It turns out that someone can indeed starve themselves to the point of being unable to move.
Ye Yun just poked lightly.
Luo Xiujuan fell down in response.
In the end, Ye Yun hurriedly helped her up and fed her to finish a bowl of noodle tea.
After finishing a bowl of noodles and tea, Luo Xiujuan rested against the bed for a while and finally regained some strength. She supported her body and got off the bed. She stood by the bed in an orderly manner, watching over her son. She held her son's hand and sighed. The withered eyes filled with tears stared at Ye Yun with great gratitude.
"Sister, thank you. The bedding on your kang is stained by our mother-in-law. I will wash it for you later..."
This is not necessary.
With her current physical condition, I'm afraid she would faint before the sheets got into the water.
"Where are you mother and son going? My place is small and I can't keep you for too long. Which village are you from?" Ye Yun asked Luo Xiujuan to sit down and looked at her calmly.
These days, there are actually a lot of people begging for food.
After the reform and land distribution, everyone no longer eats communal meals, which means that the government no longer cares about the affairs of ordinary people.
Whether a person can eat or not depends entirely on the person in charge of their family.
This kind of rule also causes that when disputes arise in some families, the weaker party will be taken advantage of. The simplest and most brutal way is to deny food, or be kicked out of the house, leaving no house or land, and living by wandering and begging.
The biggest victims are women.
When they get married, their husband's family will not have their own fields, and the fields left behind by their parents' family will not give them food for a married woman. If they have a conflict with their husband's family and have a falling out, their husband's family will have the most direct way to manipulate them. Just don’t give them food.
In this case, they either go hungry or leave the home and beg for food.
This is also the reason why most daughters-in-law nowadays are manipulated by their mothers-in-law and dare not contradict them.
What is most important these days?
Filling your stomach is the most important thing.
Mountain people don't have much ambition. They don't even know what ambition is. If they can fill their stomachs every day and live until the end of their lives, their life is worth it.
Is Luo Xiujuan also in this category?
However, Luo Xiujuan shook her head with tears in her eyes and said softly: "I don't know, I don't know where I'm going..."
"I just remember that I walked for a long time and climbed many mountains. My home is far away from here..."
She was kicked out of her family.
Not her husband's family, but her own home.
She got pregnant out of wedlock, and her parents were angry at her behavior and wanted to kick her out of the house. However, her sister-in-law couldn't give birth to a child after three years in the family, so her parents let her keep the child.
Her eldest brother and sister-in-law were very concerned about the child in her belly. After the child was born, she safely handed it over to her eldest sister-in-law.
But the good times didn't last long.
Within half a year, the sister-in-law also became pregnant. After the child was born, he turned around and returned the child to her.
She is naturally happy.
The child can call her mother.
But she was also worried about the loss of use value. She was afraid that her parents would kick her out of the house with her child like they did before. What's more, her sister-in-law was not a good person. As early as after the child was born, she began to dislike her in the house. Eat with one mouth.
It was okay at first.
She knew how to look and was afraid of being disliked by her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law. She did all the laundry and cooking, and also rushed to do the work in the fields. She hoped that her parents, brothers and sisters-in-law would continue to love her child.
But as the sister-in-law's children grew up, the family gradually became more and more dissatisfied with her, and her brother-in-law and sister-in-law became more and more dissatisfied with her. The two children often had conflicts. Even though her child was always the one getting beaten, the sister-in-law was still dissatisfied. , finally once again her son was bitten on the finger by her sister-in-law's son, and her son had to push her sister-in-law's son in pain. The sister-in-law was furious and kicked her out of the house with bad words.
She can't help it.
When her sister-in-law kicked her out of the house, she showed no mercy to her and told the public that she was pregnant before marriage. They made such a fuss that all the villages nearby knew about it.
My sister-in-law, who was full of joy and looking forward to her son, turned into a little bastard.
She, whose sister-in-law kept saying she wanted to be grateful, turned into a shameless bitch.
No village was willing to take in their mother and son.
People without land are street people, people without houses are gangsters. As a gangster, what else can she do besides taking her son to beg for food?
Fortunately she didn't eat much.
The child also has a small appetite.
There were wild fruits in the mountains and spring water when she was thirsty. Getting a piece of cornmeal would keep her happy for a long time.
Later, it got cold.
The child is sick.
Wild fruits can't cure her illness, spring water can't quench her thirst, and she can't get food, so she lives here...
"Then where do you want to go?"
When Ye Yun learned about her past, she didn't express any opinions and only asked about her future.
Luo Xiujuan was silent, lowered her head and thought for a long time, then said: "I don't know, I still don't know where I want to go, maybe... I want to go to the provincial capital, but I don't know the way, so I took the child and left. It took a long time and I climbed several mountains, but I still couldn't see the shadow of the provincial capital."
Ye Yun was stunned, "Provincial capital?"
Luo Xiujuan nodded, with a lonely look on the sleeping child, and sighed, "I want to find the child's father..."
Ye Yun's face changed slightly.
"Why is the child's father in the provincial capital?"
"His father is an educated youth who went to the countryside."
"So five years ago, educated youths began to return to the city in large numbers, and his father abandoned you and your son and left?"
"how do you know?"
Luo Xiujuan raised her head in surprise and looked at her blankly.
But soon she regained her mood, looked down at the sleeping child, with a faint smile on her lips, and said: "His father didn't abandon us, he said he would come back to find me, and he didn't know Xiaohai existed. , the child was found out after he left."
"..."
Ye Yun looked at the woman in front of her who was looking at the child quietly with lowered eyes, her emotions were too complicated to mix.
After a while, she found her voice, but the words she blurted out were filled with a hint of sarcasm: "Do you know the difference between the provincial capital and the mountains? The provincial capital is prosperous and charming everywhere, but our mountains are barren and backward. How could he go back? Do you still remember that there is still you in the mountain village?"
"Sister, you..."
Luo Xiujuan didn't understand why her words were suddenly thorny. She looked stunned and stopped talking.
Ye Yun was her and her child's savior. She didn't dare to say anything. Not to mention the harsh words, even if she pointed at her nose and scolded her, she didn't think there was anything wrong.
"Sorry..." Ye Yun realized that she had lost her temper, sighed, touched her nose with her fingertips, and explained quietly: "My father is the same as your child's father, so I can't control my emotions for a while."
Luo Xiujuan was even more stunned.
"No, it was me who said I was sorry, but you took us in." She shook her head and looked at Ye Yun apologetically, with an invisible hint of sympathy in her eyes.
Ye Yun couldn't help but smile bitterly.
Why did you sympathize with her instead?
There will be no good end for those who are soft-hearted.
Ye Yun suppressed the uncomfortable emotions in her heart, raised the corners of her lips, and said pleasantly: "Do you know what happened to my mother?"
Luo Xiujuan was slightly startled, looking at her but not daring to say a word.
"She's crazy."
Ye Yun curled her lips coldly, did not look at the frightened woman, and left without looking back.
Luo Xiujuan froze.
Until Ye Yun left the house, she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.
yard.
Ye Yun walked out of the house.
Qin Zheng just happened to ride home on the Erba Dagang.
Qin Zheng noticed at a glance that her face was not very good, and her expression was slightly tense. He hurriedly put down the 28 big bars and walked over.
He half-circled her in a warm and solid embrace. Qin Zheng held her hand tightly with his generous palms, and whispered in her ear with a low voice: "Daughter-in-law, why are you unhappy?"
