Niu Niu dragged her worn-out little cloth shoes, ran over and moved a stool as high as her head with difficulty.
Su Ying hurriedly took a handful and helped put the stool away.
The mother-in-law put the bowl on the stool, then wiped her hands on the apron, stood aside and looked at them with a smile.
Su Ying looked down, and there were gaps on the sides of the two bowls. What was contained in the bowls was not so much porridge, but rather rice soup, with a few grains of rice scattered in the clear soup.
Ye Feibai looked at the white rice porridge and frowned slightly. When he grew up so big, when did he eat this kind of thing
Seeing Ye Feibai's expression, Su Ying was afraid of embarrassing her mother-in-law, so she quickly picked up a bowl, smiled and said to her mother-in-law, "Mother-in-law, you can go inside first, we can just sit by ourselves, or let Niuniu accompany us."
The mother-in-law smiled and said, "Hey, okay, Niuniu, let's play with my brothers and sisters."
Niu Niu agreed crisply.
Niuniu stood in front of the two of them, staring at the white rice porridge on the stool, and swallowed hard.
Su Ying handed over the white rice porridge in her hand: "My sister is not hungry, can Niuniu help her eat?"
Niuniu lowered her head and whispered softly: "Grandma will scold..."
Su Ying moved her head closer, and said in a low voice, "We won't tell grandma."
Niu Niu raised her head, Su Ying nodded, and handed the bowl to her again, this time Niu Niu took it, blew on it, raised her head and drank it down in one sip, until the bottom of the bowl was full, and she was still a little bit unsatisfied.
Su Ying glanced at Ye Feibai, thinking how could he not eat this porridge
Thinking of this, Su Ying picked up another bowl of porridge and said to Niuniu, "Do you want more?"
Niuniu looked at Ye Feibai subconsciously, and whispered: "This is my brother's..."
"Brother will agree, won't he?"
The latter sentence is aimed at Ye Feibai.
Niuniu looked at Ye Feibai and saw him nodding his head, so she happily took it and drank it down.
Su Ying looked at the two empty bowls in front of her, Niu Niu's contented expression, and her bony body, feeling a little sour in her heart.
She smiled slightly, pinching her twisted little face: "Niu Niu, help my sister get the bowl in, and tell grandma that my brother and sister are already full."
Niu Niu replied yes, and trotted in with two bowls in hand.
Su Ying had been squatting just now, her body and legs felt a little numb all the time, her body was unstable, and she seemed about to fall.
Ye Feibai subconsciously stretched out his hand to support her, halfway out, seeing that she had stabilized, and coldly retracted it.
Because Su Luo's back was facing him, she didn't see it.
Su Ying stomped her feet and looked up at the sky outside the window.
At this time, the sky had already darkened, and the torrential rain was getting bigger and bigger, and I still didn't know how to get back.
Chen Qi had been out for a while, Su Ying was a little worried, and couldn't help but went to the kitchen to ask her mother-in-law: "Mother-in-law, Ah Qi has been out for so long, and it's raining outside, is there really no problem?"
The mother-in-law smiled heartily: "It doesn't matter. Ah Qi has been running outside since he was a child. This kind of rain is not a problem. The place where the herbs are picked is far away, and it will take some time to go back and forth."
The mother-in-law was talking in her mouth, and her hands kept moving, and Niuniu stood aside to help her grandma.
Seeing Su Ying coming in, she gave Su Ying a sweet smile, her smile was as bright as the spring sun.
"Niu Niu, go get some water." The mother-in-law told Niu Niu to do something.
Su Ying saw Niuniu walking to the water tank that was as tall as her body, and followed her, and took the ladle from Niuniu's hand: "Sister, come here."
Su Ying pulled up the lid of the water tank with one hand, but saw that the inside was empty, and there was a layer of white rice dust on the ground.
"Sister, I'm wrong, it's a rice vat." Niu Niu reminded crisply.
rice vat? Su Ying looked at the rice vat without a single grain of rice, and was slightly taken aback.
Could it be that the white rice porridge just now was the last rice
Su Ying suppressed the expression on her face, smiled and put the lid back on, walked to the water tank Niuniu pointed at, took a ladle of water, and handed it to her mother-in-law.
Seeing that it was Su Ying who scooped up the water, the mother-in-law hurriedly took it over: "Oh, why bother you, come on, the kitchen is messy, go sit outside, the chicken soup will be ready soon."
Su Ying was afraid that it would be inconvenient for her to be with them, so she smiled and withdrew.
Su Ying stood outside the kitchen, but her heart was a little touched.
The family's situation is even more difficult than she thought, and they even have no food.
But Orion, why shouldn't it be like this
Suddenly there were one or two coughs at the door, and then an old figure appeared. He was wearing a coir raincoat, and without raising his head after entering, he said, "Grandma Chen, I heard that you have guests at your house?"
The man took off his coir raincoat and hung it on the door. When he looked up, he saw Su Ying and Ye Feibai, he was slightly startled, and said, "These two are guests, right?"
Su Ying looked at the person in front of him. This person seemed to be over half a decade old, with a warm and friendly smile on his face, and a sack in his hand.
Su Ying gave him a faint smile, then stood aside.
The mother-in-law came out when she heard the commotion outside, and greeted with a smile: "Oh, old village head, why are you here? It's raining so much outside."
The old village chief waved his hand indifferently: "What's the matter? Just now I ran into your family's Qi and said that there were two guests at home. I was thinking about it, so I brought something to avoid being too shabby."
The village said, and handed over the things in his hand, the mother-in-law hurriedly shied away, waving her hands repeatedly: "How can this work, every time I take your things, Ah Qi will talk about me again when he turns around, no, no, no."
However, the old village head put the bag in his hand aside, found a stool and sat down, and took out the cigarette pipe under his armpit: "It's not a good thing, let's make it up."
Seeing this, the mother-in-law didn't say anything else. After taking the bag, she said, "The village head sit here first, and warm up after drinking the chicken soup."
The village head lit the cigarette, took a puff in his mouth, and after slowly exhaling it, Fang said to Su Ying and the two of them: "You two have come from a long way. We have nothing to entertain in this dilapidated village. Grandma Chen only has grandma now. The seven sons are so pitiful, I will help more."
Su Ying nodded, expressing her understanding, and then said in confusion: "I have a question, and I would like to ask the village chief. It seems that there are not many people in your village. Why do you want to live here and not move?"
The old village chief took a deep breath of cigarettes, and sighed on his sad face: "The land in the mountains is barren, and there is no way to grow food. Some people in the village can't bear the hardship, and they have already moved out. But people leave their hometowns, we Why do these old people move outside again? It’s good to hunt and make a living here.”
There was a little bit of vicissitudes between the words.
Just as Su Ying was about to speak, she saw her mother-in-law coming out, holding a casserole in her hand.
Niu Niu struggled to hold a stack of bowls and chopsticks in her hands, and she looked like they were about to fall down. Su Ying took a few steps forward, took them over, and arranged the bowls and chopsticks one by one.