Carrying Fu Manman on his back, he walked to the yard of a house.
The courtyard door was closed, but there was a jujube tree planted in front of the door. There was also a little girl with twin tails at the door, playing with earthworms on the ground with branches.
The little girl suddenly saw a very beautiful little brother standing in front of the door, and asked curiously: "Who are you? Who are you looking for at my house?"
"Little girl, we are lost in the mountains and would like to rest at your house, can we?" Fu Manman said softly and kindly.
At this time, the little girl saw Fu Manman, such a beautiful sister.
She turned around and shouted into the room: "Grandpa, grandma, someone is coming."
After a while an old couple came out of the house.
Fu Manman recognized the old man among them as the old man who had been working in the fields before. She had also spoken to this old man.
Fu Manman recognized the uncle, but the uncle knew that the girl in front of him was a saint.
But the uncle still warmly invited the two of them into the courtyard.
The uncle and the aunt looked at the two golden boys and girls in front of them and kept looking at them with a smile.
"Why are you two here?" the aunt asked curiously.
Both of them are good-looking and well-dressed, and they look like they are not ordinary farmers.
"us……"
Fu Manman hurriedly interrupted Helian Jingce's words and said to Auntie: "Auntie, we are brother and sister. We went to Lige City to join relatives. On the way, we encountered robbers and fled into the mountains. We lost our way. It's okay.
Now I’ve met you.”
When the aunt heard that they were brother and sister, they met a robber again, and she felt very distressed.
"Then you must not have eaten yet!"
"No!" Fu Manman said and rubbed her belly. She actually had no appetite.
"If you don't mind, let's have some here tonight!" the aunt said enthusiastically.
"Don't mind it, aunt, this fish is our meal money." Fu Manman handed a big fish caught by Helian Jingce to the aunt.
This fish is still alive. When they are resting, this fish is also resting, resting in the pond.
It's still alive and kicking at the moment.
The uncle, aunt, and the little girl's eyes lit up when they saw such a big fish.
The uncle and aunt thought to themselves, such a big fish can be sold for a lot of money!
The little girl thought she had something delicious to eat!
The little girl opened her mouth in awe and said happily: "What a big fish!"
"Can you let this brother make you some fish soup later?" Fu Manman said to the little girl.
The little girl nodded happily, "Okay!"
The uncle and aunt refused, and kept refusing, saying they didn’t want any fish.
In the end, Helian Jingce killed the fish on the spot and said, "If the fish dies, it must be stewed immediately, otherwise it will stink."
The uncle and aunt didn't say anything.
Then the two old men took Helian Jingce to their open-air kitchen and taught Helian Jingce how to make fish soup.
Fu Manman was sitting under the jujube tree in the yard, watching the four people busy in the open-air kitchen.
The aunt was instructing Helian Jingce how to stew fish soup, while the little girl stood on her toes and looked into the pot.
The uncle is getting wood and adding firewood to the stove.
This picture looks so harmonious. I was not hungry, but now I feel a little hungry.
Country people have to eat dinner early before dawn. It's just past five o'clock in the evening, and the uncle and aunt have already prepared dinner, including multigrain porridge, cold vegetables grown in their own fields, and stewed a green pumpkin.
The two old men placed the meals one by one on the wooden table in the yard.
The workmanship of this table is very rough, and it looks like it was made by the family themselves. Although it is rough, it is strong and durable.
Fu Manman looked at the bowls containing the food. There were black pottery bowls and wooden bowls.
"Girl, you're hungry, let's eat first!" The aunt handed the pottery bowl to Fu Manman
Then he handed another black pottery bowl to Helian Jingce.
The two old men gave them the two best bowls.
"Grandpa, grandma, why don't you come back with me for dinner?" the little girl said in a sweet voice.
Fu Manman heard from the uncle that he wanted to save money to find a wife for his son.
The granddaughter is so old, where is the son's wife?
"Uncle, let's wait for a while and eat together when your son comes back." Fu Manman put down his bowl and chopsticks.
And started chatting with the uncle and others.
During the chat, she learned that the little girl's name was Yu Doudou, and that her father, the uncle's eldest son, had been drafted into the army. It had been three years since there was no news, and she didn't know whether he was alive or dead.
When Doudou's mother gave birth to her second child, one of her children died.
The two elders also have a younger son. The younger son is seventeen years old and has reached the age of marriage. However, the family is too poor and cannot find a wife. Now he works in the fields day and night. I hope he can get married this year.
If you have a good harvest, sell some money and get your younger son a wife.
Listening to what happened to this family, Fu Manman felt sour in his heart. Such a family is probably the norm in this era.
Doudou didn't understand the sadness in her grandfather's words, and she had long forgotten her mother. At this moment, her eyes were just on the fish on the table. She hadn't eaten fish in a long time.
"Why isn't uncle back yet?" Doudou said anxiously.
As soon as the little girl finished speaking, she heard a clear voice.
"Uncle!" The little girl happily left her seat and rushed into her uncle's arms.
When the second child of the Yu family saw two guests coming to their home, he was very reserved. Especially when he saw such a beautiful girl like Fu Manman, he was too shy to look at them.
At the same time, I also forgot to tell my parents what happened today.
The dinner was very enjoyable. Fu Manman kept picking fish meat for Doudou. The little girl seemed to be eating fish for the first time and kept saying it was delicious.
Helian Jingce kept giving him plenty of fish meat and fish soup.
After we finished eating, the sky became darker.
The Yu family is a thatched house with only two rooms in total. The old man gave the largest and cleanest room to Fu Fu Manman and Helian Jingce so that they could sleep.
The two old men and their granddaughter slept in the small room next door, while the second oldest child of the Yu family had no choice but to sleep on the floor under the jujube tree outside.
How embarrassing is this!
Fu Manman refused directly. She was too embarrassed to sleep in the big room and let her son make the floor.
After some refusals and suggestions, Fu Manman slept in the big room with Doudou and his aunt.
The uncle and his son sleep in a small room.
As for Helian Jingce, just go out and lay the floor!
This suggestion was made by Fu Manman. The two old people felt that they were not like siblings, but like a pair of happy enemies.
You can see it when eating. In general, the elder sister picks up the food for the younger brother. But for this sibling, the younger brother always picks up the food for the older sister.
My sister also disliked it in various ways and said it didn't taste good, but she ate a lot.
"As a sister, you really don't feel sorry for your brother at all." The aunt joked.
Fu Manman smiled and said: "As a man, it's okay to endure some hardships. He's thick-skinned and not so squeamish."
Helian Jingce was speechless. He didn't expect that in Fu Manman's eyes, he was rough-skinned and thick-skinned! Then she said she wanted to eat him last night, so she wasn't afraid of smacking her teeth.