Chapter 3 Wild Grapes
She couldn't hold on anymore, even if the rice at home was only for her father and mother, it would only be enough to last for another two days.
Today, her brook, her poor child, is fainting from hunger.
How to spend tonight and tomorrow, Li was at a loss.
Jiang Xi stood by and watched, Li's back was so lonely and distressing, she pinned everything on her husband.
Slowly walked over and hugged Li with his small arms from behind.
"Mother, don't be sad, I believe that everything will pass, and we won't always be like this."
Perhaps it was her hug that infected Lee, or perhaps her words made Lee's strength regain, and Lee turned around and hugged her.
"Xi'er, mother believes that your father will definitely come back!"
At this moment, the Li family would not know that by the day Jiang Xiucai came back, earth-shaking changes had already taken place.
In the afternoon, Jiang Xi drank another bowl of soup, and while he had some strength, he planned to go around to see if he could get something to eat.
Their village is in the mountains, and they don't even have a village name.
If you want to get out, you have to walk for at least half a day to get to town.
It is said that it is a village, but in fact, there are only about a dozen households in total, and the houses are quite far away.
The people in the village have one thing in common, that is, poverty.
As far as the eye can see, except for the mountain, there are adobe houses covered with thatch, and no one needs green tiles.
The river was heading up the hill, and it was summer, and she thought she might be able to run into some hares or something.
An hour later, she had come to the depths of the back mountain, and her feet were so soft that she could hardly lift them. Not to mention a rabbit, she didn't even see a grasshopper.
Desolate, two words are enough to sum up this mountain.
I finally knew why Li was so desperate.
Guarding this mountain where there is nothing, waiting for someone who may never come back, plus the old and young in the house, a total of four mouths waiting to be fed, all the burdens are on the head of the Li family alone.
Jiang Xi took a deep breath and decided to go back the way she came, she had been out for too long, afraid that the Li family would be in a hurry.
As soon as he turned around, suddenly, his eyes were attracted by a touch of purple.
"Wild grapes!"
Jiang Xi's face slowly bloomed into a huge smile.
"It's really wild grapes, I know that there is no endless way."
She ran towards the bushes ahead, in front of the wild grapes, and some thorns.
In her previous life, she might have shy away from these.
But for a person who is about to starve to death, as long as there is something to eat, there is nothing to fear.
When she crossed the thorns and reached the bottom of the wild grape trellis, both of Jiangxi's legs were stained red with blood, but she didn't feel the slightest pain, so she picked a bunch and handed it to her mouth.
After eating more than a dozen skewers in a row, it was really unbearable, and Jiang Xi finally stopped his mouth.
"It's so full!" Touching his round belly has never been satisfied.
"I'll pick some more and bring them back to my mother and grandparents." With Li's thin body and the benevolent appearance of the two old men in mind, Jiang Xi's hands kept looking for larger grapes.
At this time, she disliked her little hands, and she couldn't take two strings.
"What should I do?" She looked around, and there was nothing but the thin weeds.
How she wished there was a plastic bag at this moment.
Suddenly, her eyes fell on the weeds.
"There it is!"