Chapter 370: An Old Miao Girl
"Maybe we all guessed wrong. Forget about it and go buy some scallion oil cakes."
Although Li Rong sympathized with the Miao girl's situation, that was all he could do. After all, she was a stranger he had never met.
And now we can’t be sure whether Mr. Yang really did those things. Maybe there is another hidden story?
Let’s eat scallion oil cakes.
They found a restaurant selling scallion oil cakes. Some were being fried in the wok, and there were a few fried cakes in a wire frame. The tempting aroma of scallion oil spread out, making people drool.
"Buy twenty scallion oil cakes!"
Luo Xinxin took out the food coupons and money. The scallion oil cake looked delicious.
"Wait a minute!"
There are only five fried scallion oil cakes, and the chef has to fry them freshly.
"Don't worry, just fry it slowly."
Luo Xinxin smiled and just stood at the door of the restaurant to eat. She and Li Rong each had one, and the delicious taste filled the air. The two children were drooling with greed, especially Ermao, whose saliva flowed down the corners of his mouth and wet his father's clothes.
“Mom, mom, mom…”
Ermao patted his father's back excitedly and said he wanted to eat too.
Although Damao didn't make a fuss, he moved quickly, fiercely, and accurately. He pulled a small ball from his father's mouth and quickly stuffed it into his mouth, but was blocked by Li Rong.
"It's such a big piece, are you trying to commit suicide?"
Li Rong was annoyed. He broke the cake into small pieces, fed them to Damao first, and then fed them to Ermao behind him.
The two children had already grown several teeth, so they had no pressure eating scallion pancakes and finished them quickly. Li Rong had no choice but to continue feeding them.
Luo Xinxin hurried to finish one, and then took over. While feeding the animals, she looked at the pedestrians on the street, especially the girls in ethnic costumes, which looked particularly beautiful.
"Your children are twins, right? They are so beautiful."
The woman frying scallion pancakes seemed to like children. She flipped the pancakes in the pan while looking at the children.
"They are so naughty. They make so much noise every day that it gives me a headache. If he hadn't insisted on bringing the children back to worship our ancestors, I wouldn't have brought them with me."
Luo Xinxin glared at Li Rong with reproach.
"Are you from here? You don't look like it."
The woman looked at him with suspicion. The clothes worn by the young couple were made of fine materials and they had outstanding temperament. They were totally out of place in their small county town and looked like people from a big city.
"My husband's hometown is here, but his grandfather left before liberation and settled in Shanghai. Before he passed away, the old man always missed his hometown and told him to go back and worship his ancestors. He originally wanted to wait until the child was older before returning, but the old man appeared in his dreams for several days in a row and scolded him for being an unfilial son. We had no choice but to ask for leave and come back."
Luo Xinxin sighed helplessly. "Who would be willing to travel so far and cross mountains and hills to get to the village? Just thinking about it gives me a headache. I wonder if there are toilets and showers in the village? Comrade, there shouldn't be fleas in the village, right?"
"There must be fleas. We don't want to go to the mountains. The people there are very fierce and don't deal with people from outside." said the woman.
"Oh my god, I won't go then. I'm most afraid of fleas."
Luo Xinxin was so frightened that her face turned pale and she complained to Li Rong.
"Just bring the insecticide. Now that we're here, we have to go back. Besides, we have to take the leader into the mountains to treat his illness. This time, he's cured. He promised to give us a room and give me a promotion. Just be patient, and you'll have a good life in the future."
Li Rong advised in a gentle tone.
"Forget it, forget it. I hope your boss keeps his word. I'm really tired of living in a small house."
Luo Xinxin compromised.
The woman frying scallion oil cakes asked curiously, "You also bring people here for treatment?"
"As for his leader, we don't know what strange disease he has. We've searched all the hospitals in Shanghai, but none of them can cure him. Later, an old Chinese doctor saw a clue and asked his leader to come here to see a Miao doctor, saying there is still a glimmer of hope. It just so happens that we are coming back to worship our ancestors. When the leader found out, he insisted that I take him with me, and said he would give him a promotion and a house. If it weren't for this, who would be willing to take such a big burden with him!"
Luo Xinxin acted like a nagging woman, complaining to strangers and talking about all the things at home.
"Is your leader poisoned?"
The woman asked in a low voice.
"What is Gu?" Luo Xinxin asked curiously.
"I'm not sure either, but they're not good people. When you go into the mountains, be careful of the Miao people there; they're very xenophobic."
The woman changed the subject and kindly gave a few suggestions.
The remaining scallion oil cakes were fried, drained in an iron rack, and put into a paper bag.
"It's so hot, let it cool down before you take it."
Luo Xinxin touched the paper bag and found it was very hot.
"Give me two poops!"
A low and hoarse voice sounded beside her. Luo Xinxin glanced over and saw a middle-aged woman wearing blue cloth clothes and a colorful headscarf on her head. She had dark skin, was not tall, and had a slightly hunched back. It was obvious that she was someone who had been working all year round.
The woman was also wearing two huge silver earrings. Luo Xinxin didn't notice it at first. She just glanced at it casually and then looked away. But she felt something was wrong. She looked again and realized what was wrong.
This woman's ears were terrible. The earrings had pulled the hole in her earlobe into a huge hole, and the skin on both sides was also stretched. Luo Xinxin felt a little disgusted when she saw it. This way of wearing earrings was not beautiful at all, but rather tortured women.
In her previous life, she had watched videos of Miao girls online, and they didn't have such deformed ears. Perhaps this bad habit was abolished in later generations?
[This is not fabricated. When the author was a child, she saw an elderly Miao girl whose ears were stretched out of shape. The holes in her ears were so large that only a little skin was left on either side for the earrings to hang from. It looked very painful.]
Luo Xinxin quickly looked away. The scallion pancake was no longer so hot. She held the pancake, and Li Rong carried the child on his back, and they went back to the guesthouse together.
"Are they from outside the city?"
The Miao girl glanced at their backs.
"They're from here. They brought their children back to worship their ancestors. They also brought their leader here to get medical treatment. From what they said, I think the leader was poisoned by a Gu."
The woman who fried the scallion pancakes was very talkative. She said everything that Luo Xinxin had said before, and also mixed in a lot of her own analysis.
"People in big cities are so fashionable. Look at how they dress. They make us look like country bumpkins. It's because their elders were very ambitious and went to big cities to work hard early on. Unlike us, we have been stuck in this small county all our lives and have never even been to the provincial capital."
The pancake woman sighed, put the two fried scallion pancakes into a paper bag and handed it to the Miao girl.
"There's nothing good out there. It's better here. We have mountains and water, and we won't starve to death."
The Miao girl put the paper bag into her backpack.
“You can’t starve to death, but you can’t get rich either.”
The woman with the oil cake smiled. If she had the chance, she would definitely go out. Who would want to stay in a small county town for the rest of their life?
The Miao girl left with her basket on her back. Her son worked in the county town, and her daughter-in-law had given her a grandson. She had come down the mountain specifically to give her grandson a silver bracelet.
Miao boys have the custom of wearing silver bracelets from a young age.
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