Otherworldly Days

"Brother, it's cold, it's so cold..."

The sleeping child shivered uncontrollably, screamed cold unconsciously, and curled up into a ball.

Goudan woke up in the cold voice of his brother. He is usually a half-grown child like a little adult. When he encounters brother's illness, he panics, his eyes are full of panic, "Little Mao, What's the matter with you, Xiaomao?"

"Cold? Cold, isn't it? Brother will cover you with a quilt, and you won't be cold if you put the quilt on." There was only a dirty, dark, torn quilt on the bed. Dan took the quilt to cover his brother, threw his arms around him, and asked in a panic, "Is Xiao Mao still cold?"

"cold……"

"It's cold, brother, it's so cold..."

Feeling that brother's whole body was hot, Goudan hugged him. It's not that brother didn't have fever before, he always hugged him like this.It was still dark outside the house, it was still dark, and the small room was dark, and Goudan felt extremely scared in his heart.

His father and mother have left him, and if this younger brother is gone, he feels very scared.

"vomit……"

"Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

It didn't take long for the person shouting for the cold to vomit, and both of them had filth on their bodies and on the bed.After vomiting, Xiao Mao started to cry, and the person woke up, crying when he woke up uncomfortable.Goudan reached out and wiped the tears on his face viciously, got out of bed in the dark, stretched out his hand and pulled brother over, "Don't be afraid, brother will take you to find uncle and me."

In the dark night, a small figure carried a younger brother on his back, walking along the familiar road during the day, step by step.

"Knock Knock——" "Knock Knock——" After falling asleep at night, Cao Xiangnan woke up with a knock on the door, and he vaguely heard the child's cry.The puppy in the yard was barking, and Qi Wanfeng, who was sleeping next to him, also woke up. Cao Xiangnan sat up from the bed, stretched out his hand to hold down Qi Wanfeng, and said, "You are here, I will go out and have a look."

"Yeah." Qi Wanfeng didn't get up again, he seemed to hear the sound of Goudan, and reached out to pat the sleeping child next to him, who was fast asleep.

Cao Xiangnan got up and lit the oil lamp on the table, then opened the door of the room, went out, and asked, "Who is outside?" "Uncle, uncle, I'm a bitch." The people outside responded.

"Goudan? Why are you here at this time?" Cao Xiangnan glanced at the moon in the sky, walked over to open the door of the yard, saw Goudan outside the door, saw him with Xiaomao on his back, and asked, "What's the matter? "

"My brother has a fever and vomited." Goudan told him, looking red-eyed at the person who opened the door for him.

"Have a fever? Give him to me." Cao Xiangnan saw that they didn't know what they were wearing, and there was an unpleasant smell when they got close, so he directly pulled it out and threw it away, and went into the house with the child in his arms.

Qi Wanfeng in the room also sat up when he heard the voice outside, looked at the child in his arms and Goudan who was following behind, and was still sleepy after being woken up, he yawned and asked, " What's wrong?"

"Night breeze, Xiaomao is a little hot, go and boil some hot water and a bowl of ginger soup." Seeing that the child's clothes were dirty, Cao Xiangnan simply stripped off the child's clothes, touched the temperature of the child's forehead, and said .

The child whose whole face was burning red stopped crying, his eyes were open with tears, and he was looking at the person in front of him.Qi Wanfeng came over, touched the child's face, and said, "Little Mao, why don't you go and make some ginger soup for you, and you'll be fine in a while."

The child is also obedient and sensible, and does not cry or make trouble, which is even more pitiful.

"Okay." Qi Wanfeng also got off the bed neatly, covered the child with a quilt, and whispered, "Be quiet, don't wake An'an up."

"Yeah." Cao Xiangnan glanced at the child who was sleeping soundly on the bed, then at the one who had stripped all his clothes, and took a piece of clothing to cover the child.Seeing Chu standing there not knowing what to do, he went to give him clean clothes and said, "Don't stand there, go to Wanfeng to get you some hot water to take a bath, and put on clean clothes. clothing."

He was very worried about the hygiene of these two children, but it would be good for these two children who had no parents and no mother to eat enough to live. Who would have thought about whether they were dirty or not.

Goudan glanced down at the clothes on his body, took the clothes and went out. He was worried and anxious all the way. When he arrived here, he handed his younger brother to Uncle Xiang Nan. He believed that Uncle Xiang Nan would take good care of his younger brother. Something will happen to his brother.

The evening breeze in the kitchen was boiling water, and when he saw Goudan coming out, he asked him what's the matter.Hearing what the child said, he felt very helpless towards his husband, "Then just wait a little longer, it will be done in a while." He put two more fires into the stove.

Goudan obediently stayed in the kitchen to help.

When I got up, Qi Wanfeng knew that he couldn't sleep anymore, so he boiled the water in the big pot and prepared to steam the rice noodles in the pot after a while.

The water in the pot was boiled, the dog outside was taking a shower, and a large basin was filled with water inside. Cao Xiangnan carried Xiaomao down and soaked him in warm water.Seeing that the child has woken up, he looked at him with wet eyes, just like the two puppies in the yard, and said, "Take a shower first."

Goudan, who was taking a bath outside, came in after changing into clean clothes, and stood there watching.

After the child took a bath, Cao Xiangnan wiped the child's body with white wine, and the child only dared to sob softly. After washing the child with white wine, he poured the child a bowl of ginger soup.After such a toss, the child fell asleep crying as soon as he was put on the bed, and he took the thick quilt handed over by the evening breeze, and covered the child.

"It'll be fine. If it's still hot at dawn, I'll take him to the town to see Old Doctor Luo." Seeing Goudan who was standing by the side and watching silently from beginning to end, Cao Xiangnan reached out and touched his cheek He turned his head and said, "Come up and sleep too, I'm going out to grind rice and prepare to make rice noodles for a while."

It's almost time now, and I can't sleep anymore, so I just get up earlier to grind the rice.

"I'm not going to sleep, I'll help you." Goudan shook his head, staring at the person in front of him.

"You don't need to go, you stay here and watch over your younger brothers, go to bed and sleep with them for a while." Cao Xiangnan looked at his family's Wanfeng, worried that his body would not survive, and asked, "Wanfeng, why don't you sleep for a while?" can you?"

"I won't sleep anymore." Qi Wanfeng shook his head, he was no longer sleepy.

The stone mill was turning, and the gurgling rice water fell into the bucket. After a while, there was a knock on the door of their yard, and Cao Dapeng was the first to come.Now he doesn't need his wife to call him, he can wake up by himself.

The three children in the room were all fast asleep, and the child who had been looking at Adi couldn't resist the sleepiness in the end, and fell asleep beside Adi.When Sun Bailian came over with her second child who was still sleeping, she saw two extra children on the bed.

Qi Wanfeng told him the matter, reached out and touched the child's forehead, and was relieved when he found that the fever had subsided.

"These two children are also suffering." Sun Bailian sighed.

Cao Gang, father and son, were in charge of grinding rice outside, the older one was pushing the stone mill, and the younger one scooped rice in, the father and son had a perfect understanding.In the kitchen, Sun Ji and Cao Dapeng were in charge of the physical work. One carried the dustpan, the other peeled off the steamed rice noodles, and Sun Bailian neatly cut the rice noodles into strips.

Qi Wanfeng paid attention to the soup and porridge boiled in the pot, everyone worked together.

When the dustpan-by-dustpan pho was finished, it was loaded into the cart, and the carriage went to the town.The steaming of rice noodles is still going on in the kitchen, but there are not so many people, and the speed is much slower than that of the previous batch, but there is no rush, this batch will be later before someone comes back to take it away.

The porridge is boiled on the pot, and the steamed buns are steamed in the steamer, and they are eaten by the workers at home. The day starts from a busy day.

Among the sleeping children in the room, Goudan was the first one to wake up. One of the actions when he woke up was to touch the brother who was sleeping next to him. He found that touching his hands was no longer hot, and he would fall asleep soundly. He didn't wake him up, he got off the bed and went out of the house.

Cao Xiangnan didn't go to the town with him this morning, he was still worried about the sick child in the house, and Qi Wanfeng was busy with the other end of the house, and there were many things at home, so he had to take care of both ends.

"Are you awake?" Cao Xiangnan saw the Goudan coming out and the child's messy hair, took a deep breath and exhaled.

"Thank you, Uncle." Goudan walked over, walked in front of Uncle, and said.

"You are also a sensible person. You came here when you knew that my brother was sick. You didn't just leave him on fire." He also sighed very much towards these two children in his heart, and he also made a decision in his heart at this moment.

Goudan glanced at Uncle Xiangnan, and found that he was not angry, so he lowered his head again.

"Tie up your hair." He went into the room and took a tie for the child. Seeing the child standing stupidly holding it, Cao Xiangnan took it and tied him into a bun in two or three strokes. His family, An Anzha, is also proficient in making steamed stuffed buns. He patted Goudan on the shoulder and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to find you, Wanfeng. I want breakfast."

"Go." Seeing the child standing there looking at him, Cao Xiangnan gave him a push.

The children on the bed were still sleeping, so he went over and touched them one by one, and then went out.

At dawn, early risers come to the yard one by one to have breakfast. They eat two strong and big buns, and then drink a bowl of porridge and water to fill their stomachs.A group of men swarmed over to have breakfast, and then went over there to work.The workers in the village also came to work, and those who helped with the work also came to help with the work, and the fresh vegetables picked from the vegetable field early in the morning were delivered.

After the children had eaten breakfast, Cao Xiangnan led them to the school and watched the children go in before turning back.