Chapter Fifty-Eight: A Runaway from Home
The village is unified to beat chestnuts are all big men, or careless, or disgusted with too small, or deliberately leave some for children, every year there are always some left under the trees.
"Don't run far, just play here!" Du's sister-in-law and sister-in-law told a few small ones, and then squatted down and picked up chestnuts. Sister-in-law, they don't pick chestnuts, the good and bad, the big and the small ones are all put away, and if they can't eat them, they can go back and burn the fire.
"Sister, let's follow the fourth brother!" Du Ba shouted, and followed Du Si who was carrying a bamboo pole.
When Du Xiaoxi heard this, she pulled Liu Yao, who was looking at her pitifully, and followed.
When Du Zhizhong saw his younger brothers and sisters coming up, a sense of pride arose, and he waved the bamboo pole in his hand and pointed in one direction and said: "Follow my brother, there is a late ripening tree over there, and there is the most left every year." Du Xiaoxi cheered a few very face-saving 'wow' cheers and sped up his steps.
When a few people arrived at the place where Fourth Brother Du said, there were still a lot of hanging branches, and the bamboo poles in Fourth Brother Du's hands knocked back and forth on the trees, and many of them fell.
However, after half an hour, Du Xiaoxi's freshness passed, so he dragged Liu Yao to walk around the forest, and when he saw a big person, he ordered Liu Yao to pick it up. Waiting for the two to play about the same, the sister-in-law and the others had already filled the basket with bits and pieces.
Du Xiaoxi is a little doll after all, it is easy to go up the mountain and difficult to go down, and she can't go back. In the end, Fourth Brother Du divided the firewood into several parts and asked the three sisters-in-law to help get some before carrying Du Xiaoxi back.
Liu Yao followed behind them with a stick and envy, he also had to sit in the basket!
Liu Yao was dragged back to the house by Du Bayi all the way, and just entered the house and saw Du Niang sewing clothes in the yard, Liu Yao rushed over and hugged Du Niang's leg and cried.
"I'm going home! Hiccup, I'm going home! ”
Liu Yao cried and showed off her temperament, and the tears fell down but she didn't howl, who knows, this pitiful appearance can make Du Niang's heart ache.
Du Niang hugged Liu Yao and whispered, "What's the matter?" Xiaotu doesn't cry, don't cry, sue Uncle Niang who bullied you, Uncle Niang beat him. ”
Liu Yao continued to sob, going back and forth saying that he wanted to go home, but he didn't say what was wrong.
Du Ba looked at the endless bear that was humming and chirping Du Niang, snorted and pulled Du Qi and Du Jiu back to the house to find food.
The sister-in-law of the Du family pushed Du Xiaoxi, "Xiaoxi'er, go up and coax." ”
The villain in Du Xiaoxi's heart pouted, why is it me again.
When Liu Yao first arrived at Du's house, he was all kinds of difficult to serve, he had to cry if he didn't eat to his taste, no one was wearing clothes to cry, no one was going to cry when he was playing with him, and when he waited for Mrs. Liu to come to see him, he was even more out of breath, and after a few times, he found that Mrs. Liu, who had always loved him, did not relent to take him back, and everyone in the Du family let him cry alone.
After a long time, Liu Yao was forced to learn to dress and eat by himself in the Du family, and even occasionally was pressed by several brothers-in-law to work together. After coming to Dujia Village, Du Niang has been busy, and Du Xiaoxi is immersed in the beautiful life of going down to the river to catch fish and picking mushrooms in the mountains that she has longed for a long time in her previous life. Liu Yao is alone in the busy family, and the longing for grandma and father in his heart is getting stronger and stronger day by day.
Today, I was also very happy to go up the mountain to pick up chestnuts and Liu Yao, but after walking for a long time, his feet hurt very much, and when he came back, Du Xiaoxi was carried by his brother, and he could only drag two feet back slowly, which made his thoughts about his family burst out all of a sudden.
Du Niang herself has a soft temperament, and under the advice of Master Xile, she has the intention of helping her daughter raise Liu Yao well, and usually takes the most care of Liu Yao, and Liu Yao slowly relies on Du Niang.
Du Xiaoxi was pushed by her sister-in-law to stand in front of Liu Yao, and asked dryly, "Brother Xiaotu, why are you crying?" What a shame face. ”
Liu Yao's neck twisted, and she hid in Du Niang's arms for a while before whispering: "Uncle, my feet hurt." ”
Du Niang and Du Xiaoxi sighed in unison, their feet hurt?
Du Niang looked down and saw that although Liu Yao was wearing cotton clothes specially made by the Liu family, she still had satin-faced soft shoes on her feet that she was used to wearing at home. These shoes are comfortable to wear, but the bottom is too thin to walk on flat ground, and the family in Dujia Village is busy and forgets about it.
Du Niang carefully took off Liu Yao's shoes full of dirt and grass clippings, and took off her socks, even if Du Niang thought of something before, she still gasped when she saw a few broken blisters on the soles of Liu Yao's feet.
"This ...... Why don't you say anything when this kid hurts? ”
Du Niang didn't know what to say, although Liu Yao was from the family, it was not such a rough breeding method!
Du Niang hurriedly carried Liu Yao to the house, called her sister-in-law to get hot water to wash her feet, used a needle to break the blister, found a clean white linen cloth to wrap it, and finally fed a bowl of noodles before coaxing Liu Yao to sleep.
After Du Niang, she found a pair of new shoes that Du Xiaohu had not yet put on her feet and put them at the head of Liu Yao's bed, and mentioned that Liu Yao's feet were injured during the meal, so that several children should pay attention not to hurt him.
When Liu Yao woke up, it was early afternoon, and everyone in the Du family was either hiding in the house to take a nap or going somewhere.
Liu Yao woke up slowly, but found that there was no one in the house, and if it was in his own house, his grandmother and father would definitely stay by his side and wait for him to wake up. Thinking about the differential treatment he received at home and the Du family, Liu Yao became more and more aggrieved, and finally couldn't help crying.
After crying for a while, no one cared about him and comforted him, and Liu Yao felt even more aggrieved.
If only I could go home.
The thought is together, and I can't stop it. Liu Yao turned over and got out of bed, took out the small baggage that Du Niang had specially packed up when he came to Dujia Village, and dragged Du Xiaohu's shoes out of the room.
There was no one in the yard, the gate was locked, Liu Yao tiptoed to open the door and plug it, and carried his own small burden out of the gate of Du's house.
Dujia is the first household in the village, not far away is the official road, Liu Yao remembers this road, when he came to Dujia Village, Du Niang said out of the county, has been walking along the road, turned a small hill, and the first village he met was Dujia Village. As long as you follow this road, you will definitely be able to walk home.
Liu Yao looked at the hill in the distance and walked towards the county seat with confidence.
When I arrived at the county seat, I arrived at home.
Not long after the busy autumn harvest, every family nested at home to recuperate, and there was no one in the field, Liu Yao walked back slowly along the uneven dirt road.
After walking for half an hour, Liu Yao looked at the small mountain bag in the distance, and it seemed to be closer.
After walking for a few more minutes, Liu Yao was a little thirsty.
Looking up, why is the hill bag still so far away?
After another quarter of an hour, Liu Yao's foot wrapped in sackcloth began to hurt.
Taking two steps forward, Liu Yao felt that his feet were getting more and more painful.
Look at the hill bag so far away, and then look back at the Du family behind him.
Liu Yao turned around angrily and walked back.
Liu Yao endured the pain in his feet and walked back, and found that no one in the Du family found out that he had run away from home, and he immediately couldn't help but feel aggrieved again.
It's really not my own child, and I don't care at all.
Liu Yao felt that he couldn't just leave home for the first time, and his eyes swept to the bud poles piled up outside the door, and Liu Yao came up with a good way to 'continue' to run away from home.
Digging out a hole hard, stuffing the burden inside, and then covering it with a bud grain pole, I couldn't see it, Liu Yao smiled with satisfaction.
Feeling a little hungry, Liu Yao secretly went back to the kitchen to drink water, ate steamed buns and went out of the house again.
PS: Happy Lantern Festival! Everyone is reunited!