Chapter 42

The afternoon before Chu's father had the operation, Chu Zhaozhao went to the personnel department to ask for a leave. When she passed by Mu Jiyun's office, she stood up and thought about it, but still didn't go in and told him about the leave.

Chu Zhaozhao himself is having awkwardness.

So when she got off work, she was in the car and was a little absent-minded.

It was not until the car stopped downstairs that she told Mu Jiyun that she would not come to work if she asked for leave tomorrow.

Mu Jiyun seemed not surprised. He said, "I will drive out tomorrow morning. You can take the bus back by yourself. When you arrive, call me. Do you know?"

Chu Zhaozhao lowered her head and stared at her bag, but she didn't answer the conversation, but she didn't untie her seat belt.

Mu Jiyun said again: "But next time I encounter this, I have to call me first..."

He looked at Chu Zhaozhao's depressed look and unknowingly changed the words "Do you know" from him to "Okay?"

When Chu Zhaozhao heard this, he understood and looked up at him, "Did A Lu tell you?"

Mu Jiyun nodded, "What he said when he came to report on his work today."

Chu Zhaozhao clasped her seat belt with her fingers and thought about it. She guessed that Ah Lu probably didn't tell Mu Jiyun about her borrowing money, otherwise Mu Jiyun would have other actions.

"Then I'll go back first." Chu Zhaozhao untied his seat belt and got out of the car.

The next morning, Chu Zhaozhao took the earliest bus to the hospital, and his father was preparing for the operation.

After a busy morning, Dad Chu was finally pushed into the operating room.

Chu Mingming stood at the door anxiously, looking around from time to time.

Chu Zhaozhao put her back and said, "It's okay, it's a minor surgery."

Chu Mingming was not comforted, and sweat slowly oozed out of her back, so she simply turned her head and stopped looking.

Just as she turned her head, she saw someone.

"Uncle, uncle?"

"Why are you called uncle?"

The moment he heard the sound, Chu Zhaozhao immediately turned around and indeed saw Mu Jiyun.

"Teacher Mu, why are you here?"

"Come and have a look." Mu Jiyun walked to her, "Is the operation not over yet?"

Chu Zhaozhao said: "It's almost done."

As soon as he finished speaking, the lights in the operating room changed. Then Chu's father was pushed out. The Chu family and the whole family surrounded him and were busy. No one had time to take care of Mu Jiyun for a while.

After a while, Chu Mingming walked out of the ward alone and sat on a chair outside.

Mu Jiyun stood outside all the time. Seeing Chu Mingming coming out, he asked, "Why did you come out alone?"

Chu Mingming whispered: "They are afraid that I will be hurt."

Mu Jiyun looked at Chu Mingming sideways.

He is tall, thin, almost transparent, and his body seems to be covered with the shadow of illness, making people feel that a little force will break the person in front of him.

Mu Jiyun used to be very familiar with this feeling.

The two of them were silent for a long time, and suddenly, Chu Mingming pulled Mu Jiyun's sleeve: "Uncle."

"I'll say the last time, call me brother." Mu Jiyun said seriously.

"Brother, brother." Chu Mingming was frightened by his serious look, and then shut up after screaming.

Mu Jiyun waited for a long time without waiting for her text, and asked, "What are you going to say?"

"Well..." Chu Mingming hesitated for a long time before hesitating, "What is your relationship with my sister?"

Mu Jiyun raised his eyebrows and looked at her, "Why do you ask that?"

Chu Mingming said: "Because you have come twice, no one has ever been like this..."

"Oh, because..." Mu Jiyun said with a smile, "I am pursuing your sister."

"Bang--" A muffled sound rang behind me.

Mu Jiyun and Chu Mingming both turned around and saw Chu Zhaozhao stunned, and the plastic cup in his hand fell to the ground.

After a while, she immediately squatted down with a red face and picked up the cup, then turned around and headed to the bathroom.

Mu Jiyun also followed.

She washed a cup seven or eight times, and Mu Jiyun stood outside the door and watched her repeat the movements over and over again.

"How long will you have to wash?" Mu Jiyun asked.

"That's fine." Chu Zhaozhao wiped the cup with a tissue, walked away with her legs. When he passed by Mu Jiyun, he pulled her, but couldn't hold her back.

Mu Jiyun grabbed his hair in a little annoyed manner, and then walked over.

When Chu Zhaozhao returned to the ward, he found that the atmosphere of the family was a little wrong.

Dad Chu hadn't woken up yet, but his mother was standing by the bed with a bad face.

A middle-aged woman stood beside her.

"Mom, what's wrong?" While Chu Zhaozhao was speaking, the middle-aged woman also turned around and saw Chu Zhaozhao, "Oh! Zhaozhao has grown up so big! She is really a girl who has grown up and becomes more and more beautiful!"

At this moment, Chu Zhaozhao understood why her mother looked bad.

"Zhaozhao, do you still remember me? I am Aunt Feng!" Aunt Feng was frowning and gestured with her hands, "I used to be the best for my second child to you! Do you still remember?"

Of course, Chu Zhaozhao remembers that these are her fellow villagers.

But these fellow villagers forced their family to leave their hometown.

Chu Zhaozhao was born in a very poor mountain village in the southwest. She still remembers that there was a large pond in front of her home. When spring was sparkling, ducks lined up to go into the water, and she and a group of children drove the ducks to play with branches.

There is also a bamboo forest. In winter, they secretly stole the rice and bacon from their homes, stuffed them into the chopped bamboo tubes, and made homemade "bamboo tube grilled rice".

Chu Zhaozhao's childhood was happy, but it was not healthy. She was yellow and thin, had few hair, and she was always ill.

At that time, as long as the child was not seriously ill, no one would take the child to the hospital in the town for treatment. The Chu family naturally didn't know that the daughter was missing some elements in her body, so she was like this.

Of course, even if someone tells them this, they may not understand it. However, they understand the old charlatans, saying that Chu Zhaozhao lacks noble people in his life, and he will get better when he meets noble people.

When Chu Zhaozhao was nine years old, Apeng’s parents next door brought back a three-year-old girl from somewhere.

The little girl looks like a person in the New Year pictures, white and beautiful, which makes everyone in the village envious.

At first, Chu Zhaozhao didn't understand why everyone envied the Apeng family. What are the benefits for the poor Apeng family when they were having extra people to eat? Apeng is the only seedling of their family. Unfortunately, he suffered from polio when he was a child and could not walk on his legs. He still relied on a broken wheelchair. The Apeng family's population is simple, so his parents and his grandfather naturally treat him as a treasure.

Later, when she couldn't sleep, she heard her parents chatting quietly in the quilt and realized that the little girl was bought by A Peng's parents outside, just to make someone take care of A Peng's life when they get old.

This kind of person is commonly known as a child bride.

Later, Apeng's family gave the girl a name, Honghong.

However, this kind of thing is not a rare thing in Chu Zhaozhao's hometown, and everyone is not surprised.

Until three years later, A Peng's mother was going crazy and wanted to drive Honghong out of the house.

On the day when Honghong came to Apeng's house, Apeng's house also set up two tables of wine and food to celebrate.

As a result, a year later, A Peng followed his father to the town to go to the market and died in a car accident.

Two years later, A Peng's grandfather went to the mountain to chop wood and fell to death.

Three years later, A Peng's father went to the river to take a bath, and suddenly became flooded and drowned.

On the day Apeng's father died, Apeng's mother finally couldn't hold it in. She cursed Honghong crazy, saying that she was a disaster star and wanted to drive her away.

No one dares to persuade such a thing, after all, everyone agrees with it. This girl is really like a disaster star.

So, when a six-year-old girl was kicked out of the house, she wore tattered clothes every day, begging for food from both sides and other families, but not everyone was willing to give her food. Some even drove her away when she saw her, for fear that she would bring bad luck to her family.

Chu Zhaozhao's parents couldn't stand it anymore. After discussing, they took a big bowl of food for each meal and placed it at the door, waiting for Honghong to come and eat it.

But Chu Zhaozhao felt that it wasn’t only stray dogs who only ate like that? So she said, “It’s better to call Honghong in for dinner.”

My parents hesitated for a long time but still didn't agree.

The saying that three people become tigers is particularly effective in such a closed village. When everyone started to say that Honghong was a disaster star, Chu's parents believed it.

So, Chu Zhaozhao couldn't understand his parents, so he sat at the door and had dinner with Honghong every day.

Over time, Honghong was on the table.

This is not because of red and thick-skinned, nor because Chu Zhaozhao insists, but because her parents are very kind people. Others do bad things on the spot, but they do good things on the spot.

A few days later, the autumn wind blew.

During that time, Honghong always found a haystack and other things to sleep all night. Anyway, there was nothing but more mosquitoes in summer nights.

But now it is autumn, and the darker it gets, the earlier it gets.

Whenever Dad Chu and Mother Chu looked at Honghong's face, they felt a little chill. If she was asked to continue wandering like this, there would definitely be someone with malicious intentions to attack her.

But Chu's father and mother Chu couldn't let her live in the house. After all, eating at the same table is one thing, and sleeping on her own bed is another thing.
To be continued...