Chapter 81
Wang Jiazhi got up and found the bed was already cold. She struggled to pound her shoulder blades a few times with one hand. The damp and cold southern winter was unbearable. Her bones were so cold that they hurt at the slightest movement.
She poured the water from the hot water bottle and washed her face.
The stove is in my aunt's room. Her room is in the shade and faces the wind. It's okay during the day, but it's too cold at night. I can't sleep without a hot water bottle, but it gets cold in the second half of the night.
When she woke up, her aunt was still asleep, so she couldn't use the stove. Although the water in the hot water bottle was also cold, it was better than the water in the tank.
After cleaning up, she sat on the bed and chewed the dry, hard and cold black flour food, and drank a big gulp of cold water.
Wang Jiazhi thought this was probably what it was like to eat ice and lie in the snow. She didn't feel particularly hungry in such a cold environment, but she didn't dare not eat, for fear of fainting like last time.
Today was not the day to collect relief rice, so she didn't have to get up in the middle of the night to line up, and she could finally get up a little later.
After Wang Jiazhi finished packing, she tiptoed out to school with her books.
Zhou Minlin, Xiaoshuang, and Wen Runze have not returned to school. A year ago, Zhou Minlin wrote to say he was getting married and sent wedding photos.
The letter said: It would be great if you could come.
The bride is very beautiful, with an elegant and dignified temperament.
Zhou Minlin said in the letter that he never thought his love would come so suddenly, and he fell in love at first sight. After dating for three months, their feelings for each other were uncontrollable and they had to get married.
Zhou Minlin said: It’s scary, isn’t it? In fact, I’ve only known her for a few days, and I feel that there will never be another one like her in this life.
Wang Jiazhi wrote: Such a romantic glance that lasts forever, it's a pity that I can't act anymore, otherwise you must write, direct and act in it yourself.
Zhou Minlin wrote back: "Thinking back on the past, I feel like I'm in heaven. The mountains and rivers are broken, and the land is filled with grief. When will it end?"
Wang Jiazhi was also overwhelmed with emotions after reading it.
Xiaoshuang and Wen Runze got married soon after they returned.
Xiao Shuang sent me wedding photos and wrote in the letter: I was not in such a hurry to get married, but after coming back, I saw that the world is so precarious and changeable, and I was always afraid of losing someone.
Wang Jiazhi understood that feeling all too well. But what could she hold onto now? Nothing at all. Having nothing was fine; she didn't have to worry about anyone being sad if she died.
In "Jin Ping Mei", Li Ping'er's child was buried next to his stepmother's tomb after his death, hoping that he would be loved by his mother in the underworld.
Wang Jiazhi sometimes thought that if she could see her mother after death, then death wouldn't be so scary, it would be better than life. But now she hoped that there were no souls after death. If her mother were to see her like this in heaven, she would be so sad.
Wang Jiazhi looked at the photos of Xiaoshuang and Zhou Minlin's wife wearing wedding dresses. She once thought that one day she would get married and marry the person she loved.
After school, my aunt was playing cards with others as usual. She went to the kitchen and saw that there was nothing left, so she took out a small jar of pickled radish from the cupboard.
Breakfast and lunch consisted of either black steamed buns or cold porridge made from relief rice. My aunt would finish her meals before she returned, so she would eat whatever she had left. However, with supplies now scarce, my aunt usually left nothing. Dinner was still black steamed buns with pickled radish, but she couldn't eat too much pickled radish; she could only eat a little.
After I cleaned up the kitchen, I heard my aunt shout, "Wash the curtains and sheets."
"good."
She can't move out. It's hard to survive now, and it's impossible for her to rent a house.
Wang Jiazhi carried the large wooden basin downstairs and went to the entrance of the alley to fetch two buckets of water. After fetching the water, she bent over and panted.
The water was so cold that her hands were numb from the cold. She had to fetch two more buckets of water to throw herself in. The curtains were so soaked with water that Wang Jiazhi nearly fainted when she finally wrung them dry.
She was cold and hungry, feeling weak all over. After she finally finished cleaning up, she lay on the cold bed and couldn't get up for a while.
Her aunt said to her poker friends, "You're so lazy! You've already gone to bed at such a late hour."
Wang Jiazhi thought to herself, "I don't know what's going on with my grandmother's family. The daughter likes to marry a beast, and the son likes to marry a beast."
Wang Jiazhi woke up from the cold, and saw that it was not yet nine o'clock. The lights in her aunt's room were off, so she couldn't use the stove to heat water to fill the hot water bottle.
Her aunt never went to bed so early. Wang Jiazhi knew that she was deliberately taking revenge on her for going to bed right after washing the curtains.
She sighed, then sat on the edge of the bed and started laughing.
I thought to myself, "What else can I do? Worst case scenario, I'll just die. What's the big deal?"
She woke up in the middle of the night, rubbing her cold feet. How could she possibly get through the night? It was almost three o'clock, and in an hour she would have to go out and line up for rice. She didn't mind not being able to sleep.
Wang Jiazhi was warming her feet when she saw the moonlight shining in and casting a familiar shadow on the wall.
She looked at the shadow and thought to herself, "Don't look at me like that. I'm in such a mess, but what can I do?"
She always wondered what he was doing now, but now he was really so far away.
But I also found it funny, as if I was very important to him.
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