The air in early autumn has gradually become cold, and with the cold wind, Yu Jiaoniang's voice also carries a faint sadness.

Yu Jiaoniang was born in a small town, which was the predecessor of today's Baishi Town, which was very poor at that time, but not everyone was poor.

Her parents are just croppers who work hard in the soil every day, but they still can't fill their stomachs, because the food they receive has to be handed over, and the remaining part can only be used to make gruel, barely keeping the family hungry.

To be precise, her parents also have a name, called, sharecropper.

Most of the land in the town belongs to a large family surnamed Li in the town, although the land boundary is still in Shuzhong, the Li family is the biggest voice in Baishi Town, as long as the Li family says a word, who will plant the land this year or not, the family will starve to death.

Yu Jiaoniang's father, in order to rent the field smoothly every year, will also deduct half a handful of rice from the porridge that is already thin soup, and save it for the Li family, so that he can barely keep the qualification to rent seeds.

If such a balance can be maintained, Yu Jiaoniang's family will not be ruined.

At that time, there were a total of five members of Yu Jiao's family, her father and her twelve-year-old eldest sister, and ten-year-old Yu Jiaoniang and an eight-year-old brother, living together in a simple and dilapidated house.

"The dilapidated house had a fist-sized seam, stuffed with discarded straw, or it was windy that night, and it was late autumn, and the weather was much colder than it is now, and every word was white. ”

Yu Jiaoniang's younger brother, on that very ordinary night, the straw in the crack fell, the cold wind blew coldly, and finally, he became ill.

By the time dawn and Yu Jiaoniang found out, her brother was already full of nonsense, and his forehead was even hotter.

According to the home remedies in the countryside, the fever is wiped over and over again with wine, after all, the pharmacy all recognizes money, and in this home where food and clothing are difficult, this method can only be used.

Unfortunately, this approach did not work.

Yu Jiaoniang's father only had such a son at the age of thirty-five, which hurt in the palm of his hand, and in the face of the situation that his son might die, he made a decision to exchange the food that he was going to use to bribe the Li family for money, and treated Yu Jiaoniang's younger brother.

But the money from selling grain is not enough to sell medicine.

She listened to the kind old doctor say that she was just infected with the wind and cold, and she could take some medicine, but the medicine was a bit expensive.

This was heard by the shopkeeper of the pharmacy, and the shopkeeper saw too many poor people like Yu Jianniang, and immediately ordered someone to drive them away.

Then, she and her father were kicked out of the pharmacy, and no matter what they begged, the people at the pharmacy were indifferent and drove away with a broom.

"If you don't have money, you still have to see a doctor! ”

Her father left in despair, but Yu Jiaoniang was unwilling, she found the old doctor, and knelt in front of the old doctor's door for the whole night in the autumn wind and cold night.

The old doctor is not a ruthless person, but he is a small sitting doctor, and he has no rights in his hands, and now seeing that Yu Jianniang is so sincere, he finally decided to use the herbs he picked, and reluctantly prepared a pair of medicine bags, so that Yu Jianniang hurried back to save people.

Yu Jiaoniang knocked her head twice and hurried home.

"It was a rare sunny day in autumn, and I saw the sun rise as I ran, and my brother was saved. ”

But when Yu Jiaoniang came home, the house was quiet and terrible, in the hall, a small body lay motionless, and her father and mother sat in a daze, and when she came back, she did not have the slightest reaction.

The medicine bag in her hand fell to the ground.

"What's going on?"

She asked, approaching step by step, on the wooden board, her brother's body was stiff, and his pale face was very abnormal.

She opened her mouth, but she couldn't say anything.

That scene was the last time she saw her own brother.

Later, it is mourning and burial.

She watched as her brother was wrapped in a mat and thrown into a small pit and covered with dirt.

That's it, she lost her brother.

Immediately after, there was no sister.

She frantically asked everyone she met, and no one could give her an answer, not even her own father and mother, who only told her that her own sister was missing.

Yu Jianniang lost her two closest people in an instant, and her spirit has been very weak, but she is also very strong, and she will go to the field every day to help work and share the burden of her parents.

But the disaster is not far from the family.

Because of the treatment of his younger brother's illness, his father did not have extra food for the Li family, who was responsible for renting the fields, and the two plots of land in the family were confiscated.

The family had no food, and after surviving a winter, the family's food was completely low, and even the rats walked around their house.

And Yu Jianniang's family has not eaten for several days.

At that time, Yu Jiaoniang felt that if she didn't eat something, she would starve to death.

"I didn't expect my father to go out and bring back two white-flour steamed buns. ”

Yu Jiaoniang poured a large pot of wine and sighed deeply, even Chongrui didn't force her, but this white-faced steamed bun suddenly appeared in that poor home, something must have happened.

"The steamed buns are very fragrant, very fragrant, and after that, my father promised me that I would never go hungry again. If I had been smarter then, I might have been able to make amends. ”

Since then, my father would always bring back some food from outside, sometimes a few steamed buns, sometimes some leftovers, and gradually, Yu Jiaoniang's body recovered some.

After she recovered, she planned to go to the town to find a job, and her parents were very supportive of this idea, and told her to be diligent in her work.

At the same time, her parents were not idle, and planned to go to a no-man's land ten miles away to carve out a piece of land of their own, but that kind of land would take a long time to harvest.

Although it is hard, life seems to have hope.

She went to the kind old doctor, who saw that she was pitiful and introduced her to help deliver food to an aunt.

There is no salary, but it includes food and shelter, and occasionally gives some food during the New Year's holidays.

Yu Jiaoniang is very satisfied, she gets up earlier than the chicken, sleeps later than the dog, and the aunt who buys vegetables also likes her diligence and often takes her out with her.

One day, she went with her aunt to deliver food to the richest Li family in town.

Li's family is very big, there are houses everywhere, she obviously followed her aunt, but she was still a little lost, and finally stumbled to the back kitchen.

The Li family's back kitchen is ten million times better than the thatched house where her family lives.

After putting the dishes away, while the aunt and the chef were settling accounts, she looked around curiously, but saw a familiar person.

The man had a face seven or eight points similar to hers, except that he was much taller, but still very thin.

"Sister!"

Yu Jiao Niang shouted loudly, and finally got a response from her sister, looking at her sister, Yu Jiao Niang was really happy, happier than eating meat.

It turned out that on the night when her brother was seriously ill, her sister offered to let her father sell her in exchange for money to treat her brother.

Although Yu Jiaoniang's parents disagreed, it was better to sell it than to watch their son die, so they gritted their teeth and found someone's teeth.

Because of the rush of time, my sister didn't sell much money, only enough to buy a pair of medicines.

Sadly, in the end, my brother could not be saved.

It's been a long time.