Chapter Sixty-Three Aunt Mei

"What's wrong? Was that girl being rude?" Mu Qingrong had heard Mu Qingyu mention what the other girl was there for, and her sister's expression wasn't good when she first came back to get the medicine.

Now his complexion looks even worse.

Mu Qingyu was very annoyed, but she said to Mu Qingrong, "Get the walkie-talkie and help me contact Mo Huaiyu."

She used to think that Aunt Mei was just soft-hearted towards children, but she never expected her to be so clueless and to dare to say anything!

Does she know who those sisters are? Does she know their past? Does she know their current thoughts and plans? Does she even have to tell everyone what medicine and food they have?

Mu Qingrong didn't know what had happened. He only knew that his sister was very angry, so he went back to his room to get his walkie-talkie and quickly contacted Mo Huaiyu next door.

Mo Huaiyu was reading a book, immersed in the ocean of knowledge. The book was downloaded to the tablet by Mu Qingrong before the apocalypse. He and Mo Huaiyu had a good relationship, so he lent the tablet to Mo Huaiyu for a few days.

After the walkie-talkie connected, before Mo Huaiyu could even ask what was going on, he heard Mu Qingyu's angry voice coming through.

"Mo Huaiyu, I don't care who Aunt Mei gives your things to, but please ask her if she wants to announce to the world what resources we all possess?"

After he finished speaking, there was a "click" and then silence on the other end, as if the other person didn't want to hear him. Mo Huaiyu was stunned for a long time before he could react, until the walkie-talkie rang again, this time with Mu Qingrong's voice.

"Xiao Mo, the young lady from Building 5 came to us to change our dressings. She seemed to know what we had."

Mu Qingrong's simple explanation finally made Mo Huaiyu understand. He'd only seen Aunt Mei occasionally delivering things to the neighbors these past few days; the neighbors were mostly women and children, so he hadn't paid much attention. But then…

Mo Huaiyu left his room just as Aunt Mei returned from outside.

"Aunt Mei, where did you go?" Mo Huaiyu asked, but there was only one answer.

Aunt Mei sighed and said, "I went next door to check, and both Nannan and Susu have high fevers. I gave them the medicine you didn't finish last time, but they haven't gotten better after two days... What should we do..."

Mo Huaiyu took a deep breath. He naturally didn't know who Nannan and Susu were, but he finally understood why Mu Qingyu had lost her temper. He wanted to lose his temper too.

She repeatedly warned Aunt Mei that the end times had come and the world outside was in chaos. She also warned her not to get too close to strangers who came to the village afterward.

Aunt Mei readily agreed, and ended up delivering food to the neighbors every day. Initially, it was all leftovers that they had made, so Mo Huaiyu didn't say anything more.

But now, Aunt Mei has gone so far as to take things from her own home and give them away as gifts, and she's even started calling the people by their names affectionately!

It's true that he didn't keep a close eye on Aunt Mei! No wonder Mu Qingyu was so angry.

"Aunt Mei, do you even realize that the outside world is in chaos? There's no water or electricity in the cities, and food and drink have become non-renewable resources?"

"And those medicines, we won't have them easily again in the future. If you give them all to others, what will happen if you get sick one day, or if Sister Xiao Ai gets sick, or if I get sick?" Mo Huaiyu couldn't help but raise his voice.

"Don't Xiaoyu's family next door still have some?" Aunt Mei glanced at Mo Huaiyu with a puzzled look. "I asked Qingqing to go to her to change the dressing this morning, and she did. She exchanged one box of biscuits for three boxes of medicine. Let's go to Xiaoyu and get some too." She even suggested.

Mo Huaiyu felt a rush of blood to his head, and he choked, unable to speak for a moment. He knew Aunt Mei was soft-hearted, but he never expected her to be so clueless!

Mu Qingyu was willing to trade a box of cookies for three boxes of medicine because she felt sorry for the people next door, especially the children. So as long as the other party offered something and sincerity, Mu Qingyu wouldn't mind saving their lives.

But what is Aunt Mei saying now? Can't she see that this is Mu Qingyu helping someone else? Is this an equal exchange? What does "we'll exchange too!" mean?

How could she say that?

Seeing that Mo Huaiyu looked unwell, Aunt Mei quickly came over and patted his back to help him catch his breath: "Little Mo, what's wrong? You don't have a fever either, do you? Oh no, we need to find Xiaoyu quickly and get some fever reducer."

Mo Huaiyu took a deep breath, trying to keep his tone calm: "Aunt Mei, why do you think Sister Xiaoyu still has medicine?"

Aunt Mei said matter-of-factly, "Look, she gave us a big bag of medicine back then, and just now she traded a box of biscuits for three boxes of medicine, which means she still has a lot left."

Mo Huaiyu felt a dull pain in his chest, but still suppressed his temper and asked, "Aunt Mei, the house we live in now, and the food in the house, were all given to us by Sister Xiaoyu. She doesn't owe us anything, but we owe her."

Aunt Mei was somewhat surprised: "Didn't you return half a cart of things to her that day? And—" she muttered, "those things actually belonged to Nannan and her family..."

Mo Huaiyu looked at Aunt Mei in disbelief. This feeling brought him back to the time before the apocalypse, when they were facing demolition.

Yes, Aunt Mei has never been a rational or clear-headed person. Since the death of the former director, Aunt Mei's mother, the orphanage has been in a much worse state.

Many problems followed, not because Aunt May was unlucky and always encountered difficulties, but because the person who used to be responsible for solving problems was no longer there, and Aunt May was no longer able to solve problems independently.

However, Aunt Mei was lucky. Mu Qingyu was found by the Mu family, and Old Master Mu gave the orphanage a large sum of money as a way of repaying the orphanage for raising Mu Qingyu.

Mu Qingyu herself was unaware of this matter. Xiao Mo only knew that a few months before the apocalypse, the orphanage suddenly received a large sum of money. It was with that money that the children in the orphanage were able to find their families or transfer to other orphanages.

Mo Huaiyu learned that the money came from Mu Qingyu's grandfather from what Mu Qingrong had told him during their time together these past few days. Mu Qingrong had been involved in the search for her cousin, so he knew a lot about his grandfather.

There was still a considerable amount of money left before the demolition. At that time, a man kept pursuing Aunt Mei—in Mo Huaiyu's eyes it was harassment, but in Aunt Mei's eyes it was perhaps love.

If Aunt Mei hadn't given all the remaining money to that man, believing he would have helped them find a new place to live, they wouldn't have had to live in the welfare home that was about to be demolished, constantly being forced to leave, living in constant fear.

Aunt Mei's lack of common sense was already evident at that time. No matter what Mo Huaiyu said, she refused to believe that the man who took the money and left was a liar, and firmly believed that he would find a suitable place to stay and come back to take them away.

Even when Mu Qingyu came to pick them up, Aunt Mei left a note—yes, the note Aunt Mei left before leaving was for that man!