Chapter 30: I Raise Him
At this time, most of the people had just finished eating, and they were gathering at the entrance of the alley to chat, and they saw Li following the footsteps of the Hu family boy in a hurry, and felt that something must have happened, so he followed.
When I met other people on the road, I didn't know what was going on, and I knew that there was fun to see, so I also followed, so there were really a lot of people who came here.
Everyone only guessed that something must have happened, but they didn't expect it to be such a big event as a dead person!
In the midst of the gossip, Ji Yu learned that the grandfather and grandson only came to Dafeng Village five years ago, and after picking up this remote corner and living in it, they closed their doors all day long, and hardly showed up in the village.
Moreover, this old man is neither yin nor yang, and he doesn't talk much, like a dumb person, and everyone is not happy to associate with such strange people. Over time, I almost forgot that there was still this family in the village.
It's no wonder that Ji Yu can't find any memories related to it, the original owner is withdrawn and introverted enough, and it's normal to have no impression of the grandchildren who are even more non-existent than herself.
Discussion is discussion, and when people are dead, they must be buried in the earth.
Li Zheng ordered a few capable crop men, and asked people to pull down the broken mats on the bed, so they used this broken mat to roll it up, and carried it to the southwest grave mountain overnight to bury it.
After the death of a widow like this, it is basically buried hastily like this, and there is no need to erect a tombstone.
Everyone sighed and sighed, but in fact, few were really sad.
Even the child, who watched his grandfather, who was dependent on each other, being carried away, didn't react.
Ji Yu didn't know if he was scared stupid or if he was born cold.
Sure enough, someone started talking.
"My grandfather didn't shed a single tear when he died, this kid really has no conscience!"
"Isn't it? When he first arrived in our village, I saw it, and it was a little big in swaddling clothes, and his grandfather bought a ewe from my house that was feeding the cubs, and fed him with goat's milk! ”
"Don't guess, five-year-old child, what bad conscience? In my opinion, eighty percent of them have brain problems......"
"What? You say he's a fool! ”
"Why don't you say a word......
The old man's business is solved, but the child is still a problem.
Several mothers-in-law were chattering there, pacing solemnly.
"You ......" was speaking, and the other voices were quiet.
Li Zheng coughed, and said a little unnaturally: "Whoever is more generous, let's see if I bring the child back...... It's not a long stay, just a few days......"
The quiet crowd exploded and exploded.
Dafeng Village is notoriously poor, and there are not a few families who sell their sons and daughters, and I haven't heard of any adoption. Who wants to raise the children of an individual family? Especially with such a quirky character.
Someone immediately answered: "It can't be my family, my family's five cubs can't be fed, and one more will starve to death." ”
"My house is not good, the house is so big, there are seven or eight on the kang, and the child's father has to lay the floor every day......"
If you can't figure out the reason, you start to play haha: "Oh, it's too late for this one to pay attention, I have to go back quickly, otherwise my mother-in-law will have to scold ......"
"Wait for me! Let's stop by and ...... together."
The crowd dispersed all at once.
There are still a few people who haven't left, and they all have such and such excuses, and the reason why they stayed was completely to watch the excitement and see half of it, and they couldn't sleep until they finished reading.
Li Zheng really couldn't help it, and sighed: "This kid ...... Let's just live here, whoever has more rations, for the sake of the children's pity, will take turns to deliver stuttering food. ”
No one answered, and a middle-aged woman muttered in a low voice: "Lizheng's house is big and there is a lot of food, why don't you take your own house?" ”
The person next to her said she was stupid: "The tigress in his house, can you let him pick it up?" Don't forget that when Li Zheng's sister brought his nephew to defect, the tigress said a word, Li Zheng didn't dare to let it go. ”
Ji Yu was also dumbfounded by this treatment.
To be honest, this is not much bad, the biggest problem is that the ears are soft and there is no action.
But no matter what he says, he is also the head of a village, and when it comes to this kind of thing, the villagers have the right to refuse, but he does not. In other words, it is his unshirkable responsibility to properly handle and deal with the aftermath.
Otherwise, what else do you want him to do here, to be a mascot?
"Uncle Lizheng." Ji Yu tried to reason, "Isn't this inappropriate?" He's only five years old, he's not yet capable of taking care of himself, and he's leaving a child here alone in case something happens to him......"
Ji Yu hasn't mentioned it yet, after the accident has been going on for so long, no one has thought of feeding the child something.
Rizheng interrupted her with a wave of his hand.
"There's no way around it, what can I do...... Alas...... It's not going to be easy...... Without adults, he always has to get used to being alone......"
Li Zheng walked away with three sighs behind his back.
Ji Yu was speechless.
Although when she opened her mouth, she knew that she was soft-spoken, and no one would pay attention to what she said. But I still accept incompetence in this kind of pushing, four, five or six behavior.
The remaining villagers saw that Li Zheng was gone, so naturally they would not stay longer, and Ji Yu even heard the sneer when they turned around.
"This girl has been sick, won't she be stupid, she doesn't know how to live, and she still worries about other people's ......"
“…… You forgot how strong she is, who she cares about, who dies quickly......"
“…… A nemesis...... A demon ......"
Everyone is gone, leaving Ji Yu and the child looking at each other.
To be precise, Ji Yu is unilaterally looking at the child, and the child is empty, or immersed in his own world, unconscious.
Except that it looks like a wind-up machine, one or two hungry words pop out of his mouth at a fixed time, which are so dumb that he can't hear clearly.
Ji Yu then remembered that Hu Liang had been gone for a while, why hadn't he come back yet?
Saying that Cao Cao Cao arrived, Hu Liang and Widow Hu each walked in with a bowl of noodles, and Hu Dacheng followed closely behind with a porcelain jar of water.
It turned out that after he called Li Zheng just now, he was afraid that Sister Xiaoyu would not be able to tell him and be falsely accused, so he hurriedly ran home and called someone. When I went back, I found that his mother and his brother were in the stove room, one burning the fire and the other rolling noodles.
"I heard Liangzi say that the child has been hungry for several days, and the steamed buns at home are cold and hard, so I gave him some noodles...... What about people? What about Lizheng? ”
Widow Xie didn't expect the matter to be handled so quickly.
Ji Yu roughly said what had happened, and first took the light salt water from Hu Dacheng's hand, the wall of the tank was warm, just enough to drink.
She scooped a spoonful and fed it to the child's mouth, and at first she was worried that he would not open his mouth to eat strangers' things, but when the water got on his lips, he opened his mouth and swallowed half of it, still biting and refusing to let go.
Ji Yu used some ingenuity to pull it out, and didn't dare to feed him with a spoon anymore, so she directly let him drink it against the edge of the jar.
People who have been hungry for a long time actually need more water than food. He drank fiercely and urgently, Ji Yu couldn't help him if he wanted to slow down, he refused to put the jar down.
I've been hungry for so long, and I don't know where the strength comes from? It seems that no matter whether you are stupid or not, the instinct of life is stronger than everything after all.
Widow Xie watched from the sidelines and felt really pitiful: "This child, what can I do in the future......
Ji Yu paused for a moment and said, "I'll raise him." ”