Seeing Dabao hesitate to speak, Chen Afu could guess what he was thinking.
After mid-April, the family was in even more trouble. There was no surplus food or money. Winter wheat had not been harvested yet, and Mrs. Wang had taken fewer embroidery jobs. She still had to pay on credit for the cloth scraps and rags, and the needlework baskets she had made had not yet been converted into cash. The little money that Mrs. Wang earned from embroidery was not enough to buy medicine for Father Chen Ming, so she had to pay on credit and keep some for him to buy nutritional supplements.
In order to eat, A Lu started to pick vegetables from the vegetable garden and sell them in the town a few days ago. A full basket of vegetables can only be sold for a dozen coins. Except for one egg per day from Chen Ming, the rest of the eggs were also sold. With the money, he bought cornmeal, brown rice or a small amount of white flour to take home.
The whole family was eagerly looking forward to harvesting the winter wheat and selling it for money.
Alas, there are still a few days before the winter wheat harvest, and there is still half a month left after the harvest and sale. Do we have to be in a semi-starved state for half a month?
Chen Afu was in a great dilemma. Even if he wanted to sell fancy moves and recipes, he still wanted her to be agile and able to go out.
In the evening, the family had corn paste again, with Chen Ming only having a bowl of noodles. The corn paste was very thin and shiny, and there was also a pot of boiled eggplant.
Others did not feel sad. This was how they had been in previous years, and it was the same for many villagers. Before the winter wheat harvest, there was a shortage of food, which was the most difficult time. The family had to pay for Chen Afu's medical treatment and medicine, which cost more money. Although life is difficult now, the many sewing baskets and sewing kits piled up in the house are their hope.
Chen Afu made the excuse of having a stomachache and only drank the corn paste. He shared the extra eggplants with his two children.
Before going to bed, Chen Afu gave Dabao another bath. It was hot now, and Dabao was a child, so Chen Afu would give him a bath almost every two days. He put a wooden basin in the kitchen, added warm water, and after giving Dabao a bath, he carried him to the kang.
Every time she carried the naked little boy to the kang, Chen Ahfu would take the opportunity to ask for some "benefits" and pat his smooth and white little butt. Mm, it felt really good. The little boy also seemed to like his mother patting him. He would hug his mother's neck, giggle, and lift his little butt.
It was far from convenient for Chen Ahfu to take a bath by herself. The house was too small, there was no place for her to take a bath, and there was no deep wooden tub. Usually, when adults took a bath, they would just wipe their bodies with a wet towel and then wash their hair separately. She thought that when she had money in the future, she would definitely build a separate bathroom and put a large wooden tub half a person's height in it. She would add hot water and sprinkle some flower petals, and the whole room would be filled with mist, just like the way she took a bath in the TV series in her previous life. Thinking of such a scene, Chen Ahfu was full of energy.
After she wiped herself, she got on the kang. Dabao, who was only wearing a bellyband, rolled into her arms again and asked, "Mom, can I help you find your birthmark?"
Chen Afu smiled and lit the small oil lamp on the kang cupboard, and the small room suddenly became bright.
Since he could move more freely, Chen Afu began to look for birthmarks or scars on his body. It is said in the time travel literature that if you drop blood on a birthmark or scar to "recognize your relatives", you can open the door to the space.
In addition to dreaming about Xiaoyanzi on the first day she came here, she had dreamed about her twice more. She fully believed that Xiaoyanzi must be in a space somewhere in her body, anxiously waiting for her to open the door.
Moreover, in her previous life, the swallow appeared on the day she had a car accident, and she could understand its speech. Perhaps it was because of her bleeding that the space door was opened, and she had a connection with the spirit swallow. However, she died in the blink of an eye.
The skin of this body was so fine, white and delicate, so soft that it could be broken by a blow. As far as she could see, there were no birthmarks or scars, not even spots. This was a desirable advantage for others, a typical beauty, but now it became her biggest regret.
Chen Ahfu often asked Dabao to help her see the places she couldn't see, except for the places that were not suitable for children. But Dabao looked very hard every time but couldn't find them. Chen Ahfu didn't give up and always fantasized that a miracle would happen one day.
Facing the small oil lamp, Chen Dabao first looked at Chen Afu's back, the back of his neck, and the back of his legs, and then used his little paws to comb Chen Afu's hair. He said regretfully, "Mom, Dabao looked very carefully, but still didn't see any birthmarks or scars." Hearing his mother's sigh, he said, "Mom, is it good to have birthmarks on your body? Then check if Dabao has any."
Chen Afu smiled and said, "Mom has already checked. You have a small red birthmark on your left butt." The shape of the birthmark is quite special, like a three-pointed star, which was the logo of Mercedes-Benz in the previous life, but without the circle outside.
When Chen Dabao heard this, he quickly said, "Then mommy, quickly get down. Dabao, check if there's anything on mommy's butt."
Chen Ahfu pinched his little face and said jokingly, "Mom is an adult now, you can't let others see your butt."
“Dabao is not someone else but my biological son.” Chen Dabao said hurt, emphasizing the word “biological” particularly.
"Mom is an adult now, and even her own son cannot look at her private parts," said Chen Afu.
Chen Dabao felt a little regretful and asked again, "Who can see my mother's butt?"
Chen Ahfu was stunned for a moment, then said, "When my mother was a child, my mother's mother was able to see."
Chen Dabao was so smart that he figured it out right away. He touched his butt with his backhand and said, "Oh, that's right. Dabao is small now, so his butt can be shown to mom. And those smaller kids who wear open-crotch pants, their butts can be seen by everyone." He suggested, "Then mom can ask grandma to help take a look. Anyway, grandma has seen mom's butt."
Chen Ahfu smiled and shook his head, then lay down on the bed in a depressed mood, muttering quietly, "Isn't that door really in that shameful place?"
The swallow suddenly appeared in her mind again. It looked at her as if she were a fool and said, "Oh my god! Why am I so miserable that I have been following a fool like you for two lifetimes. How could the door be in that place? You're so smart to think of it."
It actually came out at this time. Chen Ahfu was very surprised and said quickly, "Then tell me where it is."
"Idiot, I'm telling you, that door can never be opened." Then he disappeared again.
Chen Dabao thought his mother was talking to him and asked, "Mom, what do you want Dabao to tell you?"
Chen Ahfu was stunned for a moment before saying, "Well, Mom wants Dabao to tell Mom where our vegetable patch is so that Mom can go and water the patch and pick vegetables, so that Grandma won't have to work so hard."
Dabao pouted and said, "Mom can't just go out. Mom is pretty, and those bad guys will have bad intentions."
Chen Ahfu hugged him, tapped his chin on the top of his head and said, "After mom recovers from her illness, she will start her own business and earn money to support the family. How can she not go out? Don't worry, son. Mom is not stupid anymore. No one can bully her."
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