The man shook his head and said with a smile on his face, “No problem, no problem, you guys go ahead and take it with you.”
The woman looked at us and didn’t say anything, and could tell that she couldn’t seem to say anything in this house.
Jimmy hadn’t said anything, and after listening to all they had to say, he looked at the man and said, “Can you please help us find a clean lady’s dress for us?”
The man froze and nodded his head, “Good, right away!” Then he looked at the woman and said, “Go and find a dress for them.”
The woman got up and went to the other partition door, Scott and the man chatted, my eyes fell on the group of children eating around the table.
They were wearing ill-fitting clothes, some several dirty T-shirts layered together, and some on a separate inferior sweater, can be seen, they are simply just to keep out the cold, they all seem to be able to wear the clothes passed on, but it is clear that still can not let them warm enough.
Eyes fell on the little girl squeezed on one side, I paused for a moment, the child looked just three years old so big, the cheeks on both sides of the red, looking like highland red and like frozen red, mouth side because of eating, black, probably because of the cold weather, snot while flowing, she reached out with her sleeve to wipe, but did not wipe clean, so that the side of the mouth and the dishes are on.
I could not help but frown slightly, the woman came out of the partition door, holding a set of clothes in her hand, looked at me and said I, “You try a ha.”
I nodded, smiled and said thank you, looked at her and said, “Can I borrow a pair of dry shoes with you?” When I came up just now, shoes and pants all dirty winter cold, wearing that wet shoes, really uncomfortable.
The woman nodded and went to the cupboard for half a day and brought out a pair of cloth shoes, still new, but looking at the style and look, like she sewed them herself.
Jimmy, seeing that the shoes were too thin, frowned and said, “Is there a warmer one?”
The woman froze slightly and shook her head, “It’s all there!”
I smiled, took the shoes, said thank you, changed clean shoes, then sat by the fire to roast, Dennis called, because the signal is not good, his several calls were not received, I had to send him a message, told him not to go back tonight.
A seven or eight hour drive is too far.
Scott and the man said a bunch of things, then looked at me and said, “Miss Kennedy, you look at the child, if there is nothing wrong, tomorrow we will take the child to City A, in addition to your daughter’s side also have to transfer from City P, the child temporarily no account and identity information, so we can only temporarily in City A We can only do the surgery in City A for the time being.”
I am still a little confused, see the man got up and walked to the youngest girl, with the sleeve smoothly wiped her out of the snot, looked at me smiling, “Miss Kennedy, you see aha, this baby age although small, but still obedient and understanding, not afraid of pain, you see aha to suit your heart?”
The child did not know why she was being spoken to like this by the adults, but just stared at me, a little confused, probably because she had not eaten enough, she carefully glanced at her father after lifting the bowl and chopsticks into their mouths and stuffed a mouthful of cabbage, the vegetable soup got all over themselves.
I nod my head, my brain is a bit muddled.
Waiting for a few children to eat, because it was already very late, the hostess in another house is also almost only twenty square meters bunk, Scott said the conditions here is such, just one night on the line, tomorrow we will return to the journey.
Jimmy was worried that I would be cold at night and found all the quilts the hostess could find, but it was still quite unhealthy, huddled with a few children.
By midnight, my feet were too cold to sleep, I couldn’t help but curl up and hear the little girl’s voice in my ear, “Auntie!”
I thought it was a hallucination at first and froze for a moment before I heard the little girl’s voice again, “Auntie, are you asleep?”
This time I was sure that the kid was calling me, and I couldn’t help but freeze and respond, “No, what’s wrong?”
Turned over and did up, saw the little girl did not know when has squatted beside me, looked at me and whispered, “Mom said I want to go with you tomorrow, go to the city to eat good food, can you take big sister also, she also want to go into the city.”
I froze for a moment, pulled her to sit beside me, covered her somewhat cold body with the quilt, and spoke, “What’s wrong? Why do you want to take big sister with you?”
The child seems to move nothing, leaning against me although afraid, but still can not help but speak, “Auntie, you seem to be on, than the mother’s fragrance a lot.”
I couldn’t help but smile and wait for her to answer my question.
But the little girl seemed completely distracted by the aroma on me, and I couldn’t help but speak up again, “Little friend, why is your big sister going into town for something? How old is she.”
Her attention back, but thought about it, “big sister is seventeen years old, mom said she can marry, but she does not want to marry, big sister read a lot of books, now dad does not let her read, let her come back to marry, she does not marry, so it was locked in the cattle pen by mom, big sister is so poor, she has not eaten for several days, mom said if she does not marry, she will never let her eat She will starve to death.”
The child’s words startled me, and for a moment I didn’t know what to say, but asked in a calm mood, “Can you take me to see my big sister?”
She nodded and stood up, barefoot and about to leave, I pulled her back and whispered, “It’s cold outside, you have to pass your shoes and clothes on first.”
She did not care and said, “It’s okay, it’s not cold, the previous colder winters than this one my brothers and sisters and I were barefoot, mom said it’s not cold when I get used to it, I’m used to it now, so it’s not cold.”
I pursed my lips, did not continue to speak anymore, followed her out of the house, then, she pulled me to a door, took the lock on the house and whispered, “Big sister, are you asleep?”
Inside came the sound of Xu Xu crumbling, followed by a girl’s voice responding in a whisper, “Not yet.”
The little girl gently pushed open the door, it was dark inside, nothing could be seen, see her step in, I followed some worry, before stepping in, the little girl looked back at me and whispered, “Auntie, you do not come in, it is very dirty, there are a lot of cow shit.”
Then he spoke to the person inside the door, “Big sister, I brought my aunt, beg her to let you go to the city with me so you don’t have to get married.”