vrcanaries Chapter 134: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 134
Chapter 134: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 134
Wei Miao went home with an empty bowl. When passing by Xiao Jiangsu's house, he greeted Wei Miao with blue eyes.
"Ah Miao, when will Mr. Lu come back? I'll discuss with Grandma Cui about returning the flour to him."
Wei Miao smiled and said, "I don't know either."
Little Jiangsu muttered a few words, saying that Mr. Lu was a man who did big things and must be very busy.
As Wei Miao muttered, he turned his head to look at the one-eyed Master Dong who was cutting someone's hair.
Even after losing one eye, Master Dong still looked like a simple and honest barber.
The smile on his face didn't give any impression that he was a wretched man who would knock on a widow's door in the middle of the night.
It is even harder to tell that this is a Japanese with perverted habits, and the initiator of spreading rumors that she is a traitor.
Wei Miao said hello to his neighbors and returned home. The chirping of cicadas in the yard was suppressed by the neat sound of reading coming from the small study.
Laba, who couldn't speak, was holding a stone in his hand and aiming at the birds on the tree in the yard, his beautiful eyes very focused.
And Ahri, who had just jumped away, was squatting under a tree, looking up and waiting for something.
Wei Miao stood at the door and did not disturb him. He watched Laba throw it hard, and the originally loud cicada sound stopped abruptly.
Wei Miao clearly saw a small black thing falling from the tree. Ali flew into the air, picked up the black cicada in his mouth, and ran towards the eaves.
Laba, who had thrown the stone, found Wei Miao standing at the door. His unbelievably handsome face returned to its usual dull state and looked at Wei Miao.
Wei Miao's eyes sparkled. This guy's accuracy and strength were so good. She couldn't help but think of the tabloid novel series that Lu Pingsheng loved to read.
The people who are picked up and brought home in novels must have hidden identities or extraordinary talents.
It seems that Laba is the latter.
After dinner, Wei Miao took Ali to Lu Pingsheng's house.
Xu Ayu warned, "It's hot at night now, don't try to stay cool."
Wei Miao nodded repeatedly and promised that he would not hit the quilt before he was allowed to go.
In the middle of the night, a scream was heard in the alley, mixed with a few low growls of animals.
When the sound disappeared, Wei Miao put down the gold bar in his hand that had shrunk a circle, covered his mouth and yawned, then closed his eyes deeply.
Cause and effect are predetermined. Let Master Dong pay for the boy's life for now.
The early morning in the alley was broken by Mrs. Dong's extremely terrified scream.
"You know, when I went in, she was tied to the bed with her limbs tied up, and Mr. Dong was lying beside her with his bloody body half covered. It was very miserable and horrible."
"When the police arrived, they found two cats that were much bigger than Ali in the utility room in her yard. There was blood on their paws."
"I know. Someone from the city zoo came and said they had taken away two animals that they had lost some time ago."
At noon in summer, the sun is high in the sky and the occasional summer breeze blows, bringing some coolness.
Xu Ayu sat in the shade of the yard, doing needlework, listening to Grandma Cui and several neighbor aunts talking in detail about what had happened in the morning.
"What is it that is much bigger than Ahri?"
Grandma Cui thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. The people from the animal shelter took him away happily and gave the patrolman twenty yuan on the spot."
"Mrs. Dong was also taken away. When we went in, there was not a single piece of good meat on her body. That Master Dong is really a piece of shit." A young wife sighed.
After listening to what they said, Xu Ayu smacked his lips and said, "I usually think Master Dong is kind and honest, but I never thought he would be such a person."
"The key point is that Mrs. Dong looks glamorous and beautiful during the day. Who would have thought that she would suffer such pain at night? I just don't know if she will be implicated this time."
Grandma Cui said quickly, "No, those two big guys were secretly raised by Master Dong. According to Mrs. Dong, not only did he not feed them, he also beat them severely. This is retribution."
A neighbor said, "No wonder I always hear strange noises at night. This is what's going on!"
Wei Miao knocked on the desk and said to Wei Li and the others who were distracted and listening to gossip:
"Have you learned all the words we taught you yesterday?"
Wei Ling nodded with a serious expression, "Brother, I remember."
Wei Ran said with a straight face: "Brother, are we going to learn new words today?"
Even the little Wei Ping said proudly: "Big Pot, I got all the mental arithmetic questions right."
Wei Miao, who looked pale, was very relieved.
Lu Pingsheng returned late at night twenty days after he disappeared.
Wei Miao, who was cultivating penicillin upstairs, heard some noise in the yard and went downstairs quietly carrying Ali.
In the moonlight, one could see Lu Pingsheng struggling to jump off the courtyard wall.
Their eyes met, feeling a little awkward.
Wei Miao said: "How about I open the door for you?"
Lu Pingsheng turned his head and looked behind him, at the checkered road under the cold moonlight.
Wei Miao did not open the door for him. Instead, he moved the ladder over with difficulty and propped it against the wall.
I leisurely watched the handsome young man bending over and sticking his butt out as he went down the ladder.
"Thank you, little brat." Lu Pingsheng habitually wanted to touch Wei Miao's head.
Wei Miao dodged it out of habit, "Your body stench is unbearable."
Lu Pingsheng: ...
Half an hour later, Lu Pingsheng slumped on the sofa, took a bite of dessert, drank a sip of hot tea, and sighed:
"It's better to be at home. You don't know what kind of life I've been going through these past twenty days."
Wei Miao didn't know whether he had clairvoyance or not. Seeing his thinner face, he lowered his gaze to his wet hair and said:
"When you come back, don't you know to call first?"
Lu Pingsheng took another sip of tea, suppressed the slightly sweet cake in his mouth, took a breath and said:
"Ah Miao, we're rich."
Speaking of getting rich, Wei Miao's eyes naturally became brighter than usual.
"The ship of old foreigner Charles was robbed by pirates, and all the goods inside were sold to Hong Kong Island."
Wei Miao thought about the sulfa powder extracted in the basement with burning eyes.
Then I heard Lu Pingsheng say: "I came back this time to discuss two things with you."
Wei Miaojing and others will follow up.
"I registered a foreign trade company in Hong Kong Island and planned to buy two ships first..."
"Buy a boat?" A hint of thought flashed across Wei Miao's slender eyes.
Lu Pingsheng nodded, "Yes, two ships, for sea transportation."
After saying this, he looked at Wei Miao with a burning gaze and bewitched:
"Ah Miao, if we have our own shipping ship, it will be very convenient to transport everything, right?"
Wei Miao nodded and emphasized: "It's you, not us!"
Lu Pingsheng wiped the water droplets from the ends of his hair, and smiled a bit flatteringly on his thin and handsome face:
"Ah Miao, would you like to invest? It's worth it."
Wei Miao knew that he was planning to take advantage of his gold. If it weren't for the past, Wei Miao would never have participated.
The gold from selling sulfa was enough for her to practice until adulthood, and the more than ten boxes of silver ingots in the basement also gave her enough confidence.
But this time, the cholera made her realize and sober up a little.
If the world continues to be in such a state of confusion for a long time, no matter how special she is, she will be lost among the common people.
Only the bright and clear world and the prosperous China that Lu Pingsheng talked about can protect herself and the people she wants to protect.
"Besides me, who else?" Wei Miao asked.