Chapter 30: Believe
Last winter, there was nothing to eat at home.
Lu Xiaoyu and the eldest sister and the second sister drank hot water when they were hungry, and they didn't dare to say anything, and the three sisters curled up in the cabin all day long and tried not to move, so they could save some energy if they didn't move, and their stomachs would not be hungry so quickly.
Through a curtain, lay their mother and brother.
My brother has been almost a week, and because he has nothing to eat, he can't even climb. And my mother, I'm hungry and I don't even have milk. It was my father who broke the ice and went into the water to touch the fish and came back, so that several members of the family stayed up for another two days.
But later, even if the ice is broken, it will be difficult to catch fish and shrimp, let alone have the money to buy food.
Dad braved the snow overnight to go to his uncle's house to borrow food, drank a large scoop of hot water in the middle of the night, and did not come back the next night.
She was so hungry that she had no strength to speak, and the little brother beside her mother cried less and less, and finally there was no sound.
The second sister said that she seemed to see an old fairy with a white beard, and said that she would take her to the heavens to have a look.
The eldest sister asked, is it beautiful in the sky?
The second sister said that she hadn't seen it yet, so she woke up hungry, and she would fall asleep again, and she would take a closer look when the old fairy family came again.
She also wanted to say that let the second sister take her when the old fairy family came, and go to the sky to have a look together, there will definitely be food in the sky.
She doesn't pick whatever she eats, as long as she can be full.
No, even if she is half-full, she can have a mouthful of food.
But Xiaoyu was already hungry and didn't have the strength to speak, so she could only lie softly, waiting for the old fairy family that the second sister said to pick them up.
Later, my father came back in the snow and brought back food and sweet snacks.
Dad boiled gruel, first fed Xiao Wu with rice soup, then mother, then her, the second sister and eldest sister.
In the end, my father washed the pot of rice soup with water and drank a bowl of it himself.
Lu Xiaoyu had never eaten such delicious rice soup, and when the sticky rice soup was in her mouth, she wanted to cry happily, but she couldn't shed tears.
And those few pieces of snacks, she also got a piece. At that time, she thought it was probably the best thing she had ever eaten in her life.
Even if you die, it's worth it.
Afterward......
Later, Xiao Si came back, and Xiao Si said that the reed leaves could be sold for money, so he really sold them for money. The family ate meat and wrapped zongzi, and Xiaosi also spent a penny to buy two colorful ropes for her and her younger brother.
It turns out that the delicious food in the world is not only rice soup and dim sum, but also fat sausages stir-fried with spicy seeds, large bones of pig's feet stewed with soybeans, and zongzi wrapped with glutinous rice and red beans, and salted duck eggs with flowing oil......
Lu Yangge saw that tears were rolling down Lu Xiaoyu's face again, and hurriedly smashed her with his elbow: "Eat, eat, eat while it's hot." When I make money next time, I'll buy you water chestnut cakes and almond cakes...... I'll buy you whatever you want. ”
Why are you crying, haven't you eaten this zongzi yet?
Lu Xiaoyu turned his head stiffly and looked at Lu Yangge who was speaking.
Chestnut pastry, almond cake......
What kind of things are these, she has never heard of them, is it better than zongzi?
Lu Xiaoyu lowered his head, untied the mat grass on the top of the zongzi, peeled off the zongzi leaves, revealing the white zongzi inside, and lowered his head to take a bite.
Tears mixed with zongzi bite into the mouth, fresh and sweet glutinous with a hint of saltiness.
Lu Xiaoyu sniffed hard, raised his sleeve to wipe his face, took a bite of zongzi and a mouthful of duck eggs, and ate it with tears in his eyes.
She ate zongzi, and in the future, Xiaosi will buy her water chestnut cake and almond cake......
Little four is so good!
The zongzi are also really delicious, soft, glutinous and sweet. The salted duck eggs are also delicious, and when she bites into it, the yellow oil flows her hand.
Li Cancan squatted on his own boat, watching the Lu family sisters and brothers sit in rows on the bow of the boat to eat zongzi and duck eggs.
He suddenly didn't want to be a child of the Li family, he wanted to be a child of the Lu family, he wanted to be like a small fish, with fat intestines to eat, meat and bones to eat, and salted duck eggs if there were zongzi.
Lu Xiaoqing walked up to the bow of the boat with her share of zongzi duck eggs and squatted beside Lu Yangge.
She handed the bowl to Lu Yangge: "Little Si, you eat." ”
She sincerely wants to give Xiao Si to eat, if there is no Xiao Si, there is no copper money at home to buy glutinous rice dumplings.
At least, since she can remember, none of them, the boaters, are willing to spend copper money to buy glutinous rice and come back to make zongzi.
Thirty-seven copper coins, even if the price of brown rice rises now, it can be exchanged for half a catty of brown rice, which is enough for the whole family to boil wild vegetables and eat for two or three days.
"I don't eat it, big sister, you eat."
Lu Yangge stretched out his legs, propped his hands back on the board, looked up at the clear sky, and asked softly, "Eldest sister, do you want to talk like me and my second sister Xiaoyu?" ”
Xiaoyu, who was eating zongzi, was stunned, and even Lu Xiaoqing, who was holding a wooden bowl, was stunned.
What is Xiao Si talking about? What does it mean to speak like them?
"Big sister,"
Lu Yangge looked sideways at Lu Xiaoqing, his expression was slightly condensed, and he said solemnly: "I heard that stuttering can be cured. ”
"No ......"
Lu Xiaoqing shook her head in a panic: "No, no." ”
Many people say that stuttering can be cured, but how can the family have the money to treat her.
Besides, this is not a disease, it does not affect eating, drinking, or working.
At most, at most, she talks less and goes out less, so that there will be a lot fewer people to make fun of her.
"Eldest sister, it can really be cured."
Lu Yangge sat up straight and grabbed Lu Xiaoqing's arm to stop her from flinching.
The eldest sister is so good to her, even if she is not the eldest sister's real brother, she should help the eldest sister.
What a good eldest sister, how can she delay her life because of her stuttering, so that she will never dare to look up at people or speak loudly.
"Small, little four......"
Lu Xiaoqing bit her lower lip and endured it so that she didn't let herself scream.
She thought she was used to it, to the ridicule of others, to the pity of others, to the guilty gaze of her father and mother when they looked at her.
"Little Four, can it really be cured?"
Lu Xiaoyu jumped up, and the zongzi in his hand was not so fragrant.
"Yes." Lu Yangge nodded.
"Do you want a lot of money?" Lu Xiaoyu took out her pocket and took out the two pennies she had allocated last time: "This is for you, we will earn money and save it in the future to buy medicine for the eldest sister." ”
Even if you continue to eat bran vegetables in the future, don't eat zongzi, don't eat fat sausages, don't eat any water chestnut cakes, almond cakes.
Lu Xiaoyu was brought up by her eldest sister since she was a child, and in her heart, her eldest sister is a person who is closer than her father and mother.
Because of her eldest sister's stuttering, her friends often laughed at her when she was a child. It's okay for others to say anything about her, but as long as she says the eldest sister, she and the second sister will definitely not let go of each other, and they won't stop until they break the bloodstream.
If the eldest sister is good, it will be a good thing.
She is such a good eldest sister, she should be like all good sisters, beautiful and generous to talk to people.
"No money."
Lu Yangge looked at Lu Xiaoqing, who was gritting his teeth and trembling in front of him, held her arm tightly, and asked, "Eldest sister, you believe me, you can cure the disease without spending money." You're sick, as long as you're cured, you'll be fine. You believe me, shall we try? ”
Lu Xiaoqing's eyes fell on Lu Yangge's face, looking at her confident appearance, her heart slowly loosened.
Xiaosi is so powerful, he can make money selling reed leaves and mat grass, maybe he can really cure her.
She hesitated for a long time before she nodded slowly under Lu Yangge's firm gaze: "Okay." ”
I believe in you, Little Four.