A small village by the river more than 80 miles away from Niujia Village.

A dilapidated and random small straw house, out of two big and small girls, the big one is about ten years old, the beautiful face reveals an abnormal paleness, the small one is only five or six years old, but also a pink carved beauty billet, the small face also has a loss of baby fat, the face does not have the abnormal paleness of the big one, but there is no trace of blood on the face and lips, the two of them walked out of the simple thatched house hand in hand at this time, The little one looked up at the slightly older girl with an innocent face, and asked crisply:

"Sister, where are we going, Xiao Yao is so hungry."

The clothes worn by the two of them are much bigger than their own bodies, even the shoes, at a glance, you can tell that they are going to pick up the clothes abandoned by others or their own adults, the small one doesn't even know how many layers of sleeves rolled up to reveal her pink little hands, the big one is slightly better, after all, it is not short.

Hearing her sister's innocent question, the slightly older girl looked at the river in the distance of the village with a puzzled expression, and then touched her sister's soft hair with a soft eye, and said softly, "Let's go to the river to catch shrimp." ”

"Okay."

Although she was so hungry that she trembled slightly even when she stood up, her sister still didn't say anything, just grabbed her sister's little hand tightly and walked towards the river in the distance step by step.

When the two passed through the village all the way, the adults they saw were disgusted and avoided the two of them as if they were avoiding the plague, while the children in the village grabbed the mud on the ground one by one and hit the two of them, scolding as they beat and scolded: "Oh oh, these two wild children broom stars have come out, hit her, hit her..."

Seeing the frightened look on the little girl's face, the eldest one had no choice but to take his sister into his arms, and use his small body to block all attacks, until the parents of the children pulled them away, and the two sisters were able to continue walking towards the river.

After struggling to reach the river, the little girl sadly asked the older girl, "Sister, why are they beating us?" Are we doing something wrong? ”

Looking at her sister who was still frightened with a small face next to her, the slightly older girl gently wiped the mud off her body and said softly: "Xiao Yao didn't do anything wrong, Xiao Yao is the most well-behaved child, isn't it." ”

"Well, Haruka is a good boy."

Looking at his sister's innocent and ignorant look, the slightly older child could only sigh softly, the two are sisters, the eldest is called Lu Qing, the younger is called Lu Yao, the younger one was born and his mother passed away, the village began to say that Xiao Yao was a mourning star of his mother, at first it was only a few people talking, and then gradually even the whole village was spreading rumors, even their biological father, also gradually half-believed, and sprinkled his anger on the two of them.

People are terrible, this is just a feudal superstitious rumor in later generations, but now it is not the later generations with developed information, but a feudal society that superstitious ghosts and gods from all walks of life, and the power of human words is enough to destroy a person and a family, which is caused by ignorance and ignorance.

Later, even their biological father couldn't bear the public opinion in the village, and quietly left the two sisters and disappeared without a trace, which made the people in the village regard the two sisters as ominous, and avoided them like snakes and scorpions every time they saw them, lest they be contaminated with an ominous atmosphere, not to mention that the hungry sisters came to the door to beg for food, and not waving their fists at each other was already the greatest tolerance for the two sisters.

Two months after my father left, the two sisters have eaten up the surplus food in the family, in recent days, the two small bodies have not eaten a decent meal, it is the age of the long body, the older one can grit his teeth to resist a resistance, and the small one is already unable to stand firmly, but every day will obediently accompany his sister to the river to catch shrimp, although not every day there is a harvest, but also barely able to change a bite of food in the village every day.

Although they are all unequal exchanges, more than ten or twenty shrimps can be exchanged for a bowl and a half of overnight rice, and they are all one or two bowls of rice thrown out by Lu Qing who knelt at the door of someone's house, but that is enough for the two sisters to last a day.

knew that her sister Lu Yao was so hungry that she had no strength, but Lu Qing still insisted on taking her sister with her every day for no other reason, because she was afraid that she would be bullied if she put her sister alone at home.

Just like at this time, my sister sat quietly on the stone by the river and watched herself go down to the river to catch shrimp with a fish basket, and she would feel inexplicably relieved, although she was already so hungry that she was dizzy in front of her eyes, and the cold sweat on her face couldn't stop coming out, but for her sister, she had to grit her teeth to find today's food.

But today it seems that even God is taking pity on these two lonely sisters, the harvest is much more than usual, and they are all fat shrimp and prawns, this Lu Qing, who has been suffering for a day, can't help but show a look of joy, today can finally let the two sisters have a full meal.

The harvest was more than half of the previous crop, and happily put all the shrimp into the fish basket, Lu Qing walked to his sister who was about to fall asleep by the river, shook her small body distressedly, and said softly: "Yaoyao, let's go home." ”

Opening his big clear and flawless eyes in a daze, Lu Yao said to his sister in a childish voice: "Sister, Xiao Yao is so sleepy, I just dreamed that my mother came back, our family of four is around the table, my sister is eating big chicken legs, and Yao Yao is also eating small chicken legs, but it's fragrant."

Hearing her sister's innocent words, her sister Lu Qing burst into tears in an instant, choked up and said, "Let's go home, my sister will find you chicken legs to eat, okay." ”

Looking at her sister who was crying silently, her sister Lu Yao tried her best to stand on tiptoe and wiped the tears on her sister's face with her little hands and shook her head gently: "But Xiao Yao doesn't want to eat chicken legs, Xiao Yao just wants to be with her sister." ”

Looking at this sensible and distressing sister, Lu Qing couldn't bear to hug his sister and cry softly, feeling the slight tremor of the thin body on his body, Lu Yao stretched out his little hand and touched his sister's unkempt hair: "Sister, let's go home." ”

Wiping the tears from his face, Lu Qing stood up again and took his sister's little hand, showing a bright smile to it: "Well, let's go home." ”

And my sister didn't skimp on her smile at all, and also gave her sister an innocent smile:

"Hmm."

It was night, my sister Lu Yao had curled up in the simple bed and fell asleep peacefully, what nightmare might have been done in her sleep, her little face turned white with fright, Lu Qing quietly sat on the edge of the bed, her little hand gently smoothed her sister's frowning brows, Lu Yao in her sleep seemed to feel her sister's gentle touch, and her trembling body gradually began to calm down.

And Lu Qing looked at his sleeping sister for a moment, then resolutely picked up the more than 20 shrimp he caught today and walked out of the humble house, and at this moment, there were seven fat shrimp lying quietly on the broken table in the house...