Chapter 112: Holding A Grudge Against Her?
The people in line thought she would leave, but unexpectedly this young woman shouted loudly: “Which one is Comrade Su Hongmei?”
Clerk Elder Sister lifted her head, looking at Lu Qiaoge: “I am Su Hongmei, what’s wrong?”
Lu Qiaoge considered for a moment, but still didn’t say it in front of the crowd, she hurriedly said: “Then Comrade Su, come out for a moment, I have something urgent to find you for!”
Su Hongmei hesitated for a moment, but still came out.
Lu Qiaoge took her to the window sill and said in a low voice: “Just now an old woman asked me to pass on a message to you, your mother-in-law locked your daughter alone inside the house and ran off to the cinema to watch a movie, she won’t be back until noon, she said you’d better go home and check, your daughter alone at home will be afraid.”
Su Hongmei’s face changed drastically, she clenched her hand and hurriedly walked out.
Lu Qiaoge naturally followed closely behind.
Su Hongmei was both angry and anxious, walking naturally very fast, and when she turned her head, she saw Lu Qiaoge had followed her out.
She reluctantly said to Lu Qiaoge: “Little comrade, thank you.”
Lu Qiaoge waved her hand: “I’m just passing on the message, no need to thank me, but you, how are you going back?”
“I… I didn’t ride my bicycle today.” Su Hongmei was so anxious she was about to cry.
Lu Qiaoge said to Sister Qiao: “I’ll take her home, Sister Qiao wait for me a bit.”
Su Hongmei’s home wasn’t very far from here, on a bicycle it would take just over ten minutes.
After saying that, Lu Qiaoge got on her bicycle and shouted to Su Hongmei: “Hurry up, don’t delay.”
Su Hongmei got on the bicycle, Lu Qiaoge rode at extreme speed, and before Sister Qiao could even react, she was already out of sight.
Sister Qiao felt baffled, several people came out of the office to inquire about the news, after all they were at work, suddenly leaving like that definitely meant something was up.
Sister Qiao naturally didn’t know, but Qiao Ge definitely wouldn’t make trouble for nothing, so she just waited here for her.
Su Hongmei was probably too anxious and didn’t even notice how fast Lu Qiaoge was riding.
It seemed like she hadn’t even come back to her senses yet, and they had already arrived at her home.
Perhaps it was Buddha’s blessing.
Opening the door and moving the cabinet, Su Hongmei’s daughter Dandan was indeed trapped, but because she was small, plus the cabinet door had broken yesterday and hadn’t been fixed yet, so Dandan was stuck inside the cabinet, the surrounding wooden boards saved her life, but the cabinets now are all very heavy wood, how could Dandan a child possibly push it over?
It turned out that one leg of the cabinet had suddenly broken.
What to say about this matter, it could only be said to be extremely fortunate amid misfortune, this child was blessed with great fortune.
Lu Qiaoge also breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing the little sparrow had already flown to the big tree nearby, Lu Qiaoge said to it: 【You’re great, luckily you went to report the news and stayed with her, otherwise Dandan really would have had an accident.】
The trapped child must have been terrified, when they opened the door, the little sparrow that had been chirping with the little girl all along then flew out the window.
The little sparrow excitedly said: 【Also luckily you could understand me speaking, Dandan is great, often feeds me things to eat, I didn’t want her to have an accident.】
Over there Su Hongmei held Dandan for a long while unable to recover.
Su Hongmei’s mother-in-law heard the news and rushed back, seeing this scene, she was also scared badly.
She worried her daughter-in-law would blame her, so she made an excuse for herself: “I just went to the backyard to chat with Fourth Aunt for a bit, not even a few minutes in total.”
Before Su Hongmei could speak, someone nearby said: “You went out at a little past eight, now it’s almost ten, and you still have the nerve to say a few minutes, wrong is wrong, what’s the point of being stubborn, Hongmei is understanding, she won’t blame you.”
This old woman was muddled, the other two daughters-in-law disliked her for being meddlesome and loose-tongued, wouldn’t let her in the door, only this son was filial, Hongmei was also sensible, as a result…
Su Hongmei after all worked at a government department, holding her little daughter she calmly said: “Mom, starting tomorrow send Dandan to the nursery, you’re getting on in age too, just stay at home properly.” Then without giving her mother-in-law a chance to speak, she thanked the neighbors who came to help, and naturally was extremely grateful to Lu Qiaoge too.
She also asked Lu Qiaoge: “Don’t know who it was that reported the news to you?”
Lu Qiaoge said solemnly: “She said not to tell you what she looks like, to avoid your mother-in-law finding out and holding a grudge against her by mistake.”
Su Hongmei definitely couldn’t go to work in the morning, Lu Qiaoge said a few words to Su Hongmei, then rode her bicycle to find Sister Qiao, Sister Qiao by this time had already gotten familiar with several clerks, chatting animatedly, seeing Lu Qiaoge return, Sister Qiao’s glance flickered, she hurriedly went up and pulled Lu Qiaoge away.
Lu Qiaoge followed her steps.
Sister Qiao lowered her voice and exhorted: “Although I don’t know what happened, it must not be anything good, no matter who asks you, just smile and say nothing.”
Lu Qiaoge nodded obediently.
Thus she was pulled by Sister Qiao out of the office.
On the road, Sister Qiao saw no one around, then quietly asked Lu Qiaoge what happened at Su Hongmei’s home.
Curiosity, everyone has it.
Lu Qiaoge said an old woman came running to deliver the message, she happened to bump into her, so she had her pass it on.
She also mentioned how Su Hongmei’s daughter nearly lost her life.
Sister Qiao also said with lingering fear: “Thanks to that old woman, but definitely a neighbor, not showing her face was to avoid offending Su Hongmei’s mother-in-law, but also worried the child would have an accident, that’s why she came to report it, speaking of which, do you still remember Master Leng’s home that we visited?”
Lu Qiaoge thought for a moment and nodded: “I know, Master Leng’s wife has mental problems, the family is quite difficult.”
Sister Qiao sighed: “It should have been in the mid-50s, after Master Leng and Sister Wang had their second child, the mother-in-law from the hometown said to take the child back, they’d look after it, and send back when older and able to attend kindergarten class, at that time the nurseries here weren’t built yet, so Sister Wang agreed.
At that time the child was just over one year old, Sister Wang’s mother-in-law went out to pick wild vegetables and left the child at home, but you might not know, rural children are like that, basically free-range, hungry then feed, thirsty then give water, some afraid the child would fall off the kang, even tie the child with a rope… That year old Leng family raised a sow, don’t know how it got into the room, dragged the child down from the kang…”
At this point Sister Qiao couldn’t continue, sighed: “The child was gone, Sister Wang went mad right then, but actually the child’s grandmother couldn’t get over the hurdle in her heart either, a few days later she also jumped into the river…”
Lu Qiaoge listened with eyes wide round.
This was the first time hearing it.
Her heart went thump thump.
Seeing Lu Qiaoge’s expression, Sister Qiao couldn’t help sighing: “Your generation is very fortunate, when you were little, just on our Bright Street nurseries were established over a dozen.”
Lu Qiaoge deeply agreed.
By the time the two returned to the neighborhood committee, it was already noon.
Sister Qiao had smoothly collected the money on the road, preparing to distribute it to the families making paper boxes that afternoon.
Seeking monthly passes~
