Chapter 21: Auntie
In the afternoon, the rice was still bone broth and sorghum bread, and Xu left a bowl for Xiaoshan to drink, and the rest of the people shared it together. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
If it weren't for the hot weather, he was afraid that the soup would spoil, and Xu couldn't wait to save the soup for the New Year.
The family has no money again, and she is still thinking about exchanging white flour for some sorghum noodles, and one pound of white flour can be exchanged for two and a half catties of sorghum noodles. You can also go up for a few more days at home.
"Daddy, I want to go to my uncle's house with Xiaoya in the afternoon, I haven't been there since I got sick, and the last time my uncle came home, he only said two words and left."
Because Daddy Liu was here, Heiya didn't say anything about the wheelchair, and she wasn't sure if her uncle could do it.
"Go if you want, but don't play too late." Daddy Liu has always been a habitual child.
The Xu family is also happy to be close to their children and their parents, Dazhu came to Liujia Village alone to settle down, and only after marrying himself can he be considered a relative.
The children can have a good relationship with their uncle's family, and when their husband and wife pass away, they can also help each other.
The black girl didn't know the way, so she followed the little girl, and she was happy to see her bouncing around.
It's better to be a child, and when you fill your belly, you'll be carefree.
"Sister, you see there's a vegetable garden fence over there." The little girl cheered, ran over without waiting for the black girl to speak, and picked two flowers back, "It's so beautiful, I'll give you one." “
Heiya took it and looked at it, "This isn't a hibiscus flower." "Hibiscus flowers can be planted in many places, easy to feed, I heard that it is also a kind of medicinal material, the black girl does not know too much, but the leaves of hibiscus are used to wash hair and the effect is good.
You can pick some when you come back later, and it happens to be sweaty from work in the afternoon, so it's time to wash.
"Sister will stick it on you," the little girl pulled a petal down and tore it from the top, and there was sticky juice in the torn place, which could be attached to the forehead and face, and it would not fall off if the movement was not large.
"Haha, I don't want to, tear two petals for you as earrings."
Xiaoya really tore two pieces and clamped them on her ears.
"Is it pretty?" The little girl asked beautifully.
The two purple-red petals are bigger than Xiaoya's mouth, and it should be very cheesy when clamped on the ear, but Xiaoya is young, but she looks a little cute.
"It's good-looking, don't drop it, let my cousin and aunt see it later." The black girl said with a smile.
Xiaoya slowed down at first, protecting her ears with both hands, and after a while, she jumped up and forgot about it, and when she remembered it, the petals didn't know where to blow.
Looking at the little girl's depressed face, the black girl put the flower in her hand in her right bun.
"It's nice too, let's go, stinky girl."
The little girl smiled and kept touching the flowers on her head.
The two walked and played along the way, and it didn't take long for them to see the small village in front of them.
These two villages are very close to each other, both belong to the mountain villages, and even the entire town has eight villages, five of which are on the hillside, and the remaining three are at the foot of the mountain.
It's just that because of the huge size of the mountain range, the space occupied by the five villages of them is only a drop in the bucket for the entire mountain range.
Along the way, there are valleys of twenty or thirty meters in some places. After the town and then to the north, it takes about an hour to walk out of the mountain.
Which foot of the mountain is this, Heiya thought to herself, and she will have a chance to inquire about it when she arrives in the county seat tomorrow.
"Big cousin, big cousin." Heiya was thinking about things when she suddenly heard Xiaoya shouting twice, and happily ran towards a young man who was plowing in the field.
The black girl hurriedly walked a few steps to follow, and shouted with a smile and called out to her eldest cousin.
"Black girl, why are you here?" The boy looked sixteen or seventeen years old, more than one meter and seventeen, his skin was relatively tanned, and he smiled and showed two rows of big white teeth. "Let's go, cousin will take you home." After speaking, he wiped the sweat on his face with his sleeve, picked up the little girl, and motioned for the black girl to go with him.
Because of her long-term lack of nutrition, Xiaoya looks like she is five or six years old, and she doesn't have a few taels of meat on her body, and it is not difficult for her eldest cousin to hold her.
The three of them talked all the way, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived home.
"Mother, the black girl is here." After entering the courtyard gate, Xu Zengqiang put the little girl down and shouted into the house.
"Sister-in-law, cousin, I'm here." As soon as the little girl stood on the ground, she slipped into the house with a puff of smoke.
A girl in a cloth skirt came out of the house and just took the little girl in her arms.
Heiya looked up, this cousin had an oval face, willow eyebrows, a pair of watery eyes, plump lips, and obvious lip beads, which looked like six or seven points like her mother, but much whiter than Xu's.
Sure enough, since ancient times, my niece is like an aunt, and this cousin is really good-looking.
"Our mother went to the land in the east to bring water to our father, brother, you go and shout." Seeing that Xu Zengqiang said yes and went out, the cousin hugged the little girl and beckoned to the black girl. "Come on, sister, I'll make you sugar water to drink."
In mountain villages, sugar is a precious thing, and only close or important guests will be entertained with sugar water. In general, it is to pour a bowl of cold boiled water.
"Sister, why are you long, you're getting better and better." The black girl praised with a smile.
"You little bad girl." Xu Xiaoman pinched the black girl's face, "When you reach my sister's age, you will definitely look better than me." ”
"Well, that's what I thought too." The black girl nodded seriously.
Xu Xiaoman was amused and laughed, "I found that when you got better, not only did your mouth become sweeter, but your skin also thickened." ”
I took them into the house and sat down, and one of them brought them a bowl of sugar water and a plate of millet cakes.
Last time, my uncle took it to their family, and it was steamed with glutinous millet flour, and it tasted a little sticky to the teeth, and there was a special fragrance.
The two were eating happily when the uncle came back with a hoe.
Heiya was a little embarrassed, she and Xiaoya, as juniors, came to the door empty-handed, eating and drinking, and delaying others' work.
But this time I really came to do business, and the two families are close, so I don't have to worry too much about these.
I told my uncle about the wheelchair and some of my thoughts.
After all, he is used to doing wood work, and as soon as Heiya said it, he would probably be able to understand, and some details were solved, and he found charcoal to paint in the yard for a long time.
The uncle and nephew squatted on the ground and discussed for a long time, Xu Manliang stood up and rubbed the black girl's head, "How does your little brain grow, if you are a male baby, I will pay for you to go to school if I say anything." ”
The black girl smiled, "Isn't this a fool's guess every day?" ”
After setting the general plan, the two of them had a plan in their hearts, and when their aunt saw that they had finished speaking, they had to let them eat before leaving.
The two of them didn't eat much at noon, but when they saw that their aunt really kept food, they smiled and agreed.
A bowl of green onion noodles for one person, the green onions fried in lard are fragrant, and my aunt also gave them a poached egg in the bowl.
The black girl ate the noodles, and the hot noodles warmed her heart from her stomach.
All the love is in the words, and the unpretentious feelings are the most touching.