Chapter 39: The Road

Snow-capped, the mountains are towering and overlapping, such as the ups and downs of the blue waves, and like the treacherous ups and downs of the twilight wind and clouds, among the ups and downs, light blue, eyebrow green, indigo, and then to green, dark green and dark green, different cyan is hidden in the snow-white mountain stream.

From a distance, it looks like a landscape painting that splashes ink and is completed in a hurry.

It's like the "Cold Mountain Spring Residence Map" hanging in the small building of the study

Changting leaned on the eyebrow stick, tilted her head, gasped for breath, and her eyes were white—she was really crazy, the mountain she was going to climb in front of her, and the road she was going to walk was actually seen by her as a painting hanging in Kyoto Jiankang

It's really good to draw.

As soon as the painting is torn apart, you can reach Yuzhou in one step, the old house of Heisei has a burning fire, there is a steaming tea soup, there is a very soft and thick warm couch pavilion lying on a wooden stick around it, quietly looking around, dilapidated villages, scattered ragged homeless people, and fences that are swaying in all directions when the wind blows.

These are the ones that deserve to be painted in the paintings, for others to see, for the noble families sitting in the room to see if they will be ashamed.

The wind was howling, his face was cold, and his turban was almost blown off to the snow.

Changting sighed in her heart, she is now like those low-born homeless people, why is she standing on a high place and looking down on pity?

After a few rests in Changting, he pulled his legs out of the snow with difficulty, with great strength, and almost fell to the ground, Hu Yuniang hurriedly leaned over to help her up, laughing at her while helping her, "I have to go to the outer city, no one will sweep the snow in the outer city!" It's been less than a morning since we've been gone, and you've almost planted three or five upside-down green onions. ”

Changting's face turned red.

She is not good at walking aisles, Xiao Changning is mostly carried by Hu Yuniang and walks north, Rao is so, Hu Yuniang has to free up a hand to help her

The heart of the foot board hurts, the toes and fingers are frozen by the sky, and the stiffness is so stiff that there is nothing to feel anymore, Changting understands that this is not a good omen, so he endured the swollen knuckles all the way, rubbed the two hands together, and the hands were easy to warm, and then the pain and itchiness of scratching the heart and liver came.

Changting held Hu Yuniang with her backhand, as soon as her hand hit something, it was itchy like the bones wrapped in flesh and blood were trembling and hot, the little girl stood up with her teeth bared, blinked her eyes vigorously to hold back her tears, and when she opened it again, there was a small and small, yellow and clear egg in front of her, turned her head to look at Hu Yuniang, Hu Yuniang smiled at her, and the headscarf blocked half of Hu Yuniang's face, and she could only see a row of not very neat teeth.

As soon as they came out of the village, they peeled and ate the eggs they had held last night, and Xiao Changning took three or two bites, and Changting gave his own one to his younger sister. The poor don't eat the food they come from, and the long pavilion can't eat it - she originally thought that the short and fat woman would take away the dozen copper coins in the bag at night, so she only thought that these three eggs were bought by herself, but she didn't know that the dozen or so coins were still there, and the eggs that Yu Niang came with were solid and became stolen by them with unclean hands and feet

The word stealing is too heavy, like a mountain, and it weighs down Changting and can't breathe.

In fact, Xiao Changning ate it, which is equivalent to her eating, and she also lost the face of the Lu family, and I don't know what she is stubbornly deceiving herself.

But she didn't expect that Hu Yuniang didn't eat it at that time

Changting's face suddenly turned crimson, and he hurriedly waved his hand, "You eat, you eat, I'm not hungry." ”

Hu Yuniang grinned, leaned over and whispered to Changting, "I'll get up early this morning and go to that fat aunt to fetch water for the tank, she wants to give me five cents, and I don't want to pay for these three eggs" As she spoke, she muttered sullenly, "Let's borrow a night's sleep, use a pot of boiling water, and she dares to charge eighty five baht coins." Eighty! My grandfather and I couldn't use that much money in a month! The flesh on my shoulder was red, and she opened her mouth to Wuwen" and spat on the ground fiercely, "No treachery, no business!" ”

Changting didn't know that there was such a lawsuit, and at the moment his chest was hot, and he snorted, not knowing what to say.

Hu Yuniang smiled happily, "You didn't allow me to pull out the dagger yesterday, I thought about it carefully, that's right." Tearing our faces on the spot, none of us three can get out - we know what will happen to the peasant family after they are angry, don't forget that there was a man in the house yesterday! We lost our lives for money, and we can't get it! 'When you go out, everything is safe, and you have to fight for the day. Grandpa said it before. ”

Nothing is more important than being alive.

Changting thought so.

Hu Yuniang leaned over the egg on the cliff that emerged from the snow, peeled off the shell in three or two, stretched out her hand to Changting's eyes, and signaled Changting to eat quickly.

The eggs are white and tender, reflected in the snow, smooth as the mirror surface of the old Huatang.

Changting never thought that she would be moved beyond comprehension for an egg.

"One and a half of us, I eat the egg white, and you eat the yellow inside."

After Changting wiped his hand on the handkerchief, he reached out to take it, peeled off the egg white, and handed the egg yolk to Hu Yuniang completely, Hu Yuniang was stunned and then laughed, swallowed her saliva, and did not shirk it, reached out to take it, first broke the egg yolk into two petals, and then picked up one petal and put it in her mouth.

Now even an egg is a rarity, and Chen Yu in Jiankang chased her with an egg custard with boiled scallops, shiitake mushrooms, and minced meat, but she hated that there was no perilla in it to taste

Changting's throat is sour, and the eggs are still hot, I am afraid that Hu Yuniang put it in her arms, the egg whites have no taste, and when you chew it in your mouth, it looks like she is chewing dragon liver and phoenix marrow.

Xiao Changning leaned on the eldest sister, "ah", Changting turned his head to look, there was a five or six-year-old boy with unkempt hair like a bird's nest, a gray face and a mud on his face, hiding behind the cliff and looking at them with bright eyes.

Changting subconsciously hugged his young sister and took two steps back.

His eyes were like those of a wolf cub waiting for an opportunity

Hu Yuniang glanced back and didn't care very much, "In the past few months, there have been so many little cubs like this, running around the streets and alleys, begging for food at the light, and stealing people's money with heavy ones, most of them are fatherless and motherless" said and drove him away, "Go and go!" Squat down and take a look! ”

The yolk crumbled and fell on the snow.

The boy's eyes moved with the egg yolk slag, and when it completely fell to the ground, he involuntarily swallowed a big mouthful of saliva, a mouth full of local words, and a long sentence of chatter, Changting didn't understand it at all, but saw Hu Yuniang silent, and handed the boy another egg yolk hidden in the palm of his hand.

As soon as the boy took it, he hurriedly stuffed it into his mouth, didn't have time to chew and swallow his stomach, and then raised his head and stared at Hu Yuniang with round eyes.

Changting frowned subconsciously, but heard Hu Yuniang waving her hand and said anxiously, "No! We really don't have it anymore! It's all for you! The boy pressed his face against the stone wall, looking at it intently, neither walking nor moving.

All of a sudden, it was still deadlocked.

Changting looked at the little boy, and then at Hu Yuniang, why is this child still dependent, shouldn't he be very discerning when he is a child and begging for a life outside? The second uncle Lu Fan's concubines know how to observe words and emotions very well, and accept them when they see a good one

Hu Yuniang gritted her teeth and stomped her feet, and simply buried her head in dragging Changting forward, and Changting asked her, "What did he say?" ”

Hu Yuniang's eyes swept back, and after seeing that the boy looked at them deeply, he ran in the other direction with great agility and vigor, and finally relieved himself and replied to Changting, "He said that he hasn't eaten for three or five days, and he just drinks water and gnaws on the top of the tree bark to live, begging us to give us some food."

Fortunately, he didn't give the dry naan out of the cake, and Changting breathed a sigh of relief.

Now their situation is not much better than those poor people, taking care of others before themselves, it is difficult for them to protect the mud bodhisattva to cross the river, how can they cross the river? This is a very orthodox official background, the idea of the blood of the family, Changting sighed, this way has passed, the road is still long, and he was about to speak, but he heard Hu Yuniang speak in a low voice.

"I had this kind of life before I met my grandfather"

Changting's words will come to an abrupt end.

Changting gently squeezed Hu Yuniang's palm and did not speak.

People who are in a vulnerable position will always arouse infinite sympathy, empathy, and sympathy from others.

Sometimes life is like a silent lake, what kind of ripples will be caused by a pebble, no one knows, the little boy is this pebble, "poof" into the three of them are already stormy life.