Chapter 7 No money for medicine
When Bai Ling was wearing straw sandals and preparing to go home, Bai Wei rushed over, and saw that Bai Ling had already forked several fish, and couldn't help but envy Bai Ling's ability.
But Bai Wei also tried, but she didn't have the patience to learn the ability to spearfish.
"If I knew it was going to be sunny, I wouldn't have chased after me." Bai Wei pursed her lips, glanced at Bai Ling and looked away, and whispered: "Dad asked me to pick you up, I'm afraid you will be photographed by the rain." Second sister, in fact, my father loves us a lot, but I won't say it, so don't be angry with my father. β
Bai Ling, who had just discovered the space, was in a wonderful mood, and the smile on his face was a little more.
"I know."
Bai Ling stood up and said helplessly:
"But Dad has always been so unscrupulous, no matter how much work we do, it's not enough to fight the autumn breeze over there. The eldest sister has sold herself for her mother's illness, and I don't want the three of us sisters to follow the old path of the eldest sister again. If my father is like this forever, I will take my mother away, and you can make up your own mind with whoever you want to follow. β
I always thought that Bai Ling was talking angrily, Bai Wei had never thought about this problem, but at the moment, she was cautious.
"If there is really that day, I will follow you and my mother. If the younger sister and the younger brother don't want to, I'll carry them all away. When she was about to arrive at the door, Bai Wei said seriously.
"Well, that's a good idea." Bai Ling squinted his eyes and chuckled.
The third room lives in the east end of Nanshan Village, there are only three thatched houses with mud and plastered walls in the dilapidated courtyard, the kitchen and warehouse in the middle, the east side lives Bai Sanshu's two sons and two small ones, and the west house is where the Bai Ling sisters live.
In the past few days, there has been a lot of rain and leaks, and the thatch on the roof has been blown off a lot by the wind.
The Bai Ling sisters went home talking and laughing, they were both big-eyed, but their faces were yellow and thin, their hair was about the same as hay, and they looked like refugees in patches of clothes.
However, after a closer look, the two can still be distinguished, and the elder sister Bai Ling exudes a sunny breath around her body, which can attract people's attention even more.
The younger sister Bai Wei is a little heroic, her eyes are clear, and she lacks the softness of a girl.
"Dad, didn't I tell you a long time ago, leave the roof repair to us, why are you disobedient?" Seeing that the cheap father trembled when he got down the ladder, Bai Ling hurriedly put down the basket and trotted over to hold the ladder.
Bai Wei was also worried, and she and Bai Ling held on to the ladder one by one, afraid that Bai Sanshu would accidentally fall down.
Bai Sanshu grinned happily when he saw that his daughter still cared about him.
"You're back." Bai Sanshu was sweating profusely, his thin eyes were sunken, and he had a kind smile on his face, "Dad, a big man, where can I let you two girls repair the roof." Hurry up and wash the handles, Dad will go and make a fire first. β
The two sisters looked at each other helplessly, and then they divided their labor to work, and the cold war between father and daughter came to an end for the time being.
Bai Wei picked vegetables with her hands and feet, ready to dry them, and she had a stutter in winter.
Bai Ling was cautious, took the bird's nest that had been put in the wild vegetable basket to the kitchen, cut a pot of wild vegetables, and made a large pot of wild vegetable egg soup, except for putting a little salt, but there were no condiments.
Fortunately, there is now spiritual spring water, and even a weak wild vegetable soup can nourish the body.
It's too late to make the fish fresh, so I have to save it for the evening.
On the way back, the sisters took out a total of three birds' nests, got thirteen birds' eggs, three were beaten into the soup, and the remaining ten were cooked with skins to supplement the old, weak, sick and disabled in the family.
"Dad, you bring the vegetable bowl to the house, and I'll take the dishes and chopsticks." Bai Ling wiped his sweat, said a word to Bai Sanshu, and went to the cupboard to get the dishes and chopsticks.
It's been three days since he crossed over, and Bai Ling was busy hitting the back of his head every day in order to eat a mouthful.
If she hadn't grown up in the mountains in her previous life, the love between her family made her nostalgic, and I am afraid that she would not have been able to hold on for a long time.
After Bai Wei dried the wild vegetables, she wiped her mother's face and hands with her younger siblings, and the family gathered around the kang table to eat.
"There are eggs!" Bai Xiaoshan, who was six years old and couldn't walk on his own, shouted inarticulately, his eyes were as bright as the stars in the sky.
Eight-year-old Bai Xing swallowed her saliva and tried not to look at the eggs.
"Today's harvest is good, I took out more than a dozen birds' eggs, made three in the soup, and cooked ten." Bai Ling set the dishes and chopsticks and began to distribute the birds' eggs, "My mother is still taking medicine, my little brother is weak, the two of you are three per person, and my father and my little sister are two each." β
On the way back, the sisters discussed how to distribute the eggs, and the two of them were 'healthy' people, and they would not compete with the sick and disabled at home.
"Dad is such an adult, you two sisters should have one each." Bai Sanshu immediately put the bird's egg into the bowl of the Bai Ling sisters.
"You two are busy with work, and it's time to grow up, so eat more." The sick bun Niang Bai Liu also divided two bird eggs.
If it weren't for the fear of not eating anything, and drinking a few more pills, Bai Liu's would definitely be reluctant to eat one.
"My sisters are tired, give them food." Bai Xing is also sensible, and is busy giving bird eggs to her sister.
Although Bai Xiaoshan was greedy, he also sensibly divided the bird's eggs, and whispered: "Xiaoshan is small, eat one and be full." β
Bai Ling's eyes were red, such a poor family didn't even have a grain of rice, but with such a good family, were you afraid that you wouldn't be able to live a good life?
Bai Wei has always had a little pepper's temper, so when she saw this, she stood up, sent back all the eggs in the bowl one by one, filled herself with a big bowl of soup, and drank it in a big gulp.
"The two of us were hungry when we were digging wild vegetables, so we burned a few birds' eggs, which we had already eaten." Bai Ling forced back his tears, pulled back all the eggs, and smiled sweetly at Bai Wei: "Eat quickly, there is still fish soup to drink at night." After eating, I will go to spearfish, third sister, you go to the edge of the woods and continue to dig wild vegetables, and don't go to the mountains alone. β
"Hmm." Bai Wei nodded.
The whole family drank a large pot of wild vegetable soup boiled with Lingquan water, but they were all extremely satisfied, after all, there were eggs to eat today.
Bai Liu's body was weak, and after eating, he drank the medicine and fell asleep with his children.
Bai Sanshu has bad legs and feet, so he sits under the eaves and weaves straw curtains, and turns around to cover the roof to keep out the rain, which can be used as door curtains and curtains in winter, which can also be warmer.
The work of chopping wood and carrying water at home, Bai Sanshu has a hard time doing more.
The sisters went to wash the dishes, Bai Wei glanced at the medicine that was about to run out, frowned and said, "Mother's medicine is almost gone, and the family has no money." β
Bai Ling wiped the bowl for a moment, and sighed in his heart.
The third room has just been divided for less than half a month, and I only got such a broken yard and an acre of land.
In order to treat her mother's illness, the eldest sister Baicao was willing to marry a widower who killed two daughters-in-law, but the dowry of five taels of silver was not enough for Bailiu's treatment.
The original owner's ex-fiancΓ©'s family came to withdraw from the family, and returned a small deposit of one or two silver, and the old house said that the old lady was sick and wanted to ask a doctor to see a doctor, forcing Bai Sanshu and his family to give one or two silver, and the family's silver was even more insufficient.
At present, there is not a single grain of grain at home, and the only bit of salt is almost gone, and Bai Liu's medicine is also a large expenditure.
Bai Sanshu has bad legs and feet, and no one uses it to go to the town to work part-time, how long can the family survive without income?
"I'll fork more fish in the afternoon and dry some dried fish to sell." Bai Ling hesitated for a moment, his brows stretched, his eyes sparkled at Bai Wei, and asked, "You have accompanied your eldest sister to the town many times, do you know if the pharmacy accepts herbs?" β