Chapter 40: A good opportunity to show your kindness
Although Shen Meng was afraid, she couldn't show her cowardice at this time. After all, there was a child clinging to her legs. If she ran away in fear, the child would be scared to death.
"It's okay, Xiaokai, there are no ghosts in this world. Let's pretend we didn't see it and go home. We'll be home soon." She bent down and hugged Lu Mingkai in her arms. She resisted the urge to run and walked quickly towards home.
Lu Mingkai was young after all. He lay on his mother's shoulder and closed his eyes in fear, but he couldn't help but open his eyes and look at that place. Suddenly, there was movement there, and he suddenly tightened his hands around Shen Meng's neck.
"Mom, that ghost is moving, it's really a ghost, wuwu, Xiaokai is scared."
Shen Meng was scared, and with Lu Mingkai's crying, she suddenly became angry from fear and heartache. She gritted her teeth, turned around and walked towards the "ghost". She wanted to see what it was that dared to scare her cute child.
Lu Mingkai saw his mother walking towards the "ghost" and suddenly felt sad. He thought his mother might have been bewitched. He learned the trick from the old lady next to him and stretched out his little hand to pinch Shen Meng's philtrum.
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Shen Meng: "Hiss! Xiao Kai, what are you doing? You pinched me so hard."
"Mom, you were just possessed. This is not the direction of our home. You went the wrong way. It was Xiao Kai who saved you."
Shen Meng: "......."
Thank you, really!!!
Shen Meng's face was twitching violently in pain. She didn't expect that such a half-grown child could have such strong hands.
When the mother and son walked in, they found that it was a person lying on the ground and occasionally moving. Shen Meng moved closer to the person, but before she found out who it was, Lu Mingkai slipped off her body.
"Mom, it's Ah-Man."
"What?" Shen Meng's heart was moved. She remembered that there seemed to be such a paragraph in the book. A man fell ill on the roadside and was met by the heroine Zhou Jiaojiao who got up in the morning to wash clothes by the river. She casually gave the Wowotou that she secretly put in the basin to that person. Later, after that person went back, he recognized Zhou Jiaojiao in Shangjing and helped him a lot secretly.
The man named Ah-Man saw someone coming and struggled to get up. It was still a little cold at night in early autumn, but it was not so cold that he would shiver.
Shen Meng had a plan in mind. She was so happy that she could get a help from the heroine. She raised her hand and put it on the man's forehead. Sure enough, it was hot.
"You have a fever, don't be afraid, I'm not a bad person, nor a radical person, I won't do anything to you, my husband is a soldier, I just happen to have some medicine here, you take it first."
Shen Meng took out a piece of antipyretic and anti-inflammatory medicine from her pocket, and stuffed it into Ah Man's mouth without waiting for Ah Man to say anything.
The bitter taste spread in her mouth, Ah Man stretched her neck hard, and swallowed it with great effort, her whole face was wrinkled like an orange peel.
"I, thank you, I'll leave now, I'll leave now."
How could Shen Meng just give up such a great opportunity to show her kindness? She quickly reached out to hold Ah Man. Seeing his mother trying to help Ah Man, Lu Mingkai was happy and wanted to help, so he reached out to pick up the empty basket on the ground.
"Huh?" The boy tried several times but failed to pick it up, so he couldn't help but want to lift the cloth to take a look.
Shen Meng quickly took it over, "Look at you, kid, there are things your mother put here, how can you move it, haha."
After she picked him up, she took out a shepherd's purse from the basket. This was bought in the store when she lived in the countryside. It was made of tender shepherd's purse in spring, and the price was quite expensive.
"You must be hungry, this is a shepherd's purse made from dried shepherd's purse at home, have one." Shen Meng handed Ah Man a still warm wok.
Ah Man is now a 16-year-old child. He has been sent down to Lujia Village with his grandfather for six years.
Today, he fell ill because his grandfather was old and in poor health. He went to the mountains to find some game to replenish his body. But he didn't find anything to eat after running all day. He felt groggy in the afternoon. He went to the river at night to catch a fish, but he didn't catch any. He also fell ill. For a moment, he thought it would be better to die. What's the point of living like this?
He was trembling all over. He held the warm vegetable in his hand and didn't put it in his mouth. He knew the woman in front of him. She was the only military dependent in Lujia Village. She used to look down on people. It is said that she suddenly became smart after being butted by a cow.
But he didn't expect that he could be kind to him again.
"Eat, if you don't take care of yourself, what will happen to your grandfather? He is so old, if something happens to him, won't it cost him his life?"
Thinking of his grandfather, Ah Man's nose felt a little sour, and he didn't have time to think too much, and ate up the vegetables in his hand in no time. He was about to say something when a water bottle was handed to him.
Ah Man: "..."
How can someone go out in the middle of the night and prepare so much, including food and water!
"Drink some water. Xiaokai and I were originally going to see Daqing's mother, and we happened to meet you. There's some food in the basket. Take it back and give it to your grandfather. It's not worth anything."
Lu Mingkai opened his little mouth, looked at his mother, then looked at Ah Man, and then looked at the basket. These were beyond the scope of his little brain.
He padded hard to look at the basket his mother handed out. Why was it different from what he had seen before? He was really puzzled. And his mother said she was going to see Daqing's mother. Didn't she just see her?
Lu Mingkai pinched his philtrum fiercely. He felt like he was being bewitched?
"Ouch!"
"What's wrong, Mingkai? Don't be reluctant. Your brother A'man is hungry. We still have some at home. Mom will get it for you later. A'man, hurry back before it gets dark. I'll ask Mingyang and the other kids to come and play with you in the evening and take the basket home. We'll be back soon."
Shen Meng didn't wait for him to refuse. He quickly picked up Lu Mingkai and ran home with him in his arms.
A'man was a little slow to react and his movements were a lot slower because of the fever. With the help of the unknown moonlight, he lifted the cloth on the basket and saw that in addition to the vegetable nests, there were also two vegetables and it smelled like meat.
He quickly covered the cloth, turned around and staggered towards the cowshed holding the basket, his steps were very hurried, fearing that he would be discovered and his things would be stolen. Even at night, there would be patrolling militias on the roadside, and if he was discovered, they would not let him go easily.
Shen Meng trotted all the way back home, and before entering the yard, he heard Xie Jing's stern shouting.
"Second sister-in-law, hurry up and leave before the eldest sister-in-law comes home, or she won't be able to handle you well when she comes."
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