Porridge and side dishes [farming]

It was raining lightly in autumn, and my cold bones trembled.

Li Ji shook his hands and shook his patched gown. Looking at the dilapidated thatched cottage in front of him that had been repeatedly repaired, he stretched out his warm sleeves to rub his cold red nose, feeling a little complicated.

Opening the door and entering the room, a middle-aged woman dressed in coarse cloth put down the half-washed clothes in her hands: "The fourth uncle is here, and the child just woke up, and no one is allowed to come near him, like a little wolf cub, it's amazing. "

Li Ji is only sixteen or seventeen years old, and a middle-aged woman looks twice as old as Li Ji, but Li Ji was born at the age of 52 by his father, who is quite senior in the village.

He was led into the back room by a middle-aged woman.A rough mat was lit on the broken-earth kang, and a rotten mattress was spread on the mat. On the mattress, a man squatted, with several wounds and scars that were almost covered, only a rag was tied around his waist to block the roots of his descendants. , with messy hair like grass, and a pretty face, staring fiercely at Li Ji with a defensive look on his face.It looks like it can jump up and take a bite at any time.

"Er Gouzi?" Li Ji called out, but the man didn't answer, still looking like a cannibal.

"Are you mistaken?" Li Ji muttered.

The middle-aged woman hurriedly said: "It shouldn't be wrong, she still wears the necklace that Aunt Yan left him, and his eyebrows and eyes look a bit similar. If you really can't do it, you can try to recognize your relatives with blood?"

"Then there's nothing else to try. Sister Yan and I are still two uncles away, and a drop of blood doesn't work. Well, I'll take it away, so I won't cause you any trouble."

The middle-aged woman slapped her thigh: "Fourth Uncle, you are really a living Bodhisattva in our family. I haven't had a good life with that dead ghost these two days. I asked him and other people surnamed Li in our village didn't plan to recognize him. The guy in my family and I didn’t dare to get close to him, we didn’t even give him food, we just squatted on the kang and beat anyone who came close, we were just hunters, it was really unbearable.”

The surname of this household registration is Gao, and he is a hunter.A few days ago, a man fell into a trap on the mountain. He was naked and dirty, like a wild man. He was in a coma. He was taken home for treatment. The village doctor recognized a piece of inferior jade pendant in his hair. It was 20 It belonged to Li Yan, a girl from the Li family, years ago.

The village can still say a few words to Li Yan. At the beginning, she wanted to go to the city to see the market, but she was cheated by some heartless man and came back with a big belly.It would be embarrassing for the whole family to go around in circles if they conceived before marriage.However, Li Yan was stubborn and went to dig a hole in a cave to cut off the relationship with her family and feed herself with a big belly.

As a result, the child was lost when he was four or five years old. Some people said that it was taken away by mountain wolves, while others said that the Li family could not afford to lose the child and secretly sold the child. In short, there are different opinions.

After the child was gone, the Li family wanted to make a big deal out of this matter, treating Li Yan as a widow once married, and finding a good family for her, but Li Yan became ill and died not long after.

I have some impressions of her child in the village. Li Yan was not well nourished when she was born. The child was thin and had no milk.These days, a lot of well-raised children die, let alone this one.As the saying goes, a bad name is easy to support, so Li Yan kept calling her child Er Gouzi, and didn't give her a good name when she arrived.

Now that the child has been found, no one has been thrown back into the mountains.It was not easy for Orion's family, they couldn't keep him all the time, the villager couldn't give him away, so he had to ask the elders to take him in.But when people came over and saw Er Gouzi like this, they were all scared away.

After searching more than ten families in a row, they finally found the fourth uncle Li Ji who was several generations behind.In fact, Li Jiren is two years younger than Er Gouzi, but he is an elder anyway.

People want to take it away, but how to get it back?This child seemed to have grown up in the mountains. There are many wild beasts deep in the mountains. It must be capable of living for so many years without being eaten.

Li Ji took two steps with his hands in hand, Er Gouzi retreated warily and bowed his body.

"Hey, Er Gouzi, I am your fourth uncle, come, follow me, fourth uncle." Li Ji pointed at himself.

Er Gouzi's eyes were a bit complicated, but he was still on guard, he opened his mouth and didn't make a sound.

"Don't be afraid!" Li Ji tried his best to look kind, even though the eldest nephew opposite him was two years older than him, "I'll take you to my house. The conditions in my house are not good, but we can live together. It's okay, don't be afraid of me, you were four or five years old when you lost it, and you should be able to understand it now."

Er Gouzi moved his throat and said something substandard: "I don't know you."

The sound is very vague and needs to be carefully distinguished.Li Ji guessed it, and Er Gouzi really didn't forget it.

"I've known each other since then. You were still a child when you lost it. I'll teach you how to live as an adult. After a while, I'll take you to kowtow on your mother's tomb when you recover from your injury."

"Mother..." Er Gouzi's eyes flickered, watery.Er Gouzi was dependent on his mother when he was young, and the word "mother" is probably the only thing left in his deepest memory.

Li Ji saw that there was a door: "Yes, go find your mother!"

Er Gouzi finally lost a lot of vigilance, his body gradually weakened, and he fell down on the rotten mattress with a plop.

Li Ji went over and touched Er Gouzi's forehead, it was hot, the boy was still hot, thanks to his look of ready to attack at any time just now.Xu Shi stayed in the deep mountains and wild forests for a long time, and he developed an appearance that he would never let the other party see his weakness.Otherwise, it may be regarded as a good meal at any time.

He called Xue Langzhong from the village, and Xue Langzhong prescribed some herbs.They are all picked up from the mountains by themselves, and they are not expensive, just a few copper plates.

Li Ji pinched his teeth in distress, not because he was reluctant, but there were not a few copper coins left in the family, so he spent half of it.

Ask two people to help carry Er Gouzi to his home. The photo of his home is not much better than Gao Liehu's home, and it was left by Li Ji's father.

There are four Li Ji brothers, brother Zhong Shu Ji, the second brother and the third brother did not live past the age of seven, the eldest brother died two years ago at the age of fifty.

At the beginning, the eldest brother of the branch family was separated to build a house by himself. After the old man died, the old house belonged to Li Ji.

After everyone left, Li Ji boiled the medicine and brought it in. How to feed it was another big problem.

Touching Er Gouzi's head was indeed burning badly, and he couldn't delay any longer. Li Ji opened his mouth and fed him half a bowl, and the rest had not waited for Er Gouzi to wake up.

Er Gouzi is just a bit dirty, but his facial features are actually pretty good, especially his eyes are shining. If it weren't for his sloppy appearance, he would definitely make most of the girls in the village crazy if he was pulled out.

"This is medicine, take it and you'll be fine."

Er Gouzi frowned, maybe after thinking for a long time, he came up with the words that were about to be forgotten: "It's hard to drink."

"The good medicine tastes bitter. It's for your own good. Drink it obediently. I'll make sugar water for you later. Come on, let's drink it."

Er Gouzi has been alone since he was lost at the age of five. Li Ji's appearance made him very uncomfortable. He took the bowl and took another sip. His whole face wrinkled together, and then he drank it all in one gulp.

Li Ji heaved a sigh of relief, but fortunately this baby is obedient, otherwise I don't know when to toss.

"Let's take a bath, you are too messy." Touching Er Gouzi's weedy hair, Li Ji thought that the razor had shaved it, and he had never seen such a mess.

Er Gouzi obviously didn't understand, and tilted his head to look at him.All he knew was that Li Ji had no intentions of harming him, so many years of living in the wild made it easy for him to distinguish bad emotions.

Li Ji went to boil water, and there was no bath tub at home, and the tub for washing clothes was a bit small, and it was cold now, if you didn't soak your whole body, you would catch a cold.

He borrowed two houses before he went out to borrow a big bathtub, mixed the bath water, and then asked his eldest nephew to take a bath.

Throwing this ancestor into the bathtub, after soaking for a quarter of an hour, Li Ji found a towel and picked it up casually, let alone, it was completely different.The ashes on his arms could be rubbed into balls, but Li Ji felt sick before half of the washing.

"Er Gouzi, watch me do everything? Have you learned it yet? Come by yourself, you will feel comfortable after taking a bath."

After receiving the towel, Er Gouzi began to rub himself according to Li Ji's instructions, and Li Ji began to smooth out his hair.He kept saying that Er Gouzi had cleaned himself inside and out, and Li Ji hadn't combed his hair. Looking at the half-opened hair, Li Ji felt that he had found a good job for himself.

Invite the little ancestor out of the bath, and a basin of bath water can be used as ink.I want to wash Er Gouzi again to see if the firewood at home is not willing. Now it looks quite clean. I poured the bath water into the tub and rinsed it before returning. I spent an afternoon sitting on the broken kang with Er Gouzi Only then did Er Gouzi's hair be opened.

Er Gouzi pulled his neck uncomfortably. The clothes were Li Ji's dead father's clothes. Li Ji was not fully grown and dressed up. Er Gouzi was dressed just right, but he hadn't worn clothes for more than ten years. uneasy.

Li Ji stopped his movements, trying to divert his attention.It's getting late, it's time to eat

Li Ji looked at his rice vat, and felt toothache again.There is a lot of rice, and there is still half a tank. If Li Ji eats two bites less, it will be enough for the spring of next year, but it will be difficult if there are two people.

Seeing that winter is coming, I have to find a way to earn some rice, or go out to borrow some.In the coming year, I won't be sad if I teach Er Gouzi to farm or go out to find some odd jobs.

Just as I was thinking of making some rice porridge and pickles for a meal, someone came over to deliver something.They are all from the village, and one after another, they are all from the same clan or relatives and neighbors.Not much was delivered, half a catty of rice, a catty of miscellaneous grain noodles, a foot of cloth, a suit of old clothes, three melons and two dates, not many things, but putting them together was really enough for emergency.

No one wants to accept the second dog, and they don't have the energy. It's almost winter, and no one has much leftover food. Someone here has collected it. As a relative, it's okay to take out something to help.

Someone brought steamed Zamian steamed buns, which were still warm when they were brought over.Li Ji cut some pickled vegetable lumps, sprinkled some chili noodles, and began to teach Er Gouzi how to use chopsticks.

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[a word of brain damage]

Er Gouzi came to ask for it, and asked the fourth uncle to give me medicine!

[Declaration: The two are not related by blood, and the seniority is calculated by drawing a long line, just because Er Gou Ziniang and Li Ji have the same surname, and Er Gou Zi and Li Sishu have different surnames! 】