Aunt Xue is very busy [Love is deep and rainy]

After resting for a while in the health care room and eating a small amount of sugar, Liu Rongrong, who had hypoglycemia and anemia, finally recovered a bit.

During the period, a few injured or unwell students came to the health care room. Lu Ruping and Liu Rongrong held their breaths and huddled behind the screen, trying not to disturb Dr. Ye's treatment of the patients.

When it was almost time for lunch, Lu Ruping saw that there was nothing wrong with Liu Rongrong's actions, so after saying goodbye to Dr. Ye, Lu Ruping took Liu Rongrong to the cafeteria for lunch.

Liu Rongrong's spirit was not bad, and she gave Lu Ruping a lot of gossip about Dr. Ye along the way, so that when Lu Ruping came home that day, the buzzing in her head was only Liu Rongrong's chattering voice.

After changing clothes, Lu Ruping came to Wang Xueqin's room, and together with Mengping, who had been tired of being here for a long time, talked with her mother.

This has been the habit of her and Mengping for a while.

In the past, at non-essential times, Lu Ruping was hardly willing to tell her mother what happened outside.

Now there are some subtle changes.

When she came to her mother's room, Lu Ruping first went to look at little Erjie who was sitting on the carpet beside her.

He was holding a jigsaw puzzle in his hand, and the child who was usually too fussy was frowning at this moment, looking seriously at the half-formed jigsaw puzzle on the ground.

Beibei, a poodle, was lying beside Erjie, biting a dog chew ball that his mother asked Erhao to buy for him a while ago, and it was covered with water from his bite.

Seeing Lu Ruping coming in, Xiao Erjie raised his head and smiled at her, "Sister Ruping, you are back."

Lu Ruping looked at his completely different quiet appearance when he was playing basketball, and she really liked this younger brother who had become more sensible recently.

Stretching out her hand to rub Erjie's head, Lu Ruping came to the balcony after putting together a few puzzle pieces with him, and sat on the chair next to her mother and Ruping.

Since the weather got better, my mother asked people to move the tea table in the room to the window next to the balcony.

It is April day in the world, and the humid and warm climate in Shanghai makes the temperature at this time very pleasant.

So even though Wang Xueqin can't blow her hair now, she has a hobby of sitting in the spring sun and basking in the sun every day.

The sunlight that comes in through a layer of glass and gauze curtains is not too warm, but just right to arouse people's laziness, and it is said that more sunlight is used to supplement calcium, so Wang Xueqin is also happy to sit in the sun every day Take a look at the ledger and information.

Seeing Lu Ruping came back, Wang Xueqin and Lu Mengping hurriedly asked her to sit down.

While greeting her, Wang Xueqin teased Lu Mengping with a smile, "Ruping, come and see if Mengping's clothes look good? Today, the clothes were delivered, but I haven't seen her getting down."

While talking, he blinked at Lu Ruping.

Lu Ruping was taken aback for a moment, and then when she saw Mengping's elegant dress, she couldn't help smiling, "Mengping, is this the school uniform of Patriotic Girls' High School? Get up and let me have a look."

After mentioning this, she remembered that Mengping seemed to have been looking forward to the arrival of the school uniform since a few days ago.

According to my mother, she should like this body very much.

Lu Mengping was not shy, she stood up and walked around to Lu Ruping, then raised her chin and asked her if she looked good, and after getting a positive answer, she sat down again with a smile on her face.

Looking at her smiling face, Wang Xueqin felt a little more fond of the child from the bottom of her heart.

She also finds it strange to say that Yuanshen's temperament is definitely not bad, but the few children he raised are all optimistic and pure in nature. Although they all have some shortcomings, no one is perfect. These days, under her conscious guidance, whether it is Mengping's aggressiveness or Erjie's arrogance, there have been obvious changes.

Of course, most of Erjie’s changes are due to Erhao. If it weren’t for Erhao’s good image as a big brother, it is estimated that Erjie would not be so easily infected by him, which made him feel more like a boy. toughness.

Ruping's words...

Except for some unclear indecision on emotional issues, there are few others that need to be worried about.

Thinking of this, Wang Xueqin gave Mengping a compliment. The child had recently understood some of Wang Xueqin's hints very well, and immediately chatted with Lu Ruping with a smile.

Lu Mengping didn't feel uncomfortable about her mother always asking about Ruping's situation through her own mouth, because her mother had told her before that Ruping seldom talked about herself to her mother because she was afraid of her mother's nagging.

And my mother doesn't want Ruping to feel that she is spying on Ruping's privacy, so she has to ask Mengping, who has a good relationship with Ruping, to help her get rid of Ruping.

It's a cliché, but it's actually just small talk.

My mother is rarely like before. Every time she hears that Ruping is in contact with a boy, she is eager to inquire about the family situation of the other party. So after a long time, Mengping naturally knows that her mother is caring. Ruping.

Precisely because he was afraid that Ruping would be disgusted, he came up with the idea of ​​using his own mouth to inquire about Ruping's situation.

Although I sometimes feel a little disgusted that my mother cares about Ruping so much, but anyway, she and Ruping are both mother's children, so Mengping is still very happy that her mother cares about them so much.

And in fact, Mengping is also very curious about Ruping's college life, because I heard that college is much more free than middle school.

Because Mengping has always liked to inquire about the university with her these days, so when Mengping mentioned it today, Lu Ruping told her and her mother what happened today kindly.

When talking about Dr. Ye in the health care room, Ruping was a little hesitant, because although her mother is not as aggressive as before and wishes to marry her off at any time, Ruping is still a little worried that her mother will treat Dr. Ye so well. The man cared, if she was really asked to chase Dr. Ye, then Lu Ruping would die of embarrassment.

Fortunately, after she finished speaking, only Mengping kept surrounding her and asked if the doctor was really that handsome, cold, and unkind.

While Lu Ruping breathed a sigh of relief, she also patted Mengping's head funnyly, "I don't think Dr. Ye is unreasonable, you see he even gave me and Rongrong candy to eat, but it's very cold. Really, this is very similar to Er Hao's occasional appearance."

"Then is he really good-looking?" Girls are born with no resistance to beautiful things, especially good-looking men. You can see how everyone is chasing stars after a hundred years, so it is rare for Lu Mengping to chase after him asked.

Lu Ruping recalled it carefully, and then nodded pertinently, "You look pretty good, but it's not as exaggerated as everyone said. You see, Er Hao is also good-looking, and He Shuhuan, and we in Northeast China Some of the older brothers I met when I was young, in fact, after a long time, there is almost no big difference between whether they look good or not."

Lu Mengping thought about Er Hao's face, then nodded with a vague understanding.

So it seems to be the same, although outsiders always hear that Er Hao is handsome, but they all grew up watching Er Hao grow up, so they can't see how handsome Er Hao is at all.

However, "Why did you mention He Shuhuan again? Speaking of which, I haven't met him yet. If I have a chance, I must meet him!"

He said so, but in fact, Lu Meng didn't have a good impression of He Shuhuan in his heart.

This is all due to what mother said about He Shuhuan and Du Fei's troubles that she and Ruping analyzed last time.

However, although He Shuhuan didn't feel very cold in his heart, he was Ruping's friend after all. Mengping, who had already learned some skills of observing words and expressions, didn't want to make Ruping unhappy, so when she said those words, there was only a little bit on her face. Excited and curious, there was no hesitation at all.

When Mengping mentioned He Shuhuan, Lu Ruping was startled.

In fact, when she mentioned He Shuhuan just now, she was just discussing the matter, but she really didn't have any other thoughts, and she hadn't forgotten the last time He Shuhuan went to St. John's to ask her about Yiping's news.

"When there is a chance, I will see you." After finishing the words lightly, seeing that Mengping just nodded and had no intention of asking, Lu Ruping was slightly relieved, picked up the teacup and took a sip of the fragrant black tea.

As soon as he looked up, he saw his mother looking at her with a smile.

Feeling a little embarrassed in her heart, afraid that her mother would ask about Dr. Ye and He Shuhuan like Mengping, Lu Ruping hurriedly changed the subject and looked at the things that her mother and Ruping put on the table because she came in.

"What is this?" Curiously picking up a booklet on the table, Lu Ruping looked down, and then asked her mother a little confused.

If I'm not mistaken, this seems to be a ledger... right?

Before Wang Xueqin could answer, Lu Mengping said proudly, "This is the account book at home. When I came here, my mother happened to be reading it, so I asked my mother to teach me."

Lu Mengping was purely curious, and there were still a few days before school started. She was so idle at home that she almost grew hair, so she ran to her mother all day. When she saw her looking at things, she would naturally be curious. After discovering that the account book my mother read was very interesting, I asked my mother to teach her.

Seeing Lu Ruping flipping through the account book, Wang Xueqin nodded with a smile, "Actually, if this was in the past, I should have taught you this a long time ago. After all, when you get married in the future, you still have to know the accounts at home. .But now it’s not the old deep house compound, I also want to keep you for a few more years, so I haven’t taught you these things.”

While listening to her mother's words, Lu Ruping slowly flipped through the account book in her hand. She was actually a little curious about these things in her heart.

In the past, at most, she knew that her mother added furniture, decorations, and bought them new clothes and jewelry for the house. After reading this account book, she realized that their family's expenses in just one month were so much.

From the vegetables, fruits, chickens and ducks bought every day, to the newly added cups, tea sets and bowls at home, from the foreign tobacco that Dad bought recently, to the monthly pocket money of their brothers and sisters, as well as the wages of the domestic servants, each The monthly water bill, electricity bill, door and window repair expenses, and even the monthly dog ​​food money for the poodle Beibei are all recorded in the account book in detail.

Lu Ruping just looked through the account books for such a month, and felt that one head and two big.

When he raised his head again, he was facing the mother who was sitting leisurely across the face, and there was nothing but admiration left.

"Oh my God... I never imagined that our family's monthly expenses would be so large." Looking at the figures at the end of the month, Lu Ruping couldn't help but touch her forehead.

Of course, what shocked her the most must be that her mother was able to record these things in such detail and clearly.

"Yeah, yeah, I was surprised when I saw it, but if Dad didn't bring enough money from the Northeast, we wouldn't be able to live such a good life." Looking at the account book, Lu Mengping Said seriously.

"Yes, so we have to be filial to our parents, because without them, we wouldn't be where we are now." She said to Mengping with some gratitude, but Lu Ruping actually told her mother more or less.

Mengping may not be aware of her mother's role in this, but Ruping has been able to understand since she was a child.

If it wasn't for their mother, they might not be able to live until now. Just look at the brothers and sisters who are still in the Northeast.

And if it wasn't for their mother, they wouldn't have lived such a good life—every time Yiping came to collect money, she would realize this more deeply.

Lu Ruping bit her lip embarrassingly looking at the form drawn with a pen on the account book and the clear accounts recorded in Arabic numerals.

What to do, she also wants to learn a little bit.

Wang Xueqin looked at Ruping holding the account book and did not let go. Although she was a little surprised that Ruping had such thoughts, she was also happy to teach these two daughters. After all, even if it is not the Qing Dynasty now, after they get married, it is estimated that How much is also to housekeeper.

After all, with her here, these two children should not be too poorly married.

So she simply picked up the teacup and asked Ruping seemingly casually, "Ruping, do you want to learn this from your mother too, so that you can help me share some of the burden in the future."

Knowing that her mother saw that she wanted to learn and said that, Lu Ruping hurriedly responded, and couldn't help but bend her eyes.

It was originally in Wang Xueqin's plan to teach these children.

Although due to her health and Wei Guangxiong's reasons, she can't go out for the time being, so she may have to delay socializing a bit, but in other respects, she has already made preparations.

For example, teach them to read accounts.

In the future, if possible, she will find someone to teach these children how to practice martial arts and marksmanship.

Troubled times are approaching, she is not afraid of ten thousand, just in case, she needs to let these children have the ability to protect themselves even in the worst situation.

However, there is no rush for these.

It seems that Erhao is almost ready. If I remember correctly, it should be the opening time of MFC in three days.

Thinking of this, Wang Xueqin took out a few pieces of stiff paper from the small table under the tea table and handed them to Ruping and Mengping.

"This is a set meal voucher brought back by Erhao. It is a western-style fast food restaurant called MFC. It is said that it will open in a few days, and it is next to the Conservatory of Music. If you are interested, you can try it."

"MFC? What's that?" Curiously taking a piece of paper from her mother, Lu Mengping looked down and said "Huh".

Because after receiving it, she realized that the piece of paper had already been cut into several card-like rectangular pieces that were easy to tear off, and each piece had some small pictures of chicken legs drawn on it. On the side is also correspondingly written how much is the original price of set A and set B, and how much is the current price. From a single meal to a double meal to an afternoon tea set, there are many combinations. It looks really impressive for a while dazzled.

On the other side of the paper, a large round "M" was drawn, which said that it would open in three days.

"What... what are these?" Lu Mengping asked her mother with her eyes rounded as she poked a card with words such as "French Fries", "Egg Tart", and "Spicy Chicken Wings" with her finger.

Lu Ruping was also looking at the piece of paper curiously. There were some things on it that she seemed to have eaten when she went to a western restaurant, such as French fries and chicken wings, but her mother said it was a fast food restaurant...

For a while, Lu Ruping also looked at Wang Xueqin with bright eyes.

Wang Xueqin was not surprised that the two children were so surprised.

In fact, if you put it in a hundred years, even a child will immediately understand that what Ruping and Mengping hold are KFC coupons.

And compared with the full-color printing technology a hundred years later, the current black-and-white printing is really not enough.

Fortunately, this is probably the only copy in the whole of China now, so the two children of the Lu family will naturally find it fresh after reading it.

After briefly explaining to them, Wang Xueqin saw that Mengping was eager to try and said that she would try.

At this time, Xiao Erjie also came over early, and as soon as he heard that there was something delicious, he immediately begged his two sisters to buy some for him to try.

Lu Mengping has always liked to fight against Xiao Erjie, but Xiao Erjie didn't beg her, and threw herself into the arms of the big sister, until she got the promise from Ruping's sister, and then she praised Ruping as the best sister in the world with a smile on her face , which made Lu Ruping smile.

Unlike the Lu sisters who talked and laughed happily, Lu Yiping's life is really not very good recently.

It can't go on like this!

After struggling for a few days, Lu Yiping finally decided to find out whether her mother had a man outside.

Coincidentally, on the day before the welcome meeting of the Teachers College, everyone has been rehearsing for almost half a month and will perform on stage tomorrow, so in order for these students to recharge their batteries, the school can perform well the next day , so the first-grade students are allowed to leave school half a day earlier.

That's why when Lu Yiping was about to get home, she found that her mother had gone out of the house in a hurry when the sun was shining at noon.

Lu Yiping understands her mother. Except for grocery shopping and paying rent, her mother almost never goes out, nor does she have any need to go out, let alone at noon when the sun is at its strongest.

She felt a little strange in her heart, and when she thought about the words of the neighbors and the entanglement of the past few days, Lu Yiping barely struggled, and quietly followed behind her mother, intending to see what her mother was going to do.

And when she followed her mother around the market, watched her buy a basket of vegetables and fruits, and then went in another direction that was definitely not going home, carefully as if hiding from people, Lu Yiping's heart It was almost half cold.

She almost didn't dare to see where her mother was going anymore, but her feet still chased her mother all the way as if she didn't listen to the command of her brain at all.

After walking for about an hour, Lu Yiping followed her mother into a dilapidated alley.

Originally, the place where their mother and daughter lived was not very good, but at least it was not too dilapidated, but the house here looked older than theirs. Lu Yiping even wondered if the house here could even block the rain on rainy days Can't live.

Finally, after seeing her mother knocking on the door of a house in the deepest part of the alley, Lu Yiping squatted down almost exhausted.

She really didn't want to doubt her mother, but the facts she saw with her own eyes left her with no last reason to excuse her mother.

But even so, she still had a sense of luck in her heart, and sneaked under the window of that family, wanting to listen to the voices in the house.

As a result, as she listened, Lu Yiping's eyes gradually lit up, and the heaviness on her face disappeared almost immediately. Then she stood up suddenly, and pushed open the door of that family's house. Someone shouted: "Mom! Mrs. Li!"

"Yiping?!"

"Miss Yiping?!"

The people inside the door also exclaimed almost at the same time.

The few people who were shocked by this sudden meeting and didn't know what to do, didn't notice at all that just next door to Lieutenant Li's house, the family who moved in not long ago hurried out alone.

A while later, Lu Erhao, who was far away at the declaration headquarters, received a call that made him wait for a long time.

"Sir, a seventeen or eighteen-year-old girl broke into Li's house just now. I can hear clearly that she and the woman who often go to Li's house are calling mom!"

"Well," I didn't expect that Lu Yiping would meet with the Li family so soon. Thinking of her disaster-like accident physique in the TV series, Lu Erhao's voice was deep and deep, and he told the person on the other end of the phone: "Keep an eye on it. Li family, if you find any changes in them, especially if Lu Yiping said something like going to help them get justice, call me immediately. If you can't find me, just call another number I gave you beat."

The other number is the phone number of the Lu Family Mansion.

Lu Erhao once told him that if he could not be contacted immediately, he should immediately call the Lu family and ask Wang Xueqin to inform the Li family of the situation.

Although my mother mentioned that in the TV series, Lu Yiping didn't bring this matter up to Mr. Lu until she reunited with Li's family for more than a year, but Lu Erhao couldn't just sit there and wait for trouble to come.

So from the second day after finding the details of the Li family, Lu Erhao had already found someone to help keep an eye on the Li family.

Lu Erhao didn't disclose too much specific information, but because he gave generous conditions, he also said that he was not doing anything harmful, so until recently, people from Cao's family went to replace the man who was originally stationed next to Li's house. At that time, the original person had almost no idea about Lu Erhao's information.

As for the members of the Cao family, Lu Erhao trusted a lot.

It's just that they didn't expect that the Cao family's talents bumped into Lu Yiping within a few days.

Although my mother said earlier that if possible, she hoped to send the Li family away peacefully, but that was only on the premise that they could not hurt her.

If there were any changes between the Li family and Lu Yiping before this, then Lu Erhao really didn't mind, and let the Li family disappear from this world in the most direct way.

Thinking of this, a trace of cruelty flashed across Lu Erhao's eyes, but it quickly disappeared without a trace.

That night, after eating at Li's house and Lieutenant Li's family who hurried home knowing that their mother and daughter had passed, Lu Yiping and her mother walked slowly towards home under the moonlight.

Lu Yiping didn't ask some questions that she couldn't ask because she was at Lieutenant Li's house.

"Mom, did you already know about the situation of Adjutant Li's house?" Lu Yiping asked curiously, thinking of the desolate situation of Adjutant Li's house and Ke Yun's crazy appearance.

"Yes," Fu Wenpei sighed deeply, looking at the seemingly endless stone road under his feet, "Actually, I didn't know anything about Lieutenant Li's family at first. Until one day, Adjutant Li came to me suddenly, Only when they begged me for help with tears in their eyes did I know the situation of their family."

"Their family is really miserable. How could Ke Yun become like that?" Thinking of how Ke Yun was tied to the bed and fell asleep trembling while they were eating, Lu Yiping's eyes were full of unbearable.

"Ke Yun had a child before, and when the child died of illness, she also went crazy." Thinking of the child who died young, and how Ke Yun lost his mind immediately after the child died, Fu Wenpei sighed.

"What? Keyun actually had a child? Is she married? Where is the child's father? Don't they care about their mother and child?" Lu Yiping really had too many questions today.

Thinking of the child's father, Fu Wenpei's heart skipped a beat, and she quickly told Lu Yiping, "At Li's house, don't mention the child's father, the child's father is gone."

"Then, Adjutant Li and Dad are so good, and their family is so miserable now, does Dad not care?" Lu Yiping really didn't understand, why didn't Adjutant Li go to find Dad?

"When he left the Lu family, your father gave him a lot of money, but Lieutenant Li lost all his business, but after Yun became crazy, he often ran out and had troubles, and every time his family had to compensate others A lot of money, that's why the Li family is so embarrassed now."

Speaking of this, Fu Wenpei shook his head, "After I know the situation of Lieutenant Li's house, I always buy something to see them, and I also give them some money, but you have seen what their house looks like, so I gave it to you." Those are just a drop in the bucket."

Hearing her mother's words, Lu Yiping's heart paused, and for some reason, the words of gratitude that Mrs. Li said to her before suddenly sounded in her mind, "If it weren't for Madam, she would often give us five or ten dollars. I just don't know how to live my life!"

Thinking of the subtle feeling in her heart when she heard those words, although Lu Yiping felt a little uncomfortable, but thinking of the bleak appearance of the Li family, her sympathy for their family finally prevailed.

After all, it was Lieutenant Li's family who had watched her grow up.

Thinking of this, the slight complaints in her heart towards her mother seemed to disappear without a trace.

Smiling at her mother, Lu Yiping looked at her mother's wrinkled side face, and said sensiblely: "Mom, Lieutenant Li and Mrs. Li have watched me grow up since they were young, and Ke Yun has played with me for so many years. , It is impossible for us to watch them so miserable and ignore them. So when you come here in the future, don't hide it from me. I usually spend less money, so our family will not be under so much pressure. "

Fu Wenpei looked at her daughter with relief, and felt that Yiping had really grown up.

So she just smiled and nodded, and the mother and daughter stepped on the moonlight and walked towards the door hand in hand.