After the middle-aged woman left, Jiujiu had time to look at herself.
At this moment, Jiujiu wanted to swear.
Although her hands look only the size of a five-year-old or six-year-old child, the difference is that these small hands are densely covered with scars, and ten finger joints are frostbitten, which are red and swollen like little carrots.
On the back of the hand, there are chapped holes, and blood drips from some places.
On her feet, she wore single shoes. Because the shoes were too small, there were holes in her thumb, revealing dirty toes. From the feeling of pain and itching, Jiujiu's feet were the same as her hands. They were all frostbitten.
It can be seen from the temperature that it is winter, but she is only wearing single clothes.
Even standing in a windless room, it's still cold and shivering. If you go to the river to wash clothes now, you will definitely get sick.
Although Jiujiu has seen Erya in Erya's memory, how miserable it is, but after really seeing it, Jiujiu still can't help loving Erya.
Jiujiu didn't listen to the middle-aged woman to wash clothes. Instead, she put all her clothes away and went to the window to see what the woman was doing.
It doesn't matter at all. Jiujiu heard something that doesn't matter.
The husband of the middle-aged woman said to her, "it's cold today. You asked Erya to wash clothes by the river. What if it's frozen?"
Compared with the worry in her husband's words, the middle-aged woman's voice slowly doesn't care, "she hasn't been there before. Why is she so delicate this year?"
"I'm not worried that she's frozen. It won't work if we ask her parents for money in the future?"
This sentence made Jiujiu prick her ears in an instant.
Erya's adoptive mother has been using it. If I hadn't kindly picked you up, you would have died outside. Come to moral kidnapping and let Erya be a cow and a horse for her.
But from her conversation with her husband, it seems that the truth is not what she said.
First, if Erya is really abandoned, what they said about asking Erya's parents for money doesn't make sense.
After all, if Erya's parents can really abandon Erya, how can they give them money?
The only truth is that Erya was not picked up by them.
Erya's adoptive mother said, "as long as there is one breath, Erya is their child. Besides, when our son marries Erya and they cook rice, they won't be afraid that they won't recognize our in laws. At that time, can they be good to us for Erya's future?"
"What if Erya told her what you did to her?"
"What are you afraid of? Erya always thought she was picked up by us. If she obeyed me, she wouldn't know her true identity."
"You still have a way. If you hadn't stolen Erya back, how could our dog eggs have this fortune."
"No, it doesn't depend on who I am..."
Jiujiu didn't listen to the rest.
Jiujiu has pieced together Erya's life experience from the words of Erya's adoptive father and mother.
Erya was not picked up by the two of them, but they stole it.
Moreover, Erya's original identity is also very noble.
I think so. Ordinary mountain people can't give birth to a girl like Erya.
On this thought, Erya really had a hard life.
Obviously, he was born in a noble family, but he was stolen by the bad hearted couple from childhood. He not only left his parents, but also was treated like a slave by them. Even, he had to be calculated by them in the end.
Compared with Erya who finally thought of their upbringing and didn't want to revenge them, Erya can be said to be very kind.
Erya doesn't want to revenge the couple, but the distressed Erya's Jiujiu is not as kind as Erya.
Jiujiu looked at the pile of clothes thrown by the woman on the ground, directly picked up the wooden basin and walked towards the river with her clothes in her arms.
Compared with the cold inside the house, the outside of the snow is like an ice cave.
The cold wind blew, and Jiujiu clenched her teeth, but she couldn't help shivering.
Jiujiu took a breath and asked Xiaobai to give her a pill to warm her body.
Swallow the pill quickly to avoid the danger of freezing.
Step by step, he walked to the river and threw all the clothes of Erya's adoptive mother into the river.
Jiujiu didn't leave until all her clothes were washed away by the river.
I just threw all the woman's clothes into the river. They must not be able to go back.
And now the mountain is closed by heavy snow, and you can't get out. Since you can't get out of the house when you go back, you might as well go to the mountain and find a cave to live in. When the flowers bloom in the spring of the next year, you're making other plans.
Jiujiu releases Xiaobai, rides on Xiaobai and runs towards the mountain.
Xiaobai is like a white lightning, walking back and forth in the mountains.
One man and one beast searched for a long time before they found a cave suitable for living.
As soon as Jiujiu came to the cave, she heard a rapid gasp from the cave.
Walking into the cave, Jiujiu saw an eight year old child lying in the cave.
The child's face was crimson, obviously with a high fever.
It's not Jiujiu's style to die.
Looking at the child's appearance, Jiujiu bent down and picked up the child. As he walked in, he read in pieces, "there are so many caves in the mountain, but I walked into the cave, and you are also in the cave. In that case, I will save your life."
Jiujiu finished, put the child on the animal skin taken out from the space, cover the child with a quilt, take out the pill he put in the space, put it in the child's mouth, and then go to change his clothes.
Jiujiu packed up, and the child's fever had almost subsided. The scarlet cheeks that had been burned due to high fever also showed a normal pink, and the rapid breathing in her mouth turned into a gentle breathing. Even Jiujiu heard the sound of the child's stomach because of hunger.
Jiujiu chuckled, turned over, rode on Xiaobai and went outside to find food.
It's true that it's inconvenient to pass through the mountains due to heavy snow, but it's also the time when animals are the fattest.
Jiujiu goes out with Xiaobai and brings back not only pheasants and rabbits, but also some little squirrels to hide dried fruits for the winter.
Jiujiu put things on the ground, then went outside to pick up some dry firewood, made a simple stove with stone, took a knife and carved a stone pot with stone, and then began to cook.
Xiaobai curled up like a big dog, leaned against the edge of the fire, and yawned from time to time.
Jiujiu melted a pot of water with snow, threw the chopped meat in, and cooked a pot of meat porridge for the child to eat. As for herself, she put the rabbit on a branch and prepared to roast the rabbit.
Xiaobai, on the other hand, stared at the fire and waited for the roast rabbit when Jiujiu began to roast the rabbit.