Because she was worried that Luo Dazhi and the others might want to harm her and Sun Lihong, Su Xue simply stopped opening the store the next day. It didn't matter if she lost a day's money, but it was absolutely unacceptable for her to risk her own safety and that of Sun Lihong.
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In town, Widow Huang carried a vegetable basket and walked around in front of Su Ji Tailor Shop for several times, but she didn't see Su Xue coming to open the door. She couldn't help but look around on tiptoes, muttering as she looked.
"What time is it? Why don't you come over and open the door? I've never seen such a lazy woman."
"For such a lazy person, someone still asks her to make clothes? It's really unreasonable."
Widow Huang kept complaining. Uninformed people must have mistakenly thought that Su Xue had a big relationship with her. But in fact, they didn't have a dime of relationship at all.
As for why Widow Huang cares so much about someone who has nothing to do with her, only she knows.
After walking around on the street for a few times, she ran over and took a look, but still didn't see the store open. Widow Huang spat hard, turned around and returned to the courtyard.
This side of the courtyard.
Xiaohua, who was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back, looked at the coarse-grain steamed buns in front of her. She opened her big eyes that had become extraordinarily sunken due to hunger, and looked at the small stone on the side with desire to eat but fear.
"elder brother……"
Xiao Shitou burned his feet with rice soup some time ago. Widow Huang ignored him and did not take him to see a doctor. But the mute found out and took Xiao Shitou to get medicine.
But it is a burn after all. Even if you take medicine, it will still leave scars after it heals. And the effect of current burn medicine is just that. The insteps of Xiao Shitou's feet are covered with scars after burns.
It looks a little scary.
"Sister, I'm not hungry. I'll bring you something to eat as soon as dad comes back."
Xiao Shitou also swallowed his saliva, but he still tried to comfort Xiao Hua: "Brother, can you give me some water to drink? After drinking the water, you will be full and not hungry."
Widow Huang put two multi-grain steamed buns on the table at home, but when she went out she didn't tell her brother and sister to eat them. Even if they were starving to death, they didn't dare to eat.
Once before, Xiaohua was so hungry that she ate a bite of steamed buns without Widow Huang's permission, and was beaten half to death by Widow Huang. After this experience, they didn't dare to eat anything no matter how hungry they were.
Xiaohua shook her head eagerly: "Xiaohua doesn't drink water, and there is a sound of water in Xiaohua's stomach."
Last night, their family ate porridge that could reflect human figures. It was almost ten o'clock in the morning, and Xiaohua was already hungry. She had already drank two large gourds of water, and now the water in her stomach would make a gurgling sound when she walked.
The sound of cooing.
Isn't it a small stone?
But Widow Huang has the final say in this family. If she doesn't let them eat, they don't dare to eat. Not only their brothers and sisters, but also their father also endures hunger.
Xiaohua's eyes were full of tears.
"Brother, it would be great if we had a mother like Sister Narcissus."
Xiao Shitou hugged his thin sister, why didn't he want to change his mother? But they were born to Widow Huang, whether he wanted to admit it or not...
Widow Huang came back with a basket, which contained a handful of green vegetables and a piece of fat meat about two taels. When she came back from outside, the brother and sister who were hugging each other immediately separated and retreated to a corner.
Go and look at her timidly.
Widow Huang opened her mouth to curse.
But soon she thought of her purpose. Knowing that after tonight, she would never have to see these two debt collectors again, she showed mercy and did not scold them.
Seeing that the multigrain steamed buns were still sitting on the table, Widow Huang showed a satisfied smile.
"If you're not greedy, you're quite sensible."
As she spoke, she put the basket on the table and let Xiao Shitou wash the vegetables.
Xiaohua's sharp eyes saw that there seemed to be a piece of meat in the basket, but she did not dare to think that she could eat the meat. She could only imagine the taste of the meat and swallowed her saliva.
Recalling the taste of the piece of meat that Narcissus’ sister’s mother gave her two years ago…
The little stone took the little flower and took the handful of green vegetables to wash.
Widow Huang went to bed, happily took out the book under her pillow, and counted the strokes drawn with pencil on it. She had not studied much, and only studied for two years in total. Although she was provocative, she was not
Good at keeping accounts.
But she has a way, she can draw a vertical line instead. She is now counting the vertical lines in the notebook, there are twenty in total... Thinking of the money Chen Chunrong promised to give her, fifty yuan each, twenty, that is two
Ten fifty.
How much does that cost?
When the time comes, as soon as she gets the money, she will leave here to live in a big city, dress up beautifully, and marry for a solid job. She will never come back to this place for the rest of her life. Who knows that she came out of the countryside?
The more Widow Huang thought about it, the more pleased she became.
The good days of wearing gold and silver are just around the corner, as long as you get through tonight, get through tonight.
Xiao Shi's brother and sister walked back from the water room. Xiao Hua pulled Xiao Shi's clothes: "Brother, she is so strange."
The girl in Xiaohua's mouth is the Yellow Widow.
Little Shitou also nodded. Although he was still young, he had been abused by Widow Huang for many years, so his mind was much more mature than that of ordinary children. Widow Huang's behavior in the past two days was indeed a bit abnormal.
She seemed to be in a good mood all the time, and she didn't know what happened.
Xiao Shitou thought for a while and couldn't figure it out. He could only secretly swear in his heart that no matter what happened, he would protect his sister.
The mute went home for lunch and found that there was rice at noon today. The full bowl of rice was packed tightly, and the two children each got more than half of the bowl.
Not only that, there was shredded pork in the dish in front of him. Forgetting the rice, he didn’t expect that there was shredded pork in the dish. He looked at the shredded pork, then at the rice in the bowl, and then looked at the two children on one side.
, and finally looked at Widow Huang.
Widow Huang was picking out the shredded meat from the vegetable.
Sensing the mute's gaze, her face suddenly sank. She knew that this family was not good. She kindly spent money to buy meat for them, but one or two of them still showed such expressions?
Eat as much as you like!
Widow Huang sneered: "If you don't eat it, forget it."
As he said this, he wanted to take away the plates on the table.
How could the mute get her wish? Finally, she found some meat on the table at home. Of course, she couldn't let the widow eat alone. The moment the widow stretched out her hand, the mute stretched out her hand to hold the edge of the plate and picked it up with chopsticks.
He put a few chopsticks into the bowls of the two children, and took the remaining two chopsticks for himself.
Two taels of meat cut into shreds is really not much, not to mention that the widow Huang ate a lot of it while cooking, so the meat they could share was really very little. But even so, the two children did not dare to
eat.
Widow Huang snorted.
He doesn't look down on Xiao Shitou and Xiao Hua brother and sister at all. Look at how useless they are. They are just following these useless mutes.
At this moment, she seemed to have forgotten that although the two brothers and sisters called the mute father, the mute had no blood relationship with them at all. The person who was related to them was Widow Huang, her biological mother, but Widow Huang was more similar to her stepmother.
stepmother……
"Ah...ah..."
The mute opened his mouth and spoke to the brother and sister, while using gestures to ask them to eat.
Little Shitou glanced at Widow Huang, and then at his younger sister Xiaohua, who was as skinny as skin and bones. He felt a sudden change in his heart and gave Xiaohua the shredded meat in his bowl.