7. The willows and flowers meet the masters
Luo Ci took a deep breath and took Qu Fei down from the tree. It took a few tries before I had the courage to set my feet on this blood-stained land.
Step by step to the backyard, in fact, as long as the first step is taken, it is easier to walk than Luo Porcelain imagined. More precisely, perhaps, at this time, she didn't even have the strength to imagine.
The backyard is not large, and the entrance is an unusually abrupt pile of mounds, where the bones of the Wu couple are buried. There were no coffins, no burial mounds, and even the tombstones were a thin wooden plank...... The family members, who were laughing together not long ago, have now turned into a mound and are buried here haphazardly. Luo Ci knelt down, and after a day and a night, Luo Ci finally cried. Maybe it should be crying, because there is no sound at all from crying, but tears flow quietly without being called. Touching the name on the tombstone, Luo Ci wanted to call Daddy one last time, but found that the voice of the exit was so hoarse that he could barely hear it.
In the end, she cried so hard that she leaned on the tombstone, if Qu Fei hadn't called her, maybe she would have fallen asleep.
"Sister, the cake ......" Qu Fei's voice was slurred.
Luo Ci turned his head, and saw Qu Fei squatting in front of her with a small basket of shortbread gobbling up, holding a piece in one hand and handing it to her, and sending it to her mouth with the other. The basket of shortbread was still a snack that Mrs. Wu made for the two of them in her spare time, presumably she had just entered the house to get it.
Luo Ci took the shortbread but didn't eat it, put it back into the small bamboo basket that Qu Fei was holding, helped her wipe the cake crumbs on her face, and said sadly: "Eat slowly, don't choke." ”
Qu Fei nodded indiscriminately, not paying attention to what she was saying at all. Luo Ci pulled Qu Fei and kowtowed three more times to the Wu couple before getting up and leading Qu Fei into the house. It was much worse than she had imagined, and the house was in a mess, and the officers and soldiers had searched the house after thinking that the team had come in. All the valuable things in the house were looted to the bare left, but the porcelain calligraphy and paintings that Wu Mianfeng loved were destroyed and shattered all over the ground by those illiterate rough people.
went to the kitchen to get some water to feed Qu Fei, and Luo Ci began to pack up their baggage. I barely pulled out a few clothes that could still be worn from the pile of rags, and found the family's dry food to bring with me. After thinking about it, Luo Porcelain went back to his room, under the bed, turned out a small hoe, and went to dig in a corner of the yard. There is her New Year's money buried in the past five years, although it is not much, but it should not be much worse to save a little from Lin'an to Taihu Lake.
After thinking about it, Luo Ci went back to the study and packed up a few words that Wu Mianfeng wrote to her on weekdays. Now that the paper is damaged, Luo Ci sniffed and carefully stored it, and these are the only things left by the Wu couple to her.
After packing up a qiē, resting again, the next day, when the sun was not fully out, by the faint light of the morning, they kowtowed in front of the grave of the Wu couple again, and the porcelain smeared the two little faces, and they went on the road.
The two children didn't know the specific route of Taihu Lake, but they just picked a general direction to move forward. Luo porcelain has not been out much in recent years, and his understanding of this era only comes from a few lines of lead words in the history books of the previous life. But when she went out, she realized that this road was probably more difficult than she had expected.
The fire in Lin'an City had not yet been extinguished, the smoke was billowing out, and the porcelain took Qu Fei to take a look from afar, and blended into the refugee team again. just prayed silently in my heart, wishing that Feng Mofeng would really not suffer an accident like the plot in the original book.
As soon as they left Lin'an City, they followed the refugees all the way, and under her deliberate dress, the two girls were covered with mud, their hair was scattered, and their clothes were tattered, which was not eye-catching in such a group of people. It's just that they are just two children, and there are no adults on the same road, but they are often eye-catching. Fortunately, I didn't pay much attention to it, and I didn't have much curiosity and compassion from exhaustion and hunger.
Although the team was moving slowly, it was still difficult for the two dolls to follow. That afternoon, they stopped by a creek, apparently preparing to rest there for the night. Luo Ci found a big tree and sat down next to them, and not far from them were a man and a woman with a little boy about the same age as Qu Fei, probably a family of three.
After a while, someone in the distance began to set up a pot to make a fire, and someone took out his own dry food to satisfy his hunger. Luo Ci also took some dry cakes and Qu Fei to eat, Qu Fei ate in small bites, and carefully followed the falling cake crumbs under his chin with his other hand. A pair of bright black eyes glanced to the side from time to time, and following her line of sight, Luo Porcelain saw that it was a family of three next to her, and the food was not a good thing, and it was also a few steamed buns with not many pickles, but the little boy was holding a handful of broad beans in his hand.
In the past, a few silkworms made Qu Fei not happy to be a snack, but now...... Luo Ci pinched the silver in the bag and patted Qu Fei to signal her to continue eating. When I took off my shoes, I saw that there was already blood under my feet, several blisters were broken, and the blood □ my socks stuck to the wound and couldn't be torn off. Although Qu Fei was recited by her for a while, it was not much better, but she didn't say a word, and she was so sensible that she was distressed.
"Sister, it doesn't hurt!" obviously frowned in pain, but he still said such things to comfort her.
The corners of Luo Porcelain's eyes were pantothenic, he pulled a smile, raised his hand and touched Qu Fei's dirty face: "Really good, just wait here, my sister will go to the river to fetch some water." ”
The water is very clear, but there are some fallen leaves floating on the surface, and it looks clean. Luo Porcelain drank a few sips, washed his feet on the side, and then poured a pot and took it back. From a distance, I saw Qu Fei's little fat holding something in her hand, and I was a little happy and a little uneasy to see her go back. When I looked closely, I realized that it was a few broad beans, Qu Fei saw that she didn't speak, and he was afraid that she would be angry, but he called out timidly to his sister.
Luo Ci sighed and said, "Look at what I do, just eat it when you take it." ”
Qu Fei happily put one in his mouth. Luo Ci turned around and walked towards the family of three, although there was no return salute, thanking him was needed.
The woman waved her hand indifferently: "A few beans, it's nothing." ”
"Although it's just a few beans, my aunt is willing to give some, that's my aunt's generosity, if you eat it for nothing, you don't even have a word of thanks. ”
The woman tugged at the man beside her and said with a smile: "Yo, you see that this is still a girl who has drunk ink, and her spirit of speaking is the same as that of our sister-in-law Xu Liu Xiucai." It's just that you two girls are in a hurry, but what about the rest of the family? Where are you going?"
"I want to ask my aunt, how far is it to go to Taihu Lake?"
The woman didn't want to say more when she saw Luoci, but she just asked, "Girl, are you going to Taihu Lake?" There are still three or five days to go, but it happens that we are on the same road, and our family lives in Jiaxing, just on the edge of Taihu Lake. It just so happens to take you on a journey. ”
"I'm going to bother my aunt!" Luo Ci heard what he wanted to know, and he didn't want to talk about it, so he thanked him and went back to find Qu Fei. That girl has a heart, and the broad beans also left two for the porcelain. Because it has been pinched for a long time, it is warm, and the porcelain has eaten one, which is a little salty and very hard, looking at Qu Fei's expectant gaze, he licked the crumbs on his fingers and said, "It's delicious." ”
Qu Fei's eyes lit up and he laughed.
After a night of silence, Luo Ci cleaned the wounds of the two and put on some wound medicine, urging Qu Fei to sleep. The two girls hugged each other and barely survived until dawn, and after eating something indiscriminately, they began to hurry again. The woman also beckoned them to go ahead, but her husband's face was not very good, probably thinking that it was a burden to carry them, but he did not say anything.
It's another day of stop-and-go, and walking straight makes people feel that their legs and feet are not their own. In the evening, he found a flat place to rest, and Qu Fei fell to the ground and didn't want to get up again. Fortunately, it has been sunny for the past few days, otherwise if it rains, I really don't know how to get through it at night.
In the evening the man came back from looking for some firewood, and made a fire, and the woman beckoned them to go and make a fire. Luo Ci was not polite, and he didn't care about the man's unhappy face, and pulled Qu Fei around. There was a fire and I slept much more peacefully, but in the middle of the night I was woken up by a cry. It was the little boy that the couple was carrying was crying, and it seemed that he was sick. The crying woke up the people around them, but when they saw the husband and wife who were in a hurry, nothing happened, they turned over and fell asleep again.
Luo Ci looked at it and fell asleep again with everyone, but the cry never stopped, and Luo Ci couldn't sleep. Reading the woman's affection for Qu Fei to give Qu Fei a few broad beans, Luo Ci sighed and got up and walked to the family of three: "Auntie, what's wrong with him?"
The woman held the child and patted it tremblingly, and said absentmindedly: "I don't know why, I slept until midnight and suddenly cried." ”
Luo Ci checked it without a trace, his hands and feet were feverish, his stomach was slightly swollen, he had obvious bad breath when he cried, and his tongue was white and thick. It's not a big problem, it's just a common roast for children. I think it was because I ate too much dry food during the day, didn't drink much water, and got a little cold at night before I became ill.
When I came out, I was afraid that Qu Fei had some problems, so these common medicines were still prepared. He took two and handed them to the woman, who said half-truthfully, "I see that this brother's stomach is a little swollen, and I am afraid that he has accumulated food, and my sister is often like this, so I have prepared some medicine, why don't you try it for this brother!"
The woman was skeptical, but the man glanced at the porcelain directly. Seeing that no one suffers this favor, Luo Porcelain is not annoyed. The medicine is not anything else, let alone from the hands of a little girl like her, it is indeed a little difficult to make people believe it. Luo Ci took her hand back, anyway, she did her best, and besides, this burning food is not a big problem, it can't hurt anything, cry for a day and a half, just eat it.
After turning around and walking a few steps, I heard the woman say, "But what kind of medicine?"
Luo Porcelain stood still: "Just eat!"
Xu was full of confidence and gave the woman some confidence, or maybe she was in a hurry to go to the doctor, in short, in the end, the woman still took the medicine from Luoci and gave it to the child. Luo Porcelain lay down again, and it didn't take long for the crying to fade away, and after a while there was no sound, I think I was asleep.
When she got up early the next morning, the woman asked Luo Porcelain for medicine again, and she couldn't thank her. It's nothing to fall porcelain, and the right should be a thank you for leading the way in the past two days, but it has chosen some cheap for Qu Fei. The man finally had a good face for the two of them, and even saw that Qu Fei was the same size as his son, and offered to carry her for a ride, which couldn't be better, seeing that he was strong, it didn't take much effort to carry Qu Fei.
With the man's help, the next two days will be better. It is said that one day you will be able to go to Jiaxing, but the heart of Luoci has not been let go at all. Thinking that Lujiazhuang was tall and wealthy, the two of them were like dolls called Hanako, and they didn't know if they could see Lu Chengfeng alive, and they were woken up again in a daze with something in their hearts. But it was the couple who had a dispute for some reason, and it was quite intense, and Luo Ci didn't want to listen to other people's **, but the woman's sudden sentence was a little sharp: "You are a black-hearted person, and people have saved our tiger baby." You can't bear to push people into the fire pit and make those black money!"
Luo Ci felt that something was wrong, and listened carefully with pointed ears, only to hear the man suppress his voice and say: "You can still be louder, and if you wake up, there will be nothing." What do you know as a woman, our tiger baby will have a lot of food, and it's okay if you don't want her medicine. Besides, in the past two days, I have been walking the mountain road with that little chubby girl on my back, and I have already paid off that love!"
The woman was still a little angry: "Then you can't sell the two girls to the kiln!"
"What do you know, in this world, two girls who are helpless will be this fate sooner or later, it is better to cheapen us. Besides, it's better to go to the building to eat and drink spicy food than to be hungry outside, which is also their ...... of creation."
The words of the two couples continued, but Luo Ci was frightened into a cold sweat and woke up from a drowsiness. Even if there is silver in the baggage this way, she doesn't even dare to call a car, for fear that the handlebar will be greedy for money and kill her. But now he is still almost defeated, and in this troubled world, nothing is impossible. It's just that she took it lightly.
Now I couldn't sleep anymore, waiting for the two couples to sleep late, and after a long time, they were almost asleep. Luo Ci gently woke up Qu Fei, and when she was completely awake, he ran away with her lightly. Although Qu Fei didn't know why, fortunately, he listened to Luo Porcelain's words, but nothing happened.
It's just that at this time, I just opened my mouth, and it is not very clear, and I don't know where to step on it. It didn't take long to wake up the couple.
I only heard the man scolding: "Damn, let those two girls run away." ”
When he was found now, he didn't care about the severity of his movements, and fled desperately. But how could they run past an adult man, after running for a while, the sky is getting clearer. Seeing that he was about to be caught up, he suddenly stepped on the air in a panic and rolled down the slope with Qu Fei. Where has Luo Porcelain suffered such a sin, the hard edges and corners of the stone cut through the tender skin, and the body hurt back and forth between the trees, not like his own.
I suddenly despaired in my heart, I was afraid that this fall was really going to be sold into the Qinglou by that man. Thinking that I was still not calm enough, what to do so quickly, wouldn't it be better to find a chance to get out when there are people everywhere in Jiaxing City.
Just a second before losing consciousness, Luo Ci heard a loud chirp. The sound of falling porcelain has never been heard before, like the song of an eagle, but it is more sharp and long, crisp and pleasant.