Wormwood had just been woken up by the sound of her father and mother in the yard, and the four tigers pushed the door in with a stewed egg, and when they saw that Wormwood was awake, they cried out happily: "Little sister, you are really awake, I thought our mother lied to me!" Wormwood hadn't had time to say anything.

Her mother and father ran in when they heard the voices of the four tigers, although they knew it in their hearts, they were always uneasy if they didn't see it with their own eyes.

"Still uncomfortable?" Ji Lao Niang tried the temperature of wormwood's forehead and said.

"Well, it's finally better." Ji Lao Niang nodded, relieved.

"Come on, I guess it's almost time for you to wake up, so I stewed it for you." Ji Lao Niang gently helped Wormwood sit up, leaned on the head of the bed, and took the stewed egg in the hands of the four tigers and fed her.

"Our little sister has suffered a big crime this time, I wanted to come back early to stew a chicken for you to make up for it, but after work, the village chief directly led everyone to study, it's too late, my mother will stew you tomorrow!"

Wormwood saw Sihuzi secretly swallow her saliva, looked at her father again, and said a little embarrassedly: "Mother, I woke up when you were at home at noon, but people still have no energy, so I didn't call you, and then I fell asleep again in a daze, and I just woke up." I'm in good spirits now, and I feel like I can run a few laps. "In the current situation, it is not easy to raise a chicken at home, how can you eat it casually!

"How many laps are left? What about jokes? Just a small body like you? Pointing to her small body and saying something stupid, Ji Lao Niang laughed angrily.

Afraid of continuing to be scolded, Wormwood only has a smirk.

"Mother, I'm full, have you eaten? I don't have much appetite right now, I can't eat so much, so you can share the rest and eat some together! "Blatantly opening a small stove for her, how embarrassed is she to eat alone!

"We have all of them, you can eat with confidence! You will suffer a great sin this time, and if you don't make up for it, be careful that you will fall into the root of the disease in the future. "In these days, everyone is poor, lack of food and drink does not grow well, 11-year-old looks like 8 or 9 years old. After being sick for a while, I was thinner and not decent, and I wanted to kill a chicken to make up for it, who knows... Ay!

"Mother, you just said studying? What to learn? "There's nothing to say, hurry up and change the topic, of course she's also curious!

"Literacy! It's a literacy class, it's getting stricter and stricter now, the documents are on it, you have to learn it every day, and you have to start with what you want to learn first......"

"Is it true that if Tang Guo wants to turn over and become a master, he must first start by learning culture?"

"I forgot, it should be such a meaning, and said that I should strive to do it first, except for the doll, everyone can understand the letter; But the summer harvest is coming soon...... Every day I am tired to death, no one can learn, and the county seems to be sending commissioners to conduct random inspections after a while, and the village chief is dying of sorrow. Ji Lao Niang was also worried, because she was also one of them.

Ji Lao Niang usually likes to talk nonsense, just talk to Wormwood if she has nothing to do, these days Wormwood is sick, no one talks to her (Daddy Ji is a hard-working type, and generally doesn't talk nonsense), but she is suffocated.

"Then learn! It's really not good, our brothers and sisters teach a few more times at home, and the effect should be better. "It's a good task to learn about culture......

"I've also heard that several nearby villages may have to join forces to run primary schools, and literacy classes alone won't solve any problems." Ji Lao Niang threw down another piece of good news.

"Then can we go to school too?" Wormwood said excitedly, she has never felt the campus atmosphere before!

"It's just been discussed, and I don't know when it will be built! Alright, alright... Don't talk about it, you're just right, take a break, my mother won't bother you. Wait a minute, let the Four Tigers go to your Hao Bo's house, and ask him to come over and take a look at you again, don't worry. "Being talked about for a while, just have a good time, the girl can't be tired when she just wakes up.

With the empty bowl, he turned around and beckoned to the Four Tigers and took him out with him. Originally, the four tigers wanted to talk to Wormwood for a while, but the old lady of the family spoke, and could only stop with regret.

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"It's all right, and I don't need to take the medicine. It's a big loss in the body, and there are conditions to make up for it. Hao Bo said after checking the pulse of wormwood. Say a few more words in the hope that Dahu and his father will pay attention to it, she is already malnourished and has poor resistance, or just a small heat stroke almost killed her. If Wormwood heard this, she would definitely have to refute it. It's not that the family is patriarchal and doesn't let them eat, but there are too few good things, and there are a few of them in the family who eat them, and her father and mother are not willing to eat them; It's not that heat stroke killed her, it was someone else who wanted her life, and he wronged "heat stroke".

"Know... I know, thank him Hao Bo (because Hao Bo is a barefoot doctor, so the village calls him Hao Bo), this time his little sister's life is pulled back by you, it's really thanks to you, what work will there be at home in the future, squeak and let his father and brothers do it for you. "Stuff the dime you had prepared to Hauber. Ji Lao Niang really thanked him sincerely.

Originally, there was a girl under the eldest of her family, who was born prematurely, and her health has been bad, and she was carefully raised until she was 3 years old, but she still didn't stand, and she was very distressed.

After finally having wormwood, I don't know if it's empathy, anyway, usually Ji Lao Niang is partial to her, so it hurts for more than ten years, and it really comes again, it is estimated that her old life is almost the same, after all, Hao Bo didn't dare to say "good" at that time.

"Big tiger, don't be polite. I am a village doctor and a villager, and I should be. Hao Bo said as he packed up his medicine box and prepared to go back.

"His father, hurry up and send Uncle Hao, it's getting dark, be careful of falling." It's okay to rest assured, I haven't rested every day these days! As soon as people relaxed, they were also very tired.

"Hao Bo, let's go, I'll go pick up the lantern, wait a minute!" Daddy Ji hurriedly prepared to go out to pick up the lantern first.

"No, no, the moonlight is very bright today, you can see it clearly, and it's in the village, only a few steps away, so you don't have to send it back and forth, it's too troublesome." Hao Bo hurriedly refused, he was not so squeamish in these few steps.

They are all from the same village, and they also know each other's personalities, and they know that Hao Bo's character is the same, so they didn't pretend to send him back. Just sent Hao Bo out of the house, and when he came back, there was nothing to do, so he asked Ji Lao Niang to drive everyone to wash together, go to bed early, and save some kerosene.

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"Oh oh oh... Wow...! Wormwood was woken up by the rooster in the house, and lay on the bed listening to the sound of crows in the distance.

Looking up at the light outside the window, about five or six o'clock in the morning, children who grew up in the countryside will look at the weather and time a little bit.

At this point, Mrs. Ji is almost going to get up.

Wormwood slept almost all day on the first day, and was very energetic, and was not ready to be lazy, so she got up and went to help her mother cook.

When I entered the stove, I didn't see Ji Lao Niang, so I took the sweet potatoes directly to the well and shook the water to wash the sweet potatoes, anyway, they were all the same sweet potato porridge, there was nothing to choose.

Burn the fire, add water, cut everything with sweet potatoes, put a few grains of rice (there are really only a few grains, there are a few) into the iron pot, cover the wooden lid, and finish it in an orderly manner, Ji Lao Niang came over.

"Why do you wake up so early? Don't sleep much? Ji Lao Niang asked a little strangely.

Wormwood is young and can't get up, and it is usually the breakfast cooked by Ji Lao Niang herself.

"I slept too much yesterday, so I woke up early." Wormwood looked at Ji Lao Niang while adding firewood.

"Mother, you go to sleep again, I'll burn it." Seeing that Ji Lao Niang's spirit was not very good, she also felt sorry for her.

"No need, get up and lie back like what." Ji Lao Niang dipped some sea salt on the wicker (from Xiaoye Village over the three mountains is by the sea village, so the sea salt in this area is relatively cheap, and the villagers often use it), holding a towel and a wooden basin for washing her face, ready to go to the yard to wash.

"Mother, I added water to the soup can, it's almost hot, I'll pour some for you to wash." Wormwood stopped Mrs. Ji and said, "It's still a little cold in the morning, wash it with hot water, be comfortable." ”

"No, when you're young, you don't have the conditions to wash everything in cold water in winter, and after washing for a lifetime, how can you be so squeamish." Ji Lao Niang didn't take it to heart.

"But I want to wash it in lukewarm water! How can a daughter use warm water, but a mother uses cold water, what has become of the daughter, do you want to be a person? Coquettishly took Ji Lao Niang's hand and said. From "her", I know that to maintain the body, we must develop good habits from an early age, especially women, who should pay attention to keeping warm.

also knew that Ji Lao Niang would not be obedient, so she had already thought about using herself as an excuse.

"It's just you!" Ji Lao Niang glanced at the wormwood, but helplessly did not refuse again. also knows that this is her daughter's pity for her and her filial piety.

"Where's Daddy?" Wormwood asked, looking at the fact that the meal was almost over.

He got up and went straight to the backyard to keep his own land. I asked him to eat with the four tigers, and you brought out the porridge directly. After Ji Lao Niang finished speaking, she shouted into the backyard: "Dad, the meal is ready, eat first." ”

Wormwood also brought more hot water to the yard to wash Daddy Ji and the four tigers.

Everyone had a bowl of sweet potato porridge, and then picked up a plate of scallion from the pickle jar, and the leftover fried red wine lees with shrimp skin from yesterday (in fact, just a little shrimp skin, eat a fragrance) and brought it to the dinner table. It's all for dinner, and it's already very good.

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Yongxian County is a small mountain county located in the south, which is composed of small mountain villages and is surrounded by mountains.

In the past, it was also a famous red base area, a good place to fight guerrillas. It's just that it's too small, and the transportation is inconvenient, so it's not easy to develop, so the team withdrew after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War.

Xiaoye Village, Hongqi Township is a small mountain village located in a remote area of Yongxian County. Although there are few rice fields, many mountains and fields, the land is also barren, and there are many people on the land, because people work in the stars and the moon, so every year is also fruitful.

You can't get rich by hard work, but you can be self-sufficient, well-fed and warm-clothed.

When Father Ji fled to Xiaoye Village with his younger brothers and sisters - it is inevitable that some people in a village will be xenophobic, but because of the lack of labor in the village, it is also pitiful that they have to flee at such a young age, and they settled in Xiaoye Village very smoothly.

Homesteads in the village are generally owner-owned. Father Ji left his home at the foot of Camellia Mountain opposite the stream beach outside the village, although it was a bit dangerous - the beast went down the mountain, and the Ji family bore the brunt; But it is better to be quiet, there is no right and wrong in the village, which is the best choice for the Ji family at that time.