Chapter 3: Up the Mountain
Liang Shuangxi's face flashed with a sense of emptiness, and he quickly shook his head and said, "Second sister, I'm not hungry." ”
'Gollum, Gollum'
Liang Shuangxi fell, and her stomach began to scream again.
Liang Luzhu frowned slightly, and looked at Liang Shuangxi seriously, Liang Shuangxi's face changed, and he knew that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he hurriedly said, "Second sister, I still have dinner to eat, you can rest assured." ”
Liang Luzhu shook his head, the family was already poor and couldn't open the pot, and they couldn't even afford to eat porridge.
Divide the sweet potato into two halves, hand half to Liang Shuangxi, and put half on the ground, she kept it for Zhou.
"Don't, don't." Liang Shuangxi said that she didn't want sweet potatoes, she felt sorry for her second sister, but she was afraid that her second sister would starve.
Those people in the Yang family are all bad people, what a good person her second sister is, but they bullied her second sister like this.
Both of them were reluctant to eat sweet potatoes until the evening when Zhou came back from outside and redivided them into three portions, one for each person.
Zhou dug up some shepherd's cabbage, and the three of them sat on a four-legged wooden table with one leg missing, hurriedly eating sweet potatoes and drinking shepherd's cabbage soup.
There was not much oil at home, and the Zhou family had no money to buy it, so they had to turn off the lights and rest after they hurriedly ate.
At night, Liang Luzhu took Zhou's boiled medicine, and fell asleep with Liang Shuangxi.
Between half dreaming and half waking up, Liang Luzhu had countless nightmares, and when she woke up and saw Liang Shuangxi's sleeping face, her heart was inexplicably settled.
On the second day, she was awakened by Liang Shuangxi's crying!
Liang Luzhu rubbed his eyes, heard Liang Shuangxi crying in Zhou's house, and hurriedly walked to Zhou's house.
"Mother, what's wrong with you?" Liang Luzhu hurried over and helped Zhou to the bed with Liang Shuangxi.
Zhou obviously didn't want them to worry, so he only shook his head and chuckled, "I was bitten by an insect in the forest yesterday, and I didn't pay attention to it at first, it's okay, I rubbed the medicine." ”
"Liang Shuangxi, you stinky girl won't want to be lazy, and you still hide in the house and don't come out."
There was a violent sound outside the house, and then a thin woman with bulging cheekbones and thin lips entered the house, Liang Luzhu found that Zhou was trembling, and she was about to get out of bed, Liang Luzhu hurriedly held her shoulder and shook her head.
Her feet are so swollen, where can she move around!
And the reason why the Zhou family is so scared is because this widow and thin woman is a Ma Pozi, the emperor of the family!
Ma Pozi saw the scene of their mothers and sons gathered around the bed, the corners of her mouth twitched, and she said in disgust, "Damn it, don't die, a bunch of cheap bones." ”
Liang Luzhu naturally knew that Ma Pozi was saying this to herself, she clenched her silver teeth, and secretly swore in her heart that she must become strong and protect Zhou and Liang Shuangxi.
"Grandma, my mother is sick, can you." Liang Shuangxi choked up and walked to Ma Pozi's side.
Ma Pozi raised her chin and said meanly, "Sick? Why don't you die, I don't have the money to treat her, if you want to die, die quickly! ”
"You!" Liang Luzhu is angry, but Zhou is also her daughter-in-law, why should she be so vicious.
If she dies, who will do the work in her field, and who will give her money for the medicine? There is no merit and there is hard work, this man's heart is made of stone!
Zhou Shi pulled Liang Luzhu and shook his head at Liang Luzhu, and then said softly, "Shuangxi, you go and help your milk, I'm fine, just slow down." ”
Ma Pozi glanced at Zhou, twisted Liang Shuangxi's shoulders and walked out, "I can tell you, the pigweed beaten yesterday is not enough, you must beat a little more today!" ”
Seeing that Liang Shuangxi was screwed out, Liang Luzhu couldn't help but get up and wanted to find Ma Pozi theory, but Zhou grabbed her.
"Mother, the fourth uncle has already separated from us, why do we still have to help him work, won't their family do it?"
Ma Pozi followed the fourth, the fourth family fed a lot of pigs, and their own family didn't know how to beat pigweed, but bullied them! Zhou and Liang Shuangxi are used to this, after all, a daughter-in-law can't screw her mother-in-law!
However, Liang Luzhu hated it in his heart, and he didn't want to let the Zhou family live so hard again.
"Luzhu, don't say it, there is still shepherd's cabbage soup left in the stove room, you go to eat it first, and my mother will go up the mountain to find something to eat after resting for a while." Zhou shook his head at her peacefully, with a look of not fighting or grabbing on his face.
Liang Luzhu exhaled slowly, she knew that it was not the time to resist Ma Pozi, or Shuangxi had to suffer a little.
But how can her mother go up the mountain like this!
Liang Luzhu entered the stove room and saw that there was really only soup left in this sheadella soup, and if Zhou drank so much water, it would be inconvenient to run to the thatched house all the time. With a bite of the silver teeth, she took the basket and quietly walked to the side of the mountain.
There was still some pain in her foot, because the wound was not scarred, and she deliberately slowed down. As soon as she arrived in the forest, she immediately went to look for herbs to reduce swelling and stop bleeding. Because of Zhou's sake, she is still somewhat familiar with herbal medicine.
Thanks to the lush vegetation in the forest, she couldn't walk a few steps, and she had already seen licorice and notoginseng with small pink flowers, so she hurriedly put some in her sleeve, took some and put them in her mouth, chewed them, and put them on her legs.
All of a sudden, a strong burning pain came, it was the reaction of the medicine on the wound, she endured the pain, bared her teeth for a long time, and the pain gradually disappeared.
It had just rained, and the forest was filled with the scent of grass, large and small, red and green mushrooms emerging from the rotting leaves. Liang Luzhu was so happy, and thought of how to eat various mushrooms.
Stir-fried shiitake mushrooms, stewed mushrooms......
Pulling up the hem of her skirt, she squatted on the ground and picked mushrooms vigorously, her hands covered with red dust. With a frown, she immediately remembered a terrible truth: she didn't know mushrooms at all!
She was hungry, but she couldn't risk her life to eat it.
Loosen the skirt, all the mushrooms in the skirt fell to the ground, and there was a huge loss hidden in my heart.
She tried to find some wild fruit, but in vain, passed by the edge of the stream, she stopped, and there was a 'gurgling' protest in her stomach, she reached out and rubbed her belly, and then lay down at the water's edge, and drank a few large sips of water.
She had to pick some wild vegetables and go back to mix chopsticks, and Zhou was still waiting for her.
Thinking in her heart, she hurriedly took action, and picked the shepherd's cabbage in the basket after seeing it. There didn't seem to be many people coming over the mountain, and the road was full of thorns, and she took a stick to clear the way and go down the mountain.
There was a pain in the bare foot, and she glanced at it, and saw a green thing covering her bare foot, which was getting shorter and shorter, and was about to burrow into her flesh.
It's a leech!