Chapter 256
Every meal should be appreciated as it is not easy to come by; every piece of cloth should be appreciated as it is not easily produced.
Shen Jiao, who was stealing someone else's porridge, understood this very well.
After visiting three houses, the pot was almost leaking, so he scooped out half a bowl of rice.
As happy as I was when I opened the lid and saw the big pot of rice soup, I was as sad as I put the spoon in.
No wonder they are all skin and bones.
This is the way to survive. We just harvested the rice, we can't sell it all, right?
Shen Jiao squatted on the beam and drank sadly.
Suddenly I seemed to smell the aroma of meat~
Salty and oily~
Shen Jiao swallowed the last bit of rice in his mouth, stole a pair of chopsticks, climbed out from the back window, and went there following the smell.
A simple rabbit can be transformed into a delicious dish by just roasting it over a fire and sprinkling some seasoning on it.
Anyway, that’s what Shen Jiao, whose eyes are turning green with hunger, thinks.
She ate in big mouthfuls, biting the food hard while looking around.
This house is probably occupied by thieves.
From the outside, it looks shabby and dilapidated, with houses collapsing, which makes people not want to come in and explore. In fact, there are still many good houses.
Some energetic people, old and young, women and children, were busy inside, cooking, washing clothes and hanging them to dry.
They all have rosy complexions, and you can tell at a glance that they have food to eat.
Shen Jiao heard someone talking about those thieves and seemed a little worried.
"Why have you been gone for so long and still not come back?" A woman picking vegetables frowned.
The aunt beside him laughed and said, "It's only been a short while since you left, and you can't wait any longer?"
"Oh, Aunt Yu, she's still a new bride," one woman said, winking and laughing, "She must be looking forward to being with you every day."
The woman picking vegetables frowned even more tightly: "I don't have any."
"Okay, okay, you didn't, and I don't know who it was. You kept looking at the door, and it looked like a hole in it," Aunt Yu didn't believe it. She smiled and comforted him, "Don't worry, your men are very strong and won't die. If something really happens, we will compensate you with two more."
They laughed heartily.
The woman picking vegetables lowered her head without saying a word.
She was different from those people. She was extremely thin, and her arms were shaking when she picked up the basin of water.
The child who had appeared at the dock before ran in from outside, raised his head and tugged at her clothes, calling out, "Mom."
He looked a little disheveled, as if he had just been beaten and rolled in the mud. He didn't look as good as he did a few days ago.
The woman didn't ask a single question, but just pulled him to the well, washed his face, patted the dirt off his body, took out a wooden comb from her bosom, and combed his hair.
It is worth mentioning that it was a very new silverwood comb and the child was wearing new clothes.
It should have been modified, the material is pretty good.
Seeing that woman walking away, the women who had just been talking and laughing with her all curled their lips.
"Why are you pretending? She just offered herself to me, and she's acting like someone forced her to do it."
"I have long advised my brother that this woman is not a good person, but he refused to listen."
"I can't help it. Who can blame her for being so good-looking? Look at those eyes, they're like a vixen, so alluring~"
"Yeah, even though you're so skinny, if you take care of yourself, those men will tear their eyes out if they see you."
"They still need to be raised. They don't care about their eyes now..."
They all laughed.
The woman at the well paused for a moment, then continued to comb her hair slowly, slowly...
After combing her hair, she said to the child, "You're not hungry. Go back to the house."
"Um."
The child went, and Shen Jiao also went.
I followed him into the house, but he didn't react at all.
Shen Jiao closed the door, squatted down and asked him, "Do you remember me? We met at the dock. Your name was Buhungry, right? My name is Bajiao."
Buhé nodded with a wooden face: "I remember."
"That's good. Why are you here? Is this where the bad guys live?"
Shen Jiao asked with concern.
The child was silent for a long time before he said, "Well, my mother is getting married, so she brought me here...there's food to eat."
Shen Jiao saw a "囍" character pasted on the window.
"When did your mother get married?"
"yesterday."
Shen Jiao nodded, holding her chin. "I'm not hungry. Have you told anyone about what happened on our journey? Did your mother send any letters to those bad guys?"
This was probably too difficult to understand, so he didn't say anything for a long time.
Shen Jiao thought for a moment and asked him a different question: "Where's your sugar jar?"
"Mom, take it and give it to Dad and the others."
"When did that happen?"
"That day."
"That day?" Shen Jiao asked him, "was it the day we gave you candy?"
"Yeah." He nodded.
It turned out to be true. Now Shen Jiao knew where these thieves came from.
They were not hungry and were found by his mother.
Shen Jiao touched his head: "Where is your biological father?"
"I was born in a dirt bag. The bad guys killed my father."
He said.
Shen Jiao pinched his skinless face and said, "What's wrong with you? Is someone bullying you?"
Shen Jiao pressed the wound on his face and asked him, "Did someone beat you up?"
"Um."
He didn't hide even after this, he was still wooden and stupid.
"Who hit me?"
"brother."
Brother? Is he his stepfather's child?
Even if she recognized the thief as her father, she still couldn't live a good life. What is the woman thinking now?
Shen Jiao asked one last question: "I'm not hungry, do you know how many fathers you have now?"
He stretched out four fingers, thought for a moment, and then spread out his thumb.
There wasn't much Bu'e could explain clearly. If Shen Jiao continued to ask, she was afraid someone would find out, so she rubbed Bu'e's face and said, "Good boy, I'm leaving now."
"Ku'er..."
"What?" Shen Jiao turned around when he was about to open the door.
He said, "My mother's name is Yang Ku'er, someone should remember her."
Shen Jiao didn't understand at all: "Why should anyone remember?"
"Dad said that someone should remember my name."
"What's your father's name?"
"have no idea."
This unfortunate skinny kid couldn't explain it clearly, but it didn't matter, Shen Jiao could go talk to his mother.
Of course, that was not the way it was said. Instead, Shen Jiao put a sharpened hairpin against her neck and listened to her.
"The child's father? Why are you asking that?"
She was a little stiff, but still told the truth.
"He was a soldier guarding the city. The night we got married, the city fell. When I found him, he was already dead, groping for something. I asked him what he was looking for, and he said his name, and asked someone to remember it. He had just finished saying it when he died. Only then did I remember it. I still don't know his name. He had a wooden sign with it written on it. I can't read. Before he left, he told me that when he came back, he would teach me. He knew a lot of words, and he could even teach me to write my own name...
Actually, I didn’t know him, but for some reason, I kept thinking about that night and even told Bu’e about it. The kid must have remembered it…”
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