Meng Yan's Transformation

Chapter 431: Auntie Waiting Anxiously at the Door

Zhan Mengyan looked up and saw Zhang Xincheng, and Zhan Zixun was looking at her.

"Zhan Mengyan, does it hurt?" Zhan Zixun and Zhang Xincheng asked in unison.

"It doesn't hurt! It doesn't hurt! Hurry up and leave! If you are any later, you won't be able to enter the school gate. If the dormitory teacher checks the rooms and finds that you are not there, you will be punished. Let's help grandma repair the house tomorrow."

While Zhan Mengyan was speaking, she jumped to the ground, deliberately shook her neck and stomped her feet to show that her injuries were not serious.

"West Wing, you have all packed up. Go and fetch your aunt. Go to bed early. We can talk about repairing the house tomorrow. ..."

While the middle-aged woman was speaking, she packed up the medical supplies, looked at Zhan Mengyan, shook her head helplessly, and swallowed the words that were about to come out of her mouth.

In front of my aunt's old house, my aunt's hunched figure was wrapped in a faded blue cotton-padded jacket with floral patterns, frost condensed on her gray temples. In the halo of light from the old house, my aunt's hands, covered with age spots, tightly grasped the handle of her cane. The light stretched the shadow of the cane into a slender and trembling shape, just like when her feet were bound and her joints were broken when she was young, and the sound of the iron sheet at the bottom of the cane knocking on the frozen soil was particularly crisp in the cold night, like the second hand of an old-fashioned clock, measuring the loneliness of time...

The cold wind blew up my aunt’s empty trouser legs, revealing a pair of small feet. The protruding deformed joints at her ankles were like old plum branches growing stubbornly in the snow. Her cloudy eyes stared anxiously into the distance...

"Why hasn't she come back yet? Little Mengyan is lost. It's so dark, where can she go? This Zhan Zixun, why can't he take care of his sister? I just heard a dog barking in the street in front. Little Mengyan must not encounter any stray dogs..."

As my aunt talked to herself, she paced back and forth on her crutches, and the anxious expression on her face became even more serious.

"Aunt, why aren't you waiting in the house? It's so cold outside! Come back to the house! Come back to the house..."

While Zhang Xincheng was talking, he went to help his aunt.

"No need to help me, I can walk by myself. Have you three found Xiao Mengyan? I just heard a dog barking. Didn't you hear the dog barking? Didn't you follow the dog barking to find Xiao Mengyan? Xiao Mengyan, don't let her get bitten by the dog! Zhan Zixun, it's all your fault, you brat, you can't even take care of your own sister..."

As the aunt spoke, she raised her cane and hit Zhan Zixun on the butt.

"Alas..."

Zhan Zixun shouted and dodged.

"Don't worry, aunt. We were looking for her following the sound of a barking dog. It was just like what you said, Zhan Mengyan, she encountered a mad dog, but it wasn't a stray dog. It seemed to be someone's pet dog. I heard it had a leash..."

While Zhang Xincheng was speaking, he went to help his aunt again. This time, his aunt did not refuse. She listened to Zhang Xincheng carefully. When she heard that Zhan Mengyan encountered a dog, she dropped her crutches in panic.

"Boy, tell me quickly, was Xiao Mengyan bitten by a dog? Did you find the dog's owner? I heard the dog barking very fiercely. Where is Xiao Mengyan? Why didn't any of you three stay with her? Just one of you can come and deliver the letter to me, why did you all come?!"

As my aunt spoke, she was so excited that she used her dry hand to tightly hold Zhang Xincheng's arm and shook it continuously.

"Aunt, Aunt! Don't worry, I haven't finished talking yet. Zhan Mengyan is fine now. Someone is taking care of her. The dog ran away. We were anxious to see Zhan Mengyan's injuries, so we didn't chase the dog, and we didn't find the dog's owner..."

As Zhang Xincheng spoke, he kept gently stroking the back of his aunt's hand to soothe her anxious heart.

Zhan Zixun, Yun Dawen and Zhang Xincheng told my aunt the whole story in detail.

"Oh my dear mother! I was so scared when I heard that. Fortunately, nothing happened. Namo Amitabha, thank God! Let's not repair the house today. Let's clean it up quickly and put all the quilts on for me. I have to go to the front yard to see Xiao Mengyan."

While my aunt was speaking, she took the lead and walked towards the front yard impatiently, and several people hurriedly followed with quilts in their arms.