Seeing that they were walking away, Sang Mu muttered a few words, and was about to enter the tea shop, but Huang Qin stopped: "Mother-in-law, you can't come in." ”

"Why? I'm your mother-in-law! ”

"I'm for your good! Just now, people have made it clear that the next time they see you in the tea shop, they will throw you out. I can't look at you like this, so you just stay outside. Just under the eaves at the door, and I'll get you the bedding. ”

Sang's mother also knew that her daughter-in-law was telling the truth, so she had to nod her head and agree.

Huang Qin closed the door of the store, walked to the front of Sang's mother's room, pushed the door in, Father Sang's whole body was swollen, lying on the bed, his eyes were blank and hummed: "Is it ...... Zuo Gongzi is here? Hungry ......, so hungry...... beg him something to eat......"

Hunger causes people to suffer from edema, and then to death from extreme emaciation. Daddy Sang's situation is slightly better than that of Sang Xiaomei, but it is also very dangerous.

Huang Qin cried: "Zuo Gongzi has already taken my little sister back for treatment, and said that he would let someone bring food over after a while." ”

"Good man......" Father Sang burst into tears and howled.

Huang Qin said: "Father-in-law, Zuo Gongzi heard that his mother-in-law ate his little sister's things, and he was very angry, and he had already kicked his mother-in-law out of the tea shop." He asked you if you were stealing food, and I said no, and when I see him in the future, you must not say anything. Otherwise, there will be no food. ”

"Okay, good, it's hard for you......"

"I'll take the futon out for my mother-in-law and let her sleep under the eaves at the door of the tea shop, the weather is warm, and it shouldn't freeze."

"Good ......"

Huang Qin went out with the futon and helped Sang Mu lay a bunk in the leeward of the corner of the house, and now the street is full of hungry people sleeping on the streets, and no one is surprised that she sleeps on the street.

Huang Qin went back to her room, Sang Wazi was lying on the bed, and she got up and said, "Is Zuo Gongzi back?" I hear him! ”

"Yes! If he knew you were stealing from me, he would have kicked you out. He'll have someone bring him food later, and you remember not to leak it! ”

"I know! Or my daughter-in-law is good to me! Saying that he was going to hug Huang Qin, Huang Qin shook her hand in disgust and pushed him away, "Save your strength!" Still dying fast enough? ”

"It's been a long time since I've been intimate."

Huang Qin turned around: "Okay, as long as you can get up with that thing, you can make out as much as you want!" ”

Sang Wazi snorted, retracted into the quilt, and fell asleep with her head covered.

Huang Qin sat on the edge of the bed, hanging her head and looking at the cracks of the green bricks on the ground, feeling like her heart.

―――――――――――― Zuo Shaoyang hugged Sang Xiaomei and flew back to Guizhitang Pharmacy with Xiao Yunfei.

At the door, Zuo Gui, Liang, and Hou Pu were all looking up, and when they saw him coming from afar, Liang cried and greeted him: "Zhong'er! Zhong'er, you're back! ”

"Yes, mother, we're fine, we're just trapped at the peak, but fortunately, Brother Xiao came to save us and crossed the cliff."

Zuo Shaoyang looked at his father and mother, tears almost fell, the second elder was obviously suffering from famine, all of them were discolored, his father was originally extremely thin and thin, but at the moment he was obviously swollen, his face was round and shiny, he looked very scary in white, he was quite flexible, but at the moment he was walking with difficulty, and he could only walk slowly.

And my mother's gray hair was almost completely white after only two months, gray and withered, and she was originally a little fat, but now she was extremely thin, and her face looked like a white paper paste on a skeleton, and she looked a little infiltrating. Trembling and grasping his hand, he was crying in his nose, but the tears could not fall, -- Zuo Shaoyang has been missing for two months, his mother has been washing her face with tears all day, and the famine has dried up, and the tears have already dried up.

Mother was followed by a little girl, skinny and straw-like. Two eyes looked at him timidly. It's the girl who asked for food.

Fennel was also so thin that she was not sincere, and she pulled him and cried and said, "Brother! You're back, and the whole family is going crazy."

"Sister, I'm fine, let's not talk about this, my little sister is dying of hunger, is the gruel boiling?"

"It's too late to boil, but there is a ready-made one at home, which is medicinal porridge ......," Liang said.

"Medicinal porridge?" Zuo Shaoyang was a little strange, "What kind of medicinal porridge?" Is it the porridge we used to put for the people? ”

"Well...... it's this ......, that's ......," Liang said.

Zuo Shaoyang didn't notice his mother's embarrassed expression, hugged Sang Xiaomei into the house, and said, "Forget it, let's talk about it first." Mother, you take three more buns and send them to the sister-in-law Qin in the fragrant tea shop. They were starving, too. No more, just three buns. ”

"This ......" Liang smiled bitterly a little awkwardly and glanced at Zuo Gui next to him. Zuo Gui could only smile bitterly.

Zuo Shaoyang carried Sang Xiaomei into the pharmacy while talking, and Miao Peilan had already prepared the small bed in the hall.

As soon as he entered the door of the pharmacy, he saw a yellow shadow flashing, from the counter to the beam and then to Zuo Shaoyang's shoulder, which was the little squirrel yellow ball.

Zuo Shaoyang said happily: "Yellow ball!" You're alive! ”

Huangqiu squatted on his shoulder and squeaked twice, as if to express his dissatisfaction with Zuo Shaoyang's disappearance for so long. There was intimacy and jumped on Sang Xiaomei, who he was hugging, and then jumped on his other shoulder.

Bai Zhihan stood there with a bowl of medicinal porridge, not seen for more than two months, even more delicate, and her eyes were bigger, but the original white and greasy pretty face had lost some of its luster, and the original round pretty face had become a pointed chin, like a fox spirit in the cartoon. Looking at him, there was a smile on the corner of his mouth: "Young Master! You're back. ”

"Humph!" Zuo Shaoyang glared at her fiercely, put Sang Xiaomei on the bed, took the porridge bowl from Bai Zhihan's hand, a smell of medicine went straight to his nose, he couldn't help frowning, and looked down, this bowl of medicinal porridge should be called medicinal soup, and there was not even a single rice in it.

Zuo Shaoyang hurriedly said: "Mother, is there such porridge at home?" The porridge we gave to the victims last time was much thicker than this. ”

Liang still smiled bitterly and looked at Zuo Gui's father.

Zuo Gui sighed lightly and said, "You don't know ...... things these days, alas, I'll tell you later." ”

Zuo Shaoyang heard this, only then did he find that his parents had different expressions, and they seemed to be very embarrassed, and now he didn't care about asking, it was important to save people, and he hurriedly said to Miao Peilan: "The rice you brought us back, boil a pot of gruel first, don't add medicinal herbs, just porridge!" Right away! ”

"Okay!"

Miao Peilan carried the half bag of rice brought down from the mountain and hurriedly ran into the kitchen.

Zuo Shaoyang scooped a spoonful of the medicinal porridge in his hand and drank it himself, feeling that the taste was extremely bad, like a potion, so he put down the medicinal porridge bowl, walked quickly into the kitchen, and rummaged through the boxes and cabinets to find something to eat, but except for the small half pot of medicinal porridge just now, there was not even a small piece of black flour bun!

Zuo Shaoyang now realizes that the situation at home is only worse than he imagined!

I can only wait for the gruel to boil.

Miao Peilan had already found half of the ginseng that Zuo Shaoyang said, cut off a small section, and put it in the pot where the porridge was boiling.

Zuo Shaoyang sat on the edge of the bed, gently stroked Sang Xiaomei's yellowed hair, and said softly: "Hold on for a while, I'm boiling porridge." There will be food in no time. ”

Sang Xiaomei nodded slightly. After she ate the ginseng four reverse pills that were crushed by the condyle, although she was not only hungry, but under the solid release of the yang to save the adversity and benefit qi, her spirit was better, and her emaciated cheeks even had a little redness.

After the gruel was boiled, Miao Peilan brought a bowl over, the aroma was fragrant, and Zhi'er, the son of Dr. Ni who stayed in Guizhitang as an apprentice, swallowed his saliva when he saw it.

Zuo Shaoyang couldn't care about others now, so he took the bowl of porridge, scooped it with a spoon, blew it warm, and fed Sang Xiaomei.

Sang Xiaomei lightly opened her lips, drank a spoonful of gruel, her eyes turned red again, she looked at him in a daze, and tears rolled down.

Zuo Shaoyang looked at her with a smile, slowly fed her porridge spoonful by spoonful, and fed her half a bowl, then stopped, and said softly: "Little sister, eat so much first, and wait for your stomach to slowly recover its function, otherwise it will be harmful to your body." I'll feed you later. ”

Sang Xiaomei's eyes were red, and she said in a low voice: "Thank you......"

"Stupid words!" Zuo Shaoyang handed the porridge bowl to Miao Peilan, "I'll feed her later." Eat smaller, more frequent meals. ”

"Okay." Miao Peilan took the porridge bowl.

Zuo Shaoyang stood up, stared at Bai Zhihan and said, "I asked you to send food to my little sister and sister-in-law Qin every day, and you are not allowed to give it to others." How do you do that? ”

Bai Zhihan said lightly: "You should ask the little sister about this." ”

"I want you to say it!" Zuo Shaoyang said sharply.

"Two meals a day, I delivered them on time, and also supervised the two of them to eat, it was normal at first, half a month later, every time my sister eats, she says that she has a stomachache and takes the food to the thatched house, and when she comes back, she says that she has finished eating."

"Won't you follow her to oversee it?"

Bai Zhihan still replied calmly: "She and the sister-in-law Qin have discussed, the two of them go to the thatched house at the same time and it is a thatched house in two separate places, I can only take care of one." ”

Zuo Shaoyang was dumbfounded, turned around and sat on the edge of the bed: "Little sister, you hid the buns in the thatched house and gave them to your father and brother to eat, didn't you?" ”

Sang Xiaomei smiled hard and said weakly: "We can't ...... Watching my father and brother ......, starving to death......"

"Don't they have food? Five buckets of grain are eaten by the three of them, even if they don't add wild vegetables, just boiling porridge to maintain the minimum needs of life, it is enough to eat at least a month and a half! With the addition of wild vegetables, it is enough to eat for three months! Why is there no food in only half a month? ”

"Mother...... quietly sold three buckets of grain ...... and gave it to the shopkeeper Zhu ......"

Zuo Shaoyang was angry: "That's life-saving food, she actually used it to make money!" And then I'll grab it with you! She's still not human! He turned around and said to Bai Zhihan: "You see your little sister starving like this, why don't you take more steamed buns and give her to eat alone?" ”

Bai Zhihan said lightly: "The food in the family is less than two buns per person per day, and the two of them have four buns per person per day, and they have to be distributed to them again, so what do the family eat?" ”

"What did you say?" Zuo Shaoyang's eyes widened, "There are less than two buns per person in the family every day?" Who decides? What about the food at home? Suspiciously, he turned his head to look at his father Zuo Gui.

(To be continued)