Chapter 5 Strange Man
Author: Mu Shenghua
She and Cheng Huai's father had also gotten married before because they liked each other, so this matter really shouldn't be rushed.
"No problem." Cheng Huai said two words coldly and turned around to go out.
Jiang Miao raised her eyes, looked at the tall and steady back of the man, and felt relieved.
Yu Ying smiled and patted her hand: "The injury is not healed yet, lie down and sleep for a while."
"Thank you, aunt."
Yu Ying helped her lie down with a smile and said confidently: "Call me mother, you will have to change your name in the future anyway."
Jiang Miao was stunned for a moment, feeling her eyes suddenly sore and swollen: "Mother." She has a mother.
This mother's shout made Yu Ying's heart warm, "Hey, mother will scoop you a bowl of porridge. You can eat it before going to bed."
Jiang Miao nodded and couldn't help but lick her lower lip. Her body was very hungry. She had been malnourished for a long time. She had never had a few full meals in her memory. She wouldn't give her food until she finished her work. If she ate more, Zhang Xiu would
She would be scolded and beaten, and now she is as skinny as a stick, with not much flesh on her body.
Yu Ying went out to see Cheng Huai off, then went to get a bowl of porridge for Jiang Miao, and then took the restless Dabao and Xiaobao to eat porridge.
Jiang Miao didn't feel bored while watching them while drinking porridge.
The two guys are still young, but they eat very gracefully. They hold wooden spoons in their little hands and stuff them into their mouths one by one. Any rice cereal that leaks out will be caught by Yu Ying with the spoon, and then fed back to their mouths.
"Milk, delicious." Cheng Dabao looked satisfied.
"Eat!" Cheng Xiaobao nodded honestly, holding the bowl and licking the little bit of rice cereal left on the side.
Yu Ying looked funny but also a little sad. After they all finished eating, Yu Ying took the bowl from Jiang Miao's hand and asked her to lie down and sleep.
After that, I took Dabao and Xiaobao for a walk in the yard outside the house several times. When they came back, they were both walking crookedly, holding Yu Ying's thigh with half-squinted eyes and unable to walk.
"Milk, Dabao is sleepy, please go to sleep."
"Xiaobao, sleep!" Cheng Xiaobao responded sleepily.
Not surprised, Yu Ying bent down to pick up one and put it on the bed, then picked up the other and put it next to her.
After finishing these tasks, Yu Ying went to another room to check on Jiang Miao. Seeing that she was sleeping soundly, she closed the door with a lock and carried a bucket of dirty clothes to the river.
Jiang Miao was woken up by a burst of crying. She sat up from the bed holding her head, got out of bed, put on her shoes, and walked to the opposite room.
On the bed, Cheng Dabao was pressing on Cheng Xiaobao, crying with his mouth wide open. Cheng Xiaobao was also crying. I don't know if Cheng Dabao was pressing him too hard or if he was just crying along with him.
Jiang Miao raised her hand and rubbed her temples. Just as she was about to step forward and slap their butts, she heard movement in the main room.
With a sharp look in her eyes, she picked up the stick on the side and walked slowly to the door of the main room with small steps.
Someone is picking the lock!
"Who!" she yelled, looking out through the crack in the door, only to see a strange man in black cloth and coarse clothes.
He immediately hit the door with a stick. The loud noise alerted the man outside, who quickly turned around and ran away.
The shock from the stick made my hands numb, and my head also felt a dull pain.
Seeing the man running away in a hurry, Jiang Miao released her fingers from the stick and let out a breath.
Her body was too weak, so she exerted some force and felt like she was teetering.
I quickly went back to the house, sat down on the bed, calmed down for a while, and then tried to comfort the two babies who were still crying.
When Yu Ying came back from washing clothes, she met Li at the foot of the slope and said hello to her.
As for the neighbors in the house, the Li family is the only one close to their home, and we can occasionally exchange a few words with each other.
Mrs. Li was holding a bowl in her hand. When she saw her, she quickly shouted: "Hey, sister of the Cheng family, you are finally back!"
Yu Ying was a little confused: "What's wrong, Sister Li?"
Mrs. Li hurriedly took a bite of her food and walked up to remind her, "I just saw a strange man coming down the slope. Is he a relative of your mother's side?"
As soon as Yu Ying heard this, she immediately ran up the slope with the wooden basin filled with clothes.
Does she have any relatives from her mother's side?
Ever since Cheng Huai's father went to Beijing to take the exam and there was no news, his parents' family didn't even have a single relative who came to catch the autumn wind.
Sure enough, as soon as I arrived at the door of my house, I saw that the big lock had indeed been tampered with, but fortunately it was not opened.
She quickly opened the lock, put down her clothes and ran inside.
In the room, Jiang Miao patted Cheng Dabao's butt with her left hand and Cheng Xiaobao's butt with her right hand. The two little boys were lying on the bed obediently, sticking out their round little buttocks and twisting them from time to time.
Hearing another movement, Jiang Miao grabbed the stick beside the bed faster than her brain and turned her head warily.
"Girl Miao, it's mother." Yu Ying shouted quickly, "Are you all okay?"
Seeing that it was Yu Ying, Jiang Miao put down the stick and a thin layer of sweat broke out on her forehead, "Mom, you are back."
Yu Ying quickly supported her and said in a distressed tone: "Hey, it's okay, you must have been scared!"
Jiang Miao was still frightened and said quickly: "There was a man outside just now who pried open the door. Mom, have you met him when you came back?"
Yu Ying shook her head and frowned: "I didn't touch it. Sister Li told me when we were going uphill. I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I ran back quickly."
I don’t know who Qian Dao Qian Dao dared to come to her house to break open the door.
Yu Ying rolled up her sleeves and helped her stand up, "You go to the house and lie down first, and leave the rest to mother."
"That person might come again, mother, be careful."
"Mom, I know, thanks to you being at home today, otherwise the baby might have been taken away."
It scares me just thinking about it, but fortunately both the baby and the baby are fine.
Seeing Jiang Miao lie down, Yu Ying's voice became gentle: "Go to sleep, mother will make some medicine for you, don't worry about things outside."
Jiang Miao nodded obediently. She had been nervous for a long time, but now she fell asleep again as soon as she touched the pillow.
Yu Ying was about to go out to do some work, when she saw two little boys standing at the door, tilting their heads and quietly looking at Jiang Miao on the bed, looking like they wanted to go in but didn't dare.
Yu Ying walked to the door with a smile, bent down and led the two of them to the main room, and touched their heads: "Dabao and Xiaobao, be good, let's go play somewhere else."
"Milk, Dabao, be obedient!" Cheng Dabao clenched his two small fists and nodded obediently.
Cheng Xiaobao followed suit, raised his hand to cover his mouth, and whispered: "Mistress, listen!"
Yu Ying was amused, walked to the door and checked the door bolt again, and then blocked the back with a chair.
Dabao and Xiaobao followed behind, touching the door panel and then the chair.
Yu Ying knew that they would not be sleepy after they woke up, so she took them to the backyard.
I scooped half a bowl of rice cereal for each of them, watched them finish eating, and then threw them into the shady open space fenced in when raising chickens.
The chickens were gone a long time ago, and the pen was very clean. There were only some wooden toys made by Cheng Huai for them.
A year ago, Cheng Huai was carried back with wounds all over his body. Yu Ying stewed all the chickens at home to replenish his health.
Later, my family didn't have much money, so I never raised chickens again.
Chapter completed!