Chapter 9: Hairyammon
"Little four, give you something delicious."
The curtain of the hut was lifted, and the light flashed.
Lu Xiaoyu grabbed a handful of tender plant stems and leaves with both hands and walked sideways into the shack.
Lu Xiaoli, who was following Lu Xiaoyu, raised his hand to roll up the curtain of the shack and hung it aside, letting the fresh air and sunlight squeeze into the narrow hut together.
Lu Yangge looked at Lu Xiaoyu who was smiling, and the corners of her mouth also showed a shallow smile, she was used to the name Lu Xiaosi, and she was also used to Lu Quan's wife and the three sisters of the Lu family.
Lu Xiaoyu put down the things in his hand on the low table beside him, rubbed his hands and approached Lu Yangge's side: "Little Si, are you feeling better today?" ”
"Much better."
Lu Yangge glanced sideways at the table next to the bed, one was grass and the other was thorny thorns, "What is this?" ”
Dusty memories are churning in her mind, these are the things she ate when she was a child, right?
"This is the woolly ammonium grass, just peel the outside and eat the white one here."
Lu Xiaoyu picked up the grass that Lu Yangge had shown him, peeled it off, revealing the white cotton wool inside, and handed it to her mouth, "Little Si, have you ever eaten ammonium grass?" ”
Lu Yangge opened his mouth to take it, shook his head and lied: "I haven't eaten it." ”
She has eaten it, but now the little girl who is impersonating the fourth child of the Lu family should not have eaten it.
Hearing this, Lu Xiaoyu's face was immediately full of anticipation: "Is it delicious?" ”
Lu Yangge chewed twice, a small ammonium grass was not enough to even plug between her teeth, but she tasted a slight sweetness. A faint smile appeared on the originally sallow face: "Sweet, it's quite delicious." ”
"yes, I'm right."
Listening to Lu Yangge's sweetness, Lu Xiaoyu's eyes bent into crescents, and he stuck out his tongue at Lu Xiaoli, who was standing at the door with his arms crossed, "Second sister, I said that the fourth child would like it." ”
How could anyone not like ammonium grass, which was the only thing they could eat for children from poor families who didn't have to spend copper money.
Seeing Lu Xiaoyu say this, Lu Xiaoli didn't bother to pay attention to her, so he only snorted lightly and looked at the sky outside with his arms crossed.
The blue sky is as pure as washing.
In the past few days, Xiaosi's body has improved, and his father's brows have been soothed a lot.
The family is getting poorer and poorer, but after the fourth child is better, he doesn't need to take medicine, which is also a happy event.
"This hairy ammonium grass needs to be eaten in large handfuls to enjoy it."
Lu Xiaoyu peeled off a dozen or so with his hands and feet, and stuffed them into Lu Yangge's mouth together, "You taste it again." ”
Since Lu Xiaoyu knew that he and Xiao Si were the dragon and phoenix fetus, and Xiao Si was not in good health when he was born, he was sent to his uncle's house to raise, Lu Xiaoyu has always felt very guilty.
She felt that she must have robbed Xiao Si of her food in her mother's stomach, and Xiao Si was not in good health and was sent away.
Because of this reason, Xiaoyu, a lovely little girl, can't wait to cut off two taels of meat from her body to give to Xiaosi to eat, so that she can get better soon.
Forced by Lu Xiaoyu's enthusiasm, Lu Yangge woke up and ate a lot of strange things in the past two days.
For example, the soft and slightly sweet hairy ammonium grass, the sweet and delicious spiny sprout, the sweet and sour flavor of the carryon, the fishy grilled small fish and grilled small river shrimp and so on.
A bunch of things that could be eaten, but were not very delicious, were carefully sent to Lu Yangge by Xiaoyu.
It's just a short contact, and Lu Xiaoyu in Lu Yangge's heart is a warm-hearted and cute little girl.
Lu Xiaoqing, the eldest sister of the Lu family, is gentle and loves to laugh and almost never speaks, at first Lu Yangge thought that it was because the eldest sister was not familiar with her, but later Lu Xiaoyu slipped out of her mouth.
Because the eldest sister is a stammer, she is rarely heard on weekdays.
However, in Lu Xiaoyu's mouth, Sister Xiaoqing is the best eldest sister in the world, unmatched.
The second sister Lu Xiaoli is a very diligent little girl, she can hold the boat, go down the river, and protect her sisters and sisters. He fought with the naughty boys who lived near the wild pier, but he was not close to Lu Yangge.
Most of the time, it was when Lu Xiaoqing and Lu Xiaoyu circled around Lu Yangge, but she was a little far away from Lu Yangge, and she didn't like it.
Her alienation is not hidden, it is spread out so big, very open.
But Lu Yangge knew that after she fell ill, Lu Quan had been carrying bags at the dock to earn money in order to earn money for her medicine, and the matter of fishing and casting nets fell on Lu Xiaoli, who was only a teenager.
In the evening, Lu Xiaoli and Qiu went to the river to lay nets, and early in the morning, Lu Xiaoli and Qiu went down to the lake to collect nets.
If you catch a fish, you have to send it to the vegetable market at the pier to sell it.
When you're lucky, you can earn more than ten or twenty wen a day. When you are unlucky, you either don't catch a fish, or you can't sell the fish you catch, so you can only bring it back to eat at home or marinate it.
Relying on the mountains to eat the mountains and relying on the water to eat the water, there is no shortage of fish to eat.
When the weather is cold, it's okay, and the pickled fish can be sold for a few bucks when it's dried, but it's not cost-effective to pay for salt.
The warmer the weather gets in March, the more difficult it is to do fishing. Fish are very easy to die when they leave the water, and dead fish cannot be sold at a price.
Qiu's family wants to nurse the child, and he also has to take care of the sick Lu Yangge, and the fish that can't be sold in the vegetable market can only be handed over to Lu Xiaoli to find a way.
At this time, Lu Xiaoli held the wooden barrel and sold it door to door, not asking for the price, as long as he could exchange it for some copper coins.
The barrel was already sinking, and with the water and fish, it became heavier and heavier.
Lu Xiaoli ran down in a circle, and his arms were so tired that he sometimes couldn't lift them. In this way, she never complained or complained.
At home, Lu Xiaoqing rarely goes out because of her stuttering, she will help Qiu take care of her younger brother, boil medicine for Yang Ge and freshen up, and give Lu Xiaowu shit and urine, and change diapers.
Although Lu Xiaoyu is not big, she also has things to do, she has to pick wild vegetables every day, blanch the wild vegetables she picks back, mix them with stick noodles to make wild vegetable dumplings, and then send them to the dock to eat for Lu Quan, who is carrying the bag. The adults and children in the family either eat wild vegetable dumplings or drink wild vegetable paste.
Only after picking wild vegetables did Lu Xiaoli have time to talk with Yang Ge to relieve his boredom.
After eating the hairy ammonium grass, Lu Xiaoyu began to peel the skin of the stinging sprout again: "This thorn sprout was pinched by the second sister, but it is tender." ”
Hearing Xiaoyu mention her, Lu Xiaoli rolled his eyes silently on his expressionless face, turned around and left.
Although Lu Xiaoli walked quickly, Lu Yangge still saw the faint redness on Lu Xiaoli's fingers.
This is when she pinched the stinger and was scratched by the thorn on it?
Lu Xiaoli's little girl is really hard-mouthed and soft-hearted!
Lu Yangge couldn't help laughing, but he didn't expect to drive the wound on his chest, and he was almost choked by the ammonium grass in his mouth.
"What's wrong? What's wrong? ”
Lu Xiaoyu was so frightened that she bounced up, raised her hand to slap Lu Yangge's chest, and was grabbed by her.
"I didn't ...... It's okay. ”
It's fatal, if you are slapped by Xiaoyu's slap, the wound that has finally healed is estimated to be even worse.
"Are you really okay?"
Lu Xiaoyu asked again uneasily, and made sure that Lu Xiaosi was fine, so he continued to peel her thorn sprouts with peace of mind.
Lu Yangge reclined on the bed and listened to Lu Xiaoyu whisper some gossip she had heard.
In the small shack, it is rare to have a quiet time.