Chapter 9 Chapter 9

Wu Ma looked at Lu Nong with a look of surprise, then realizing that the two were still talking through the door, she moved sharply to open the fenced iron gate and said, “Come in quickly, don’t talk outside.”

Lu Neng followed her into the garden.

At this time in summer, roses have passed their flowering period, peonies are dying, only peonies are in full bloom under the strong sun, and occasionally butterflies and bees are playing among them, rising and falling, which is wildly interesting against the cluttered bushes due to lack of pruning.

In fact, Li Garden is not only one or two flowers, it is a four-season flowers and foliage, spring cherry blossoms, begonias, magnolias, gardenias; summer roses, roses, peonies, peonies, lilies; fall chrysanthemums, hibiscus, short-lived flowers, hibiscus; winter plum blossoms, camellias, azaleas.

In addition to this, behind the villa houses are planted with all kinds of melon and fruit plants, watermelons, strawberries, cherries, apples ……

On this journey, along the cobblestone path and through the flowers, Lu Neng’s mind couldn’t help but conjure up all kinds of memories about this mansion.

There was the spring when I ran under the cherry blossom tree with my cousins to shake the petals and pretend to be romantic and ended up eating a mouthful of flowers;

In the summer, I sneak into the strawberry fields behind Mrs. Wu’s back to pick strawberries, all of which are not ripe;

Staying up in the middle of the night just waiting for a blip to bloom only to be scared by a cauliflower snake that screams and wakes up a house ……

Compared to the Lu family, which valued their eldest son, loved their youngest daughter, and neglected their eldest daughter alone, Li Yuan and her uncle’s family were more like the original owner’s family.

The original owner also had a happy and carefree childhood because of this place and its people.

When she pulled out of the memory, Lu Nong and Wu Ma just happened to walk to the entrance of the villa, Wu Ma pulled out the key to the main entrance of the villa and said to Lu Nong while opening the door:

“Cousin Miss don’t be offended, before the master and wife left, they were afraid that the house would attract thieves and harm my wife, they sold all the furniture and things, there is nothing in here, I am now living in a small bungalow at the back of the house.”

Lu Neng was puzzled, she knew that the small bungalow at the back of the room, was originally where the gardener lived, but that place was also decent when packed up, since Wu Ma had moved there, what was she doing inside the villa?

Probably seeing Lu Nong’s confusion, Wu Ma spoke up and explained:

“Last year the eldest young master came back for a trip, and before he left he specially left something for Miss Cousin, and said that if Miss Cousin came he should let me take you to the study, and that you ought to know where that thing was put.”

“Why didn’t Cousin tell me about it in his letter?” Lu Nu asked.

At the mention of this, a twelve-minute look of joy appeared on Wu Ma’s face:

“Young Master said, Miss Cousin must have come to Li Garden because she couldn’t take care of herself or had a baby, so she looked for my wife to help her, but he also said that Miss Cousin is stubborn and doesn’t like to cause trouble for others, and once she came to me, she must have really encountered a problem.”

“Besides, you’re always coming anyway, whether you know it or not, you’ll know it in the end.”

Lu Nu sweated, the original owner’s character was indeed stubborn.

When Gu Huai was born, it was Gu Weiguo who asked Wu Ma to take care of the baby in the Li Garden, and after Gu Weiguo’s death, she didn’t come to see Wu Ma again.

But Lu Nong’s own personality preferred to enjoy, really crave the dishes made by Wu Ma, that is comparable to the chef ah.

The mindset didn’t keep up with the original owner haha.

But she was instantly silenced when she touched Wu Ma’s joyful and happy face.

After not seeing her for a year or two, Wu Ma has aged a lot, her hair has gone a large portion white, and her wrinkles are deep when she smiles, it is a world of difference from the spirited Wu Ma that the original owner remembers.

For some reason, Lu Nu suddenly felt a sore nose.

Maybe the original owner thought wrong, Wu Ma is not afraid of labor or trouble, she is afraid of loneliness, afraid that she is no longer of much use to others.

In this way, Wu Ma’s husband died early, the only daughter but not close, all her life in Pei family busy, take care of uncle grow up and take care of his children grow up.

She was like a piece of rubble from the old days, and seemed to be just an object in this beautiful house, broken and old, and then casually thrown away, forgotten by the flood of the times.

But she wasn’t an object after all, she was a living, breathing human being.

Wu Ma was infected by Lu Nong’s silence and said in a somewhat nervous panic, “I was wrong, Miss Cousin isn’t here to find me something to do? That, that’s fine ……”

Lu Neng easily saw through the loss she was trying to hide.

“How come? Of course I’m here to find you, to find you to go back and help me bring Xiao Huai, and ah, I’m craving for the braised pork you made.”

Lu Nong hurriedly held Wu Ma’s pale and rough hand, “…… Just think, it’s a little late.”

“Hey! Go, I’ll go,” Wu Ma nodded her head vigorously, her eyes reddening as she choked, “Of the several young masters and young ladies, you and Yue’er are the most voracious, and every time you make braised meat, before anyone else can eat it, it’ll be snatched up by the two of you grinches.”

Yueer is Lu Nong’s cousin Li Xinyue, the only girl in the uncle’s family, but grew a boy’s heart, horseback riding and swordsmanship fights all in the line, the only thing that does not love the red makeup, from childhood, especially love doll like cousin …… although the trouble let cousin back the blame for this kind of thing has not been less dry.

A smile appeared on Lu Nu’s face as he thought of the people he remembered so vividly.

At this time, Mrs. Wu opened the door and led Lu Nong into the hall, which was really empty as Mrs. Wu said, with no furniture such as sofa and coffee table.

Wu Ma stood at the door and refused to follow Lu Nong in, so Lu Nong had to go up the stairs by herself and push open the door to the study.

The study, like the rest of the house, had nothing but an empty room.

But uncle said he left something for her in the study, uncle wouldn’t lie, the thing must be here.

That is to say, something is placed somewhere, and that place is not visible on the surface, hidden in the shadows.

Lu Nu walked back and forth in his study, meditating on hiding things, hiding things ……

She paused in her tracks, remembering something.

When I was a child, Lu Nong and his cousins loved to explore the villa, and once I don’t know who proposed to go to my uncle’s study to explore, and my cousin said in her wildest imagination that there must be a secret room in the study.

Several people in order to this so-called secret room almost turned the study upside down, but also broke one of the uncle’s favorite vase, and finally the secret room did not find, but in the corner of the floor under a hidden compartment, found an eight-sided closed carved wooden box.

Lu Nu crouched down, knocking along the corner, finally in the corner near the window heard a different sound from the surroundings, she went downstairs to find Wu Ma asked for a wire to pry open this piece of flooring (ghosts do not know a group of children in the first place without tools in the end how in the end to pry open the wooden boards).

There really is something under the floor.

It’s the carved box that can’t be opened with eight sides closed.

Lu Nu held out the box and placed it on the ground.

Although my uncle was furious that day and punished everyone for copying books, he ended up holding little Lu Nong and showing a few kids how to open this delicate organ box.

Little Lu Nong is the smartest, can not forget, uncle demonstrated after closing the box, immediately can step not bad to open again.

Joyfully, my uncle punished my cousins for copying the book a few more times.

Lu Nong rubbed his hands, pressed the wooden mechanism, not long, the box automatically popped open, revealing the contents.

“!”

The whole twenty little goldfish.

差点晃瞎了陆浓的狗眼，啊啊啊啊啊发财了发财了。

Underneath the little goldfish was a letter and a bankbook with three thousand dollars in it.

There are also two pieces of jade, Lu Neng touched it, but it is a very rare warm jade.

The letter said that the small goldfish is given by the aunt and uncle, the money in the passbook is the cousins to put together, the jade is for her future children, because I do not know how many she will give birth to, put two pieces into it, to be a good name for the child, you can carve the word of the child on it, and words and other things, so that she can live a good life.

Looking at Lu Nong almost shed tears, although the original owner had a not so good mother’s family, she also had relatives who loved her deeply and would worry about her even thousands of miles apart.

Each of the Li family’s sons and daughters had a piece of jade with their names engraved on it, and in fact the three Lu siblings also had them, all from their uncle.

Lu Nongyu is engraved with a poem, “Lingering Dice An Red Bean,” embedded with her small character, red bean.

My uncle joked that he might meet someone with the second half of the poem in his name later.

However, her jade was later taken by Lu’s mother, who said she was afraid she would lose it and kept it for her.

Lu Nong searched for something to go back to the Lu family to get the jade back.

Tidying up her emotions, Lu Nu took the things back into the box, hugged the box and exited the villa, walking around the back of the room to the house where Wu Ma lived.

Wu Ma was packing things inside, when she saw Lu Nong came out, she hurriedly carried the long washed strawberries and cherries and put them on the table, “Hurry up and eat, you like to eat these two the most, Wu Ma remembers them all.”

Lu Nu’s hand with the strawberries gave a start, it was a bit strange that her tastes were exactly the same as the original owner’s.

“You eat too, Wu Ma.” She handed a big, red strawberry to Wu Ma.

“Hey, hey, I’ll eat too,” Wu Ma caught the strawberries, “It’s all pretty much packed up, and it’s getting late, so when do we leave?”

Lu Nong looked at the things that Wu Ma packed out, a large rattan suitcase and a cloth package, inside the rattan suitcase were all cups, bowls, chopsticks and coffee cups and pots like works of art, these were not Wu Ma’s own things at a glance, only that cloth package was her luggage.

Lu Nong didn’t say anything, put the carved box into the rattan box, lifted the box with one hand, carried the fruit with the other and said, “Alright then, let’s go.”

After …… taking two or three steps, she stopped panting.

Wu Ma opened her mouth, hesitated for a moment or said, “Miss Cousin, why don’t I carry the box and you carry the fruit?”

“No, I can do it, you can help me with the fruit.”

Lu Nu knew that Wu Ma’s heart ached for her, but there was no way she would let Wu Ma, an old man, carry something so heavy.

Wu Ma: “Then be careful, everything inside is easily broken.”

Lu Nu: “……” I really thank you, white touched.

Because the things in his hand were too heavy, Lu Nu walked and stopped, and it took nearly twenty minutes before he reached the gate, and it was almost dark.

As soon as he left the house, he saw Wu’s mom parked on the side of the road with a bag on her shoulder, beside her was a jeep, and she was talking to the man in the jeep.

Seeing Lu Nong come out, Wu Ma hurriedly greeted Lu Nong, “Cousin Miss, this Chief Pei said he is here to pick you up, do you think it’s the Auntie who sent him to pick you up?”

“……” Oops, forgot to tell Mrs. Wu about her second marriage.

This is awkward, how should I tell Mrs. Wu that the current aunt’s surname is Pei?

The people in the car obviously saw Lu Nong as well, Xiao Zhou got down from the car and quickly walked to Lu Nong’s side to take the suitcase in her hand.

“Comrade Lu, you quickly get on the bus with this old comrade, I’ll just take the luggage.”

Don’t look at Xiao Zhou’s appearance bright, but in fact, the heart is staggering, they say that the more things people tend to be more low-key, it is not true at all.

Look at people Lu comrades, can live in this kind of mansion people, just a “cousin Miss” to know people’s heritage, properly everyone Miss, although now the capital / this family of Miss is not popular, but the heritage of this thing for a moment ordinary people really can not catch up.

Where on earth did Sister Sun get the courage to taunt Comrade Lu about freeloading?

Lu Nu walked over to the jeep, the passenger side was being used by Cho for her suitcase, so she had to open the back seat door.

At this time, sitting in the car Pei Silk An wordlessly stretched out a hand, Lu Neng hesitated and held the hand that was much larger than her, and his cold personality is different, Pei Silk An’s hand is instead slightly warm and dry.

After getting into the car, Lu Nong immediately let go of Pei Yinan’s hand and turned to pull Wu Ma into the car.

But he didn’t see that Pei Jingan subconsciously closed his fingers and slightly rubbed them together a few times after she let go of his hand.

After Wu Ma sat up, Lu Nong moved in Pei Yin An’s direction in order to make more room for Wu Ma.

There was no gap between the two in an instant, Lu Nong’s thigh and Pei Yinan’s leg were tightly fitted together, at first Lu Nong didn’t pay attention to it, but when the car quieted down, the heat between the skin slowly came through the light summer clothing.

There is also the ordinary clean soap scent of Pei Silk An, like him as a person, low key, cold, but with a presence that can not be ignored.

“……”

Lu Nu slowly moved her body away and stuck with Wu Ma, which was a relief.

Seeing this, Wu Ma also felt that it was not good for Miss Cousin to be crowded together with an outside male, so she moved her body in the direction of the car window to give Lu Nong another little gap.

She has been a little formal since she got on the car, mainly because Pei Yinan’s aura is too big, at a glance it’s not an ordinary person, and I don’t know how Miss Cousin would know this person, could it be the aunt’s friend?

Lu Nong did not know that Wu Ma in the blind thought, she is wondering how in the end to explain to Wu Ma about the change of an aunt master thing, thought for a long time and did not think of how to say, but remembered something else.

How did …… Pei Jingan know she was here?

“How come you came to pick me up?” As she spoke Lu Nong turned her head and ended up directly disliking Pei Yinan’s chin.

She was startled and immediately backed away.

Pei Jingan said faintly, “By the way.”

Lu Nu choked and snapped back, unable to ask the next words.

The air lapsed back into quiet eeriness.

In this atmosphere, the car drove all the way back to the compound.

Although Wu Ma was surprised that this didn’t seem to be the same place where she had taken care of her menstruation last time, she just assumed that it was because her aunt had been promoted so she had moved to a better place.

Until the car stopped in front of a small red building, Lu Nong said to Wu Ma, “Wu Ma, we’re home.”

The words just fell, the door of the small red building was pushed open, from inside out of a few seventeen or eighteen year old teenagers, one of them looks handsome handsome teenager holding a basketball in one hand, one hand holding small Gu Huai, holding baby posture is very casual, small Gu Huai surprisingly did not cry and did not make a fuss.

Mrs. Wu: “??”