Chapter 46 Wang is ill
Liang Jinyu put two pieces of firewood in the stove, then looked up and said, "The door is so narrow, it's uncomfortable for you to sleep alone. I can just stay here for one night."
In the dim kitchen, the only sound was the popping sound of the burning wood in the stove.
Chen Lai-fu looked down at her, his bearded chin faintly visible in the firelight, and his eyes fixed on her like a beast lurking in the night.
"Are you angry with me?" Chen Lai Fu asked, walking towards her.
Liang Jinyu clenched the fire tongs tightly and pursed her thin lips: "No, you think too much."
"Sister!" Liang Dingfang walked in, without even looking at Chen Laifu, and said, "Auntie seems to be feeling unwell. I want you to boil some hot water for her."
Liang Jinyu responded and then asked, "Where do you feel uncomfortable? Is it serious?"
Liang Dingfang shook his head: "I don't know, he said his chest felt stuffy and uncomfortable."
Liang Jinyu asked Chen Laifu: "Do you want to go and take a look?"
"Don't worry, wait until the water is boiled and I'll bring it over." Chen Lai Fu said, and sat back on the bed, but his eyes were always on the two siblings.
Liang Jinyu pretended not to notice and chatted with Ding Fang as usual.
Liang Dingfang is a quiet person. He only talks a lot when he is with Liang Jinyu. He hardly speaks to outsiders on weekdays. When outsiders are present, he only responds with "hmm" or "ah", like a wooden man.
After waiting for a long time for the water to boil, Liang Jinyu scooped a bowl of water. But before she could say anything, Dani came in.
"It's so cold." Chen Dani rubbed her hands and squeezed towards the stove.
Liang Dingfang quickly moved to the side, looking indifferent as if he didn't want to get too close.
Chen Dani didn't care at all and was thinking about sleeping here for the night, but unexpectedly Chen Lai Fu called her to bring hot water.
She cursed her mother in her heart, but she had to do it.
Liang Jinyu had been looking for an opportunity to talk to Ding Fang about the Wang brothers and sisters all day, but they were always separated until now.
But Chen Lai Fu was like a ghost that had lingered there, staring at the two of them.
Liang Dingfang picked up a branch and chatted with others, but the branch wrote the word "peace" on the ground.
Whether it was that the two siblings were not injured or that a place to go had been arranged for them, Liang Jinyu felt relieved.
Although Dingfang is young, he has experienced so much and is now very reliable in his work.
Chen Lai Fu waited for a long time, but Liang Dingfang did not come out. The two siblings talked endlessly as if they had an endless topic to talk about.
That’s not all. After Dani came back, she also started talking nonsense.
They deliberately lowered the sound to make it sound like the wooden fish being struck in a temple, so that Chen Lai Fu fell asleep without realizing it.
Chen Dani leaned over to take a look, and Liang Jinyu nodded: "Asleep."
Liang Jinyu cleaned the space next to the stove, laid a thick layer of pine needles on it, and then covered it with a layer of straw. In this way, the three of them squeezed together and managed to fall asleep.
Liang Jinyu was awakened by the cold in the middle of the night. Looking at Dani and Dingfang curled up in a ball, she tiptoed to add more firewood to the stove.
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Maybe it was because he was frozen too hard last night, so old man Chen started to repair the house early the next morning.
Everything else was easy to deal with, the most urgent thing was to repair the roof as soon as possible, but he calculated the money several times and it was not enough.
Originally, Liang Jinyu proposed to sell grain, and Wang scolded her.
But today when Old Man Chen brought it up, she didn't say a word.
"The harvests have been good in the past two years, and next year's harvest will not be bad either. There is nothing we can do about the many places asking for money right now. You can first carry 100 kilograms to the city to check the price. If it works, come back and we'll talk about it." Old Man Chen explained to Chen Lai Fu.
Chen Lai Fu responded and called Liang Dingfang to go to the warehouse at the back.
Chen Dani, who was feeding chickens in the yard, stopped talking to Old Man Chen and fell into deep thought.
[No, the protagonist's story is three years later. I remember the protagonist said that two years ago, disasters occurred frequently in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and food harvests in the north and south were poor. There was even a rebellion. If we calculate the time, then it should be next year or the year after next? ]
Thinking of this, Chen Dani let out a "tsk" and became a little anxious.
[Isn't it courting death to sell food at this time? No, I have to stop Lao Deng! ]
Just as Chen Dani was about to go find Old Man Chen, she heard Liang Jinyu shout, "Dani, come over here and help me."
"Wait a minute, I have something to do."
"Come quickly, it will be gone if you are late."
Chen Dani thought about the money Liang Jinyu promised to give her last night, and she no longer cared about old man Chen, so she immediately ran to the kitchen.
Liang Jinyu stuffed an egg into her mouth and whispered, "The chicken at home laid an extra egg today. I've cooked it for you."
The egg is still hot and feels warm in my hand.
Chen Dani looked at Liang Jinyu's gentle appearance, and thought of her future ending, and couldn't help but sigh again.
[Alas, what a pity! Who made you born into a stallion novel? You are doomed to be a tragedy.]
Liang Jinyu: “…”
At noon, Chen Dani was not giving up and went directly to Old Man Chen to persuade him not to sell food. He could sell chickens, ducks, and pigs, but he could not sell food.
But Old Man Chen not only didn't appreciate it, but yelled at her instead.
Chen Dani was so angry that she thought that now that she was rich, she would run away as soon as she got the chance, so she didn't want to care about the life and death of the Chen family anymore.
In the evening, Chen Lai Fu came back with an empty bamboo basket.
Just as Liang Jinyu said, the price of food in the city has indeed risen.
Old man Chen sighed and said that he had sold the food at home too early. If he had kept it until now, he could have earned a few hundred more dollars.
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Over the next few days, the Chen family bought new tiles and cut new wood from the mountains. They worked day and night and finally repaired the house.
But Liang Jinyu was not happy at all, because it meant that Chen Lai Fu would come to force her again.
"Ouch, it hurts. It hurts so much." Wang suddenly cried out, covering her chest with one hand and holding the door with the other, she slowly sat down on the doorstep.
Old man Chen took a job today and went to Zhou's house early in the morning.
Chen Lai-fu and Liang Ding-fang went up the mountain again to look for fir trees and would not be back until the evening.
Liang Jinyu was drying clothes and ignored the call. But then she heard Dani shouting that Wang had fainted.
Liang Jinyu was surprised. In her previous life, Wang was in very good health. She always had plenty of energy when beating or scolding people. How could she faint?
When she trotted over, she saw Wang lying on the ground with her face flushed, her mouth open but no sound coming out, her hands and feet curled up and she was completely frozen.
"What's going on?" Liang Jinyu asked.
Chen Dani shook her head: "I don't know either. It just happened all of a sudden. Could it be epilepsy?"
"No, please lend a hand and help her to the bed first." Liang Jinyu said. At the same time, a thought quickly flashed through her mind.
Wang was helped onto the bed. She was still stiff, with saliva dripping from the corners of her mouth, making her chest wet.
"Should we go call my dad back?" Chen Dani asked.
Liang Jinyu casually pulled the quilt over Wang and told Dani, "You take good care of her at home. I'll go get a doctor."
Liang Jinyu's purpose was naturally not to really find a doctor for her, but to take this opportunity to go to the city.
Two days ago, Ding Fang found an opportunity to tell her that he had arranged for the Wang brothers and sisters to live in the Song residence. Although they had food to eat, they probably had no clothes or quilts.
So Liang Jinyu had wanted to go over and take a look a long time ago, and it was time to settle the bill at the grain store.
Dani naturally nodded and agreed. Although she had doubts in her heart, she didn't ask anything.
Unfortunately, just as Liang Jinyu was about to go out, she heard someone calling her outside.
When I went out, I felt that the woman looked familiar.
"Who are you?" Liang Jinyu asked hesitantly.
"It's so hard for me to find you. I've been asking all the way here. Don't you remember me? The Zheng family in Liuhe Manor? I'm his sister-in-law!" The woman laughed heartily and loudly.