She was really hungry.
Although I know cornmeal cannot be eaten raw, the feeling of being hungry is too uncomfortable.
Old Mrs. Wang knew that her whole family was silently waiting for her to starve to death.
But she doesn’t want to die!!!
As the saying goes, it is better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. The closer she got to death, the more afraid she became.
When Old Man Shen heard the noise and opened his eyes, Old Lady Wang's mouth was already full.
"What are you doing, old woman?"
Old Man Shen looked at Old Lady Wang lying on the ground with bloodshot eyes and turned over to get up.
As a result, he forgot about the injury on his leg in his haste, and as soon as his feet touched the ground, he fell to the ground.
Chen Xiashu was also awakened. He looked up and saw his parents both lying on the ground. He thought he was dreaming and his mind was still a little dazed.
Old man Shen endured the pain in his leg, crawled over and tried to grab the bag of grain.
But Old Lady Wang had gone crazy. She held down the bag with her body and kept stuffing it into her mouth with her only movable hand.
As the two men pulled each other, a lot of cornmeal was scattered on the ground.
"Let me go, let me go quickly~~~" Old man Shen felt like his heart was bleeding, and his hands were shaking with anger.
When he finally snatched the bag, only a little cornmeal was left inside.
At this moment, Old Man Shen's heart was beating fast and his mind went blank.
He hurriedly lay on the ground and tried carefully to pick up the cornmeal that had fallen on the ground.
But the floors of rural houses are all made of earth, and even if a little bit of cornmeal fell on them, it would be impossible to clean them up.
Even though Old Man Shen was very careful, a lot of cornmeal was still wasted.
He looked at the rations in his hand which were mixed with a lot of dirt, and his eyes turned bloodshot.
The way he looked at Old Lady Wang was as if he was looking at the enemy who murdered his father.
Anger, heartache, fear, all kinds of emotions mixed together, making Old Man Shen completely lose his mind.
He crawled to Old Lady Wang and stuffed the cornmeal mixed with soil in his hand into her mouth.
At the same time, he cursed viciously: "Eat, eat, eat, I told you to eat, I told you to eat..."
Originally, Old Lady Wang's mouth was full of cornmeal, and she was choking and unable to swallow it. Now, Old Man Shen's nose was also blocked.
She tried desperately to pry open Old Man Shen's big hand that was covering her mouth and nose.
But how could she, who had been hungry for a long time, be able to defeat Old Man Shen?
The feeling of suffocation overwhelmed her in an instant.
Chen Xiashu, who was lying on the kang, saw that the old lady started to roll her eyes, and he shouted anxiously: "Dad, let go, let go quickly! Mom is going to be suffocated to death..."
But now Old Man Shen’s mind is full of the remaining rations and the scene of watching the food being wasted just now.
There were so many mouths to feed at home, and the little rations left were not much, and we didn't know how many days they could last. But we didn't expect that this old woman would eat up most of them.
He hates Old Lady Wang, why doesn't she die soon?
Not only can he not work, but he also wastes food. People like him should die sooner.
Chen Xiashu was crying anxiously. He didn't care about the injuries on his body anymore. He rolled and crawled off the kang, crawled to the two of them and pulled Old Man Shen.
"Dad, wake up, Mom is dying~~~"
Old Mrs. Wang's eyes were wide open and she struggled for a long time but to no avail.
Looking at the man who had spent her whole life with her, Old Lady Wang's eyes were about to pop out of her head with hatred, but she finally straightened her legs and slowly became motionless.
Seeing that he couldn't pull his father away, Chen Xiashu punched Old Man Shen in the nose in desperation.
The sudden pain caused Old Man Shen's nose to bleed, and tears welled up in his eyes.
Only then did he let go of the hand that was covering Old Lady Wang and he regained consciousness.
Chen Xiashu crawled to Old Lady Wang, crying and calling for his mother while using his hands to dig out something from her mouth.
Old man Shen stared blankly at Old lady Wang with her eyes wide open, and suddenly he stepped back in fear.
Then he looked in disbelief at the hand that had just covered the old woman.
he......
What did he just do?
Over there, Chen Xiashu dug out a lot of cornmeal from Old Lady Wang's mouth, but she still stared with her eyes wide open, motionless.
He placed his fingers tremblingly on her nostrils.
After a while, a sad cry came from the east room of the Shen family: "Mom~~~"
It was this roar that brought Old Man Shen back to his senses.
Instinct prompted him to quickly move closer to Chen Xiashu, cover his mouth with his hand, and sternly said, "Shut up, don't shout, don't shout, do you hear me?"
At this moment, Chen Xiashu's tears gushed out like a flood that broke through a dam.
He knocked Old Man Shen's hand away and shouted at him, "You smothered my mother to death, you smothered my mother to death..."
Old man Shen raised his hand and slapped Chen Xiashu hard on the face, and asked in a trembling voice: "Second brother, what do you mean? Ah? Do you want me to pay for your mother's life? Do you still know that I am your father? Do you want your father to die?"
Even though he was panicking, the most urgent thing now was to keep the matter secret and not let anyone else know about it.
He didn't know what happened to him just now?
I just felt my mind went blank at that moment, and I just wanted to teach the old woman a lesson, but I didn’t expect that I accidentally smothered her to death!!!
Old man Shen suppressed his panic, and with trembling hands he touched Chen Xiashu's face, and said in a soft voice: "Second brother, Dad really didn't mean it just now."
"Dad saw your mom wasting food and got possessed for a moment. Dad didn't mean it!"
"I worked so hard to raise you up. From childhood to adulthood, you have always been the most capable son in my heart. Do you want me to pay with my life?"
Chen Xiashu has grown up to this age, when has he ever felt such a gentle caress from old man Shen?
He stared at Old Man Shen absentmindedly, mumbling, "Dad..."
Old Man Shen took the opportunity to hold his head in his arms, choking with sobs, "Second Brother, Dad didn't mean it. Dad really didn't mean it. Please forgive Dad and don't shout about this, okay?"
"I wonder how many people in the village are laughing at my family behind our backs. If I were arrested and shot, my family would be finished!"
Old man Shen's sorrowful cries slowly dissipated Chen Xiashu's recent pain of losing his mother.
Although he hated his father for suffocating his mother to death, he was unwilling to do so if his father really had to pay for his mother's life.
The two of them hugged each other and cried for a long time. Then Old Man Shen said intermittently: "Second Brother, today's incident is between you and me. Don't tell anyone else."
"Including your wife, your brother and your younger brother, okay?"
"If they come back and ask about it, you can say that your mother was so hungry that she climbed into the cupboard to steal food and choked to death. Do you hear me?"
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