Chapter 446 Waiting for the Lantern Festival (1)
"You can eat what you want, you are a piece of mourning sect. You should have strangled the thing when you were born. Now you still have the nerve to eat here!"
Jiang Feng was still in the mist when he heard a sharp and hoarse female voice, speaking harsh and vicious words that seemed to only appear in TV dramas. He could also faintly hear the cry of a child that was masked by the female voice.
Who is scolding the child? He also scolded the child for being so unlike him.
Jiang Feng vaguely remembered that when the old man scolded them, he was just scolding him and his cousins for knowing how to eat little piglets. They were not even as good as piglets. To feed you, they might as well feed pigs in a pig pen.
Something worse than a pig.
This may be a curse word elsewhere, but in the Jiang family it is a truth.
The fog cleared.
Jiang Feng found him in a room, a little girl's room. The decoration of the room is very simple, with white walls, a small and square desk, an ordinary desk lamp, a three-story short bookshelf, and a single bed covered with pink sheets that make up the entire room.
Jiang Feng appeared in front of the bookshelf and couldn't help but take a second look at the bookshelf.
The bookshelf is basically filled with textbooks, ranging from the first grade to the sixth grade of elementary school. Among the textbooks are one or two magazines, as well as some famous novels that Jiang Feng would buy on the recommendation of his teacher when he was a child.
There are stacks of textbooks from the first semester of junior high school on the desk. Apart from the textbooks, there is only a desk lamp and not even a pen, making this small desk seem empty.
The room is not big and can be seen at a glance. Jiang Feng guessed that this should be Ji Xue's room. According to the textbook on the desk, he could infer that Ji Xue should be in the first grade of junior high school now.
First grade of junior high school.
The turning point in Ji Xue's life.
Jiang Feng didn't know much about the situation of Ji Xue's family, but he still knew something about it.
Their family is a typical family brought down by disease. They once lived a prosperous life with a little money, but due to the successive illnesses of their parents, the loss of labor force, two young children, high medical expenses, and the indifference of grandma and uncles, this The family is being dragged down step by step, and everyone is dragged into the abyss.
Jiang Feng remembered that Ji Xue seemed to have dropped out of school when he was in junior high school and went to work in the Tan family restaurant. There were only textbooks on the desk but no winter vacation homework. Ji Xue must have decided to drop out of school and work in the Tan family restaurant at this time.
But... where is Ji Xueren?
"Touch."
"Boom."
There were two loud noises outside, as if something had fallen, followed by the sharp female voice that Jiang Feng heard in the fog before.
"Cry, cry, cry, you still have the nerve to cry. You are a mourner who can kill the whole family. Who are you crying for during the Chinese New Year? Wanting to kill your parents doesn't count. Now you even want me. You're dead, right? You're such an unlucky bitch." The yelling was hard to hear.
Jiang Feng hurriedly ran out. The sound he heard in the fog was not very clear before. He thought it was someone's elder next door to Ji Xue scolding a child during the New Year, but now it sounded like the sound was clearly coming from the living room. Come.
When Jiang Feng walked through the wall and ran to the living room in three steps, he found a small dumpling sitting on the floor in the living room. Judging from his age, it should be Ji Xia. Ji Xue, who was thirteen years old, was squatting next to the small dumpling, scattered on the floor. Candies all over the floor.
The 5-year age difference may not seem very obvious to the adult sisters, but for two sisters who are both about 10 years old, the difference seems very big.
One can already be called a little girl, and the other is still a child no matter how you look at it.
Scattered on the ground were very low-quality colorful loose candies wrapped in transparent plastic paper. There was an overturned plastic plate next to the coffee table that should have been used to put candies.
Standing in front of the sofa was a middle-aged woman who looked to be in her 50s, wearing a bright red coat with an angry look on her face. She pointed at the two sisters on the ground and spoke very fast.
"What kind of sin have I done? I didn't get a favor from giving birth to a son and raising him so big. I didn't see him giving me anything to show my filial piety during the Chinese New Year. Instead, I, an old lady, came over to take care of you two and make money." , and the other one is Sangmenxing, which is really unlucky.”
"That sick old lady of yours is really good at scheming. To put it nicely, she wants to accompany your father to the hospital for medical treatment and has no time to take care of you two. What's wrong? Does she have no hands, no legs, or no mouth? , will you starve to death at home or what? You don’t think about me when you don’t see anything good, but you think about me when you are taking care of others, what the hell!”
"You are not allowed to scold my mother!" Ji Xia screamed while sitting on the ground. The eight or nine-year-old child's voice was so penetrating that it actually covered up her grandmother's scolding voice.
With Ji Xia's current knowledge base, she might not be able to understand what Sangmen said and that Ke Shi's whole family was scolding herself, but she could still understand that the sick old lady was scolding her mother.
Grandma Ji Xia was extremely unhappy when she was called over to take care of her two granddaughters for a long time. Now that Ji Xia dared to refute her words, she became even more furious and kicked the coffee table in front of her.
Accompanied by a loud bang, Grandma Ji Xia raised her voice: "What did I say wrong? When you were born, I asked a fortune teller to predict that you would be the evil star of the whole family. I already told you to throw away your Sangmen stuff. Your mother, who is so sick and can't lay eggs, still has the nerve to show off to me if I hadn't had a few sons. I have lost all my descendants!”
"If I hadn't kept a tight lid on you all these years, preventing you, this disaster star, from coming into contact with your cousins and uncles, our family might have been ruined by you. It's okay now, your father and your mother are both under your control This is it, are you satisfied?”
"Okay, I get it. Your mother just wants you to defeat me. I'll tell you, that sick guy really has no good intentions. He even pretended to pick me up to stay for a while. Damn, this is a ghost place like yours. Can people live in it? ”
Jiang Feng, who was listening nearby, looked confused:? ? ?
This is a collection of patriarchal and feudal superstitions. It’s the 21st century. How can we live like a feudal society?
The more Grandma Ji Xia scolded, the angrier she became, and she kicked the coffee table again. Looking at her expression, Jiang Feng thought that it was Ji Xia that she really wanted to kick, but he didn't know what he was worried about.
Grandma Ji Xia lowered her head and saw the small bag of Dove chocolates that she had just kicked out.
It was a small bag with only about 10 pieces of chocolate in it. If given to any junior member of the Jiang family except Jiang Feng, he would be able to finish it within 10 minutes.
"Oh, you're hiding it here. You're hiding something from me, right? You're really good at it." Grandma Ji Xia took a step forward, picked up the bag of chocolates, and turned around to leave.
Ji Xia, who had been sitting on the ground, suddenly stood up and rushed towards her grandma like a small cannonball. He couldn't reach the chocolate in her hand and could only hold on to her coat tightly.
"My mother-in-law bought it for us, you are not allowed to take it, you are not allowed to take it!" Ji Xia shouted while crying.
"Don't touch me, it's so unlucky." Grandma Ji Xia shook Ji Xia away. Perhaps because she felt unlucky, she didn't want to have any physical contact with her, so she hurriedly slammed the door and left.
Only a mess was left.
Ji Xia sat on the ground and cried.
Ji Xue, who had been squatting on the ground without saying a word, finally made a move and stood up slowly. Maybe it was because his feet were numb from squatting for too long, making his movements somewhat inconvenient.
Ji Xue silently picked up the plastic plate containing the candies and put it back on the coffee table. Then she picked up the candies scattered on the ground one by one, even those that fell under the sofa and the TV cabinet.
Finally, Ji Xue walked up to Ji Xia with a green candy and put the candy into her hand.
"Xia Xia, without chocolate, it's the same as eating candy." Ji Xue said.
"My mother-in-law bought that." Ji Xia sobbed, "My mother-in-law bought that."
"I know." Ji Xue said softly.
"My mother-in-law bought it for us to celebrate the New Year." Ji Xia continued, as if she was talking to Ji Xue, as if she was talking to herself.
"My mother-in-law bought this." Ji Xia's voice became lower and lower.
For a child who has just entered the third grade of elementary school and has always been wealthy, it is too difficult for her to understand words such as breast cancer, diabetes, medical expenses, family poverty, and high debts that are completely out of her scope.
From Ji Xia's point of view, she just found that since she was in elementary school, the snacks at home have gradually become less and less, and the smile on her mother's face has become less and less until it disappears, and she has become irritable and irritable. The less I have, the more I have to go to the hospital. Mom and dad are always away from home, and the person who cooks has changed from dad to sister. The meat on the table has become less and less, until it disappears and can only be seen during holidays.
Some things can’t even be eaten during the Chinese New Year, such as chocolate. The small bag of chocolates that Grandma Ji Xia had just taken away was specially sent to their home by Grandma Ji Xia when she was a kid. Grandma counted the pieces, and Ji Xia and Ji Xue could eat one piece a day from Little New Year to Lantern Festival.
There are still 6 days until Lantern Festival.
The chocolate is gone, and so is the year.
"Xia Xia, can my sister tell you something?" Ji Xue squatted in front of Ji Xia, looking at her as if she had made a decision.
"Sister is busy these days and needs to go out. How about you just stay at home? In the morning, my sister will leave you two extra buns. You can warm them up by yourself at noon. In the evening, your sister will bring you food. You can stay at home alone. Don't go out and don't open the door to strangers," Ji Xue warned.
Ji Xia has not yet gotten over the grief of losing the chocolate and the New Year. She looks up at Ji Xue: "Sister, do you want to go out to play?"
"Yes, sister wants to go out to play."
"When my sister is done playing, can I buy you chocolates for the Lantern Festival?"
"Okay."(End of Chapter)