Sun Wenjing washed her hands and sat at the dining table. Mrs. Li fried a plate of shredded potatoes in lard and mixed a plate of spinach. Sun Wenjing took a pancake, filled it with shredded potatoes and spinach, rolled it up and took a bite.
A strange smell came out of my stomach.
"vomit···"
Sun Wenjing quickly put the pancakes into a bowl and ran to the backyard to vomit.
Mrs. Li was very worried. She was afraid that Sun Wenjing would get sick.
But as soon as Mrs. Li turned her head, an idea suddenly came to her mind.
Sun Wenjing, could it be...
Although Mrs. Li thought so, she only thought about it for a while.
When Sun Wenjing came back, Mrs. Li scooped out a bowl of clear millet porridge for Sun Wenjing.
Mrs. Li asked: "Wen Jing, are you feeling sick in your stomach?
Or is this food not to your liking?"
Sun Wenjing knew that Mrs. Li was already old, and it was already good for her to be able to serve the food at this level. How could she dare to find fault with the food?
Sun Wenjing said: "Mom, it's okay, my stomach feels a little uncomfortable. I'll eat some cakes and drink some millet porridge."
Mrs. Li wanted to say something else, but after thinking about it, she said: "Then you should take a good rest these two days and don't go to work in the fields.
When Xiaojun comes back this time, I will ask Xiaojun to take you to the county hospital for a check-up, so that Xiaojun and I will feel relieved."
Sun Wenjing smiled and said, "Okay. Mom, you can eat too."
After finishing the meal, Sun Wenjing felt very upset in her stomach.
Sun Wenjing thought about lying in bed and taking a nap, and when she woke up, she would clean up the weeds in front of her house.
At noon, Sun Wenjing dreamed that Li Xiaojun was back. Sun Wenjing giggled twice in her sleep.
What she didn't know was that Li Xiaojun was really back.
Li Xiaojun covered Sun Wenjing with the quilt, and Sun Wenjing woke up.
When Sun Wenjing saw Li Xiaojun, she rubbed her eyes in disbelief.
After confirming that Li Xiaojun was back, Sun Wenjing asked: "Why are you back?"
Li Xiaojun smiled and said: "Brother Li went to the capital again. I'll come back to see you."
Sun Wenjing sat up from the bed.
Li Xiaojun took out a wrapped oil paper bag from his bag and asked with a smile: "Guess what I bought you?"
Sun Wenjing's eyes lit up and she said with a smile: "This is a snack."
Li Xiaojun shook his head and said: "The butter cake is delicious. Open it and try it."
Sun Wenjing hurriedly opened the oil paper bag halfway and said: "You can take it to mom first, and I will eat it after she finishes eating."
Li Xiaojun said: "You can eat this pack, there is another pack left."
Sun Wenjing smiled, opened the oil paper bag, took out a butter cake and took a bite. The expression on her face froze, it was the same smell as noon again.
Sun Wenjing quickly put the butter cake back into the paper bag, covered her mouth and went to the backyard to vomit.
Li Xiaojun wanted to catch up, but his eyes fell on the butter cake that Sun Wenjing took a bite of. She picked it up and took a bite. It still tasted as good as before.
When Li Xiaojun caught up with her, Sun Wenjing had already finished vomiting.
Li Xiaojun asked: "What's wrong with you?"
Sun Wenjing burst into tears of discomfort. She waved her hands to Li Xiaojun with difficulty and said, "I'm fine. I just feel sick in my stomach. I'll just drink some water to calm down."
Li Xiaojun wanted to help Sun Wenjing walk, but Sun Wenjing said: "I'm fine, you don't need to help me."
The two of them came out of the backyard. Mrs. Li in the house looked serious, thinking that she would have to tell her son tonight and ask Li Xiaojun to take Sun Wenjing to check it out.
Sun Wenjing said: "Hurry up and put away all the butter cakes and give them to mom to eat. I can't eat them."
Li Xiaojun thought to himself that when he bought it before, Sun Wenjing ate it well. From the looks of it, it was probably due to an upset stomach.
Li Xiaojun silently wrapped the snacks and took them to his mother. When he returned to the room, Sun Wenjing had already put on her shoes and was combing her hair.
Li Xiaojun asked again: "Are you going to go to the ground?"
Sun Wenjing turned around and said, "No, when I came back from the field in the morning, I passed by the door of my house. There were grass growing at the door. I went to pull out the grass."
Li Xiaojun knew that Sun Wenjing was used to working. When he saw that Sun Wenjing could not take a break, he knew that Sun Wenjing was not feeling well, so he did not stop her. He just said: "I will go with you."
The two went to Sun Wenjing's yard, and grass grew between the stones in the yard.
Sun Wenjing rolled up her sleeves and was about to start work. Li Xiaojun took the hoe from Sun Wenjing and said, "Go and see if there are any mouse holes or anything like that in the house. Fill them with rocks. Leave the grass in the yard to me."
Sun Wenjing thought so. She hadn't slept in this house for several months, fearing that the rats had become overrun.
Sun Wenjing went into the house and checked around. After all, Li Xiaojun was a big man and he was quick at work.
For Li Xiaojun, this little chore in the yard is just a matter of fingertips.
After a while, Sun Wenjing walked out of it. She walked towards the door and muttered: "There is really nothing we can do against these rats. I have chewed up the quilt."
Li Xiaojun said: "Why don't you take all the quilts to our house, and then let my mother dry them and take the time to sew them."
Sun Wenjing breathed out and said, "This is the only way."
Sun Wenjing took out all the quilts on the kang in the house and hung them on the wires. She found stones at the door and took them into the house to make holes for mice.
Sun Wenjing hasn't finished stuffing the mice yet, and the grass in the yard and at the door has been cleaned up by Li Xiaojun.
Li Xiaojun said behind Sun Wenjing: "Let's buy something next time and put it away."
Sun Wenjing knew what Li Xiaojun was talking about.
The old man said that you should not tell anyone when you put rat poison in your home. If you tell it, it won't work.
Sun Wenjing said: "Okay, I'll come another day.
This hole can’t be plugged, so I’ll probably plug it for a while.”
Sun Wenjing always felt that she had no strength, and she didn't know if it was because she didn't eat well at noon.
Sun Wenjing couldn't help but yawned, and Li Xiaojun said: "You get out of the way, I'll do it."
Sun Wenjing felt exhausted all over. She leaned aside and thought, with the weather in March, she shouldn't have suffered from heat stroke, right?
Li Xiaojun plugged the mouse hole with stones and then filled it tightly with soil.
Sun Yuxiu was a little worried. If people lived in the old house for a long time, nothing would happen to the house. But once people left, there would be too many snakes, insects, rats, and ants in the house. It is estimated that the house would not be habitable in a few years.
Sun Yuxiu couldn't help but sigh when she thought of this.
Li Xiaojun said: "Don't think too much, this house won't last a few years. When it collapses, we can just build it again."
Look at this courtyard wall, it’s so broken that people can come in and out at will.”
If Sun Wenjing hadn't used dead dry pepper trees and thorny locust branches to block the dilapidated part of the courtyard wall, it would have been possible that the house would have been turned over many times by people with malicious intentions.