It was a factory holiday, and Zhou Lihua decided to go to the labor market and find a nanny for her one-year-old and two-month-old son, Honghong.
To say that this mother and son are really pitiful. Zhou Lihua's parents died early, and she had no siblings. Alone, she lived in the two very old and old houses left to her by her parents. Later, I got married, but I didn't expect that just half a year later, my husband died in a car accident, leaving his widow Honghong.
The child was born, and soon, the maternity leave was over, because of the economic difficulties, Zhou Lihua had to fiercely surround Honghong in bed and go to work with tears. Fortunately, the factory is not too far from home, and she can often go home to take care of it and feed it. Honghong was able to climb, so she tied him to the bed to prevent him from falling. How many times, Zhou Lihua thought that her son had an accident and ran home in a flying step, but saw that Honghong was safe and sound, and hurried back to work.
Seeing that the child is getting bigger and bigger, Zhou Lihua is also more and more uneasy, so she made up her mind to find a nanny.
After only a short time in the labor market, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old anhui girl introduced herself, saying that her name was Liu Xiu'er, and she was willing to see children, especially like little boys, and the wages were not high. Zhou Lihua gladly led Liu Xiu'er back home.
Liu Xiu'er followed Zhou Lihua to the master's house, which was two very old houses, with beautiful paste wallpaper on the four walls of the house, and from the broken wallpaper cracks in the corner of the house, you could see that the dirty lime wall roof had no roof, exposing wooden oaks and thick black strips. At a glance, it is frightening. The furnishings in the house are also simple, although there is a TV and a refrigerator, but it still looks quite poor.
Zhou Lihua put the child on the bed, and enthusiastically poured a cup of water for Liu Xiu'er, and said sincerely: "Xiu'er girl, if you come, my son will not have to stay at home alone." You don't know how much sin this child has suffered since he was born! She told Liu Xiu'er everything about the child, saying that Liu Xiu'er's heart was hot, and the tears almost flowed out, she quickly lowered her head, tried her best to hold back, and said embarrassedly: Sister Zhou, you, you can rest assured."
Why did Liu Xiu'er want to cry after listening to Zhou Lihua's words? This has to start from Liu Xiu'er's home.
Liu Xiu'er's family is in the countryside. Dad is a professional pig farmer in the village and makes a lot of money, because her mother will never have children again after giving birth to Xiu'er, so her mother is always angry with her father, beaten and scolded at home, and has no status.
Over time, Xiu'er's mother gradually became mentally confused, her body was haggard, sometimes crying and sometimes laughing, and nagging Xiu'er from time to time: "If you had a younger brother, your father would not gamble money and would not beat me." ”
Liu Xiu'er looked at her mother so guilty, and her heart was really sad that she wanted to do something for her mother. One day, she heard people talk about fake nannies and traffickers, and her heart couldn't help but move, if she also went to be a nanny and stole a little boy to come back as a brother, her mother would not be beaten by her father. Xiu'er had a simple mind, so she secretly came to the city without her family.
At this moment, Zhou Lihua saw that Liu Xiu'er did not say a word, and thought that she was strange, so she said kindly: "Xiu'er, you first take a break, I will go to cook." Then he took Liu Xiu'er's red pocket and put it in the cupboard. Almost at the same time, Liu Xiu'er heard a "popping" sound coming from the roof, and she subconsciously picked up her head.
Zhou Lihua smiled and said: "Our house is in disrepair, there are often noises don't be afraid, I went to cook." Liu Xiu'er said: "Sister Zhou, you are busy, I will come to see the child." With that, she picked up Honghong. Suddenly there was a loud noise on the roof, which startled her, but Honghong put his small hand to the roof and shouted: "Yes, yes!"
Liu Xiu'er said: "Honghong, the roof is black, don't, oh, give you this to play" She picked up the car on the bed and stuffed it into Honghong's hand.
That night, Zhou Lihua let Liu Xiu'er sleep alone in a room and take Honghong to sleep with her. Liu Xiu'er lay on the bed and turned over and couldn't sleep in front of her for a while, the face of Sister Zhou's warm trust, the sad face of her mother for a while, and Xiao Honghong's cute and innocent look. "They are all good people! What should I do? Liu Xiu'er couldn't help but sit up from the bed, at this time, there was a loud noise from the roof: "Brush, brush", as if something was rubbing.
Liu Xiu'er suddenly felt a wave of inexplicable fear, "snapped" on the light, and looked towards the roof; Nothing was found except rafters. She did not dare to turn off the light and covered the quilt from head to toe. I thought fiercely: What about him! I couldn't go back empty-handed when I came out. For the sake of my mother, I am out of the way, and I will take the child away tomorrow! When Honghong arrived at my house, I must have hurt him and loved him, and she thought about it like this and actually fell asleep.
The next day, Zhou Lihua was going to work and handed Honghong over to Liu Xiu'er. He said, "Xiu'er, I have entrusted Honghong to you, please treat him like your brother, okay?"
Liu Xiu'er felt weak in her heart and said in a trembling voice, "Sister Zhou, you can rest assured." ”
As soon as Zhou Lihua left, Liu Xiu'er immediately took action, took out her red pocket from the cupboard, stuffed Honghong's clothes, bottles, and milk powder into it, carried it on her back, picked up Honghong, and left.
Suddenly, the roof sounded "brush, brush" again, and she couldn't help but look up: Ah! A snake! A black snake swam down from the thick black purlin, heading at her, opening its mouth and spitting out its core! Liu Xiu'er screamed in fright, threw down the child, and fled out the door.
For a long time, Liu Xiu'er suddenly remembered that Honghong was still in the house, and the snake would bite him to death! Liu Xiu'er was anxious, so she rushed into the house desperately, but she saw an even more surprising scene: the whole body of the black snake was wrapped around Honghong's waist, and the snake's head was attached to Honghong's small hands, looking obedient! Honghong also "giggled" and laughed.
The black snake saw Liu Xiu'er come in and stretch out the long snake body, "sizzling" along the wall and climbing up the roof, disappearing in the blink of an eye.
Liu Xiu'er quickly picked up Honghong and ran outside, crashing into a person. Looking up, it was Sister Zhou.
Zhou Lihua was relieved because Liu Xiu'er took the child on the first day, so she deliberately asked for leave to come back to see. Seeing Liu Xiu'er's fussy look, she was very strange and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Sister Zhou, snake, there are snakes!"
"Look at what you said, where did the snake come from, you must have seen the flowers."
Liu Xiu'er still wanted to say something, but finally resisted. Zhou Lihua said a few words of comfort, explained some things and left. Zhou Lihua just left on her front foot, and Liu Xiu'er picked up the child on her back foot and ran outside.
As soon as she stepped out of the door, she felt something grab her foot. Looking down, it was the black snake again.
Liu Xiu suddenly sat paralyzed on the ground in shock, Honghong also threw it away, the bag also fell off, and the bottle and small clothes were scattered on the ground. Liu Xiu'er shouted in a hoarse voice, "Help! Help!"
The shouts attracted the neighbors nearby, and a young man grabbed the shovel and was about to cut at the snake, but he did not expect Honghong to get up from the ground, walk crookedly to the black snake, hug it and make love, and look at everyone present as stupid.
Zhou Lihua actually did not go far, heard the shouting and returned, brushed away the crowd, saw this thrilling scene, the person was paralyzed at that time, and could not say a word. The black snake slowly loosened Liu Xiu'er's feet, shrunk up, climbed up the roof along the wall, and disappeared.
For a moment, people were stunned and seemed very quiet. Only Xiao Honghong opened his two small hands to the roof of his house, shouting in his mouth: "Want, want." ”
Liu Xiu'er was finally moved, "pounced" and knelt in front of Zhou Lihua, crying: "Sister Zhou, I am sorry for you, you punish me, I am not as good as a snake, I came to your house as a nanny to steal a boy This black snake will not let me take Honghong away..."
Then she said why she wanted to be a nanny and the black snake twice.
Everyone listened with sighs, and Zhou Lihua burst into tears. She hugged Honghong tightly and murmured, "Child, your mother has no time to take care of you, and she keeps you at home all day." It turns out that the black snake is with you and watches over you. It is your protector. ”
This can be said to be the purest friendship, the innocence of the child feels the snake, the spirit of all things, the existence of the spirit of man's goodwill!