Three and a half women in four courtyards

Chapter 3

Many years later, when Bao Yixian talked about this scene with her children and grandchildren, she always said: "Oh! At first, I thought that I would exchange my life for the lives of the two children. But I never thought that Beiji would With his own life, I exchanged the lives of Wu Laqin and me. Why is he so anxious to go to Tengri Nuohai (Changqingtian)?"

After Bao Yixian and his toes were bitten off by a half-big gangster, they kept running barefoot, and Zhan Gada had already been thrown aside.

She didn't care about her feet, and hurried to see Bei Ji.

Becky's face was pale, and he had already died.

She hugged Beiji, gritted her teeth, and the pain in her heart was written on her face.

"Om? Ah—ah!" Bao Yixian kissed Beiji's forehead and closed his eyes.

A bloody smell pierces your nostrils.

Bao Yixian shivered: "Oh-uh, we have to get out of here quickly. Such a strong smell of blood will attract the gangsters here. When the gangsters arrive, they will tear us to pieces .”

Bao Yixian gritted his teeth and put Beiji in a tree pit, trying to dig some soil to bury Beiji.

But the soil is frozen.

Wu Laqin pulled some soil and fallen leaves, barely covering Beiji's body.

After that, put a wooden stick on it.

Wu Laqin retrieved Bao Yixian's Zhan Gada, and simply bandaged her feet with cotton cloth and cotton balls.

He tried his best to help her put Zing Gada on.

"Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo..." suddenly, the two of them felt tight.

Looking back, it turned out that the little Xiai was looking for milk from the mother Xiai.

When Wu Laqin saw it, he drew out his knife angrily, and was about to stab it to death.

Bao Yixian hurriedly stopped him: "An, don't kill it! Keep it, put a rope around its neck, and take it away. Cover its mouth with a cloth bag, and don't let it make a sound."

This bastard is like a dog, and he still doesn't understand the world of the jungle.

Wu Laqin wrapped a rope around its neck and asked, "Oh? Why do you keep it?" He put a cloth bag around its mouth.

"Ang, take it with you, if you encounter a group of evil spirits, they will not dare to attack us easily with it!"

The mother and son supported each other to stand up and limped towards the sunset.

At this time, the sun happened to be stuck on the top of the mountain in the west, and was pierced in the face by the sharp edge of the mountain top.

It struggled to jump twice and fell down, leaving a bright red cloud of blood between the mountain and the sky.

It was getting dark quickly.

The two of them scrambled and climbed on this rugged mountain road. After walking for an unknown amount of time, they finally saw a towering gate of a family.

Bao Yixian just wanted to rush to knock on the door, but he fell to the ground and passed out.

Wu Laqin instinctively called out to Mom, and suddenly remembered Bao Yixian's order to "pretend to be dumb", and swallowed it back.

He turned and knocked on the door desperately.

Wu Laqin knocked for a while and got no response, then knocked again, about the time of knocking a bag of cigarettes, a bright light, and the door opened.

Wu Laqin followed the light and saw a man in his 30s with a little boy carrying a lantern.

It seemed that the boy was about the same age as himself.

Seeing that it was a child, the man asked kindly, "Oh, what's the matter, is there any sick person at home?"

Wu Laqin hurriedly gestured with his hand: "Oh! Hurry up—um, hurry up, um—" pointing to the place where Bao Yixian was lying.

The man hastily took the little boy's lantern and walked quickly to Bao Yixian's side.

He bent down, touched Bao Yixian's wrist to feel his pulse, and stopped.

He turned back to the little boy and said, "Ang, Congduo, go to the backyard quickly, call your Uncle Mingli, let him come over, and help carry him!"

Behind this large courtyard, there is another family, which is the Uncle Mingli's family that the man mentioned.

The hostess is Hou Mingli, and he has already got into the bed and is going to sleep.

Cong Duo shouted from the yard: "Ang, Uncle Mingli, are you asleep? There is a woman fleeing famine, and she fainted at the door of my house. My father asked you to help and carry her into the house!"

Hou Mingli's wife, Hou Zhang, responded from the room: "Oh? Ah! Another girl fleeing from the famine is here? Then hurry up! Tell your dad to go right away! I will go too!"

"Tsk tsk, hey-ah! It takes strength to lift people, you woman, go ga-ha!" Hou Mingli said as he put on his clothes.

"Go to Gaha? Go and see how that girl is. If it's suitable, I'll match it with Shun Liuhou. I'm almost thirty, and I haven't found a daughter-in-law yet. You don't care about being a brother, and I'm a sister-in-law. Can’t you think about it? The female widow who fled the famine last time was cheaper than Erdaocha’s three pockmarks. A few dollars of dry face (momo) for a daughter-in-law, make a family, can’t you continue the incense, right?!”

"Look, look, it's fine for outsiders to call Ming Shun 'Shun Liu Monkey', you sister-in-law, why do you always call him a nickname?" Hou Mingli muttered.

"Ang, 'Shun Liu Monkey' is so smooth. Ming Shun Ming Shun, it seems like a lot of culture. We are farming, and we can't compare with others from the Four Emperors. They are people who have read big books."

What Hou Zhang said about Cong Si Huang Shang was the man Wu Laqin saw who opened the door. His name was Cong Xiaoru, and he was nicknamed Cong Si Huang Shang.

Everyone hurriedly carried Bao Yixian into the house.

Check her wounds from the Four Emperors.

He tried several times to get the Zing Gada off Bao Yixian's injured foot, but he couldn't.

Hou Mingli stepped forward to help, and cut Zing Gada open with a knife from the Four Emperors, and the blood inside flowed out immediately.

Hou Zhang hurriedly took a clay basin to catch the blood.

There was a whole pot of blood flowing out.

Take off Zing Gada, revealing the feet.

At that time, everyone present was shocked.

I saw that Bao Yixian's foot was missing two toes.

Hou Zhang shouted: "Oh? The whole tree (as a whole) looks like a little hairless little boy. (Piggy)"

"Ang, it looks like I was bitten by Xie. The blood flowed too much, and I passed out." Said from the fourth emperor, "My brother and sister, there are brown sugar and ginger on the stove, go and make some brown sugar water. Here She has a drink."

The Fourth Emperor cleaned Bao Yixian's wound with garlic juice, applied homemade Shengji Powder, and bandaged it up.

After a while, Mrs. Hou Zhang came in with a large enamel bowl.

From the fourth emperor said to Hou Mingli and his wife: "Oh, Mingli, brother and sister, look at the situation in my family. Two children, a boy, can't take care of this woman. Otherwise, let the younger brother and sister stay here for a few days Come on, help take care of it. Otherwise, this woman and I, who are alone and widowed, won’t make good news.”

Before Hou Mingli could reply, Hou Zhang quickly said with a smile: "Oh! Middle, middle! It's winter, anyway, I don't have much work at home."

"Ang! That's good, that's good! You live in the back building, the back room. Burn more firewood and make the kang hot and scalding."

Go out of the house from the Four Emperors.

Turning back, she said, "Ang, the three of you will live in the front room, the front room. Call me if you have anything to do. Go to bed early, too."

"Oh, then, I'll go back first." Hou Mingli also got up and got off the ground.

After the Four Emperors and Hou Mingli left, Hou Zhang used a spoon to feed Bao Yixian spoonfuls of brown sugar water.

After running for a day, she was frightened again, and Wu Laqin had already fallen asleep on the kang.

At this time, Bao Yixian woke up.

She looked at the woman in front of her, startled at first, and then regained her composure.

She nodded to Hou Zhangshi to express her gratitude.

Hou Zhang immediately laughed and said, "Oh! You're finally awake. My name is Hou Zhang, and everyone calls me Big Mouth Zhang. This matchmaker in Daxigouchuan is the one who keeps the matchmaker. Yes, I like to talk nonsense (nonsense). You can't be offended if you are straightforward."

(End of this chapter)