Chapter 5 Old Lady Shang
Shang Ruoting folded the bedding she had brought over and placed it on the kang.
It was already April, the house wasn't too cold, and she had no plans to light a fire.
After tidying up, Shang Ruoting helped Tan Chen into the house and settled him on the kang.
At this moment, her stomach began to rumble unnaturally.
"Are you hungry?"
Tan Chen's deep and magnetic voice rang out, breaking the silence in the room.
Shang Ruoting couldn't help but complain, "Your mom is so cruel! In order to get us to move out early, she didn't even give us breakfast. It's already noon, how can we not be hungry?"
After hearing Shang Ruoting's complaints, Tan Chen's tone softened unusually.
"We should bring in some food. If not, we can just cook some porridge first."
Even if Tan Chen didn't say it, Shang Ruoting also planned so.
There are indeed a lot of delicious food in her space, but she can only eat it secretly by herself, because Tan Chen still has to cook here.
So she walked out of the house and took out the small bag of cornmeal that Zou Meihua had given her.
Tan Mingshan and his son also cleaned up the kitchen briefly, so cooking was not a problem.
Although the yard is dilapidated, there is still a well.
According to the method remembered by the original owner, Shang Ruoting drew a bucket of water from the well, cleaned the old big iron pot, and placed it on the only earthen stove.
As for Chaihe, there is no need to worry. There are a lot of dry weeds in the yard. You can pull some of them over and cook a meal.
So she walked into the yard, rolled up her sleeves again, and while pulling out the weeds, Shang Ruoting discovered something.
That is, this body is very strong. She can pull out such thick grass without any effort.
In order to verify whether she was really strong, Shang Ruoting walked to a small tree with a diameter of ten centimeters, grabbed the trunk and pulled it out.
Sure enough, she exerted force and the small tree was pulled out, and it was uprooted.
This...isn't this too amazing?
She is actually a woman of extraordinary strength...
Even if she doesn't have space, she has a powerful plug-in.
Think about that cannon fodder in the book who was courting death. She really played a good hand of cards badly...
Shang Ruoting cursed the original owner in her heart, but her hands did not stop moving. After a busy period, she finally collected enough hay to cook porridge.
Just as she turned around to go into the kitchen, she glanced and saw an old figure walking out quickly at the door.
Shang Ruoting put down the hay in her hand and chased after him.
She knew that person; it was the original owner's grandmother.
Because of her troubled background, my grandmother suffered a lot during the turbulent times. My uncle once actively exposed and denounced her, which once pushed the old lady to the forefront. From then on, mother and son were like enemies when they met.
After the original owner's parents passed away, he was raised by his grandmother for more than a year.
Later, because of her grandmother's problem, the brigade decided to let her uncle raise her. After she went to her uncle's house, she secretly took things to send to her grandmother several times.
As time went by, the original owner gradually forgot about this grandmother.
But why did grandma appear in their house today?
"Milk."
Shang Ruoting called out and trotted out to chase after him.
The old lady paused.
"I know you've separated, so I brought you some food."
After saying that, she walked away without looking back, stepping on her three-inch golden lotus feet.
Only then did Shang Ruoting look at the ground at the door, where there was a tattered bamboo basket covered with a piece of floral cloth.
When the floral cloth was lifted, two cornmeal pancakes and a few boiled eggs were found inside.
Shang Ruoting felt a little sad, as the old lady had to squeeze out the food from between her teeth.
God knows how hard it must have been for her, an old and helpless woman, to earn work points for food.
With a heavy heart, I carried the basket inside.
Shang Ruoting took the opportunity to take out a few eggs from the space.
There is also a reasonable explanation.
As I walked into the house carrying the basket, I heard Tan Chen ask, "Who came just now?"
Shang Ruoting placed the basket beside the kang.
"My grandma came and brought me some food."
Although Tan Chen had little contact with the old lady Shang, he knew a little about their family affairs.
"Grandma, you mean well. Don't waste anything."
He was afraid that Shang Ruoting would do something cruel to the old lady like her uncle's family.
Shang Ruoting didn't think about that at all. She just thought that the old man was arguably the only person in the world who truly cared about the original owner.
When her life gets better in the future, she will definitely take care of the old man.
She peeled an egg and put it in Tan Chen's hand: "Eat an egg first, I'll pour you some water."
Tan Chen was also hungry, so he took the egg and started eating. The two of them quickly finished all the food the old lady sent. Fortunately, Shang Ruoting took out a few more eggs from the space, otherwise they really wouldn't be full.
Just after noon, Tan Mingshan came jogging with a roll of newspaper.
He looked at the young couple apologetically and said, "Dad is afraid I can't help you with the wall painting. Your mom asked me to go to the team to work and earn work points."
Tan Chen was not too surprised by this.
The reason he was separated was simply because he was blind, so he could not earn work points and had to share the family's food.
This shows how much importance Zou Meihua attaches to work points.
"Go get busy!"
It was impossible to tell whether Tan Chen was happy or angry in his answer. Tan Mingshan looked at him apologetically, then looked at Shang Ruoting.
"My eldest daughter-in-law, with Tan Chen in this state, the responsibility of earning work points for your family will have to be handed over to you..."
Shang Ruoting was engaged in agriculture in her previous life and was very curious about the agricultural technology of this era.
"Okay, I'll clean up the house and then ask the captain to assign me some work."
Tan Mingshan nodded, turned and left.
Logically speaking, Shang Ruoting should have finished plastering the wall in the afternoon.
But she remembered that the book said that when she and Tan Chen moved here, the house collapsed due to a rain, and now plastering the walls was completely useless.
Tan Chen also injured his leg as a result.
The original owner looked down on Tan Chen even more because of this. It was at that time that she was deceived by a young man named Zhang Heping from the village and taken to the city.
As a result, as soon as she arrived in the city, Zhang Heping sold her to human traffickers. The original owner jumped into the river in anger and ended her young life.
Later, Tan Chen was temporarily taken back to the Tan family...
Although the plot and reality have changed to some extent after she came here, Shang Ruoting will never have any luck and let the things in the book happen again.
The reason why Tan Chen was able to return to the Tan family was because there was no separation agreement signed at that time.
Since she was busy signing the separation agreement, she naturally would not consider returning to the Tan family after the house collapsed.
She threatened that she would not even go to Old Tan's house to beg for food. Wouldn't that be a slap in her own face?
But where can they go temporarily?
Suddenly, a person appeared in Shang Ruoting's mind, that was Old Lady Shang.
She lives alone in the northernmost part of the village. Her home has several houses. Just because she sent them food just now, she will definitely take them in.
After thinking it over, Shang Ruoting no longer had any worries. She put the old newspaper aside and sat on the kang to think about her next plan.
Their family currently only has so much food, which can barely sustain themselves.
Besides, as someone who was used to eating delicious food in her previous life, she really couldn't stand eating coarse grains all day long.
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