The women managed to cheer up, talking and laughing, and walked all the way back to their homes.
Snapped!
The woman holding the child was the first to say goodbye to everyone. She raised her hand and weakly pushed open the rotten wooden door panel, stepped through the door frame, and coaxed her crying son into the home.
Wow, wow, wow, wow!
As soon as they entered the house, before the woman could settle down and rest, the baby started crying more violently again.
"Baby, don't cry, yo, yo, yo."
So, she lifted up her clothes and made the most sacred move.
breast-feeding!
With his stomach filled to his heart's content, the baby's cries gradually subsided.
At this time, the frowning woman opened the lid of the rice vat. After seeing that the rice vat was about to bottom out, she felt unhappy.
These days,
Food is more valuable than human life!
As everyone knows,
How many families are starving to death!
"well."
After letting out a long sigh, the woman put aside the handful of wild vegetables with green juice in her hand.
Subsequently,
She washes rice and cooks rice.
However, the rice was even thinner than rice porridge.
A large pot of water mixed with a handful of rice grains, together with the wild vegetables just dug by the neighbor, constituted the family's meal.
The fire was burning brightly and the pot was boiling. At this time, the man of the house came back.
His face was wrinkled from years of exposure to wind and rain. He walked in with a numb face. When he saw the woman, his chapped lips finally wriggled a few times and asked, "Where is our daughter?"
"Going to get water."
After opening the lid of the pot and adding another spoonful of water, the woman sighed with a heavy heart.
"Um."
The man nodded and clasped a few copper plates firmly with his fingers.
He returned to the main room and sat down at one end, then silently lowered his head and looked at the copper plate and sighed without saying a word.
An eerie tranquility filled the air,
Apart from the gurgling sound of boiling water, there was no other noise.
Until half a while later,
The tranquility was broken by a sudden knock on the door.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
There was a knock on the door, and the call of the visitor also appeared: "Sister, please open the door for us!"
"call..."
Hearing this sound, the woman who was about to turn off the stove breathed a sigh of relief.
Because the visitor is very wealthy,
I guess I don't like their pot of porridge.
Crunch!
The door latch was removed and the door opened.
"Hey, hey."
A rosy-faced, rich woman walked in, her fat face forced a smile.
"Sister, this is your house..."
After leading the woman all the way to the main hall, she looked at the environment in the room and said this.
"Your family, you won't have to worry about food and drink from now on!"
The woman looked around, then lowered her voice, but to the couple, the news was no less than thunder.
"What are you talking about?" The male host straightened his back with excitement, "Matchmaker, is there a rich family who has taken a liking to my daughter?"
really,
The woman showed a mysterious smile.
As a well-known matchmaker from all over the country, she could come to such a shabby place probably just for this reason.
"You've hit the mark." The matchmaker covered his mouth with a handkerchief and smiled so hard that the fat on his body also trembled. "Someone has taken a fancy to your daughter, but, it's just..."
But then, the matchmaker looked embarrassed and changed the subject.
"It's just that this family is the Li family." Gritting her teeth cruelly, the matchmaker said the next words, "This time, I am a matchmaker for the eldest young master of the Li family."
Li family?
Isn't that a wealthy landowner family?
After the male host heard this, his face was filled with joy.
but...
The woman holding the child was trembling all over, and her face turned red instantly: "Damn it, what do you mean? The eldest young master of the Li family? Wasn't that the eldest young master of the Li family a few days ago..."
"The one who was trampled to death by a horse!"
...
"Fuck you!"
The male host was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then became furious.
He slapped the matchmaker furiously, but before the slap fell, he heard the matchmaker's disdainful snort.
"Let me ask you." The matchmaker didn't dodge, a cunning light flashed in her eyes, "With your family alone, can you two support this big fat boy?"
She pointed at the swaddled baby and asked loudly.
"Let me ask you again, how many of your family can survive in these troubled times?"
"I'm afraid I can't even afford food recently."
She sneered arrogantly, but soon changed to an eager expression.
"Sister." She held the woman's hand familiarly and sat down. "If you think about it again, I am also thinking about you. I am afraid that your family will starve to death."
"I Have a Picture Book of Ghosts and Gods"
"No need to say more!"
The woman shook her head with an indifferent expression.
However...
The male host's dark eyes burst out with a passionate light.
"Well, matchmaker." He stroked his beard with an apologetic smile, "What you said makes sense. But my daughter is still fine. You can't..."
"What can't be done?"
The matchmaker raised her hand,
"These days, isn't it common for someone to die? As long as you can do it, then..."
"no!"
The matchmaker's voice was interrupted by the woman. The woman's eyes turned red and she waved her arms to scratch the matchmaker's face.
"Shut up!"
However, what she received was an extremely swift slap.
"As for the Li family, we have to rely more on you."
Ignoring the woman who was slumped on the ground, the male host welcomed the matchmaker out of the house, and then stuffed a copper plate into the matchmaker's fat palm.
Uh-huh!
Time froze, and the next moment, the scenery in front of Yunfan changed rapidly.
The sun sets,
Night falls.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Three more knocks came. valley
"Father, mother!"
A cheerful and crisp call followed.
"Girl...girl..."
Opening the door, the woman hugged the woman who came in,
"Why did you come back so late today?"
"Mom... don't knock the bucket over." The woman chuckled, "Today, for some reason, the water in the river turned black. I waited for a long time until it became clear."
"well."
The woman nodded numbly, took the bucket, and led her daughter back into the house.
And through the soft moonlight, Yun Fan also saw the woman's appearance clearly.
It's no wonder that the matchmaker chose her house.
The figure is slim and slender, and although her face is sallow due to long-term hunger, it is still easy to see that this girl is pretty.
Entering the main hall,
The girl suddenly sniffed.
"Dad, Mom, this is..."
She looked at her father sitting on the edge of the Kang with a happy face.
"Does this smell like meat?"
"Yes." The woman slowly walked out of the darkness, holding a large bowl of steaming meat porridge in her hand, "Your father finally bought it. Drink it, drink it."
"oh."
The girl sat down obediently, but just when she was about to move her chopsticks, she suddenly felt two direct glances.
When he met her gaze, the man coughed unnaturally, while the woman glanced to the side with an unbearable expression.
But the girl didn't notice this. She still had a sweet smile on her face: "Dad, Mom, why don't you eat?"
"Eat, eat!"
The woman quietly wiped the tears from her eyes, picked up her rice bowl, and took a big mouthful of sticky rice porridge.
The same goes for the male host, who silently sipped the meat porridge from the bowl. In this case, the family ended their last reunion dinner.
"Mom, I'm going..."
Covering her mouth and licking the rice grains from the corners of her lips, the girl was about to clear away the dishes.
But at this time, her vision blurred for a while, and then she collapsed with a plop.
In a daze,
She clearly heard her father and mother arguing.
"Master, please give her a good time!"
The woman tugged at the sleeve of the man, holding up a piece of hemp rope and pleading.
"There is blood stasis and the condition is not good."
But the man pushed her away indifferently.
Then, he walked up to the girl step by step, reached out and grabbed her hair.
"Well..."
The girl's mouth came out with a low moan that was almost drowsy. She tried to widen her eyes, trying to distinguish the appearance of the things around her.
But the next moment...
The pungent coolness made her wake up completely.
Goo doo doo doo!
A series of bubbles surfaced, and the huge suffocation made her feel extremely panicked.
"Uh, uh, uh, uh!"
With a hint of strength, the girl danced her hands and feet and struggled hard.
But how could her power compete with that of an adult man?
Every time her head left the water, it was pressed down with more force.
"Wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong woman looked at the scene in front of her, "Daughter, please leave quickly! It's your father and mother who can't help you, but your brother is still alive, we..."
The woman cried and poured out the truth.
The young and ignorant baby was lying relaxedly in her arms, sucking milk with a smile on his face.
Little by little, streams of water entered the nasal cavity and flowed into the lungs.
At the last moment, the girl squeezed out the last bit of strength in her body and lifted her head out of the water for the last time.
"Brother, you must live; you, too, must live..."
The pale-faced girl looked like a humanoid demon at the moment, baring her teeth and roaring at the top of her lungs.
"Everyone needs to live!"
"but..."
"Dad! Mom!"
"My life, isn't it life?"
thump!
As soon as he finished speaking, the girl's head was pressed into the bucket again and for the last time.
The bucket of water she just brought back.
Gudududu...
The bubbles disappeared and the body went limp.
She stopped her last struggle and left.
only...
Ding!
Ding!
Ding!
In Yunfan's field of vision, blood-red text prompts popped up.
【Why? 】
【Why? 】
【Why? 】
【Why? 】
【...】
Click!
Thunder flashed, and the heavy rain that swept away all the dust in the world poured into a vast white mist.
The sound of the flute is melodious, but also extremely harsh.
The sound of thunder, the sound of rain, and the sound of flutes are all integrated into one.
Wow!
He pulled out his daughter's head by the hair, and a pale and pretty face appeared in the male owner's field of vision.
At this moment, this situation...
Just as,
Hibiscus emerges from clear water.
only...
Her eyes that were supposed to be closed were widened, and an inexplicable smile appeared on her face that was supposed to be filled with pain.
【Dad, mother...】
【I hate. 】
【I can’t let go. 】
Boom!
Thunder struck one after another, and the rain continued.
