Chapter 9

It was almost dusk to send Lin Jiaxiao away, and several men who used to work as carpenters with Lin Jiaxin carried him back to the kang, and shook their heads unbearably looking at the shabby appearance of the Lin family.

The three sisters, Lin Yuan, also helped Mrs. Liu onto the kang. Mrs. Liu was already weak, but today she was hit again and again, her body could no longer hold on, and her face turned even paler.Lin Yuan looked at her mother's seven-month-old belly, but it was only five months old. Thinking of Lin Shuang saying that she hadn't eaten meat for half a year, her heart ached even more.

"Big sister, mother, is mother okay?" Seeing that mother fell into a coma without saying a few words, the eldest sister Lin Wei began to cry again with a bitter face.

"Second sister, don't cry, my mother is fine." Xiao Linshuang knelt beside her mother, clutching her sleeve to wipe Liu's face.The clothes she wore were all picked up by her sisters. As Liu's age got older and her body became more uncomfortable, she didn't even have the energy to change her clothes, so Xiao Linshuang's clothes were changed by her second sister, Lin Wei. Yes, Naihe is too small and not good at craftsmanship, so Xiao Linshuang's clothes don't fit very well. They are a bit too big, and she looks even thinner when she covers her body.

Lin Yuan patted the younger sister's head, then looked at the crying older sister, and sighed. Even though Xiao Linshuang was the youngest, she was a big kid with a more aggressive temper.But her eldest sister, Lin Wei, is simply a copy of her mother Liu, with a weak temper. Although she is eight years old, she is not as calm as this five-year-old girl.

"Wei'er, don't cry. The eldest sister will not let mother have any trouble when she comes back." When Lin Yuan chased Lin Jiaxiao just now, she saw a broken chicken coop in the corner. She remembered that there was an old hen in her house, which had been growing Time is running out.

"I'll kill that old hen later and make chicken soup for mother and father."

"But eldest sister, mother said that the old hen can't be killed, and has to be kept for laying eggs." Lin Wei wiped her tears, and just after she finished speaking, Xiao Linshuang said crisply: "Second sister, that old hen has already been killed." It should be killed, it just eats and doesn't lay eggs all day long, so it's occupying the latrine and not shitting!"

"Little sister! Don't talk nonsense!" Lin Wei hurriedly covered Xiao Linshuang's mouth, looked at Mrs. Liu worriedly, and did not let go until she confirmed that her mother was still in a coma and did not hear her, and she did not forget to tell Xiao Linshuang not to Besides, it's impossible to say such things, especially in front of mother.

The three Lin Yuan sisters all know that this phrase "occupies the latrine and doesn't shit" is what her grandmother Yang said most often when she scolded her mother. Grandma Yang urged her second son, Lin Jiaxin, to divorce his wife and remarry, saying that even marrying the widow in the east of the village was better than Liu's.It's just that the second son, who has always been filial, refused to say anything this time, and moved out of the ancestral house with his wife and three daughters to live in the current yard.That is to say, from then on, Mrs. Yang hated seeing Mrs. Liu more and more, and even her own son didn't like it. Even Mrs. Yang refused to spend a cent of the money Lin Jiaxin bought for the yard at that time, and said that the old man at home If you are not dead, you just want to go out and live alone. This is a curse to die!

There was no other way, so Liu had no choice but to borrow two taels of silver from her natal family to buy this small courtyard.This small courtyard used to be lived by a widower. The old man had no children and was distributed by the villagers until his death. One can imagine how dilapidated this courtyard is.Fortunately, Lin Jiaxin can do carpentry work, and his good craftsmanship is well-known in this area. Every family in the surrounding villages asks him to buy furniture, and sometimes he even receives jobs from the town. So he handed over a lot of money to Yang's hands every month.However, Mrs. Yang is too stingy, and only leaves a few coins to the second son's family every month, so the small courtyard has not improved much in the past few years. In addition, Lin Jiaxin injured his leg in the past six months, which made things worse .

Just as Lin Yuan was thinking about it, Lin Jiaxin's voice sounded in the room over there: "Big ya, kill that chicken, daddy won't eat it, keep it for your mother and the three of you."

The Lin family has only three rooms, the main room in the middle, and bedrooms on both sides. Lin Jiaxin and his wife live in the east room, and the three sisters live in the west room. Today, in order to take care of Mrs. Liu, the three sisters took her to the west room.

Lin Yuan walked to the east room, covered Lin Jiaxin's legs with a small thin quilt, and comforted her: "Father, don't worry, our family is not short of this kind of food, in the future, my daughter will let you and your mother live a good life. "

"Father, I'm sorry for your mothers." Lin Jiaxin caressed his daughter's head, and the seven-foot man's eyes turned red.

Lin Yuan was about to persuade them a few more words, when she heard voices in the yard, and went out to see, it turned out that someone brought them food.These aunts belonged to the men who helped carry Lin Jiaxin into the house just now. They used to work with Lin Jiaxin and earned a lot of money. The life of Yuan's family must be even more difficult.

Knowing that there was nothing to eat at home, Lin Yuan was not hypocritical, thanked them one by one and accepted them.The aunts who came here are all sincere, and they have old people and children to support at home, so they can't send any valuables, nothing more than some sweet potato sticks and noodles, but the courtesy is light and affectionate, and they are not related by blood. But they are more humane than the people in the Lin family compound.Lin Yuan remembered them in her heart, thinking that when she had money, she would repay it well.

After seeing off a few aunts, Lin Yuan began to prepare to kill chickens.Of course, one had to sharpen the knife before killing chickens, and the kitchen knife in her house was too blunt. Lin Yuan took half a bucket of water from her small well and began to sit by the well to sharpen the knife.In the room, Lin Wei has already boiled a large pot of hot water according to the elder sister's words, and kneaded the stick noodles into noodles.

Lin Yuan had already made up her mind that this old hen was indeed not enough for the whole family, so she thought of the stewed fish in an iron pot that she had eaten in her previous life. She could add more water to the pot to stew the chicken, and then peel a few sweet potatoes into it. , and then paste a few big stick noodle pancakes on the edge of the pot. It happened that the aunties just sent a lot of stick noodle, plus the previous stock at home, it was enough for them to eat for a few days.

While sharpening her knife, Lin Yuan looked up at the mountains behind the village. The reason why this village is called Linjiaao is because the village is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and it happens to be summer now, so there must be a lot of things in the mountains, but she doesn’t know how to hunt. It is impossible to catch some wild animals with her own hands, but fortunately she is intelligent, as long as she is willing to use her brain, there is nothing she cannot do.Although this mountain is not high, it is not small. It is impossible to find something to eat. Maybe she is lucky enough to find something to sell for money.

(End of this chapter)

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