When Bai Ling was putting on straw sandals and preparing to go home, Bai Wei rushed over and saw that Bai Ling had already speared several fish. She couldn't help but envy Bai Ling's ability.
But Bai Wei also tried it, but didn't have the patience to learn how to spear fish.
"If I had known it was going to be sunny, I wouldn't have chased after you." Bai Wei pouted, looked away at Bai Ling, and whispered, "Dad asked me to pick you up because I was afraid you would be caught in the rain.
Second sister, actually dad loves us very much, but he won’t tell us, so don’t be angry with dad.”
Bai Ling, who had just discovered the space, was in a wonderful mood and had a little more smile on his face.
"I know."
Bai Ling stood up and said helplessly:
"But dad has always been so incompetent. No matter how much work we do, there won't be enough to fight the autumn wind over there. The eldest sister has sold herself because of mother's illness. I don't want the three of us sisters to follow the same path as the eldest sister.
If dad is like this forever, I will take mom away, and you can make up your own mind about who you want to go with."
She always thought that Bai Ling was speaking out of anger, but Bai Wei had never thought about this issue, but now she became cautious.
"If that day comes, I will follow you and your mother. If my younger sister and younger brother don't want to, I will carry them away." Bai Wei said seriously when they were approaching the door of the house.
"Well, that's a good idea." Bai Ling squinted his eyes and chuckled.
The three-bedroom family lived at the east end of Nanshan Village. There were only three thatched houses with mud-paved walls in the dilapidated courtyard. The kitchen and warehouse were in the middle. Bai Sanshu, his wife and two children lived on the east side, and the west house lived on the east side.
The two Bai Ling sisters lived here.
There has been a lot of rain in the past few days, and there are always leaks, and a lot of thatch on the roof has been blown away by the wind.
The two Bai Ling sisters went home chatting and laughing. They both had big eyes, but their faces were sallow and thin, their hair was about the size of hay, and they wore patched clothes. They looked like refugees.
However, if you look closely, you can still distinguish the two of them. The elder sister Bai Ling exudes the aura of sunshine, which attracts more attention.
The younger sister Bai Wei is a bit heroic, with clear eyes, but lacks the softness of a girl.
"Dad, didn't I tell you a long time ago that we should leave the repair of the roof to us, why are you disobedient?" Seeing Cheap Dad trembling when he got down the ladder, Bai Ling hurriedly put down the basket and trotted over to support him.
ladder.
Bai Wei also had a worried look on her face, and she and Bai Ling held on to the ladder one by one, fearing that Bai Sanshu would accidentally fall down.
Bai Sanshu grinned happily when he saw that his daughter still cared about him.
"You two are back." Bai Sanshu was sweating profusely, his thin eyes were sunken, and he had a kind smile on his face. "How can you, a grown man, let you two girls repair the roof? Go quickly.
Wash your hands, and dad will light the fire first."
The two sisters looked at each other helplessly and then divided their labors to work. The cold war between father and daughter came to an end for the time being.
Bai Wei picked vegetables quickly with her hands and feet and prepared them to be dried in the sun. It would also make her stutter in the winter.
Bai Ling, on the other hand, carefully took the bird's nest that had been placed in the vegetable basket into the kitchen, cut a basin of wild vegetables, and made a large pot of wild bird egg soup. Except for adding some salt, there was no other ingredient.
Condiments.
Fortunately, there is spiritual spring water now, and even a bland wild vegetable soup can nourish the body.
It was too late to cook the fish now, so I had to save it for dinner.
On the way back, the sisters dug out three bird's nests and got thirteen eggs. Three were beaten into the soup, and the remaining ten were boiled with the skins on to replenish the health of the old, weak, sick and disabled at home.
"Dad, you bring the vegetable basin into the house, and I'll get the dishes and chopsticks." Bai Ling wiped his sweat, said to Bai Sanshu, and went to the cupboard to get the dishes.
It had been three days since he traveled back in time, and Bai Ling was so busy hitting the back of his head every day just to get a bite of food.
If she hadn't grown up in the mountains in her previous life and was so attached to the love between her family members, she probably wouldn't have been able to hold on long ago.
After Bai Wei dried the wild vegetables, she wiped the faces of her mother and younger siblings and washed their hands, and the family gathered around the Kang table to eat.
"There are bird eggs!" Bai Xiaoshan, who was still unable to walk on his own at the age of six, shouted inarticulately, his eyes as bright as the stars in the sky.
Eight-year-old Bai Xing swallowed her saliva and tried not to look at the eggs.
"The harvest is good today. I took out more than ten bird eggs, made three in the soup, and boiled ten more." Bai Ling arranged the bowls and chopsticks and began to distribute the eggs, "Mom is still taking medicine, and I am not feeling well."
Weak, you two have three each, dad and my little sister have two each."
On the way back, the two sisters discussed how to distribute the eggs. They were two 'healthy' people and would not compete with the sick and weak at home.
"Dad is such an adult, you two sisters can take one each." Bai Sanshu immediately put the bird eggs into the bowls of the Bai Ling sisters.
"You two are so busy at work, and it's time to grow taller, so you should eat more." Bai Liu, the sick bun's mother, also separated two bird eggs.
If she wasn't afraid of not eating anything and having to drink more and take more medicine, Mrs. Bai Liu would definitely be reluctant to take one.
"Sisters are tired, give it to your sister." Bai Xing was also sensible and hurriedly gave the bird eggs to her sister.
Although Bai Xiaoshan was greedy, he divided the eggs out sensibly and whispered: "Xiaoshan is small, you will be full after eating one."
Bai Ling's eyes turned red. In such a poor family, they don't even have a grain of rice, but they have such a good family. Are they afraid that they won't be able to live a good life?
Bai Wei always had the temper of a little pepper, so when she saw this, she stood up, sent all the eggs in the bowl back one by one, filled herself a large bowl of soup, and drank it in big gulps.
"The two of us were hungry when we were digging wild vegetables, so we burned a few bird eggs and already ate them." Bai Ling forced back her tears, pushed back all the bird eggs, and smiled sweetly at Bai Wei: "
Come and eat quickly, there is fish soup to drink in the evening. After dinner, I will spear the fish. Third sister, you go to the edge of the woods and continue digging for wild vegetables. Don't go into the mountains alone."
"Yeah." Bai Wei nodded.
The whole family drank a large bowl of wild vegetable soup mixed with Lingquan water, but they were all very satisfied. After all, they had eggs today.
Mrs. Bailiu was weak, so she drank medicine after eating and took her children to bed.
Bai Sanshu had bad legs and feet, so he sat under the eaves and weaved straw curtains so that he could put them on the roof to keep out the rain. They could be used as door curtains and curtains in winter to keep him warm.
Bai Sanshu struggled with the work of chopping firewood and carrying water at home.
The two sisters went to wash the dishes. Bai Wei glanced at the medicine that was almost gone, frowned and said, "Mom's medicine is almost gone, and the family has no money."
Bai Ling stopped wiping the dishes and sighed inwardly.
Less than half a month after the three-bedroom apartment was divided, all we got was a shabby yard and one acre of land.
In order to treat her mother's illness, the eldest sister Bai Cao was willing to marry a widower who had killed two of his wives. However, the betrothal gift of five taels of silver was not enough to treat Bai Liu's illness.
The original owner's ex-fiancé came to cancel the engagement and refunded a small deposit of one tael of silver. The old man's house also said that the old lady was ill and needed to see a doctor, forcing Bai Sanshu and his wife to pay a tael of silver. The family's money
It's even less useful.
At present, there is not a single grain of food in the house, and the little salt that is left is almost used up. Bai Liu's medicine also costs a lot of money.
Bai Sanshu's legs and feet are not good, so if he goes to the town to work part-time, no one will do it. How long can the family last without any income?
"I will fork more fish in the afternoon and dry some fish to sell." Bai Ling hesitated for a moment, his brows relaxed, and he looked at Bai Wei with bright eyes and asked: "You have been to the town with your elder sister many times, but do you know the drug store?"
Do you want to collect the herbs?" (To be continued)