Chapter 33: Lu Jiao Teaches Little Ones
After Lu Jiao finished speaking, she looked up at the four little boys and noticed that they all had wounds on their faces. Fortunately, their bones or muscles were not injured. All their injuries were skin trauma. Because their skin was tender, it was easy to leave bruises after being beaten.
So it looks scary, but it's not really a big problem. On the contrary, the two daughters of the Shen family were obviously beaten hard by Widow Li.
Lu Jiao has no sympathy for others. Everyone has their own destiny, and she is not the Virgin Mary.
"If this happens again, don't fight against other people. Let her take it away first, and then I'll take care of it when I come back. You guys are young. Wouldn't you be beaten in vain if you were beaten by them?"
"You told us to keep watch over the pheasant and the eggs, so we couldn't let her take them away," the eldest child said while looking up at her.
For a brief moment, Lu Jiao was stunned. Was it because of her orders? In her heart, she felt a little sour.
"Well, I see, you boys've done well today, but don't let yourself suffer in the future."
"This is the candy promised to you, two per person," she said as she took out eight candies from her sleeves and handed them to the four little boys.
The four little ones stared blankly at the candy in their hands. There was really candy.
The area where they had been beaten before seemed to be no longer hurting. "Mother, did you really bring us candy?" said the youngest child, surprised.
The atmosphere in the room froze when the Youngest Child spoke, and even Lu Jiao was stunned.
The Youngest Child words naturally drew the attention of the triplets as well.
The Youngest Child was stunned for a moment, then quickly looked up at Lu Jiao and found that Lu Jiao was not angry.
Then he turned around to look at the triplets. They said before that he shouldn't call the bad woman "mother", but now that he has called her "mother", will the eldest brother, second brother and third brother be angry?
The triplets were obviously angry, and when they saw the Youngest Child looking at them, they gave him a cold stare and turned their faces away from him.
The Youngest Child was perplexed, but when he turned around and saw Lu Jiao, he grinned once again. He had just called her "Mother", even though she had forbade them from calling her that. But she didn't seem angry. Hey, he can openly call her mother!
"Mother."
"What's the matter? Something happened?" Lu Jiao responded, thinking he had something to do with her.
The Youngest Child shook his head, and called out again after a while, "Mother."
This time, Lu Jiao knew that he just wanted to call, so she let him call her at will. He called, and she just hummed.
The triplets standing around her became more and more angry. They stayed in their previous position for a long time, but Lu Jiao paid them no mind.
She washed their faces and bodies with an old rag. She took the water and went out after the four little boys were all washed.
"Hmph, you actually called her mother. We agreed not to call her that," the triplets in the room whispered in unison to the Youngest Child, while staring at Lu Jiao's leaving back.
"I'm going to ignore you now onwards."
"I'm not going to care about you anymore."
The triplets all turned their faces away from the Youngest Child without sparing him a single glance.
Lu Jiao came in from outside with the little ones' clothes, which she had washed and dried earlier and started dressing them in those.
She naturally saw the conflict between the triplets and the youngest child, but she pretended not to know, and after changing their clothes, she rubbed some anti-inflammatory ointment on their wounds.
When the Youngest Child saw that his brothers were ignoring him, he dashed up to Lu Jiao and grabbed her hand, saying, "Mother."
Lu Jiao lowered her head and saw his beautiful peach blossom eyes twinkling with admiration. She felt an indescribable softness in her heart.
"What's the matter?"
"Mother, I'll accompany you."
"All right," Lu Jiao said as she led him out. She didn't mind whether the quadruplets called her mother because she had no intention of staying, but she felt her heart melt with softness and joy when the youngest child called her mother.
While staring at their leaving back, the second child and the third child said in unison to the eldest child, "Big brother, Fourth Brother actually called the bad woman "mother"."
The eldest child frowned sternly, as if thinking about something important.
The second child and the third child both stared at him, as if they were waiting for him to make a decision.
Lu Jiao poured another basin of water outside and prepared to scrub Xie Yunjin. She had no idea how he had gotten out before. He was covered in dust, and now that he had even vomited blood, his clothes had become too dirty. She'd better scrub him and change his clothes.
It happened that just today she bought two sets of clothes for him before she came back, both inner wear and outer wear.
Holding the basin of water, Lu Jiao led the youngest child to the door of the east bedroom when she heard the eldest child earnestly say, "If he wants to call her Mother, let him call her that, but we'll just ignore him."
"If you call me that or not, I'm still your mother. Don't bully the Fourth Child," Lu Jiao said angrily after listening to the eldest child's words.
The second child and the third child suddenly felt wronged after hearing Lu Jiao's words. "It was you who didn't allow us to call you that."
By their words, Lu Jiao was reminded of what the original owner had done. The original owner would not let them call her mother, and if they did, she would beat them. Later, the four little boys decided not to call her mother any longer, so they called her bad woman.
"That was my mistake," Lu Jiao chuckled dryly as she recalled this.
She was afraid that the second child and the third child would continue to talk about this topic, so she swiftly changed the topic.
"Second Child, Third Child, I haven't had time to speak with you two. Second Child, who taught you to scold you so rudely? What is "jerk", "lose money", "little bitch"? Who taught you all this?"
Lu Jiao stared at the second child with a stern expression on her face. The second child was a little scared by her stare, but he still remembered to retort in a low voice, "It's your swearing words."
Lu Jiao's face darkened, and she had a solemn expression on her face. Despite that, she still said softly, "I'm a country woman. I don't know that much, so sometimes I don't speak well. You're a boy, right? How can you mimic a woman's words? How many men do you see swearing like me? "
"Shen Daniu's father also cursed like this," the second child said promptly, after a little thought.
"Shen Daniu's father is not a good person to learn from. There is no one in the village who doesn't look down on him. Do you want to be like him? Don't even mention people, even dogs don't like him," Lu Jiao said angrily to the second child.
With a shake of his head, the second child expressed his dislike for the person. He wanted to be like his father, who was renowned in the whole village. All the villagers used to look up to his father before.
"That being the case, don't swear at people casually in the future, and of course, I won't swear at people like that in the future, either."
"Did you hear what I said? "
"You really won't swear at people anymore?" the second child asked, suspiciously.
"Have you seen me swearing at people these days?"
The second child paused for a moment before shaking his head. In these past few days, the bad woman hasn't sworn at anyone, and she has also been very good to them. She made delicious food for them, and she protected them and even brought candy for them.
"I know, I won't swear at people in the future," the second child said softly.
Lu Jiao smiled and nodded, then turned to face the third child standing beside him, who raised his chest proudly and said, "I didn't swear at anyone."
"Haha, you didn't swear at anyone. You were rolling around on the ground. What do you mean you can't get through this day?" Lu Jiao asked him with a sneer.
When Lu Jiao finished speaking, she realised that the original owner would do the same thing, so she immediately shut up and then snorted coldly, "Don't do this in the future. A man should act like a man. Do you see your father lying on the ground and crying?"
The third child immediately shook his head and promised, "I won't lie on the ground in the future."
Satisfied, Lu Jiao stopped bothering the four little boys, took the basin of water, and walked towards the bed.
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