Yue Jiuyue simply carried the basket on her back, and took out two pieces of ginger from the basket, making it feel like half the basket was gone in an instant.
Did you only leave two pieces of ginger at home?
That's impossible!
Of course, I bought several more from the mall!
"Here, village chief, take all this ginger!"
Yue Jiuyue placed the basket in front of Village Chief Lin, then took off her straw hat and raincoat and hung them on the wall to drain the water. Listening to the group of people expressing their gratitude in a string of words, she did not accept anything from some of them, and watched them leave one after another.
"Auntie, thank you so much! You saved the lives of my whole family!"
"Chao Dongniang! Thank you so much! Thank you so much!"
"Thank you so much, Aunt Chaodong! Once the rain stops, I'll have my son and grandson come over to help turn the soil as a way of thanking you for saving my life!"
"My son came to help too..."
Village Chief Lin wanted to say something more, but the women didn't give him a chance. They all walked out quickly, pushing and shoving, until they squeezed him out.
Everyone's gone, and the house is finally quiet.
Yue Jiuyue glanced at the muddy ground, then went to the bottom of the stove and scooped out some soot from the bottom of the pot, spread it on the ground, and then swept it clean with a broom.
In the east room, Liu, who had been anxiously waiting, looked at Yue Jiuyue sweeping the floor and asked:
"Mother, you really lent out all our ginger? What are we going to do then? Without ginger soup, what will happen to Xiaoman'er's father, and my third and fourth brothers? If they catch a cold, and we can't go to the town clinic to see a doctor and get medicine, it could be fatal!"
Liu didn't see how much ginger Yue Jiuyue sent out. The room was crowded with people, and she couldn't even get off the floor. Moreover, everyone was soaking wet, and she had to be careful in everything she did, so she didn't dare to touch them.
Seeing that all those old women left happily, she knew that her mother-in-law must have brought out a lot of ginger, otherwise they wouldn't have left so easily.
I don't know when her mother-in-law became so generous. I hope it doesn't backfire!
"Don't worry, there's still plenty in the cellar. Based on what we used a few days ago, it should last us three to five months. It's just that we've run out of firewood by half. We don't know when the rain will stop, so we'll have to get some more firewood then."
With her around, what's there to worry about with ginger? The real worry is what to do when the firewood runs out.
On rainy days, the house gets very damp, so we have to light a fire every day, otherwise the kang (heated brick bed) will be too damp to sleep on.
However, Liu could roughly estimate how much firewood had been used and how much was left in the house by helping to stoke the fire.
That makes it difficult to cheat excessively.
"Oh? We're running low on firewood? Well, how about we just heat the kang (heated brick bed) once a day from now on?"
The kang (heated brick bed) is where she and Xiaoman'er sleep. The two of them are practically glued to the kang now. Yue Jiuyue sleeps on a bed. The three brothers across the street fall asleep as soon as their heads hit the pillow every day. Before dark, Yue Jiuyue goes over to light a fire in the kang's firebox.
“We can’t just make it once. We need to drink ginger soup hot three times a day. We can’t just stop making ginger soup to save some firewood.”
Yue Jiuyue sighed and looked at Madam Liu.
Liu was stunned.
Yes, she was just worried that if Yue Jiuyue distributed all the ginger, there wouldn't be any ginger soup left at home.
How did she manage to overlook this issue while we were talking?
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