“Spicy chicken, braised beef, roast suckling pig, double-cooked pork, brine goose, sweet and sour pork… oh my god, there are so many delicious foods!” Ning Xi drooled over the table and picked up his chopsticks as he prepared to After eating a lot, a magical voice suddenly pierced his ears: “Ningxi! Dead girl, you are still standing at any time, do you think that you are Miss Qianjin waiting to be served?”
Aunt Qin Sulian’s loud voice broke the silence of the early morning, shaking a few strands of dust off the beam, “No, no!” Ning Xi waved his hands in vain to grab the food that was spinning fast in front of him , watching them all disappear into the void, she was so sad that she wanted to cry, she was hungry, she was so hungry, she really wanted to eat meat.
Ning Xi turned over, pulled up the quilt with only a few pieces of torn cotton wool and covered his head. As usual, he could still sleep for a while!
After coming here for more than a month, Ningxi finally learned to calculate the time according to the habit here. This time should be the beginning of the 1990s, that is, around five in the morning. Qin Sulian’s roaring time, which was unstoppable by thunder, opened Qiulu Village. Xitou Ningwenzhao family day prologue.
“Mother! Why don’t you keep your voice down, it’s so noisy!” Cousin Ning Shuanggui complained as usual.
“Stinky girl, you know you’re lazy, be careful you can’t get married.” Qin Sulian’s voice was an octave lower. Although she was still cursing, her tone contained a little more connivance.
“How can a mother talk about her daughter like that? Besides, the family’s work is done by the free-living people. Why do you want me to get up so early!”
Ningxi knows that the free food and free living refers to herself, of course, there is no reason for it. I do the housework for your entire family, and you don’t have enough food every day. It’s just child labor abuse. do not have!
Qin Sulian put on a smiley tone: “Daughter, didn’t you come to the village to pick someone from the villa today, why don’t you go take a look?”
“Oh, I almost forgot, mother, let that dead girl quickly cook breakfast for me. This time, I can’t let Ma Chunlan and the goblin take the lead.” Being able to work in the villa is a respectable villager. There is only one way out, so once the villa wants to recruit a maid or a servant or something, the girls of the right age in the village will scramble to get in after breaking their heads.
Last year, Ning Shuanggui turned 11. She was considered outstanding in the village. She had a great hope of being selected, but she was late when Ma Chunlan and her sister Ma Chunhua took the lead. I was so angry that I couldn’t eat for a few days.
Ningxi also learned about these past events after listening to the villagers’ discussions for a few days. The mysterious villa is synonymous with wealth and happiness in the eyes of the villagers, but Ningxi, who used to be a modern person, understands it anyway. No, what is there to yearn for in the days of being a slave and a maid?
“Ningxi! It’s been a few days without beating your buttocks, isn’t it? Get out now!” Ningxi knew that if she didn’t get up again, she couldn’t avoid a meal of fried pork with bamboo shoots, so she resigned herself to getting up and put on the body. A large section of short, coarse cloth clothes were exposed on her arms and calves. She doubted whether Ning Shuanggui wore this clothes when she was a child, and then put them on for her younger brother Ning Jincheng. It will be short like this, and the sturdy cloth is about to be washed into yarn, and if you don’t pay attention, it will be a big hole.
Ning Xi ruffled her hair and went under the stove to make a fire. Ning’s house is small, and there is air everywhere. Even in the stove, she can hear the movements of the house clearly, only her aunt’s baby bumps. The six-year-old son Ning Jincheng cried out, “Mother!” Ning Xi’s heart sank, this unfortunate child must have wet the bed again!
As expected, Qin Sulian said, “Come on, my dear son, my mother will change your clothes.” While changing, she nags: “If it weren’t for your father’s soft heart and bring back a money-losing product, what would we do? My child can’t even drink a thick mouth. Every day, they drink a belly of water to keep their stomach full. How can they not wet the bed! Poor our child is just starting to grow up, and the rations are taken up by the money-losing goods. , my miserable child!”
Ningxi lifted the lid of the pot, grabbed a handful of corn dregs and sprinkled it into the boiling water, stirring the pot and spoon with the other hand while spreading, and then dropped a handful of chopped horses after he was done. Toulan, after rolling for a while, breakfast will be ready. There are rules on how much corn dregs should be put. If Qin Sulian finds out if you put a little more, it will fly over with a broom without discussion.
On hearing a muffled cough in the room, the eldest boy, Ning Wenzhao, got up. After knowing each other for more than a month, Ning Xi’s impression of this man is that he is honest and friendly. He was diligent. Ning Xi had brought him meals several times in the field, and he was sweating and working hard, but he didn’t know why their family was so poor, so he was not less affected by Qin Sulian. Nagging, but no matter how **** he was scolded, he would only scratch his head and laugh wryly, seeing that Ning Xi was worried for him.
Ningxi couldn’t figure it out, Qiulu Zhuang is a rich place, the land is fertile, and there are not many extortionate taxes or anything. There are also a lot of good people. It’s not easy for Ning Wenzhao’s family to be so poor. She analyzed it carefully, probably because this aunt is too mean. Lessons are never wrong.
Qin Sulian stepped into the stove and started talking. For a while, she thought the things were messed up and there was nowhere to go, and then she said that there was another gap in the bowl and scolded Ning Xi for ruining things. On the other side, she wished to fish every grain of dregs into her son’s bowl, and finally put her hands on her hips and stared at the bull’s eyes: “What are you still doing, why don’t you hurry up and pack your brother’s bed, it really isn’t taught by your mother, I have no vision at all!”
Ning Xi stuck out her tongue towards her back, turned around and went into the room. As soon as she lifted Ning Jincheng’s quilt, the smell of urine rushed to her face, causing Ning Xi to frown and pinched with her fingertips. Then he took out the quilt cover and threw it into the bamboo basket for dirty clothes.
Ning Jincheng’s quilt is the best in this family, but it’s just a little thicker than her torn cotton wool. It has already turned gray-black after using it for a long time, and some of the quilts in the middle are even more dissatisfied with the black-yellow Urine stains, exuding a disgusting smell that has accumulated for a long time.
The weather is still warm now, even washing the quilt every day is just a little tiring, but it will be winter soon. Although I don’t know how cold the winter will be here, it will not be better. If this Cousin still wets the bed every day like this, it is really a hassle, Ning Xi thinks that he still has to think of a way.
Pack up Ning Jincheng’s bedding and go back to the kitchen. The uncle’s family has already finished breakfast, and they only left a little porridge water at the bottom of the pot, which is so clear that it can almost see a person’s shadow. Two or three pieces of porridge are floating on it. Green horse head orchid.
Ningxi shook her head and smiled bitterly. No wonder the original owner of this body was starved to death. A thirteen-year-old girl was abused like she was eight years old. It’s a miracle to be able to struggle to grow up if you order something to eat.
Looking at no one around, Ning Xi found a fire poker and poked it a few times in the depths of the ash pile in the stove, and turned out two small round balls, carefully blowing off the stove ash on the surface, and quickly Peeled the skin and stuffed it into his mouth. This is a small potato dug secretly in the field outside. It was buried in ashes in the stove the night before. If it wasn’t for these little things to maintain these days, this body would not be able to escape after all. The fate of starving to death again.
The potatoes are a little too small, but the taste is really fragrant. As a world-class five-star chef in my previous life, I have never tasted any delicacies from the mountains and seas. Now I eat a baked potato and feel that it is supremely delicious. ! Ning Xi smacked her mouth still, and took a sip from the gruel in the bowl. The bitter taste made her frown.
She has eaten wild herbs like Matoulan in a previous life. After washing and picking them, rinse them with boiling water. They are used for salad dressing or scrambled eggs. They are fragrant and slightly bitter. They are refreshing and appetizing side dishes. When boiled, it is bitter and astringent, and it is really unpalatable.
“Ah!” A sharp shout came from the room, and even Ning Xi, who was washing dishes in the kitchen, felt that her eardrums were shaking and hurt, and admired her cousin’s screaming skills from time to time. , this daring, to be able to participate in a good voice of China or something in modern times.
While thinking wildly, someone suddenly grabbed the back of her head and pulled her hair out. Ning Xi was caught off guard and was pulled back a few steps. Shuanggui let go of Ning Xi’s hair and shouted angrily, “Bah, pah!” After a few times, “Damn girl, come out for me!”
Ning Xi angrily rubbed her scalp, which was aching from the tugging. This hair was originally thin, only a few malnourished yellow hairs. After she pulled it like this, she might have lost how much. Ning Xi felt distressed. thought.
Qin Sulian came out after hearing the movement: “What’s going on?”
Ning Shuanggui Yang raised a bright red muslin skirt in his hand: “Mother, look at it!” There was a big crack at the skirt. This is the only good piece of clothing she has, and it is not a very important occasion to wear.
“Tsk tsk! It’s a sin, how could this good-looking thing become like this?” Qin Sulian grabbed the skirt and looked at it distressedly.
Ning Shuanggui pointed at Ning Xi: “It must be this dead girl. I don’t think I have such a good dress, and she deliberately broke it for me. She is still uneasy and kind and wants me to go to the villa!”
“Bah, don’t blame a good person! I’ve never touched your skirt!” Ning Xi said with her arms crossed, she just saw her cousin Ning Jincheng playing with a few children yesterday. At that time, he casually mentioned that there was a red dress in his sister’s box just for the bride’s game, and nothing else was done.
“You little bastard, prodigal, who else is there besides you? See if I won’t kill you!” Qin Sulian picked up a broom and looked around at Ning Xi, who was just now. When I came there, I would be foolish to avoid dodging, and I was beaten by her. Now that I am a good student, because of her small size and agility, I just can’t beat her in hiding.
He chased Qin Sulian until she was out of breath and her hair was messy. She stood in the middle of the yard with one hand on her hip and the other waving a broom. Okay, go back and clean up this lost money!”
The two entered the room scoldingly. Ning Xi made a “despise you” gesture toward the room, and dragged the bamboo basket full of dirty clothes and quilts out the door. In a day’s work, she is not naive enough to take this thin and thin body to stand on her own.