The two cuddled together for a while, and then Mu Tang remembered what she had just said, pouted, and whispered:
"Lu Yan, I don't want to go to the base anymore."
Lu Yan held her in his arms, letting her little face rest on his shoulder, and gently patted her shoulder with his other hand without saying a word.
He knew that Mu Tang needed to talk more at this time.
Sure enough, after a while, Mu Tang had already started talking:
"I don't know how to get along with them. They all look so cold."
"...They don't like me, they don't like Mud, and every time I try to help they quickly run away and leave me alone."
Mu Tang buried her face in Lu Yan's arms, took a deep breath, and smelled Lu Yan's breath on the tip of her nose, and her restless mood became calmer.
After a while, she suddenly picked up the jar again, raised her head from Lu Yan's arms, touched the pattern on it with her hands, and murmured to herself:
"But people like Qin Zhen are also very good to me. They like me and Niba, and Niba also likes them."
"Finally, we have new friends. If we don't go to the base, we won't be able to see them, right?"
Mu Tang frowned, his face full of confusion:
"Actually, they weren't targeting me. If someone else had a bandage on their hand, they would be just as nervous. And I was indeed bitten. If I were an ordinary person, I would have bitten them long ago..."
After Mu Tang said this, her mood suddenly improved a lot. She turned her head and looked at Lu Yan excitedly:
"So it's not that they don't like me, they're just afraid, right?!"
Lu Yan looked at her with bright eyes. Although her face was full of happiness, her eyes were full of uneasiness, and he knew that she was eager to hear a word of approval from her own mouth.
This way she can continue to work hard.
Lu Yan only felt astringent in his heart. He had prevented the little girl from getting hurt and protected her all the way.
As a result, from the moment they really came into contact with the crowd, the little girl suffered all kinds of grievances in order to work hard.
And all this is because he is human.
Mu Tang had never selfishly asked him to stay away from friends, compatriots, and relatives, and live in isolation with her.
On the contrary, it was because I wanted to be with him that I worked so hard to adapt to living with others.
Qin Zhen had been nagging in the past that he raised Mu Tang as his daughter and knew how to protect her, but little did he know that in fact, Mu Tang paid no less than he did in this relationship.
Lu Yan didn't want her to feel so wronged anymore.
"Tangtang."
Lu Yan reached out and touched Mu Tang's face, brushed the corners of her eyes with his thumb, and said softly:
"Don't worry about what they think, and don't worry about whether they like you or not. Our lives have nothing to do with them, and they have no right to dominate you."
Mu Tang blinked and looked at him eagerly.
Lu Yan continued:
"I promise you, we will take Qin Zhen back to the base, and then I will take you to see my uncle. If you are still unhappy then, we will leave the base and live on our own."
Mu Tang hesitated and muttered:
"But you have your friends and relatives, and those are your only relatives!"
Mu Tang lowered his head and said blankly:
"My relatives are so precious. I don't even have them. I can't even remember what they look like..."
She didn't want Lu Yan to give up such an important person because of her.
Lu Yan laughed and said softly:
"We can come back to see him regularly. If he needs my help, I will come back, but you don't have to put up with those people."
"...Oh." Mu Tang nodded. After a while, he suddenly thought of something and said excitedly:
"Then can we take Wanwan away with us, instead of Ren Yu?"
Lu Yan: "..." It doesn't seem right to take away another girlfriend and not let him follow.
…
In the end, Qi Yang did not drive the couple away, but tiredly asked the crowd of onlookers to be sent back to the car, and then looked down at the woman kneeling on the ground:
"This is the last time, there will be no next time."
The middle-aged man stood there silently, while the woman kowtowed a few more times with tears of gratitude:
"Thank you...thank you sir, we will never do it again, thank you..."
Qi Yang looked at the bruise the size of a baby's fist on the woman's forehead and the tears on her face. He couldn't bear to look away and turned away.
The woman just knelt on the ground, her face obscured by her scattered hair, so her expression could not be seen clearly, and her thin shoulders were twitching.
The middle-aged man stood alone, looking at her hesitantly with his head lowered. He opened his mouth several times but didn't know how to speak. Finally, he said in his unique impatient tone:
"Everyone is gone, why are you still kneeling? Get up."
But this time there was a lot more hesitation in his tone.
The woman finally straightened up and stood up with difficulty, holding her knees.
The middle-aged man reached out to help her, but she threw him away. He could only watch as she limped into the car without looking back.
The man looked a little ugly. He hesitated for a while and then got into the car.
Just as he was about to close the car door, he heard a woman's hoarse voice:
"You know what? I get really desperate sometimes."
The middle-aged man's hand froze, and he stayed there, not knowing what to do for a moment.
The woman continued:
"You make me lose all hope. We are like forgotten lotus roots in the mud. We are bright and beautiful on the outside, but rotten and smelly on the inside."
After a while, she shook her head again and said with a smile:
"No, it doesn't even look like it anymore. It's completely rotten. It's so rotten that I can't stand upright. It's so rotten that there is no cure."
Normally at this time, the man would have long ago scolded him with a stiff neck, but today, he couldn't open his mouth.
The woman suddenly rushed over and grabbed him by the collar. Blood flowed down her forehead, into her eyes, and down her cheeks.
She stared hard at the man in front of her with her red bloodshot eyes, filled with hatred.
The man was so frightened by her look that he couldn't speak. He could only listen to her scream:
"Do you know why we still don't have children? Let me tell you, it's not that I can't have children, it's that I don't dare to have children!"
"With a father like you and a mother like me, I feel sad for that child. If he were born, how desperate would his life be?!"
The man was completely dumbfounded. This woman told him that she was infertile more than ten years ago, and he went around looking for someone to check her. Later, when she couldn't get better, he accepted her fate.
I didn’t expect that she meant it!
"You..." The man subconsciously raised his hand and was about to throw it away.
The woman raised her face and roared heartbreakingly:
"You want to hit me, don't you? Just hit me!"
The middle-aged man struggled to look at the unrecognizable woman in front of him. He raised his hand again and again, but finally stopped hitting her.
The woman pushed him away and broke down crying.
The man slowly put down his hand, leaned against the car dejectedly, reached out and pinched his eyebrows, and stopped talking.
I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly the voice of vicissitudes of life rang out in the carriage where only the sound of crying was left:
"I'm sorry, I didn't know you would be so depressed and desperate after spending so many years with me."
The woman stopped crying and looked up at him in surprise.
The man smiled reluctantly and said in a bitter voice:
"I will change. We will live a good life in the future and forget about having children. If...if we are able, we will adopt one."
The woman's eyes were full of disbelief. Who would have thought that a man who has been selfish for more than forty years would one day apologize and change? !
Knowing that she didn't believe it, the man shook his head and didn't say much. He just huddled in the corner silently and held the woman's hand in his other hand.
