Niu Aihua hanged herself, and Xiao Wu sat slumped by the door, looking at Niu Aihua's corpse, and lost her soul.

At Xiao Wu's feet, there were scattered the medicines he bought specifically for Niu Aihua, Niu Aihua didn't like to drink bitter things, Xiao Wu specially bought a handful of sugar, and he didn't want to eat any of them on the road.

Niu Aihua still had tears on her face when she died, and her eyes widened and she looked at the door.

I was so frightened that I hugged my head and screamed, Jiang Sheng and Zhao Dahai were frightened by my screams, and watched me run out of the courtyard of Xiao Wu's house, I don't know why.

Niu Aihua's body was buried the next day, and everything was simple. There are not many relatives of Xiao Wu's family, and there are very few people who come to attend the funeral, Xiao Wu's second uncle Ma Aimin came to visit, but Ma Aidang did not come, and none of the people from Niu Aihua's family came.

The village chief helped Xiao Wu with the funeral, at that time Xiao Wu looked sluggish, a little incoherent, and he didn't know which relatives he had. Not long after the plague disaster, the people of Beiping City were also numb to the death of people.

If it weren't for Xiao Wu taking a few silver dollars from Senior Brother Wu Yao, I'm afraid I wouldn't even have to buy Niu Aihua's coffin money.

In these years, it is not easy to get families to make money for coffins.

In those days, Xiao Wu didn't eat or drink, his eyes were black, and he lost weight in a few days.

Jiang Sheng brought a bowl of porridge from home and fed it to Xiao Wu every day, but Xiao Wu couldn't eat, he vomited when he ate it, and he didn't want to talk to anyone.

Jiang Sheng is a person who doesn't talk much, he can understand Xiao Wu's feelings of losing his loved ones, so he sits silently next to Xiao Wu, and accompanies Xiao Wu when he sleeps at night.

Xiao Wu has no grandfather, no father, and now no mother, he is a ten-year-old child, and his second and third uncles are also living in poverty, and there is a baby in the family, and their own family is having a difficult time, and it is estimated that it is not realistic to want Xiao Wu to be fostered in their home.

Jiang Sheng lived in Xiao Wu's house for a few days, after all, they were all children, and after a few days, Xiao Wu's sad mood stabilized a lot, and he gradually talked to Jiang Sheng.

That night, Xiao Wu and Jiang Sheng talked a little too much, and Jiang Sheng asked, "Xiao Wu, will you be afraid if Auntie hangs you in the hall and lives alone?" ”

"That's my mom, what I'm afraid of." Xiao Wu nodded first, then shook his head again, and he choked up: "I just can't figure it out, why did a person who was fine in the morning suddenly hang himself?" ”

A person who was fine in the morning hanged himself for no reason, maybe there was some hidden secret, maybe Niu Aihua was nervous and wanted to die, maybe he suddenly woke up and felt that he had tired Xiao Wu.

And in those days, I would be awakened every day by nightmares, dreaming that Niu Aihua came to me with teeth and claws, asking me to pay for my life.

When my mother heard my cry, she ran to my bed, and when she saw that my face was crying, she hugged me and said, "Jiang Rong, I don't blame you for this, I don't blame you. ”

I didn't dare to sleep anymore, without Jiang Sheng's presence, my innate fear of darkness was infinitely magnified, I asked my mother to be by my side, she couldn't sleep, only when I fell asleep first, I dared to sleep when I vaguely noticed her beside me.

The next day, Jiang Sheng brought the hungry Xiao Wu home, and his mother was afraid that Xiao Wu would be hungry for a long time and eat bad stomachs, so she made a pot of rice porridge with a few spoonfuls of sugar in it.

Xiao Wu ate four or five bowls of rice porridge to barely fill his stomach, he looked at my pale face and asked, "Auntie, is Jiang Rong sick?" ”

Mother said: "Well, Jiang Rong has caught a cold when he kicks the quilt these two nights. ”

"It's only been two days since I didn't sleep in the same room with you and I caught a cold, which is really worry-free." Jiang Sheng said and reached out to touch my head.

I slammed Jiang Sheng's hand away and stepped back with a scream, Jiang Sheng frowned and asked, "Jiang Rong, what's wrong with you?" ”

I ran out of the house crying, and my mother said, "This girl is nervous, I'm scared, I'll go and soak my clothes in the basin first, and then go out to play when you're done." ”

Xiao Wu's family is out of the house, and since then he has been alone, the village chief knows that Xiao Wu's family and Ma Aimin and Ma Aidang are at odds, so he first went to find people in Niu Aihua's family, and asked them to afford Xiao Wu's future livelihood.

But what was unexpected was that the village chief did not go to Ma Aimin and Ma Aidang, but these two came uninvited.

The purpose of Ma Aimin and Ma Aidang coming to Sanlitun was to get the title deed of the old house of the little five families.

Although the title deed of this year is not valuable, it is at least enough to support the family for half a year, Ma Aimin and Ma Ai Party do not give up, they want the title deed of the Xiao Wu family, Xiao Wu A child can't compete for two adults, and the village chief can't always look at the door of Xiao Wu's house.

Xiao Wu's family doesn't have much food, and he doesn't know how to steam pasta, cooking porridge and cooking makes himself dirty every day, sometimes Shen A-Niang can't see it, she will take Xiao Wu home to eat, and sometimes go to Xiao Wu's house to help him cook.

Xiao Wu lived alone at home for two months, and during the two months, Ma Aimin and Ma Ai often came to harass and demanded that Xiao Wu hand over the land deed.

At that time, it was the wheat harvest season, Xiao Wu dropped out of school and was busy harvesting wheat at home, and the villagers also went to help Xiao Wu cut the wheat after finishing their own farm work.

In those days, Xiao Wu slept on the wheat field every day and watched the wheat, and was bitten by mosquitoes and got red bumps.

The mother looked at Xiao Wu, who was sleeping and tired in the morning, very distressed, but she was helpless.

What Xiao Wu said to Jiang Sheng the most in those days was that he was so tired, he used to be carefree, everything was carried by Ma Aiguo and Niu Aihua, who would have thought that fate would play tricks on him like this.

And fate will never let him go because of a pitiful person, at that time, the wheat of every household was put into the warehouse to pay the public grain, the national army was short of materials because of the war, and the grain tax was worse than in previous years, at that time Xiao Wu had learned to pull the ox cart, every household was busy, Xiao Wu was embarrassed to trouble others, so he borrowed the ox cart of Zhao Shugen's family, loaded a cart of grain tax and transported it to the town grain management office to pay the public grain.

Xiao Wu was tanned and wore a canopy made by his mother, and after he got out of the car, he registered the name of Sanlitun Ma Patriot, and others turned their heads to see that a child of him actually came to pay public grain, and couldn't help but feel strange.

After Xiao Wu finished signing, he carried a bag of seventy or eighty catties of wheat on his shoulders and weighed them one by one like others.

The wheat was put into the warehouse, and Xiao Wu spent three days to cut an acre of soybeans, at that time, soybeans were generally used to make oil, and the yield of two snakeskin bags could be planted per acre was considered high, Xiao Wu sold a bag of soybeans, and a bag of soybeans hit a barrel of oil.

Xiao Wu is alone, the crops in the field are still much slower than others with the help of the villagers, there are still some surplus grain that has not been dried in the wheat field, and each household puts the grain into the warehouse, Xiao Wu continues to sleep on the wheat field to look at the remaining grain, and a few families are bold enough to put the grain on the field, and are picked up by thieves in the neighboring village several bags.

One night, Jiang Sheng hurriedly ran to the wheat field to wake up Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu was sleepy-eyed, looking at the night, Jiang Sheng panted and said: "Xiao Wu, your house has been burned." ”

Xiao Wu ran to the house barefoot, and he watched the villagers carrying buckets to help put out the fire in their houses and burrow into the yard.

The village chief quickly grabbed Xiao Wu and shouted, "You kid is crazy, go in and find death?" ”

Xiao Wu struggled and shouted: "You let go of me, the title deed, the title deed is still in the house!" ”

"I can't go to anything in the house now!" The village chief shouted.

Xiao Wu's strength was great, several adults pulled Xiao Wu together, and held down the crazy Xiao Wu, Xiao Wu cried hoarsely, and he said: "I beg you to let you go in and take out my mother's photo." ”

Xiao Wu's words made the eyes of many village women who were putting out the fire red, Xiao Wu looked at the house under the raging fire, his voice choked, and he looked at Jiang Sheng aggrievedly and said, "Jiang Sheng, I have nothing." ”

Some people say that it was Xiao Wu's two uncles who set the fire, and they couldn't get the title deed, so they burned down Xiao Wu's house in a fit of rage, but this was just speculation, and no one saw that they set the fire.

After the fire was extinguished, Xiao Wu found an iron box from the bottom of the remaining bed, the iron box was burned black, only a silver dollar was left in it, the gross tickets were burned clean, and the photos of Niu Aihua and Ma Aiguo were also burned to ashes.

And the granaries of the Xiaowu family were also burned clean, and most of the grain in the warehouses was cooked.

The house was burned down, Xiao Wu had no place to live, and he lived in my house for the first two days, sharing the bed with Jiang Sheng.

At that time, the village chief went to the town to call Ma Aimin and Ma Aidang to Sanlitun to discuss the issue of raising Xiao Wu, and several people discussed for a long time, Ma Aimin was convinced, but Ma Ai Dang never agreed to raise Xiao Wu.