"Is this a dream?" Dadongzi reached out and touched his forehead.
When he had a fever, he seemed to see Lingbao. Lingbao also fed him water. He remembered that the water was so sweet, it was the best water he had ever drunk.
However, it is impossible no matter how you think about it...
Dadongzi felt that he was probably delirious from the fever and had hallucinations.
Shaking his head, he walked to the table and found a glass of water and a plate on the table. On the plate were biscuits, sesame paste candies and bean curd candies.
"Brother, don't be afraid...brother will be fine after drinking water..." The girl's warm and sweet voice floated in my ears.
Dadongzi hesitantly picked up the water glass, put it to his mouth and took a sip. The sweet taste was exactly the same as the water he drank when he was semi-conscious.
Then he ate the biscuits again, and when he ate the candy, something in his heart was touched, and tears fell down like broken beads.
From the Jiang family, Jiang Qingshan glanced at the darkening sky outside, and still felt worried about his eldest son, "I'd better go and see Dadongzi. That kid is so stubborn about saving face. Even if he feels sad, he probably won't come to us to complain.
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"Speak to him properly and don't quarrel with him again."
"Don't worry," Jiang Qingshan said to his wife, "As long as he stops talking about Lingbao, I will definitely have a good talk with him."
The family had just finished dinner when Shen Su'e suddenly thought of something and called to her husband who had already gone out, "Come back for a moment! I made an extra pickled cabbage pancake this afternoon. You can take it over for him to eat."
"Okay." Jiang Qingshan walked back to the kitchen.
Just as he was about to take the cake, there was a sudden knock on the door outside.
"Mom, I'll open the door!" Wu Chaozi ran to the courtyard door and opened it.
Seeing his eldest brother standing outside, he was slightly stunned, "It's you! My parents were worried about you just now. You look good like this."
"I came here to ask about...Lingbao..."
"What?" Wu Chaozi frowned in confusion, "What are you asking Lingbao for? Lingbao was sleepy after eating just now and is sleeping in the room right now."
Dadongzi walked into the yard, waited for his fifth brother to close the door, and asked: "Lingbao hasn't gone out today? Has he always been at home?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
When Wu Chaozi replied, his parents walked out of the kitchen.
Jiang Qingshan coughed uncomfortably, walked up and asked, "Dadongzi, are you here? Are you okay? Why did your wife go back to her parents' home?"
Dadongzi gritted his teeth and said nothing.
Seeing that he didn't look good, Jiang Qingshan comforted him: "It's okay for this couple to argue at the head of the bed and at the end of the bed. I'll accompany you to your wife's natal home tomorrow and just take her back."
"I think it's better for me to go. Mother Xiuyun came to our house once before, so it's more convenient for me to talk to my mother-in-law," Shen Su'e said.
"Fathers and mothers, don't go!" Dadongzi was still angry with his wife, "Let her and her son stay at her parents' house. It's best not to come back again!"
His mother slapped him hard and said, "Why are you talking like this? After all, she is your wife and the mother of your children. Without a wife and children, can life be called a life? Listen to mother and go tomorrow.
Coax people back!"
"I won't go!" Dadongzi said stubbornly.
Sanleizi and Sihaizi both came out at this time.
"Brother, are you here? Mom, dad, please stop standing in the yard and talk. Come inside and have a good chat. I'll light some charcoal." Sanleizi said.
"Yeah, it's getting dark, it's freezing to death." Sihaizi half dragged and half dragged his eldest brother into the house and asked him to sit on a chair.
After lighting the charcoal fire, Sanleizi asked: "Why did my sister-in-law go back to her parents' house? Brother, please tell me the reason, and we can help you think of something together."
Dadongzi was silent for a long time. After being persuaded by his father, mother and several brothers in turn, he finally told the reason why his wife returned to her parents' home.
"She forced me to come to my mother to ask for pork, but I refused, so she took the child back to her parents' home." Speaking of his wife, Dadongzi clenched his fists. "After she left, I found that there was no food at home. There was nothing left for me, I took them all away."
"What? Did you take all the food away?" Shen Su'e was surprised and said in a confused tone, "Then what have you eaten in the past two days?"
"Didn't eat anything."
"You haven't eaten anything in the past two days?"
Wu Chaozi didn't believe it, "Isn't it possible? I see that you look very good. Your face is more rosy than the previous two days. I thought you had eaten something good, and you don't feel hungry at all." It’s been two days.”
"I just had something to eat before going out," Dadongzi took out half of the uneaten sesame paste candy and said, "Here, there are also biscuits and bean root candy."
Everyone in the room was shocked. Wu Chaozi reacted and said excitedly: "Okay! You stole food from my house, right? When did you steal it? These are Lingbao's biscuits and candies. Did you enter?" Was it stolen from my mother’s house?”
"Lingbao's cookies and candies?"
"No, I mean... these are the biscuits and candies my mother bought for Lingbao. When did you steal them? Was it the first day of the new year?"
Jiang Qingshan interrupted the fifth son's questioning, "Okay, Chaozi, what you said is a bit too much. Your eldest brother is not the kind of person who steals things."
"But these are obviously things from our house, how did he eat them?"
Dadongzi said thoughtfully, "If I tell you, you may not believe it. Lingbao gave me these foods. I had a fever. When I was dizzy from the fever, Lingbao fed me I drank some water, and then I was cured."
After saying that, seeing that his parents and brothers were silent, he added: "I know this is strange, because the courtyard door is closed, and she is so small, it is impossible to climb the wall and come in, but I just saw Lingbao. .
I thought before that it might be an illusion, but Wu Chaozi said that my mother bought these biscuits and candies for Lingbao, so there can be no mistake."
"Ahem!" Jiang Qingshan coughed and abruptly changed the subject, "What, Dadongzi, do you have a fever? Is the fever serious? You don't have anything to eat at home, why don't you come and tell us? You kid is really..."
"Dad, I was talking about Lingbao just now. What is going on? Do you know anything?" A thought flashed through Dadongzi's mind, "Dad, your legs can't be Lingbao." Is Bao cured?"
Shen Su'e saw that she could no longer hide the matter, so she had to tell the secret about Lingbao, "Lingbao is a doll that the old fairy asked me to raise in a dream. She is different from ordinary children, but I just treat her as an ordinary child." child.
Dadongzi, don’t tell other people about Lingbao, especially the fact that her blood can cure diseases. If other people know about it, I wonder what they will do to her, just like that Tang Monk Meat ,How many goblins want to eat Tang Monk’s meat!”
At this time, Wu Chaozi couldn't help but talk about his encounter with wild dogs in the mountains, "If it weren't for Lingbao, I would be dead! Brother, if you dare to tell Lingbao's secret, I'm not done with you.
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"You don't need to threaten me!" Dadongzi interrupted his fifth brother's words and said seriously, "Lingbao is not only your savior, she also saved me. As long as I can protect her, I will not kill her."