Chapter 154 The Moon Over the Past
Because Xiao Guo from the guard platoon fainted after seeing someone, Xie Ning looked at the child who looked like a little beggar and said, "Er Niu, go and get some hot water."
The child was only waist-high to her, her face was swollen, her nostrils and the corners of her eyes were dark, and her eyes were frighteningly large. They were not clear black and white, but rather yellowish and turbid with bloodshot veins. At this moment, she was holding a package and looking at Xie Ning and the others with a wary expression.
Its small body clung tightly to Xiao Guo, and if anyone got too close, it hissed threateningly like a kitten.
After Xie Ning gave Xiao Guo a few acupuncture needles, Xiao Guo suddenly vomited blood and woke up. Then she hugged the child and cried, calling out "Ni'er, Ni'er's".
Xie Ning patted Xiao Guo on the shoulder and said gently, "Let me take the child to wash up first. Ai Ai is cooking porridge in the kitchen, it will be delicious later."
"Okay, okay, Ni'er, you go take a bath first, be a good girl, okay?"
After Xiao Guo spoke up, the child finally calmed down. After Xie Ning took the child out of the room, Xiao Guo immediately started wailing.
"Brother Yang, why do you think that is? I don't know much else, but I know that my hometown, Henan, sent troops and contributed their strength. Not a single one of them was a bad one. A few years ago, in order to stop the Japanese devils, they blew up the Yellow River dike. Some of them died, and some fled."
Look at this! It's been a long drought, from spring until now, and no one has had a single grain of food! People are resorting to cannibalism, and they still need food. Is this world even letting people live?
After taking off the child's clothes, Xie Ning realized that it was a little girl. Er Niu touched the child's arm, feeling very sorry for her, "How thin she is! She's just skin and bones!"
Xie Ning placed the small package on the kang (a heated brick bed), preparing to help Erniu bathe the child. However, she noticed several dark objects peeking out from the unfolded package. Seeing the child looking at her nervously, Xie Ning asked, "What are these things?"
"It's elm bark and firewood that my dad smashed. Could you please not take it? Or at least leave me a little bit to eat, don't take it all..."
Father said that if we eat a little bit each day, we can survive until we are safe in northern Shaanxi and see my second brother.
Her second brother is here, so he should be able to get her more elm bark to eat. However, there is grass in the ground, and she also saw some edible wild vegetables, but no one is picking them. She must ask her second brother to take her to pick them later, so that she can eat a little bit each day and maybe she can eat a little more.
"I won't steal it." Xie Ning pursed her lips, carefully tied the small bundle tightly, and then took out a small piece of red date cake from the cabinet.
"Here's some for you. Eat just a little bit first, don't eat too much, and eat slowly. You've been hungry for too long. Later, have some millet porridge, just a little bit, to let your stomach recover. Once your stomach is healed, you can eat meat."
"I don't eat meat. Meat doesn't taste good. I'll just eat wild vegetables. I eat very little of them."
The sweet aroma of red dates wafted into her nose, and the little girl swallowed hard. She took a bite of red date cake and then glanced at Xie Ning cautiously.
After the little girl finished eating, Xie Ning took her pulse. Only then did she realize something was wrong. She initially thought the little girl's swollen face was due to hunger, but she didn't expect it to be poisoning.
He then asked, "Have you ever eaten anything other than elm bark and firewood?"
The little girl's face turned pale. "I...I ate wild grass...and...meat."
"Weeds?" Xie Ning frowned slightly. It must have been poisonous from eating some kind of herb, but fortunately the poisoning wasn't severe, and she could be cured with two acupuncture treatments.
There were no suitable clothes for the little girl, so Xie Ning gave her his own cotton coat to wear first. Seeing that the child's hands and feet were covered in cracked chilblains, Yun Ai'ai, who had brought over millet porridge, went back to her room to get chilblain cream.
She is prone to chilblains, so she always keeps chilblain cream on hand, which is made by a pharmaceutical company and works very well.
Yun Ai'ai applied frostbite cream to the little girl and asked, "What's your name?"
"Spring Grass, my name is Spring Grass, just like grass, easy to live."
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