Two days later.
A peaceful seaside village.
Wang Ping, a strong fisherman, managed his fishing net and said to the old lady in the house: "I won't come back to eat at noon. Today, I have a long row with the village head. It rained heavily the day before yesterday and the water is rising fast. These two days, the fish are easy to catch."
Wang Laoniang, who was baking pancakes, answered, packed several steamed buns for her son, stuffed them into a cloth bag, and said, "remember to eat them. Don't be hungry until evening."
Wang Ping's "hum" voice was about to say something, when suddenly he heard the silly voice of a woman in the distance.
"Ahahahahaha, ahahahahaha..."
"Old Wang Niang frowns a way:" that silly girl of Li family is noisy again, early in the morning, bored to death
Wang Ping smiled and looked at the source of the voice. "She's the only one in her family. She's stupid and nobody cares. Let's go."
Wang Laoniang didn't like to stare at Wang Ping: "how, do you remember what happened before? I've told you that it's not a engagement between you two. Now that people are like this again, let alone that. I'll tell you that you'll walk around a little later and don't let that fool see you again! "
Old Wang Niang is a powerful woman. Wang Ping and old lady depend on each other for their lives, but they dare not refuse to do so. He said "hum" again, but he couldn't help saying another sentence for the silly girl of Li's family: "later, you can send her a steamed bread, or she will be hungry again today."
"You are..." Wang Laoniang wants to scold her son for many things, but she swallows them back to her mouth and deals with them casually: "OK."
Wang Ping doesn't know if my mother is perfunctory to him, but he has already done what he should do. As my mother said, they didn't count as their engagement before. Now he wants to marry such a crazy fool. He doesn't want to. He simply doesn't mention it.
After Wang Ping left home, it was a surprise that old Mrs. Wang, who used to be stingy, actually took a steamed bun and two pieces of pancakes, and went to the former yard of Li's family.
Heishui village is such a big place. There are 13 families in the village. They are old friends and neighbors. They get up late. They are washing by the door. When they see old lady Wang walking towards Li's family with a plate, they can't help teasing: "how can I be so kind today?"
Lao Niang Wang waved: "go, it's none of your business."
Li yu'er, the silly girl in Heishui village, turned out to be a normal girl. Later, when people were stupid, Li's father died again, and he became an orphan who hated dogs.
There are some soft hearted ones in the village who occasionally give silly girls something to eat, but they always give them at night to see what remains of the meal after supper.
Wang Laoniang went to the gate of Li's courtyard, looked at the half rotten gate, and the disorderly grass beside the gate. She said something about making mistakes, and then she called inside, "yu'er, yu'er."
After a while, I heard the banging inside. Then, a 17-8-year-old girl with ragged clothes and wet hair ran out.
The girl's face was dirty. When she saw the people at the door, she would grin and come and jump.
Wang Laoniang sighed and handed her the plate: "take it to eat, you Pingzi asked me to send it."
When silly girl saw that she had snatched a handful of food, she grabbed it and wolfed it into her mouth. Old lady Wang thought that she would finish both cakes of a steamed bun. After all, the child probably hadn't eaten for several days, but silly girl left the steamed bun after eating the cake.
Steamed bread is made of fine flour, which is different from pancakes. The brown rice flour is used for pancakes, so steamed bread is more refined and expensive. People in fishing villages are not rich. A family eats a white steamed bread every day.
Silly girl put the steamed bread in her arms and touched it with timid hands.
Old lady Wang couldn't help but say, "put it away if you don't eat it. Don't touch the dirt. Now you know that you're saving food. It's OK. When you're hungry, you have a chew."
Silly girl looked at Old Lady Wang and said, "give the children food."
Wang Laoniang smiled: "Yo, have a child again? What about the pillow last time? "
Silly girl touched her belly and clapped: "child, born."
Wang Laoniang smiled again: "you haven't married and still want to have children. Who will have them with you?"
When Miss Li is silly, there are several ruffians in the neighboring village who often look here. The village head is very resourceful. He knows that these ruffians are not doing business. He is sure that Miss Li is stupid and wants to take advantage of others. He immediately beats them out.
After all, the villagers know each other. They usually stare at strangers. In the past two years, the girl's misfortune has not been aggravated. At least the people are innocent.
But it's probably too lonely. Miss Li likes to hold a pillow when she is a child.
Everyone laughs and laughs when they see it. Some of them make fun of it. At most, they say, "no one marries you, who are you born to?"
At the moment, Mrs. Wang said the same, but Miss Li didn't reply as foolishly as usual. This time, she went back and pointed to the room as proof: "child, child..." Then he took Mrs. Wang and dragged people into the room: "child, child My, my... "
Old Wang Niang was so old that she nearly fell down when she was pulled by the silly girl who didn't know how to stop. She stood up and scolded silly girl, and was dragged into the house at the same time.As soon as she entered the room, Mrs. Wang was stunned.
In the empty and dirty Li family hall room, a five or six-year-old boy with white cheeks and dark eyes was sitting there honestly. He saw Mrs. Wang come in, and the little boy looked at Mrs. Wang with ignorant eyes.
"This, this, this child..." Old lady Wang was shocked.
"Children and children!" The silly girl ran to the quilt and sat down. She handed the white bread to the little boy and said, "eat."
The little boy stretched out his little hand and took the steamed bread. Looking at the black finger prints on it, he was stupefied and looked at the silly girl.
Silly girl still said: "eat, eat, eat."
The little boy took a bite.
Silly girl jumped up happily, pointed to the little boy while laughing, and said to old lady Wang, "mine Children, children My my... "
It took a long time for old lady Wang to get back to her senses. She immediately grabbed Miss Li and hit him on the back: "you stinky girl, where did you turn a child back? Wait for me. I'll tell the village head to see if he doesn't kill you!"
Wang Laoniang then ran to the door. When she got to the door, she called out at the top of her voice. Several nearby families were shocked. They came out in twos and threes.
Miss Li was beaten because she didn't know why. Her eyes were red with pain. She twisted her hands to touch her back, looked at the children in the quilt, and pulled up the corner of her mouth and said, "eat."
The little boy looked at her and at the villagers who were gathering outside the door. After a while, he reached out and said to the silly girl, "come here, let me see if you have been beaten red?"