At this time, Yu Wan just entered her yard, and the first thing to greet her was the family's big yellow dog, whose name was very casual, down-to-earth and very in line with its body color: rhubarb.

As early as when Rhubarb heard someone push open the courtyard door, it stood up with its ears up, wagged its tail and ran to Yu Wan's side to rub left and right, and the anxious appearance of pleasing and behaving made Yu Wan's heart warm, and he stroked Rhubarb's head lovingly.

She came to the eaves of the tiled house and removed the basket on her shoulder, this tiled house, the wall is covered with yellow mud, the green tile roof, after years of wind and rain, the cracks on the mud wall seem to be carved out by people and clearly visible.

There are three bedrooms, a living room, and a kitchen built under the exterior wall.

In the yard, a fence woven from bamboo intersects forms a circle, and a group of chicks run behind a flowering hen with their chicks in the vegetable field in the yard.

The yard is not big, but it is a typical small farm yard, with chickens flying and dogs jumping, melons and vines full of everything.

Yu Wan stood at the door of the house, this was going to call her mother, she still had to relieve this awkwardness, and shouted in the clear voice of an eight-year-old girl:

"Mother, I'm back. ”

In the main room, a young woman in her twenties walked out with the sound of coughing, and this woman was Yu Wan's mother, Ling Niang.

When Ling Niang saw her daughter coming back, she couldn't help but blame: "Ahem...... You're a girl doll, don't you know it's dangerous to go up the mountain? Don't go again in the future, this makes your mother worry about you. ”

Yu Wan knew that she was worried about herself, and she didn't want to dwell too much, so she changed the topic and said: "Mother, don't worry, I won't go alone in the future, you see you're coughing again, did you drink medicine in the morning?"

said, without waiting for Ling Niang to reply, Yu Wan ran to the kitchen to see if there was less medicine in the casserole?

Ling Niang saw Yu Wan's child's temperament, and smiled helplessly:

"I said that my mother is like an ignorant doll, and I have taken all the medicines prescribed by Li Langzhong on time, so I don't have to worry about it. ”

Yu Wan walked out of the kitchen, and indeed saw that there was a lot less soup in the medicine jar, so he was relieved: "I'm afraid that my mother will think the medicine is bitter and refuse to drink it." ”

In fact, I was afraid that Ling Niang would be reluctant to spend money on medicine, so she saved every time she drank it, and cooked the medicine for the rest of the night, staring at Ling Niang to drink it.

Ling Niang listened to Yu Wan say childish words, and couldn't help laughing:

"You, you are used to looking for your mother to be happy. ”

Yu Wan helped Ling Niang into the house, and when she didn't see her younger brother Yu Chen, she asked:

"What about Ah Chen, why didn't you see him, this guy is the most naughty and funny, why is he so quiet today?"

"He, he followed the little friends in the village to play in the village, and he hasn't come back yet," Ling Niang said.

"By the way, mother, I picked a lot of wild vegetables in the mountains, and there are herbs that Li Langzhong said can cure you, and I will boil them for you later. ”

As he spoke, Yu Wan ran under the eaves and sorted out the things picked in the basket one by one.

When he took out a pheasant, he said:

"This chicken was given by Uncle Jiang when he went down the mountain, and I said that I didn't want him to come in, so I carried it home. After speaking, she looked at Ling Niang with some embarrassment.

Ling Niang coughed when she heard this, and sighed:

"Ahem...... Hey......"

"This is your Uncle Jiang's kindness, you must remember this favor, and you will have the opportunity to repay this kindness in the future. ”

Yu Wan replied very neatly:

"Got it. ”

In fact, needless to say, I know that Uncle Jiang has really been taking care of the orphans and widows of their family, and he is secretly doing it in order to avoid suspicion.

It's like getting up early that morning and seeing a pile of firewood at the gate outside the courtyard;

Or from time to time at the entrance of the hospital, there is a package of herbs labeled with the packaging of the town's "Heshengtang" pharmacy......

And so on, the original "Yu Wan" of these details was found to be done by Yu Jiang, but the young "Yu Wan" didn't know Yu Jiang's true thoughts about doing this, but she could think that this was Yu Jiang's thoughts about Ling Niang, but he didn't dare to express it directly, and paid silently with his own stupid methods.

Yu Wan sighed silently, if she could, she hoped that Yu Jiang and Ling Niang would be together, so that Ling Niang would not be so tired. As a daughter, Yu Wan is only an eight-year-old girl, and many things can't help much, and there is a man who cares about her, and her condition can also improve.

Yu Wan carried the chicken to the kitchen, boiled hot water, waited for a while, the water was hot and scalded the chicken, plucked the feathers, took out the internal organs and washed them, and made them neatly, and the rhubarb went around Yu Wan, and from time to time there was a grievance whining, and Yu Wan was giggling, this thing wanted to eat meat.

Ling Niang watched her daughter deal with the chickens, and she couldn't help but feel sad, a good daughter asked her to do such a bloody thing.

She was guilty and distressed, tears were also rolling in her eyes, she turned her back with a cough, wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes, and walked to Yu Wan's side and said:

"You are small, and your strength is small, it is dangerous to chop the chicken with a knife, let your mother come. ”

After speaking, he took the chicken processed in Yu Wan's hand, put it on the board and began to chop it into small pieces.

Although Ling Niang is a weak woman, she has carried this family by herself for so many years, and now she can easily kill chickens and cut meat.

Ling Niang is not from Yujia Village, she was brought back from outside by Yu's father, when Ling Niang came, her hands with fine skin and tender flesh looked like a young lady, not like a girl who lived in the village and did farm work, but now the years have been working hard, and her hands have long been covered with thick calluses, and only this thin face can vaguely see the appearance of a once quiet and delicate girl.

And Ling Niang seems to have forgotten her past, the only thing she remembers is that she is called Ling Niang, and Yu's father is Ling Niang's name.

followed Yu's father to Yujia Village, became Yu's father's mother, a year later, there was Yu Wan, the arrival of the child, made the silly Yu's father smile like a child, this is his and Ling Niang's child! He had his first child with Ling Niang!

Yu's father is a simple and simple man, but he is also a man who knows how to hurt people, he likes Ling Niang, and he is never willing to let her do farm work, for fear that she will be tired and hungry, and he has a son who works hard to make money, so he thinks that he can earn more money, and then give Ling Niang flowers.

In the third year after Yu Wan was born, his younger brother Yu Chen was born, Yu's father was even happier, and the old Yu family had a future!

In the same year that Yu Chen was born, Yu's father was too tired, and he was drenched in a night rain, and his body was overdrawn, and he finally died of illness.

This bad news is a big blow to the Yu family of this orphan and widow, Ling Niang is soft on the outside and strong on the inside, Ling Niang, who originally did not touch the spring water with her fingers, had to go out to support her family. She does farm work during the day, embroiders and needlework at night, and takes care of two dolls at the same time.

In this feudal era, Yu Wan can imagine Ling Niang's difficulty, Ling Niang's body has also collapsed in just a few years, and the root of labor and cough has also fallen.

Looking at Ling Niang who was chopping chickens, Yu Wan couldn't help but feel a little sorry for this mother, and added firewood to the fire next to the stove to help Ling Niang get started.

She suddenly remembered that the five-colored flowers she had brought back from the mountain were still beside the basket, so she got up and walked to the eaves, and packed the herbs and wild herbs and fungus picked up from the mountain in separate baskets, and put the herbs and fungus in the sun. He picked up the five-colored flowers, looked at his vegetable garden, and finally decided to plant them on the bamboo fence against the root of the wall.

Yu Wan dug up the soil and planted flowers, and said to himself to the five-colored flowers:

"Since you like to grow in a shady place, then I will plant you in this corner. ”

After the flowers are planted, they don't forget to pour some water to moisten the roots, and they are afraid that the flower hens at home will harm it with a group of chicks, so they deliberately take an old broken bamboo basket and buckle it.

After doing this, he clapped his hands and got up to clean his hands, and returned to the kitchen to continue to help Ling Niang.

It didn't take long for Ling Niang to take the fried chicken out of the pot and put it on the plate, and when she saw that the gruel in the pot was also boiled, she said to Yu Wan:

"This lunch is ready, you see why your brother hasn't come back yet, it's been so long, it's time to go home for dinner."

Yu Wan thought about it, too, this naughty and mischievous brother should also go home, so he took Rhubarb out to the village to find someone.