Chapter 11: Three Meals

"Sister Keke, can you help me and my sister choose a name? My mother doesn't know, and I don't know what to call it! The eldest girl said like a little adult, looking at Keke with longing eyes.

After listening to the words of the eldest girl, the Qian family on the side also said: "Keke, you have read the book, or please trouble you to think of two names for the eldest girl and the second girl." ”

"Then I think about it, and I'll tell you if it's good or not, whether it's good or not, you can decide when the time comes." Keke thought about it, it wasn't a big deal, so she agreed. Saying that, everyone came to the dining room, Qian put the food box on the table, Li Qingwan went to the kitchen to get the dishes and chopsticks out to serve everyone rice, Qian also followed to help after putting the food box, the eldest girl took the second girl and waited on the side, without Qian next to him still looked very restrained, especially the second girl, holding the eldest girl's hand and sticking to the eldest girl. Keke stepped forward and said softly, "Girl, shall we take my sister to wash our hands?" Wash your hands and come to dinner! ”

"Okay." The big girl replied, and under the leadership of Keke, she went to the bathroom sink, Keke let go of the wooden plug blocked on the bamboo, and the small water flowed out along the bamboo and into the sink. Looking at Erya who was not tall enough for the sink, Keke picked up Erya with one hand and helped her wash her hands, while the eldest girl washed herself, took the white cotton cloth hanging on the shelf next to her, wiped the hands of the two girls, and then took them back to the dining room.

Qingwan and Qian had already set up the dishes and chopsticks, looking at the food on the table, the eldest girl shouted: "Mother, there is white rice and meat!" Erya also shouted: "Mother, I want to eat meat!" ”

Qian Shi was a little embarrassed and said to Keke and Li Qingwan: "Keke, Qingwan, I'm sorry, we haven't usually eaten white rice and meat, and the child is very greedy, so I want to eat it when I see it." Not only did the two children be greedy when they saw the white rice and meat, but they also swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva when they saw Qingwan open the food box and the plate of meat and white rice that came out of it. In the past, even during the Chinese New Year, I had never seen so many delicious things here. In the Zhang family, I have been tired for six or seven years and have not eaten a big bowl of white rice like today, and the meat is even less, and it is rare to eat it once in a month or two.

Keke thought that it was rare for people in the village to eat a meal of meat, and the Qian family was disgusted by the Zhang family, so they didn't talk about wearing it, and the clothes of the three of them were thrown out by the Liang family, and they had two burdens, and it must be very bad to eat, otherwise the two little girls would not be so eager when they saw the food on the table, and said with a smile to the Qian family: "It's okay, this is what I bought for everyone to eat, sit down and eat, it's almost cold." ”

After the three of the Qian family sat down, they held the rice bowl, only ate the rice, and rarely ate the vegetables. The eldest girl is five years old, she must be able to eat, but the second girl is only three years old and can eat by herself, even if she accidentally spills the rice on the table, she picks up the rice with her hands and feeds it into her mouth, eats attentively, and does not speak. This reminded Keke of his modern nephew, who was a little naughty, screaming at any time before and after his aunt, and never seeing him in the future, as well as his parents, brother and sister-in-law, thinking of these, his heart was sour, his eyes were a little red, and he couldn't hold back the tears that came out of his eyes, and said softly: "Eat more meat, so that you can grow beautiful, tell your sister what you want to eat in the future, and my sister will buy it for you!" "I wanted to talk about it, but I didn't know how to cook. After that, he stretched out his hand and sandwiched some meat for the two sisters, and said to Qian: "Sister-in-law eats it by herself, don't see it, my sister and I usually don't eat much, it's a pity that we can't finish eating." The three of them all looked malnourished, and Qian was only twenty-two years old, upright and youthful, and now his face was full of wind and frost, his hands were also rough, and his shabby clothes were patched heavily. The eldest girl and the second girl have yellow muscles and thin muscles, and even the small braids on their heads seem to match the skin, and they are also yellow and yellow, like a handful of withered grass.