Chapter 20: Silently choked
Worried and worried, Hao Jiali still has to try her best to get money.
And this time, in order to make money, Hao Jiali didn't dare to recall in this life and didn't want to recall the hardships she had endured.
If Hao Jiali remembered these hard days during the day, Hao Jiali would have nightmares at night.
These days are like a demon's hand choking Hao Jiali's throat, making Hao Jiali's chest tight, lack of oxygen, and breathless, and then scare her awake.
Because this period of time is too hard, Hao Jiali can't express the language knowledge she has learned in the first Chinese.
After coming out of the hospital, as soon as Hao Jiali returned home, she saw that there were no grains left in the rice jar at home, the bottom of the jar was facing the sky, and there were a few leftover vegetables spread out in the dishes in the cupboard, and her mother Chen Feng sat at the head of the bed and sighed.
Hao Jiali asked her mother what was going on for a long time, and Chen Fengcai said that Hao Jiali left a few yuan for buying rice, eggs, and meat for the family before she was hospitalized, and all the money for buying vegetables was secretly taken by her son Hao Jiaming to the store on the production team to buy something to eat.
Hao Jiali was so angry when she heard her mother say that she picked up a handful of dried bamboo branches from the wood stove, and then took her younger brother Hao Jiaming, who was playing vigorously with her friends, home, without saying a word, took off her brother's clothes and pants and whipped her brother's body with dry bamboo branches:
"Make you greedy, let you spend money indiscriminately, let you not eat food, you know to eat snacks, you want to starve Mom, see if I don't beat you to death today!" Hao Jiali scolded her younger brother while slapping it.
Hao Jiaming dodged the bamboo branch waving in Hao Jiali's hand with tears in his eyes, and begged Hao Jiali vigorously: "Sister! Sister! Don't fight, I hurt, I won't spend my family's money next time. ”
Chen Feng was distressed when she saw her son crying, and she persuaded Hao Jiali to stop: "Lili! Don't make it clear, which child is not greedy, our family is poor, there is no money, if you have money to buy these things, you have to buy them for your brother to eat. ”
Hao Jiali didn't give up, Hao Jiali was afraid that her younger brother would repeat such a mistake in the future, if Hao Jiaming used up the money again, Hao Jiali would starve to death in this family as soon as she was not at home.
"No, Mom! I won't teach my brother a lesson this time, and if I don't come home for a longer time, my brother will run out of money early, and you two will starve to death in this house. ”
Hao Jiali said this is not unreasonable, Chen Feng's legs have crossed the threshold of his own family at most, what is lacking in the family, Chen Feng has to send his son Hao Jiaming to buy whatever he wants to eat, if Hao Jiaming can't help but be greedy, the consequences will be really unimaginable.
After Hao Jiali beat her younger brother, Chen Feng also told Hao Jiali: "It's only been a few days since you went to the hospital, and the family eats vegetables every day." ”
Hao Jiali immediately complained to her mother: "Mom! Why don't you ask your uncle to bring me a message for such an important matter? ”
During her stay in the hospital, Hao Jiali once told Chen Qing to go home and take a look at the situation by the way, but Hao Jiali was not at home, Hao Jiali knew that her younger brother Hao Jiaming was so young that he couldn't take care of everything at home.
Chen Feng explained and told Hao Jiali: "When your uncle came to the house, I didn't dare to tell you about it, I was afraid that you would not feel at ease in the hospital and delay your treatment." ”
Hao Jiali immediately angrily blamed Chen Feng: "Mom! If I come out of the hospital a few days later, the money on my body will be gone, the money in the money jar at home will be gone, I am still sick, I have not even touched a grain of salt in the past half a month, I am now weak, my feet are like stepping on cotton, my body is so light that the wind can blow it down, my body like this can't make money even if there is a way, you spend the money to your brother like this, and starve to death You both. ”
Chen Feng was silent and let Hao Jiali blame.
Hao Jiali blamed Chen Feng, thinking that she still had more than ten yuan on herself, and the family had enough money to buy rice for the time being, so Hao Jiali was relieved, and then stopped the bamboo branch in her hand and stopped beating her younger brother's body.
Hao Jiaming's body appeared several eye-catching red scars that had been whipped by Hao Jiali, Hao Jiali was a little heavier, but Hao Jiali thought that she had a long memory for her younger brother, and then these bamboo branches hurt the skin and did not hurt the bones, and they would scab over in a few days.
There is no way, there is no decent adult in the family, Hao Jiali can only educate her younger brother with an adult's posture.
After Hao Jiali finished educating her younger brother, she immediately thought that she had no money, and she had to go to the pigsty at home to see how big the pigsty had grown in the half month she was hospitalized.
This pig was raised by the cubs that Hao Jiali bought from the pig farm of the production team after selling snails to make money, and it was Hao Jiali who took a fancy to her.
And when Hao Jiali stood by the railing of the pigsty after arriving at the pigsty, Hao Jiali was dumbfounded, how big was the pig in the pigsty when Hao Jiali left, and how big it is now, it is not much longer than a catty.
What makes Hao Jiali even more unbearable to look at is that the belly on both sides of the pig's body is stuck together like tissue paper, and the pig's mouth is hungry and panicked in the pigsty to prove that it is still alive, but it looks like it has been hungry for a lot of meals, or it is often hungry these days: "This Hao Jiaming, I don't care about family affairs these days when I'm not there, I just care about eating, it's really not like words!" ”
Hao Jiali blamed her younger brother for a few words, stood in the pigsty for a while, and then Hao Jiali went to her grandmother's house.
Hao Jiali entrusted everything at home to her grandmother Cao Juying's helper to remind her that Hao Jiali wanted to ask her grandmother how her family would be in such a situation when she was hospitalized.
Hao Jiali found Cao Juying in the field.
As soon as Cao Juying said that Hao Jiali knew that Hao Jiali's aunt and uncle were in junior high school, one was in the second year of junior high school, the other was in junior high school, and the uncle in the third year of junior high school was about to be admitted to high school.
Originally, Cao Juying has been feeding a pig at home, and before Hao Jiali was hospitalized, Cao Juying fed another pig, which is equivalent to feeding two pigs with one large and one small, these two pigs do not say that they can eat rice for meals, and the grass must always be fed to the pigs, otherwise, when Cao Juying's pigs are slaughtered at the end of the year, they will be thinner than Hao Jiali's pigs.
and Cao Juying raised an extra pig, and fed dozens of chickens and more than a dozen ducks.
Cao Juying planned to feed these poultry and sell them to her son and daughter to study in the city.
Although Chen Zhanjun returned from the Korean battlefield and returned to the countryside, at least he had entered the city and gone abroad, seen a little of the world, and knew that children in the countryside had to study in order to have a way out, so Cao Juying planted a lot of pigs in the field with his hands, and these vegetables had to be watered and taken care of every day, so that they could be picked once a few days and picked again and again for a few days to supply the food of the two pigs.
Then, Cao Juying and Chen Zhanjun circled around the production team, their own land, two pigs, chickens, and ducks all day long, and Cao Juying had almost no time to care about Hao Jiali's family.
Cao Juying, who Hao Jiali explained, fed Hao Jiali's pigs three meals of pigs when she remembered it, and couldn't remember feeding one meal of pigs a day, so Hao Jiali's pigs grew like this.
And Hao Jiali used the money left over when she entered the hospital, and it is impossible for the pig at home to buy rice for it to eat when the family had money a few days ago, and the pig can only eat grass.
Hao Jiali estimates that if there is no rice to eat, this pig will not weigh much as the pig raised by her mother by the end of the year, and it will not be able to sell it for any money.
Hao Jiali wanted to see if the pigs in the pigsty were the same as when she was at home, Hao Jiali thought that she couldn't go to the fish pond all winter after she came back from the hospital, and the money she had on her plus went to these relatives' homes to make up for a little more, and the family could still survive this winter, and when she sold the pig at the end of the year, she could survive until the early summer of next year, and she would not be afraid to go to the fish pond.
But Hao Jiali saw that the pig had lost weight like this, Hao Jiali had no hope, Hao Jiali turned around and went to the chicken shed and duck shed in the firewood house to take a look, Hao Jiali saw that there were no chickens and ducks in the shed.
Hao Jiali panicked at this moment.
Hao Jiali was still thinking about raising pigs in the hospital, and some chickens and ducklings bought from the market had been raised at the same time for three months.
These chickens and ducks followed Hao Jiali a few days ago to eat rice, and they all weighed more than a catty, and they were heavy in their hands, and Hao Jiali was reluctant to sell them.
Hao Jiali wanted to wait for these chickens and ducks to grow up and sell them with pigs at the end of the year, when they were bigger and heavier, so that they could be sold for more money.
Or there is no need to wait for the end of the year, that is, in the three months before the New Year, when Hao Jiali's own money can't be received, she also learns from her mother Chen Feng to pick one or two baskets to sell in the market, and sell these chickens and ducks at any time to save the family from having no money.
But Hao Jiali saw that there was nothing in the shed, and Hao Jiali knew that it was during the days when she was hospitalized and not at home that these chickens and ducks were stolen and eaten when they were looking for food outside.
Hao Jiali didn't ask her mother for the reason this time, and she didn't beat her younger brother Hao Jiaming didn't drive the chickens and ducks into the shed when it was dark and lost the chickens and ducks at home, Hao Jiali sat alone in the family's own plot and cried, didn't cry, just choked silently, shed tears, and then said incoherently: "Father! Where the hell are you? Hao Jiali is sick, Hao Jiali has no ability to make money, Hao Jiali can't support this family, father! If you don't die, go home quickly, and beg you to take care of the lives and deaths of these people in your family! ”