nashuaworldcup Chapter 302 Han Shuying
Chapter 302 Han Shuying
"Uncle, Auntie, Brother, Brother Minghai, you are back!"
A few people turned around and saw a thin girl carrying a large backpack.
The backpack was filled with firewood.
Liu Zhaodi was the first to react and said, "Are you Erya? Shuying?"
No wonder Liu Zhaoti was so nervous that he didn't dare to recognize this girl.
The child in front of me was so skinny. In such cold weather, his cotton coat and trousers were half too short.
The exposed calves and half of the arms were red from the cold.
A pair of hands were as red and swollen as ten carrots.
Han Shunde looked at the child and thought to himself.
How does your younger brother treat children?
How can a girl go out to the mountains to look for firewood in such a cold day?
"Where are your father and brother? Why don't they come out to look for firewood?
Why don't you store more firewood before it gets cold?"
Han Shuying lowered her head without saying a word, then raised her head and greeted them again.
"Uncle and aunt, big brother, big brother Minghai, you are here to see grandpa and grandma, let's go."
Han Zhaoxiong and Han Minghai were a little hesitant.
I had been planning to return after saying goodbye to them, but now I am neither going nor not going.
After thinking for a while, Han Minghai spoke.
"It won't work if Zhaoxiong and I don't go back.
My mother will be worried. We had originally agreed to return after sending my uncle and aunt off.
My mother will be anxious and will come down the mountain to look for me if she can’t wait for me to come back.”
Han Shuying lowered her head in disappointment, rubbing her red, frozen hands.
Suddenly her stomach growled.
The little girl covered her stomach and felt even more embarrassed.
Han Minghai couldn't bear it any longer, so he took out three wild vegetable cakes and a boiled duck egg from his backpack.
This was given to him by Li Lanzhen in the morning.
He stuffed it into Han Shuying's hand.
"It's too cold, don't go out. What would you do if you, a girl, encounter a wild animal or fall down?
At that time, you will cry out to the heavens but no one will answer you.”
Han Shuying is already 11 years old this year, but she is thin and has sparse yellow hair, just like an eight or nine-year-old child.
Han Minghai couldn't figure it out.
When they first lived here, the girl had a chubby face, was lively, and loved to talk and laugh.
Why is it like this now?
He raised his head and glanced in the direction of Forget-Your-Sorrow Valley.
He sighed in his heart and said to Han Shunde and the others.
"I'm going back." After saying that, he glanced at Han Zhaoxiong.
At this time, Han Zhaoxiong saw his second uncle's sister. She was wearing thin clothes, had a sallow face, and was extremely thin.
She was very angry. She didn't know whether it was because her second uncle didn't care or because her grandparents' patriarchal ideas were starting to torment her again.
He wanted to go to Wangyou Valley with Han Shunde and Liu Zhaodi.
See how they actually live!
"Okay, Brother Minghai, you go back. I'm going to Forget-Your-Sorrow Valley with my parents to visit my grandparents.
Be careful on your way. You don't need to come to pick us up. There are three of us."
Han Minghai waved his hand, said no more, spread his long legs, and left without looking back.
Han Zhaoxiong turned around and saw Han Shuying holding tightly in her arms the wild vegetable cakes and cooked duck eggs that Han Minghai had given him.
"Sister, you are hungry, eat quickly and fill your stomach before we go in."
After hearing this, Han Shuying looked at Han Zhaoxiong with tears in her eyes, nodded, grabbed a piece of wild vegetable cake and stuffed it into her mouth.
After taking two bites, I suddenly thought of something.
He quickly handed the other two pancakes to Han Shunde and Liu Zhaodi.
"Uncle, aunt, you guys eat too.
He handed the duck egg in his hand to Han Zhaoxiong, "Brother, you eat it."
None of the three of them answered.
"You eat. We ate on the way."
Looking at her flushed face and the way she spoke incoherently.
Han Zhaoxiong quickly took out the water bag from his backpack and handed it to her.
"Second sister, eat slowly and drink some water. Don't be in a hurry. We will wait here for you to finish eating the food before we go back."
His words made Han Shuying burst into tears, which fell on the back of her swollen hands and on the wild vegetable pancakes.
After taking a sip of water, she slowed down her eating of the biscuit, biting it hard one bite at a time, as if she wanted to chew it up and swallow it.
After finishing a wild vegetable pancake, she looked up at Han Zhaoxiong.
"Brother, I want to take these two cakes home for my father and brother to eat, okay?"
Han Zhaoxiong and the other two were stunned.
Han Shunde asked her, "Er Ya, tell uncle, what happened at home? Are you hungry?
Didn't your Aunt Lan Zhen leave some food behind when she left?"
Liu Zhaodi also asked her angrily, "Is it because your grandfather didn't feed you enough? He only knows how to make you work. It's not human to let a little girl like you go out to look for firewood in such a cold weather!"
She said this because Liu Zhaodi saw that the child was not well fed and not well clothed.
She thought that her father-in-law, who was the village chief, might start to bully the second brother's family again.
At present, they still don’t know what happened in the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
Han Shuying lowered her head and refused to speak even though they asked her questions.
Han Zhaoxiong handed her a handkerchief and said gently, "Erya, pack the biscuits and duck eggs and take them home for your father and Zhaocheng to eat."
Han Shuying took the new blue handkerchief, wrapped the two pancakes and duck eggs, and stuffed them into her cotton coat.
Watching her cautious movements, the three people felt really uncomfortable.
What on earth happened to this child?
Han Shunde had just seen the Forget-Sorrow Valley, and the joy he felt at about to see his parents had faded.
He felt sad, angry, and confused.
Could it be that after they left, people in Wangyou Valley were starving and had no clothes to wear? Or was there someone causing trouble again?
Han Shuying wiped the corner of her mouth, patted her body, and smiled at the three of them.
"Uncle, aunt, brother, let's go."
They were stunned when they walked into the gate of Forget-Your-Trouble Valley.
Because the gate of Forget-Your-Sorrow Valley was wide open, the stones that were originally blocking the way had all disappeared, and there was nothing blocking the door, so it was wide open.
Moreover, Han Zhaoxiong also observed that there was no one guarding around!
All three of them were puzzled.
Han Shuying also saw their eyes and expressions, lowered her head and spoke in a low voice.
“The stones blocking the gate were pushed open by wild buffaloes and wild boars.
After you left, the buffaloes and wild boars all broke through this door at night and ran into the mountains."
The three of them paused, and Han Zhaoxiong said in disbelief.
"What?! There is such a thing? You guys didn't keep an eye on it, did you?"
Han Shuying shook her head.
The three of them stopped talking. How much could a child know?
They continued to move forward. The snow was piled thickly on both sides of the road leading to the valley. The caves in the distance were covered with a thick layer of snow.
Only the front doors of each household in front of the cave were cleaned to reveal the brown soil.
"Uncle, aunt, brother, you guys go to grandpa and grandma's house first. I'll go home first."
Han Shunde and the other two paused again.
What is going on?