Xiao Ru walked aimlessly with Xiao Jian, and only walked not far away, a middle-aged woman stopped Xiao Ru and asked: "Girl, look at you like this, you are here to join your relatives, it is going to be dark this day and you want to leave?" Did you find any relatives? ”

Xiao Ru smiled lightly and nodded perfunctorily: "Hmm." I knew in my heart that the quarrel with my aunt and uncle just now was heard by this aunt, and people didn't ask her sister and brother directly if they were kicked out by her relatives, so they inquired so tactfully.

The aunt said kindly: "It's not safe to go back at night, why don't you two stay at my house for one night and leave tomorrow?" ”

Xiaoru hurriedly replied gratefully: "Thank you, auntie!" ”

The kind aunt waved her hand: "Thank you, thank you?" Who doesn't have a hard time? ”

Xiao Ru hugged Xiao Jian and followed the aunt into the gate of her house, and the small courtyard was cleaned up.

The aunt said to a middle-aged man in a loud voice: "The child's father, I see that these two children have no place to stay so late, so I took the two of them home to live for a night." ”

The aunt's man has a loyal personality: "Cheng Li! You look at the arrangement! ”

The aunt asked her daughter to fetch water for the Xiaoru siblings to wash their hands and faces, and then let them go to the table to eat with their family.

Xiaoru excused himself and said, "Auntie, we had dinner." ”

"Where did you have dinner? Don't lie! Hurry up and eat! Although my family is not wealthy, I can still afford a meal. The aunt served a large bowl of rice to his sister and brother, and insisted that they sit at the table and eat.

People are so sincere, Xiao Ru is not too hypocritical, and eats with Xiao Jian.

The small farmer doesn't have any good vegetables, just a few green vegetables, but everything you eat when you're hungry is very sweet.

Xiao Ru remembered the bottle of pickles and the boiled eggs in his basket, so he took out the pickles and boiled eggs, and the three boiled eggs were distributed to the aunt's three children, and the bottle of pickles was eaten together.

The aunt's three children are all very educated, and they didn't eat the eggs when they stuffed them hard.

The aunt stuffed the three eggs back to Xiaoru: "What are you doing here?" We have eggs at home, and you leave these three eggs for your brother to eat. ”

Xiaoru still divided the three eggs into one for each child: "My brother has already eaten it, if my aunt doesn't accept these three eggs, we will be embarrassed to spend the night at my aunt's house tonight." ”

When the aunt heard her say this, she let her three children accept the eggs, and put some vegetables in the bowl for Xiaoru: "You kid, it's so polite!" ”

After eating, Xiaoru rushed to wash the dishes and boil the bath water, and when she took a bath, the aunt specially sent a piece of soap that had just been opened for Xiaoru to use, and thoughtfully asked her to wash her hair, and the sweat on her head smelled bad after a day of running.

In the mid-80s, there was still a shortage of materials in the mountains, and they were reluctant to use soap to wash clothes, but to beat clothes with a mallet, let alone soap for bathing.

It's been a while since I've traveled to this plane, and I haven't used soap once.

Truth be told, soap is much cleaner in the bath than just rinsing with water.

After washing their hair and taking a bath, Xiaoru sister and brother sat in the courtyard with their aunt's family to enjoy the shade and do homely cooking.

Xiao Ru learned that this kind aunt's surname was Yang, so she was called Aunt Yang, and the three children were named Yang Chun, Yang Xia, and Yang Qiu, all of whom were girls.

Aunt Yang gossiped and inquired about what obstacles Xiaoru encountered and wanted to come to her relatives, parents.

Although Aunt Yang is kind-hearted, she is not familiar with her after all, of course Xiaoru will not tell her about the bad things in her family, and lies that her parents are gone, and she can't live in poverty in the mountains with her younger brother, and wants to do some small business in the county.

Aunt Yang glanced her up and down: "What kind of small business are you going to do in the county?" ”

Xiaoru used a pu fan to catch mosquitoes for Xiao Jian: "I want to go to the gate of the county middle school to sell rice, auntie, I want to buy your rice, oil, vegetables or something, okay?" ”

Her idea was not a whim, but since she learned that the Lin family was going to sell her two sisters and brothers, she had already calculated in her heart that the county middle school was much larger than the Qingshan Town Middle School, and as long as her meals were cheap and beautiful, she would definitely be able to make money at the gate of the county middle school.

Before Lin Laohan and the others were brought to justice, she and Xiao Jian couldn't go back to the mountains, and they couldn't use up the money in their hands, so they had to find a way to make a living.

"Okay! Why not? Aunt Yang agreed very happily, and then said worriedly, "But the school has its own cafeteria, will those students buy your food?" ”

Xiaoru said what she thought in her heart: "I definitely can't only sell green vegetables, I also serve meat dishes, but the selling price is the same as the price of vegetarian dishes in the school cafeteria, I think some students will come to eat." ”

"The price of meat and vegetarian dishes is the same, so what money do you still make? I don't think you're in the business of selling food as soon as it's too late! Aunt Yang kindly persuaded.

Xiao Ruqian smiled: "I'm not buying meat to make meat dishes, I want Uncle Yang to catch some eel crucian carp and sell it to me cheaply, the cost of eel crucian carp is low, and even if it is sold at the same price as the vegetarian dishes in the canteen, it should be able to make money." ”

Aunt Yang pondered for a moment and said: "Crucian carp has a lot of bones, it is troublesome to eat, and it has to be braised to be delicious, it costs oil, eel~ It's not that I splashed you with cold water, it is estimated that no one will eat the boiled vegetables, it is too fishy!" ”

Xiaoru stubbornly said, "I want to try." ”

Aunt Yang thought for a while, nodded and said, "If you want to try, try it, I will ask your Uncle Yang to catch eels and crucian carp for you early tomorrow morning, we don't need the money, and it won't take much effort to catch eels and crucian carp." ”

Xiaoru knew that Aunt Yang was afraid that she would lose money in business, so she didn't want to collect eel money and crucian carp money, and besides, these two things couldn't be sold in the countryside at all.

Xiaoru replied yes, thinking to herself, when she earns money, she will give Aunt Yang money for eels and crucian carp, and Aunt Yang will accept it at that time.

At night, when the two sisters and brothers were sleeping in a small single bed, Xiao Jian hugged Xiaoru's neck tightly and asked with a crying voice: "Sister, are our parents really dead?" ”

Xiao Ru didn't know how to answer for a while, she said that it was just used to perfunctory Aunt Yang's family, but Xiao Jian took it seriously: "Although I am not dead, it is almost like death, and I don't care about us." Xiao Ru complained.

Komi drilled into her arms, as if looking for more protection.

Early the next morning, Uncle Yang caught a large bucket of eels and a large bucket of crucian carp.

After breakfast, Aunt Yang's family went to work in the fields and went to school, and there were only two Xiaoru sisters and brothers left in the family.

Xiaoru started to get busy, so many crucian carp had to be slaughtered and pricked into minced meat, and it took a lot of effort.

And she has to kill the eel herself, although she is still very afraid of the eel, but she still kills hard, and she can't tolerate her timidity in the face of a difficult life.