Chapter 935: A World for Two 3
Before setting off, Feng Qingxue prepared the finest Four Treasures of the Study for Wen Ruyu, including the set that Lu Jiang’s father had given her. As for the ink sticks and rice paper, she had separately prepared plenty, all salvaged from the waste station—since papers without words could be brought out openly and honorably.
Feng Qingxue kept these locked in a cabinet at home, handing the key to Qingyun for Wen Ruyu to retrieve them whenever needed.
It was common knowledge that keeping things in the cowshed was unsafe.
Next, Feng Qingxue repeatedly implored Guan Cheng, Qingyun, and others to keep the two children within sight at all times and not to let them near ponds or rivers, to feed them and add clothing on time to prevent them from catching a chill during the spring backdraft, fussing over these matters right until she departed and even turning back to instruct Guan Cheng and Qingyun, who got up early to see them off.
No sooner had they left than Xibao woke up.
All this tyke could think about was the cream cake he hadn’t had in a long time, and since the army service store didn’t carry such expensive items, he felt no attachment to his departing parents; after all, he had been playing around with his older brothers these past days.
Put simply, children lack a sense of time and think their parents will return soon after they leave.
But Fubao was different; the first thing she did upon opening her eyes was to look for her parents, and upon not finding them, she would cry, crying her heart out.
Guan Cheng and Qingyun were frantically trying to comfort her, while Xibao would stick his finger in his mouth and pull faces to amuse her, and Lu Tianzhi and Guan Yu weaved a new willow wreath for her, adorned with wildflowers, yet none of this could ease her sadness from not seeing her parents.
"Mommy, mommy, I want my mommy!" Fubao cried with her eyes closed, gasping for air between sobs.
The cries reached the cowshed, causing Lu Jiang’s father to stand up abruptly and hand a bucket to Uncle Xu, "I’m going to check on Fubao; this child must cry a little in the morning if she doesn’t see her parents when she wakes up."