Chapter 9: Confession
The family snorted and ate, her mother washed and chopped the wild vegetables picked in the morning and fed them to the chickens, and the black girl cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and boiled water to dry.
Thinking that the yard at home is so big, it is also empty, so it is better to have a variety of dishes, and when the time comes, it is also considered an entry to pick some good ones and sell them in the town. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
The place against the courtyard wall can plant a circle of loofah, not only can be eaten as a vegetable, the loofah vine is cut, put the end of the ground growth into a clean small jar, after a night, there will be a lot of loofah water in the small jar, wash your face and wipe your face with such water, it has a very good beauty effect.
There is only one hoe at home, which is taller than the black girl, and she holds the hoe to loosen the ground, and after a while, she will be sweating, and the little girl also helps her sister to break the lumps in the ground with stones. Dad Liu was distressed watching from the sidelines.
At this time, Qingzi came, and saw that the two sisters had messy hair and clothes, and were covered in dirt, so she took the hoe and helped them get it up.
Qingzi was used to doing farm work, and quickly helped them get it ready. took a bowl of water and drank it all, washed his face again, carried Daddy Liu into the house and left, resolutely refusing to stay and eat.
In the evening, Xiaoshan came back, and there was no harvest today, except to pick up some rotten vegetable leaves that others had sold to feed the chickens. Xiaoya showed Xiaoshan for a long time before the tower incense they made fell asleep in a daze.
Heiya waited for the little girl to fall asleep, and said softly to Xiaoshan, "Brother, get up early tomorrow, I'll tell you something." ”
Xiaoshan thought about what the black girl wanted to tell him all night, and when he opened his eyes, it was still dark, and he didn't know what time it was, so he was afraid that he would disturb the eldest sister's sleep too early, so he opened his eyes and lay on the bed thinking about his thoughts.
In fact, there was something he didn't tell his family yesterday, and yesterday he had a chance to earn money, but he was robbed by another child who was older than him.
When I first went to the town, I was young, I was always bullied, I couldn't make money, not to mention, I was beaten for three days. He is also ruthless, he will redouble his revenge when he is bullied, knock on stuffy sticks, pour feces on other people's homes, and even throw torches in the courtyard in the middle of the night, but it is just to scare and scare people, and he will not really burn anything.
Some people guessed that he did it, so they didn't bully him, and some people would beat him up again, but soon he would retaliate back, and slowly no one dared to mess with him, anyway, he was a child, and he couldn't hinder them.
He knew very well in his heart that his father couldn't move at that time, his mother had just given birth to a little brother who was weak, and the black girl was young, so the family was pointing at him, and if he couldn't earn money, someone in the family would definitely starve to death, anyway, others would beat him hard at most, and he couldn't beat him to death.
Every time he was beaten, he would clean himself up before going home, for fear that his father and mother would find out, and even if he asked, he wouldn't say anything, because he knew that even if he said it, it would just make them sad.
Now it is much better, and anyone in the town who is impatient to do his own light work will call him to go, because he is diligent and requires less wages.
But this family is still too poor, this time the eldest sister's thing really hurt his heart, the town is not rich, sometimes it is common to not earn money for a few days, the family of six, a day can not earn three pennies will run out of food, a day can collect two eggs can only be sold for a penny.
In fact, it's good to be an apprentice to learn a craft, but there is no salary during the apprenticeship, what can the family do.
He'll have to figure out how to make more money.
"Brother, are you awake?" The black girl opened her eyes, rubbed her face and sobered up for a moment and asked softly.
"When I woke up, I said I'd call you later."
"Then brother, get up, let's go outside."
The two of them got up slightly, put on their shoes and went out of the room.
The black girl walked ahead and did not stop until she reached the edge of the vegetable patch.
Xiaoshan had a question, but he believed the eldest sister and didn't take the initiative to ask.
The black girl pondered for a moment and whispered, "Brother, I'll tell you something, don't be afraid." ”
"What's wrong, what's wrong with you, eldest sister." Xiaoshan didn't expect to wait for such a sentence, and almost jumped up from the ground.
"Brother, be quiet, I don't dare to let our parents know," the black girl pretended to be pitiful and looked at Xiaoshan.
"Don't be afraid, eldest sister, no matter what happens, my brother is here," Xiaoshan calmed down and comforted softly.
"I don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing, I was scared at first, and I didn't dare to tell anyone, but then I thought about it, in fact, there is nothing to be afraid of, anyway, as long as I can feed our family and not be frozen, I am willing to do whatever I become." The black girl brewed for a long time, and finally held back her tears.
"It's okay, big sister, don't cry yet, you tell my brother carefully, what's going on." Xiaoshan wiped the tears from her face with her hand and said in a deep voice.
"I stumbled upon myself today and found myself getting a little weird." Heiya said as she pulled a few weeds from the vegetable field, "Brother, look, I can turn this grass into nothing, and then this appeared." ”
Grabbing the grass and thinking about it silently, the grass in his hand disappeared.
Xiaoshan was startled, although it was still dark, but it was close, and he did see that the grass in his eldest sister's hand was gone.
"Look, I've made the grass like this...... "The black girl twitched, grabbed the grass juice and powder with her hands and handed it to the hill. Brother, have I become a monster, I can't bear my brother, and I can't bear our family, brother, I don't want to become a monster. ”
"Don't think about it, you're my sister, why did you become a monster." Xiaoshan didn't care about anything else, as soon as the eldest sister cried, he was anxious, so he hurriedly helped her wipe her tears and comforted her softly, seeing that the eldest sister was not crying, he touched the things in her hand, and smelled it again, a smell of grass.
"How did you find out, tell me the details."
Heiya told her how she and Xiaoya went down the mountain, picked up fragrant wood and conjured essential oils.
"Then big sister, how do you know that those things can be made into incense."
"I don't know, but I'll know it when I look at that pile of stuff." After speaking, the black girl looked at Xiaoshan nervously, "Brother, I'm afraid, what the hell do you say I'm doing." ”
Xiaoshan was actually quite scared, after all, he was only a thirteen-year-old child, and he had never seen much of the world, but he knew that no matter what the eldest sister became, he would definitely not harm them. Seeing the panicked and pitiful appearance of the eldest sister, Xiaoshan suppressed the panic in his heart and felt that he was an elder brother and should protect the eldest sister.
After thinking about it, he slapped the things off the black girl's hand, "Don't be afraid, I've heard someone tell the story of the gods in the town before, all of them are powerful, what are you, don't tell others about this anymore, don't talk about it anymore, don't talk about it anymore, don't turn things into water and foam, just know it, don't worry, it's not a big deal." ”
Gently patted the black girl's hand and pulled her towards the room.