On the tenth day of the apocalypse, Su Keke was forcibly driven out of her home by her adoptive parents and sister. The reason was to reduce one person's consumption of supplies, even though Su...
Aunt Wu looked Su Keke and Grandma Qiao up and down. The little girl was fair-skinned and spoke softly. The older sister also had a smile on her face and looked kind.
Just by looking at her like this, Aunt Wu's wariness was immediately dispelled.
"Then...then why are you here?" Aunt Wu asked cautiously.
Seeing that the auntie's attitude had softened, Su Keke pulled Grandma Qiao a few steps towards her and said, "We are disaster victims in the coastal area. A while ago, a tsunami hit the city where we live, and our houses and all living facilities were basically submerged."
"My grandmother and I avoided natural disasters all the way, and then we came to your place. I found that the grasslands here are so big and beautiful."
When Aunt Wu heard that they were a grandparents and grandchildren who had come out to escape the natural disaster, she felt closer to them. She even forgot that she was going out to borrow rice.
He kept inviting Su Keke and Grandma Qiao to come into the yurt and sit down.
Her husband lost contact with his family during the natural disaster. Maybe he is now wandering around like this grandparents and grandchildren. Aunt Wu really hopes that there will be a kind person to take her husband in.
So even though she had no money to eat at home, she still wanted the two people outside to come in to have a drink of water and rest.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao had come down to find out what was going on. When someone took the initiative to invite them into the house to sit down, they naturally followed the owner into the house.
"Wow... Sister! I'm so hungry! When can we eat?!"
As Su Keke and Grandma Qiao followed the aunt into the yurt, they heard the crying of a child.
"Mom! Did you borrow the rice?"
A teenage child saw her mother come in and ran over to ask.
Unexpectedly, when she got closer, she saw two more people behind her mother. She had never seen these two people before and they were probably not from their grassland.
"Ye Zi, take your sister inside to play first. Mom has met a guest at the door. Let's let the guest in to have a drink of water first. Mom will go to borrow some rice to cook later."
"Okay! I got it, Mom!" The little girl was very sensible. She just secretly glanced at Su Keke and the others and then pulled her sister back to the crib to play.
"Come in! This place is a bit messy!"
Aunt Wu took two thick cushions and placed them on the dark carpet for Su Keke and the others to sit on.
There was still some brewed milk tea left at home, placed on the small square table near the tent.
I don’t know whether those bandits from Sakura Country looked down on this milk tea or just overlooked it and didn’t see it.
Aunt Wu quickly took it, lit the stove, and heated it in a small milk pot.
"Auntie, I just heard that the child is hungry. I just happened to have some snacks here. Please give the child a few bites first."
After Su Keke and Grandma Qiao sat down, they took out two large bags of snowflake crisps from their backpacks and gave them to Aunt Wu.
She had a lot of prepared food in her space, but she couldn't just take it out of her backpack. As a refugee, it would be strange if she could take out any good thing at any time.
"We can't take this. How can we take your things? Children like to complain about being hungry for no reason. They will be fine after a while."
Aunt Wu quickly stuffed the two bags of snowflake crisps back into Su Keke's hands. It seemed to her that it was not easy for Su Keke and her friends to escape along the way.
Maybe he only has these two packs of biscuits on him. If I take them, what will he eat in the future?
"Auntie! Don't be polite with us. We came in with you to rest and have some tea! My grandma still has these biscuits in her bag, so we kept them for ourselves!"
Seeing that Aunt Wu refused to take them, Su Keke stood up and stuffed two bags of snowflake crisps into the hands of the two children playing on the crib inside.
"Thank you, sister. We are not hungry!"
The older girl named Ye Zi quickly waved her hands to refuse. Although she was also hungry, she couldn't accept it because her mother said no.
The younger child stared at the snowflake crisps in Su Keke's hand and wanted to reach out to take them, but when she saw her mother's glare, she retracted her hand.
Then he burst into tears, "Mom! I'm so hungry! I want to eat cookies!"
The little girl hadn't eaten snacks like biscuits for a long time. She remembered that whenever her father came back from work outside, she and her sister would have biscuits and chocolates to eat.
But now their father hasn't been back for a long time.
On their grassland, when life was relatively good, their snacks were dried cheese, and sometimes they would drink some yogurt.
But life is hard now and the children can only drink milk tea.
"Don't cry, little sister! I'll tear it apart for you. We won't listen to mom, we'll eat it ourselves!"
Su Keke opened the two large bags of snowflake crisps in her hand and took out the big bag to give to the little girl first.
"Thank you, sister! Mmm! Sister, these cookies are really delicious, even better than the ones my father brought me before!"
After the little girl got the snowflake crisps, she started to eat them in big mouthfuls. There were nuts and raisins in them, and the little girl's eyes were shining as she ate.
Little Ye Zi watched her sister eat with relish and swallowed hard in her heart.
She looked at the snowflake crisps that Su Keke handed over again and looked at her mother with some anticipation.
"Ye Zi, since sister gave it to you, just eat it!"
When Aunt Wu saw her eldest daughter's expectant eyes, she still felt reluctant to refuse.
"Thank you, sister!"
Ye Zi's face instantly lit up with smiles. After thanking Su Keke, she happily picked up the snowflake crisps and started eating them.
Unlike her sister who wolfed down the food, Ye Zi chewed it slowly, in small bites.
When the younger sister was almost done with the big bag of snowflake crisps in her hand, the older sister had only eaten two pieces.
"Come, come over and have some hot tea!" Aunt Wu handed two cups of hot milk tea to Su Keke and Grandma Qiao.
Su Keke returned to her cushion and saw Grandma Qiao was already drinking the hot milk tea.
"Big sister! Your milk tea is really delicious. It has a mellow taste and a sweet aftertaste."
Grandma Qiao boasted sincerely.
Su Keke also took a few sips from the cup that Aunt Wu gave her. The taste was really different from the milk tea bought outside, and the flavor was much more authentic.
By the time I finished the milk tea, it was almost past twelve o'clock.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao didn't want to disturb others while they were having lunch, so they decided to get up and leave.
Unexpectedly, Aunt Wu was very enthusiastic and insisted on inviting them to stay for lunch.
Aunt Wu seemed to have forgotten that they had no rice to cook for lunch.
"No, no! This will be too much trouble for you!"
Grandma Qiao and Su Keke still planned to leave. After all, it didn’t feel right to ask for a free meal when they first met.
"It's just a simple meal. We herders don't have anything good to offer, but we guarantee you'll be full."
Aunt Wu was thinking that since they had given both large bags of biscuits to her daughter, there must not be much food left in that small backpack.
She could go to the next door to borrow some rice and flour, make a mixed grain meal, or bake some vegetable pancakes. In short, she had to let them have a full meal before leaving.
Su Keke and Grandma Qiao were not good at handling these polite formalities, so after being persuaded by Aunt Wu, they just sat back in the yurt.
But they have also made up their mind that they can just eat for free and provide some supplies themselves.