It is a small village near the river more than eighty miles away from Niujia Village.
A dilapidated and randomly built small straw house, two girls, one older and one younger, walked out. The older one was about ten years old, with an abnormal paleness in her delicate and beautiful face, and the younger one was only five years old.
She looks like a six-year-old beauty, with a little bit of baby fat on her face. She doesn't have the abnormal paleness on her face, but there is no trace of it on her face or lips.
Turning bloody, the two walked out of the simple thatched house hand in hand. The younger one looked up at the slightly older girl with an innocent face, and asked crisply:
"Sister, where are we going? Xiaoyao is so hungry."
Both of them were wearing clothes that were much larger than their own bodies, even their shoes. At a glance, it was obvious that they were picking up clothes that had been abandoned by others or that belonged to their own adults. The younger one didn't even know how much his sleeves were rolled up.
Her pink little hands were exposed only after the first layer. The bigger ones were slightly better, after all, they were not short.
Hearing her sister's innocent question, the older girl looked at the river in the distance of the village with a confused look, then touched her sister's soft hair with soft eyes, and said softly: "Shall we go to the river to catch shrimps?
.”
"OK."
Although she was so hungry that she was trembling slightly even when she stood, her sister was still obedient and didn't say anything. She just held her sister's little hand tightly and walked step by step towards the river in the distance.
When the two of them passed through the village, all the adults they saw were disgusted and avoided the two of them like the plague, while the children in the village all picked up the mud on the ground and beat the two of them.
While beating him, he cursed: "Oh oh oh, these two wild children have come out, beat her, beat her..."
Seeing the frightened look on the little girl's face, the older one had no choice but to pull her sister into his arms and block all the attacks with his small body until the parents of the group of children pulled them away.
Then I was able to continue walking towards the river.
After arriving at the river, the little girl sadly asked the older girl: "Sister, why are they beating us? Did we do something wrong?"
Looking at the little sister beside her who was still in shock, the older girl gently wiped the mud off her body and said softly: "Xiaoyao did nothing wrong. Xiaoyao is the most well-behaved child, isn't he."
"Well, Xiaoyao is a good boy."
Seeing the innocent and ignorant look on his sister's face, the older child could only sigh softly. The two are biological sisters, the older one is called Lu Qing and the younger one is called Lu Yao. The younger one's mother passed away when she was born.
, the village began to say that Xiaoyao was a murderous star who suppressed his mother. At first, only a few people spread the rumor, and then gradually the whole village spread the rumor. Even their biological father gradually became half-believed and became angry.
It was spread on both of them.
People's words are terrible. In later generations, this was just a rumor of feudal superstition. But now we are not in the future with advanced information, but in a feudal society that believes in all kinds of ghosts and gods. The power of people's words can destroy a person or a family.
, this is caused by ignorance.
Later, even their biological father could not withstand the public opinion in the village, and quietly abandoned the two sisters and disappeared without a trace. This made the people in the village regard the two sisters as unknown, and shun them like snakes and scorpions whenever they see them.
For fear of being tainted with an ominous atmosphere, let alone the two extremely hungry sisters coming to ask for food, not punching each other was already the greatest tolerance for the two sisters.
Two months after their father left, the two sisters had already eaten up all the remaining food at home. In the past few days, the two small bodies have not had a decent meal. It is the age of growth, and the older one has
She can still grit her teeth and resist, but the younger one can no longer even stand, but she still obediently accompanies her sister to the river to catch shrimp every day. Although she doesn't get a harvest every day, she can still
I can barely get a bite of food every day in the village.
Although it was an unequal exchange, more than ten or twenty shrimps could be exchanged for a bowl and a half of overnight rice, and it was Lu Qing who knelt at the door of the house and others threw out one or two bowls of rice, but that was still
It's enough to last two sisters for a whole day.
Knowing that his sister Lu Yao was so hungry that he had no strength, Lu Qing still insisted on taking his sister with him every day. The reason was simply because he was afraid that he would be bullied if he left his sister alone at home.
Just like this time, my sister was sitting quietly on a stone by the river, watching her go down to the river to catch shrimps with a fish basket, and she felt inexplicably at ease, even though she was already so hungry that her eyes were dizzy, and the look on her face
Cold sweat broke out, but for the sake of my sister, I had to bite the bullet and find today's food.
But today, it seems that even God is taking pity on the two helpless sisters. The harvest is much larger than usual, and each one is full of fat shrimps. Lu Qing, who has been suffering all day, can't help but reveal this.
With a look of joy, both sisters can finally have a full meal today.
The harvest was more than half of what it was before. He happily put all the shrimps into the fish basket. Lu Qing walked towards his sister who was about to fall asleep by the river. He shook her little body distressedly and said softly: "
Yaoyao, let’s go home.”
Lu Yao opened his clear and flawless eyes in a daze, and said to his sister in a childish voice: "Sister, Xiaoyao is so sleepy. I just dreamed that my mother came back. Our family of four gathered around the table, and my sister ate.
Eat big chicken legs, Yaoyao also eat small chicken legs, it’s delicious..."
Hearing her sister's innocent words, her sister Lu Qing burst into tears and said with a choked voice: "Let's go home, and my sister will find you chicken legs to eat, okay?"
Looking at her sister who was crying silently, her sister Lu Yao stood up on tiptoes and wiped the tears on her sister's face with her little hands and shook her head gently: "But Xiaoyao doesn't want to eat chicken drumsticks anymore. Xiaoyao just wants to be with her sister."
Looking at this caring sister, Lu Qing could no longer bear it and hugged his sister and cried softly. Feeling the slight trembling of his thin body, Lu Yao stretched out his little hand and touched his sister's disheveled face.
Hair: "Sister, let's go home."
Wiping the tears on his face, Lu Qing stood up again and took his sister's hand, giving her a bright smile: "Well, let's go home."
The younger sister did not hesitate to smile at all, and gave her elder sister an innocent smile:
"Um."
It was night, and my sister Lu Yao had curled up on a simple bed and fell asleep peacefully. She might have had some kind of nightmare in her sleep, and her little face turned white with fear. Lu Qing quietly sat by the bed, and gently smoothed the wrinkles on her little sister's face with her little hands.
With raised brows, Lu Yao seemed to feel his sister's gentle touch while sleeping, and his trembling body gradually began to calm down.
Lu Qing, on the other hand, glanced at his sleeping sister for a moment, then resolutely picked up the more than 20 shrimps he caught today and walked out of the simple house. At this moment, seven lively fat shrimps were still lying quietly on the broken table in the house.