In the boxy courtyard, Ning Xi swept the scene in the courtyard at a glance.

On the left side of the yard there is a pigsty and a chicken shed, but unfortunately both the pigsty and the chicken shed are empty.

Next to the chicken shed and pigsty is a mud latrine, just in the southeast corner of the yard.

On the right side of the courtyard, next to the thatched house, there is another dilapidated house, with pots and pans, and firewood from the stove, and as expected, the kitchen.

The thatched huts that people live in are all dilapidated, so where can this thatched hut used as a kitchen be good?

Ning Xiguang sighed and walked into the kitchen, wanting to boil water to wash his body.

She was about to fetch water, but she couldn't find a water tank, and then she suddenly remembered that there was no water tank in this house, but there were two wooden buckets for carrying water.

Because there is a creek outside the door, it is convenient to carry water, and the family is poor, so I have never purchased a water tank.

Okay, just if she has the strength now, she will carry water.

Ning Xiguang took the bucket, poured the remaining half of the bucket of water into the pot, and then carried the two buckets out of the house.

Xiao Qi followed behind Ning Xiguang step by step, and asked Ning Xiguang to take something from the space buckle to eat, but it was impossible to cushion the burning stomach.

I opened the rickety wooden door, and sure enough, I saw a clear stream.

At this time, the adults all went to work in the fields, and the old people were chatting under the willow trees at the head of the village on the other side, but there was no one here.

Ning Xiguang quickly filled two buckets of water, and when he was about to leave, he saw a small fish with a finger length swimming in the stream.

Almost reflexively, she reached out and caught the little fish in her hand.

Xiao Qi was stunned to watch her sister make a fish like a trick, and jumped three feet high happily.

"Fish, little fish, big sister, shall we drink fish soup today?"

Ning Xiguang: "......"

I'm going to play with the little fish for you.

A small fish with long fingers, without one or two weights of internal organs, still drink fish soup?

Ning Xiguang was about to laugh and cry, but when he looked down and saw Xiao Mi licking his lips and drooling, he immediately couldn't laugh, and he was sad as if he had eaten dozens of catties of plums.

Compared with the other three children of the Ning family, Xiao Qi still has some meat on his body. The three brothers and sisters above all let him, even if there was only a mouthful of food left in the house, they also stuffed it into his mouth.

But even so, the little one is also thin and small.

In fact, he will be five years old in a month, but he looks like a three- or four-year-old child.

His hair was thin and yellow, and his arms and legs were thin and thin, as if they would break when they were broken. He was smaller, a little taller, and he was not as tall as Ning Xiguang's thighs.

Ning Xiguang was silent for a while before he smiled and said, "Xiao Qi wants to drink fish soup?" Okay, let's make fish soup today." However, this fish is too small to eat, so the eldest sister will catch two more. ”

Xiao Qi shouted excitedly, "Great, great, there are fish to eat." ”

After shouting, he covered his mouth suddenly, looked around vigilantly with his big purring eyes, and said frustratedly, "Sister, I forgot to be quiet, let others hear it for a while, and I will definitely come to catch fish, and the fish will be gone." ”

Ning Xiguang just wanted to say, "It's okay, the adults have gone to work in the field." The kids must be playing in the ground. I heard the little girl say, "Yes, the adults have gone to the field to earn work, the children have gone to school, and now there is no one in the village." Hey. ”

Ning Xiguang's hand suddenly sank even more.

She thought that the children in the village should go to play, but she forgot that the children were going to school.

And because the Ning family was too poor, Ning's father and Ning's mother died one after another, and the family had no labor force and no income, so Ning Xiguang, Yueguang, and Mingguang all dropped out of school.

Originally, Ning Xiguang and Yueguang did not agree with Mingguang to drop out of school. After all, in their eyes at that time, they were girls, and it didn't matter if they didn't read, but Mingguang was a boy, and he was the one who would lead the family in the future.

If Mingguang reads and learns, he will be able to find a good job, so that he will not be like most of the elders in the village, sweating in the sun all his life.

It's a pity that no matter how hard they persuade and threaten, Mingguang just doesn't agree.

Mingguang has a big idea and a hard temperament.

His parents are gone, the family is poor, and his two thin sisters work hard to support the family, and he has to provide for him to go to school, how unconscionable he is.

In this era, every family is very poor.

Even for families with a large labor force, it takes a lot of effort to provide for a student.

And his two sisters fell down as soon as the thin wind blew, they were not yet adults, and they had to feed their four sisters and brothers, which was already difficult, and then let them study for him, it would not make the sisters vomit blood tiredly.

In this way, the three siblings dropped out of school.

But life is too difficult, even if they work hard, they can get a few centimeters a day. But the weather was too dry before, and the seedlings did not grow. After two heavy rains, the drought has passed, and now the seedlings in the field were just planted last month, and it will take at least three months for the harvest.

There are still three months to go, and now there is only a small half-sack of bran mixed with sweet potato flour at home.

Ning Xiguang's mind ran away at once, until he heard Xiao Mi shouting excitedly, "Fish, fish, big sister, there is another fish." She quickly reached out and fished out another small fish.

One after another, Ning Xiguang fished out seven or eight small fish from the creek, and the eyes of the happy little ones narrowed with a smile.

At this time, Ning Xiguang also remembered that before she fell down the mountain earlier, there were no fish in the stream.

Not to mention the fish, although there was water in the stream at that time, there was very little water.

It seems that she has been in a coma for a few days, and it has rained heavily somewhere upstream, and the rain is abundant, and the water of the stream is full, which is why some fish have rushed in.

Just thinking about this, Ning Xiguang saw a fish with a foot in her eyes, she pinched it and scooped it up.

Xiao Mi happily clenched his fists and jumped high on the spot this time, "Great, great, eldest sister caught a big fish." It's big, it's big, it's big enough for us to eat for days. ”

Ning Xiguang didn't tell Xiao Mi that his idea was too naïve.

The "big fish" in his mouth is actually not yet an adult, and it is small. It is estimated that he will not have enough to eat himself.

But she didn't want to hit the child, so she echoed him, "That's it, with this fish, we don't have to worry about going hungry these days." ”

After catching this "big fish", Xiao Qi did not "fall in love", urging Ning Xiguang to hurry home.

One bucket was filled with small fish, and the other bucket was filled with water, Ning Xiguang easily picked it up and took Xiao Mi home.

When she got home, she took a wooden basin and poured all the small fish in the wooden bucket into it, so that she could watch the fish play, and she ran out to fetch two buckets of water.

After Ning Xiguang boiled the water, mixed the hot and cold water, and brought it into the room, he instructed the little sister, "The little sister will play in the yard for a while, and the eldest sister will come out after wiping her body." I'll make fish soup for Xiao Mi later. ”

Xiao Mi agreed loudly.

Ning Xiguang closed the door and went to find a change of clothes.

This poor family jingle sounded, so naturally they had no money to buy them new clothes.

The clothes worn by Ning Xiguang were remade from Ning's mother's old clothes. The clothes are so wide that they can be worn for years with a single patch. Even so, she had only two clothes in total.

Open the only piece of furniture in this house, the wooden box at the head of the bed, take out a set of gray-brown trousers from it, and place it at the head of the bed, Ning Xiguang took out a new towel from the space buckle and began to wipe his body.

It was simply unrealistic to want to take a bath, because there was no bath tub at home, and the thatched house was too damp.

With the current conditions, you can only simply wipe your body.

As for the soap and other bath products in this space buckle, Ning Xiguang didn't dare to use them, for fear of revealing the filling.

It was still very fast to just wipe his body, and Ning Xiguang quickly cleaned himself up and tidy.

There is still half a pot of hot water in the pot, where it is cold, it is a pity, Ning Xiguang found Xiao Mi's change of clothes again, and after opening the door, he said to Xiao Mi, who was playing outside the door, "Xiao Mi go to the kitchen, and the eldest sister will give you a bath." ”

There is a fire burning in the kitchen, it is very warm, and the place is large, so it is just right to put the skinny little man in the wooden basin to bathe him.

Xiao Mi jumped up happily again, and responded with a good voice.

Ning Xiguang couldn't help but smile when he saw his excited appearance.

The little guy is too easy to satisfy, and a little thing can make him excited for a long time, and he is very good at raising.

And he is very sensible and cute, so it's no wonder that several brothers and sisters love him very much.

Ning Xiguang washed and cleaned Xiao Mi, changed into clean clothes, and then took the dirty clothes that the two of them had changed, as well as the sheets and quilts that she had spit dirty on, and went to the stream to wash clothes.

As soon as she went out this time, she met an old lady on crutches, walking towards their door.

When the old lady saw her come out, she was still holding a full load of clothes and sheets, and she looked like she was going to wash it, and she was both happy and reproachful.

I was glad that she really earned her life from God, but she couldn't help but reproach and said, "You girl, I know that you are a diligent person, but you just woke up in the morning, what are you doing in such a hurry? Don't get tired anymore and fall into the root of the disease, then it will be troublesome. Hurry up and obey, go back to the house and lie down, ah. ”

Ning Xiguang looked at the old lady for a while, and then recognized that this was Uncle Wang's old mother, and the people in the village generally called her Grandma Wang.

Wang is a foreign surname, and Uncle Wang moved from outside in his early years. Because he knew some medical skills and was very popular with the villagers, he successfully took root in Liushutun.

Back then, the old Uncle Wang gave Ning Honest some herbs and treated Ning's father's leg, but unfortunately Ning's father's leg was still lame in the end. Although this matter was not the fault of Uncle Wang, Uncle Wang blamed himself and felt that his medical skills were not at home, which delayed Father Ning.

For this reason, Uncle Wang has always taken care of Ning's father.

The children of the Ning family have been sick and taken medicine since they were young, and Uncle Wang never confiscated a penny.

Until the old Uncle Wang died, his son Uncle Wang became a barefoot doctor in the village again, and he also took special care of Ning Xiguang's family.

Lao Wang's grandmother is even more, she has a good heart, after the death of Ning's father and Ning's mother, because she took pity on the four children, she often put a wild vegetable dumpling, an egg, or a piece of candy and a piece of cake in her sleeve, and secretly stuffed it to Ning Xiguang, so that they could share it with their siblings.

Needless to say, this was all saved from Grandma Wang's mouth.

Uncle Wang's daughter-in-law is a little spicy and stingy, she can take advantage of others, but she will never allow others to touch her a little.

With such a powerful daughter-in-law, Grandma Wang's life is not very good.

But the old man was kind-hearted, and although her life was not satisfactory, she still did her best to take care of them.

Sure enough, after saying these few words, I saw Grandma Wang take out more than half a tortilla from her sleeve and quickly stuff it into Ning Xiguang's hand at a speed that absolutely does not echo her old age.

"Good boy, take it home and eat it. Grandma doesn't have anything else for you, you can take this cake back to fill your stomach, don't go hungry again. ”

Saying that, without waiting for Ning Xiguang to refuse, he turned around and walked back, "Go back, girl, it's time to end in a while, it's not good for others to see it." ”

Ning Xiguang watched Grandma Wang walking away slowly on crutches before he took a hard breath.

She has the backbone to not want this more than half of the cake, but this family is really poor, and even if there is something to eat in her space, she doesn't dare to take it out.

Let's just say that when she first lit the fire, she turned the kitchen inside and out, and saw that there was really only a small half-sack of coarse grain left in this house.

The small half-sack of grain, less than 20 catties when full, should be eaten by four children for three months, so that the daily ration of four people is only more than two taels, and each person will have half a tael of grain per day.

What do you do with half a tael?

Maybe I have enough water and can mix it with water, but when I am growing my body, I will be hungry sooner or later.

Besides, it's not the first time that "she" has accepted Grandma Wang's gift. The resignation made Grandma Wang suspicious, it was better to follow and repay it if she had the ability to repay it in the future.

Ning Xiguang thought that this might be the so-called "don't worry if you have too much debt, and don't itch if you have more lice."

Ning Xiguang held half a piece of cake in one hand and his clothes and sheets in the other, stood in place for a while, and then turned around and went home.

Just like Grandma Wang said, it's time to end in a while, Yueguang and Mingguang have done a job, they are tired and hungry, she has to hurry home to cook.

Xiao Qi was still playing happily with a few fish, and when she saw that the eldest sister came back so soon, but the clothes in her hand were not washed, she couldn't help scratching her head, "Why did the eldest sister come back?"

"It's not early, the eldest sister cooks first, and then washes in the afternoon. ”

As soon as he heard about cooking, Xiao Mi's saliva came down, "Oh, I'm going to drink fish soup, drink fish soup." ”

Ning Xiguang looked at the cheerful younger brother, struggled twice, and said, "Xiaoyi, let's drink coarse grain porridge this morning, and wait for the eldest sister to make fish soup for you in the evening, okay?"

Xiao Qi stopped smiling, tears appeared in his eyes, Ning Xiguang was distressed, so he quickly put down his clothes and walked over with a corn tortilla, "It's not that the eldest sister doesn't want to make fish soup for Xiao Qi, it's because someone from the family may come to the family for a while." What if others see that our family has made fish soup and want to drink it? It's not good not to give it, but if you give it to others, what do you drink, Xiaoyi, Mingguang, and Moonlight?"

Although I know that it is not good to teach children to hide their secrets in this way, I can always do extraordinary things.

Ning Xiguang was also negligent just now, but she didn't expect that maybe someone might come to visit her at noon.

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