Chapter 2: Resignation
The noon meal is made of peach branches, it turns out that they eat separately from their uncles, fold up the quilt where Wang Ke sleeps, spread a rag on the kang is the dining table, several people take off their shoes and eat on the kang, the rice is the stick noodle porridge mixed with wild vegetable leaves, the bun is the black and non-slippery multigrain noodles, radish pickles, everyone eats with whirring, Wang Ke looks a little sick to her stomach, she was born in the eighties, she has never seen such a meal, and she can't get off the chopsticks.
Li Shi saw Wang Ke grinding like this, thinking that she was not well yet, and felt distressed again, "Hua, is your appetite not good yet?" After a while, my mother will go to Aunt Qin's house to buy you two eggs. ”
"Mother, mother, I want to eat too." When he heard that the egg had a root, his eyes lit up, and he looked at Li Shi, wanting to wait for Li Shi to be soft-hearted and be able to stuff Wang Ke with two mouthfuls when he fed him. This is the conclusion he has come to by guarding Wang Ke for the past few days, except for going to the toilet in the past few days, he has never left Wang Ke's side, and he even has to sleep next to him at night.
"Mother, there is no money at home," Taozhi's words extinguished Wang Ke's newly raised hope.
"In the afternoon, I went to the market with Momozhi to sell the embroidery of the past few days."
Wang Ke also wants to see what the ancient bazaar was like, and to be able to visit the ancient commercial street, which is also a bragging capital worth showing off.
"Let me and my eldest sister go, my bones are about to fall apart these days, let me go." Wang Ke actually resorted to coquettishness in order to get out, and he really despised himself in his heart.
"No, you haven't been able to do it yet, you have to walk back and forth for an hour, you can't walk" Li's words made Wang Ke immediately dispel the idea, she still understands an hour, two hours! She has been lying down for several days, and she hasn't eaten properly, and she really doesn't have the physical strength. The eldest sister ran for two hours in order to change some eggs for her, although her inside was not the original her at all, she was an only daughter in her previous life, and she really didn't feel the love of sisterhood, she was still very moved by this. I have to turn her emotion into food, because there will be no eggs in the future, and she has to get used to living the current life.
Wang Ke took a bite of the nest head, it was so hard, chewed, chewed, still couldn't swallow, so he had to take a bite of porridge, although he wanted to vomit a little, he finally started to eat the first bite, and there was no sore throat as he imagined, it seems that this body has long been accustomed to this kind of food, and he thought fiercely while eating, I want eggs and milk, I want my pastries, woo, I don't want this for a lifetime.
Yes, West Point, West Point, I will do West Point, this is my sister's old business, Sister has been doing West Point for more than ten years in her last life, and it is half a lifetime, since she studied abroad as a teenager, she was crazy obsessed with the kind of dessert that she couldn't put down, and she ran half the world, collecting a variety of different flavors of desserts from various countries, even the traditional midpoint also learned the best points, sister's dessert shop opened most of China, it is really good, just a few varieties are enough for Sister to start a career here.
Meimei thought, even the nest head has become a dessert, and actually eats half of it, which is too big for the nest, if this is the size of a small nest sold in a supermarket in the previous life. Plus half a bowl of porridge to fill the gap in the past few days, although I also ate some eggs a few days ago, but after all, there are limited things, and I still look very hungry when I get up.
Wang Ke wants to act quickly and get rid of the food that is difficult to swallow as soon as possible, now he has no money, no tools, no, he has to go out after eating, looking for suitable opportunities, and he doesn't want to delay for a moment. In the era when even eggs were a luxury, how could you raise your own appetite for meat.
As soon as the dishes and chopsticks were cleaned up, there were guests coming to the door, a woman in her twenties walked to the side of the kang when she entered the door, and took out something from the pocket of her jacket, Wang Ke saw that it was a few eggs, Li saw that he was busy stopping "her fourth aunt, what are you doing" The fourth aunt pushed away Li's hand and gently put it on the kang, "Third sister-in-law, you be quiet, everyone will be eating, you put it away, the half basket given by the child's grandmother a few days ago, there are not a few left," Li picked it up and stuffed it back into the pocket for the fourth aunt, "Her fourth aunt, you have a lot of children, Keep it for Youyin and Lianqing to eat. The woman covered her pocket with her hand and pushed the egg back, "I have nothing to say about the flower girl's illness for a few days, so take it and make up for the child" Li had to carefully receive the eggs into the basket on the kang cabinet and cover it with a piece of cloth.
Over there, Peach Buds and Peach Branches also packed up and went out, and Li ordered the two of them to come back early.
Li Shi pulled the fourth aunt to sit on the kang and began to gossip, "The flower girl is well, there are no sequelae" "No, I have a fever for several days, and there is still a large piece of blue on the back of my neck, now it's good, I should really thank the Bodhisattva, bless this child's life" "Third sister-in-law, it's good if the child is well, you don't want to be angry with the second child, she is also angry with the second child, she can't do it, the anger is spread everywhere, her grandmother was not like this two years ago, the second child is like this, she also feels sorry for the second family, she indulges her a little, and the flower girl is also for everyone to pick elm money, It's his uncle who doesn't take a good look at the child, or she can't rely on her grandmother's strength to come over to teach until now."
Feeling that she was still injured at work, Li didn't know that the injury on the back of her neck caused her to lose a child, so she gave herself the opportunity to come here instead of her, it would be great if Peach Blossom also went back instead of herself, even if she didn't know anything, the assets she left behind were enough for her to eat and drink for a few lifetimes, and after thinking about it for a few days, she now figured it out, and if she can't go back, she will accept her fate.
Forget the previous identity, now I am a peach blossom, I have to love this family well, and everyone in the family who cares about her, from now on my name is Peach Blossom. Peach Blossom is me, I am Peach Blossom.
The two of them said a conversation, and they both went to the ground, Peach Blossom was not allowed to go out by Li's order, and then lay down for an afternoon, Peach Blossom and the two younger brothers and sisters set a conversation, still couldn't understand what era it was, and was really bored to take a cushion and sit on the threshold to look at the courtyard.
There are four main hall houses in the courtyard, two in the east wing, and two in the west wing, all of which are earthen embryo houses with thatched roofs. They live in the west wing of the edge of the room, ask the peach leaves who live in which room, the two children scramble to point her like a treasure, the main door is the living room, the east room is to put food, the west side of the living room is the grandmother and grandfather live, the westernmost room to open a separate door is the uncle's, the uncle is nineteen to marry the relatives and divide a separate room, the east wing is the second aunt's family, there was originally an uncle, the uncle's lobby brother got married, a family can't live in the west next door to open a courtyard, The uncle's room was occupied by the second aunt with the eldest son getting married, and it was the cousin and the aspirant who lived, and it was not to say that it was the fourth uncle's family next to him, and his family was the most unpopular from the point of view of position.
On the edge of the east wing is the livestock pen, where does the humming of pigs in the yard come from, there are a few chickens running in the yard, the chicken food box is also over there, next to their own house is a grass shed, there are several small stoves at the bottom, a large pot, it should be the place where each family cooks, Mei Xiang should be smuggled in while cooking lunch. On the other side of the firewood stack of the stove room is a thatched house next to the low courtyard wall, there is only one thatched house, and the coughing sound one after another in the past few days should be a code sign for fear of bumping into people when entering the thatched house. There is a small septic tank next to the thatched house, and people still eat wild vegetables, so there is nothing to use for feces at home. In the middle is the gate, the gate is a fence tied up with thick branches, and at night it should be hung on the branch of the zigzag tree at that end, it is simply a night that does not close the door, like them, there is really nothing to steal from a small family like them, and such a large family, there are thieves who dare not come.
Looking out from the gate and the courtyard wall, you can also see a few sparse low-rise earthen houses, not only their family is poor, this village is poor, look at the ground of the yard and the height of the houses outside, this should be a mountain village, that is, close to the mountain. At the foot of the mountain, where people can live, there will be water, and there should be no wells at home, so there should be a river or stream near the village. There are mountains and rivers, and it stands to reason that you shouldn't be so poor, there must be other reasons.
"Sister Hua, you are well, can I play with Brother Yougen," this runny child needless to say is the fourth aunt's family, just now Peach Blossom saw him show his head several times at the door of the fourth aunt before coming out, she has a good impression of the fourth aunt, and she doesn't even hate the child, "Okay, but you have to tell me, what is your name, how old are you" "Sister Hua, my name is Youyin, Sister Hua, are you about to burn to death with a fever, you don't know me" Who cursed me, needless to say, this is also said by adults and listened to by children, learning to speak out.
"You tell me who told you, I'll let you play with Yougen," Youyin's little eyes sneaked a glance at the second aunt's house, and whispered, "Brother Youzhi, don't tell him that I said it." "It's the second aunt again, the roots of the peach blossom's teeth are itchy, she's better wait for me to bite you. Yougen was not happy when he heard Youyin say this, and muttered in a low voice, "Her sister is going to die" Peach Leaf came up and grabbed Peach Blossom's arm, "Sister, don't die, okay, let's not play with that fool with ambition, I learned embroidery with my eldest sister, and I will earn money to treat you now." "Peach Leaf really doesn't play anymore, so I went to the house and brought out a small basket, and recognized the embroidered flowers on the line.
Youyin and Yougen squatted in front of the door to play, Peach Blossom looked at Youyin and suddenly thought, almost forgot the big thing, his family didn't know him, how to go out, he couldn't tell the truth, he had to find a reason that they could accept, pretending to have amnesia? This trick doesn't work, and the pastries they make themselves in the future must have a source, in case they make a few more novelties that they haven't seen before, wouldn't they have to be suspicious, and they can't get sick and sleep for nothing.
Dinner was made of peach leaves, peach blossoms can't, either they can't light the fire, or they almost burn the roof with too much firewood, and finally hide in the house on the grounds of headaches. I sigh that I am not as good as a child.
When Li and the sisters came back, it was dark, and they finished eating early and went to bed, because Xu Wang would shout in the yard every day that someone had blown out the lantern.