The Abandoned Woman of Space

Chapter 6
Yun Xiaotong was holding a small bundle of firewood, and walked towards the earthen stove bouncingly. The little guy was hugging too much, and he seemed a little struggling, and his little yellow and withered face was flushed.

"It's enough, Tongtong is really capable."

Yunmo praised Yun Xiaotong, quickly put the sweet potato on the stove, then strode up to meet him, took the bundle of firewood from his hand, and wiped the sweat from his forehead by the way.

"Tong Tong, don't hold so much firewood next time, it's too heavy, you know?"

Yun Xiaotong nodded, "Mother, I understand."

Yunmo put the dry firewood in front of the stove, and handed over a small stool to Yun Xiaotong, "Tongtong, please rest for a while, mother, go to the yard to have a look."

There is only one sweet potato in the house, and the two of them must not have enough to eat. Just now, when passing by the yard, I saw the wild hibiscus flowers blooming just outside the bamboo fence.

Wild hibiscus flowers are edible flowers, with high nutritional value and medicinal value of clearing heat and dampness, detoxifying and cooling blood. Pick some wild hibiscus flowers, wash them and make hibiscus sweet potato soup, which is both filling and delicious.

"Mother, go, I'll wait for you to come back." Yun Xiaotong waved her little hand sensiblely.

Yunmo told Yun Xiaotong well, bent down and carried a broken bamboo basket under the hole in the wall, and then walked towards the yard.

The dim yellow light shrouded the dilapidated small courtyard. Outside the crooked bamboo fence, rows of red hibiscus flowers were in full bloom. When the evening wind blew, a faint fragrance drifted over, which was refreshing.

Yunmo took a deep breath, walked to the fence, carefully stepped over the bamboo fence, carried the basket in her left hand, gently pulled the thatch away with her right hand, stepped on the grass with one foot, walked to a cluster of dense hibiscus flowers, and planted the tender grass. Cut off the hibiscus flower stalks that are dripping and put them in bamboo baskets.

Hibiscus flowers are sweet and slightly bitter, and it is not advisable to put too many petals in hibiscus sweet potato soup. Yunmo picked about a dozen or so flowers, and then carried the blueberry and stepped into the fence, ready to go back to the hut for dinner.

The rest of the hibiscus flowers, Yunmo thought in her heart, and when she had time in a few days, she would pick them all up and dry them in the sun. When she needed to use them later, she would heat them with hot water. The family couldn’t finish them all. It can also be sold at the market.

"Mother, you are back."

As soon as Yunmo walked to the door of the kitchen, Yun Xiaotong heard footsteps, raised his head, and called out sweetly, his small face was covered with fine beads of sweat, and the tip of his nose was still stained with dust, like a little beggar.

"Tongtong, have you chopped wood?"

Yunmo looked at the pile of dry firewood stumps at his feet in surprise. The thick ones were as thick as a thumb, and the thinnest ones were as big as a little finger. This little bean was only five years old. How did it break? Work hard.

Yun Xiaotong nodded his head, and said in an adult tone: "Mother, you have a head injury, so you can't do heavy work."

After hearing this, Yunmo was moved, but also dumbfounded.

She has an injury on her head, so she is an adult, Xiao Douding, you are only five years old, with small arms and legs, can you compare to an adult?

Yunmo put down the bamboo basket, walked to the stove, wiped the sweat off his face, patted the dust on his body, and said lovingly: "Tongtong, mother is fine, mother will do all the heavy work. ,Um."

"Little Tongtong is my mother's good treasure. If I am exhausted, my mother will feel distressed. Is Tongtong willing to let my mother feel distressed?"

Yun Xiaotong shook his head without hesitation, "I can't bear it, I love my mother the most."

To show his sincerity, after speaking, he put his arms around Yunmo's neck and kissed her on the cheek.

"In this case, Tongtong will obey mother's arrangement, okay?" Yunmo smiled slightly, persuasively.

"Okay." Yun Xiaotong obediently agreed.

(End of this chapter)