Qin Chuchu couldn't lift her strength, hunger and illness had exhausted her physical strength.

Lying on the shabby bed, she heard the 'squeak' sound of the wooden door being opened, and she cheered herself up.

"Chu Chu, how is it, is your body okay?"

A man walked in, smiling shyly, and the two eyes couldn't stop looking at the little pale girl on the bed.

Qin Chuchu tugged at the thin quilt, frowned, and said, "Thank you father for your concern, I'm much better." ”

This stepfather has come over several times since she crossed over, and some of his intentions are obvious.

"Drink more water, and the disease will get better quickly." Liu Zigui took in her weak appearance and couldn't help but take two steps forward.

"I can't drink it." Qin Chuchu tried to stop him.

"How can you do it without drinking water on a hot day......" Liu Zigui thought he was soft-spoken.

As he spoke, he was already standing on the edge of the bed, and slowly stretched out his hand: "Is the quilt so tight and not hot?" Quickly open up some breathable ......"

Qin Chuchu glared at his hand and said coldly, "Father, I feel very cold. ”

The rough black fingers had already touched the corners of the quilt, and Liu Zigui smiled and said, "Daddy will help you warm up." ”

At this moment, there was a sound of footsteps outside the door, and a little girl with a double bun walked in.

"Sister, I didn't find ...... Ah, Daddy is ...... too."

As soon as the little girl saw Liu Zigui's figure, her voice unconsciously lowered, and she stood hesitantly at the door, not daring to come in.

"Hehe," Liu Zigui's smile stiffened slightly, and he didn't lift Qin Chuchu's quilt in the end, and said: "I can't afford to hire a doctor at home, so Chu Chu will fight hard and recuperate well." ”

He glanced at the little girl, rubbed the corners of his hand unwillingly, and turned out.

"Sister......" The little girl cowered timidly by the door.

"Ruoruo, come here." Qin Chuchu whispered to her.

The little girl stepped forward obediently, looking at her with black grape-like eyes, and her voice was soft: "Sister." ”

"Would you like to pour water for my sister to drink?"

Qin Ruoruo was very well-behaved, went over to the table and picked up the kettle to pour water, and carefully sent it to the bed with the missing sea bowl.

She was so thin and out of proportion that she seemed to be trembling with a big head and big eyes, and her thin arms holding the bowl as if she were trembling.

Qin Chuchu drank water and lay down again, as one of the oil bottles in this family, she had been sick for three days, and she was so hungry that she doubted her life.

This body is not hers, in a certain war era, her father died in the early years of conscription, and her mother took the two sisters to remarry.

If you don't remarry, you can't live, Liu Zigui is an old bachelor, and he reluctantly accepts two children for his daughter-in-law.

After two years of stumbling days, Qin Chuchu's body gradually grew, and the thirteen or fourteen-year-old girl who was just beginning to develop attracted the secret covetousness of her stepfather.

Usually the foundation is not good, but this time the illness directly took away the life of the original owner.

Qin Chuchu couldn't help but sigh, she had worked so hard to survive, wouldn't she have to die again or wait to meet her stepfather's groping pig hand?

"Sister, when will you get up?" Qin Ruoruo moved a small wooden stool and sat down on the side, "My sister has slept for a long time. ”

"Where's Mother?" Qin Chuchu asked.

Qin Ruoruo thought for a while: "It seems that I went to dig bamboo shoots." ”

What are the bamboo shoots at this time...... The original owner's mother's surname is Fang, and she is the second oldest in the family, and everyone is called Fang Erniang.

If she didn't know anything about Liu Zigui's thoughts, Qin Chuchu didn't believe it, this stepfather has become more and more brazen recently, but Fang Erniang didn't say anything, and she didn't know about it.

Seeing that her mother couldn't count on her and her sister was young, Qin Chuchu could only grit her teeth and get up, she had to save herself.

"If so, let's go out."

As soon as she got out of bed, she was dizzy and dizzy, and her eyes were black, so she endured it and put on her clothes.

On hot days, it is better to wear two more pieces to avoid getting sick.

If you don't take medicine for a cold, how can you do it just like that, especially if you are weak.

Qin Chuchu doesn't understand pharmacology, but she recognizes Houttuynia cordata, which can be made into vegetables and eaten, and ordinary heat, poison and dampness can also be cured, and there is a canal near the village.

Liu Zigui should have gone to the ground, Qin Ruoruo followed Qin Chuchu step by step, and the two went out slowly.

The sun outside was so bright that I couldn't open my eyes, and I went to work at this point, and I didn't see any neighbors left or right.

Qin Chuchu looked for it on the side of the road when he left the door, and God favored him, and he was found by her before he walked far.

A low piece of plant, as inconspicuous as the weeds next to it, Qin Chuchu asked Ruo Ruo to help pick a handful.

Qin Ruoruo is young, but she is very obedient, and because Fang Erniang is not intimate with the sisters, she mostly follows her sister.

After coming out for a while, after walking a few steps, Qin Chuchu felt that his physical strength was overdrawn, his stomach was empty, and his head was dizzy.

What a terrible experience......

When I returned home, I had to let Ruoruo be responsible for picking Houttuynia cordata, a young female doll, but she was no stranger to the job of picking vegetables.

Fang Erniang was busy with things in the field, most of the meals at home were made by the Qin Chuchu sisters, and Ruo Ruo had already learned to help if she followed her sister.

What Qin Chuchu wants to do is to salad Houttuynia cordata, take out the sour jar from the kitchen, and marinate the washed Houttuynia first.

Then crush the garlic cloves for later use, light a fire on the stove and heat a little oil, then add some crushed chili peppers and stir-fry until fragrant, and finally pour on the houttuynia cordata and garlic cloves.

After finishing this, Qin Chuchu was already about to collapse, but his stomach kept rumbling the moment he smelled the fragrance.

Just know that if she is hungry, she can still be saved.

With Qin Ruoruo and the two of them, they finished eating a plate of cold houttuynia cordata, the sour and spicy taste well covered up its own fishy smell, and they couldn't eat enough for the main meal, and it was extremely rare for them to have this extra meal.

"We actually ate grass." Qin Ruoruo blinked her eyes and said happily: "It's delicious~ Can you eat it tomorrow?" ”

Qin Chuchu couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard this, I'm afraid it will be difficult tomorrow, there are sour jars in the small kitchen, but there is very little lard.

In the past, stir-frying had to be saved and saved, and there was no extra food for them to eat after meals.

"Sister will figure it out." Raising his hand to touch Ruoruo's head, Qin Chuchu rubbed back to the house to rest.

I slept until dinner in the evening, and when I got up, I obviously felt a lot more relaxed, although I was still weak.

Qin Chuchu shook his palm, and when he went outside the house, Ruoruo not only washed the dishes, but also cleaned the small yard.

The yards here are fenced off with bamboo fences, and some vegetables are planted in them or chickens and ducks are raised in captivity.

It was dark, Liu Zigui and Fang Erniang had just come back from the field, if they had already cooked porridge and brought out the pickles, they could eat it.

My sister is very capable, and she is only six or seven years old.

Qin Chuchu glanced at Fang Erniang, a black and thin woman, who was a little silent.

The porridge was very thin, and he could even see the reflection of the beams from the bowl, Qin Chuchu was not picky, and drank two large bowls.

Only by putting more food in the stomach can you get better quickly, and if you are hungry all day long, you will have the strength to defeat the disease.

A large pot of porridge was eaten by four people, Liu Zigui touched his belly and said, "The village chief is coming again in the past two days, and the family can't give so many copper plates." ”

"What to do?" Fang Erniang's face showed a sad expression.

"I want to ask you what to do! Don't get tired of me getting beaten. Liu Zigui's two eyes slanted over Sister Qin Chuchu.

They are talking about taxation, and in the turbulent times, the frequent increase in taxes for military reserves can be described as a lack of livelihood for the people.

Farmers like them, tired and tired of planting a field, the harvest depends on the eyes of God, ten acres of land to collect rent four hundreds, three horses of silk and three catties of cotton, how much is left of their own family?

In addition, the poll tax is levied on the population of each household, fifty copper plates per person under the age of fifteen, two hundred copper plates for adults, and the merchant's slavery is doubled.

Qin Chuchu is not yet fifteen years old, so it is fifty copper plates, and the family will cost five hundred yuan.

The farmers are facing the loess with their backs to the sky, so poor that they jingle loudly, and they only scraped together the land rent not long ago, where to find so many copper plates now?

Every family is worried, and Liu Zigui is even more annoyed and irritable, because the child is not his, and he is naturally annoyed when he can't take out the copper plate.

"I'll take Ruoruo into the city tomorrow." He slapped the table and said.

Fang Erniang's eyes were stunned, "Are you trying to ......?"

"What are you doing in town?" Qin Chuchu asked.

"What to do? Of course, it's to find her a good family! Liu Zigui pouted and smiled.

Is this to sell the little girl, Qin Chuchu reached out and grabbed Ruoruo, and said, "No." ”

"Shall you say it?" Liu Zigui smiled and said, "I'll take you without her, Chu Chu~"

The tail note was sticky and disgusting, Qin Chuchu glanced at Fang Erniang and found that she was sitting like that, not saying anything.

With a chilling reaction, Qin Chuchu took Ruo Ruo back to the room first, and the little girl threw herself into her arms as soon as she entered the door in an instant.

"Sister, I don't want to go into the city, I don't want to leave you."

Who said that children don't understand anything, she is actually more sensitive than anyone else.

Sensing that the young body in his arms was trembling slightly, Qin Chuchu couldn't help but sigh, and slowly reassured: "It's okay, sister will find a way to ......"

Actually, she couldn't think of it.

Because the body is not well, whether it is to resist or escape, and the world is difficult, unprepared travel is undoubtedly death.

There are even those villains who are desperate to take risks, and when they see the lonely woman, they have bad intentions, and they are sad to arrest and sell them.

Qin Ruoruo fell asleep quickly, she had done a lot of things during the day, and the child was already sleepy.

Time is too short, what to do to make money quickly? Qin Chu was so sad that he couldn't do it, so he wiped his body with water and went to bed.

As soon as he lay down, the wooden door was gently pushed open.

"Chuchu? Hehe~ Did you fall asleep? ”

Qin Chuchu's face froze, he was really annoyed by this simple room without a door bolt, and the most annoying thing was this Liu Zigui.

"Chu Chu, Daddy can't help it, if you can't pay your taxes, you will be beaten to death."

Liu Zigui walked in slowly, the visibility in the room was very low, but he didn't light the lamp, it was too expensive to light it.

"You don't want me to die, you will be helpless at that time." He continued, a little smug.

"Get out." Qin Chuchu glanced outside the door, thinking about whether he would appear when he yelled at Fang Erniang.

Liu Zigui would go out obediently, he came to the bedside and said with a smile: "We Chuchu are getting better and better-looking, compared to the widow in the next village, I don't know how much more beautiful~"

The widow of the king in the next village is considered to be 'famous' in the nearby area, and her husband can only support himself by doing the skin and meat business after her death.

Qin Chuchu didn't feel insulted, she just wanted to know how to get through this crisis.

However, Liu Zigui didn't give her a chance to think more, and grabbed her as soon as he stretched out his hand.

"Girls are all going to get married, and no matter how good-looking Chu Chu is, it will be cheaper for others after all."