Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Wind and the Drizzle (I)
The heavy rain has been falling, the sky seems to be collapsing, the broken temple where I live has been leaking rain incessantly, and the wet rain has hit the Buddha statue that has already been half left.
My brother is sick again, my brother is easy to get sick in this cold weather, we don't have a bed, we don't have a quilt that can block the cold wind outside, the tattered temple leaks wind and rain everywhere, I look at my brother's shivering body, I know he is very cold, very uncomfortable, but what can I do, I can only reach out and pull my brother to hide in the corner of the desk where half of the Buddha statue is placed.
"Brother...... Cold ......"
"It's so cold...... Elder brother...... Brother ......"
"Brother......... Brother...... I'm cold...... It's so cold......"
My brother was shivering in my arms, his teeth bitten from the cold wind.
But I can't help it, I can't make him warmer, I hold my brother, his high fever can't go down, his body is hot, but his mouth keeps shouting cold, I don't know what to do, my brother's medicine has long been eaten, I don't even have the money to eat, where will I have money to buy medicine.
"Brother, I'm cold and hungry...... I really want to eat steamed buns! Hot and fragrant buns...... Bun ......"
"Package...... It's so fragrant......"
The younger brother was talking in a daze.
As soon as he thought that he had no money to eat, his younger brother said that he was hungry, which really made matters worse.
There is no money to eat, no money to buy medicine, another sadness in my heart hits, we are going to die on this rainy night, my brother's symptoms are more serious, he will die first, I have to wait for my brother to breathe and then leave with him, I don't want to stay in this dark and terrible place for a day.
"It's cold...... Brother ......"
"I'm so hungry...... I'm so hungry......"
"Cold ......"
"Hungry ......"
As my brother spoke, his breath became weaker and weaker, and I don't know if he was hungry or cold, because I didn't know what it meant to be hungry. I haven't eaten in six days, what's hunger? I had long forgotten what it was like to be hungry, I only felt a terrible headache, and I felt nauseous at the thought of the hot buns in my brother's mouth.
Not only did my brother speak strangely, but I felt like I was going crazy, and my brother's eyes slowly closed, and I thought that he was probably dead.
It's good to die, death may be liberation, you will be hungry, cold, feverish, uncomfortable, and there will be no more pain when you die, hahahaha, brother and so on, don't be afraid, my brother will come to accompany you immediately, you won't be afraid, even if it is death, I will accompany you.
I picked up the broken rocks that had fallen from the statue at my feet, half of them so sharp that I could be sent away with a hard stroke.
With that in mind, I didn't hesitate to slash it around my neck.
"Kuang ......" I was startled by a sudden and powerful kick on the door, and the broken stone in my hand was also thrown aside by me in fright.
"This rain is really going to fall, and I won't be left with any chance to prepare, but fortunately, I found this broken temple, and now I have a place to live tonight."
A girl carrying a large white package came in from the broken temple door, followed by a thin figure, the white clothes on her body were wet from the rain, and I held my brother and shrunk behind the Buddha statue.
She didn't see us because of the darkness.
The girl was the same size as us, but the movements of her hands were surprisingly quick, she searched left and right for some firewood that had not been wet by the rain, and gathered a fire in three or two strokes, and she took out the fire fold from her sleeve, and after blowing it a few times, the fire fold lit up, and she carefully lit the thatch on it, and lifted out the large white parcel bag, and from it there was a strange shape thing, and I saw that she put this thing on the fire, and took out a pot of water, I poured water out of it and put it in that strange container.
I understood, it turned out to be a pot, and she was in hot water.
The fire was boiling very strong, and the water in the pot boiled after a while, and she took out another thing from the bag, and I squinted at it, and it really opened my eyes, it was actually a big cabbage.
I saw that she tore the cabbage open and threw it into the pot, and I don't know what she threw into it, and the sudden burst of water and the rising heat made my stomach hurt for a while.
"Little friend, you can really bear it."
The sudden sound startled me.
Did she find out about us a long time ago?
So why did she say it at this time, was there some other intention? But I'm already like this, and my brother is dead, so what's the use of me?
"Come out, the stone statue is weirdly cold."
Her voice was flat, and he didn't hear a hint of malice.
"Why don't you kill me!" He said such a thing to a stranger in the dark, and he felt that it was good for him to let such a person turn out.
"Isn't it good to be alive? Besides, why should I kill you. Her voice was still like that, as if there was nothing in the world that could stir up a little emotion in her.
"My brother is also dead, so what's good about me alive." Obviously an irrelevant stranger, I once again said that my heart is very, maybe the only time I stay in the world to talk to the living, it doesn't matter if I confide in my heart.
"Who said your brother is dead, he still has a breath left, but if you delay a little longer, he will really die."
I didn't expect her to say that? Don't? I stretched out my hand and sighed at my brother's breath, it was indeed gone! This inexplicable person is not deceiving me.
"If you want him to come back to life, don't bother, hurry up and move him to me, I can't help it if it's too late."
"Really? Can you really save my brother? "I asked, but I knew my brother was alive but I wasn't too happy, what do I say? That's probably because even if he lives, we will die again because of hunger, because of cold, for all kinds of reasons, but I can't give up just looking at such a glimmer of opportunity, let his little life die like this, I admit, I am contradictory.
"Well, I don't know what you're doing?" She saw my hesitation, and immediately stood up from the fire, and quickly moved to the stone statue, and at this moment I didn't know that I was dizzy and delirious because I hadn't eaten a mouthful of hot soup for many days, but I actually saw that she moved to me in the blink of an eye.
The next thing that surprised me even more was that she was so young, and her body the size of me actually picked me up with one hand and my brother with the other, and put us all by the fire.
The warm light of the fire reflected on her white face, and for a moment I almost thought it was the reincarnation of an immortal.