074 Saliva hangs at the corners of the mouth
Jin Fei smiled and said nothing, and asked rhetorically: "You are so young, how can you know so much?" ”
"My father was an apprentice to the clan doctor for half a year, and he taught me when he came home. If Daddy is here, his mother's illness will be cured......" Maybe he remembered his father who had no news and his crazy mother, the little boy's eyes suddenly became a little dim, but he still stubbornly held on.
"What's your name?" Jin Fei noticed that the little boy's eyes suddenly changed, and quickly diverted the topic.
"Ah Niu!"
This is a common name in the mountains and villages, and in order to better feed the children, most of them will take the names of pigs, dogs, cows and sheep.
Jin Fei still wanted to ask something, but suddenly felt like a sword sweeping behind him, and sure enough, it was the man who had just saved Ah Niu standing behind her and staring at her coldly.
Does this man have a grudge against her?
When Jin Fei was still thinking, the man had already held Ah Niu and his back basket in his arms, and said indifferently and calmly to the little body in his arms that was a little uneasy: "You show the way!" Go to your house! ”
The mountain path was narrow and steep, and both horses were very cautious, and finally came to the outside of Ah Niu's house. It was a house made of a mixture of wood, bamboo, and thatch, with a layer of yellow mud in places.
The house is backed by a steep hill, and a bamboo fence is used in front of the house to form a large courtyard. In one corner of the yard there was a lawn, where a large flock of geese with yellow fluff were pecking at something.
Ah Niu put down the basket when he entered the house, and quickly went to the side house to take out a large bamboo dustpan, which was full of dustpans and grass. He sprinkled grass among the geese.
"Ah Niu, you feed so many geese alone? Do you wait for the goose to lay eggs and sell them for money? Jin Fei was a little surprised, Ah Niu's grandfather was not in good health, and his mother was crazy and stupid and didn't return home all day long, so many geese should have been fed by him.
"yes, I mow the grass for them every day! Sometimes I take them to the back mountains to find bugs to eat. They will be sold before they have laid eggs! They will eat a lot when they grow up, and I only have a few breeding geese to hatch gosling! ”
"Why don't you feed chickens, ducks and dogs?"
"We don't have extra food to feed those at home! The geese just need to eat grass and bugs! Next year, when I save enough money, I'll feed some goats! ”
Looking at Ah Niu's hopeful appearance imagining a beautiful vision for next year, Jin Fei glanced at the man in blue who was still indifferent and calm, but his heart was full of mixed tastes.
Ah Niu said with some embarrassment on his face: "Sister." Our family is very simple. If you want to spend the night, stay there for the night. Also, I didn't have much to eat......"
Jin Fei hurriedly said: "Sister brings her own food, you just need to cook dinner for your grandfather and mother!" ”
The two followed Ah Niu into the house. An old man in his late teens was found sitting on a simple bed. Cough from time to time.
"Boom! Ah Niu has collected the medicine back! ”
Ah Niu called his grandfather "His".
The old man lifted his cloudy eyes. Seeing the strange man and woman entering the door, he only greeted weakly: "A distinguished guest is here, and I forgive the old man for not being well entertained." Have a seat. Please be seated, Ah Niu, and you bring a bowl of water to the guests to drink. ”
Jin Fei was a little surprised that he was so warm and polite in the old man's illness, he was really a simple mountain man, "Old man, no need to be polite!" Let's bring our own water. You're in good health! Ah Niu, my sister will decoct the medicine with you! ”
After the old man drank the decoction, Ah Niu began to be busy cooking dinner again.
He fished out three large white rice cakes from a small water tank, made a fire under the cauldron, and brought a small bench made of wooden stakes, just enough to reach the stove, and threw them into it.
didn't put oil, salt or water, Jin Feizhen pinched a handful of sweat for the child, "Do you know what it looks like to be cooked?" ”
"Yes! I've been eating this a lot lately, and it's been exchanged for goose! ”
When Ah Niu finally put the glutinous rice cake into the three wooden bowls, Jin Fei really couldn't bear to look at it, the original white and round glutinous rice cake was already a black mass at this time, and the original shape and color could not be seen at all.
After all, it's still a five-year-old child, and it's good to be able to cook food, but where can you pay attention to the color and flavor.
Ah Niu brought a bowl to his grandfather, leaving a bowl for his mother who didn't know where he had gone, and he ate it unceremoniously, I am afraid that he would have been hungry for a long time.
Watching him carefully lick the last bit of minced glutinous rice sticking to the chopsticks into his mouth, the sadness in Jin Fei's heart added another point.
She took out some pastries from her baggage and handed them to Ah Niu, "You haven't eaten enough!" Take it, you eat some for yourself, and give some to your grandfather! ”
Ah Niu's saliva was already hanging on the corner of his mouth, but he still gave it all to his grandfather, "Tsh, give it to you!" If you can't finish eating, save for tomorrow! ”
Jin Fei wanted to say something when he saw this scene, the corners of his mouth trembled, but he didn't say anything after all.
After a while, an unkempt middle-aged woman walked in, her eyes were motionless, she looked stupid, and muttered: "Hungry, hungry ......"
Ah Niu hurriedly led the stupid woman to a bamboo table, and brought the remaining glutinous rice to her, "Mother! Eat! Don't be hungry if you eat it! ”
When the woman saw the food, her dull eyes suddenly brightened a little, and she quickly picked up the dishes and chopsticks and began to devour them.
The old man sitting on the edge of the bed sighed helplessly, shrunk into the tattered quilt and fell asleep.
When night falls, Ah Niu puts the geese in a huge bamboo cage in the house, and the geese are very noisy and always make some noisy noises.
Jin Fei quietly called Ah Niu aside and asked, "Is the goose crying noisy?" ”
Ah Niu replied loudly: "Noisy! It's so noisy that I can't sleep! ”
"Your grandfather is sick and needs quiet recuperation. Why do you still keep a flock of geese in the house? ”
"It's warmer in the house, and if you put it outside, I'm afraid the goose will freeze to death!" They're my little buddies! ”
"And when you sell them, are you sad?"
"Sad! But that's all they can do. ”
Jin Fei saw that Ah Niu still had a shy smile on his face, knowing that he was trying to hide some kind of sad feelings.
It was late at night, and the owners of the house were asleep.
She also lay on a simple bed made of bamboo made of straw and tattered cotton wool, tossing and turning, unable to sleep.
I don't know where the man in blue sleeps, who he is, and whether he also has compassion for this poor and extremely sensible baby.
I don't know how long it took, but she finally couldn't bear the fatigue and fell into a deep sleep.
In the morning, before dawn, it was still dark outside the window, so she quickly got up and made the bed briefly. She hopes to do her best to help Ah Niu do something this morning.
In fact, Jin Fei hopes to heal Ah Niu's mother the most, so that the burden on Na Niu's body will be lightened a lot. It's a pity that the crazy and stupid disease caused by love is really incurable, this time she didn't carry the medicine fairy needle with her, and there was nothing she could do, probably only when Ah Niu's father came back could it really be cured. (To be continued......)
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