Strict Wife Of The ’70s Manages The Household - Chapter 641
He felt guilty as he continued to wallow in the pit of self-blame, feeling scared and panicked. He twitched silently for a while before he fell asleep. He was really too tired.
Lin Lan thought that this child was really scared. Sanwang rarely cried at ordinary times, but now he was like a frightened bird. He was probably terrified of the experience.
Maisui, “Mother, we should ask Auntie Xiuyun’s mother to help us,” Xiuyun’s mother was able to call upon spirits.
Although Lin Lan didn’t believe it at first, she didn’t care so much now. With the mentality of having that extra insurance, she let Maisui call the elder woman over.
Xiuyun’s mother and Maisui came over quickly. She quickly walked into the house and looked at the child, “It’s true that good children would be blessed later in life.”
She asked Lin Lan to get some burning paper, offered a bowl of millet and burned three sticks of incense as she called upon the spirits.
Children in rural areas were easily frightened. They always looked for someone to summon the spirits, asking for psychological comfort even if it didn’t work.
After the procedure, Lin Lan couldn’t care to know whether it worked or not. At any rate, Sanwang finally fell asleep and Xiaowang was also sleeping soundly.
Lin Lan talked to Xiuyun’s mother and she comforted Lin Lan not to get angry in a hurry. Children of this age tended to be smaller and easily clumsy, she tried to insist.
“There are many of us adults who fell into the river before, let alone a child of this size. The women who wash their clothes, the commune members who capture bugs and so on.”
During the Great War, water conservancy projects were built and the brigade also dug many canals, ditches and large wells without guardrails. During the summer flood season, the well would be full of water, which made the green-blue hue sloshing out of the well rather scary to look at. Sometimes, workers would fall over accidentally when walking on the side and there were children and women who worked in the fields to get rid of bugs. Just taking two small steps back and not being conscious enough of their surroundings were enough to make them fall.
Seeing that the children were sleeping soundly, Xiuyun’s mother left home and went to work.
Lin Lan went to the kang to watch over the two children. Xiaowang was fine as he was sleeping soundly and was not frightened into having nightmares. Sanwang, on the other hand, was not very at ease. He frowned, clenched his fists, huddled up, twitched from time to time and his forehead was sweating. Lin Lan tried to touch his forehead and found that he wasn’t having a fever, but instead, he felt cold.
She asked Maisui to pour some hot water and wiped his forehead, palms, and soles with a handkerchief. It was warm to the touch. Then, she patted Sanwang gently to give him a sense of security and hopefully, help him in avoiding nightmares.
Sure enough, after being patted down for a while, his body slowly calmed down and he no longer shivered so frequently.
Maisui also added more firewood to the stove pit to keep the kang warm so they could sleep more soundly.
At this time, there was some commotion on the streets outside and someone was shouting, “You’re such a bully. Just because you have a Director in your house, how can you bully-“
The only Director in the village was Han Qingsong. Was someone scolding her family? Lin Lan frowned and asked Maisui to go out and see what was going on.
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