Xiuzhi burst into tears, once upon a time, Xiuzhi was also a girl from a wealthy family, her family did not worry about food and clothing, and she was also pampered by her parents, but now she is going to be reduced to asking for food. There is no other way to go, the child waits for food to save his life.

"Hmm." Xiuzhi wiped her tears with her sleeve and reached out to take Shanhe: "I'll take Liu, otherwise I'm afraid that people won't give it,"

"Let Erni, Little Four, and Little Five all follow." Wang Youyuan also knows how to win people's sympathy.

When Xiuzhi hugged Xiaoliu and led the three children into the village with a bowl, looked at this and that, and finally chose one and stood in front of the door, but couldn't pull her face to knock on the door, Xiuzhi looked at Yue'e and sent Yue'e shoulder: "Erni, you go knock on the door." ”

Yue'e knocked obediently, and her voice was as small as the cry of a house sparrow.

"Push harder, or people won't hear."

Yue'e knocked hard a few more times, and finally heard movement coming from inside.

"Who?" Then I heard the sound of the door sliding, and a kind old man looked out suspiciously.

"Auntie......" Xiuzhi saw the old man, and she didn't know where to start with her words, and tears flowed down: "Auntie, the child is sick and has nothing to eat, woo woo." ”

The old man suddenly understood: "It's to ask for food, this poor thing, you wait, I just burned a mess, you give the child a little drink first." The old man took the bowl from Yue'e and went back to the house.

After a while, the old man came out with two large bowls full of confused, followed by a young daughter-in-law and a girl, who seemed to be the old man's daughter-in-law and granddaughter.

"Thank you, Auntie, thank you, Auntie." Xiuzhi hurriedly took the bowl and thanked him.

"Thank you, who doesn't have three disasters and five difficulties, it is also a virtue to be able to help." The daughter-in-law said and handed over a wooden spoon: "Eldest sister, you give the child some to drink first, let's pad it." ”

"Eldest sister, what's wrong with you, these children are your own?"

"Well, the family is poor, there are many children, there is no food in the family, the child's father said to go to Shangqiu to see if he can find a way to live, this is only halfway to the road, the youngest is sick, and there has been no money to catch medicine, just drink some herbs and it doesn't work, the child has no food in his stomach, I'm afraid I can't hold it, I have no choice but to pull down my face to ask for food, and I also lost meeting your great kindness, or I don't know what to do."

"Sit down and talk." The old lady patted the threshold, handed another bowl to Yue'e, and turned around and entered the house again.

Yue'e took the bowl and sent it to Shanling and Shanzhuang's mouths first, "Brother, you drink, be careful not to burn it." ”

After the two younger brothers took a sip, Yue'e carefully sucked along the edge of the bowl, and suddenly a fragrance of grain burst out along the taste buds, and couldn't help but take another sip, raised her eyes to see the two younger brothers looking at herself, and quickly handed it to her younger brother, feeding the two people a mouthful, and after a while, she drank a large bowl of porridge.

Yue'e swallowed her saliva and waited for her brother to finish drinking, took the empty bowl, and licked the remaining paste inside, but saw that the granddaughter of the eldest lady was looking at herself, and she was embarrassed to put down the bowl.

Xiuzhi carefully fed the mountains and rivers with a wooden spoon, and the mountains and rivers drank in small sips, and after drinking half a bowl, she closed her mouth and stopped drinking, and kept pushing the spoon: "Mother, drink." ”

"Look at how sensible this kid is, he knows that he feels sorry for his mother at such a young age, how old is this?" The little daughter-in-law said with a smile.

"It's more than a lifetime."

At this time, the old lady brought another bowl of raw cornmeal and poured it into Yue'e's empty bowl: "Take this noodle and burn two meals of paste for the child, what about the child's father?" ”

"Thank you, auntie, his father's earthen house in the west of the village, I don't know whose house it is in your village, it's empty, and there is no door, let's make do with it overnight and leave tomorrow."

"There is no one in that room! Labor and children were arrested, and the remaining old lady was also gone for two years. ”

"Yes, auntie, in this world, when is it a head, fighting every day, it turned out that we were fighting with the Japanese, and finally the Japanese ran away, and our own people fought with our own people."

"Yes, it's not easy." The old lady sighed.

A bright moon slowly climbed overhead, shining on the dirt road in the village, Xiuzhi thanked the kind family again and again, and returned to the earth house with the moon.

Shanhe's medicine has been boiled, pumpkin and edamame grains are boiling in the pot, Xiuzhi poured the leftover paste from Shanhe into the pumpkin rice, although the paste is small, it is good food.

"Mother." Dani shouted: "The meal is good, you rest first, and I will feed my brother medicine." ”

"Where's your father?" Xiuzhi didn't see Wang Youyuan and asked.

"Daddy's addiction to smoking is again, and he's lying on the earthen kang."

Xiuzhi looked into the room and said, "I'll feed it, you can find a cloth bag for the stick noodles in Erni's bowl and keep it for your brother to boil and drink." ”

"Well, mother, what's wrong with my brother?" Tsukiya takes her sister's bowl. Probe to look at the younger brother

"After drinking half a bowl of rice, I look better in spirit, and I knew just now that I should drink mush." Xiuzhi said and picked up the medicine bowl, sat directly on the earthen platform in front of the door, and coaxed the mountains and rivers to drink the medicine on the moon.

The thin and weak Shanhe blinked his black and white eyes, and his face was yellow because he was a little dehydrated because of diarrhea.

"My son has drunk medicine, and after drinking it, we won't have diarrhea, and my stomach won't hurt." Xiuzhi carefully scooped up a spoonful of medicine, tested the temperature with her lips, took out Shanhe's fingers lovingly, and poured the medicine into Shanhe's mouth.

As soon as the bitter potion was entered, Shanhe's little brows immediately wrinkled, and he looked at his mother with disgust, and pushed it out with his tongue.

Xiuzhi saw that the child didn't want to drink, so she quickly scooped another spoonful to blow cold, gently pressed Shanhe's little tongue with a spoon and tilted it slightly, so that the potion flowed down the tongue, and coaxed while feeding: "My son is good, drink the medicine." ”

Shanhe resisted vigorously, his little head shook from side to side, and the potion flowed out of his cheeks.

Xiuzhi saw that the potion that was not very effective could not be fed, so she was worried and scared Shanhe Dao: "If you don't drink it well, your father will see it." ”

"Well, Dad, fight!" Shan Zhuang, who was next to Xiuzhi and watched his younger brother drink medicine, said, "Drink the medicine and eat sugar." ”

As soon as he heard that there was candy to eat, Shanhe, who was listless, had his eyes lit up and swallowed a big mouthful.

After drinking a bowl of medicine smoothly, Xiuzhi jumped out of a pumpkin from the rice bowl brought by Yueya: "My son, eat sugar." ”

Fortunately, this pumpkin is sweet and noodles, and eating this melon after drinking the bitter potion is really similar to eating sugar.

The well-fed Shanhe gradually fell asleep, and Xiuzhi put him on the earthen kang and gently covered it with the quilt.

"Dad, it's time to eat." Xiuzhi pushed Wang Youyuan's shoulder and whispered.

"Ready?" Wang Youyuan got up with a bone.

"Be quiet, Six just fell asleep."

"What's wrong with six?"

"I drank half a bowl of mush, drank another bowl of medicine just now, and ate several pieces of pumpkin, and I looked better."

"It's good to be able to eat it, if you can't eat it, you can't stand it, let alone the children of the sixth life."

"Daddy, eat." Yueya held a bowl of pumpkin and handed it to her father.

Wang Youyuan took the bowl and drank it, but he heard the familiar sound of children plopping in his ears, so he hurriedly put the bowl on the edge of the kang, lifted the quilt, skillfully picked up the little feet of the mountains and rivers, and pulled out the mustard seeds on the cushion.

"Oops, why did you pull it again, it's a lot more!" Xiuzhi took the mustard seeds and said anxiously.

"Don't talk yet, I'll take the pulse." Wang Youyuan took the vein of the mountains and rivers, and looked at the faces of the mountains and rivers with the moonlight reflected in.

The mountains and rivers were still asleep unconsciously, and their little belly rose and fell shallowly with their breathing.

After a while, Wang Youyuan took his hand down.

"Dad, what's going on?" Xiuzhi asked.

"Let's wait and see, the meal is eaten, the medicine is drunk, and now I have no choice, see if I can stop it in the second half of the night." Wang Youyuan helplessly hammered his head.

At night, the family is lying on the earthen kang, and Xiuzhi is holding the mountains and rivers, paying attention to the child's situation at any time. Or if you eat too much at night, your stomach can't stand it, or the diarrhea that you had before Shanhe has not been relieved at all under the action of herbal medicine, and Shanhe still can't stop having diarrhea. Wang Youyuan used a pot to fry a pot of sand and soil under the buttocks of Shanhe, and as soon as Shanhe finished pulling, he immediately replaced the old soil with new soil.

In the second half of the night, the mountains and rivers finally stopped pulling, but the mountains and rivers' breathing became more and more shallow, and they couldn't wake up when they shouted, and they didn't open their mouths to feed the water, so they lay motionless and unconscious. Wang Youyuan felt the weaker and weaker pulse from time to time with one hand, and the more and more undetectable pulse, and the other hand massaged the dysentery points on the feet of the mountains and rivers, and the sweat that came out of the hurry slipped down the tip of his tall nose, and finally... Decadent hung his head.

"His father?" Xiuzhi had a bad premonition at the moment, hugged Shanhe in her arms, and asked Wang Youyuan hopefully: "Six, this is not pulled, it's going to be good." ”

Wang Youyuan's heart is full of remorse at the moment, the youngest and most beloved youngest son is leaving, as a doctor from a family of traditional Chinese medicine, he has saved many sick children when others are at stake, and he has also seen life and death many times, for life and death, he has always thought that he is relatively indifferent, but at this moment, in front of his own children, he is powerless, this powerlessness is like a leather whip with thorns, whipping and whipping on his heart, like blood, pain into the heart and lungs.

Why? Why? It's all about smoking big cigarettes and losing the house! If you don't have money to get medicine for your child, you must go to Shangqiu to ask for a living, so that your child will suffer with it! It's all your own fault!

Seeing Xiao Liu lying there silently waiting for death to come, Wang Youyuan's heart seemed to be tightly grasped by his hands, and it was like several knives were cutting his heart one by one, and the heart-rending pain made him unable to breathe. Wang Youyuan slapped himself violently, got up and ran out of the door, sat down at the base of the wall, buried his head in his knees, and his shoulders trembled.

Xiuzhi had never seen her husband like this, so she was busy hugging Shanhe's small body and ran out: "His father, his father, what's going on, you tell me." ”

Wang Youyuan's face was full of grief, looking at his wife guiltily, tears and snot were pasted on his face like this, "Xiuzhi, I... I'm useless, I can't save Six. ”

"Nonsense! Six don't pull anymore, you see! I really don't pull it! Look again! Look again! Xiuzhi anxiously handed the mountains and rivers in her arms to Wang Youyuan's arms.

"His father, we are so well-behaved, so smiling, and I know to let me drink mush next night, I know that I love my mother at such a young age, and I must be a filial child when I grow up, you have to save him, his father ......."

Originally, because I was worried that my younger brother didn't sleep steadily, Shanfeng and Yueya sisters were also around their father and mother at this time.

"Mother, what's wrong with my brother?" Yueya asked worriedly.

"Ask your father!"

Usually the mountain peak and the younger sister's favorite is this younger brother, the appearance of the mountains and rivers combines all the advantages of the parents, is the most beautiful one of the children in the family, soft and cute. Shanhe loves to laugh very much, as long as he teases a little, he grins with two small teeth and giggles, his eyebrows and eyes are crooked when he laughs, and two small dimples are looming. And the little mouth is very sweet, and the big brother and sister keep shouting. When a few people return home, no matter how tired and annoying they are, as long as they play with the mountains and rivers for a while, the fatigue on their bodies will disappear immediately. is Wang Youyuan, who later changed his temper, and he is also very fond in front of mountains and rivers.