Chapter 21: Starvation
Jiang Shi wanted to ask, but his mouth opened and he was blocked, "Do you know this word?" ”
Somehow, Jiang Shi looked at Jiang Yao's clear and bright eyes, but his heart was tight, as if all his careful thoughts had been perceived.
"No...... I don't know, my mother is illiterate! How do you know it? ”
If you really don't know, where do you need to say several words in a row, it's obviously a weak heart!
"Don't you know? Mother should know! Jiang Yao's delicate jaw was slightly raised, and she looked at Jiang fixedly, as if she was sure and seemed to be talking to herself.
Jiang lowered his head weakly, but it seemed that Jiang Yao didn't want to let her go, and the girl's crisp voice in his ear was like a spell, "This word pronounces Zhen, surnamed Zhen!" ”
Jiang's heart jumped several times, and he took two steps back suddenly, stepping on the thick snow with a creaky sound, and asked in a trembling voice, "You...... How would you know? ”
Jiang Yao got up and approached Jiang's, her tone could not hide her melancholy, "How do I know?" Did my mother ask me how I knew the word Zhen, or something else? ”
Jiang Shi stepped back again, and said in a trembling voice, "Naturally...... Nature......"
Jiang Yao didn't want to see her mother so embarrassed in front of her, so she interrupted, "I said, I had a long dream!" ”
Jiang slumped to the ground, muttering in despair, "Dreams? Not a dream! It's not a dream...... you're not Yao'er! ”
At the end, Jiang suddenly raised his head and looked directly at Jiang Yao!
Jiang Yao was startled and took two steps back, she never thought that her mother would suspect her!
Jiang Shi rushed over and hugged her, and said with a snort, "My child, how have you been doing all these years?" ”
Jiang Yao was shocked, exposing her ......, could it be that her mother was also reborn?
Jiang Shi didn't give her time to think, hugged her tightly, and whispered, "My daughter ......, my daughter ......, my mother misses you so much......"
Jiang Yao raised her head and called softly, "Mother...... What's wrong with you? ”
Jiang suddenly came back to his senses like a nightmare, and hurriedly wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes, "No...... It's nothing...... It's just that...... Thinking about all these years has made you suffer...... I feel sad ......"
Jiang Yao was suspicious, and strange feelings surged from the bottom of her heart, she knew who her father was, she shouldn't have been tempted, and the result of the temptation was different from what she thought!
Jiang Yao was very confused, and he couldn't figure out the meaning of Jiang's words for a while, so he hastily comforted Jiang's a few words, and then took the broken basin to pick up the brown rice scattered on the ground.
Jiang Shi seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, looking at Jiang Yao's back, his eyes slowly losing focus.
At noon, the mother and daughter simply ate a little, and in the middle of the night, Jiang Yao's stomach was grumbling with hunger, although she was often hungry when she was a village girl in her previous life, she had never been hungry in the past few years as a lady......
Hungry!
I'm so hungry!
She missed the bird's nest porridge that was still warm in the middle of the night when she was in Wenchangbo's Mansion, and she didn't want to be okay, but when she thought about the taste, she swallowed saliva several times, and the whole person was hungry and wanted to faint directly.
Jiang was no better, looking at the moonlight outside the window in a daze.
Knock knock! Knock knock!
I really want someone to give me food in my dreams, and I must get up early tomorrow to go into the mountains, and the traps I dug a few days ago are estimated to be able to catch a little beast in the past few days!
Thinking like this, the knock sound became even louder, "Mother, did you hear anything?" ”
Jiang Shi was a little sleepy, and when he was asked like this, he woke up from a nap.
"It seems to be there, my mother is going to take a look!"
As soon as the words fell, Jiang seemed to be afraid that others would rob her, so she put on her coat and went out.
"Who? Who is it? ”
No one answered, only the cold wind accompanied by the knocking sound of the door.
"Who's knocking?" Jiang's voice raised, even if he used enough strength, his weak voice still seemed so unconfident.
The person outside the door seemed to hear the questioning, and the knock stopped, and quietly left.
Jiang was suspicious, couldn't hear the knock on the door, and didn't see anyone answer, so he asked again and waited for a long time before returning to the house.
"Ahem...... Ahem...... "Jiang coughed and got into the bed.
"Mother, who is it?" Jiang Yao looked through the moonlight.
"Eighty percent of them are not right-minded, people have already left, go to sleep!" Jiang Shi stopped coughing and said softly.
"Oh......" Jiang Yao retracted into the quilt, didn't those people even let them sleep?
Knocking on the door in the middle of the night and threatening the villagers not to associate with them is indeed a good way, the Yang family does not find fault head-on, even if the village chief protects them, there is nothing to do with the Yang family!
She didn't believe that they could starve to death!
When the sky was just dawning, Jiang Yao quietly went out of the back door, and her heart was wary of whether there was anyone around, but she didn't find a small bag placed on the side of the door.
Not long after, the blind Liu Xiaoguang'er picked up a bag of grain at the back door of Jiang's house, saw that there was no one around, quietly put it into his arms, and trotted home.
Jiang Yao only remembered a few places where traps were often buried in his previous life,
She followed her memory, and sure enough, after several days of heavy snowfall, even the wild beasts were gone, and she found a few traps before she found the two hares that had long been frozen.
It's better than nothing, today's food is over, Jiang Yao held the big hare in one hand, and walked down the mountain in an extremely happy mood.
As soon as he reached the foot of the mountain, he bumped into two thugs who were going up the mountain.
It is the Wei family in the east of the village, and in his previous life, Jiang Yao often clashed with these two because of the prey, and the two sons of the Wei family can be said to be extremely shameless.
At that time, the two of them often secretly went to the traps dug by Jiang Yao to pick up wild beasts, and sometimes even relied on their own people to rob them!
"Yo! It's Yao girl! Wei Da almost drooled and looked at Jiang Yao! ”
Jiang Yao guardedly hid the hare in his hand behind him, ignored the two, and turned around towards the fork in the road on the other side.
The Wei brothers glanced at each other and chased after them, "Yao girl, don't go...... I heard that you moved out of your uncle's house?" ”
"That kind of home should have moved out a long time ago, you see that you are like a flower, and you go to the mountains to hunt, your mother is still charming, it is better to eat and drink spicy food with our brothers, why suffer this crime!"
Jiang Yao walked forward quickly, ignoring the foul language in the mouths of these two people, it was not that she didn't want to pay attention, it was that she was self-aware, she was not the opponent of these two!
Wei Er took two quick steps and stopped in front of her, with a silver look on his face, and said, "Want to go?" Have you asked us brothers? ”
When the words fell, a pair of rough and dark salty pig hands went straight towards Jiang Yao's porcelain-like little face.
"Take away your dirty hands!" Jiang Yao raised the hare and scolded angrily.
"Heh, it's still so spicy, and the brother who scratches it is very good in his heart!" After speaking, the Wei family brothers laughed in unison and approached Jiang Yao.