When Lulu and I passed through the dense red lines and returned to our bodies, we finally realized the fatigue and fear we felt after a trip to the underworld.
I vaguely felt myself being pulled up by my second uncle, and I drank a bowl of medicine in a daze, which seemed to be incense burner ashes, and took a bitter pill in a daze, which seemed to be an antipyretic medicine.
After that, no matter how my uncle and Aunt Duan called me, I couldn't raise my eyelids and just fell asleep.
The next morning I woke up from the heat, and my whole body was as wet as if I had fallen into a bathtub.
When I opened my eyes, Lulu was covering me with the quilt: "Lulu..."
My throat feels so sore and dry.
"Nuan Ting, you're awake!" Lulu stopped in surprise, rubbing her rabbit-like red eyes and ran to the door, "Second uncle! Nuan Ting is awake!"
"..." Give me a glass of water first...
After a while, my second uncle and Aunt Duan, Fang Zhongyu, rushed in like wild beasts, and I finally managed to drink the water.
After drinking a large glass of water, Fang Zhongyu's eyes widened: "Nuan Ting, are you a donkey?"
Gaba, I stopped drinking water.
Aunt Duan kicked Fang Zhongyu angrily: "Get out of here!"
Fang Zhongyu rubbed his nose and stopped talking, squatting in the corner obediently.
My second uncle took the empty water glass from me. I saw that my uncle's cheeks were somewhat sunken, his eyes were red and bloodshot, and his eye sockets were black and blue, as if he hadn't slept for several days.
"Girl Yun, Lulu told her second uncle last night that it's too risky for you to do this."
My little hands were holding the quilt restlessly. Is my second uncle going to scold me?
I glanced at my second uncle secretly, but his expression didn't look like he was angry, it looked like he was angry mixed with relief and worry.
I pursed my chapped lips and decided to tell my second uncle what I was thinking: "Second uncle, if I don't go, Lulu will definitely die. If I go, although there is little chance of her surviving,
Isn't it still possible? You said you have to make a brave choice when there is no way out. I only decided to go in after making the choice."
Moreover, I don’t dare to think about the situation where Lulu will never be around again.
Lulu held my hand tightly and said nervously to her second uncle: "Second uncle, it's all my fault. Don't blame Nuan Ting!"
The second uncle shook his head and sighed, then hugged Lulu and us into his arms: "The second uncle is not blaming you, you are the victims, so how can the second uncle blame you? The second uncle just feels that you have grown up, and you have not been able to do it since you were a child."
The little girl who only cried when things happened at first has become brave and determined now. This is all earned through hard work! The second uncle is pleased and happy! But he also feels distressed."
Originally it was okay if my second uncle didn't tell me, but when my second uncle said it, my grievances felt like a dam had burst. I lay in my uncle's arms and cried loudly.
So does Lulu.
But when we were howling at Lulu, we kept our mouths shut and stayed far away from our second uncle.
The second uncle's body smelled of oil, mud, and cigarette smoke. It was so stinky that his nose was hit.
Aunt Duan stood at the end of the bed, covering her mouth and laughing, her eyes almost flying: "Your second uncle hasn't slept a wink for the past four days. He has been watching over you two. He doesn't take a shower or change clothes. Don't stink."
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The second uncle suddenly scratched the scalp on his head in embarrassment, his face turned a little red: "Then you guys rest first, I'll take a bath."
Looking at her second uncle's back swept away like a gust of wind, Lulu turned back and we looked at each other and smiled: "Hehe."
Fang Zhongyu suddenly stretched his head in front of us, and his suddenly enlarged face shocked us both: "I said, can we go tread water today?"
Lulu rolled her eyes and kicked him down: "Didn't you see that Nuanning's fever hasn't gone away yet?"
Alas, Lulu's energy was too strong, and Fang Zhongyu rolled down like a ball. But not only did Fang Zhongyu not make any noise, he even lay down in the corner with a big smile on his face.
"Fang Zhongyu, what are you laughing at?" You were kicked stupid, right?
Fang Zhongyu lay there, clutching the clothes on his chest with both hands, his expression as if he had entered a fairyland, shaking his head and saying, "Yes, this is the feeling, this is the smell."
"..." Don't pay attention to him.
During lunch, Grandpa Duan kept bringing vegetables to Lulu and us, and he burst into tears.
Aunt Duan worriedly handed Grandpa Duan a tissue: "Dad, why are you still crying?"
Grandpa Duan pinched his nose and said while crying and laughing: "As you get older, you can't bear to see anything happen to your children."
When Uncle Duan knew the truth of the matter, his head almost hit the table: "Oh, it's all my fault. If I hadn't pulled Bai Jing away, how could such a thing have happened? We have to get these two children back intact.
Otherwise, I would be really... hard to blame!"
Uncle Duan held it in for a long time before he came up with an idiom.
Fang Zhongyu sat between Uncle Duan and Aunt Duan, smiling as he poked the rice in the bowl with his chopsticks: "Uncle, you are the big sex addict."
Uncle Duan's face turned the color of pig liver after hearing this.
Aunt Duan rarely hit Fang Zhongyu for being rude, but nodded in agreement: "Brother, you are such a big pervert."
Lulu and we hurriedly picked up the rice bowls and covered our uncontrollable smiles with rice.
Later, Uncle Duan said that in order to apologize, he decided to pay and let Fang Zhongyu take us to the water park.
You can play whatever you want and for as long as you want.
The second uncle actually agreed. I thought the second uncle had to politely refuse.
So, in the afternoon, the three of us became completely free-spirited chickens and played all the water park items.
After playing a few games at first, I was a little embarrassed because those projects were too expensive. After playing a few games, all the money our restaurant made in a day went into it.
But Fang Zhongyu grabbed both of us and raised his chin like a young adult: "Let's play, why don't you play? My uncle is not short of money. If I don't teach him a lesson, he will still get confused in the future."
My little bit of embarrassment completely disappeared in the face of all kinds of dazzling gameplay.
The three of us played until the evening, and walked in the water for a while at the beach. Fang Zhongyu also taught us how to swim.
"Second brother, how can this be done? It's too dangerous to learn to swim in the sea. What if the child gets too playful and swims to the depths?"
"It's okay, they are sensible."
"Hey, I'm talking about you." Uncle Duan chased the second uncle's figure and walked away.
After playing all afternoon, I was really tired, and I was not as energetic as Lulu and Fang Zhongyu, so I sat on the beach and watched the sunset, throwing the stranded fish back into the sea.
The golden sunset has been half submerged by the boundless sea. In sight, Fang Zhongyu and Lulu are chasing each other and playing in the water.
Fang Zhongyu smiled playfully, and Lulu became angry with shame. The originally beautiful and harmonious scene ended with Fang Zhongyu stumbling and being chased by Lulu, and it ended with his wailing.