Just as the old lady was weeping silently, the daughter-in-law came in with a plate of steamed buns: "Da Ya, please eat something first to make a bed. Your cousin has already gone shopping for groceries. We'll wait until noon."
What a delicious meal.”
Looking at the steaming steamed buns on the plate, Ma Daya's eyes lit up and her eyes almost popped out of her head.
She swallowed, couldn't help but reached out and grabbed a bun, and took a big bite.
Ma Daya wolfed down the food so much that two mouthfuls amounted to one piece of bread.
Seeing this, the old lady quickly poured her a glass of warm water and warned her with concern: "Eat slowly, don't be in a hurry, don't be in a hurry, don't choke, there are some at home, drink some water before eating."
Ma Daya was very hungry along the way, and now all she could think about was the steamed bread in front of her. She didn't even care about the old lady's advice, so she just kept her head down and ate fiercely.
It wasn't until his neck was choked and his eyes rolled that he finally slowed down.
The old lady was frightened, so she quickly put the water cup to her mouth, and gave her water while giving her a smooth drink. After struggling for a while, she finally swallowed it.
Seeing that she swallowed it, the old lady breathed a sigh of relief and said with some annoyance: "You kid, why are you eating so fast? Eat more slowly, and no one will compete with you."
Ma Daya giggled twice, her life has been too difficult. The past few years have been bad, and she is not the only one who can't survive in her hometown and has come out to seek refuge with her relatives.
The reason why she, a woman, was able to walk safely to the capital city was that she didn't care about her image. Even if she had sex, she didn't dare to take care of herself, for fear that the men traveling with her would have some bad thoughts.
Secondly, she clearly knows that food only belongs to her when she eats it.
So along the way, as long as she found food, she would stuff it into her stomach as soon as possible, even if she would be beaten for it in the future, she would not hesitate.
It was because of this that she was able to stand out from so many refugees and travel all the way to Beijing.
Thinking of this, Ma Daya couldn't help but stuff another steamed bun into her mouth.
Facing the old lady's instructions to "slow down, slow down", Ma Daya could only make a vague sound because her mouth was full of steamed buns.
Seeing this, the old lady sighed softly, knowing that no matter how hard she tried to persuade her, it would be useless.
She just walked up to Da Ya and gently patted her shoulder.
Ma Daya ate five steamed buns in a row. Seeing that she was about to reach out to take it, the old lady quickly stopped her: "Daya, it's not that I don't want to eat it for you, it's that you really can't eat it. If you eat any more, your stomach will be broken."
Already."
Seeing the disappointment in Da Ya's eyes, the old lady comforted her and said, "Let's eat some food first and then have a good meal at noon."
Da Ya blushed a little. She knew it was not good for her to eat like this, but she just couldn't control it.
She was really hungry along the way. When she saw the food, she couldn't control herself. She wanted to stuff all the food within sight into her stomach.
The old lady who has also suffered from hunger understands this very well.
After she signaled her daughter-in-law to take down the remaining steamed bread, she began to ask Ma Daya what happened. The most important thing was to ask Ma Daya how her mother died.
Speaking of this, Ma Daya burst into tears.
It took the old lady a long time to coax him, and then the two parties connected the matter through gestures and Mandarin that were difficult for ordinary people to understand.
But after hearing all this, the old lady was silent. She didn't know if Xinghua regretted that she was too willful before she died?
Back then, there were two sons and two daughters in the Gong family. The eldest, the old lady, was married to her childhood sweetheart, Old Man Qi. The second oldest, Ma Daya's mother, Gong Xinghua, fell in love with a young shopkeeper walking around the streets.
Despite the opposition of her parents, she had to marry the other person.
He believed that the other party had no land, no land, and no official place to stay. He could only make a living by walking around the streets and selling women's needles, threads, hairpins, rouge, gouache, and some children's gadgets.
But with that little money, let alone supporting his family, he could barely support himself.
Marrying a man, marrying a man, wearing clothes and food. If you marry such a family, you are ready to tie your neck with a rope and wait to starve to death.
She is still young and doesn't understand anything. She only feels that she is in love and has plenty of food. But as parents, they see all of this clearly. That little peddler can't give her daughter happiness.
The daughter was still young, and she never imagined that the two of them could barely survive in such a day. But with a child and another mouth to feed, would they have to watch the child starve to death?
Therefore, the Gong family firmly opposed this marriage.
This was the desperate obstruction of Gong's parents, which aroused Gong Xinghua's rebellious spirit.
Faced with her parents' obstruction, she directly threatened her with death.
Parents who love their children cannot resist their children. Seeing that their daughter is really seeking death, the old couple can only grit their teeth and swallow, and agree to their marriage despite the strange looks of their relatives and friends.
The young shopkeeper was also a thief, and he was worried that Gong Xinghua's parents would take their daughter back sooner or later, so he just didn't stop doing anything and took Gong Xinghua back to her hometown while the Gong family wasn't paying attention.
The Gong family went crazy after they couldn't find their child, but they didn't know where the little shopkeeper's hometown was.
Since then, the Gong family has never seen Gong Xinghua again.
Only every two or three years, I would receive a letter from Gong Xinghua.
So many years have passed, her parents have passed away, and she and her younger brother have grown old. They no longer care whether they can find Gong Xinghua, as long as they know that the other party is still alive, everything will be fine.
Although she blamed her sister for being cruel, when the old lady heard with her own ears what kind of life her sister had been living for all these years, she couldn't help but feel heartbroken.
If my sister had followed her parents' arrangements, why would she have lived such a hard life for so many years?
Listening to Ma Daya talk about her sister's life for so many years bit by bit, listening to Ma Daya say that her sister has never traveled far since she followed the salesman back to her hometown.
I heard Ma Daya say that her younger sister didn't dare to reveal her address for so many years because she felt ashamed of her parents.
Listening to Ma Daya say that her sister gave birth to five sons and three daughters in her life, but in the end only one young daughter survived, the old lady felt mixed emotions.
She had only one son in her life and had only experienced the pain of childbirth once. The old man was no longer willing to let her suffer this pain.
She couldn't imagine what it would be like for her sister to have one child after another, but to watch the children leave one after another. Just thinking about it made her feel so painful that her heart was trembling.
Eight children, those are not eight kittens and puppies, those are eight living children!
Eight children, a total of eight children, only the youngest daughter survived!
