twenty-four

That year, my mother just gave birth to my sister, no, not the little sister you have seen, but my big sister. She is not pretty, but she is so cute, she is round everywhere, like a doll on a New Year's painting.

My mother loved her very much, and named her Xiaoling, and every day I could hear my mother screaming and making her laugh in Xiaoling, although my sister was not old enough to speak at that time.

However, the younger sister was born at the wrong time, and that year, locust plagues and hailstones hit the village one after another, and the younger sister became the only newborn child in the village to survive past three months.

"Other...... The other children are ...... What's wrong? Amy found it hard to hold her trembling voice.

Shen'er looked at her fixedly for a while, and lowered her eyes, "I said, don't ask, it's not good for you to know some things, so it's better not to know." ”

"What about Xiaoling? Why haven't I seen her? ”

Shen'er bit her lip, leaving two deep tooth marks on it.

That night, my father finally took Xiaoling away, I remember that my mother knelt down and kowtowed to him, and the skin was broken, but my father still went out with Xiaoling in his arms without saying a word. The moment he walked out of the door, my mother suddenly chased out like crazy and grabbed my father's trouser legs, I heard her shout: Use me, exchange my life for her, okay? This way there won't be an extra mouth to eat at home.

But the father threw the mother away, and the mother's head hit the threshold, and she fainted.

Later, my mother sobered up, but I never saw a smile in her eyes again. I often think that Xiaoling is the most laughing child, and when she leaves, she will also take away all the laughter and laughter of this family.

After telling Xiaoling's story, Shen'er was silent for a long time, and just when Amy thought his story was over, he suddenly smiled bitterly and continued.

After a few years, the little sister was born. She doesn't have a name yet, and her mother originally wanted to call her Xiaoling, but her father didn't let her, he said, this name can always evoke bad memories for him.

"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid of retribution? ”

I remember that my mother replied with a sneer after hearing my father say this.

I originally thought that the birth of my little sister could bring a little vitality to this family, although she is not Xiaoling, but how much can I put some thoughts on Xiaoling. But I was wrong, because the same fate seemed to be about to fall on her head again.

Dad and my mother quarreled all day long about this matter, and even fought, and I saw that the bruises on my mother's body were getting more and more day by day, because my father vented too much anger on her.

This anger is not only because of Xiaoling, but also because of his mother's increasingly heavy snub towards him year after year.

"Is your dad going to send your little sister away too?" Amy asked.

"Hmm."

Amy exhaled with a relaxed smile on her face, "It's a good thing your father died, otherwise she would have suffered like Xiaoling." ”

This and its disrespectful words made Shen'er laugh, and he turned his face to look at Amy, "Yes, you're right, but fortunately he's dead." I remember that day, there was a lot of thunder in the sky, but my mother made the fire in the stove prosperous, and she wanted to boil rice oil for her sister. My mother's milk was scarce, and my sister was always hungry and crying, so my mother boiled rice for her to eat. My mother also gave me a bowl, and my sister and I ate a mouthful, and my mother smiled, and it was the first time I saw her smile in so many years. ”

"Is rice oil so fragrant?" Amy swallowed.

"Xiang, I'll boil it for you when I go home."

Shen'er suddenly stopped talking, because he heard Susan's shout, she was obviously looking for Amy, and she was already a little anxious.

"Let's go." Shen'er stood up and stretched out a hand at Amy, his sleeve shrunk up, his thin wrist exposed, and there was something on it, flashing in the setting sun with a small and gentle light.

***

"I was going to walk overnight, but my foot was sprained at this time, which is really unlucky." Susan rubbed her red and swollen ankles in frustration as she gently pinched Amy's round face, "What should I do?" Mommy promised you to go back today, but she was in a hurry to find you, and she gave her foot away, and now she can only stay here for a few more days. ”

"I think Amy is quite willing to stay here," Zhao Zimai squeezed his eyes at Amy, and soon a layer of mist appeared between his eyebrows, "But it's not safe here, you two better move to an inn outside the village, although the environment is a little worse, but at least ......"

"I don't want to go to the inn, I want to be with Brother Shen'er, and Brother Shen'er still wants to boil rice oil for me to eat?" Hearing that Zhao Zimai was going to the guest house by herself, Amy broke out in a sweat and grabbed Zhao Zimai's hand and shook it desperately.

Susan shushed at her, and hurriedly said to Zhao Zimai, "Mike, why is it not safe here?" Is it because of what Miss Mu said...... Grievances? ”

Zhao Zimai didn't say anything in front of a few children, so she only nodded slightly at Susan, but the worry in her eyes made her feel a little worried.

"That'...... So let's go now? But I can't move my feet now......"

"You don't have to go, just stay here, whether it's resentment or ghosts, you can't find here." Yu's voice came from the door, and she stood against the door frame, holding the medicine she had boiled for Susan in her hand.

Zhao Zi stepped up and turned his gaze on her calm face, "Lady, why do you say that?" ”

Yu Shi walked over and gave the medicine bowl to Susan, and smiled sadly at Zhao Zimai, "There is a debtor who is wronged, and our family's debt has been paid off, my lord, do you say?" ”

After saying this, she set her eyes on the coffin in the courtyard, "Tomorrow it will be in the ground, and from then on, I will have nothing to do with the pickling in this village." ”

There was a suppressed ruthlessness in her tone, Zhao Zimai heard it, but she didn't say anything, only said softly, "That's fine, after all, it's easier to recuperate at home, thank you lady." ”

After that, seeing Amy next to him jumping three feet, he touched her soft hair, and looked out of the door with a frown, "Miss Mu [Shuhai .xyz] Where have they gone, why haven't they been seen?" ”

"It's not that you scolded people away, and now you're in a hurry to find someone?"

After Baotian finished speaking, he felt a cold gaze looking at him, so he stuck out his tongue and shrank back to stop speaking. It can be said that Cao Cao Cao arrived, and at this moment, Mu Xiaowu's crisp voice came from outside the door, "Childe, you have come back, I just have something to say to you." ”