The thatched hut is very broken, and there are still leaks in some places, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a family with four walls.

After asking, I learned that this grass hut has been dilapidated and deserted for many years, and has been uninhabited, and the two brothers and sisters only moved in a few years ago as a shelter from the wind and rain.

Liu Shen also learned during the conversation that the half-eldest son was named Yuan Xiaofei, who was thirteen years old this year;

The little girl's name is Yu Hong, she is ten years old this year, and the two are not brothers and sisters.

Yuan Xiaofei grew up eating hundreds of meals since his parents died when he was a child.

Yu Hong fled with her relatives four years ago, and was lost by her relatives because she broke her leg on the way, and was later picked up by Yuan Xiaofei.

Xu was drenched in the rain and wanted to hold an umbrella for others, moved by compassion, Yuan Xiaofei played the role of an elder brother and took care of Xiao Yuhong, who was only six years old at the time.

Although the two are not brothers and sisters, the relationship between them for four years is much more sincere than that of some brothers and sisters.

'Flood, fleeing, stealing ......'

Rao is Liu Shen is accustomed to seeing the suffering of the world, and his expression is also a little trance, as if he has gone back in time, and once again returned to the time when he fled to Anqing Mansion four years ago.

He looked at Xiao Yuhong's foot of the slope and said, "Expose this foot and let me see it." ”

“……”

Although Yu Hong didn't understand what she meant, she didn't say much, she sat on the edge of the bed obediently and took off her shoes and socks, and lifted her skirt to reveal the slope.

Her foot was nothing, just a dislocated lump in her calf, apparently caused by the misalignment of the bone that had not been professionally treated after the fracture had been broken.

That's why she's limping when she walks now.

Before Liu Shen could speak, he heard a 'gurgling' sound coming from the little girl's stomach.

Yu Hong obviously didn't expect this hungry stomach to scream, and she was a little flustered in her shyness, lowering her head as if she didn't dare to look at anyone.

And Yuan Xiaofei on the side was also red-faced, but he only gritted his teeth and didn't say a word.

Liu Shen sighed secretly, took out his money bag from his body, took out two silver beans, and called, "Boy, come here." ”

"Why?"

Yuan Xiaofei pursed the corners of his lips to his side.

"You kid is quite capable of running, I was tired of chasing you just now, and now I'm hungry."

Liu Shen put two silver beans in the palm of his hand and explained: "I smelled the smell of red-skinned ducks on the street just now, it's very fragrant, go and buy two for me." ”

“……”

Yuan Xiaofei grabbed the silver beans in his hand, looked at Liu Shen, and then at Yu Hong, and then gritted his teeth and ran out.

Yu Hong looked at his back and walked away, looked at Liu Shen very curiously, and asked, "My lord, you just let my brother go shopping, aren't you afraid that he will take the silver and never return?" ”

"He'll be back."

Liu Shen found a bench to sit down on his own and said very firmly: "Because you are still here." ”

Yu Hong lowered her head, secretly wept, and choked up: "My lord, can I go to the official mansion for my brother?" ”

"Nope."

Liu Shen shook his head and asked, "You want to help him go to the official mansion, is it because he is very good to you?" ”

"My brother is very good to me."

Yu Hongli nodded with rain, and choked up: "My brother will sing to me, tell me stories, count the stars for me, and when I don't eat, he will also talk about me, saying that eating can grow the body, saying that when you grow taller, you will not be bullied when the body grows, and you will not be bullied, and ......"

“……”

Liu Shen sighed secretly when he heard this, and asked again: "Listen to what you said, do you know that he stole things?" ”

"Yes."

"Did he teach you to steal, then?"

"No, he won't let me learn or steal."

"What did he say?"

"He... He said......"

Yu Hong wiped the tears on her cheeks, and said in Yuan Xiaofei's tone: "I am a bed bug that everyone hates, don't learn from me when you grow up." ”

“……”

Liu Shen was silent for a long time, not knowing how to speak.

Obviously, he is living a very unsatisfactory life, but he still can't see such human suffering.

At this moment, Yuan Xiaofei ran back panting with two oil-paper bags, and when he entered the door, he was relieved to see that Xiao Yuhong was intact, and put the two oil-paper bags in his arms on the table in front of Liu Shen.

"Two red-skinned ducks you want."

"Hmm."

Liu Shen opened an oiled paper bag, and the pungent aroma reminded him of the unbearable past when he fled to Anqing Mansion.

Yu Guang glanced at it and saw Yuan Xiaofei and Yu Hong, brother and sister, swallowing saliva on the side, and their stomachs were growling with hunger.

He pushed aside the unopened oiled paper bag and said, "Eat it, I can't eat two red-skinned ducks by myself." ”

"......"

"If you want to eat, you will eat, where is so much nonsense?"

“……”

Yuan Xiaofei was frightened by his ferocity before he could speak, and thought that this red-skinned duck was his own severed head.

Seeing Yu Hong's hungry cooing, he didn't shirk anymore, tore open the oiled paper bag with red eyes, tore off a duck leg and stuffed it into Yu Hong's hand.

"Eat!!"

"In the flood four years ago, I fled to Anqing Province."

Liu Shen saw the brother and sister gobbling up the red-skinned duck, and said to himself: "At that time, the government's gruel for disaster relief was limited every day, and I was dizzy from hunger, so I couldn't help it, so I took advantage of the drunken wind building to eat a red-skinned duck to satisfy my hunger..."

"That red-skinned duck is delicious, soft and sweet, and my mouth is full of oil, and there are no bones left."

"The red-skinned duck was also very unpalatable, and when I ate it, it was as if something was stuck in my throat, and I choked on tears, and I barely swallowed it into my stomach until I left behind my dignity."

“……”

The brother and sister were also stunned when they heard him talk about stealing the red-skinned duck without scruples, Yuan Xiaofei pursed the corners of his lips and asked, "Then what?" ”

"And then?"

Liu Shen gnawed on the duck and said with nostalgia: "Then I let go of the burden in my heart and sold myself to eat Caobang rice." ”

"Later, after I received the monthly money for the first month, I went to the Drunken Wind Building, bought a red-skinned duck, and paid for two..."

"I have to say, that duck is really fragrant when I eat it, and now I think about it, it still lingers on my lips and teeth, and the aftertaste is endless!"

“……”

Yuan Xiaofei was stunned in place, as if he heard something from his words, but it seemed to be separated by a membrane, and he didn't really hear it...

"Teach you a very important rule of life, I realized that you were as old as you, boy."

Liu Shen spit out a piece of bone, and Zhengse said: "People are most afraid of encountering two difficulties, one is the wrong way, and the other is the poor way. For most people, it is not terrible to go astray, because there is still a way back from the astray; The terrible thing is that we have reached the end of the road, there is no way back, and there is no way out. ”

"Astray, ...... Despair"

Yuan Xiaofei's eyes were red and he lowered his head, as if he didn't dare to look at him more, and asked, "I...... Do I still have a chance? ”

"Yes!"

During the chat, Liu Shen had already eaten the red-skinned duck in front of him, clapped his hands and got up and said: "The best time to plant a tree was ten years ago, followed by now." ”

“……”

Yuan Xiaofei looked at him stunned, obviously not understanding the meaning of his words.

And Liu Shen came to Xikou Town this time to have something to do, and it was a pure accident to meet their brother and sister, and now that the money bag has been recovered, everything that should be said has been said, so he doesn't want to stay longer.

"I miss that you are young, and I am too lazy to send you to the government."

With that, turn around and go...

In the dilapidated thatched hut, the brother and sister felt inexplicably at a loss when they saw him leave.

Yu Hong sucked the oil stains on her fingers and said softly: "Brother, this adult looks fierce, but he is actually a good person." ”

"I know..."

Yuan Xiaofei's face was cloudy when he heard this, and he wiped the oil stains on his hand casually, then got under the bed and pulled out a broken wooden box and rummaged through it, and after finding a shabby ancient book bitten by insects and rats, he chased it out with an arrow...