They are his twin brothers and sisters. The boy is named Xu Ping and the girl is named Xu An, which means peace. Like Xu Ling, their names were given by his father.
The two children are thirteen years old this year, but they are almost as short as they were born. They are thin and have bare feet. Their clothes are full of patches. Xu An is a girl, but she looks no different from a little boy. She has a long flowing hair. Nose, trouser legs can be rolled up to the knees.
As soon as Mrs. Xu saw it, she wanted to beat her with thorns, "You damn girl! Why are you showing so much flesh? Let the bad men with no eyes see you, and take you home and beat you three times a day?"
Xu Ling on the side:...
Why does he feel like someone is following him?
Xu An screamed strangely, threw the leaves in his hand to the ground, and quickly ran to his elder brother, "Brother! Save me!"
Xu Ling was not good to his wife and children, but he was very good to his younger siblings.
When he was a child, he was hungry and had to steal things from outside to bring home to feed his younger brothers and sisters.
I don't know how many beatings he received before Xu Ling developed such a thick skin.
He stopped Xu's mother and said, "Okay, let her go."
Modern souls don't think this is a big problem. Even if there is a problem, it is a scumbag with evil intentions like Xu Ling who has the problem.
Xu An was saved by his elder brother and quickly ran back to pick up the fish that fell on the ground.
Xu Ping was excitedly talking about how they stole these fish back.
Yes, stealing.
The river that flows through Lianhua Bay has no name, but people in the village call it Dajiang. We rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. Lianhua Bay is close to the river, so there are naturally fishermen fishing. However, the river outside takes a sharp turn at Lianhua Bay. The river water is fast and scary at high tide. Ordinary villagers go down to the river to catch fish. Drowning often happens.
Take Lianhua Bay as an example, several children drown every year.
Therefore, Xu Ling'er gave orders not to allow his younger brothers and sisters to go into the river to catch fish. He himself developed a skill in the water, but his two younger brothers and sisters did not know how to do it.
Naturally, they didn't catch this fish in the river. Instead, they sought out the fishermen and jumped onto their boats while they were ashore to grab it.
The two children were quick with their hands and feet, and they didn't take too much. They would run away if they stole something, and were beaten if they couldn't win. They stole from countless homes before they stole back five palm-sized crucian carp.
Xu Ling fell silent.
He looked at the two proud children in front of him, and for a moment he didn't know what to say.
Scold them and ask them to give the fish back?
Xu's mother had just returned the chickens, and the porridge the family drank in the morning was just like water. He also returned the fish, where could he conjure up food to fill their bellies?
Xu Ling seemed to understand something. Hunger would devour a person's moral quality.
He shook his head helplessly, and could only suppress the thought in his heart of reforming his younger brothers and sisters, and asked Xu's mother to process the fish and cook it for eating.
The Xu family has three rooms, two living rooms, a kitchen and a utility storage room. They were originally used to pile firewood, but Xu Ling is the only laborer in the family. Sometimes when he is in the mood, he will stock up on firewood for the whole family. .
If they go to town to gamble and don't go home for a few days, Xu Ping, Xu An and the others will go "pick up" other people's firewood.
Now there are not many firewood left, let alone the iron pot. Xu Ling bet had sold it long ago, leaving only a chipped pottery urn.
Xu's mother simply took out the guts of the fish. If Xu Ling hadn't insisted, she wouldn't even have wanted to scrape off the scales. She just kept talking about Xu Ling's extravagance while cooking the fish.
Xu Ling was speechless when he saw her digging out a small jar in the kitchen, picking out an unknown object from it and throwing it into the pot.
The pot simmered for a while, and a pot of fish soup was ready.
Xu's mother happily served Xu Ling a bowl first, and then asked her two children to serve it.
"Go and ask your sister-in-law and Daya to come out for dinner." Xu Ling said to Xu Ping.
Xu's mother's eyes widened, "What did you ask her to do!"
Xu Ling looked puzzled, "Let's eat."
"You're so kind to her! Just leave her some bones and soup for a while. Can she still starve to death? It's not like she doesn't have a family!" Xu's mother's face was full of displeasure.
Xu Ling was speechless. But when he looked again, he saw that there were three fish cooked in the pottery urn, one and a half in his bowl, one and a half in his bowl, one in total for his two younger siblings, half of Xu's mother's tail, and the rest was just soup.
It had a fishy smell. After all, there were no seasonings in the soup to remove the fishy smell. It was white and turbid, and Xu Ling couldn't eat it just by looking at it.
With such a meal, the Xu family still has to be wary of Gu Yu, the "outsider" who gave birth to Xu Ling's child!
Xu Ling was still a little resentful at first, why she turned into a man, but when she looked at the situation of this woman, she suddenly felt happy.
But happiness shouldn’t be based on women’s pain.
"Go and ask them to come out for dinner!" Xu Ling said forcefully.
Xu Ping put down his bowls and chopsticks and went to call for someone obediently.
The Xu family hated that iron could not become steel, but who said this was Xu Ling's opinion?
Gu You led his daughter out. Daya had already smelled the fish and shouted happily: "Fish!"
She raised her little face to look at Gu You, shook her hand, and saliva flowed from the corner of her mouth, "Mom, Yuyu!"
Gu Tao quickly raised his eyelids to look at Xu Ling, and responded through his nose, "Yeah."
Xu Ling still didn't know how to face his cheap wife, and his attitude was a little unnatural: "Sit down and eat."
Gu Tao went to the kitchen and took out a pair of bowls and chopsticks. The pottery urn on the floor had already been emptied, leaving only a few pieces of broken fish, and the rest was soup.
She silently put the fish meat into a bowl, scooped out a big spoonful of soup, picked up the fish meat and fed it to her daughter.
Daya stood between her legs, squinting her eyes happily, "Yuyu!"
"Yeah, fish."
Gu You's voice was very soft, as if she had no strength. Her appearance was beautiful, which indeed fit the description of a camellia in the book.
It's just that no matter how good-looking a woman is, she won't look good if she doesn't have enough food and clothing, and is abused by the person next to her.
Loving people is like growing flowers.
Such words flashed through Xu Ling's mind.
He accepted his identity and was willing to take on the responsibilities of the family, but he didn't know whether he could give Gu You what he longed for as a woman.
"Come here, I can't finish eating." Xu Ling said to Gu Yu. Seeing the whole family looking at her in surprise, she secretly thought that she should not change too quickly, lest people see her mistake and regard her as some evil monster, so she He frowned and added, "I have a headache, and I feel nauseous and want to vomit after eating."
Gu You breathed a sigh of relief and carefully held the bowl up to his.
Her hands were so slender that they were dry, her fingers were dirty, and her wrists were so thin that the bones were visible. Xu Ling took a look and put the meat from the fish belly into her bowl.
Crucian carp has a lot of spines to begin with, "The belly of the fish has less spines, so give it to Da Ya."
He put most of it into Gu You's bowl and gave the rest to his younger brothers and sisters.
This is not partiality.
