It was already dark.

Bai Yuyu had been crying and shaking the door in the Westinghouse, but then he probably saw that crying was useless, and now he finally stopped talking.

Bai Jiatang was like a bean in the house, and Bai Futang and Bai Sister-in-law sat at the broken square table against the east wall, talking and discussing in a low voice.

Sister-in-law Bai's cheeks, chin, neck and wrists were scratched by Bai Yuyi's scratches, she couldn't help but "hiss" and said: "Yuyu, this girl, is really a little mad dog, it's good to sell it early, otherwise she might be bitten by her when she will bite her!" ”

Bai Futang hesitated a little, picked up the cigarette stick and took a sip, slowly exhaling an eye circle.

Seeing that Bai Futang was still hesitating, Sister-in-law Bai was furious, and said in a low voice: "Yu Yu, this girl is a little ghost, and she has a lot of ideas!" You forget, when she was seven years old, we didn't let her go to school, how did she do it? She ran to collect firewood, wash vegetables and sweep the floor for the lady who taught first, and begged her to follow Yuhuai to continue to study together! If you don't make up your mind, maybe she will run away tomorrow, and then I don't know who is cheaper, let's have a bamboo basket to draw water, and we will raise her in vain! ”

Bai Futang was smuggling for a long time, and then he said, "Or, give it to Yan's mother and sell it to the Xingping County Palace?" Qingzhou is not far from our Wanzhou, and Yuyu can take care of us in the future! ”

Sister-in-law Bai's eyes rolled, and finally said: "I listen to you this time, but you have to go out, go to the pharmacy in Hezhuang next door, buy a pack of sweat medicine and come back, when the time comes, I will cook a pot of porridge, and put some acacia nectar, even if you add sweat medicine, Yu Yu will not be able to taste it......"

Bai Futang was a little unbearable: "This is our own biological daughter, why bother-"

Seeing that her husband was disobedient, Sister-in-law Bai's eyebrows suddenly rose: "If you don't sell Bai Yuhua, how can we study and study?" How to enter Beijing to take the exam? How to glorify the ancestors? It's all because you have no ability to be a father, and you still cry and mercifully refuse to sell your daughter, and you have the ability to earn a lot of money! ”

Bai Futang was used to listening to Sister-in-law Bai's words, although he was not happy, he no longer objected, sighed and got up and went out.

Locked in the Westinghouse, Yu Yu sat in the pile of firewood and grass, silently thinking about a way to escape.

As the night wore on, the night in the countryside was silent, except for the occasional barking of dogs.

Yu Yu sat on the ground in front of the window in a daze, she was so hungry that she even struggled to move.

The cold moonlight poured in like water, and through the wooden lattice on the window, it imprinted mottled shadows on Yu Yu's face, body, and ground.

The empty stomach twitched, and the pain made Yu Yu's weak body bend into dried shrimp, and the whole person shrank into a ball—except for the bowl of gruel that she drank at noon, she hadn't eaten for five or six hours!

Yu Yu closed her eyes, trying to resist the hunger pangs of the heart.

At this time, it would be great if someone could serve her a bowl of warm and fragrant porridge!

As time passed, Yu Yu became more and more hungry, her eyes turned black and her whole body went soft.

She slumped limply on the ground, her whole body curled into a small ball.

At this moment, the door of the West House was opened with a "squeak", and a sweet porridge fragrance wafted to the end of Yu Yu's nose.

Yu Yu sniffed hard, sniffing the tangy aroma of porridge, suspecting that he was dead—if he wasn't dead, how could he smell such a sweet porridge?

From above, her mother-in-law's sister-in-law's voice came: "Yuyu, are you hungry?" My mother cooked peanut mung bean lotus seed porridge tonight, cooked it badly, and put some acacia nectar you collected last year, which was very sweet! ”

Yu Yu opened her eyes and looked at the sister-in-law Bai who was close at hand with an oil lamp, and was a little moved: It seems that my mother still feels sorry for me! If I insist on it, maybe my mother won't sell me!

Thinking of this, she endured her stomach and intestines convulsed and contracted due to hunger, and looked at Sister-in-law Bai: "Mother, if you want to sell me, I won't drink any porridge!" ”

Sister-in-law Bai knew that her daughter had always been a small ghost and had a lot of eyes, so she put the oil lamp on the ground on the side, and greeted Yu Yu with a kind face with a porridge bowl: "Yu Yu, do you want to feel sorry for your mother?" Drink it, I put a lot of acacia nectar, if you don't drink it, I'm going to drink it! ”

Seeing that Yu Yu's big eyes were staring at herself for a moment, Sister-in-law Bai scooped some porridge with a spoon and put it in her mouth: "It's so sweet!" ”

She hated iron and steel: "Okay, my mother won't sell you, get up and drink the porridge!" ”

"Really?" Yu Yu couldn't believe her ears, she stared at Sister-in-law Bai with round eyes, and hurried three times in a row, "Mother, if you don't sell me, I will definitely work hard, earn more money, and honor you and my father!" ”

Sister-in-law Bai smiled and nodded: "It's really not for sale!" ”

Yu Yu looked at Sister-in-law Bai's eyes, and still couldn't believe it: "Mother, you really don't sell me?" ”

"Nature is true!" Sister-in-law Bai smiled and said, "When will I stop talking?" ”

Yu Yu thought about it and felt that in the end it was her own father, although she was a little selfish, she was still reluctant to sell herself.

She took the porridge bowl, scooped some with a spoon and tasted it, and found that it was really sweet, sweet and glutinous, and it was so delicious!

Yu Yu had never eaten such sweet and delicious food, so she immediately adjusted the spoon after spoon, and soon ate most of the bowl of peanut mung bean and lotus seed porridge.

Sister-in-law Bai smiled and watched her daughter eat porridge: "Yuyu, isn't it very sweet?" I'll give you another bowl! ”

She knew that Yu Yu was very fond of sweets, and all the honey at home was brought back by Yu Yu from the hive.

It's just that the honey at home has been put away by her, and only when her son Bai Yuhuai comes back, she takes it out to make tea for her son to drink, and Yu Yu can't eat these honeys in her spare time.

Seeing that her mother, who was very stingy with her, was so generous tonight, Yu Yu was very puzzled, put down the spoon, wiped the corners of her mouth with her hand, and resolutely refused to eat again.

Sister-in-law Bai looked at the empty bowl in her hand, glanced at Yu Yu with a smile, and said in her heart: "Spare your little girl like a ghost, and you must also take your mother and my sweat medicine!"

Yu Yu was about to get up against the wall, but she felt that her head was swaying and dizzy, her eyes were about to be opened, her body was beginning to weaken, and her bones seemed to be crispy......

She tried to speak, but her throat felt like a ball of cotton, and it seemed to have turned wood, and she couldn't make a sound at all.

Yu Yu tried her best to reach out to grab her mother's hand, but she was empty, she tried her best to open her eyes, and found that her own sister-in-law, Bai Sister-in-law, was looking at her proudly and smiling......

Next, Yu Yu didn't know anything.

The next day, before dawn, the door of the Bai family opened with a "creak".

Bai Futang drove the family's ox cart out of the gate.

The ox cart was covered with bedding, and the white sister-in-law sat on the cart, covered with a quilt, and held the sleeping Bai Yuyu in her arms.

After locking the gate, Bai Futang sat down on the wheel, glanced back at Sister-in-law Bai, and said, "Let's go now?" ”

Sister-in-law Bai hugged Bai Yuyu in her arms tightly and said, "Yuhuai father, hurry up, let's set off now, and when we arrive at the west gate of Wanzhou City, it is just the time to open the city gate!" ”

Bai Futang has always listened to his own lady, flicked the whip, shouted "drive", and the ox cart started slowly.

The dirt roads in the countryside are not smooth, with potholes, and the sister-in-law Bai sat on the ox cart, and her body twisted around, which was really uncomfortable to death.

The road is not good, and the ox cart goes very slowly. Sister-in-law Bai hugged Yu Yu, and she was very impatient, for fear that Bai Yuyu would wake up in the middle.

Although she and her husband had already tied Bai Yuyu with a straw rope, if Yu Yu woke up and yelled, it wouldn't look good.

Yu Yu is good at everything, but she has a strong personality and is very stubborn.

In fact, a girl, since she was born a girl, An Ansheng obeyed her father's arrangement, and exchanged a sum of money for her brother to study, and the lintel will be glorious in the future, wouldn't the whole family have a light on their faces? Why make a fuss!

This is all fate, and it is not okay for people not to accept fate.

Baijiaying is located in the hills in the west of Wanzhou City, both sides of the road into the city of Baijiaying are wheat fields, ponds, poplars and high and low thatched houses, all of which are the common scenery of Bai's sister-in-law, there is nothing to see, it is very boring.

Sister-in-law Bai hugged Bai Yuyu tightly, shrunk in the cold wind of early spring, and said in her heart: When you get Yu Yu's worth of silver, the first thing to do is to go to the silk shop in the city, pull some good materials, and make a two-body Confucian robe for Yuhuai, after all, it is a showman......

In the cold wind of early spring, Yu Yu's eyes were closed and huddled in the arms of her biological mother, and she walked towards a strange and unknowable road of life in a daze.