After lunch, quietly took the second sister at ease, and the two little ones walked to the bamboo forest behind the house. The guys in the family lack everything, and the four bowls for eating are still brought by Huaihua. There is only one basin, and I have to go back and forth with water or something. Quietly thinking about coming to the bamboo forest to cut a few thick bamboos, which can be used to hold things. I am cutting some thin bamboos and breaking them into bamboo strips to weave a few baskets, and there is really nothing missing at home!

The sisters and brothers cut several thick and thin bamboos in the bamboo forest, moved them back and forth several times, and picked up a few large bundles of firewood, to say that they live at the foot of the mountain, this is good, firewood that can burn firewood, branches, and hay for lighting fires can be seen everywhere. And in the bamboo forest quietly, I accidentally found bamboo shoots, but now the bamboo shoots are still too small, and I will have to wait a few days to dig them. Seeing that the sun was setting, there were a few sisters and brothers, and then they stopped working. The result of a busy afternoon of work is that there are two more bamboo buckets with thick basins that can carry water, six more bamboo cups, one more bamboo chopsticks, two more bamboo shovels, and one more bamboo table tied with thin bamboo. Seeing these people look at each other, they all smiled happily, no matter what? Their days are going in a good direction, aren't they?

Quiet clapped his hands and said to a few small ones, "Okay, it's been a busy day today, let's prepare dinner." ”

"Sister, I'll make a fire for you," Anxin said, sitting on the stone next to the stove, adding firewood to the stove, and taking a handful of fine hay to light it. If you want to say that this dilapidated house, the only good thing is that this stove is connected to the kang, and when you cook on the fire, the kang is also hot. Because the fire was burned at noon, there was a little heat on the earthen kang, and I quietly thought about burning more at night, so that it would not be cold to sleep on the kang at night. There was no oil, no vegetables, only a handful of salty salt from the acacia flower, Jing Jing added a basin of water to the pot, and held two handfuls of cornmeal, he planned to make a pot of cornmeal gnocchi soup to eat. After the water in the pot boils, the stirred gnocchi is lowered into the pot, stirring constantly with chopsticks, and adding a pinch of salt when it is almost cooked, and the kitchen is filled with the aroma of food that has not been seen for a long time.

The two little ones were snuggled up to the door frame, staring directly at the pot with two pairs of eyes, and quietly and clearly heard the sound of the two little ones swallowing saliva, and I don't know whose stomach was gurgling. After a busy afternoon back and forth, I think these two children are also hungry, and the food at noon is afraid that they have already been digested.

Jing Jing beckoned to the two little guys: "Hurry up, take the chopsticks and the bowl, we are ready to eat." Saying this, the pimple soup was also healed, and a full pot was filled. Brush the pot clean, add two bamboo tubes of water to it, and save it for a while to wash the dishes and wash after eating.

Everyone scooped up a bowl full of pimple soup, and Xiao Jiaming held the bowl and didn't care about it, and drank it violently. Jiayue saw that her brother was eating well, and she also followed her brother's example, holding a bowl and drinking it slowly. There is joy and satisfaction between the eyebrows and eyes.

After dinner, maybe there was a temperature in the house, maybe it was because the eldest sister woke up and had a backbone, or maybe it was this full meal after the separation of the family that gave them hope for the future. The three children quickly snuggled up and fell asleep. Quietly looking at the three children sleeping peacefully, my heart was full of mixed feelings. It is said that the children of poor families are in charge of the family early, and these children are well raised by their parents, sensible, reasonable, and united and friendly. Although life is so difficult, there is still optimism and strength in their eyes.

Lying quietly on the kang can not fall asleep. She sat up and took the small wooden box on the kang. Pulled out a bunch of keys from the neckline, this set of keys was given to her by her mother Sun before she died, there were two keys, one large and one small. Quiet hugged the small wooden box to him, this box has been locked since Quiet can remember, and Quiet doesn't know what's inside? It's just that my mother told her before she died that she must take care of the contents of this box, which is extremely important to my mother. Quiet took out the big key and opened the lock. When the lid of the wooden box was lifted, there were only two handkerchiefs inside, and nothing else. Quiet and a little puzzled, just two square handkerchiefs, although it looks like the quality is good, but there is no need to put it in the box, a lock is so many years? And there are two keys that my mother gave her before she died, so what is that little key for? He flipped the box over and over again and didn't see any reason, she didn't give up and put her hand into the box, knocked it with her hand, and sure enough, there was a layer under the box. With great difficulty, he opened the two layers of planks underneath, and under them there was a small box the size of a flat palm. There is also a small lock on the delicate little box, and Quiet takes out the small key and opens the small lock. Inside the box was a letter, as well as a small purse of excellent fabric and exquisite workmanship. Quiet opened the letter first, the room was too dark to be a little unclear. Quiet went down to the stove room outside with the letter. grabbed a handful of firewood and lit it in the stove pit, and by the faint light of the fire, looked carefully: "Jing'er Niang's good child, when you see this letter, I think that my mother is no longer there, and you have to take care of your younger brothers and sisters in the future, since you were a child, your mother taught you and Xin'er to read and write, and her heart is poor, and she can only know some basic words, fortunately, she is a good girl, and her mother is also at ease, you have been smart and clever since you were a child, and you will learn everything once, I know that you are with your grandfather and uncle." You look very much like your uncle, and every time I see you, I always look like I saw your uncle when he was a child... It is difficult for a woman to be born and reincarnate, I am ruthless and let you follow your father's pleasure five, don't complain about your mother, you must have some self-protection ability when you are born in this world, unlike your mother who is bullied and unable to fight back. The mother's surname is Gongsun, and the word Ruolan. She is the daughter of Sun Ji, a former university scholar. My mother died young, and I lived with my father and younger brother, my father was an open-minded person, very good to me and my younger brother, who was smart and very sensible since he was a child, and thought that our family would always live happily like this. But there are unforeseen circumstances, your grandfather was chased by traitors, and he left the court in frustration. Originally, I was going to take our sister and brother to leave Shangjing and go to Jiangnan to join my father's friend. I don't want the thief to give up, he will send someone to rob and kill us halfway, my father lost his life in order to protect our sister and brother, my brother and I fled all the way, those thieves chased closely, in order to save my brother's life, I took the maid to lead those thieves all the way to Qingzhou Mansion to escape. The faithful servants and nurses of the house took your uncle all the way south. Along the way, the maid sacrificed to save me, and I hid alone and came to Qing'an County, just when I was cornered, your father appeared and saved me. At that time, I had nowhere else to go, so I settled down in this Qingshan Village with your father. That's sixteen years. Jing'er, if one day someone holds the same jade pendant to find, it is your uncle, you remember that the front of the jade is a clump of jade bamboo, the reverse side is the word "Gongsun", your uncle's name is changed to Gongsun Boyi, the word Yuzhu.

For my mother, I know that time is short, and the people in the old house can't count on it, so I leave this small amount of money, I only hope that my son can barely survive with my younger siblings. Jiaming and Jiayue are still young, and I also teach them, and if possible, I hope they can read more.

Jing'er, mother's good boy! This family is handed over to you, and my mother is not a qualified mother, and she has put this heavy burden on you and made you suffer. It's my mother who doesn't have the ability, and my mother can't stand you..."

A letter was full of blood and tears, and her mother always looked at her in a daze, but it turned out that she missed her uncle who didn't know if she was still alive. Quiet threw the letter into the pit and watched it turn to ashes, then turned back into the house. He opened the small box and poured out a few silver beads from it. There is also a very fine jade pendant. The jade pendant is blood-red, the tentacles are warm, and it seems to be a warm jade. An orchid is carved on the front of the jade pendant, and the word "Gongsun" is engraved on the back. An Jing stuffed a few silver beads into her purse, and put the small cloth bag wrapped with her mother's jewelry into the small box and locked it, and then put the small li into the bottom of the box, and stuffed a few broken clothes into the box, this time she did not lock the box again but took the lock to the ground and locked the door from the inside.

As for this jade pendant, it is too valuable, and it is not safe to put it anywhere. I simply found two strips of cloth, kneaded them into a thin rope with my hands, passed through the hole in the jade pendant, tied them tightly, and then hung them around my neck. After all this, she lay down on the kang and fell asleep peacefully.