Cao An also heard it and looked at him deeply. This old man must be hiding something.
"Will there be any problem?"
The old man was quite a shrewd person. He wasn't afraid of Cao An's fierce face and actually had a little appreciation for him. "What's the problem? If I say it's yours, then it's yours!"
Xia Youyou also heard that this old man must know that there was something inside the bed. "Where is the thing in there? I want to buy something." She pretended to be innocent.
The old man laughed heartily at her feigned cuteness. "Hahaha, little girl, it's not enough for you to just fancy that bed, you're also trying to get a bargain from me. Go away, pick whatever you want. Just take whatever you like!"
Xia Youyou didn't bother to be polite with him. She skipped into the inner room and took out the gourd she had been looking at yesterday from the pile of porcelain.
Cao An shook his head helplessly and looked at the old man again.
"Sit down." The old man pointed to a stool nearby, motioning him to sit down. "You are all discerning people. If you have the ability to keep those things, they are yours. If you can't, then you will die."
"You know everything?"
"How could I not know? I collected them all myself."
"What's the matter with that bed? Can you tell me in detail?" Cao An thought of those land deeds and house deeds, which were not something ordinary people could own.
"What's in there is yours once you find it. Don't worry." The old man lit his pipe, took a drag, and continued, "That family was sent down to the countryside. Some died, some were scattered. The only child was sent abroad. He was just a baby at the time, and I don't know if he's still alive now." Sadness shone in the old man's cloudy eyes. "I had a little friendship with the head of that family back then, and I secretly saved these things for him, hoping they would provide him with a way to make a living after he was released. I didn't expect..."
Speaking of this, the old man seemed to be lost in memories.
All the memories turned into a long sigh, "There are still many good things in there, you can take them, I can't bear it anymore, I'm old!"
"Uncle, don't say that. Good days are coming. You have to hold on!" Cao An couldn't bear to see the old man lose hope. He just hoped that time would go faster and faster, so that the old man, who was already at the end of his life, could have hope for the future.
The old man said nothing more, just looked at the horizon and slowly smoked his pipe.
Cao An stood up and went into the house, looking at the naive little girl. After all, she was not from this era. She didn't understand what the elderly outside were expecting, nor did she understand what kind of changes this country needed to make everyone better.
He stepped forward and grabbed Xia Youyou, "Leave some food for the old man." He hesitated to speak, but what he didn't say was, "Take another look at his body."
Seeing him like this, Xia Youyou thought something had happened, "What's wrong?"
"It's not easy for the elderly, please leave some more."
"I would have done it even if you didn't tell me!" The old man must have known what was in the bed. He hadn't used it in so many years, so he probably wouldn't need it. She also planned to give all the money she had to the old man, and give him some food!
"Do you have anything else to say?"
"No." Cao An felt a little disappointed. He could save one person, but not the whole country. He felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
Xia Youyou looked at him worriedly, not understanding why he suddenly became so depressed. Her thin fingers pinched his index finger. "Brother, tell me if there is anything. I will definitely help if I can."
Cao An shook his head. "I just wonder why it can't be opened sooner. I already know the result. If I have to wait another two years, I'm a little anxious."
When a person faces the unknown, he is fearless. But when a person knows the direction of the future, he will become excited and impatient, and even don't want to wait a moment longer!
Xia Youyou grabbed him with both hands. "In the vast universe, you are just a speck of dust. Dust cannot save the universe, but if you want to do it, then you have to do it. You can't stop trying just because you know there will be no results."
Cao An suddenly understood something. He shook her hand back and looked at her eagerly, "You mean we can change?"
Her hand was gripped by his large palm, causing her bones to ache. She gently soothed him, "I came here to change the destructive ending. When I gave you space, I wanted you to find your direction. Let's work together to change the world and change the ending!"
She pulled out a hand and placed it in front of him. A grain of sand appeared in her palm. "We are now a grain of sand in the desert. One day, we can become jade." As she spoke, the sand in her palm transformed into a piece of jade. "It is also possible to become a piece of steel, or even a diamond!" The jade turned into steel, and then into a sparkling diamond. "What do you want to become today? The soft fine sand? The flawlessness of jade? The hardness of steel? Or the brilliance of diamond?"
Cao An's eyes were red, and a surge of lofty ambitions surged in his chest. He was wrong. His sister was not a naive little girl at all. Her heart was bigger than anyone else's!
"You're right, I understand." He reached out, bent down, and hugged the little girl. "You taught me a lesson today!" He also held a treasure in his hand now, and like her, he could do what he could for this country and this world. Whether he could change things was a matter for the future; what mattered was whether he had done it!
Xia Youyou patted his broad back and said, "I put some food with you. I didn't think it through. I should have put more with you earlier." After that, she pushed him away and took his hand. "Now I'm putting something in your palm. Just concentrate on taking it."
Cao An was about to speak when he felt his hand sink. He quickly focused his mind. She continued to pump supplies into him until Cao An pushed her hand away.
"That's enough. Why did you give me so much? How much can I use?"
"How can this be compared to that? It's not even one tenth of the original."
Cao An was shocked. "Isn't your country the end of the world? How can there be so much food?"
"Hey, you don't know this, right? Our country will eventually become a grain-producing country. The annual output of the black soil in the north alone is enough to feed our entire nation for ten years!"
"Why are there so many?"
"Because in later generations, the seedlings were grown to be as tall as a person, so they were both high-yielding and easy to grow!"
Cao An suddenly had an idea and grabbed Xia Youyou. Xia Youyou also reacted and looked at him.
"what's on your mind?"
"Whatever you are thinking about, I am thinking about it!"
The brother and sister left the scrap yard one after the other. Xia Youyou didn't even take the things she had chosen. She hurriedly threw a pile of food on the ground and went home with Cao An.
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