Late at night, please give me half a cigarette

Chapter 4 The Warmth from the Pig
In fact, living in a pigsty, apart from shivering at night and being cold all over, there is nothing wrong with it. At least there are two panting people here who are willing to accept me.

The two pigs didn't have much of a problem with me taking their sleeping place, and they just grunted in protest when I robbed them of food when they were so hungry. Most of the time they passed them, and I passed me of.

But the night in late autumn was really too cold, so I squeezed between them and hugged them to keep warm. I wonder if they also felt sorry for me and accepted me.

I was originally thin and small, but now I don’t have enough food and clothing, and I have to do all kinds of heavy work during the day, which makes me as thin as a firewood stick now.

Sometimes I hugged my knees and tilted my head to stare at the firewood stick standing under the wall, thinking that one day it would break on my bones.

"Daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law..."

In the dark night, a dark figure appeared in front of the pigsty. I heard He Dong's voice. Without saying a word, I quickly got up from the ground and ran over. Eat up.

Since the day I was driven to the pigsty, He Dong has been hiding some food every night, and after the adoptive parents have gone to sleep, he sneaks to the pigsty to feed me.

"Don't hide when I hit you next time, so you don't have to sleep in the pigsty." He Dong picked his nostrils with his fingers and said indifferently.

I ate half a steamed bun in three or two mouthfuls, wiped my mouth with my dirty sleeve, looked at He Dong, and asked curiously, "Then when someone hits you, don't you run away?"

"Whoever dares to hit me! Whoever hits me, my mother will fight him to the death!" He Dong proudly raised his head and said proudly.

I looked at He Dong, but couldn't say anything, I just felt like something was stuck in my heart, which was very uncomfortable.

When I was young, I didn't know what this feeling meant. Now that I think about it, I am just envious of him, envious and jealous.Although the adoptive mother is a grumpy and irritable person, she really loves He Dong even though He Dong is a fool.

But my own mother sold me, regardless of my life or death.

Seeing that I didn't speak, He Dong felt bored, so he turned and went back.I lay back silently between the two pigs, leaning against their bodies, I felt very warm.

That kind of warm current has been flowing into my heart, and my eyes are inexplicably wet.

Day by day, the weather is getting colder and colder, and I'm all dirty, like an unwanted wild child.I don't know if I'm the kind of smarter kid, anyway, I can gradually do the work my adoptive mother entrusts to me, and I seldom make mistakes.

In fact, I tried to be careful not to make mistakes, because I was already scared of being beaten.

"Mom, I want to take my wife out to play!"

I was chopping firewood in the backyard when I heard He Dong talking to my adoptive mother.

"No!" The adoptive mother refused decisively.

"I don't! I'm going to take her out to play!" Seeing that his adoptive mother disagreed, He Dong began to show his temper, "I don't care, I'm going to take her out! They all said I was a fool, and so was my wife! The daughter-in-law is not as good-looking as Hu Ping's daughter-in-law!"

When the adoptive mother heard this, she threw the water scoop in her hand, and cursed: "Fuck the shit! I've seen a picture of that girl from Lao Hu's family. She has a bitter face, like a dead parent. Looks great!"

After finishing speaking, the adoptive mother gave me an unkind look. I was listening to them attentively, but when I met the adoptive mother's eyes, I trembled in fright and hurriedly lowered my head to work.

Unexpectedly, my adoptive mother threw a basin to me and said: "Go and wash it, and then go out with Dongzi!"

(End of this chapter)