Chapter 9 What a bunch of idiots
Old Mrs. Su couldn't understand the little baby's resentment. In fact, there was no expression on Tianbao's face.
In short, the old woman warned her not to wave her hands around casually anymore.
In Mrs. Su's opinion, there are gains and losses in everything.
The pears that Tianbao gave them might have been exchanged for something else.
She would rather Tianbao was just an ordinary child. Although the family was poor, they could always raise the child with just a mouthful of porridge and a mouthful of water.
It is better to be happy and peaceful than to have endless wealth.
The sky outside the house gradually darkened, the wind and snow continued, and the people who went out were nowhere to be seen.
During this time, Mrs. Su looked out several times, her brows becoming more and more furrowed.
Su Wu's three noisy little boys gradually calmed down, and ran out of the yard from time to time to see if there was a familiar figure at the end of the path.
A subtle sense of tension and uneasiness grew and spread in the air, and even Tianbao felt depressed.
At night, an oil lamp was lit in the dilapidated courtyard. The light was as small as a bean, and the dim warm color was hazy.
There was a noise outside the yard, and the old and young who were sitting silently beside the brazier stood up and opened the half-open door of the main room to look outside.
"Why are you back now? Don't you know it gets colder as the night goes on? If you can't sell anything, come back first. The road is hard to walk on at night. You might as well fall into the ditch—" Old Lady Su scolded out of habit. When she saw the situation at the gate, her face turned pale and her voice changed. "What's going on?"
"Mom! My dad fell down!" Su Da carried Old Man Su into the house, both of them looked in a mess.
The people in the house rushed forward immediately, and Su Er jumped quickly to help carry his father into the house.
When Mrs. Su heard that her husband had fallen, and saw that he was lying on her son's back without any movement, she was so frightened that her legs felt weak.
After entering the house, I looked at my wife's appearance under the light and almost fell down.
The old man's face was pale with thinness, and there were purple bruises on his cheekbones and forehead. His injured right leg hung limply on the ground, unable to move.
Perhaps realizing he had frightened his wife, Old Man Su raised his head, straining a smile through the corners of his pale lips. He said gently, "Don't panic. It was just a slight fall. It's nothing serious. Here, this is half a bag of noodles I got from selling firewood. Put it away."
"The wooden cart slipped on the way back, and Dad fell down trying to save the bag of noodles." Su Da said in a muffled voice, not daring to say more about the thrilling incident.
It was difficult to walk on the snow, and when they came back it was dark, making it even more difficult to see the road. The wooden cart slipped and rolled down the slope, and my father was almost hit on the head by the wooden cart in his attempt to save the bag of flour.
The corners of Old Lady Su's eyes turned red as she took the cloth bag from the veiny hand with trembling hands. The bag was half full of flour and was heavy. She did not scold the old man for risking his life.
Because this bag of flour is the family's food supply for a long time.
What the old man was saving was not the flour bag, but the lives of his entire family.
"Eldest brother, help your father to the bed. Second brother, go get the doctor. Burn incense and boil a pot of hot water." After sniffing, Old Lady Su regained her composure when she spoke again. Her voice was still as strong as before, full of energy, orderly, and crisp.
The old man, who was carried into the room by his eldest son, heard this and twisted his neck in pain, struggling, "No need to call a doctor, I'm fine, don't waste your money—"
"Shut up!"
“…”
Old Man Su immediately became as quiet as a chicken.
The younger generations each went off with their own missions.
When Liu Yuelan heard the conversation in the room, she struggled to get out of bed. At this time, she just walked out of the room with Tianbao in her arms, and was frightened by the old woman's roar. She shuddered and almost retreated back into the room.
From the old to the young, everyone in the Su family is not afraid of anything except their mother-in-law getting angry.
After her mother-in-law went to put away the flour bags, Liu Yuelan approached the door of her parents-in-law's room and asked worriedly, "Dad, how is my father-in-law?"
Old Man Su was still yelling, "It's okay, it's okay! Why are you all worrying about me? Don't I know what's going on with me?"
Su Da, "Dad, just shut up. If mom hears you, you'll get scolded. Why are you trying to be so stubborn at your age?"
The sound of slapping flesh suddenly rang out. "You bastard! Why did I warn you on the way? I told you not to say anything, but you're spilling the beans as soon as you get back! If it weren't for your talkativeness, I would be scolded! "
Liu Yuelan silently covered her daughter's ears, feeling at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
Since she couldn't get anything out of him, Liu Yuelan went back to her room first.
After putting her daughter on the bed and tucking her in, she rummaged under the low cabinet at the end of the bed for a while and pulled out a small wooden box the size of a palm.
After sitting quietly by the bed and waiting for a while, the man was driven out by his angry father-in-law. Liu Yuelan called him into the room, opened the wooden box, took out a pair of silver earrings from it and handed them to him, "When the doctor comes later, you can use this to pay for the consultation and medicine. With the current situation at home, mother must be short of money, and she is not the kind of person who would talk to her son and daughter-in-law. You should be smart."
Su Da looked at the pair of thin earrings with mixed feelings, "Wife, this is your dowry..."
"I don't usually wear this thing. It's just a dead object. Okay, stop talking. How is my father-in-law's injury? Is it serious?"
Knowing his wife's good intentions, Su Da gritted his teeth and accepted the earrings. The family situation did not allow him to refuse. "Dad's leg injury is quite serious. The leg bone may be broken... Wife, I take these earrings. I will definitely return you with better ones in the future."
"We're a family, why don't you return it? You go look after your father-in-law, it's not convenient for me to go over there."
"Um."
After a few small talk between the couple, Su Da left, leaving only the mother and daughter in the room.
It's not quiet outside the room.
The three little ones were making a fuss because their grandfather was injured.
The adults were also busy inside and outside, boiling water, cleaning the injured, and preparing food...
Liu Yuelan couldn't calm down, so she hugged her daughter tightly again, as if this would give her some support and make her feel more at ease. "Tianbao, grandpa is injured. You are a blessed child. Mother will pray with you for grandpa to get better soon, okay?"
Tianbao blinked his eyes, not knowing how to pray.
He can't talk, walk or run, the only thing he can do is give pears.
But the only thing she could give, grandma didn't want it.
People are so strange.
In the past, she would not give anything to others who wanted it after they had undergone acupuncture or surgery on her. Now, she gives it to them voluntarily, and some people are unwilling to accept it.
Why is the difference so big?
She looked at A Niang: Teach me how to pray.
Ah Niang sighed and looked out the window, "I wonder if your second uncle has found a doctor."
Tianbao: Don’t look at the window, look at me. Can I make a wish if I give you a pear?
Mother, "I hope your grandfather's leg is okay. It takes a hundred days for a broken bone to heal. It's really painful for the old man."
Tianbao: How do you say that you want to pray?
Mother, "Alas."
…
Mother-daughter communication failed.
Tianbao closed his eyes and plunged into the space.
Sitting under a pear tree laden with fruits, Tianbao held his cheeks with his little hands and looked up at the tree full of pears.
How should I treat a leg injury? What should I eat?
She had nothing but pears, so when she thought about it, she could not help her grandfather in anything.
The old man with kind eyes who smiled when he looked at her.
At this moment, Tianbao suddenly felt that he was really useless.
Those guys in white coats in the lab studied her for several years. What a bunch of idiots.
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