Chapter 1: Begging
Juancheng, in the early morning of the steep winter, the sky is overcast, the snow has accumulated all over the branches, the crystal clear ice shuttles can be seen everywhere under the eaves, and the sky occasionally floats one or two snowflakes, which indicates that the snow will not stop for a while. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Gan Lin rubbed his hands that were already cold and numb, and took a breath to keep warm, and there was a little boy on his back with a rag belt, about five years old, crying on his back.
Gan Lin was walking around under the eaves like an adult, humming an unknown tune in his mouth, coaxing the little boy on his back.
But it was useless at all, the little boy was hungry, Gan Lin couldn't coax him to see how to do it, so he had to put him down and take out a hard pimple nest from his arms, which was thrown by a rich child the day before yesterday.
"It's so hard, how can you eat little sugar cane. Gan Lin looked at this hard nest head and sighed, she could only bite the nest head into small pieces first, and then let the little sugar cane eat.
With something to eat, the little sugarcane really stopped crying, ate it with satisfaction, and fed Gan Lin very intimately, Gan Lin smiled with satisfaction, and was not willing to eat.
She held the little sugarcane in her arms, looking at the little sugarcane who didn't know the sorrow, but Gan Lin began to worry, just such a nest, what to do tomorrow, she can be hungry, but she can't starve her brother, she has no ability, so the little sugarcane has suffered a lot with her, "It would be nice if my father and mother were still there." ”
Thinking of more than two years ago, the family suffered a change, a fire turned the family that was not rich into ashes, Ganlin's father fell ill overnight, and died not long after, Ganlin's mother couldn't support them, took them to beg for food, and within half a year, she also died, leaving her and Little Sugarcane two orphans, she was only eleven years old.
Gan Lin wiped her tears, and before leaving, her mother repeatedly told her to take good care of the little sugarcane, she couldn't be untrustworthy, "Brother hug, it's cold." The little sugar cane filled his stomach, and he couldn't wait to get into Ganlin's stomach.
Gan Lin tightened her arms, looking at the little sugarcane, he was her only relative, she held the little sugarcane's face and said: "Little sugarcane, you should go on your back, my brother has to go to beg for food, otherwise he will be hungry." "She's a girl, but she's dressed as a boy, and she's used to seeing people bullying her because she's a woman.
Little Sugarcane was afraid of being hungry, so she hurriedly lay on Ganlin's back, Ganlin put Little Sugarcane on her back, she took a deep breath, stepped into the thick snow barefoot, and the lonely and thin figure of "creaking, creaking...... accompanied by a series of footprints went away.
There are really few people going out today, Gan Lin is kneeling in the downtown where the flow of people is more concentrated, with a broken bowl in front of him, as long as there are one or two kind-hearted people who are willing to give a few pennies, she and Xiao Sugarcane will have a life tomorrow.
But the pedestrians looked in a hurry, no one noticed their sister and brother at all, Gan Lin was full of expectations for people coming and going, but every time people passed in front of her, her eyes dimmed, she smiled self-deprecatingly, if there really was such a kind person, her mother would not die, would not starve to death.
She looked at the pedestrians wearing thick robes, she has also gained experience in begging for more than a year, the too poor will not give you alms, the too rich do not care at all, if you stand in the way of others, kick you to death, you can try your luck when you meet the kind eyebrows and well-dressed people, maybe you can get one or two, "Great good man, have mercy on me, my brother and I have not eaten for several days." ”
Those people are often afraid of being entangled by people like Gan Lin, and in order to get out, they will generally give one or two money, "Take it, go quickly." ”
Gan Lin saw that people were willing to pay out of their pockets, and hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you for the great kindness, good people have good rewards." She flattered while holding the begging copper plate in her arms, today is lucky to have a good start, if she meets a few more, she can buy a bowl of hot noodles for the little sugar cane today.
After a long time, Gan Lin finally found another target, that person looked proud, and touched the purse on his waist from time to time, she guessed that this person had good luck, and generally people with good luck were in a good mood, "Okay, my brother and I haven't eaten for a few days." ”
The man was stunned for a moment, glanced at Gan Lin with half-squinted eyes, and pointed at himself with a very contemptuous smile, "Great good man, you, what does it matter to me whether you eat or not?" ”
"Uncle, you can do it. Gan Lin decided to stalk him, and by looking at the man's appearance, he knew that his purse was full.
The man took two steps and then stopped, stretched out his hand and said to Gan Lin: "Great benevolent man, you can give me a little charity, I have an eighty-year-old mother and a one-year-old child below." ”
Gan Lin was stunned, it was the first time she had met such a person, and she was crying poor when she asked for food, "Master, you are thousands of times stronger than us when you pluck a hair on your body." ”
The man snorted and laughed when he heard this, "He gave Gan Lin a kick suddenly, scolded and walked away, "Lao Tzu didn't want to hit people, but he called Huazi to bring bad luck to Lao Tzu." ”
Gan Lin is so thin, how can she stand such a kick, she fell backwards uncontrollably, there was still a small sugar cane on her back, she fell sideways.
The pain caused by the arm hitting the ground is not as good as the cry of the little sugar cane, she endured it and got up, put the little sugar cane down, saw the little sugar cane touch her head and cried, she covered it and touched it, what a big bag, she hugged the little sugar cane and cried distressedly, she looked at the back of the person who was far away, and swore in her heart that one day she would want those who had hurt their brothers and sisters to pay back a thousand times.
It may be that the two sisters and brothers cried too loudly, and the numb people noticed them, some people generously gave them a few copper plates, and Gan Lin cried while picking up the money on the ground.
An old woman also brought a bowl of hot noodle soup, and Gan Lin took the bowl of noodles and didn't bother to say thank you, so he fed the little sugar cane and ate it.
It was getting dark, and the brother and sister returned to the previous roof, and before nightfall, the two sisters and brothers hugged each other and slept, and the dark was what they were most afraid of, because they couldn't see anything.
Tonight's little sugar cane is not well-behaved at all, at first it was humming and chirping and not sleeping, it was easy to fall asleep but it was hot, Gan Lin hugged this source of warmth tightly, this warmth came too suddenly, so that she had a feeling of sleeping in the quilt, she turned over lazily in her dream, obviously sleeping under the eaves, how could she be in bed.
She opened her eyes with a spirit, fortunately, she slept under the eaves, but the warmth in her arms was very real, and she touched the forehead of the little sugar cane, and had a fever.
Gan Lin touched the face of the little sugar cane in great panic, illness is the most terrible thing for them beggars, if it is carried in the past, if it is not good, she can only wait for death, but she can't let the little sugar cane die, the little sugar cane is the whole meaning of her life.
She looked at the endless darkness, looked at the closed doors of thousands of households, none of which belonged to their sister and brother, "Little sugar cane, you don't want to die, you don't want to die." ”
The night was finally spent in fear, but the burning of the little sugarcane did not go away at all, and Gan Lin walked aimlessly with the little sugarcane in his arms, and he didn't know what to do.
Gan Lin was tired of walking, and rested outside the door of a large family, with white lanterns hanging outside the gate directly opposite her, and the plaque read, "Oh, how did I get here." With that, he picked up the little sugar cane and left.
A child died in this family, about the same age as Little Sugarcane, more than a month ago she brought Little Sugarcane to beg for food, but she met a crazy woman in Liu's Mansion who insisted on snatching Little Sugarcane, and then the old man of the family came out and returned Little Sugarcane to her.
When Master Liu saw that Gan Lin had one child with another child, he felt that it was not easy for her, so he wanted to persuade her to give them the little sugarcane as their son.
Gan Lin regarded the little sugar cane as the meat of his heart, how could he bear to give him to others, Master Liu seemed to like the little sugar cane very much, and said to Gan Lin that he was willing to give her a large sum of money, so that she would have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of her life.
Gan Lin loves money, but she never thought of exchanging it for a small sugar cane, she said categorically: "I won't agree to take gold and silver even if you take it." She doesn't feel at ease about leaving her little sugarcane in the care of others, but she can only feel at ease if she carries it herself.
Little Sugarcane's breathing became more and more rapid, and Gan Lin cried helplessly, "Little Sugarcane, don't you have anything to do, what should I do if you die, Little Sugarcane, why don't you speak." ”
Gan Lin took the little sugar cane back to their 'home', she looked at the little sugar cane in her arms like an adult, "Little sugar cane, if you die, I don't have to linger, let's go to my father and mother together." ”
"You have to take care of your brother. Gan Lin's voice sounded in her head before her mother died, if the little sugarcane died, she would not have the face to see her father and mother when she died, she promised to let the little sugarcane grow up, marry a wife and have children.
She looked at Little Sugarcane's flushed face, and thought of what Master Liu said to her, as long as Little Sugarcane followed them, she would have no worries about food and clothing in the future, and enjoy all the glory, and she didn't have to follow her to live a life of eating and sleeping in the open.
She always thought that she was reluctant to him because she loved Little Sugarcane, but now that she thinks about it, she is actually too selfish, not that Little Sugarcane cane can't do without her, but she can't do without Little Sugarcane, Little Sugarcane could have lived a carefree life, but she insisted on leaving Little Sugarcane by her side to endure hardships.
In fact, if Master Liu's conditions were looser, she would not be so entangled, but Master Liu only adopted Little Sugarcane, and didn't even let her watch from afar, which meant that she wanted to cut off the relationship with Little Sugarcane.
"Little Sugarcane, will you hate your brother if your brother makes such a decision, and my brother really can't help it, will you blame my brother for being selfish, you are asleep now, and you can't answer my question," Gan Lin looked at Little Sugarcane, who was getting weaker and weaker, and kissed his dirty face, "You just need to know that your brother loves you." ”
Gan Lin wiped the tears from his face, picked up Little Sugarcane's tattered clothes, and bit him his right arm, the smell of blood filled Ganlin's entire mouth, and Little Sugarcane cried heart-rending because of the pain, and she cried too......