Soul knot

Lu Yudong was still standing there in a daze, Manzhu had already walked up, reached out and took off the schoolbag on her back, and hung it in the crook of his arm.

This schoolbag only had a few notebooks and pencil cases during the day, but now it was filled with textbooks of various subjects, and it was several times heavier.

"I can carry it by myself..." Lu Yudong stretched out his hand to hold the schoolbag underneath, as if afraid of strangling Manzhu.

"You still have to grow taller." Manzhu just smiled and took her into his palm, turned around and led her up the bridge, "Don't be crushed so that you can't grow taller."

Lu Yudong could feel the gazes cast from all around, admiring, amazed, envious or jealous.

Manzhu is such a person who can attract a lot of attention wherever she goes, and she is an ugly duckling who is shrouded by those gazes by the way. She only dares to bury her little head and hide under the swan's wings.

But she felt that there was nothing wrong with this.

She held Manzhu's hand tightly, and the uneasiness in her heart during the day disappeared little by little between her ten fingers.

The night breeze was cool, and they took advantage of the street lamps to return home all the way.

The wall clock was about to point to ten o'clock, Lu Yudong pasted the schedule on the wall next to the door, walked to the bedside with his schoolbag in his arms, took out all the textbooks that were not needed tomorrow from the schoolbag, and put them neatly in the bed cabinet On the shelf above.

After packing up the books, she sat on the bed and took a few deep breaths. When she looked down, she saw the wall close to the inside of the bed cabinet. At some point, she covered it with a double layer of velvet cloth, fixed it from the window sill, and hung down gently bed surface.

Lu Yudong stretched out his hand and touched it, it was thick and soft, and he could no longer feel the coldness of the wall.

She couldn't help raising the corners of her mouth, turned over, and jumped off the bed.

Manzhu took out a cup of freshly brewed milk from the kitchen, and put it on the low coffee table: "I'm almost asleep after drinking it."

It was only when she was watching TV at home during the day that she realized that a glass of milk every night would make her sleep quality much better, so she bought a can of milk powder and came back.

Lu Yudong put on his slippers, trotted forward in two or three steps, picked up the milk and drank it down in one gulp.

Then, holding the empty cup that was still warm, he walked up to Manzhu, raised his eyes and whispered softly: "The school cafeteria needs a meal card, and the card is 20 yuan, and then you need to charge the money to eat. Today is noon and afternoon. My deskmate gave it to me, so I have to return it to her."

"Okay." Manzhu responded, took off the purse at his waist, took out the last three hundred-yuan cash, and handed it to Lu Yudong.

Lu Yudong saw that there were only a few pieces of change left in the purse, and he froze for a moment, neither accepting it nor not accepting it.

Manzhu patted Lu Yudong's head, and said with a smile: "It just happened to be used up, I'll pick it up tomorrow, you take these first, you don't need to fully charge the meal card, you can buy whatever you want, and ask me for it when you run out."

"Ah..." Lu Yudong came back to his senses, nodded, and carefully put the three hundred into the Chinese textbook, and put it back in the schoolbag.

In the early morning of the next day, before dawn, Lu Yudong was woken up by his mobile phone, and when he opened his eyes, he saw the breakfast prepared on the coffee table.

Hot, just a few minutes out of the pot.

After breakfast, Manzhu sent her to the school gate like yesterday, and waved goodbye to her.

After watching Manzhu leave, Lu Yudong turned back to the small supermarket opposite the school, picked up a 32 yuan insulated lunch box, and then turned into the alley to buy the breakfast that Zhang Ziyun had promised yesterday, put it in his schoolbag, and secretly brought it into the school in fear .

When she arrived in the classroom, Zhang Ziyun was already waiting on the seat, and when she saw her appear, he smiled all over his face.

After getting breakfast, he even said to her: "I love you!"

Lu Yudong breathed a sigh of relief: "There are guards guarding the door, and someone is blocked, I'm afraid I won't be able to get in..."

"You look like an obedient student, no one will check your schoolbag." Zhang Ziyun said, "I will trouble you in the future, the school breakfast is too bad."

Lu Yudong lowered his head, he didn't want to agree, but he didn't dare to refuse.

Before she could come to a conclusion, Zhang Ziyun stuffed 100 yuan into her hand: "The breakfast outside, as long as it is easy to hide, you can bring it to me, and the money will be deducted from here. Let me know when it's over."

"Ah... good." Lu Yudong pursed his lips, took out yesterday's notebook from his schoolbag, and turned to the last page where debts were recorded.

Under the 545 owed to my little uncle, I drew a form for accounting, and entered Zhang Ziyun's 100 yuan into it.

Zhang Ziyun said: "By the way, yesterday's meal card was twenty, so you should be counted in it."

"Okay." Lu Yudong said, crossed out 100, and wrote 120 on the back.

At noon that day, with her schoolbag on her back, she completed the meal card with Zhang Ziyun's company, and put all the remaining money into the card.

At lunch, she ate half and kept half.

The half that was not eaten was poured into the insulated lunch box.

Seeing it, Zhang Ziyun couldn't help being surprised: "What are you doing?"

Lu Yudong replied in a low voice: "I can't finish it, don't waste it, I will continue to eat in the afternoon."

In this way, you can save money for a meal a day.

Zhang Ziyun's face was full of incomprehension: "Isn't it..."

Lu Yudong only bent his eyebrows and smiled.

Maybe not, but she couldn't forget Uncle Mu's words in her heart: "It's not easy for you, Sister Manzhu, she... She spent a lot of money for you recently, and she doesn't have a lot of money."

***

In the first two weeks of school, Manzhu kept sending Lu Yudong off directly.

But in the first few days, the two of them would go to bed together after washing up at home, but later, Manzhu picked him up every night, made him a cup of hot milk, and then went out alone again.

This situation lasted for a week, and Lu Yudong couldn't help asking why.

Manzhu said that it was her new job. It started at [-]:[-] pm and ended at [-]:[-] am every day. There were no holidays, but the income was not bad.

As for the pick-up, she slipped out midway.

When Lu Yudong heard this, his heart felt warm and sore.

She was very distressed that Manzhu picked her up like this every day, but she was very happy that there was someone willing to accompany her in this way in spite of her busy schedule.

It's just that Manzhu works so late every day, forget about getting up early for her during the day, and travels back and forth in three places for her at night... It's too hard.

She is also almost 12 years old, and she is not a child who will get lost, so she cannot let Manzhu be so troublesome all the time.

When the little girl said what was in her heart, although Manzhu was a little surprised, she also followed her wishes.

In fact, picking up and dropping off Lu Yudong every day was not tiring for her at all, on the contrary, she was quite happy about it, but she knew that Lu Yudong was a sensible and sensitive child, if she didn't give in on this matter, the child would definitely feel bad.

"It's just that, I can spend very little time with you, is it okay?" Manzhu still didn't want to see the child feel lonely because of it.

Faced with Manzhu's hesitation, Lu Yudong thought for a while, and said seriously: "Our school does not have evening self-study every Saturday, Sister Manzhu...can you, every Saturday, go to work a little later to accompany you? I have dinner?"

"Of course." Manzhu replied without hesitation.

Lu Yudong couldn't help but rejoice: "Then it's a deal!"

Manzhu smiled, took Lu Yudong's little hand, hooked her little finger with her, then touched her head, and asked, "Then this Saturday, is there anything you want to eat? I'll make it for you."

Anyway, she has almost figured out the new inventions of human beings over the years, and it is not difficult to cook food.

Lu Yudong thought for a while, raised his eyes and said obediently: "I like whatever Sister Manzhu does!"

Manzhu said: "Then, after you get out of school, let's go shopping together. What do you choose, what will I do?"

It was this sentence that made Lu Yudong look forward to it from going to bed on Friday to after school on Saturday.

When the bell rang for the end of get out of class, Lu Yudong immediately stood up, hummed a little tune, put away his schoolbag, and under Zhang Ziyun's surprised gaze, he hopped out of the classroom like a deer.

She bounced out of the school, and jumped on Manzhu the first time she saw it, not caring about the eyes of the people around her.

Manzhu could feel that Lu Yudong was in a particularly good mood today.

The girl walked very briskly along the way, when she was shopping for vegetables in the supermarket, and when she went home and upstairs, she seemed to be about to jump several times.

However, Lu Yudong didn't buy too many things, and the ingredients were very common and cheap vegetables, and he didn't pick any meat.

In the end, Manzhu couldn't stand it anymore, so he weighed some chicken breast.

Back home at this time, Lu Yudong immediately put down his schoolbag, turned around and took all the ingredients in Manzhu's hands to the kitchen.

Just as Manzhu was about to enter the kitchen, she saw Lu Yudong standing at the door, holding back the narrow door.

She raised her head, widened her pure eyes, tilted her head and asked, "Can I help?"

Manzhu couldn't help laughing, leaned over and looked at Lu Yudong, and asked, "What do you know?"

"I can learn!" Lu Yudong's expression was extremely serious.

Manzhu stood up straight, leaning against the kitchen door frame and thought for a while: "Then you peel off the potatoes and lettuce first?"

"Okay!" Lu Yudong stopped holding the door with his hands, turned around and ran into the kitchen, and took out all the potatoes and lettuce.

"You can't eat so many, just one." Manzhu reminded.

"Okay!" Lu Yudong responded, putting all the extras back into his pocket and stuffing them into the refrigerator.

She picked up the fruit knife on the kitchen cabinet—if I remembered correctly, this kind of knife was used to peel the skin.

"Wash it first." Manzhu reminded again.

"Okay!" Lu Yudong turned around and ran to the pool, washing potatoes and lettuce clumsily.

After washing the skin, Lu Yudong moved a small bench and sat by the trash can to peel the potatoes.

Manzhu was preparing other dishes on the side, looking at Lu Yudong from time to time, for fear that the child who couldn't handle the knife properly would cut herself.

Fortunately, Lu Yudong peeled the skin slowly, but very carefully, and he peeled the skin clean without getting injured.

At the end, she put the peeled lettuce and potatoes on the cutting board, grabbed the knife again, and looked up at Manzhu: "Can I try?"

Manzhu pointed to the kitchen knife on the side and said, "Try it, both of these are diced."

Lu Yudong held the kitchen knife in his hand, imitating what he saw on TV, and cut for a long time under the watchful eyes of Manzhu, finally cut up the potatoes and lettuce, put them on plates, and stood aside obediently.

The vegetable she cut with a knife for the first time was finally stir-fried with diced chicken. Lu Yudong couldn't hold back a "wow" when the delicious stir-fried three diced was served on the plate.

This is due to her, although the movement is really slow and a lot of time wasted, but the sense of accomplishment in her heart is not lacking at all.

When all the dishes were fried, the two of them took out the rice that had been cooked in advance, and squatted down in front of the short coffee table together.

Although the sitting place is not very comfortable, the two of them are you serving food for me and I serving food for you, the atmosphere is so warm.

After the meal, Lu Yudong took over the job of washing the dishes. Although he was a little clumsy, he could still wash them clean.

After Manzhu went out, Lu Yudong lay down by the small desk alone, holding the pen holder in a daze for a long time, and finally wrote the next page of the diary.

……

Today, Manzhu cooked for me for the first time in more than two months.

The dishes are all the ones that my mother loved to buy in the past, but the recipe and taste are completely different from those made by my father, but I like them all.

I began to look forward to every Saturday in the future.

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感谢在2020-10-1604:04:50~2020-10-1705:27:00期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

感谢投出地雷的小天使：秋水浮萍6个；猫大王4个；游泳的羊3个；はくろうの彼女、夜柒柒柒2个；不寤1个；

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: Looking back, there are 10 bottles in the world;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!