Chapter 3: Help
In order not to be hungry, Wei Xiaoge decided to go to the old courtyard to help with some work, and by the way, he ate there, and then brought his mother's share back. She brought the food herself, so she would go faster and save the Yuan family from having a cold meal.
In the past few days, Wei Xiaoge has secretly touched Yuan's pulse, but Yuan's other problems are not big, mainly malnutrition and depression. So the most important thing at the moment is to solve the problem of eating.
"You girl, didn't you bump into it in the old yard a few days ago, let's raise it again." Yuan said a word, coughing from time to time, and finally woke up his son, who was as thin as a cat cub who was asleep next to him. The baby, who had only been born for ten days, had his mouth wide open, but the sound he made was not much louder than the meow of a kitten.
Watching Yuan pick up his little brother and expose his skinny chest to breastfeed, Wei Xiaoge's heart hurt. She is indeed uncomfortable, but if she doesn't go to the old courtyard again, I'm afraid that my mother and little brother will not be able to survive.
"I'm fine," Wei Xiaoge got down from the kang, pulled the quilt he was wearing over to cover Yuan's exposed legs, and said, "Mother, you take your brother to sleep again, and I'll be back in a while." ”
"You go slower." Seeing a ray of morning light coming through the window lattice, Yuan Shi said a word in the back.
Coming out of the room, Wei Xiaoge carefully closed the door, and then rubbed his hands first.
It's autumn now, probably because the clothes are thin, but it's also cold and windy.
She thought about it for a while and ran to the kitchen to get a porcelain jar from the house, and a porcelain bowl was covered with it, and then she walked out of the house and went to the old courtyard.
It's not that she's too calculating, it's that the porcelain jar for rice sent over by the old courtyard is small and broken, and the gruel inside is always half a jar after taking it, not to mention making breakfast for her and her mother, and she can't drink it alone.
And those two small pieces of poor coarse dry food, I really don't know if the people on the other side of the old courtyard have tightened their belts after the autumn harvest.
Thinking in his heart, Wei Xiaogoose walked briskly. It was too cold, in addition to wanting to go early, she wanted to warm up her body by walking briskly.
Wei Xiaoge's family lived on the edge of the village, and when she hadn't walked a few steps, she suddenly heard a fierce cough from someone on the road at the entrance of the village.
The voice was clearly from an old man, rapid and continuous.
Wei Xiaoge frowned, thinking about whether to go over and take a look, but thought that if he went to the old courtyard too late, he was afraid that he would be scolded by Grandma Tian and the old lady to step on it to eat.
Before she could hesitate, she suddenly heard a cough on the other side, and then the sound of a heavy object falling to the ground.
Out of the doctor's belief in saving lives and helping the wounded, Wei Xiaoge no longer hesitated and accelerated his pace.
When I turned the corner, I saw an old man lying on the ground with a basket on his back. Obviously, there was a sudden situation that made the old man what he is now.
Seeing this, Wei Xiaoge ran over to the old man.
When I looked closer, I saw an old man in his sixties, his face was flushed, and a pair of hands were scratching his throat, obviously caused by poor breathing.
The situation was urgent, Wei Xiaoge hurriedly put down the porcelain altar in his hand, reached out and touched the pulse first, when he noticed that there was no other serious illness on the old man's body, Wei Xiaoge took the back basket off the old man's body, and then helped him up, let the old man lean on his body, and patted his back vigorously with one hand.
Suddenly, the old man's body shook, clicked, opened his mouth and spit out a mouthful of thick phlegm, and then his breathing slowly smoothed out.
He gently patted the old man's back for a while, and after the old man took a few sharp breaths, he finally slowly returned to normal.
"Girl, did you save me?" The old man looked at Wei Xiaogoose with a little disbelief and said, "How do you know how to help me like this?" ”
Getting stuck in the throat with a foreign object is of course the easiest and most effective. This doesn't use Wei Qingluan's medical skills at all, right?
It's just that now Wei Xiaoge naturally can't say those words. At this time, she also recognized this old man as Wei Zheng, the village chief and patriarch of the village. He also bit his lip, made a gesture that a seven or eight-year-old child should have, and said with a little shyness: "Grandpa, I saw that your old man fell to the ground, he was in a hurry, and he did this indiscriminately, but I didn't expect it to help grandpa." ”
Wei Zheng looked at Wei Xiaoge, although this child spoke like this, but after all, she saved her life. The grace of saving his life is a great grace, and he naturally has a heart to repay it.
It's just that thinking of the big family behind this child, he couldn't help frowning.
If you live in a village, you will naturally know each other's family situation if you look up and see you when you look down. Speaking of which, it is uncomfortable for the Wei Laosan family to have such a father and brother. Let him have the heart to repay his kindness, and Wei Xiaogoose doesn't know what to do.
With a light sigh, Wei Zheng stood up with Wei Xiaogoose's support and asked, "What are you going to do here?" ”
"Go to grandpa's yard," Wei Xiaogoose said as he spoke, but his heart was spinning rapidly. A person like Wei Zheng, if it was the previous owner, he would definitely hide away if he saw Wei Zheng at all. As a village leader, his family is naturally better than other families in the village. However, his grandfather Wei Laogen has felt that his family has been getting better and better in recent years, and he is not bad compared to Wei Zheng's family, so he has a little bit of a comparative mind.
Therefore, the two families are okay on the surface, but secretly because Wei Laogen and his wife always say that Wei Zheng's family is not, the younger generations in the family also respect Wei Zheng's family.
"That's delaying your time," Wei Zheng didn't have a cold to Wei Laogen, glanced at Wei Xiaogo's yellow, emaciated face because of hunger, and said in a deep voice: "Come to my house when it's dark, and I'll let your aunt steam a few steamed buns for you." ”
Is this to bypass the people in the old courtyard to reward themselves? But that's exactly what you need most.
"Thank you, Grandpa." Wei Xiaogoose was overjoyed when he heard this, and hurriedly thanked him. The village chief is also the patriarch, and that is one of the people who speak in the village.
I know that this child is most interested in eating. Wei Zheng unconsciously reached out and stroked Wei Xiaogo's head and said, "If you have any difficulties in the future, you can quietly go to me." That's all he can say. After all, I almost choked to death by a mouthful of old phlegm, and it's not a glorious thing to say it.
"It's not worth mentioning at all, and the goose is too embarrassed to mention it to others." Of course, Wei Xiaoge didn't think about sharing Wei Zheng's reward with the gang in the old courtyard. This was something she had done herself, so why should she be known to those who almost threw her into the back mountains to feed the wolves in the first place?
As he spoke, Wei Xiaoge picked up the basket from the side and handed it to Wei Zheng.
Looking at this obedient child, Wei Zheng sighed to himself again, watching her pick up the porcelain altar from the side, and the two of them walked towards the village together.