The old lady smiled, stretched out her hand like a dry branch, grabbed the old man's hand, and gently pushed it towards him.
She opened her mouth, but a gurgling sound came out of her throat and she couldn't squeeze out a word.
Because she hadn't spoken for so long, she couldn't even make a sound when she opened her mouth.
The old man smiled with tears in his eyes, and continued to stuff the remaining half of the vegetable bun into his wife's mouth, and said in a hoarse voice,
"I've eaten, this is yours, eat it quickly..."
Such soft buns are not choking at all when eaten.
Listening to the old man's words, a trace of sadness flashed in the old woman's eyes.
It seemed that her husband was as confused as she was.
The old lady stared at the old man with her eyes, her mouth opening and closing mechanically as she ate the buns bite by bite.
The buns were indeed delicious, but the more she ate, the sadder she felt, because it was all an illusion caused by her last moments of life.
Where in the world can you find buns that are so white and soft?
After watching his wife finish the whole bun bite by bite, the old man smiled with satisfaction.
He reached out and wiped the corners of his wife's mouth, and pushed the remaining pieces of bun on her lips into her mouth.
"I'll boil some water for you."
The old man put his wife down tremblingly and tucked the corner of the quilt.
With a "creak", the old man stood up and the bed made a creaking sound.
There wasn't even a decent piece of furniture in the thatched hut.
Two platforms were built with mud blocks and three wooden boards were placed on them to form a simple bed.
Fortunately, he and his wife are rather frail, so the bed can still hold up.
If he were a little fatter, the bed would have broken long ago.
The old man sighed, turned around and walked towards the door trembling.
"father!!"
Before the old man reached the door, the eldest brother's hoarse voice came from the yard.
Immediately afterwards, there was a burst of hurried footsteps, and the locked door was pushed open by the boss from the outside.
The door panel shook a few times and fell to the ground due to the weight.
"father!"
The boss rushed into the house with a skull-like body and sniffed hard.
"What Xiaobao said is actually true!!"
The eldest brother stared at the old man with wide eyes, "Did someone really give Dad some buns?"
The old man pursed his lips nervously, but he didn't expect that he would be seen.
"Dad, have you eaten all the buns?" the eldest brother asked anxiously.
The old man sighed and looked back at his skinny wife lying on the bed.
"Your mother can't hold on any longer. If she doesn't eat, she won't be able to survive."
"Dad!!!" the eldest brother roared, "So you don't care about our lives?"
"If I exchange one bun for coarse grains, it can at least sustain the whole family for a few days."
"You gave it all to Mommy. What should we do..."
As soon as he heard Xiaobao say that his father had received buns from a noble person, he rushed over immediately.
In the end, I was still a step behind.
Xiaobao was so hungry that he could only crawl on the ground, which delayed his rush over.
His biological father, really....Ah....
Looking at his mother, who was just a bag of bones left on the bed, he couldn't say anything unpleasant.
He was the eldest in the family. His parents were the best to him when he was a child, and he couldn't bear to see his mother starve to death.
But it wasn't just my mother who was starving to death at home.
The day before yesterday, Tiedan from the end of the village came to him secretly and said something about eating his own children.
Let him exchange Xiaobao for his little girl, so that the whole family can survive...
How could he have done this? At least the village well could draw up some water, and they could barely survive by drinking that water every day.
Maybe...the relief grain from the imperial court will arrive.
He would never dare to eat human beings.
But he didn't know how many days he could hold on...
Maybe he won't be able to hold on any longer one day, ah...
The old man looked at his son's thin and dark face, moved his cracked lips twice, and couldn't say anything for a long time.
He raised his hand, hesitated for a moment, and then took out the bun from his arms.
“Dad!!?” The eldest brother stared at the snow-white bun in his father’s hand with his eyes wide open.
"You... didn't you give it to Mom?"
He turned his head to look at the flat bed, and his heart skipped a beat.
"Mother...Mother, could it be..."
"Your mother is asleep..." The old man glanced at the bed, sighed, and stuffed the bun in his hand into his son's hand.
"Don't exchange it for coarse grains. There's no grain left in the village."
"Put it in water and boil it, and the whole family will have a meal."
"But..." The boss looked at the snow-white bun in his hand and swallowed his saliva.
"Even just one of them isn't enough... My second and third brothers are starving at home..."
"Why don't I go to Menglan City and look for some? Maybe I can get some coarse grains."
Speaking of Menglan City, the uncle remembered Shen Yong's words.
"No, you don't need to change."
"You three brothers, cook and eat these buns. When you have enough strength, go to Menglan City and sign up for military service."
"...Ah!?" The eldest brother looked at his father in confusion, "I haven't heard that Menglan City is recruiting soldiers."
"Besides, no one would want people like us."
They were all starving like skulls, unable to even lift a knife, let alone go to war.
They are recruiting soldiers, not keeping idle people.
And even if the three brothers joined the army, what would happen to their family?
Soldiers have food to eat, but will all their family members be left to starve to death in the village?
The old man frowned, raised his drooping eyelids and looked at his eldest son.
"The nobleman told me that Menglan City is recruiting soldiers. As long as you join the army, you will be paid the monthly salary immediately, which is enough for the whole family to eat for a month."
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