were not very good were broken at the first glance. Hana didn't say Ronggui, after all, two people fell down at the same time clumsily and broke the grass. When he came out, Ronggui only heard the little girl say: "This is what my father... planted it with his own hands..."

Ronggui... Who is Ronggui~ Planting an apple seedling can make the apple seedling abandon the house and grow to the landlord's house downstairs. At best, he can plant a ground bean, and he can't take care of finer plants at all.

Fortunately, although Xiaomei works in the studio, but I don’t know if it’s because of the need to receive Ronggui’s distress signal at any time. He habitually opens the windows and doors, and the sound outside the door reaches Xiaomei’s ears, not waiting for Ronggui. Calling for help, Xiaomei appeared at the door.

At this moment, Xiaomei who is 1.1 meters tall is almost 1.8 meters tall in Ronggui's heart!

Picking up the dirty sheets and hanging them on her shoulders, Xiaomei immediately helped Ronggui up, and then picked up the little girl, and finally Xiaomei re-entered the laundry room with the dirty sheets on, and the washing machine started rumbling again , Xiaomei came over with a small wooden bucket and a small shovel in the other hand.

Squatting near the plants that were crushed by two people, he lifted up the broken plants one by one. Those with minor injuries tied their waists straight and fixed with cloth strips, and those with serious injuries simply cut them with scissors Cut it down the middle.

"This kind can only be cut off, it will grow back, but it will take a long time." Xiaomei explained.

Then he dug up the soil and looked at the roots of the herb seedlings, dug out a few black lumps and threw them into the barrel, Xiaomei said: "I need to order insecticide tomorrow, Mu Xuelan (this herbal medicine) name) should be very flexible, and it is a herb whose flexibility is comparable to that of lawn grass. If it breaks, it means that there is something wrong with its growth, and the most likely reason is that there are worms in the roots."

"It's considered that you discovered it early. If the pest infestation continues, the entire piece of Mu Xuelan will be lost."

After Xiaomei finished speaking, she handed the small wooden bucket and shovel to Ronggui, and then went upstairs.

Leaving Ronggui behind, carrying a small wooden bucket and a shovel, he first smiled foolishly: "It turned out that we were a blessing in disguise, and discovered hidden dangers in advance~"

Little Hana nodded in agreement, and immediately, the little girl couldn't help but look into the bucket in Ronggui's hand:

"This bug is really fat!" The little girl exclaimed.

Ronggui:? ? ?

"Bug? What kind of bug?" Ronggui said, following the little girl's sight... to his hand, and saw a big black bug crawling on his hand at some point!Not to mention, he saw several other blacker and fatter worms crawling from the bucket to his hands!

"Ah!!!" With a scream, Ronggui hurriedly threw away the bucket and shovel in his hands.

"Are there any bugs on my body? On my head? On my back?"

Ronggui ran all over the yard while shouting, and finally it was Hana who reminded him that there might be other bugs in the yard, so he froze and ran towards the house and stood at the door. down.

There is no way, he is not afraid of anything else, but insects!

Whether it's a black bug with a hard shell, or a long strip of soft and wriggling bug, he is afraid of them all~

So, when Xiaomei came down holding the freshly washed sheets, what she saw was Ronggui holding the door frame and refusing to go down to the lawn.

The small wooden bucket and shovel that were handed over to Ronggui before were taken over by Hana, holding the shovel in her left hand and the bucket in her right. Not only did the little girl pick up all the bugs that escaped before, she also started to actively dig up other bugs in the original place Come.

There is no other way~ Children of this age basically like to dig bugs~ Whether it is hard-shelled or soft and wriggling, in the eyes of children, they are the best toys~

So, in the following time: Xiaomei hangs the sheets, Hana digs the bugs, and Ronggui...Ronggui probably feels that he is useless, and when Xiaomei hangs the sheets and puts them up again, he says to Xiaomei guiltily:

"Sorry, you are so busy, you still have to come and help me, did you delay the progress?"

Xiaomei glanced at him sideways: "Don't delay, just now I made a composition analyzer with ready-made materials and injected a strong nutrient solution into it. It is now analyzing the possible synthetic routes, and the analysis will probably be completed tomorrow morning. I'm free for a while."

Ronggui blinked.

Since Xiaomei is free, it seems that he hugged the door frame just now with too much strength, and the door seems to be unable to close, how about...please ask Xiaomei to repair the door when you have time?

So, the next time, Xiaomei began to repair the door.

Xiaomei was busy working, and Ronggui stood next to him. He wanted to help pass the tools, but unfortunately—he didn't know anything about maintenance, and he couldn't even pass the tools correctly, so he could only dangle beside him.

Although it is useless, it is inseparable.

The little girl occasionally glanced in the direction of the two of them while digging worms, laughed, and then continued to dig worms.

In short, there is no problem that Xiaomei can't solve. The dirty and dilapidated house that looks like a haunted house has become warm again after his cleaning and maintenance.

All the broken light bulbs were replaced with new ones; the creaking door hinges that lacked lubricant were re-greased, and the doors were opened and closed smoothly and silently again; the badly worn floors were all waxed; All were dismantled and cleaned, and the old smell in the room was replaced by a fresh smell of washing powder.

Everything looks just perfect!

Apart from--

"Oops, all the sheets have been washed, and you have nothing to cover today." Ronggui was a little dumbfounded when the washing was too thorough and he was about to leave.

After thinking and thinking, Ronggui finally looked at Xiaomei: "Why don't we take Hana back to our rented house for a night?"

Xiaomei didn't say anything.

If he didn't make a sound, he didn't object. After discussing with Hana for a while, Ronggui happily packed Hana home.

In fact, it was also his selfishness. He couldn't bear to let the little girl live alone in such a haunted house, not to mention that the little girl's dead parents came back every day in that room.

Although I know that they are my parents and I miss them very much, but for such a big child, the appearance of my parents is still too scary. I am afraid and look forward to it. This child is very entangled every day.

At least just for one day, at least today, he wanted the kid to take it easy.

With that in mind, Ronggui took Hana back to the house he and Xiaomei rented, and then——

"Agui, the house you live in...is like a haunted house!" Before getting off the car, the little girl whispered to Ronggui.

Ronggui: ...

Oops, forgot about this one.

The house they live in is actually no better than the little girl's own house!

A little girl who lives in a "haunted house" can say that the place where she lives is a "haunted house". How "ghostly" is this house~

After wandering outside for a day, Ronggui almost forgot about his terrible landlord. Now that he came back, the fear that had disappeared before floated up again from the bottom of his heart. Finally, it was Xiaomei who called him to get out of the car, and he jumped stiffly. Down the rhubarb.

Holding Hana's little hand tightly, Ronggui was extremely nervous.

The house with a large area is still pitch black. Since he didn't want to see green "ghosts", Ronggui decided not to activate the thermal imaging mode, so that the house is really dark to him.

The room was quiet, the footsteps of the two little robots were light, and the little girl subconsciously lowered the footsteps under their leadership. For a while, there was no sound in the room.

until--

As he was walking, Ronggui's foot tilted, and when he managed to stabilize his body, he realized that he had stepped on a piece of the floor? !

There was such a sudden sound in the quiet room, and the movement was extremely loud.

Oops!I did something bad again!Just when Ronggui was startled and frightened, an old voice suddenly came from the room.

"You didn't step on it, the floor was already broken."

The small hand in his hand suddenly grasped his own hand forcefully, and Hana's small body was pressed against Ronggui's body.

Holding the little girl's shoulder with one hand stiffly, Ronggui finally activated the thermal imaging system.

A faint green "ghost" appeared in his field of vision again. In the originally dark living room where no one could see, the old woman was sitting on a rocking chair. Her fingers were moving slowly. This is... …

Knitting?

In a dark, quiet haunted house, an old lady is sitting in the living room knitting... Could there be a more terrifying setting than this?

Ronggui almost cried from fright!

In fact, there are~

In the darkness, the old woman's arm stretched out, and she groped a few times. After a crisp "click", a small dim yellow light lit up in the room.

Two bowls filled with blood were placed on the small round table next to the old woman!If you look carefully, there is a fork on each bowl!

It was like offering food to the dead——Ronggui's hair was horrified!

Oops... Is the system that Xiaomei repaired is about to fail?He felt as if he was going to faint again...

Stretching out a hand to cover his forehead, Ronggui was feeling dizzy, when suddenly he heard Xiaomei say: "The two of us are using mechanical bodies now, so we don't need to eat."

It was only then that Ronggui realized: ah...So this is what the landlady prepared for them...Dinner?

The old woman's white eyes flicked in their direction, and her wrinkled hands rested on the sweater needles again.

"That……"

No need to continue listening, Ronggui immediately guessed what the old lady wanted to say next: it was nothing more than that the things they had prepared were not needed, so they would not need to prepare for them in the future, let them go upstairs by themselves... and so on.

A sense of guilt suddenly appeared in his heart, Ronggui happened to hear Hana's stomach rumbling, he quickly interrupted the old woman, and said loudly: "Great, Hana hasn't eaten dinner yet! These two bowls The rice is just enough for the little guy to eat."

"Hahaha, I was too careless. I patronized the cleaning and forgot to prepare dinner for Hana."

"Hana, you too, you want to talk when you're hungry~" After speaking, Ronggui patted the little girl's head.

The thin lips were drawn into a stiff straight line again, and the old woman stopped talking immediately.

Boldly, Ronggui led Hana towards the old woman.

Looking closely, the face of the old woman in the dark still looks very scary, but what is more terrifying than her face are the two bowls of rice on the small round table: the thick red stuff on it should be a kind of sauce , the sauce covered the entire bowl, and it was completely impossible to see what was underneath.

This thing...can be eaten?

Ronggui glanced at Hana hesitantly: If this thing is really weird, he would rather make the old lady sad than let Hana eat it.

However, at this time Hana couldn't notice Ronggui's gaze at all. The little girl only had those two bowls of rice in her eyes, and Ronggui could still hear her swallowing.

"It smells so good..." the little girl whispered.

Then, picking up a big bowl from the small round table, the little girl sat on the carpet, pulled out a fork and dug out a piece of rice, her eyes lit up, the next behavior of the little girl could only be described as wolfing down.

Eating one bowl was not enough, the little girl immediately picked up the second bowl and ate two full bowls of red rice. The little girl held her stomach and burped in satisfaction.

"It's delicious! What is this?" The satisfaction after eating something delicious overcame the fear, and the little girl dared to speak.

The little girl's unique immature voice made the old woman stunned for a while, and a coil was wrapped around her hand, and the old woman said slowly:

"It's red shrimp rice."

"Using fresh red shrimp grass to make a thick paste, it is good to cover ordinary rice."

"My eyesight is bad, and now I can only cook simple meals." At the end, the old woman added.

Ronggui didn't feel anything wrong yet, but the little girl's eyes lit up all of a sudden: "Is this the legendary red shrimp rice!!!"

"It is said that the herbal medicine can make seafood taste! Not only is it delicious, but it is also very good for the body~ red shrimp grass is very expensive, very expensive, very expensive herbal medicine!"

Ronggui's gaze immediately shifted to the two big bowls that had been licked up.

Is it so delicious and so precious?ah!It's a pity that I can't eat it! ! !

"It's not very precious, I just want it to be easy to make." With a soft snort, the old woman said calmly.

The old woman's eyes were still scary white eyes, and the lines on her face were still stiff and serious, but at this moment, when Ronggui looked at the old woman again, she no longer thought she was scary.

He will use precious herbs to prepare dinner for the new tenants. When they come back late, the old man has been waiting for them. This...

This is simply touching the good landlord of the whole tower!

"What's the matter with this child? Your child?" After knitting quietly for a while, the old woman asked again, another explosive question.

"Hey? How is it possible~ Xiaomei and I are golden bachelors~ This child is... our employer!" Ronggui said after thinking about it.

"Today we were working at the employer's house, and we accidentally washed all the sheets and sheets, as well as Hana's clothes. Isn't it impossible to sleep? So... I brought her back." Ronggui explained it quickly, and at the end, he asked pitifully: "There are two people renting the house, and we occasionally bring more people back...should...it's not a violation of the contract, right?"

Being able to make him talk to people in a pitiful way (←actually in a coquettish tone), it seems that he is really not afraid-Xiaomei glanced at Ronggui without any trace.

"Where are the little girl's parents?" Ignoring Ronggui's last question, the old woman asked him immediately.

"This..." When it comes to Hana's sad matter, Ronggui couldn't answer right away.

In the end, it was Hana who took the initiative to answer the question herself.

"My parents are gone, they...became immortal..." The little girl's weak voice was especially pitiful.

"Oh." The old woman only said this, and didn't make another sound.

This is really a hard-to-talk old lady—the surroundings became dead again, and Hana's little hand held Ronggui's again. Faced with this deadly silence, Ronggui didn't know what to do.

What broke the silence was the sound of knocking.

Ronggui turned his head to look, only to realize that Xiaomei ran over at some point, squatting on the floor, he was beating...

It was only then that Ronggui remembered: the floor that he stepped on earlier.

Xiaomei, you are so kind!This will help me make up for my mistake——Thinking of this, Ronggui once again looked at Xiaomei thankfully.

His eyes were so hot that Xiaomei couldn't help but turned her head and glanced at him slowly, then turned her head slowly and continued to repair the floor.

"Ah... the floor over there is also a bit broken, Xiaomei, you can fix it later?"

"There are also large cracks in the glass of the windows..."

Looking around the room, Ronggui found some other work for Xiaomei.

The old woman continued knitting, she seemed to have heard the movement of Ronggui and Xiaomei, but also seemed not to hear it...

Until Hana yawned a little.

"It's getting late, the child is sleepy, take her to sleep."

After the old man finished speaking, he paused, and then added after a while: "I have some clothes that she might be able to wear, you wait here."

After saying this, the old man stood up, and without fumbling, she turned into the next room like a completely normal person, and when she came out after a while, she had a pile of clothes in her hand.

Very nice little dress, in typical Ciciro style, with delicate embroidery on it, it looks fabulous!

"I can't see the little girl's appearance clearly, so I just picked up a few, can I wear them?" The old man asked casually.

"It's suitable! It's suitable! Ah~ These skirts are so beautiful~" Ronggui, who had already unfolded the skirt and saw the full shape of the skirt, was stunned by the workmanship of the skirt!He not only watched it by himself, but also took Hana to watch it together. Like other children of the same age, Hana was completely stunned when she saw these skirts!

The little girl was so happy to think that these skirts could be worn by herself!

"It's fine if you can wear it." She nodded reservedly, and the old woman said immediately, "I'm going to bed, you go to sleep too."

Then, she closed the door abruptly.

However, Ronggui is not so afraid of her cold face now, with her skirt stretched out in her hands, Ronggui and the little girl looked at each other, and both of them smiled.

This night, little Hana slept Ronggui on the left and Xiaomei on the right, and she was caught in the middle.

The "sleep" of the two small robots is very simple, even if they are turned off, they are "asleep", and the room is quiet again.Hana looked left, then right, and finally—

With a grunt, she rolled into Ronggui's arms and fell asleep.

Not long after, the little girl's characteristic light breathing sound came from the next door.

Xiaomei, who had been "sleeping" on her back, suddenly had an orchid in her eyes, and turned her head slightly. He first looked at Ronggui, and then his eyes fell on the little girl who was hugging Ronggui and sleeping soundly.

He just kept watching, watching——

The night passed quickly.

The author has something to say: "Are there any bugs on my body? Are there any bugs on my head? On my back, on my back?"

Ronggui ran all over the yard while shouting, and finally it was Hana who reminded him that there might be other bugs in the yard, so he froze and ran towards the house and stood at the door. down.

There is no way, he is not afraid of anything else, but insects!

Liar, you are afraid of ghosts.