She was tired, so she didn't stop anymore, just leaned on the ridge tree and fell asleep, and woke up as clean as that day, and Shen Qiu didn't know where to go, only wearing a coarse cloth coat on her body.

Pulling his coat tightly, as if he understood, Liu Yunru had a smile in his eyes, picked up the hoe and walked home, and finally finished his work, and his steps were a little brisk, but before he reached the gate of the courtyard, he heard Liu Zilin's cry inside.

As soon as her heart was tight, Liu Yunru put the hoe on the side of the road and ran in, the courtyard door was closed, and Liu was not at home at first glance, Liu Yunru climbed into the courtyard wall with her hand, and as soon as she entered the inner room, she saw her aunt holding Liu Zilin's ear and scolding: "Still pretending to be poor!" If your family is poor, how can you afford the money of the school!"

"Auntie, are you up to you?" Liu Yunru walked over and pulled Liu Zilin with one hand: Zilin can study, it is all the money that her mother has worked hard to save, and there is no need for my aunt to be angry with Zilin.

Liu Zilin trembled, like a kitten, Liu Yunru was distressed, but still dragged him to his side: "Zilin, tell my sister, what's going on?"

Auntie came out of nowhere this afternoon, and I opened it without noticing

Liu Zilin held back his tears, finished his words intermittently, and the more he spoke, the more ugly his aunt's face became, and she walked directly to Liu Zilin, bent down and stared at him viciously.

After listening to what Liu Zilin said, Liu Yunru panicked uncomfortably: "Auntie, since you want to ask, you have to ask while my mother is there, now there is only me and my brother in this family, we are both young now, and we don't know anything, or you go back first, and I will ask my mother to go to your house another day, why are you good, say it."

She squinted, bit down hard and said two words, her aunt was cold for no reason, but after thinking about it, Liu Yunru was just a fourteen-year-old little hairy girl who didn't know anything, so she was confident: "Yo, Yunru, you are wrong, your brother uses the money, I naturally have to ask your brother is not?"

"Strong words." Liu Yunru was about to refute, but she heard a few knocks on the courtyard door.

"Auntie, you wait first, I'll open the door." Liu Yunru smiled and pulled Liu Zilin up and walked out of the door, leaving her aunt to stand alone in the middle of the house, and her aunt sat down angrily, wanting to pour a glass of water smoothly, but when she thought of the last time, her hands stiffened suddenly.

Liu Yunru led Liu into the house, and saw her aunt holding a broken teacup, her face was extremely embarrassed, Liu Yunru pretended not to know what she was for, picked up the teapot from the table and poured water into her aunt's cup.

The aunt hurriedly moved the cup away, and as a result, the water was all poured on the crotch of the aunt's pants, and the cloth was a dark water stain, and it was cold and cold, and the aunt who was irritated trembled, she slapped the table, pointed at the Liu family and scolded: "Liu Mei! Look at the good daughter you taught, that's how she treats her elders!"

Seeing that Liu Shi didn't speak for a long time, she stood up angrily with her hands and waist, and her voice was raised a few degrees: "The cheap hooves are also cheap hooves, and they don't have a good heart!"

Liu hurriedly went to the inner room to get a handkerchief and wanted to help her aunt wipe it, but she was pushed away by her aunt, and the handkerchief also fell to the ground, and she still looked apologetic: "Sister-in-law, Yunru can't stand you in this matter, Yunru come over and make compensation to your aunt."

The room was quiet, and the aunt became even more arrogant when she heard Liu's words, stood in front of Liu Yunru and pushed Liu Yunru's shoulder with her hand: "I didn't hear what your mother said."

Liu Yunru pursed her lips and smiled: "Auntie, I was also kind enough to pour water for you, you deliberately took the cup away, who is to blame?"

The aunt opened her mouth and was about to refute, but Liu Yunru took over the conversation and asked, "By the way, what is the purpose of the aunt's arrival?" Did you come to my house to ask for trouble?"

"It's not that your younger brother Liu Zilin suddenly can afford to read." The aunt rolled her eyes and looked directly at the Liu family: "Don't you always cry poverty with my family, saying that your family has no rations and will starve to death?" Why, your eldest brother and sister-in-law are so easy to deceive!"

Liu's mouth was speechless, and he didn't know what to say for a while, but his aunt rummaged around at home, and directly opened the rice jar, took out the half bag of rice, grabbed a handful and smelled it, and raised his voice by eight degrees: "Yo, it's still this year's new rice!" Shen Mei, where did you get the money!"

The aunt casually threw the rice on the table, and the rice was all spilled, and the Liu family wanted to clean it up in distress, but was stopped by the aunt: "Look at how many pieces of cloth you have hanging outside, it can't be that you have found a good concubine, right?"

Her eyes were extremely obscene, and Liu Yunru felt nauseous in her stomach, Liu Yunru didn't say much, rushed into the back room and took out a piece of paper, wrote a few lines freely, and slapped it on the table: "In the past few days, my mother has found a way in the house to increase the yield of sweet potatoes left by my father before his death, and I have made some money, auntie, don't pester my mother anymore, I will give you the method now."

Auntie heard Liu Yunru say this, hesitated to pick up the piece of paper, Liu Yunru looked at her eyes, and knew that she couldn't understand, so she stepped forward and reported all the materials needed, and after listening to it, the aunt was skeptical: "You won't lie to me, right?" I've never used these. ”

"Of course you haven't used it, but my dad developed it." Liu Yunru lied, her face was not red, her heart was not beating: "This is the secret recipe why my family can make this money, now, to you."

Liu looked at Liu Yunru in surprise, and opened her mouth to stop it, but when the aunt saw Liu's appearance, she believed that what Liu Yunru said was true, so she stuffed the paper into her pocket with a smile, and the baby pressed it, and Dacai left.

"Yunru! What are you doing to your aunt?" Liu's face was full of nervousness, and he grabbed Liu Yunru's sleeve and wanted her to chase her aunt.

Liu Yunru patted Liu's hand and smiled slyly: "How could I give her the real formula?" It's just some fertilizer that you usually need, don't worry about it. ”

Hearing Liu Yunru say this, Liu was relieved, and she explained with guilt: "Yunru, it's not that your mother doesn't want you, your future marriage contract or something, it's all your aunt's decision, if you offend her, what if she marries you casually?" Zilin, he will marry a daughter-in-law in the future, and she chooses to marry the dumb and deaf girl of the owner to my Zilin, I will die. ”

Speaking of which, it was just because her aunt controlled most of the power in her family, and when she learned that she and Liu Zilin's future marriage was also made by her, Liu Yunru was a little annoyed: "Mother, isn't there any way to get rid of it?"

"After all, your father is gone." Liu shook his head helplessly: "Your uncle, he is the eldest son, and our family is now."

It's all in his charge, if your aunt is not happy to blow the wind in your uncle's ear, I don't know what to do. ”

Liu Yunru heard her say this, and she also knew that it was a patriarchal society in ancient times, and it was not unusual for the Liu family to do this, she helped the Liu family clean up the rice on the table and the rice, and was about to ask Liu Zilin to help her fetch a bucket of water, when she saw Liu Zilin leaning on the back of the chair and not moving.

Liu Yunru sighed in her heart and ran over, she didn't dare to touch Liu Zilin, she only tentatively shouted "Zilin? Zilin?"

The other party did not respond at all, but his chest rose and fell very frequently, his breathing was extremely heavy, his cheeks were crimson, and Liu Yunru trembled and stroked Liu Zilin's forehead, "I have a fever." ”

As soon as the Liu family came out of the hall, she heard Liu Yunru say something, she didn't let go, and ran directly to hug Liu Zilin into her arms, panicked, Liu Yunru wanted to pull her away, to no avail.

"Mother, my brother just has a fever, and it's not a serious illness." Liu Yunru reluctantly patted Liu's shoulder, "You let me see first, what he has burned." ”

Liu glanced at Liu Yunru a little helplessly, and saw that Liu Yunru looked determined, Dacai carried Liu Zilin to the back room and put him on the bed, Liu Yunru probed his forehead and chest, it was not a high fever, but it was also dangerous.

Seeing that Liu Yunru didn't speak, Liu rubbed his hands, didn't hold back, and still asked, "Zilin, what's wrong with Zilin?"

"Eighty percent of the wounds are not treated, and the inflammation is the only high fever." Liu Yunru got up, went outside to fetch a basin of water, soaked a towel and covered Liu Zilin's forehead, Liu Zilin rushed to the coolness, moaned softly, and his mouth was full of heat.

It's not a way to drag it like this, Liu Yunru has a headache, "Mother, does Da'er have any doctors?"

There are doctors, but they usually come to see the doctor at a fixed time, and if we call him from town alone, we will definitely not be able to pay for it. Liu's two lines of tears flowed down like that, covering his face and crying bitterly, "It's me who I'm sorry Zilin, it's me who is useless, it's all me..."

Liu Yunru saw that she was doing useless repentance, and she didn't know what to do for a while, the money she had earned in the past two months was either to maintain her family, or to spend it on Liu Zilin's school, and naturally there was no surplus money.

There was a cry at home, mixed with Liu Zilin's faint moan, which sounded particularly miserable, but now the neighbors are also poor, and the Liu family is not easy to get along with, and in this world, she Liu Yunru knows only one person, that man.

She gritted her teeth, and finally made up her mind, "Mother, survive one night, I will have a way tomorrow." ”

This night was not so easy to survive, Liu and Liu Yunru took care of Zilin repeatedly, and finally relied on a handkerchief and hot water to survive until the second half of the night, seeing that Liu Zilin was about to have a fever, but the fever was even worse, his eyes couldn't open at all, and his mouth was spitting meaningless babbling.

"Yunru, what should I do, the hot compress you said doesn't seem to work!" Liu was as anxious as an ant on a hot pot, and she kept walking around the house to cheer herself up and figure out a way.

When her deceased husband died, she was nothing more than that, at that time, with Yunru's support, Zilin would eventually grow up, and there was still hope in life. If Da Cizi Lin has three long and two short, how can she live.

Liu Yunru stretched out her hand, probed Liu Zilin's forehead again, touched her forehead, and sure enough, it had burned to more than thirty-nine degrees, she threw the towel into the basin and sighed: "Mother, I'll go out, I don't need to give my brother a hot compress, now change the cold water, Zilin will trouble you, I'll be back soon."

Liu was about to ask where Liu Yunru could go so late, but Yueru turned around and went into the back room, and this sentence was still not said after all.

That's it, Liu picked up the towel in the hot water and twisted it, and went to change a basin of cold water, according to what Yunru said before, give Zilin a cold compress, Yunru is an assertive child, she has her own reasons for doing everything.

When Liu Yunru came out of the back room, she had already carried a back basket on her shoulder, and compared with her petite body, there was a small zinc in the back basket that seemed very large, she opened the door and stood at the door, said hello to Liu, and went out.

Liu Yunru went out this time to dig vegetables in her own field, now the vegetables are gratifying, there are still a few hours before dawn, in the middle of the night, the dew is condensed at this time, spread on the leaves, and the vegetables picked at the time are the freshest, she just wants to go to the market earlier to sell the vegetables and catch medicine for her brother.

It's dark all the way, it just rained a few days ago, the sky is still full of dark clouds, there is no starlight and no moonlight in the four places, everything is hidden in the dark, Liu Yunru walks in the dark, even if the road to his field has been walked many times, there are inevitably some stumbles on the way, and he can only try to walk step by step, and the road becomes longer and longer.

She went out without a lantern or torches, for that poor family, these are already a great luxury, and they can't afford to waste it at all, even if Daji goes to the vegetable field to pick vegetables, I am afraid it will cause great difficulties in the future life, the seeds sown have not yet been bought, and only the last batch of vegetables is left in the vegetable field.