Chapter 3: Cold and Hungry

Yun Yao couldn't sit still after sitting in the room for a while, she was used to being busy.

She is an orphan who has been grateful for her hard work since she was adopted. In order to repay her adoptive parents, she went to nursing school after finishing junior high school, and became a nurse at Cixin Hospital at the age of eighteen.

Lin Feng is the Lin Feng he met at Cixin Hospital, and he is a newly recruited surgeon in the hospital. For Lin Feng, she worked two jobs by herself and gave him all the other salary, but in the end, she got splits, betrayal, and vicious warnings.

Oh, I'm so stupid! Thinking of Lin Feng, Yun Yao couldn't help but sneer. This person has no heart at all, he is so good to him, he betrays him so completely.

made a table of dishes and waited for Lin Feng to eat, but what she was waiting for was the news of the breakup, but unfortunately the table of good dishes was smashed to the ground by her in a fit of anger. Yun Yao touched her empty stomach and found that she was a little sad.

When is dinner? Embarrassed to wait for white food, Yun Yao went to the kitchen to help, and saw that Aunt Osmanthus had already brought the meal to the table.

"Xiaoyun, you came just in time, dinner is ready, I was about to call you." Aunt Osmanthus greeted her warmly when she came in, "You sit down first, and I'll call the child his father." ”

Yun Yao looked up at the window, it was only about four o'clock in the afternoon, and now it's time for dinner? Yun Yao looked at the table, a plate of blackened pickles, three bowls of stick noodle porridge as clear as water, this is tonight's dinner?

"Eat, there is nothing good at home, you can take it first, and when my eldest son brings back the prey from the mountains, he will have to eat." Li Xin took the lead in holding the gruel and drank it so loudly that he drank the porridge without even taking a bite of the pickles.

Stick noodle porridge is corn paste, coarse grains are also very healthy to eat, Yun Yao smiled and picked up the rice bowl.

Well, it's very fragrant, and everything you eat when you're hungry is fragrant. After drinking a bowl of gruel, Yun Yao was still unsatisfied, but seeing that the master didn't move, she was embarrassed to turn over the stove of others, so she had to sit awkwardly.

"After feeding, you go and watch Erniu, and I'll feed Niuniu some rice soup." Aunt Osmanthus walked in with the child in her arms and picked up a small half bowl of sticky rice soup from the stove.

Niu Niu is already well? Yun Yao hurriedly stretched out her head to look. The little fellow had recovered his spirits, and was smacking his lips and humming quietly, his little face turning around to look around, apparently not yet full.

"Eat, eat, Niuniu doesn't cry, let's sleep when we're full, sleep and feel taller, and when we grow up, we will have food." Aunt Osmanthus took a small spoon and lovingly fed her daughter rice soup, and when she saw her eating sweetly with her small mouth, a wry smile appeared on her face.

Before Niuniu, she gave birth to several children, but only two brothers, Da Niu and Er Niu, were left. The little girl was born in such a year, I don't know if she can still live?

"Auntie, I'll help you hold you to eat." Yun Yao reached out and took Niuniu, picked her up in a standard position, rested her head on her arm, and held her little ass with the other hand.

Seeing that she was skillfully hugged, Aunt Osmanthus was relieved, and chatted with Yun Yao while drinking porridge: "You still have children?" That's just the right thing for me to watch the chicks. I put her at my aunt's house just now, and she didn't even know that Niu Niu pulled it. ”

"Okay, I'm fine anyway, I can help you with the child." Yun Yao couldn't wait to have something to do, so she could live in someone else's house openly, so she hurriedly agreed.

Niuniu was very well-behaved, she fell asleep soon after eating, Yun Yao took her and followed Aunt Osmanthus to the East House after eating, checked Erniu again, and found that his body temperature did not repeat, and finally relieved.

Aunt Osmanthus did needlework, Yun Yao took care of the two children, the two chatted casually, and Yun Yao slowly understood the world from her mouth.

This is the great wilderness of Xiliangzhou, the land is barren, the climate is bitter cold, the yield in the field is not high, and everyone's life is very poor. Last year, there was a natural disaster, although it was not a grain harvest, but the production was also reduced by half, and everyone had a more difficult time. Li Xin is the head of the village, and his family life is slightly better, while some other villagers are almost unable to open the pot.

"Alas, my big cow has been hunting in the mountains for two days, and I don't know when I will be able to come back." Aunt Osmanthus sighed and prayed, "Goddess bless, bless the big cow to come back safely." ”

In winter, it was dark early, and the people in the village were reluctant to light the oil lamp, so they all went to bed early, Yun Yao left medicine for Li Xin and told him to feed Erniu in the middle of the night, and went back to the east wing alone.

I don't know how long the small fire kang in the house hasn't burned, and it gradually cooled down in the middle of the night, a quilt is cold and hard and thin, there is no trace of heat in the quilt, Yun Yao is lying on the cold kang shivering. I can't sleep, I miss the electric blanket at home. Yun Yao got up, put the down jacket on her body, and shrunk her feet to wrap the quilt tightly. When her body warmed up, Yun Yao, who was tired and hungry, finally fell asleep.

The next day's breakfast was eaten at about nine o'clock, it was still a bowl of corn paste, and Yun Yao couldn't stand it for two days when she only ate such a little thing.

According to Maslow's hierarchy of needs, physiological needs are the first, and love and everything belong to the third level. She was hungry at this moment, she didn't have the heart to think about Lin Feng at all, she just wanted to get something to eat.

"Auntie, I want to go out for a walk." Seeing that Aunt Osmanthus had placed the little girl, Yun Yao pulled her aside and whispered.

"It's okay to walk, but you can't go up the mountain, there are too many beasts on this mountain, and you can't come back if you go to a female doll." Erniu's fever has improved a lot, and Aunt Osmanthus regards Yun Yao as a savior, of course she doesn't want her to have an accident, so she hurriedly speaks to dissuade her.

"This mountain is close to a large mountain range behind it, there are tigers, leopards, jackals and beasts in the mountains, and the people in the village have to act together if they want to hunt, so people are often injured."

Got beasts? Yun Yao flinched.

"Is there a river or lake around here? I'll go catch a few fish and come back. Xiao Niu Niu can't drink rice soup all the time for a month, and you can eat some fish to promote milk. ”

"Can fish promote milk? The fish in the river were very fishy, and there was a smell of mud, and we only caught and ate them in the famine years, but we didn't know that we could promote milk. ”

Hearing the milk-urging Aunt Osmanthus, her heart moved. The second cow fever has just subsided, and he has no milk, and the two children in the family really can't afford to boil anymore.

"There are fish, but the river is still frozen, and it will take another two months to melt." Aunt Guihua sighed and patted Yun Yao's shoulder, "Xiaoyun, you can endure it for two more days, there is still some food at home, and when my big cow comes back from hunting, there will be food to eat." If you bear with me, don't go out and take risks. ”

Won't you break the ice to get fish? Yun Yao felt strange in her heart.

Everyone didn't know each other very well, and they didn't know if they could get the fish back, so Yun Yao didn't say much, just opened the courtyard door and walked out after asking where the river was.

It's too hard for me to cross this time, except for the open supply of air and water, I can't even eat a full meal. Yun Yao cursed Lin Feng dozens of times in her heart. Scumbag! Harmful spirits! If I could go back, I wouldn't let you go!