Heavy eyelids and body aches.

This is the result of excessive detachment and lack of nutritional supplements, if it weren't for the smell of chicken wafting in the house for a long time, Du Rong would still want to continue to sleep in the gentle countryside of his shabby quilt.

"Brother, you're finally awake! Thank goodness, it's been almost a day and a night. Come and try the roast chicken that my mother just made for you, it's fragrant!"

Du Rong looked back and saw that his sister was waiting by his bedside at this time, revealing a lively smile that she should have at her age, but the area around her eyes was slightly red, obviously crying not long ago.

At this time, she was still holding a porcelain bowl with a missing horn in her hand, and some green vegetable tofu and a chicken leg were stacked on the rice grains mixed with mixed grains. The aroma of steaming rice is wrapped in the aroma of vegetables and meat, and the aroma is full of stomach.

All of them tried to straighten up, but they felt that their arms were weak and weak, and with a little effort, their arms shook like chaff, and they fell back to the bed after struggling.

He frowned slightly, and the injuries all over his body didn't hurt anymore, but he didn't know why he was so weak. Raising his hand and touching the place on his forehead, he thought that it was probably the special effect of the mark, but he didn't know if it was still in a state of manifestation.

"Brother, slow down, I'll help you up. Du Ningyu sat on the edge of the bed and supported his back before he was able to slowly stand up and lean on the nearly decaying and broken backrest at the head of the bed.

Looking at her brother's prostration, the girl who knew what was going on couldn't help but feel sad, her eyes turned red instantly, and tears the size of beans fell, accompanied by a suppressed and aggrieved voice.

"Brother... You always protect me like this and get hurt in vain, how can it be better if you pull down the root of the disease in the future. Or... Otherwise, you might as well leave me alone. ”

Raising his hand with a little effort, he wiped away the tears from the corners of the girl's eyes in front of him, and said dotingly: "Silly girl, brother doesn't care who can help you? That is, I can still deal with these evil young people because I am underage, sister, don't worry, my brother's life is hard, and he can't die for the time being. ”

Du Rong patted his chest as a guarantee, but such a simple action seemed to consume most of his strength, panting and his face became a little paler.

Seeing this, the girl hurriedly pressed down his hand, and said with pity: "Even if your body is still strong now, you have already lost both qi and blood, hurry up and eat to make up for it!"

The nose followed the hunger of the stomach and found the source along the aroma of the food, and looked at the chicken legs that were far beyond the size of the bowl, and they were all surprised: "This is not the sauce roast chicken made by Grandma Wang in Zechang Village, a few miles away, you still lied to me that my mother made it." This is something worth more than a dozen yuan, and now that you are in a state of confinement, you are not allowed to go out, where did you get this thing?"

The Yan family has a very strict control over the subordinates, and the children of the subordinates and their parents cannot go out at the same time, for fear that the adults will run away with the children, and the mutual detention between relatives is still a great deterrent to the subordinates who go out.

"Obediently, brother, are you a dog-nosed or an eagle-eyed, I can't fool you if I have only eaten it once! My mother gave me some money, but this chicken leg was brought to me by the person I entrusted to run errands there, and I was charged two cents for my hard work!"

The little girl raised her hand in front of Du Rong and gave him a big 'two', and her little face was full of distress.

Although Du Rong was already very hungry at the moment, he felt inexplicably panicked when he thought of the money spent to supplement him.

His father and mother belong to the identity of half a house slave in Yanfu, and the whole family is just a pitiful distribution of less than four taels of silver, although food and accommodation are included, but it is the leaky house in front of him and the white flour steamed buns without nutrition.

For the sake of the two children's bodies, it is also necessary to occasionally buy some worthless scraps of meat, plus the consumption of clothes for a family of four, these few taels of silver are only enough for the family's expenses for a year.

This delicacy worth more than a dozen wen is not worth mentioning to the young master and young lady in the Yan Mansion, but it is already a very luxurious expense for Durong and his family of four.

His eyes wandered, and then he saw that in the rice bowl in front of Du Ningyu, there were a few pieces of ugly green vegetables and broken tofu pieces on top of a little coarse grain, how could he see a little bit of meat.

Although the little girl was determined not to think much about the chicken legs in her brother's bowl, she was only tempted by the instinct of meat to her taste buds and stomach, and she couldn't help but sneak a few glances at the large piece of meat.

After many years of brother and sister getting along, I couldn't capture her subtle movements, smiled warmly, pushed my rice bowl to my sister, and said softly: "Brother has no appetite, he smells the meat and is greasy, so I still leave this chicken leg to you." ”

The small action was discovered, Du Ningyu's little face became red, shook his head vigorously, picked up his bowl in front of Du Rong's eyes, opened the upper layer of green vegetables and tofu, and saw that the mixed grain rice below was a little brown.

"No, the chicken thighs were steamed on my bowl when the rice was hot just now, and you can smell the smell of chicken thighs in my meal! I just see my brother eating it, smelling the meat in the bowl, I can imagine that I am eating it too." ”

looks still very immature, but in this poor life, it is so sensible that it makes people feel distressed. Du Rong only felt a sore nose, pretending to lift his body up a little more, the pain caused by the soreness on his body and moving this prostration of the body naturally made him raise his head and close his eyes, so as to block the tear ducts that were already active and hot, so as to blur some moisture in his eyes.

He reached out to his bowl with both hands and grabbed the ends of the chicken thighs, fortunately the meat had been burned through the sauce, and it didn't take much effort to break the upper and lower legs, and without saying anything, he threw the chicken thighs on his sister's bowl, and said solemnly, "Eat!" and then lifted his rice bowl and put it to his mouth and quickly pulled it up.

The posture clearly did not give Du Ningyu room to stuff back half of the chicken leg again, the little girl's eyes were red, and her small mouth was pouting, but she was afraid that the next moment she would pour out her inner emotions because she was too moved. Both hands wiped the tears that were about to fall from their eyes, and silently picked up their chopsticks and silently picked up the rice.

The two siblings swallowed coarse grains with only green vegetables and tofu first, and vegetables with some juice accompanied by coarse rice were also easier to swallow.

The rest of the chicken thighs were placed on the edge of the bowl, and leaving the delicious food at the end had always been a habit that Du Rong had kept before beating his mother's womb, and as a result, he had brought his sister out of this habit for so many years.

There were a lot more grains of rice in Durong's bowl than his sister's, and the two of them swallowed the last rice almost at the same time, and then picked up their own half of the chicken leg.

This food, which is no longer ordinary in ordinary people's homes, made the corners of the two brothers and sisters in this humble house smile happily, and each grabbed the chicken leg with his hand and touched it with a sense of ritual, before he began to slowly bite down the chicken with a special sauce fragrance.

It is necessary to fill your stomach with cheap food first, so that you don't eat the delicious food too quickly because of hunger.

The roast chicken has been cooked for a long time, even the bones have become a little soft, and the two siblings are reluctant to discard it after eating the meat, even if they bite into some soft crumbs, they still bite down one by one and swallow it hard, this flavorful bone marrow taste is also a rare delicacy for them.

Eat half of the chicken thighs left, and there are no image scruples between the two siblings, and stick out their tongues to their greasy fingers to add a clean touch. They looked at each other and smiled, and they all showed satisfied and happy looks.

Wipe his hand on the water-stained cloth he brought, Du Ningyu took out an oiled paper bag from his arms, and carefully opened it, which contained a few yellowed jaggery pieces.

She chose the largest of them and placed them on her lips, and the latter naturally took it to her lips and tasted the slightly bitter sweetness. Du Ningyu also took one and threw it into his mouth, smacking his lips beautifully, his little head swaying from side to side, and his face rippled with happiness that could not be removed.

"Brother, what you said is so good, eat a piece of candy every day, and know that today's day is sweet again. ”

Infected by his sister's joy, Du Rong also grinned softly, but he looked at this innocent sister and thought of the situation he might face in a few days, and there was indescribable bitterness hidden in his eyes......