Thirty-nine days is the coldest period when people perceive it.

During the coldest part of the year, my hands and feet were frozen, the rivers froze, and the rivers were closed.

The sun in winter always dispels the cold and brings warmth.

The door of the Lou family's compound opened early in the morning.

"Father."

As soon as he shouted, he smelled his temperament before he heard it.

"Shixian is here."

As soon as Lou Qingyuan saw that his eldest son, he was sensible, had a good personality, and was generous and pure, so he was happy.

The smooth and fair face is reflected in the winter sun

Although he is a ten-year-old child, he has the elegance of the moon rising over the green mountains and the spring breeze passing through the desert.

With clear eyes like morning dew, his eyebrows quietly raised up rebelliously, the bridge of his nose is straight, and his long eyebrows are like willows.

"The young master is here, young master, don't freeze." The housekeeper frowned, for fear that the little master would be frozen in the snow.

"Uncle Shen, it's okay, my father asked me to come." The young master should arrive.

"Master, shall we make some medicinal porridge? Last year, the West Courtyard received a lot of medicinal materials, Pound looked through the account book last night, and found that the rest of the year before was slightly more than the previous years, if it is used in porridge, you see, it is feasible? ”

Steward Shen took a stack of account books and flipped to the last year's total exchange.

Lou Qingyuan looked at the accounts, and it was indeed a lot of medicinal materials that were not precious left.

"In this way, Uncle Shen, you go to the West Courtyard and take Shixian with you, find some people, find out the medicinal materials that are suitable for use in porridge and food, and then let the kitchen add some lilies, seeds, and white lentils, cook more porridge, and set up a shed at noon, and divide it among the homeless people in the back alleys."

"Yes, I'll go to Zhangluo. The lord is really kind-hearted! ”

Lou Qingyuan patted the snowflakes falling on Lou Shixian's shoulder: "Shixian, do you know what medicinal herbs can be used in porridge?" ”

Lou Shixian smiled deeply: "Father rest assured, the child is clear." ”

"Good! Then go for it. Lou Qingyuan benefited from this proud child and was overjoyed.

The water in the kitchen was boiling pot after pot, and the porridge was mixed with the available medicinal herbs, both in terms of taste and medicinal effect, it seemed to add a touch of heat to the wanderers in the back alley.

A few families cleaned up the porridge shed, and the kitchen served pots and pots of medicinal porridge outside.

The homeless people swarmed up, their hair disheveled, and their faces black.

There was no look in his eyes, but after seeing the heat in the porridge shed, he rushed over and waited in line to get a hot meal in his hand.

"It's porridge! Come and get it! ”

A few maids, the family screamed at the top of their voices, for fear of missing someone.

The soup soup was carried out in an orderly manner, although there was no bread biscuits, but there were a lot of hot medicinal porridges.

In a corner against the stone wall, Lou Ran saw a boy, the same boy she saw yesterday when she was picking up plum blossoms.

The boy's eyes were covered by the messy hair, and as he had been yesterday, he was like a frozen vulture, huddled in that corner and must not move.

"Sister, look there." Lou Ran pointed his finger at the child in the wandering pile.

"Sister, those people next to me are all receiving porridge, why didn't he come to receive it?"

Lou Wenjing looked in that direction, looking at the figure, he and herself should be the same age.

"Why don't we go and see?"

"Yes, sister."

Lou Wenjing looked curiously, and from time to time pulled Lou Ran and approached the boy step by step......

None of them dared to go in, for the boy did not move, as if he were dead.

Lou Ran walked slowly with her sister, with only two colors in her eyes, blue sky and white earth.

Step by step, Lou Ran seemed to be able to hear his heartbeat and the sound of squeaking in the snow.

Lou Wenjing and Lou Ran came a little closer, and Lou Ran patted the boy's shoulder with his hand.

He's so skinny......

Lou Wenjing said cautiously, "Well, aren't you hungry?" ”

The boy raised his head, his eyes were dim, and he met Lou Wenjing's eyes for a moment, and he quickly lowered his head.

He looked down at his tattered clothes.

The stitches have long been broken. There was a cold wind leaking from his trouser legs, looking at his feet and necks that were about to give birth to chilblains, and the two well-dressed girls in front of him, he was so inferior that he didn't even dare to raise his head.

"I'm not hungry."

The boy's voice was hoarse and quiet, not as clear and bright as his peers.

Lou Ran saw that the boy kept his head down, then squatted down and held his arm with his little hand: "You are talking nonsense, how can you not be hungry, I am hungry without eating, you are obviously hungry!" ”

"I'm not hungry."

The hoarse voice was cold, like the cold wind.

"Good boy, don't be stubborn, eat something, it's hot." A middle-aged man who was drinking porridge next to him said.

Lou Wenjing looked at the little boy and said, "If you are embarrassed to take it, I'll take another bowl and bring it to you to taste?" ”

"No, I don't want to live." The boy's eyes were still as dark as night.

Ran Er stood up suddenly, her little face was angry, red from the wind, she pulled the boy and pouted.

"Don't talk nonsense! My mother taught Ran'er that no matter how poor a person is, he has dignity and the right to live. If you say this again, I will find my mother, just like Brother Shixian made a mistake, and hit your palm! ”

The boy was stunned, raised his head, and there was an imperceptible color in his eyes. The two girls in front of them are as kind as ordinary children next door, and they don't look like they want to bully people at all!

Lou Wenjing saw that he raised his head, and hurriedly said: "Yes, you see how fair the snowflakes are, our faces are all frozen into the same." ”

After Lou Wenjing finished speaking seriously, the boy looked at them and smiled a little.

This look, a round face, with these two big eyes, really can't find the moving place under it if you don't look carefully.

It is...... This eyebrows and hair are all messy, and it obscures the good look!

After speaking, Lou Wenjing ran to the bottom of the porridge shed, brought a bowl of medicinal porridge, and walked back slowly, afraid that it would spill out if it was unstable.

"Oh, here you go, drink it."

The boy picked up the bowl, but he still didn't drink it, and he felt very hot.

He didn't want to sit on the ground to eat, he was so embarrassed, he felt very unbearable, and he didn't show any feeling when he stayed with those homeless people, but the two girls who came suddenly made him feel inferior.

Come to think of it, a young boy with strong self-esteem.

"What's wrong? Don't you like to drink? ”

Lou Wenjing didn't understand why he didn't drink it?

The boy finally said a long sentence seriously: "No, no, it's not that I don't want to drink, it's that my mouth is already frozen, and the porridge will hurt when it touches, and I'm drinking it when the porridge is cold." ”

After listening to this, Lou Wenjing glanced at the boy's lips, and wondered in her heart, how could he have such a miserable life!

A thought flashed through Lou Ran's mind, and asked the boy if he wanted to go to her house and play together, so that the boy would have a place to live.

"It's warm in my house."

Lou Ran pulled the little boy.

The mother said that the child is the most precious.

How can a child wander?

"Me?"

"That's right, study with us, my mother is very good, she must like you very much."

Lou Wenjing also persuaded her in a similar way.

Lou Wenjing had an idea: "Have you ever read a book?" ”

The boy shook his head.

"Are you literate, then?"

"I only know a few words, which are from the two poems that my mother taught me to memorize when I was a child."

Lou Wenjing suddenly smiled, she thought of a good way......

"I have a good way, wait for me to take you in, you must cooperate with me, so that you can definitely stay."

"Huh?"

Lou Ran jumped in front of the boy and stepped on the snow under his feet: "Ah what! Listen to my sister, my sister, but smart! Trust us! ”

The boy had nowhere to go, he was only seven or eight years old, and besides...... So you have a place to live. He is a child who has no parents and no one wants, can he finally have a place to stay?

"But, the people of your family will really make me ......, I ...... I'm dirty......" the boy said before falling silent, clutching the corner of his coat.

Lou Ran put his arm around him!

"Dirty what? I'm dirty too! Don't talk about yourself like that. We didn't feel dirty at all! ”

After speaking, Lou Ran smiled mischievously. The boy's face had a little bit of a look of sunshine.

"Okay, listen to my sister. Walk! After Lou Ran finished speaking, he pulled the boy through this step-by-step snow mark and went to the main hall.

In the main hall, Lou Qingyuan was talking to his wife about some things after the New Year. Lou Qingyuan looked at the two daughters taking the wandering little boy one after the other, and didn't know what they wanted to do.

"Ran'er, Wenjing, this is ......" Lou Qingyuan was very puzzled by his daughter's move.

"Is this kid bullying you?" Madame asked.

However, this little boy doesn't look like he can bully, he keeps his head down, but he is very quiet.

Lou Ran hurriedly shook his head.

Lou Wenjing explained: "No, mother, he didn't come to get the porridge just now, and Ran Er and I went to see it before we knew that his lips were frozen and rotten, and he couldn't eat." After the daughter saw it, she was sad for a long time and couldn't be happy. ”

"Really?"

After Lou Qingyuan passed, he looked at the tattered boy in front of him, and his eyes were also full of distress and unbearability. He raised his hand and touched the back of the boy's shoulder......

It's too thin, too. It's just a child, how can he be so pitiful......

"Child, where is your family?" Madame asked gently, her tone was unbearable.

"My father killed a lot of people, was taken away by the government and beheaded, my mother was set on fire at home, I went out that day and a little brother in the backyard to fold paper, when the fire caught fire, the little brother carried me out of the backyard and escaped, but I am ...... now There are no more families, they are dead. ”

The boy spoke slowly, and the main hall was quiet, and everyone was holding their breath and listening.

Lou Qingyuan asked, "What about the little brother?" ”

"I can't find it." The little boy looked up at a wall in front of him. He used to have a home, and there were walls in the house, and he had a mother.

"This, hey......" Madame and the old man were very sad.

Lou Wenjing suddenly pulled her mother's hand: "Mother, he is literate and can memorize poems." ”

Lou Qingyuan was surprised: "It's so small! Which poem do you memorize, and can you memorize it? ”

The boy spread his clothes with his hand and raised his head: "Vote for me with papaya, and repay it with Qiongju." Bandit retribution, always think it is good!

Vote for me with a peach, and repay it with Qiong Yao. Bandit retribution, always think it is good! Vote for me with Mu Li, and repay it with Qiongjiu. Bandit retribution, always think it is good!"

Lou Qingyuan was very surprised, at a young age, he could recite this long poem word by word, word by word, word by word, between tones, no ostentation, no exaggeration, he is a good boy!

"Do you know what this poem means?"

Lou Qingyuan didn't pay attention to the boy's shabby clothes anymore, he just looked into the boy's eyes and asked one by one.

"Yes, my mother taught me."

The boy was not timid, and replied calmly. When he said the word "mother", Madame's heart ached, this child was too sensible, but it was a pity how could he be so tormented.

"Well, let's hear it."

"Although the thing you cast for me is papaya, and your affection is more precious than Qiongju; I repay you with Qiongju, and I can't exhaust the gratitude in my heart to you. Unlike "giving back the favor", what is given back is worth much more than what is given. Therefore, cherishing and understanding the affection of others is the noblest affection. ”

The boy is not educated in poetry and books, although every word is slow, but it is determined!

"Good! Good! What a good boy! Lou Qingyuan patted the boy on the shoulder, like a father.

"From now on, you will stay in my house, be a schoolchild, study, and count me Lou to help you, the suffering of this world should not be borne by the children, are you willing?"

Boy stupid?

Family?

Family?

I have...... There's a home. The moment when the boy's eyes were moist, it was all under the eyes of the lady.

The lady took the boy's frostbitten hand, bent down and wiped the boy's dirty face: "Good boy, I've hurt you." Uncle Shen, take him to change his clothes, in the future, he will be a member of our Lou family! ”

Shen Boci came over and took the little boy's hand: "Okay! Sir, Madam, our family is really kind-hearted! Good boy, come on! ”

The emotion in the boy's eyes was inexplicable, he could finally be like other children, and he finally didn't have to wander.

He looked at everyone in the main hall gratefully, and there were smiles on his face in addition to tears! Shen Bo held his little hand gently and powerfully, it turned out that the feeling of being protected by others was so happy!

Outside, there were one or two birds chirping that didn't rest in winter, and it was very lively.

The snow has also stopped, and the heavy snow is now clean, and the sun is slowly shining on the eaves.

This winter will finally be able to survive.