Chapter XXVII, Kapok
Pedestrians on the street are in a hurry, porters help each shop deliver goods, and the shopkeeper and shopkeeper all clean the shop and prepare to open the store.
The four members of the Su family brought a donkey and walked happily to discuss what to buy and go home. Some people say they want red dates and wolfberries, some people say they want peppercorns, and some people say they want to buy meat.
"Woo whoa, woo woo......" the baby's cry could be heard in the distance.
Not far away, under the archway, there is a basket, and it is from this basket that the baby's cry comes. The busy man did not hear it, as if he did not know that there was a cry. Passers-by will stop to listen and take a look.
The woman with the basket came forward to look at it, then muttered twice, shook her head and left.
Su Shan took his mother's hand, "Mother, that basket." I met that woman not long ago. ”
That basket is very familiar, yes, the woman I met not long ago with her head wrapped in her face, she was carrying this green cloth basket in her hand.
There are often people who lose their children, and if it is not for the baby girl, they will not be discarded. Let's hope someone is willing to adopt.
Su Zhang took Su Shan's hand and didn't meddle in things. The family is living tightly, but it can't support the baby.
San'er's face has lost weight, and raising another one is not to rob San'er's rations. You can't be hungry because of outsiders.
How cute the previous three children were fat! Now San'er is thin, with big eyes and a small mouth, and he eats in small bites, which is really distressing.
There is a grocery store nearby, and Su Zhang plans to buy some sugar and thank Uncle Li (Old Man Li). When you bring the children into the store, the first thing you do is buy caramel candy, share a piece for each person, and take the rest back to eat slowly.
"Mother, I saw Xiaochubby, I'll go out for a while."
"Mother, let's go out to play."
"Look at my sister." Su Zhang said.
With money in his hand, he really needed some things at home, and under the persuasion of the shopkeeper, Su Zhang bought a lot of things.
Under the farewell of the shopkeeper, carrying a large bag and a small bag, he stepped out of the threshold, and his smiling face slowly froze at the moment he saw San'er. Her heart: the clear sky, in an instant, like nine cold winters.
I saw Su San'er outside the store, with a big basket at his feet, and a baby wrapped in blue and black cloth in the basket.
"What are you doing here?" Su Zhangshi pulled San'er and asked in a low voice, "Hurry up and send it back." ”
Su Lingyu said that she was innocent, this matter really had nothing to do with her, it was all the fault of the donkey.
At that time, she was sitting on the doorstep, holding her chin to watch Su Shan, Su Chong and Niu Fat Men making homely meals, but who knew that her big hair bit the basket and dragged it to her feet.
She tugged at the donkey's ears and asked, "What do you want to do?" Raise her? ”
The donkey's ears were at her mercy, and no matter how she shouted, screamed, or kicked, she would not send them back.
Now she was seen by her mother, but as soon as her mother went out, she thought it was her and brought the doll back.
Su Lingyu said that she was very innocent, and just wanted to say something, the doll cried.
The hoarseness was exhausted, and the uninformed people pointed at Su Zhang's family.
Su Zhang was angry and wanted to call the eldest child and send the baby back to the original place.
Su Lingyu, who has lived one more life, has already practiced an iron heart, but listening to this cry is extremely heart-wrenching, and the piece of his heart is only soft for the Su family, and he has compassion for this baby.
Lifting the blue and black cloth, the hoarse baby, a few tears dripping from the corners of his eyes, Su Lingyu relented for a while, looked back at his mother, and hoped that his mother would bring the baby back.
"San'er! Don't you know that it's easy to bring back and can afford to raise our family? My mother can't even save your rations, how can she feed someone younger than you? ”
Covering it with a blue and black cloth, the doll cried again.
Su Lingyu opened it again, and the doll immediately stopped crying, and Nunu stuck out her tongue slightly, as if she wanted to eat.
"San'er, our family is poor and can't support her, let's send her back."
Su Zhang's family recruited Su Zhong and asked the eldest child to send the baby back to the archway.
Su Zhong grabbed the basket, but before he could move, he was bitten by a donkey, which frightened him into withdrawing his hand.
The donkey rubbed Su Lingyu with his head and begged Su Lingyu to agree. Su Lingyu had no choice but to beg her mother.
When he was about to leave the city gate, he met the man who delivered tiles.
Su Zhang raised his eyebrows at him, spewing out the depressed breath in his heart. "You bad heart, you actually lied to us. If we hadn't gone on a trip, we would have been deceived by you. ”
Su Zhang's chopped and chopped the flat shoulder, looking like he was going to beat someone.
The man was not afraid, and sat in the ox cart and pulled the rope. "The county mansion booked my house at the beginning, but it went to your house near the full moon."
"The money in your hand ran into your pocket, can I swallow this breath in my heart?"
"That's what I'll say, believe it or not, it's up to you to make the decision. It's up to you to do right and wrong, can't blame me? ”
The man sneered and drove the ox cart out of the city.
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A one-month-old baby is very easy to carry, eat well and sleep and eat when you wake up. Su Lingyu grinded the rice into powder, added it to the spiritual spring, boiled it into a thin paste, and fed the little doll.
Su Lingyu and the two radish heads surrounded the little doll, and Su Li and Su Zhang whispered in the house.
"You pick up a cat and a dog and come back, we still have stuttering feeding, you pick up a baby girl and come back, how can we live?"
"Mother-in-law, daughter-in-law doesn't want to. It's San'er, it's San'er. The daughter-in-law can't have a son. Su Zhang said, "There is not a lonely family in the village, it is better to send this baby over, maybe they are willing to raise it." ”
"Send it secretly at night, don't be known."
"Okay."
The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law discussed and planned to quietly give the baby away after nightfall.
Su Shan: "We should give her a name." ”
Su Chong: "It's called kapok." ”
Su Shan: "Why? ”
Su Chong: "Kapok is good-looking. ”
At night, Su Chong carried his sister, who had taken a bath, to bed so as not to stain her feet again. The big sunflower fan repels the mosquitoes in the mosquito net and allows her sister to sleep peacefully.
The two brothers took off their shirts and lay on the bed side by side, Su Shan shook the fan and fanned the wind, and asked his brother, "Can we still go back to the private school?" ”
"Dad said we go to private school here, when are we going to private school? Niu Fatzi has finished learning "Thousand Words". ”
Faced with his younger brother's question, Su Chong didn't know how to answer.
Su Zhong put his hand on the back of his head and looked at the top of the tent in the dark, "Maybe you can go up next spring." ”
"It must be, I wish I could go back to the private school soon!"
Su Zhong pondered, his family background is like this, he must have no money to go to a private school, and saying that going to a private school is just a coax.
He didn't want to go to private school, why didn't he want to go back to his past life, but unfortunately he could only remember what had passed. Now it's time to eat taro every day.
Su Lingyu, who was across the curtain, listened to the little radish head's words, and gradually lost his sleepiness. It's really difficult at home, you have to think of ways to change the status quo, but you are young, and the spiritual spring released can't bring more help due to age restrictions.
She began to think more about the things that would change her family's circumstances, and she couldn't sleep at night after thinking too much. After the two of them went to sleep, she opened the door and went out to sit.
The night breeze blows away the heat from the body, and the night wind blows through the rice fields, bringing the moisture of the rice grains. The green and yellow rice will be harvested in about ten days.
Ten short fingers are calculated, and the cheap dad has been out for half a month.
The door opened, and she thought she was calling her back. When I got up from the recliner, I found my mother holding the basket, as if she was going out.
There are some things that don't need to be spoken, just a thought about it.
Su Zhang didn't know whether to enter or exit, and was a little embarrassed to be caught, "San'er, you didn't sleep." ”
Stepping off the small recliner, with his hands behind his back, he raised his head and asked his mother, "Do you believe in fate?" ”
Su Zhang was silent. After thinking about it several times, it took a long time to say, "San'er, I ......"
A voice came from Su Li's house, "That's it, listen to San'er." Stay. ”
"Don't worry, I've figured it out. I'm going to be able to feed here. If not...... So he sold the big hair. ”