Ah Die climbed back to the dirty table with three holes in the middle, looked at the piece of corn cake, and asked his brother, "I still want to eat a bite of corn cake, just take a bite." Besides, I haven't eaten corn cake in 285 days. ”

Arrow was always puzzled by his sister's math: "Isn't it? On the tenth day of the summer festival this year, didn't we eat? ”

Ah Pei said aggrievedly: "No, you only brought back half a scum cake that day, although Aunt Gu Xue said that on the tenth day of every summer festival, we should eat the best food of the year." ”

"In any case, there won't be two hundred and eighty-five days without eating corn cakes." Arrow said decisively.

"You can't tell lies. Men have no right to tell lies. I remember it clearly, since Aunt Gu Xue left, we haven't eaten corn cake once, and we haven't eaten tsamba and cheese once! Die yelled angrily.

"Then you can only take one bite tonight!" Arrow said sadly.

Ah Die got permission, stretched out her hand, dug a small piece on the corn cake, and was about to put it in her mouth, when she raised her eyes and saw Ah Rui's eyes, she reluctantly put back half of it, now only the size of a fingernail remained, she stretched out her tongue and licked it gently.

Really, the corn cake of the Silver Star family is much better than the dregs cake and the elm leaf cake.

A smile spread across her face, and she stretched out her finger to her brother: "You can taste it too, it's delicious." ”

Arrow reluctantly twisted his head and said angrily: "I'm a big man, I said I wouldn't eat if I didn't eat." ”

"It would be nice if Aunt Gu Xue was here, at least we could eat corn cake every thirty or fifty days." Ah Die happily licked the residue of the corn cake on her fingers, and her mouth made a chirping sound.

This completely hit Arrow's self-esteem. Aunt Gu Xue fell ill with a cough in the winter three years ago, and every day she said that she was fine, but she still had to struggle to go to the salt pan to dry salt. In winter, the amount of salt harvested is very small, but Aunt Gu Xue said that a little is better than nothing.

Since the day she arrived in Snow Blue City five years ago, Aunt Gu Xue has been drying salt in the salt pans, and she has to dry ten fields every day like a man, always working non-stop, hoping to get more salt, so that she can exchange more silver quills to go home.

But her aunt could not get out of bed again after a deep sleep one night, and her only words before she died were that she hoped that the siblings would eat the best food of the year on the tenth day of the summer festival. She didn't even tell her siblings what ethnicity their mother was and what her name was.

Arrow gave all the silver quill saved by her aunt to Grandma Wu on Chawu Street, and asked her to ask someone to send Aunt Gu Xue to Butiao Mountain for burial.

Most of the people on Cha 5th Street are commoners, with various craftsmen, various silversmiths, and sewing and embroidery. The civilians surnamed Wu here have a little sacrificial ability, and the iron-branded pariahs living in Snow Blue City will come here to find people when they can't get a doctor or a doctor.

Seeing that the brothers and sisters were pitiful, Grandma Wu asked someone to help him find a job drying salt in the salt field, because he was less than twelve years old, and he was looking for talents to work in the salt field.

But in less than a month, Arrow got into a fight for stealing other people's salt, and was severely repaired and expelled by the salt field steward.

Since then, Arrow of Snow Blue City has only two choices: starve to death, or starve to death as a beggar.

Arrow and his sister have no choice, and the only way is to starve to death as beggars. The only hope in their lives is to find their aunt, the aunt who will come to their rescue in Gu Xue's mouth.

"She'll come to you, as long as you live well!" When she was dying, Aunt Gu Xue confessed repeatedly.

In this world, Aunt Gu Xue is the only one who treats them well, and every silver quill she earns will buy something back, and sometimes even bring back a worn-out book with many missing pages.

As the iron brand pariahs of Snow Blue City and the Great Hui Dynasty, they are not qualified to read and write. But Aunt Gu Xue is literate, she taught them a few simple words, and after her death, Ah Die, who crawls at home every day, slowly learned to disassemble and read by herself.

"Didn't you hear from your aunt today?" Adie asked solemnly. This is an important thing that must be asked every day.

Arrow shook his head: "I'm walking on Tea 3rd Street and Tea 4th Street today. Two families on Cha San Street kicked me out because I had stolen their scum cakes. Only five families are open on Cha 4th Street today, and it is too cold. Then I saw the son of the salt historian's family. ”

Adie took out a crumpled notebook from under the dirty case, took out a pen holder made of pheasant feathers, and poured the cold water from the bowl into a torn-edge tea dish.

Although this tea dish with broken edges is inconspicuous, it was snatched by Arrow from the garbage discarded by the salt historian's house. Since Arrow got this tea plate back, Ah Die has a special writing inkstone.

Not only did she learn to read, but she also learned to write and record herself.

Ah Die dipped the pheasant quills in the ink in the tea saucer and recorded it neatly in the notebook.

"Over the years, we have searched all the streets and alleys of Snow Blue City, and no one knows our aunt." Arrow sighed.

Ah Die's hand swept over the wrinkled notebook one by one, and shook his head: "No, there are also two families on Chasan Street, as well as the salt historian's house, the imperial historian's house, and those mountain people on Butiao Mountain." As long as we keep looking, we will definitely find the aunt. ”

"Aunt Gu Xue has been dead for three years, and before she died, she said that Aunt Gu would definitely come to us. It's been three years, where is the aunt? Arrow said with some disappointment, "Could it be that Aunt Gu Xue lied to us?" ”

Ah Die was still looking at the places that her brother had found and asked over the years in the dim candlelight, and suddenly, she remembered something:

"We've been looking for Aunt Gu all along, but we don't know what Aunt Auntie's name is, what if we find someone who knows Aunt Gu Xue in the future? Maybe those who know Aunt Gu Xue will know our aunt. ”

Arrow smiled proudly: "It's still my sister who is the smartest, yes, among the people who know Aunt Gu Xue, there must be people who know our aunt." As long as we know that we are looking for Aunt Gu Xue, then Aunt Gu will know about us. ”

"As long as she hasn't forgotten us." Ah Die said softly, "You have to help me find a map of Rongzhou, if my aunt is not in Snow Blue City, we will have to find it in other cities." ”