Chapter 7: Digging the Grave
After all, Xiao Lizi is only eleven or twelve years old, and many things are more than enough but not enough, even if he does it forcibly, it will be extremely difficult.
Xiao Lizi looked at her sister who was dead on the kang, and when she remembered that she was still laughing and playing in the yard in the morning, but now she was separated by yin and yang, her heart was tingling, and Xiao Lizi, who was in tears, stretched out her hand that was shaking like chaff to close her sister's eyes full of fear and resentment.
After closing her sister's eyes, Xiao Lizi wiped the mixture of tears and blood from her face, and then picked up a clay pot on the ground that had been broken to only half and walked towards a stream not far from home. After a while, Xiao Lizi reluctantly returned home with half a basin of clean water and began to wash her sister's body.
Xiao Lizi wiped every inch of her sister's skin very carefully with the clear stream water. In Xiao Lizi's impression, her sister is the girl she has contacted the most and most closely. Even if it is his own sister, in Xiao Lizi's impression, it seems that after he is sensible, the sister and brother have never been so "frank and honest". Although my sister was naked at this time, the girl's beauty was unreservedly displayed in front of Xiao Lizi's eyes, but Xiao Lizi did not have even a trace of evil thoughts. He wiped every inch and every part of his sister's skin very simply. He respected his sister very much, and he knew that his sister, who loved cleanliness so much, would never tolerate his own extremely dirty death.
After several water changes, my sister's defiled body finally became clean again. After wiping her sister, Xiao Lizi took out the new clothes she had been reluctant to wear from her sister's clothes package, and then carefully dressed her sister.
It was his first time dressing someone, and he never thought that his first experience of dressing someone else would be like this. After a while, Xiao Lizi, who was a little clumsy in her hands and feet, put on her sister's body neatly. Looking at her beautiful sister again, Xiao Lizi smiled emotionally, but this smile was so bleak and sad.
Xiao Lizi cleaned up her deceased sister and it was already dark the day after that, and the room was dark at this time. Xiao Lizi was very familiar with his home, so the darkness did not cause any trouble for his actions.
Since he still needs to continue to work, Xiao Lizi has no choice but to light a fire in his small yard. Taking advantage of the bright light emitted by the blazing bonfire, Xiao Lizi picked up her sister from the kang and lay down beside her father. Because Sister Xiao Lizi's body was completely cold, the whole person began to stiffen and die. The fourteen or fifteen-year-old girl, who was originally only a few dozen catties and could easily be picked up on weekdays, pressed Xiao Lizi to pant at this moment.
After putting her sister next to her father, Xiao Lizi took the basin just now and changed the water back and forth a few times, and her father, who was originally covered with blood, was also wiped clean by Xiao Lizi. Looking at the newly dressed father, mother, and sister on the kang, Xiao Lizi suddenly smiled happily.
He had regretted that he hadn't come home in time because he was playful, and that he hadn't been able to go with them. But now he is extremely glad that he survived by mistake, that he can still avenge his family and the villagers in the village, and that he can collect their bodies and bury them. Thinking that he still had a lot to do, Xiao Lizi knelt on the ground where the blood had solidified and was covered with pottery fragments, kowtowed to his family three times, and then got up and continued to work.
Xiao Lizi, who originally wanted to dig a pit in his yard, found that the only bronze farm tool in the house was missing, and some wooden tools were maliciously broken. Xiao Lizi, who couldn't come up with a good way for a while, had to simply repair the farm tools that could still be used, and then took these broken farm tools that were extremely uneasy to use.
Because the tools for digging the pit are really difficult to use, and Xiao Lizi is still young after all, and the labor intensity is so labor-intensive, Xiao Lizi just did it for a short while, and then he hit a blood blister. The blood bubbles on his hands were squeezed when he waved the tool again and again, and after a while, the tool was stained with the blood of Xiao Lizi. But the heart-piercing sensation caused by the rupture of the blood blister did not stop Xiao Lizi from continuing to work. Thinking that his deceased relatives had not yet been laid to rest, Xiao Lizi frantically sped up despite the pain.
After a whole night of non-stop digging, at the moment when the red sun rose, Xiao Lizi, who was hungry and tired and had blood on his hands, finally made a safe place for his family. The tired little plum casually threw the tools that had been completely used in his hands to the ground, staggered to the stone table, and with a bloody hand, he trembled and picked up the wild fruits he picked yesterday and slowly put them into his mouth.
Standing in the middle of the courtyard, looking at the sun slowly rising in the east, Xiao Lizi couldn't help but shiver because of the cool breeze in the early morning, and Xiao Lizi, who was originally in a trance, was a lot more sober. Turning his head to look at the grass house beside him, looking at the three closest relatives who were still lying peacefully on the kang, Xiao Lizi's dirty and tired little face gradually showed a smile as bright as the sun. He knew that time was waiting for no one, so he stuffed some wild fruits into his mouth and walked straight to the brook not far away.
For children growing up in the mountains, the brook is the greatest gift God has given them. In the creek, children can find a different kind of happiness every time, and this is the same for Little Plum. The creek is very close, less than 100 meters away. Little Li Zi and the old horse walked to the place where he often played in the water.
After jumping into the stream, Xiao Lizi did not swim a few laps as usual, but closed his eyes and sat quietly on the pebbles in the stream, letting the clear water wash over every part of his body. At this time, Xiao Lizi's body, which was originally extremely sleepy, regained its original vitality under the washing of the clear stream. The eyes that were still muddy and a little confused just now were also energetic again at this time.
Xiao Lizi's choice to take a bath at this time is not because of how much he loves to be clean. He knew that after he recovered his strength for a while, he would have to carry his father, mother, and sister out of the house safely and place them in the freshly dug pit. Xiao Lizi didn't want to let his family who was covered in blood and mud stain his newly dressed family again, he wanted his family to leave clean, so he came to the creek to clean himself.
After sitting quietly in the stream for about ten minutes, Xiao Lizi, who had been with his eyes closed, slowly opened his eyes. Raising his little hand covered with blood, Xiao Lizi, who felt that it was already about the same, began to scrub his body very casually. After a while, the little plum who was **** all over his body stood up, jumped onto the shore with a vertical leap, bent down and picked up the clothes on the ground and walked in the direction of home. He knew that he was the only living person in the whole village at this time, so he didn't have to worry about any evasion.
Randomly found a piece of clothing in the house and put it on his body, and Xiao Lizi began to improve the environment in the grave. Just now he went down into the pit again, and felt that it was a little inappropriate to let his father and sister lie here like this. Xiao Lizi, who likes to use his brain more in everything, looked around, and when he saw his house, he suddenly had a flash of inspiration. Little Plum climbed to his roof, removed the roof, and filled the whole grave with the thatch used to make the roof.
Looking at the grave that had been greatly improved, Xiao Lizi nodded with great satisfaction, and then turned around and walked towards the house.
Inside the house, the deceased family members are still lying very peacefully on the clay kang, and everything is no different from last night. At this time, although Xiao Lizi's heart was extremely painful, his mind was extremely clear, and he understood his current duty. After kowtowing three times to his father and sister very solemnly, Xiao Lizi was finally about to start carrying his family to the funeral......
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