Thanks for the invitation: In ancient times, people shared children

Yu Meng's dilapidated house was covered with yellow talismans and became an unlucky place that no one in the village cared about.

Waiya secretly hid most of the food she had saved there so that her father would not search it.

Pei Xiaohai made peace with her after a fight, so he knew her secret and gave her some advice: "You have to put it higher or put it in a jar, otherwise it will be eaten by mice."

Waiya: "I know. His jar is broken, so I found a clay pot to put it in. I'm not sure if rats will dig it open. Can you help me get some medicine so I can sprinkle it around the pot? I won't take it for nothing. I'll trade you the red tassel."

Pei Xiaohai looked at the red string and decisively refused: "No, what if you use it to poison your father?"

I don't know what's wrong with that drunkard Liu Waizui. Yesterday he suddenly brought back a red tassel for tying hair and gave it to Waiya. He also said that he regretted tying her hair.

Reeking of alcohol, he cried and made a scene, apologized profusely, then drank himself a jar of wine until he was full, saying, "Dad! I'll punish myself with a jar of wine to make amends for my girl!"

After drinking a jar full of it, the man fell to the ground.

He didn't even notice that the one he had been holding and trying to recognize for a long time was Pei Xiaohai, not Waiya.

Waiya didn't say anything. Seeing him lying down, she picked up the red tassel and put it around his neck. She twisted it around and kicked his head hard...

Isn't it too obvious how many people were killed?

Pei Xiaohai finally pulled her away.

Now that she mentioned it, Waiya was still angry: "You said that even if I killed him, you would help me bury him."

"If no one knows," Pei Xiaohai emphasized, "your neighbor's head is already sticking out into the yard. If you don't let go, she's going to call for help."

Waiya said angrily, "She's the only one who's always bothering me! When I was being beaten, I never heard her say a word. Do I have to kill her first if I want to accomplish this?"

Pei Xiaohai: ...

"Is there no way for everyone to live well? Maybe your father will drink himself to death one day."

"Don't you know that good people don't live long, but evil can last for a thousand years? I've been waiting for years, and he's fine," Waiya muttered through gritted teeth, "I'm going to kill that old bastard sooner or later!"

"So that medicine is not used to kill rats, right?" Pei Xiaohai said.

Waiya: ...

"Are you on his side or on my side?"

Pei Xiaohai clasped his hands together and said, "I'm begging for myself. I'm only eight years old, and I don't want anyone to know that I've violated the law."

Waiya: "You are such a coward!"

Be a coward if you are a coward. The more timid you are, the longer you will live.

Waiya turned sideways and sulked at her for a long time.

Little Pei tugged at her clothes.

Waiya: "You pinched my flesh."

Pei Xiaohai: "Don't glare at me, I just want to care about you. Did your dad beat you when he woke up?"

"No," Waiya held her chin and looked at the clouds in the sky, "I ran away before he woke up. Maybe he will be gone by the time I come back."

Pei Xiaohai: "Why don't you go back today and sleep with me."

"Forget it, I don't like sleeping with others."

Pei Xiaohai didn't believe it. She didn't say that when they were sleeping soundly on the haystack.

But it's better that she doesn't agree, otherwise Pei Xiaohai will have to go to Pei Zhu to beg her, and Pei Zhu doesn't like Pei Xiaohai playing with Waiya, fearing that she has lice... Pei Xiaohai has been scolded several times for this, and who knows what will happen if she takes Waiya back.

The clean hand and the hand with mud embedded in the nails held together, and both of them felt the warmth of each other and their mood improved.

As long as they ignore some things, they are best friends.

Before the snow fell, Waiya gave her a bag of chestnuts, and Pei Xiaohai took it to show Pei Zhu.

Pei Zhu glanced at it and said, "It's only worth a few dollars. She ate so many steamed buns alone."

more than ten……

After being told off, Pei Xiaohai never stole the steamed buns from her house again. Besides, it wasn't considered stealing. Pei Xiaohai would eat less every time she took them. Couldn't she just consider it as something she saved for herself?

She did so much work, but she's not worth a few steamed buns?

Pei Xiaohai blushed when he heard this.

Pei Zhu finished speaking, but felt that it was not good, so she added: "But that child is also very pitiful. She is kind-hearted. Go get some steamed buns for her."

"She didn't want to exchange the steamed buns. She left. She only gave me chestnuts because she liked me!"

"Come on, that's because you're stupid..."

Barbara.

She's becoming increasingly annoying.

Pei Xiaohai wanted to stuff the prickly chestnut into her mouth, but she didn't. She lowered her head and listened to him, then left with the chestnut in her arms.

Pei Xiaohai was not in a hurry to eat them. He put them on the roof of the pig shed and on the windowsill to dry in the sun. When the green skin turned brown, it would be easy to peel.

She asked Aunt Yu to cook it for her and then went to distribute it to everyone. Liu Tongsheng and Liu Lianhua said it was too hard and didn't want it, and Liu Renben and Pei Zhu didn't want it either.

She gave most of it to Changsui and Baifu, gave a few of the rest to Zhuxue and Pumpkin, and then put it in her sachet to go find Waiya.

The chestnuts cooked by Aunt Yu are added with sugar and oil, which is much better than eating them dry or boiling them in plain water.

They ate heartily the whole afternoon, even peeling off the bits stuck to the chestnut shells.

Waiya sucked the sugar oil on her fingers and began to make promises: "When I have money, I will cook like this. By then, I will raise a lot of chickens. Come to me and I will stew chicken and boil chestnuts for you."

Aunt Yu can make chestnut, yam and chicken soup.

I never thought these two things could be put together.

Pei Xiaohai had never thought of this before she saw it. She felt that with their brains, it would be difficult for them to become rich.

"Just cook some chestnuts for me. I don't eat meat anymore," Pei Xiaohai continued to dream with her. "When I have money, I will rebuild the temple on the mountain. Then you can become a nun with me."

Waiya: "I don't want to. What's so good about being a nun? I think you've become stupid after being a nun. You don't even eat meat."

"There's nothing delicious either."

Little Pei had a hard time explaining what was going on. One day, the Liu family, who had no appetite, suddenly decided to cook a chicken. She watched Aunt Yu pluck its feathers, wipe its neck with boiling water... and her mind was filled with the thought of the rooster and the goose fighting yesterday, and how they didn't lose. They were clamoring at each other, and she couldn't tell what they were arguing about...

Actually, it doesn’t matter, it’s just... it seems to be annoying to the geese all the time, and Pei Xiaohai has to go and separate them from time to time. But when they let them out that day, without it, it was surprisingly peaceful. Pei Xiaohai hated this kind of peace.

She felt that the goose should be beaten back, and all the geese should be beaten up, and its particularly beautiful tail feathers should be plucked out to make it less arrogant, but don't think about it now, it's already a pot of meat.

Is chicken delicious? Of course, when the master left, he bought her some chicken. She was very sad, but she ate it all.

She felt nothing at that time, but now she felt very powerless, and the chicken still hadn't been beaten!

She knew that all the chickens, ducks and geese would eventually become a pot of meat, and maybe her pig blood would too, just like the pigs that were caught, but that chicken hadn't been beaten yet!

Pei Xiaohai felt a little inexplicably angry.

In short, she no longer eats meat, but she is not a vegetarian either.

Aunt Yu always uses animal oil when cooking, and she has no say in this.

She was vague, and Waiya didn't bother to ask. She had something else important to say:

"I won't be able to take you home to play anymore."

"why?"