In the evening, Li Xu brought a basin of water for washing feet to her man, Li Shanchun.
Li Shanchun had been doing farm work all day, and soaking his feet in hot water before going to bed at night made him feel much more comfortable.
“How is she? Did she fall asleep?”
Li Shanchun rubbed the thick calluses on his feet with his hands and asked his wife.
“She was tired of crying. I just went to see her, and there was no movement. She must have fallen asleep.”
Li Xu knew that her husband was not talking about their son, but Yu Wu.
“That girl is also pitiful. From now on, we will raise her as our daughter.”
Li Shanchun sighed. After all, she was a girl and couldn’t eat much food. When the time comes, he will find a good family for her to marry. They would just raise her.
He didn’t like Yu Fucai and his wife, but the Li family was still very close to the two elders of the Yu family who had passed away early.
When Li Shanchun was a child, he ate a lot of snacks given by the two elders of the Yu family.
Today, he helped the descendants of the Yu family as a way to repay the favor.
“Um.”
Seeing that her husband had no objection, Li Xu was relieved.
She had given birth to three sons, and she really wanted to raise a daughter.
Yu Wu completely exceeded all her expectations for a daughter. She was beautiful, charming, and well-behaved.
If she could really raise her as her own daughter, Li Xu would be so happy.
But after all, her husband was the head of the family. Without his permission, Li Xu did not dare to take her to her side to take care of her.
***
At three o’clock in the morning, Li Xu got up to go to the toilet. Thinking that Yu Wu was young and would kick off the quilt in the middle of the night, she went to the small room that originally belonged to her youngest son and was now cleaned up for Yu Wu to live in.
“Husband, husband, it’s bad. Xiao Wu is missing!”
Li Xu walked into the room with a candle in her hand, only to see that the room where Yu Wu was supposed to be sleeping was empty. The quilt was opened.
She reached out and touched the mattress, which was already cold. It seemed that the person on the bed had left for quite some time.
This frightened Li Xu. Her original sleepiness disappeared completely.
“What’s wrong?”
Li Shanchun was awakened by his wife’s sharp voice.
The couple’s eldest son, Li Daqiang, came out of the room after comforting his younger brothers, Li Erqiang and Li Xiaoqiang.
Li Daqiang was thirteen years old this year. He followed Li Shanchun to work in the fields during the day and was half of the family’s labor force.
“Xiao Wu– Xiao Wu is missing.”
Li Xu regretted it very much. She shouldn’t have let Xiao Wu sleep alone.
These days must have been the most uneasy time for her. She should have accompanied her to sleep together. In this way, she would be able to notice the first time when Xiao Wu disappeared.
“Did she go home? Wife, go to Yu’s house. Daqiang, come with me to look for her nearby.”
Li Shanchun spoke calmly. With his comfort, Li Xu calmed down a lot.
“Okay.”
Li Xu hurried to Yu’s house next door. Li Shanchun and Li Daqiang followed suit.
***
“Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu!”
The Yu’s house no longer had any valuables, and no matter how short-sighted the villagers were, they would not set their eyes on the furniture and old clothes in the house.
Therefore, the doors of the courtyard and the main hall of Yu’s house were ajar at this time, so Li Xu easily entered the house.
She called Yu Wu’s name again and again, but there was no response.
Just when Li Xu was about to give up, she saw a suspicious bulge in the corner of the kang bed.
She saw that the old clothes of Yu’s family were turned out at some point. The old clothes of adults were thrown on the ground randomly, and the clothes that were altered were spread out neatly on the kang bed.
Li Xu recognized them with her sharp eyes. She saw Yu Yan wearing some of them with her own eyes.
The child couldn’t even take his old clothes with him.
This thought flashed through Li Xu’s mind, and then she felt a little sad.
Li Xu tiptoed through the gaps where the clothes were scattered, then climbed onto the kang, and pulled apart the pile of old clothes in the corner. Without the cover, she saw Yu Wu curled up in a ball at a glance.
“You kid, you sneaked back home and didn’t tell Aunt. Do you know that you almost scared me to death?”
Li Xu was both angry and anxious. Had she ever thought about what would happen if she fell or bumped herself in such a dark sky?
Her safety was gained at the cost of a great sacrifice by Yu Yan. How could she be so willful?
Li Xu really wanted to scold her, but seeing the tears on the little girl’s face that had not yet dried and her red and swollen eyes, she felt so angry but she could not say any words of blame.
Why should she scold her? She was only three years old. What could she understand?
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