Chapter 9: Auntie drives people away
She sighed and said, "Xiao Jin, don't blame your aunt for speaking harshly. There is really not much food left at home. We have elderly parents and young children to take care of. Last year's harvest was not good and now we are facing a spring famine. The next few months will be difficult for our family.
Although the child you brought back is pitiful, our family really cannot afford to raise him. Your uncle said he went to the fields, but in fact he went to the mountains without telling the old man. It is the Qingluan Mountain behind the village. No man in the village would be willing to go to such a dangerous place unless he had no other choice."
At this point, Chen Hong looked up at Gu Jin's dark, indifferent eyes, she gritted her teeth and said: "Last year, the kid from the Du family went hunting in the mountains, was besieged by wild boars and injured, and died a few days after he was carried home.
We will have nothing to eat if we survive this month. For the sake of our family, you should send that child away immediately and don’t let him rely on us.”
After Chen Hong finished speaking, Gu Jin nodded gently: "I understand."
After she finished speaking, she turned and left.
Looking at her departing back, Chen Hong frowned.
She glanced at her daughter who was washing vegetables nearby and asked, "What does she mean by this? Does she agree or not?"
Gu Minmin washed the dried vegetables on her hands and ignored her mother, thinking to herself, ask me, how would I know.
"You stupid girl, I'm asking you a question, but you're mute!"
Chen Hong got angry when she didn't hear her daughter's response.
Gu Minmin stopped what she was doing, shook the water off her hands, turned around and walked out of the kitchen.
Chen Hong's eyes widened: "What are you going to do, you damn girl?!"
"You know what my cousin means. I'll go ask her and come back to tell you when I've found out."
Chen Hong was speechless and glared at her daughter in hatred for her lack of resistance.
The mother and daughter confronted each other in the kitchen.
After a while, Chen Hong lost her temper and said, "Why are you asking? Go and wash your vegetables!"
Gu Minmin didn't act pretentiously. She returned to her previous position and continued washing her wild vegetables.
This girl is also stubborn.
On this side, Gu Jin handed a yellow flour steamed bun to An Mingji. Looking at him eating the dry and hard-to-swallow bun, she held her chin and thought.
She remembered that two years before she returned to Youcheng, the village seemed to have experienced a famine.
That year, all the food in Lingyu Continent was destroyed. It was a natural disaster and it rained for a whole month.
All the crops that had not yet matured after the rain were destroyed. The harvest that year was less than 10% and could not even feed the people.
If she remembered correctly, it was this year.
Thinking back to his aunt's words, Gu Jin's face showed a deep solemnity.
She would not send An Mingji away, but if she wanted to keep him, it would be a little difficult for her now.
Given the situation at home, we would never support a person from another family.
Gu Jin raised his eyes and looked at the child sitting next to him, eating a yellow flour bun in small bites.
Even if it was to repay the kindness in her previous life, she would not abandon An Mingji.
Noticing her gaze, An Mingji looked up and handed the half-eaten yellow steamed bun in his hand to Gu Jin: "Sister Jin, do you want to eat too?"
Gu Jin smiled and shook his head: "I'm not hungry, you eat."
She stood up, walked to the wooden table and poured a glass of water.
I touched the water cup and it was still warm.
Holding the cup of water in her hand, she walked towards An Mingji who was sitting beside the bed.
Looking at the well-behaved child, she suddenly had an idea to keep An Mingji by her side.
Gu Jin handed the cup of water to An Mingji: "Wait for me in the room, I'll go out for a while."
(End of this chapter)
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