142 Almsgiving
Ling Xiaoning felt hungry after a while, and made something to eat.
She felt bored after eating, and circled around the neighborhood again.
When I passed through a courtyard, I heard some voices coming from inside, and I couldn't help but listen curiously.
I heard the cries of children, the sound of something slapping on their bodies, and the shouting of women.
"You are an uncompetitive beast, you should clean up well, otherwise you won't have a long memory!"
"Mother, don't fight, hurt the child and know it's wrong......"
"Do you know it's wrong, do you really know it's wrong? The last time I made the same mistake like this, you didn't know the mistake at all, and if I didn't beat you, you would never grow up! ”
Gradually, the child stopped refusing and became a crying voice.
Ling Xiaoning remembered the scene when she made mistakes when she was a child and was taught a lesson by her parents.
When her parents were young, they would occasionally do it in order to be able to manage themselves, but they would never be as vicious as the mother in the yard.
Listening to the child's voice, he is not very old, and he must be very uncomfortable when he was beaten like this for a while at the age of about 6.
Ling Xiaoning is now a mud bodhisattva crossing the river and it is difficult to protect himself, although he is a little uncomfortable thinking about it, he can only continue to walk forward when nothing has happened.
She walked around the nearby house, and after getting bored, she went back to her room.
She found some broken knick-knacks in the box in the corner, which looked like toys that had been made by children at home, but they were no longer useful because they had been too long.
"It's a shame......"
Ling Xiaoning stayed in this small place alone, he didn't know how long, he didn't do anything all day, he was really bored and wanted to find something to do.
Ordinary people and peasants do farm work at home, grow vegetables, grow grain, and raise some livestock.
Ling Xiaoning: In this situation, there is nothing to be done.
She walked to the door and was surprised to find a child squatting not far away carrying rocks to play.
"There's a little kid ......"
She walked out of the room and saw a whip on the child's hand, which seemed to be the child she had just heard, being lectured by a woman.
"Kid, are you playing alone?"
Ling Xiaoning walked over happily and quickly, bent down and asked.
The child slowly raised his head, revealing a puzzled look. "Sister...... It's as if I've never seen you before. ”
"That's because my sister only moved here yesterday and is your new neighbor!"
"Did my sister move in with her family?"
The child saw the direction of the door and was a little curious.
"My sister moved here alone, and she didn't have a family with her."
"That's what it looks like...... What is my sister called? ”
"You can just call me Sister Xiaoning, so how do you call it?"
The child has a very simple nickname called Xiaobao.
Xiaobao is a little boy who is more than 6 years old, and his body looks relatively small, like a child of three or four years old, but his eyes are particularly bright, which makes people look very fond of it.
After a period of inquiry, Ling Xiaoning learned that the reason why Xiaobao was beaten was because he stole the food in the house, and the situation in Xiaobao's home was very bad.
Originally, Xiaobao's family had a grandfather, a father and a mother to do farm work together, but some time ago there was an accident, the grandfather died, the father became disabled, and only the mother did the farm work alone.
Mother, father, mother, not only have to take care of her injured husband, but also have to support herself, as well as children, very hard, and her temper becomes more and more irritable, and she will hit Xiaobao at every turn.
Xiaobao often eats secretly when he can't eat enough, and every time he is caught, he will be beaten badly.
"Even if there is such an accident in your family, your mother can't beat you like this, it's really pitiful......"
Ling Xiaoning returned to the room and took two white-flour steamed buns.
"It's better like this, if you are hungry in the future, you will come to my sister, my sister will give you food, my sister can't guarantee what delicacies and seafood you will eat, but there are definitely steamed noodles!"
His Royal Highness the Second Prince found someone to store some easy-to-store foods such as steamed buns, cakes, and noodles in the room.
Ling Xiaoning felt tasteless when he ate it himself, but the children liked it very much.
She couldn't help but feel distressed when she saw the child holding the steamed bun and was lost, and made a promise with the child.
This is a secret that the two of them know, and in the future, Xiaobao will come here when he is hungry, eat, and go home after he is full, and he will not tell his mother and father.
In this way, Xiaobao can not only fill her stomach, but also do not have to worry about being beaten and scolded by her mother.
Xiaobao can eat two steamed buns a day on weekdays, and after helping, he can eat three or four steamed buns a day at home, and he also feels sorry for his mother and father, so he doesn't eat the steamed buns and lets his mother eat.
The mother sensed that something was wrong and inquired again and again, only to learn about the alms of the new neighbor.
The mother felt a little uneasy in her heart, and took Xiaobao to the door to inquire about the situation.
Ling Xiaoning smiled and told them that he had a very rich relative, who had encountered some difficulties, and now his relatives living here are very generous and have enough to eat, so don't worry.
If they don't have enough food at home, they can come to their own place to get it, here is fate, and they don't know when they will have the opportunity to meet when they move away in the future.
Xiaobao's mother, Xiaobao's mother, hesitated, although she was grateful for help, but she was not greedy, and hoped that Xiaobao would be able to eat enough when she was in the future, and she didn't care about other people.
Ling Xiaoning can feel it, in fact, Xiaobao's mother is also a very kind person, but the restrictions of the family situation are right, Xiaobao is so fierce.
Even if he has the opportunity to get help, he is not greedy, he just wants Xiaobao not to starve alone.
Two days later.
The people sent by His Royal Highness the Second Prince sent some food, and this time it was more abundant than the last one. In addition to the daily pasta grains, there are also some vegetables and cured bacon and sausages.
Ling Xiaoning was more concerned about the affairs of His Royal Highness the Great Prince.
If he comes back, he won't have to stay here anymore, and he will feel safe by his side.
The people who came over were only responsible for delivering these things, and they didn't know what was going on under the ground of the eldest prince, so they left in a hurry.
Ling Xiaoning couldn't help but be a little disappointed, and made a decision in his heart, in two more days, he would leave the village no matter what and go outside to inquire about the news.
You can't stay in this place just because you can't hear the news, and you don't know when it's going to end.
The meat and vegetables sent by His Royal Highness the Second Prince are very large.
The person who delivered the things said that they would send things in two days, and the things that were delivered at one time were not only enough for one person, but also enough for 10 people.
Ling Xiaoning thought that it would be a waste if she couldn't finish eating, so she simply picked some and sent them to Xiaobao's house.
After Xiaobao's mother saw these things, she was surprised for a while and quickly shook her head and refused.
"No, no, there are so many of these things, I can't accept them for no reason!"
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