When Yang Dingbang returned home, he saw the old lady sitting on a chair waiting for him. He quickly told her what happened and sighed: "Lin Lan is quite brave."
"Ye San, that bitch." The old lady patted the armrest, "Poor Lin Lan, she was so frightened when she heard the thief entered the house! I'll go over and stay with her."
Yang Dingbang hurriedly supported her: "Grandma, Lin Lan said she's fine. I'll just leave her alone. You can go there after dawn, okay?"
The old lady wiped away her tears: "Oh! The life of a young and widowed woman is miserable! When a single-headed woman encounters this kind of thing, she will say good or bad things behind her back. You have to help her! Don't let people from Ye San's family come to the door.
Find her."
Yang Dingbang nodded: "Don't worry, I told Brother Zhang and asked him and his wife not to talk about this matter in the team for the time being until the case is concluded."
The old lady nodded, went back to undress and lay down.
****
Lin Lan made all the pastries for the morning market and went to the room to see Xiaodouzi. When she got to the bed, she saw that his face was flushed and his little hands were tightly grasping the thin quilt on his chest, twisting uneasily.
"Oops, I was scared last night." Lin Lan hurriedly picked him up, "The baby is not afraid. Mom is here, so he is not afraid!..."
Xiaodouzi opened his eyes and saw Lin Lan, hugged her neck and cried loudly: "Mom, I was dreaming. I dreamed that the bad guys took you away, and the bad guys beat Dahuang to death, woo... wu... wu..."
"Don't be afraid. Mom said dreams are fake. Men don't cry when they sweat."
Lin Lan patted his vest distressedly and comforted him softly. After he settled down, she gave him the medicine prescribed by the doctor to calm his nerves and coax him to sleep.
After he fell asleep peacefully, I cooked red potato porridge, fried leeks and eggs, and mixed some pickled cowpeas to prepare to wake him up for dinner, when the old lady came.
The old lady felt relieved when she saw Lin Lan working with her apron tied around her waist, and said happily: "We don't cause trouble, but we are not afraid of it either. When trouble comes, it is right to fight back with courage like you."
"
"Well!" Lin Lan heartily helped the old lady walk into the house, "I'm not afraid. I don't worry about anything else. I'm just worried about Xiaodouzi. He was frightened last night and had a fever this morning. I gave him medicine and he got better.
.”
The old lady said worriedly: "I'll go take a look."
The two of them went into the room to see him sleeping peacefully, and then came out and talked for a while.
The old lady stood up and said, "I'll go back and talk to Meihua and ask Xiaokai to ask Douzi for leave. Don't go to school today."
Lin Lan nodded, picked up a plate of pea cake and gave it to her: "Take it back and make breakfast for Dandan."
The old lady took the plate and said, "Call me if you need anything."
"Um!"
Lin Lan sent the old lady away and looked back at the door of the courtyard. He could no longer see Dahuang wagging his tail. He was running around in front of him to please him. He closed the courtyard door with a sore nose and entered the house. He saw Xiaodouzi pulling on his shoes and walking away.
come out.
"Mom, where is the rhubarb?"
Lin Lan hesitated for a moment, picked him up and said, "The rhubarb is gone. Mom buried it in the bamboo forest in the backyard."
"Wow! Woohoo..." Xiaodouzi lay on Lin Lan's shoulder and cried sadly, "Rhubarb, rhubarb..."
Lin Lan touched his head and said softly: "Stop crying. When uncle comes, we will catch another one and call it rhubarb."
"It's different, it's not the original rhubarb, bad guy! My rhubarb, woo... woo..."
"Be good, don't be sad anymore!" Lin Lan coaxed the sad little Douzi.
"Xiaodouzi!" Yang Dingbang took Dandan to the courtyard and looked at the sobbing Xiaodouzi, "How does a man cry like a man? If you stop crying, Uncle Yao will catch a little wolf dog for you."
"Yeah!" Xiaodouzi lay on Lin Lan's shoulder and nodded to him with tears in his eyes.
Dandan jumped out of the back seat, took out a set of doll books and handed them to him: "Don't cry, your favorite Journey to the West, my brother gave it to you."
"Thank you, brother, Douzi!" Lin Lan put him down.
Xiaodouzi sniffed and took Journey to the West: "Thank you, Brother Dandan, I will give you the railway guerrillas."
"Okay, give it to me when I come back from school." Dandan said, touching his head like a little adult, "Don't cry anymore!"
Xiaodouzi wiped away her tears and said, "I won't cry anymore." Before she could finish her words, tears started flowing down again.
Yang Dingbang said to Lin Lan: "Sister-in-law, I told brother-in-law He and uncle what happened last night. If the Ye San family comes to intercede with you, you don't need to pay attention to them if you don't want to. If they come to make trouble, brother-in-law He and uncle will come forward.
solve."
Lin Lan nodded: "Okay, please help me with Dingbang."
Dandan looked at Lin Lan with bright eyes: "Auntie, dad said you are so brave!"
Lin Lan smiled and touched his head: "Little naughty boy, get in the car and go to school."
After sending Yang Dingbang and his son away, Xiaodouzi finally stopped crying and said he wanted to see where the rhubarb was buried?
Lin Lan took him over. Xiaodouzi squatted there for a long time, stood up and sighed like an adult: "Mom, Dahuang is sleeping on the ground like daddy."
"Um!"
Lin Lan's nose felt sour, she rubbed his head and led him back. Suddenly, she realized that she had never heard him say that he missed his father. He only heard the old lady tell her that Xiaodouzi was afraid of Yang Laoyao and said that he always cursed people.
, hit people.
The mother and son had just finished dinner when brother Wang Zhixue came over. Seeing Xiao Douzi's eyes were red and swollen, they asked in surprise: "Auntie, what's wrong with Douzi? What's wrong with him?"
Xiaodouzi stepped forward and looked at the two of them: "Cousin Lin, Dahuang was beaten to death by a bad guy."
Wang Zhilin glared and said: "Who did this? I caught him and removed his hand."
"Why are you shouting?" Wang Zhixue patted him, "Listen to my aunt."
"..." Lin Lan told them what happened last night.
"The Ye family is so miserable, I'll go find them." The two brothers picked up the door bar and rushed out.
"Stop!" Lin Lan yelled at the two of them, "If you knock on the door like this, our rationale will become irrelevant. Ye San was taken away by the police, and my uncle is watching from the criminal police team, so I won't suffer. You go first
Go set up a stall, and if he doesn’t come to your door, we don’t need to pay attention to him.”
The two brothers said calmly: "We know."
Lin Lan gave them the goods for the morning market, and the two brothers rode away on the big golden deer.
Xiaodouzi went into the house, picked up her schoolbag and came out, saying to Lin Lan: "Mom, I'm going to school."
Lin Lan knelt down and looked at him: "Son, you just took medicine this morning, why don't you go today?"
Xiaodouzi took her hand and put it on his forehead: "I'm fine. The teacher said that children who skip class are not good children."
Lin Lan touched his forehead and face. His body temperature had returned to normal: "Are you really okay?"
Xiaodouzi nodded: "I am a man, so hurry up!"
At this time, Xiaokai and Xiaomei also came. Seeing Xiaodouzi carrying a schoolbag, they asked strangely: "Yang Xiaoguo, grandma said you were scared and asked for leave today. Why are you carrying a schoolbag?"
"I'm ready!" Xiaodouzi ran towards the two of them, "Let's go."
Lin Lan had no choice but to let him follow the two of them, planning to visit the school later.