The dumb aunt fell asleep in a daze, her consciousness was unconscious for a while, and when she was unconscious, she tore a lot of familiar scenes in her heart, as if she was in a hospital,

I was so busy that the little nurse came to ask her to say that there was an elderly pregnant woman who needed her to see it for herself, and the head nurse ran to say that there were three more surgeries to arrange, and the tragic cries of the mother clearly sounded in my ears, and the cry of the newborn baby was wah-wow......

When I woke up, my eyes were deserted, and I saw that I was sleeping on a big kang in the north, covered with a big red quilt, with a splitting headache, Venus in my eyes, and my stomach was so hungry that I didn't dare to move.

What about the little girl named Orchid? She ran out for help, and why didn't she come back? Isn't she like another girl named Orchid?

Leaving here to live a good life elsewhere? People go to higher places, this is understandable, in her former living environment, isn't this kind of behavior also common, nurses squeezed their heads to compete for the position of head nurse, colleagues in the department are playing hollow to climb to the position of director, and the doctors in the outpatient department are sharpening their heads to get themselves the title of expert.

It seems that people's ** is universal, and there are zài in which era and which society.

There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, chaotic and chaotic, running towards one place in unison.

Lancao, will she finally leave me?

Lancao was hurrying on the way back to the corner courtyard at the moment.

Hearing that the meal was open, she didn't dare to delay, and rushed into the corner courtyard out of breath.

The sound of footsteps indicates that the kitchen is open, and dinner in Liufu starts just before sunset.

First, Mama Li instructed people to send the old lady's meals into the main house and set them up, and then the mother-in-law and maids in each house were busy going to their master's house

Inside, and then it will be the turn of the people in the front and back yards.

Today, because there are distinguished guests from afar in the house, the meal is opened half an hour early, and the kitchen specially adds a few exquisite dishes to the big lady's house.

Wrapped in a gust of cold wind, the blue grass jumped into the house, and before she had time to speak, she pulled something out of her bosom with trembling hands.

A small oil-paper bag, carefully unfolded, revealing a few snacks.

A piece of burlap wrapped in several large pears.

Another small piece of oiled paper, inside is a chicken leg.

In addition, he took out a string of copper coins from his sleeve.

That's all she learned from a trip.

Lancao climbed on the kang and knelt beside the pillow, "Little grandma, I'm back, I'll get you something to eat and drink first, you must be hungry." ”

Slip off the kang and go to the kitchen to serve rice.

The winter sun, which had been warm not long ago, became cloudy again as the west sank, and the light gray clouds came from a distance to obscure the sky, and the air immediately became colder.

The little footsteps of the blue grass made a creaking sound on the snow in the yard, and the dumb aunt turned her dry tongue and licked her long dry and bitter upper jaw, how much she wished there was a cup of hot water to drink, not to mention what coffee and tea honey to add, just a cup of white water.

About an hour or so later, the courtyard finally resounded the sound of creaking snow, and sure enough, the bluegrass was back, frozen and red, with a large bowl of brown rice, a large bowl of green vegetable soup, and a stewed radish on a wooden plate in his hand. The dish is white and shiny, and there is no trace of oiliness in sight.

The dumb aunt lay quietly, and the bluegrass was scooped up with a spoon and fed to her one bite at a time.

But the dumb aunt was hungry, and she was gulping down, and her thirsty taste buds and tongue only knew how to swallow food into her esophagus, and she had long forgotten to distinguish what it tasted like.

A bowl of soup was finished, a bowl of stewed radish was finished, she shook her head, full.

Lancao picked up the remaining half bowl of rice and lay on the table to eat, and the dumb aunt looked strange and asked her why she didn't eat vegetables or soup, and only ate white rice.

Lan Cao's eyes flickered, and she looked embarrassed.

"You, help me up. ”

The dumb aunt ate and was a little refreshed.

Lancao had to help her, but her buttocks and legs hurt so much that she couldn't sit at all, so she could only turn around and lie on the pillow.

The dumb aunt looked at the rice plate with two eyes, the two bowls were empty, only the third bowl had some rice left, she couldn't help but widen her eyes, could it be that this is all the food?

Not to mention the quality, even the quantity is so small?

Lan Cao didn't look full after eating, licked the edge of the bowl with her tongue, and there was worry in her eyes, "Little grandma, Orchid is gone, the kitchen will just transfer her share, and we will also reduce our portion, saying that the two of us can't eat so much, and also said that the eldest lady ordered, last year's grain harvest failed, and this year's spring may be a famine, and the house should also spend frugally as soon as possible." There was a look of resentment on the little face, "What they said is good, but it is only our corner courtyard that is being detained, and their courtyards are not the same as before." The slave and maid have to worry, I'm afraid that our life is getting worse and worse, and it's just that we will be frozen, but I'm afraid that we will starve in the future. ”

The dumb aunt listened quietly.

Lan Cao hurriedly picked up the oil paper bags," The eighth aunt was polite to me, I said what happened, she didn't say anything, just asked Yahuan to take out these pastries, and this chicken leg, Yali pear is not easy to find, she personally went to the kitchen to come to these few, this string of money is very rare, little grandma you know, only the eldest lady is the head of our house, everything is her final say, other aunts and wives, can only rely on the monthly little month to live, I once heard the sisters-in-law in the chase mutter, said that in fact, in a big family to be an aunt's wife, the power is not as big as the housekeeper and the housekeeper's wife, the monthly income is limited, and the food and clothing are also uniformly rationed by the house according to the identity。 So the eighth aunt can come up with this money, and the slave maid thinks it's quite rare. ”

After speaking, she blinked her eyes, "If you want me to say, it's better to go to Aunt Jiu's wife for help, she has just given birth to a son now, the lord values her very much, and we are kind to her, we have to find the door, she must help more than this." ”

"Mrs. Nine, do you know her?"

The dumb aunt, who had been listening quietly, suddenly asked.

Lan Cao was stunned for a moment, and opened her mouth to stammer, if she really said it, she really didn't seem to know so much about that woman, what kind of person was her heart, personality, style of doing things, and dealing with people? In the past, when I lived in the Chase room, I could often hear those servants muttering about the masters in the bed, who was greedy for money and loved money, and even withheld the rewards of their subordinates, who was good-hearted and generous and sympathetic to their subordinates, and who was vicious and ruthless. Later, Lancao left Datong and never heard these insights circulating in the shadows again, and now I think about it, for the ninth aunt's wife who only married in last year, I don't seem to know her situation at all, I only know that she is charming, good at seducing men, and attracting Master Liu around.

Lancao shook her head, honestly saying that she really didn't understand.

The dumb aunt's mind was actually not on this for a long time, she asked Lancao to find Aunt Yang.

"Aunt Yang?" Lan Cao was surprised, "Why are you looking for her? Do you still want to see that dead child, little grandma?" Lan Cao's face turned green early, and her heart palpitated.

The dumb aunt looked fixed, "You go and ask for some firewood." She is in charge of the firewood room. ”

Lan Cao's heart couldn't turn around, and she was still puzzled, "Little grandma, you don't know, it's the mother-in-law in charge of winter carbon who detains the charcoal fire in our corner yard, and she is a relative of the housekeeper's wife, so she doesn't dare to offend." Aunt Yang, she just manages the firewood in the kitchen, regardless of winter charcoal. ”

The dumb aunt was not surprised at all, she was still very determined, "If you are told to go, I will go." ”

Lancao hesitated.

That Aunt Yang is refreshing, and she is not as snobbish as others, she packed a bag of split wood, where can the bluegrass be moved, Aunt Yang simply helped send it to the yard, anyway, the twilight has fallen at this time, and there are few people in the backyard, so she is not afraid of being bumped into.

Lancao looked at a sack of firewood and was worried, does the little grandmother need to burn the kang hole? In fact, there is no need to burn, what is burning in the kang hole is another kind of farmhouse firewood with crop straw and livestock dung, which is sent by a horse-drawn cart from the grange, and then by the rough mother-in-law who specializes in burning the kang and digging out the ashes.

If even this kang is cold, then Lancao and the little grandmother are afraid that they will freeze to death overnight.

The dumb aunt pointed to the stove underground, "Lift the lid and make a fire." ”

Lan Cao was surprised, since ancient times, the fire here has been winter charcoal, firewood can only be used as an introduction, and I have never heard of anyone burning firewood in the hearth.

But she obeyed, and soon the firewood was ignited, and the flames were rushing in the hearth, and she hurried to sit down on the copper kettle. After a while, the water in the kung fu pot squeaked.

It's not that cold in the house either.

Lancao was happy, and her little face finally showed some color, "Little grandma, I know, it's not that firewood can't keep warm, but we haven't known it." ”

The dumb aunt pointed to the copper basin for washing her face and ordered, "Gather a basin of snow from the pear tree." Then fold the branches of the pear tree at the height. ”

Lan Cao became more and more incomprehensible to the little grandmother's words, but she found that what the little grandmother said was always correct in the end, so she obediently took the pot and went out to collect snow.

This was not difficult, and soon she came back with a pot of snowflakes.

It's just that when the branches were broken, the bluegrass was sweating a lot, and today they were beaten inexplicably because of a small plum branch, and they almost gave their lives to a child, and now they are breaking pear branches, and this little grandmother seems to be very fun-loving.

The dumb aunt told her to set the basin on fire.

Then keep adding firewood to the hearth.

The fire was laughing.

A basin of snow turned into half a basin of clear water.

Lancao muttered in her heart while burning the fire, this little grandmother is so strange, I want to drink water and I will boil it for you, why do you want to get snow water, this snow water will have diarrhea when you drink it, and it is also very troublesome.

Since the dumb aunt spoke, she had very few words, only reluctantly when she had to speak, and every time she spoke very briefly and without explanation, but Lancao seemed to have adapted to this way of talking.

The dumb aunt pointed to the pears, and the bluegrass obeyed the command, washed it, did not peel it, crushed it on the table one by one, and then boiled it in boiling snow water with a piece of it.

Then, according to the instructions of the dumb aunt, he scraped off the skin on the outside of the frozen branches with a sharp blade, revealing the stiff wood inside, and then folded them into small pieces one by one, and threw them into the water to boil.

After covering his head and doing this, the blue grass couldn't cry or laugh, good my little grandma, you really know how to play, snow boiled pear branches and pears, is this to cook a pot of strange broth?

A crisp aroma slowly dispersed throughout the room.

Orchid closed the door of the corner courtyard, and when she came back, she made the door of the house strong, and now that Orchid is gone, she is doing nothing anyway, and she is gone, so that people can fall in front of them and be clean, and there is no need to remember that she is sleeping alone in the small side house.

Seeing that the half basin of water was boiling thick, the dumb aunt took off her clothes, revealing a smooth body, and asked Lancao to bring the basin over, and then scrub it with a cloth towel.

At this time, Lancao understood why it took so much trouble to boil snow pear juice.

She didn't know where the little grandmother got such a strange method, whether it would make the wound pus and rot, but when she thought of the scene where the little grandmother delivered Mrs. Jiu today, she was relieved, this little grandmother, after a coma, it seems that she has changed a lot, not only her heart has changed, but she seems to have her own ideas about what to do.

Sydney water rubbed on the scar so painful that the dumb aunt twitched and twitched, and when she finished wiping, Lancao found that she had bitten the horns in her mouth, and one of the horns was soaked with saliva.

Lan Cao touched the wet quilt corners, her eyes were sour, and her voice was choked: "Little grandma, why don't you cry, crying when it hurts a lot, you can feel a little better." ”

The dumb aunt lay on her stomach and shook her head, her voice still without any emotional fluctuations, "Why are you crying, is it useful to cry?"