Chapter 31: Poor Child
Su Ling was busy working on the mountain, but it didn't take long to chop a basket of firewood. Seeing that she had cut enough firewood, she sat down on a mountain rock to rest.
Just after the New Year, the weather is still a little cold, especially in the mountains and forests, the mountain wind is gusting, and it is indeed a little cold. Fortunately, she wears a thicker dress when she goes out, so she doesn't feel cold. There are already wildflowers blooming on the mountain, which are not afraid of the cold.
Although there is no glamorous posture, it is also pretty and cute. Su Ling happily picked some wildflowers and played with them.
suddenly heard the voice of a child calling for help, and Su Ling was shocked. After thinking about it, I should still take a look, and I don't know if the child is in danger when he goes up the mountain. She walked in the direction from which the cries for help came, but soon saw someone as well.
But it was a **-year-old boy squatting in the place, holding a little girl in his arms, looking like he should be two years younger than the little boy. The little girl looked unconscious, and the person who called for help was the little boy.
"What's going on? Isn't it dangerous? Su Ling looked around cautiously. This is also halfway up the mountain, and it looks like there are people who come back often, but she is not worried about any fierce beasts. But there may be poisonous snakes or something!
"My sister passed out." The little boy looked at Su Ling for help. Although he didn't know the sister in front of him, there was no other way at this time, he just hoped that this sister could help him.
"Don't worry, tell me, why did your sister pass out? You won't be bitten by snakes! Su Ling is not a doctor, so naturally I don't know why this little girl fainted. These two children are still very thin! It's skinny, and it doesn't seem to have any flesh on it.
The small face is pointy, but the eyes are large.
"Without the snake, my sister just fainted suddenly."
"Then don't worry about it yet, let's go down the mountain first." Su Ling asked the little boy to put the fainted girl on her back, and she carried the little girl down the mountain, and the little boy followed behind.
After going down the mountain, Su Ling also returned to his home with his two children. My family lives at the end of the village, so I arrived soon after going down the mountain.
After entering the door, Su Ling looked at the little girl carefully, but she didn't have a fever, and she didn't know why she suddenly fainted.
"Has your sister been sick lately?" Su Ling asked the little boy.
But when she heard the cry of "cooing ......", Su Ling glanced at the little boy, but saw that he was blushing, and she realized that it was his stomach that was screaming. "Are you hungry?"
"Hmm." The little boy nodded, "I haven't eaten in more than a day, and neither has my sister." As he spoke, even his eyes turned red.
Su Ling felt very pitiful when she heard it, she had no food to eat and was starving, she had never encountered such a thing. In his previous life, although the conditions at home were not very good, he had not yet reached the point of starvation. She didn't understand that feeling, but it was really pitiful.
It is said that if you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry and panicked, and you haven't eaten for more than a day, so how hungry you should be!
"Then you wait! I'm going to get you something to eat. Su Ling said and went to the kitchen first. He boiled porridge early today, and it was too little to boil, so he made more, thinking that he could eat it when it was hot at noon.
The porridge was heated, a few poached eggs were fried, and the little boy was served to eat. When she found that the little girl had also woken up, Su Ling asked her if she was uncomfortable.
"I'm hungry." The little girl looked like she was about to cry, rubbing her stomach with her hands, pitiful.
"Let's eat something first! You can't do anything delicious all of a sudden, so you should pay attention to eating a little first! Su Ling smiled and brought the porridge to the little girl. The two children began to eat, gobbling it up, and it seemed that they were really hungry.
The two children also seem to have gone up the mountain to chop wood, but they didn't expect to do such a thing at such a young age. Such a small child, I am afraid that all refugees who go up and down the mountain will feel tired! Where do you still carry a piece of firewood! I don't know whose child it is, so hard at such a young age.
"So you're the one who bought this house!" After eating, the little boy said with a smile. The people who live in the village, of course, know that the family has moved to the town to do business. And the house has already been sold.
However, as for who moved here, he doesn't know yet.
"Yes! My name is Dong Xin, you can call me Sister Xin. You must be from the village, right? From now on, we will be the people of a village. Su Ling said with a smile. By the way, is life hard at home? How could you be hungry like this? ”
Although there will always be poor people in the village, she thinks that Yangjia Village is not bad! It's also very close to Fucheng, such a village should be good overall, she looked at the houses in the village, it seems that there are no particularly dilapidated!
She also thought that everyone in the village was doing well!
I didn't expect there to be people who didn't have enough to eat!
"We are from the village." The little boy said. "It's my aunt who says that we are disobedient, that there is too little to do all day, and that it is too cost-effective for us to have a full meal, so we are always given very little to eat. My sister accidentally broke a bowl, and my aunt starved us. ”
Su Ling sighed. These two children really suffered. I heard the little boy talk about the situation at home, and when his father and mother died early, they were raised by their uncle and aunt. In fact, when it comes to raising them, the main thing is to covet their homes and fields.
Now the house and the land are occupied by the uncle and the aunt, but the aunt is not at all kind to them, always does not let them have enough food and clothing, and always makes them work. If one is upset, he will not give them food. It's still a little cold at this time! But they were very thinly dressed.
Hearing what their home was like, Su Ling was really a little distressed.
What a child! But they have to endure such hardships.
"You have suffered." Su Ling rubbed the heads of the two children.
"Thank you Sister Xin for the porridge, we're leaving." The little boy pulled the little girl and was about to leave. "If it's too late to go back, my aunt will beat us again."
Su Ling didn't do much to keep it, after all, it was just a meeting in Pingshui, and he wasn't familiar with it at all! Although she feels very sorry for what happened to these two children, what can she do? After all, it is all other people's family affairs, and in this world, such a thing is to sue the official, and the government will not take care of it.
Originally, in the countryside, beating children is not a big deal.
Distress is distress, but she can't do anything at all.
"If you're really hungry, even look for me, and I'll give you something to eat!" Su Ling rubbed the heads of the two children, this was the only thing she could help.
"Thank you, Sister Heart." The two children left. But instead of going home, they went up to the mountains, and the wood they cut was still on the mountains!
Su Ling also remembered that his firewood and firewood knife were still on the mountain! So he locked the door and went up the mountain.