AWB Chapter 125: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 125
Chapter 125: Busy raising a family in a foreign land 125
Wei Miao knocked on the door.
"Who is it?" It was Wei Ada's somewhat alert voice.
Wei Miao said: "Dad, it's me."
After the door was opened, Wei Ada waited for Wei Miao to enter the room and quickly closed the door.
Wei Miao saw how nervous he was and asked curiously, "Dad, what's wrong?"
Wei Ada motioned Wei Miao to go home, "Just now someone knocked on the door, asking to borrow food."
"It's only the third day and there's no food left?"
Wei Ada looked at his daughter's innocent appearance and sighed:
"When ordinary people live, every family has a few days' worth of food in reserve. If there are no vegetables, that's understandable. If you save some food, it can last four or five days."
"Why is that?"
Wei Ada watched his daughter bending over to wash her hands in the basin under the eaves. He thought for a long time and said a word:
"Prepare for a rainy day."
"Dad, you remembered it wrong again. It's time to prepare for a rainy day!"
A crisp sound came from the side room, and Wei Ling, who was standing at the door, was making fun of her father.
Wei Ada and Wei Miao looked at the little girl who looked the same as usual and didn't care about anything to prepare for it.
"Why did you get out of bed?" he asked.
Wei Ling said: "Dad, big brother, I think I am cured. I can eat a cow now."
Hearing the noise, Xu Ayu came out of the kitchen and saw her second daughter standing at the door in a single layer of clothes with messy hair. She was happy at first, then spit on her:
"Why don't you just lie down in bed and come out wearing such thin clothes? Do you want to get sick again?"
When Wei Ling heard her mother's scream, she quickly retracted her head and went back into the house.
"Mom, I want to eat lean meat porridge!"
A loud sound came from the room, and the three people in the yard were extremely happy.
Wei Ada said quickly: "I'll go check on A'ran."
Wei Miao entered Wei Ling's room and saw her lying obediently on the bed, with only her head exposed. Her eyes were rolling around, and no one knew what she was thinking about.
When he saw Wei Miao, he happily called out "Big Brother".
Then he saw Wei Miao holding a bowl of water, and his brows furrowed.
As if she knew her brother would not feel sorry for her, the little girl tilted her head back and gulped down the whole drink.
After she wiped her mouth, Wei Miao sat down beside her bed and asked:
"Do you know why you are sick?"
Wei Miao felt a little worried. The Wei family was not as good as the rich in the alley, but better than the poor.
Before she came, the two old people in the Wei family took care of the children, and the four adults earned money. Not only did they have meat every meal, but they also had enough clothes to wear.
Since she became ill, she spent all the family's money. The elderly in the family also suffered from illness for a long time, and finally both of them passed away.
My uncle and aunt one disappeared and the other remarried, and they owed a lot of foreign debts, so their life became difficult.
The family was supported by Xu Ayu and his wife. One of them became irritable and the other became taciturn.
When Wei Miao was 8 years old, Wei Ran and Wei Ling were just years old, and the others were even younger.
The little kids gradually felt that the days were different from the past.
For the first time, I knew what it felt like to be hungry, for the first time I knew what it felt like to be beaten, and for the first time I knew the poverty of my family.
But even so, every time Wei Miao bought something delicious outside, he would secretly bring it back for Wei Ran to enjoy.
Only two years passed like this, and suddenly life at home got better again.
It’s better than before. Not only can I eat braised meat every day, but Lu Pingsheng also sends me fashionable things from time to time.
In terms of knowledge and vision, they are indeed much happier than other children in the alley who are trying to make a living outside.
But even so, the kindness and innocence in them that have not been completely suppressed, and the lively nature of children are clearly visible.
Wei Miao also thought of raising a few little ones in the same way that Lu Pingsheng raised himself.
But she found that human beings are complex and must go through many important nodes before they can change and converge, or read more.
Her biggest flaw is that she protects her own shortcomings.
Wei Ling met her brother's serious expression, with a hint of panic in her lively eyes.
"Brother, I, I didn't mean to go to the shantytown. The seniors said that if we didn't go, it would mean that we were traitors..."
Wei Miao saw that Wei Ling's face changed from entanglement to anger, and asked:
"How long has this been going on?"
"I don't know who spread the news that you always go to the concession to work as a translator to the school. Some people also said that you are a translator for the Japanese. In the past, the three of us, Duoyu and A'ran, would fight with others..."
Wei Ling's voice became lower and lower as she spoke, because her mom and dad both told them to study hard, listen to their teachers, and not fight.
They clearly did so.
But the classmates still kept their distance from them and were always whispering to them.
During the spring outing, they shared the snacks they brought with them with their classmates. They were clearly holding them in their hands, but in the end, they threw them all on the ground and yelled at them:
"Don't eat food from traitors!"
The teacher just said a few words and didn't pay much attention to them. He looked at them with a very strange look.
Wei Miao is not a real child, so she naturally knows that although children have simple minds, it is difficult for them to change their minds once they have made up their minds.
Who would put such a hat on her?
"This time they came to us and said that if we volunteered with them, it would prove that you are not a rapist. The three of us..."
Wei Miao wiped the tears from the crying little girl, "From now on, tell big brother if you have any problems, okay?"
Wei Ling sniffed, "But big brother is very busy and tired, and we have grown up too, so we don't want to trouble big brother."
Wei Miao confirmed her idea and said:
"For example, if you defend your big brother and your own innocence when you fight with others, you are doing very well, but if you go to a dangerous place like a shantytown, you cannot afford the consequences."
Wei Ling lowered her head guiltily. They had clearly heard people talking about an infectious disease in the shantytown when they were eating wontons that morning, but they still ran to the shantytown in a fit of anger.
Wei Miao did not soften her heart because of her guilt, and said to Wei Ran who had been standing at the door and eavesdropping for a long time:
"Come in, too."
Wei Ran walked in. He had been sick for a few days, and the baby fat on his face had disappeared.
"When you two ran to the shantytown, did you ever think that you would get sick and become a source of infection, and then infect Dad, Mom, me, Ping, Laba and the others? If Brother Lu doesn't have medicine this time, what will be the consequences?"
"Brother, I was wrong, I was wrong."
Wei Ran knelt on the ground. Wei Ling didn't dare to lie on the bed either, so she knelt side by side with Wei Ran.
Wei Miaoxiao put his hands behind his back and said coldly:
"What's wrong?"
Wei Ran's eyes were red, and he said loudly:
"Because of a quarrel of arrogance, he disregarded his own safety and brought disaster upon his family, almost killing the whole family."
Wei Ling also wiped away her tears and said, "I shouldn't have kept it a secret from my family, I shouldn't have been disobedient, and I shouldn't have had any hope in my heart."
Wei Miao looked down at the two children who had not even turned ten, with a stern face, and corrected them:
"This is not a big mistake. The mistake is that you are incompetent, incompetent and stupid!"