Gu Bei, who was fast asleep, suddenly woke up. Seeing his grandfather moving things, he understood what was going on. He went up to his grandfather and took his arm, saying, "Grandpa, wherever you go, Xiao Bei will go."
Grandpa Gu forcefully pulled Gu Bei's hand off his sleeve and then shoved him hard towards the middle of the yard: "You can eat your fill and wear clean clothes here. Listen to your grandpa and stay."
Gu Bei shook his head frantically, then took off the short-sleeved shirt Qiao An'an had given him and threw it on the ground. He rushed forward, hugged his grandfather, and burst into tears: "I don't want to eat my fill or wear clean clothes, I just want to be with Grandpa!!!"
Actually, when Grandpa Gu Bei said that he could go out as long as he could keep Gu Bei, Qiao An'an was already feeling very bad. If one day in the future only one of her and Ya Ya could live, she would probably make the same choice as Grandpa Gu Bei.
In addition, Grandpa Gu Bei knows how to use a gun, so if there is any danger, he can help guard the yard.
Qiao An'an finally spoke up: "Stop arguing, can't you all stay?"
After the words were spoken.
Qiao An'an actually regretted it quite a bit.
But having already said it, taking it back isn't in her style as someone who keeps her promises.
Since she had agreed, she could only try to feed all five of them. At worst, she could plant more food. Planting late corn now should still be in time. She could plant the half bag of corn kernels that Gu Bei and the others had brought. That would definitely be enough for the five of them to eat for the whole winter. However, she had already dug up almost all the vegetable garden space in the small yard of about 100 square meters. Where could she plant more grain?
After thinking about it all night, Qiao An'an set her sights on the house behind hers that had also not been demolished.
The reason that house wasn't demolished was because the owner had immigrated abroad. His house was a single-story bungalow built in the 1950s or 60s. The house was dilapidated and unrecognizable, with broken windows, but the courtyard wall was very sturdy, since courtyard walls in that era were made of bluestone slabs.
I had noodles for breakfast.
Qiao An'an cooked a whole bunch of noodles, then picked some greens from the vegetable patch, rinsed them clean, and put them in the pot. Vegetables without pesticides are so convenient; they don't need to be soaked, just rinsed clean and they're ready to eat.
The chickens were still too young to lay eggs. To ensure everyone got enough protein, after they were cooked to a near-perfect consistency, Qiao An'an took out two sausages from the supplies Chi Xiaoyu had given her yesterday, divided them into four portions, and placed them in the bowls of Ya Ya, Chi Xiaoyu, Gu Bei, and Gu Bei's grandfather.
Ya Ya hadn't eaten ham sausage in a long time. Seeing the half-eaten ham sausage in the bowl, she happily picked it up and exclaimed, "Ham sausage! It's ham sausage!"
Before Chi Xiaoyu's house was destroyed, it was full of sausages. Sausages were nothing special to her. When she saw that Ya Ya liked them, she quietly gave Ya Ya the sausages from her own bowl.
Chi Xiaoyu thought it was something completely ordinary.
In Ya Ya's eyes, this was a rare delicacy. She happily said to Chi Xiaoyu, "Thank you, Sister Xiaoyu!!!"
Chi Xiaoyu, who didn't like to talk, just smiled.
Grandpa Gu Bei wanted to give Gu Bei the sausage, but Gu Bei refused. In Gu Bei's eyes, his grandfather was old and needed to eat something good. As for him, there would be plenty of time to eat in the future.
Seeing this, Grandpa Gu Bei stopped insisting on giving Gu Bei the sausage and instead picked up his bowl to eat.
The Gu family's rule is that children cannot start eating chopsticks until the elders have started.
Gu Bei waited until his grandfather started eating before picking up his bowl to eat. What child doesn't like ham sausage? He was just about to pick up the ham sausage when he noticed that Qiao An'an's bowl only contained noodles and vegetables.
Then he noticed that the sausages in their bowls were half the size of normal sausages.
The four people each received half a sausage, meaning the aunt who made breakfast for them didn't eat any herself and saved the sausage for them.
Gu Bei really likes to eat ham sausages.
She placed the sausage she was about to eat into Qiao An'an's bowl: "Auntie, I haven't eaten yet, the chopsticks are clean."
When Gu Bei said he was going to give the sausage to Qiao An'an, Ya Ya noticed that there was no sausage in Qiao An'an's bowl.
Chi Xiaoyu had noticed long ago that there was no more ham sausage in Qiao An'an's bowl, but she didn't think ham sausage was anything special and assumed that Qiao An'an didn't like it like the same way she did, so she didn't pay any attention to it.
Ya Ya thought the sausages were the best, but unlike Gu Bei, she wasn't observant enough to look at her mother's bowl. Now that she knew her mother didn't have any sausages, she quickly put both sausages from her own bowl into Qiao An'an's bowl, insisting that if she had them, her mother should too: "Mommy wants some too!!!"
Suddenly, three small sections of ham sausage appeared in Qiao An'an's bowl.
To be precise, it was two and a half sections, because one of them was bitten by Yaya.
Qiao An'an's original idea was that the food stored at home was limited, but Ya Ya, Gu Bei, and Chi Xiaoyu were all at the age where they needed to grow, and Gu Bei's grandfather was so old that he also needed to supplement his nutrition. Only she was in her prime, so it didn't matter what she ate as long as she could fill her stomach. That's why she allocated the food in this way.
But she didn't expect Gu Bei to be so thoughtful.
Not wanting to disappoint her child, she first put the food that Ya Ya had given her back into Ya Ya's bowl and said to her, "Mommy only needs to eat one of Gu Bei's dishes. Ya Ya can eat it herself."
Although Ya Ya was unhappy that her mother ate Xiao Bei's food but not hers, she didn't say anything more after her mother said so, and happily started eating.
Qiao An'an then took out an unpeeled sausage from the food cabinet and handed it to Gu Bei, saying, "Thank you for the sausage, Xiao Bei. This is a reward from me."
Gu Bei quickly waved his hand to refuse; he hadn't intended to reward Qiao An'an for the food.
Qiao An'an could only turn to Grandpa Gu Bei for help: "Grandpa, please let Xiao Bei take it."
Grandpa Gu patted Gu Bei on the back and said, "Just take it from me, and remember to thank me."
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