“Don’t worry, they’re just here to ask for a bowl of water, I’ll go and give them a scoop now. Where is it kept?”
“It’s in the cupboard.”
The old woman, who was lying in bed and struggling to even speak, pointed to the only broken cupboard in their shed that could be considered furniture.
So, a few minutes later, Ruo Ruo saw that this old grandfather had brought them two bowls of sugar water with lots and lots of natural honey.
“Drink, it’s been hard work for you guys, when you’re done, you’ll go back.”
“……”
Lu Guan looked down at the bowls of water and didn’t say anything.
As soon as Ruo Ru saw it, she hurriedly took it for him again, “Okay, thank you old grandpa.”
Then, she brought it over and put it to her mouth and took a big gulp.
Lu Guan looked at her in dismay.
This little girl, who had been fed from the mountains and the sea, usually used cutlery that could cover people’s work for months, not to mention her little nature of being particularly clean.
But now she was drinking from such a dark and broken bowl?
Lu Guan was shocked to the core.
“Shaozi, why aren’t you drinking it? Is it because you don’t like this honey? Don’t worry, I took this from the mountain, it’s clean.”
“No no ……”
Lu Guan lowered his head.
Soon, he drank all of the bowl of water into his stomach as well.
“It’s so sweet ……,” the little girl smashed her mouth.
Lu Guan: “……”
Old Grandpa: “Alright, finish drinking, then you guys should go back, later on if your ama sees that you guys haven’t gone back yet, she should be anxious.”
He started to hurry up again.
Of course, Lu Guan knew very well that he wasn’t trying to drive them away, but rather, like his grandmother had just said, he was afraid of dragging them down with him.
Lu Guan pursed his lips and finally, he opened his mouth, “Ada, I still want to borrow two pieces of clothes from you to wear can I? This girl, she’s my …… sister, brought home for the first time and didn’t want too many people to find out.”
He introduced the identity of the little girl next to him with a bit of ear rolling.
Of course, this little girl had no idea what he was talking about.
A sister?
That would have been the one to get beaten up if she had understood.
But as soon as Grandpa heard it, he understood it, and at once, the old man stood in front of them and smiled heartily.
“Yes you can, but then we don’t have any nice clothes at home, only some old ones, I don’t know if you like them?”
“It’s okay.”
Lu Guan immediately said that he didn’t care.
So, this old man went to the back of their house again, which was blocked by a few pieces of calico, and in a short while, from a wooden box there, he turned out a few pieces of clothes.
“Look, these are the ones my daughter used to wear, they’re a bit old, but they’ll do.”
“……”
“And, this, which was worn by that son of mine, you should be able to wear it at your size, if you don’t mind, you can have it too.”
The old man handed over the clothes in his hand.
When Lu Guan heard this, he immediately looked down at the two sets of clothes again, and his body trembled fiercely.
Daughter, son ……
It was actually talking about his ama, and his uncle who had long since disappeared, he hadn’t thought that after all these years, these two old men would still be keeping their clothes.
With trembling hands, Lu Guan picked these up.
Ruoruo: “……”
With a mind like a hair, she noticed that something was wrong and came over again.
“What’s wrong? Is it something else?”
“…… No.” The teenager, whose eyes were red, looked up at the little girl.
“What about ……?”
“Do you want to wear it? It’s a bit old.”
Before the words were even out of his mouth, he suddenly took the women’s outfit in his hand and looked straight at the little girl with his eyes.
The little girl froze.
Why didn’t she wear it?
It was already this time of the year, could she still go and pick it out?
Ruoruo picked it up decisively and dryly: “Wear it, but I won’t, will you …… know how?”
Lu Guan: “……”
After ten minutes or so, the two finally changed their clothes, and Ruo Ruo, with the best help of that old woman, also put on the complete Vai Maiden costume, neatly.
“It’s so pretty ……”
The moment she stood up, this old woman looked at her from her bed, her eyes were wet.
It was as if she had seen her daughter back then.
Lu Guan ducked his head and did not speak.
He was afraid that if he opened his mouth, he would reveal his emotions as well.
Both of them were well dressed and ready to go, and only then did Lu Guan take out one thing from his body and give it to the two old people.
“Thank you, Ada.”
“Why are you so polite? It’s just two sets of old clothes.” The old man hastily refused, unwilling to accept his.
However, Lu Guan forced it into his hand and then flew out with the little girl next to him, and in a short while, the two disappeared.
Seeing this, the old man stood at the door and could only sigh.
Now that they were in their situation, there were very few people who still treated them like this; over the years, when the people of the tribe saw them, they either avoided them like the plague or gave them a blank look.
How could there still be such children?
The old man took the money in his hand and went back to the shed.
Only to find that the bed, where the sick wife had been sitting, was still sitting there, while her cloudy old eyes were staring straight at a comb in her hand.