Chapter 44: A sad past

A few people left around looked at it, and they also paid for it, originally they stayed and had the intention to buy, but after seeing the middle-aged man, they were even more determined.

Then more and more tourists were attracted by passing by, especially after buying two first, they would basically increase the amount of purchases, and about two hours later, Xia Wencai's car bottomed out, and there were only about 10 fruits on the stall.

At this time, there were still two or three people surrounding him, and when these people left, there were only two left, Xia Wencai observed the two people not far away, this is an old and a young, an old woman about sixty or seventy years old, holding a little girl who looks about the same age as Niuniu.

Xia Wencai had been paying attention to them for a while, because they had been standing here for a while, and they were dressed incompatible with the tourists here, the old lady was a little hunched at the waist, and although she looked clean in an old-fashioned cloth dress, she had been washed white, and she couldn't tell what color it was, and she had several patches.

The little girl is not much better, with yellowed hair, wearing a "skirt" that is obviously small with adult clothes, let's call it a skirt, because it is a T-shirt that is directly put on the body after being changed to a small one. The old lady seemed to be talking to the little girl just now, although Xia Wencai was hearing very well now, but there were many people talking around him just now, so he couldn't hear it.

At this time, Niuniu pulled Xia Wencai's clothes, Xia Wencai noticed her, I don't know where she ran to play just now, and there was no one for a while.

The old lady saw that Xia Wencai only had two peaches left, and it seemed that she was ready to close the stall.

As if he had made up his mind, he picked up the girl, ignored her struggles, and walked towards Xia Wencai.

In front of her, after the old lady put the girl down, she carefully took out a "tofu block" wrapped in an old newspaper, and then carefully opened it one by one, revealing the contents inside.

Xia Wencai only felt that his heart twitched fiercely after seeing it, and he saw that there was a very shabby, but very neat change banknote inside, this is indeed a change banknote, because the maximum denomination is two yuan, yes, the two-yuan denomination that has been discontinued.

Xia Wencai swore that he used to think that his family was very poor, but at least he was not so poor that he treasured every penny so much, and the old man now had some one-cent coins in his hand, and then the most were one-cent denominations, and the one-yuan ones were very few, and there were two old red one-yuan and green two-yuan banknotes, which might add up to more than ten or twenty yuan.

The little girl suddenly cried: "Grandma, I don't want to eat peaches, peaches are not delicious at all, but I don't want to play, I don't look at monkeys and rabbits, let's go home."

"Nonsense, grandma used to pick up rotten peaches that people didn't want in the vegetable market, you like to eat them, this peach is so good-looking, and so many people buy it, it must be delicious, today since grandma took you out to play, let's be happy, grandma bought peaches for you."

"Young man, how do you sell peaches?" After the old lady finished speaking, she asked Xia Wencai.

"Sister, you eat, this peach is delicious, don't lie to you" Xia Wencai didn't answer, Niuniu picked up a peach and handed it to the little girl, although she was small, but she seemed to understand a little, the little girl didn't like to eat peaches, and the clothes she was wearing were so pitiful.

Who knew that this little girl looked at Peaches, swallowed her saliva, and then turned her head away, and stopped looking at Niu Niu.

Xia Wencai pushed the old lady's money back and said, "Grandma, this is all leftover from the sale, it's worthless, just give it to the child."

After hearing this, the old lady insisted on giving money, saying that although she was poor, she always had to pay for things, and Xia Wencai was willing to accept it.

When the stalemate was in a stalemate, the little girl hugged the old lady's leg again and cried, not letting her buy peaches, crying: "Grandma, I don't want peaches, let's take the money back to buy steamed buns, grandma also eats, I don't want grandma to eat garbage."

Niuniu also understood when she heard this, and she was in tears, she felt that this sister was so pitiful, she had no clothes to wear, and she had no money to buy peaches to eat.

The old lady saw that the child was crying sadly, and finally gave up, and comforted: "Okay, grandma listens to Cocoa, Cocoa is good, don't cry, we won't buy peaches, let's go back and buy steamed buns to eat." After saying that, he wanted to leave with Coco.

Xia Wencai walked over, picked up the little girl, and then picked up a peach and handed it to her: "Your name is Coco, it's really good, come to uncle to give you peaches, don't need money, uncle still has a lot of peaches."

When the little girl heard this, she did not eat the peach, but turned her head to look at her grandmother.

The old grandmother hesitated for a while, but when she saw Coco's well-behaved appearance, she finally sighed: "Coco, since your uncle gave it to you, you can eat it."

After hearing this, Coco smiled with a hint of joy, but said very sensibly before eating: "Thank you, uncle!"

"Coco, eat, eat, uncle, after eating, there will be it here." Xia Wencai touched Coco's head lovingly and said, he really feels sorry for this cute and sensible little girl, generally such a big child, which one does not grow up happily under the care of his parents, and when this child sees the peaches he likes to eat, he just thinks of being afraid that if he buys peaches, he won't be able to buy steamed buns, and grandma will eat garbage!

Before Xia Wencai handed it to her, he had already torn open the ripe peach skin, revealing the red flesh inside.

After Coco picked up the peach and took a bite, her eyes narrowed in comfort, and then it was a gobble, and one peach quickly fell into her stomach.

After watching her finish eating, Niuniu was very sensible and handed the one she was holding in her hand to Xia Wencai, who was very satisfied with Niuniu's expression.

It's just that after Coco took the peach, she seemed a little embarrassed, thinking that she had robbed Niuniu of it.

Seeing this, Xia Wencai put the coco down first, and then said, "Eat, there are many more in my uncle's car, just eat them." After Xia Wencai finished speaking, he opened the car door and pretended to take it inside, but he actually took it out of the space.

He still has a lot of space, because his car has a limited capacity, and this time he only took out about 2,000 catties to sell.

Xia Wencai soon came back with a big bag, every kind of fruit, and then Xia Wencai asked his grandmother to eat together.

The old grandmother originally excused herself, thinking that she was already embarrassed to eat Coco alone, but Xia Wencai insisted that the fruit was worthless and nothing.

A few years ago, when there was no cocoa, she sometimes picked up some fruits that others didn't want to eat, but since she had fruit, she was reluctant to eat them, and the better fruits were picked up for Guoguo to eat.

Seeing that they were having such a hard time, Xia Wencai couldn't help frowning and asked, "What about Coco's parents, they don't care about their children?"

The old grandmother said indifferently: "She was picked up from the garbage heap when I picked up the garbage, and the poor girl was lying naked in the garbage, not even a piece of wrapping cloth, I first thought it was a dead child thrown by others, but when I was about to leave, I found that the child's legs moved, and when I picked it up, I saw that it was still angry."

The old lady paused and continued: "I saw that the child was pitiful, and he was alone, and he also wanted to find a companion, so I took it home, but the child was very weak at that time, and was frozen and sick, and my conditions were also poor, so I only used the money saved from picking up garbage to give her some medicine to the clinic, and finally I had no money, so I had to drag it, thinking that the child had little chance of surviving, but I didn't expect this hard-working baby to be raised by me with rice soup and water."

"It's just that this girl's life is not good, following me, an old woman who picks up garbage, has been suffering, can't eat, can't wear warm, now more than six years old, I haven't even eaten meat twice, so I look so thin, hey, make evil" After the old grandmother finished speaking, tears flowed out.

"Grandma doesn't cry, Coco is full, and she doesn't like to eat meat, I like to eat white steamed buns, and steamed buns are the best." Who knew that after listening to Coco's words, grandma cried even more sadly.

Not only grandma, Niuniu also cried when she heard it, and Xia Wencai finally held back her tears.

It took a while to comfort a few people, and the old woman also talked about her situation and the purpose of bringing Coco here today.

Her name is Shen Qin, she picks up garbage for a living, although she looks like she is in her sixties and seventies, but she is only 58 years old this year, and she and Coco live under a bridge in the town, and the so-called home is a patchwork of picked up wooden boards and cardboard.

When she was picking up garbage in the town yesterday, she accidentally heard someone here saying that it was fun, and there were a lot of wild animals to see, the key was that she didn't need money, Shen Qin thought that Coco was so big, except for going out to pick up garbage with her, most of the time she stayed alone at home, and she didn't even know much about the world, so she wanted to take her out to play and have a long experience.

After the two of them walked here just now, they saw Xia Wencai's peaches bought by so many people, and they must be delicious when they think about it, but seeing that this peach is in such good condition, it must be very expensive, but Shen Qin hesitated for a while, gritted her teeth, and decided to be extravagant for a while, to buy a fresh big peach for Cocoa, after all, it was the first time she brought Coco out to play, and she was happy to play if she wanted to, obviously she didn't know the price of the fruit, and her money was not enough to buy a fruit.

How do you know that Coco was happy after hearing it, but in a blink of an eye, she thought of her grandmother's habit of picking up garbage and eating in order to fill herself, so she shook her head vigorously and didn't let Shen Qin buy peaches, Coco only knew that fruits were very expensive, and grandma said that the money to buy a pound of fruit could buy a lot of steamed buns, so the two of them were at a stalemate.

Xia Wencai was very moved by the relationship between the two of them after listening to it, Niuniu's face darkened after listening, and she also felt that Coco didn't seem to be so pitiful, at least she had a grandmother who was willing to pay a qiē for her, and although her family seemed to be richer, except for her mother, they didn't seem to like their appearance very much, but thinking of her current home, Niuniu's face showed a new smile, she also had grandparents who loved her, especially a good uncle who was obedient to her!

(There are so few recommended tickets that I can't bear to look at them directly...・・Throw up the tickets!) )