Chapter 441: Waiting for the Lantern Festival (1)
"What to eat, you mourning thing, something that should have been strangled to death when it was born still has the face to eat and eat here!"
Jiang Feng was still in the fog when he heard a sharp and somewhat hoarse female voice, saying mean and vicious words that seemed to only appear in TV dramas, and he could faintly hear the cry of a child who was covered by a female voice.
Who's scolding children? And scolding so much not like their own children.
Jiang Feng vaguely remembered that the old man scolded them at the beginning, but he and a few cousins were all little piglets who knew how to eat, and they were not even as good as little piglets, so it was better to feed the pigs in the pigsty.
Something that is not even as good as a pig.
In other places, this may be a curse, but in the Jiang family, it is a big truth.
The fog lifted.
Jiang Feng found that he was in a room, a little girl's room. The dΓ©cor of the room is simple, with white walls, a small boxy desk, a regular lamp, a three-storey low bookcase, and a single bed covered with pink sheets.
Jiang Feng appeared in front of the bookshelf, and couldn't help but glance at the bookshelf twice.
The bookshelves are basically textbooks, from the first grade of primary school to the sixth grade of primary school, with one or two magazines mixed in the middle of the textbooks, and some famous books that Jiang Feng would buy at the recommendation of his teacher when he was a child.
There are stacked textbooks for the first semester of junior high school on the desk, except for the textbooks, there is only a lamp, not even a pen, it seems that this small desk is empty.
The room is not big, you can see it at a glance. Jiang Feng guessed that this should be Ji Xue's room, and according to the textbooks on the desk, it could be inferred that Ji Xue should be in the first year of junior high school now.
First.
A turning point in Ji Xue's life.
Jiang Feng didn't know much about Ji Xue's family, but he still knew a little.
Their family is a typical family dragged down by illness, once lived a rich life with little money, but because of the successive illnesses of their parents, the loss of labor, two young children, high medical expenses and the inaction of grandmothers and uncles, the family was dragged down step by step, and everyone was dragged into the abyss.
Jiang Feng remembered that Ji Xue seemed to have dropped out of school when she was in junior high school to work in the Tan family's restaurant. There are only textbooks on the desk, but there is no winter vacation homework, presumably at this time, Ji Xue has already decided to drop out of school and go to work in the Tan family's restaurant.
It's just that...... What about the season snowman?
"Bump. β
"Boom. β
There were two loud noises outside, as if something had fallen, followed by the sharp female voice that Jiang Feng had heard in the fog before.
"Crying, crying, you still have a face to cry, you are a mourning thing, you are still crying, who are you crying for the New Year, you want to kill your parents, you don't even want to kill me now, right? "The scolding can be called hard to hear.
Jiang Feng hurriedly ran out, when he was in the fog before, his voice was not very real, he thought it was Ji Xue's family next door who was scolding the child for the New Year, but now that he heard it, the voice was obviously coming from the living room.
When Jiang Feng took three steps and ran through the wall in two steps to the living room, he found that there was a small ball sitting on the floor of the living room, judging from the age, it should be Ji Xia, thirteen-year-old Ji Xue squatted next to the small group, and there were candy scattered on the ground.
The 5-year-old age difference may not seem very obvious to adult sisters, but for this kind of sisters, who are both around 10 years old, it seems to be very different.
One can already be called a little girl, and the other is a child no matter how you look at it.
Scattered on the floor were very inferior colorful loose candies wrapped in transparent plastic paper, and next to the coffee table there was a plastic plate that had been overturned on the ground, which was supposed to be used to put candy.
In front of the sofa stood a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her 50s, wearing a bright red coat, with an angry face, pointing at the sisters on the ground, and speaking very quickly.
"What kind of sin have I made, I gave birth to a son and raised him so big, I didn't please him, but I didn't see him give me something filial piety during the New Year, but I let my old lady come over to suffer, take care of the two of you and lose money, and one is a mourning star, it's really unlucky. β
"You sick old lady is really calculating, she said it nicely, she said that she was going to accompany your father to the hospital to see a doctor, and she didn't have time to take care of the two of you. What's wrong? Is it that you don't have long hands or feet or you don't have a long mouth, will you starve to death at home or what will happen?
"Don't scold my mother!" Ji Xia sat on the ground and screamed, the voice of an eight- or nine-year-old child was so penetrating that it even covered her grandmother's scolding voice.
With Ji Xia's current knowledge reserves, she may not understand the things of the mourning family and the whole family is scolding herself, but the sick old lady is scolding her mother, and she can still understand.
Grandma Ji Xia was extremely unhappy when she was called over to take care of her two granddaughters for a long time, but now when she saw that Ji Xia dared to refute her words, she was even more furious and kicked on the coffee table in front of her.
With a loud bang, Grandma Ji Xia raised her voice: "What did I say wrong? When you were born, I asked a fortune teller to calculate, and you are the funeral thing of the Tiansha Lone Star of the Kefu Muke family." I said I would have thrown you away, and your mother's sick and dead ghost still didn't want to, and the hen that couldn't even give birth to a son and didn't lay eggs was embarrassed to show me face. If it weren't for the fact that I have a few sons, our Ji family would have been cut off by your mother's sick and dead ghost who didn't lay eggs!"
"If it weren't for the tightness I have been covering all these years and not allowing you, the disaster star, to contact a few of your cousins and uncles, our family might have been treated by you. Now it's okay, your dad and mom have been treated like this by you, are you satisfied?"
"Okay, I see, your mother just wants you to come and kill me. I said, that sick and dead ghost really didn't have a good heart, and pretended to say something to take me over and stay for a while, I'm sorry, can people live in a ghost place like yours?"
Jiang Feng, who was listening to it next to him, looked confused: ???
What kind of patriarchal and feudal superstition is this, all in the 21st century, how can you live like a feudal society?
The more Grandma Ji Xia scolded, the more angry she became, and kicked the coffee table again, Jiang Feng looked at her expression and felt that she might really want to kick Ji Xia, but she didn't know what she was afraid of.
Grandma Ji Xia lowered her head and saw a small bag of Dove chocolates that she had just kicked out.
A small bag, with only about 10 pieces of chocolate in it, was handed over to any junior of the Jiang family except Jiang Feng, and he could eat it within 10 minutes.
"Yo, you're hiding here, and you're hiding things from me, aren't you? Grandma Ji Xia took a stride, stepped forward and picked up the bag of chocolates, and turned around to leave.
Ji Xia, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly stood up and rushed towards her grandmother like a small cannonball, unable to reach the chocolate in her hand and could only hold on to her coat tightly.
"That's what my mother-in-law bought for us, you are not allowed to take it, you are not allowed to take it!" Ji Xia shouted as she cried.
"Don't touch me, it's unlucky. Grandma Ji Xia shook off Ji Xia, probably because she felt unlucky, and didn't want to have any physical contact with her, so she hurriedly slammed the door and left.
Leaving only a mess.
Ji Xia sat on the ground and cried.
The whole time she just squatted on the ground, Ji Xue, who didn't say a word, finally made a move and got up slowly, probably because her feet were numb because she had been squatting for too long, and her movements were a little inconvenient.
Ji Xue silently picked up the plastic tray containing the candy and put it back on the coffee table, and then picked up the candy scattered on the ground one by one, even falling under the sofa and under the TV cabinet.
Finally, Ji Xue walked up to Ji Xia with a green candy and stuffed the candy into her hand.
"Xia Xia, without chocolate, it's the same with sugar. "Monsoon slopes.
"It was bought by my mother-in-law. Ji Xia sobbed and said, "That was bought by my mother-in-law." β
"I know. Ji Xue said softly.
"It was bought by my mother-in-law for us for the New Year. Ji Xia continued, as if he was saying it to Ji Xue, as if he was talking to himself again.
"This is what my mother-in-law bought. Ji Xia's voice became lower and lower.
For a child who has only just entered the third grade of primary school and has always been wealthy, it is too difficult for her to understand breast cancer, diabetes, medical expenses, family poverty, and high debts.
From Ji Xia's point of view, she just found that since she was in elementary school, the snacks at home have gradually decreased until they are gone, the smile on her mother's face has become less and less until she disappears, and she has become irritable and irritable, and her father has less and less time to come home, but she has been going to the hospital more and more often. Mom and Dad are always not at home, the person in charge of cooking rice has changed from father to sister, and the meat on the table has become less and less until it disappears, and it has become something that can only be seen during the New Year's holidays.
Some things can't even be eaten during the Chinese New Year, such as chocolate. The small bag of chocolate that was taken away by Ji Xia's grandmother just now was specially sent to their family by Ji Xia's grandmother when she was a child, and her grandmother counted the number of pieces, and Ji Xia and Ji Xue could eat one piece a day from Xiao Nian to Lantern Festival.
Now there are 6 days left until the Lantern Festival.
The chocolate is gone, and the year is gone.
"Xia Xia, is it okay for my sister to tell you something?" Ji Xue squatted in front of Ji Xia and looked at her, as if she had made a decision.
"My sister is busy these days and needs to go out, can you stay at home by yourself? In the morning, my sister will leave you two more buns, you will warm it up at noon, and in the evening, my sister will bring you food, you stay at home alone and don't go out, and don't open the door to strangers. Ji Xue admonished.
Ji Xia hadn't come out of the grief of losing chocolate and losing the New Year, and looked up at Ji Xue: "Sister, are you going out to play?"
"Yes, my sister is going to go out. β
"When my sister is done, will I buy you chocolates for the Lantern Festival?"
"Good. β