branch plum blossom

Chapter 9 I Can't Walk Anymore

"Bai Yue, hurry up."

Qin Yulan wiped the dense beads of sweat from her temples, looked up at the sun that was gradually rising, approaching the top of her head, her face was very anxious.

If it was late to go back, Liu Shibi would definitely have to gossip again.

Although it was already autumn, the noon sun was still warm, and with a basket full of heavy vegetables on their backs, both Qin Yulan and Baimei opened up their thin coats.

"Okay, Mom."

Seeing her mother's anxious look, Bai Yue sensiblely opened her two calves and started to run vigorously.

"Mom, let's be late later."

Seeing how Bai Yue struggled to follow their footsteps, Bai Mei felt sad for a while.

Qin Yulan looked at Bai Yue, didn't speak, turned her head and continued to walk forward with big strides.

Baimei stopped, stretched out her hand, and held Bai Yue.

"Bai Yue, come, my sister will carry you for a walk."

Bai Mei pushed aside Bai Yue's sweat-soaked bangs, and wiped her sweat with her sleeve.

"No, sister, I will walk by myself, I will walk by myself."

Bai Yue looked at Bai Mei, narrowed her eyes enjoying it, and let Bai Mei's fishy hand wipe her forehead.

"Sister, why do you only wipe Bai Yue? I want to wipe my sweat too."

Bai Feng moved his face closer.

"Go, wipe it yourself, how old are you, and you are still arguing with Bai Yue?"

Baimei bent her index finger, smiled and tapped Baifeng's forehead with the knuckles on the back of her finger.

"Ouch!"

Bai Feng covered his forehead, pretended to be in pain and rolled around on the ground before standing up.

"Don't roll around on the ground, I won't wash your clothes if they get dirty."

Baimei raised her leg and kicked Baifeng's buttocks.

"Sister, why do you keep beating me?"

Bai Feng touched the place where Bai Mei had kicked, and jumped a few steps forward like a frog.

"Who made you always annoy me?"

Seeing Bai Feng's funny and happy appearance, Bai Mei laughed happily.

"Hahaha, brother, you look so funny."

Holding her bulging belly, Bai Yue couldn't stop laughing.

The two eyes are curved, like the crescent moon hanging on the treetops under Lang Lang's night sky.

The surrounding air is full of long-lost relaxation.

Qin Yulan turned her face away, looked at the three children, and couldn't help but smile with the corners of her mouth bent.

Immediately, there was another soreness in my heart.

The corners of the smiling mouth drooped again.

In the past, before Bai Wu died, even though life was tight, this kind of laughter often lingered in their simple hut.

Now, everything has changed.

I became more and more careful.

Baimei became more and more impulsive and irritable.

Bai Feng didn't change much, but he talked a lot less.

There was a lot of fear in Bai Yue's eyes.

Thinking of these, Qin Yulan's heart tightened.

His brows were wrinkled involuntarily, and tears welled up from the corners of his eyes.

"Okay, okay, stop making trouble, hurry up and walk, and be careful that the old witch and the little bastard are making trouble again when you go back late."

Out of the corner of Baimei's eyes, she caught a glimpse of the change on Qin Yulan's face, and quickly restrained herself, letting Baifeng go faster.

After all, Baifeng is a boy, not as careful as Baimei, and he is still swaying around like a fool.

"I told you to go faster, didn't you hear? Are your ears blocked?"

Baimei angrily kicked his pi again, which was a little heavier than the previous kick.

Seeing that Baimei was angry, Bai Feng shrank his neck and stuck out his tongue, and hurriedly walked away in large strides.

"Brother, wait for me."

Bai Yue heard her sister speak, and also saw the look on Qin Yulan's face, thinking her mother was angry, she hurried forward to chase Bai Feng desperately.

Baimei followed Baiyue a few steps behind.

"Bai Yue, slow down."

"Bai Yue, be careful of that pit in front of you."

"Bai Yue, there's a stone there."

Thinking of Bai Yue trying to follow the adult's footsteps at such a young age, Bai Mei's heart ached inexplicably.

She promised her father to take good care of Bai Feng Bai Yue.

She cherished the tender white moon very much.

Even though she was only ten years old herself, she also needed someone to love her.

"Bai Yue, come on, sister hug you."

Baimei couldn't bear it anymore, and offered to hug her again.

There are not many vegetables in Baimei's back basket, and they are not heavy. She thinks that she should be able to spare some strength to hug Bai Yue.

Bai Yue didn't say no this time, she stopped and looked at Bai Mei who was bent a little under the weight of the basket.

There was hesitation in his eyes, which is rare for a four-year-old child.

She has walked a lot since she started from home, and she feels that her two short legs are almost out of control.

She greedily looked at Baimei's hands stretched out to her, and really wanted to throw herself into her sister's arms to rest for a while.

"Bai Yue, don't let my sister hug you. My sister has vegetables on her back, so I can't hug you anymore."

Qin Yulan saw this scene and immediately uttered a voice to stop it.

Qin Yulan originally suffered from low back pain, but it was even worse when she was pressed by the basket full of vegetables on her back. Coupled with the pain in her calf, she felt a little uncomfortable.

The expression became a little distorted.

Bai Yue shrank back immediately after Qin Yulan said this abruptly.

"Sister, no, I'll go by myself."

No matter how Baimei coaxes her, Baiyue is still unwilling to let Baimei hug her.

Baimei looked at Qin Yulan complainingly.

"Mom, I can hug Bai Yue."

"You are growing your body now. You can't use such brute force. It will affect your physical development. Look at me. I didn't pay attention to work when I was a child, and I suffered from back pain."

Qin Yulan looked at Baimei with pity.

Baimei is like her father Baiwu, she is tall and has good eyebrows.

But due to lack of nutrition, he was as thin as a bamboo pole.

She was really worried that a strong wind would blow her eldest daughter away one day.

That would kill her!

"Don't keep bending over, be careful to become a hunchback in the future."

Seeing Baimei's slightly bent waist, Qin Yulan hurriedly picked up some vegetables from Baimei's back basket and put them into her back basket.

"Mom, no problem, I can recite it."

When Qin Yulan was about to come to get it again, Baimei trot forward a few steps quickly with her back on her back.

"Ouch! Wow—"

Bai Yue, who was following Bai Feng's buttocks, accidentally tripped over a stone and got a small lump on her forehead.

Baimei quickly helped Bai Yue up, and rubbed the small lump on her forehead with her hand.

Bai Yue kept crying.

"Okay, okay, it's okay, it will be fine in a while."

Qin Yulan looked at the sun that had reached the top of her head, feeling extremely anxious, and urged everyone to leave quickly.

"Wow - I can't walk!"

Bai Yue was lying on the ground at the moment, not getting up to say anything.

"Okay, come on, sister hugs you."

Baimei quickly hugged Bai Yue.

Qin Yulan originally wanted to hug Bai Yue by herself, but her waist and legs were in severe pain.

She looked at Bai Mei, who was like a thin monkey, and then at Bai Yue, who had a big lump on her forehead and was full of tears of grievance, and nodded her head hard.

"Well, let my sister hold you for a while, and when your forehead doesn't hurt, come down and walk by yourself, okay?"

Qin Yulan coaxed Bai Yue softly.

Bai Yue looked at Bai Mei, then nodded with her lips curled up.

On the empty road, occasional passing trucks kicked up a cloud of dust.

A limping woman with a basket of vegetables on her back was walking anxiously forward with heavy steps.

Next to her was a frail girl who was also carrying a pannier, holding a crying little girl in her arms.

A little boy followed them listlessly.

The autumn sun at noon shone dazzlingly on the four of them.

It shines into Baimei's heart.

Baimei's heart is calling.

Calling for the day when she would be free from it all.

She believes that one day, these will become the oldest memories under their happy life.

(End of this chapter)