Chapter 459: The Hungry Man
Hunger and poverty are indeed two very shameless fellows, which not only make people lose face, but also make people abandon their dignity in front of them and bow down to their orders. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Huang Xiaofu originally had the proud temperament of a rich man, but since his mansion was burned down, his proud temperament has disappeared.
Now all the slaves in his family have found another way out, and his father's little aunts have also gone out to find something to do, and they have never returned to their present home, which has been burned black by the fire. Now, their family is a real family - his parents and himself!
My father, frightened by the fire, was now delirious and babbling gibberish, and my mother, who had always been weak and sickly, except in the morning when she went to the town to order food and beg for something to eat, and in the afternoon she was so tired and weak that she had to stay in the makeshift hut that they had now built with the wood they had burned from the fire and clinging to the ruins.
From the time the house was burned down by fire to the present, five days have passed, and Huang Xiaofu has only eaten three meals. In the past, when their family was wealthy, they looked down on all living beings and did not care about anyone, so when the disaster of their family came, these people who were despised by their family stood by and watched, and they all secretly applauded in their hearts. Her mother was even more impressed, and she and the beggar in the street went into a house at the same time to beg, and they were eager to give something to the beggar, but they turned a blind eye to his mother.
Some people even mocked, "Isn't this Mrs. Huang, are you coming to our house to collect debts, or to collect debts!"
But hunger and hardship make it impossible to care about shame. Madame Huang was so ashamed that she ran out into the street and threw the family that had mocked her away like a vicious dog. However, as soon as she stopped, she felt that the rush she had just done consumed so much physical strength that her hungry body was a little unable to support it, and she was about to faint to the ground.
At this time, she couldn't resist it in her mind, and she had just seen the steaming white steamed bun in the house of this family that had humiliated her, the seductive picture, and remembered its fragrance from her nose. At that moment, nothing was anything more than hunger, and she suddenly said to herself in her heart: "I am so stupid, people's hot white steamed buns have already been served on the table, and I am still so unwitting, I ran away in anger for the sake of other people's jokes; this is really, undeservedly!"
"Let's go! In the end, she decided that as long as the family was willing to give her a white steamed bun, it was up to them to joke as much as they liked.
So she turned back and came to the house again. This time, the family was stunned, and they didn't mock her for half a word, but put the remaining three and a half white steamed buns on the table into her broken basket without a sound.
"Thank you, your family is really a living bodhisattva!" Finally, Mrs. Huang said these words with great gratitude, and turned around excitedly and ran towards the dilapidated home.
And when his mother was asking for food in front of others, Huang Xiaofu was seeing it clearly at the mouth of the alley. At that time, his heart was like someone had been trampled under his feet, painful and broken! However, when he saw his mother rushing home with the joy of success, his stomach suddenly screamed with hunger again. Therefore, he remembered the three and a half white steamed buns that his mother had just come back after being humiliated in front of others.
So, a burst of joy involuntarily rose in his heart, and his feet passionately instigated him to go home...... Come home, Mommy has prepared steaming white steamed buns for you!
When he returned home, Huang Xiaofu was surprised to find that the three and a half white steamed buns that his mother wanted to come back were still intact in three baskets on the table and kept them quietly, and the other half was eaten by his delirious father. However, his mother, at that moment, seemed to be full and carefree.
"Xiaofu, child, you're back!" his mother stood beside the pillar blackened by the fire, and watched her son walk back with a smile, "Just now, Uncle Wang next door sent some steamed buns, and your father and I have eaten them." Come on, kid, eat quickly!"
"Hey!" Xiaofu went to the table and carried the broken basket of steamed buns, and he divided one of the steamed buns among his mother and the other among his father.
However, his mother snatched the steamed bun he gave to his father, stuffed it into the basket again, and said, "Son, your father and I have eaten it, you can eat it, I know that you are now in the prime of life, and your body needs nutrition, so where are the three steamed buns enough for you." ”
Huang Xiaofu no longer refused, his mother's words stirred up a thousand waves in his heart, recalling his mother's humiliation in other people's homes, his heart was sour and painful to be indescribable. With tears in his eyes, he finished eating the three steamed buns that his mother had begged for him, and after eating the steamed buns, he carried his mother's shoulders and helped her sit down on the stone steps of the old house.
"Mother!" he said with tears in his eyes, "Son, from now on, go to work outside, from now on, the child will work hard, and will definitely do a career, so that you and your father can live a happy life." With that, he said goodbye to his mother and father, and resolutely walked out of the alley in front of his door, ready to go to the street to find work. He thought in his heart that no matter how hard and difficult the future work is, he will do his best and take it seriously.
At this moment, he had just crossed the stone bridge in front of his house, when suddenly he heard behind him, as if someone was throwing stones at him, and the stones hit the ground with a loud clam sound!
What a white and flawless silver coin, shining with dazzling brilliance in the bright autumn sun. Five days ago, he was not too sensitive to this luster, and only at the gambling table, looking at the piles of silver, would he stir up a trace of pleasure in his heart, but now, their family is penniless! These ten taels of silver are a lot of wealth for their family now. Perhaps, it will be up to it to turn the tide and make a comeback!
So, with great urgency, he threw himself at the glittering silver coin on the ground, but as he pounced on it, a big foot in black cowhide boots trampled on it. He followed the big foot and looked up, and he saw a pair of eyes that were shy of the town.
The owner of these eyes was called the butcher, and he was looking at him with a cold, menacing smile.
"Young Master Huang, do you want this silver?" the butcher said coldly as he looked at him with a weird smile.
At that moment, Huang Xiaofu remembered that night, in the chaotic firefighting scene, this hateful person did not pour water on the fire, but just threw the wood that had not been burned into the fire again, watching it burn in the fire and make a crackling sound. In this way, it stimulates his interest in watching fire!
Huang Xiaofu looked at him for a moment, and then looked at the silver coin that he stepped on under his feet. The silver coin was hard, and it had been trampled into the earth by his big feet, but its hard appearance remained unchanged. When Huang Xiaofu once again rested his gaze on the butcher's face, and solemnly stared at his eyes with an evil expression, he suddenly asked him: "What if you want it, what if you don't want it!"
"If you want, do me something, and it's yours," said the butcher, still with a wry smile, "and if you don't want it, go your way to the sky, and you can go now!"
Huang Xiaofu hesitated, and finally he set his eyes on the silver bills that were still white and trampled in the dirt by his big feet, "I can help you do something!" After saying this, his eyes looked at the butcher sternly.
The butcher smiled proudly, and finally he removed his big foot from the silver bill, so Huang Xiaofu bent down and picked up the silver bill.