walk with penguins

"Aunt Fang, you said you want to go back?" Duan Jie was taken aback, he thought he could ask Aunt Fang to do it for a while, but he didn't expect that the other party would only do it before, saying that he wanted to go home to prepare for the New Year.

Duan Jie knew that if Aunt Fang wasn't here to help these days, he would probably be too busy. The internal and external affairs of the family plus a child would be really overwhelming.But no matter how reluctant he is, if he wants to go back for the New Year, he can't stop them from going back, right?Originally, Duan Jie wanted to ask Aunt Fang to come and help for a few days after the next year, but the other party said that he would be preparing to plant the land after the spring and could not come to help.Aunt Fang originally came here to help earn some money because she thought that she would have nothing to do in winter. Naturally, she would not continue to work after the beginning of spring.

This made Duan Jie feel worried, the child is so young, he only needs to be fed seven or eight times a day, and he also needs to wash diapers and cook.The grain on the farm will be ripe in a few days, and he has to harvest the grain and plant it for the next season by the way.This little guy is so clingy, he won't leave him for a moment, alas, this is really troublesome.

When Duan Jie was sleeping at night, he was thinking about where to find a woman to help.He didn't dare to use someone who didn't know the basics, but what he knew were the aunts in the village. Those aunts were probably in the same situation as Aunt Fang. .

Looking at the carefree Tuantuan lying on the kang, Duan Jie sighed, it seemed that he could only wrong the little guy.In the future, I can't let him rely on me like this every day, I have to let the little guy learn to sleep by himself.

Sleeping in the middle of the night, Duan Jie's mouth was a little dry from the heat of the kang, and he reached for the kettle on the top of the kang in a daze, when he heard a crisp click from outside.This moment startled Duan Jie from his drowsiness, he put the kettle aside, put his ear to the window, and listened to the movement outside.The very slight sound of stepping on the snow came from the yard, and a thief broke into the house!Duan Jie looked at Tuantuan on the kang, and the first thought that flashed in his mind was the safety of the little guy.In terms of safety, it was naturally the farm, where no one could enter except him.Duan Jie entered the farm with Xiao Tuantuan in his arms.After placing the small things, he returned to the house.

The thief in the yard was not close to his house, and Duan Jie heard the sound coming from the direction, which seemed to be in the kitchen.

In modern times, the pots and pans in this kitchen are naturally worthless.But in ancient times, these pots made of copper and iron were quite valuable things for poor families.Duan Jie didn't want people to steal his pot. The price of copper and iron was not low, and it would cost a lot of money to buy a new one after stealing the pot.If the thief were more ruthless and took away the food he put in the kitchen, the loss would be even greater.

Thinking of this, Duan Jie quietly opened the door, took the hoe, and walked towards the kitchen lightly, but he didn't go in, so he held the hoe and hid outside the kitchen door, just waiting for the thief to come out and give him a hand. The other party came up and then.

The thief in the kitchen didn't look very professional, he was looking for nothing.Did the other party think there was something good hidden in the kitchen?Before Duan Jie could figure it out, the sound of chewing food and drinking was heard from inside.

The thief came to the house to steal food?Too bad, Duan Jie suddenly remembered that there was goat milk for his son in the kitchen.That's the little guy's daily ration. Sometimes the milk of the goat is not enough, so I have to make some porridge to supplement it. This goat milk was squeezed today, and it is temporarily put in the kitchen. This thief is too greedy, not enough to steal. He even wanted to steal his son's rations, Duan Jie became angry immediately.

Shouted "Catch the thief." Duan Jie kicked open the kitchen door, the black figure in the room was startled, and the bowl in his hand fell to the ground with a thud. Picking up the hoe will give the thief a hit.

The black shadow was very flexible, dodged, dodged the deadly hoe, and said in a hoarse voice: "Brother, don't, I'm not a bad person, I'm just very hungry, I came to your house to find something to eat."

It has been snowing outside for the past few days, and a thick layer of white snow has already fallen in the courtyard. When the moon shines in the sky, the courtyard is full of silver light.With the dim light in the yard, Duan Jie noticed that the black figure in the kitchen looked thin and small, judging by his figure, he was probably only twelve or three.

Aunt Fang was also startled, and ran out with a broom.Duan Jie also stopped at this moment, letting the black shadow come out of the kitchen.He didn't want to smash up his kitchen just because he caught a thief.

The light in the yard is much brighter than the kitchen, and Duan Jie can now see clearly that the so-called thief, only wearing a single suit, is standing shivering in the snow, his exposing hands and feet are as thin as firewood sticks , with messy hair, only a pair of bright eyes.

Seeing the other party like this, the anger in Duan Jie's heart disappeared at all. He thought it was the bums in the village who came to steal things, but he didn't expect it to be such a poor child.Fortunately, the hoe didn't really hurt anyone.

"Where are you from, why did you come to our place?" Duan Jie asked, and asked Aunt Fang to cook some ginger soup for the child.In this kind of weather, wearing a single shirt outside is really... If you don't hurry up to warm up, you're afraid you'll be seriously ill.

As Duan Jie said, he pushed open the door, wanting the child to go in and question him carefully, but the child was trembling, and walked a few steps forward, his feet went limp, and he passed out immediately.

"Hey. What's the matter?" Duan Jie hugged the child, only to feel that his tentacles were icy cold. Is this still a normal person's body temperature? The child's body was as cold as ice lumps outside, without any warmth at all.

Duan Jie hurriedly carried him into the house, and Aunt Fang came over with a bowl of warm ginger soup. Seeing that Duan Jie was about to carry the child onto the kang, she hurriedly shouted, "Don't put the child on it yet."

"This child is frozen like this. If you put it on the hot kang immediately, you will die. You rub his body first, and I will get some water for him to soak in." Aunt Fang instructed.Only now did Duan Jie remember what he had seen on TV before, people who were frozen outside had to rub their bodies with snow water to warm them up little by little.

The single clothes on the child were tattered, with patches piled on top of each other, rough to the touch. When Duan Jie took off the single clothes, he was taken aback for a moment. Just now he felt that the child was pitifully skinny, but he didn’t expect to be so skinny after taking off the clothes. It was such a situation, many places on his body were black and purple, his hands and feet were full of cracked frostbite, some places had begun to ooze pus, his ribs were protruding, and the number of them was distinct.

This is someone's child, Duan Jie frowned, but he didn't dare to delay, and began to rub the child's body with his hands.

After a while, I saw Aunt Fang coming over with a bucket of hot water, "Okay, I'll take care of it here, you go and see Tuantuan, we are so noisy, why is the baby still awake?"

Duan Jie was startled, oh no, he just sent his son to the farm, the little guy might have woken up, and he might have started to make a fuss. "Aunt Fang, you watch first, I'll go and see Tuantuan."

As soon as Duan Jie entered the space, he heard a deafening cry. As expected, he had already woken up. Duan Jie hurried forward and took the little guy out of the basket.I don't know how long I cried, Tuantuan's little face was flushed, and Duan Jie hurriedly hugged him out of the farm.

"Why is Tuantuan suddenly crying?" Aunt Fang wondered.

Duan Jie coaxed Tuantuan in a hurry, "It's okay, I accidentally woke him up just now."

After hugging, touching and shaking for a while, the little guy finally stopped crying, but his little hands were still holding on to Duan Jie's lapel softly, with the intention of never letting go.

Duan Jie simply carried Tuan Tuan out of the inner room. The boy had already been rubbed and cleaned by Aunt Fang, and put in hot water. As the temperature rose, his face turned a little bloody.

"Aunt Fang, tell me where did this kid come from, and how did he get into this shape." Looking at what the kid is wearing, he probably lives near here, and the clothes can't run very far in this kind of weather. .

Aunt Fang stopped moving her hands, and stared at the little face full of bruises for a moment, "It should not be a child from our village."

Duan Jie looked at the child, and said half aloud: "Aunt Fang, you think this kid has caused some trouble..." If the child has committed any crimes, or if the child is a runaway slave from some family, it will be a disaster. Well, at that time, they may not even be implicated.

"Then I'll go to Lizheng tomorrow." Aunt Fang said, and poured some hot water into the wooden barrel to warm up the already slightly lukewarm water.

Duan Jie sighed, carried the sleeping Tuan Tuan into the house, wrapped it up, and then came out to help Aunt Fang carry the child out of the bucket, wiped off his body, and put the child on the kang.He was too flustered just now, and he didn't take a closer look. Only now did he realize that the child, like him, has twins.

Aunt Fang covered the child with a quilt, checked the doors and windows of the house, and then went to sleep in peace. Duan Jie guarded the child for a while, but couldn't bear to go to sleep by himself.

Not long after sleeping, Duan Jie was woken up by Tuantuan crying, touched the bottom, it was wet, Duan Jie yawned, opened his eyes to find a diaper to change for the little guy, thinking about leaving Tuantuan After a few hours of breastfeeding, Duan Jie wanted to fetch the goat's milk, only then remembered that the goat's milk had already been drunk by the thief, and the rest was spilled all over the floor. Go to the kitchen to cook rice porridge for Tuantuan.

The rice in this place is much better than what Duan Jie ate in modern times. After a handful of rice is boiled for a while, the rice soup becomes sticky like oil and water.Duan Jie filled a small bowl of rice soup, blew it half-cooled, and then fed it to Tuantuan. The little guy clicked his mouth, eating mouthful after mouthful.

Tuan Tuan, who was full, fell asleep not long after, his little hands were still slightly open, as if he was about to grab something.Duan Jie picked up the soup bowl lightly, and as soon as he opened the door curtain, he saw that the fainted child had woken up at some point, staring at the leftover half of his food with big black eyes. Bowl of rice soup.