Chapter 4
There was still a lot of unmelted maltose in the earthenware jar. Mrs. Chen wanted to add water to boil it again, but she found that there was no water in the room at all.
Mrs. Chen: “…”
Shen An was very perceptive, and ran out with the last clean bowl in his hand: "I'll go get some mountain spring water."
Mrs. Chen only had time to shout loudly: "Call your Grandpa Chen to come along!"
Sang Luo drank a mouthful of the life-saving sugar and salt water, quickly flipped through her original body's memory, and actually found this old lady.
She was an old lady living next door to the Shen family. I was not very familiar with her, but when the family had just separated, I was collecting firewood and looking for wild vegetables in the nearby mountains. I happened to meet the old lady tending to the vegetable garden that their family had opened up in the mountains. The old lady asked me if I wanted to plant some vegetables. Seeing that I nodded, she gave me several bunches of vegetable seedlings.
Sang Luo saw that the savior brought by Chen An was Old Lady Chen. Seeing the cloth bag that Old Lady Chen placed on the stone, she guessed that the so-called borrowed grain was borrowed from Old Lady Chen.
When Shen Ning came over with water to feed her, Sang Luo thanked Old Lady Chen first.
Mrs. Chen didn't appreciate her kindness and said calmly, "I'm not doing this for you, but for these two children. Taxes have been getting heavier over the years, and everyone is having a hard time. I don't have the energy to help you. You still have to stand on your own feet."
It's no wonder that Mrs. Chen spoke in a cold tone. She really thought that Sang Luo was useless. When the Shen family just split up, she met Sang Luo in the fields and specially gave her a lot of vegetable seedlings she had grown.
She never expected that Sangluo didn't know how to grow vegetables.
You've never planted it before, but you asked me. I didn't even ask a single question. I just said thank you and took the vegetable seedlings back to plant it as if it were my own.
Now when Mrs. Chen heard Sang Luo thanking her, she wanted to pout. If she could, she would, and if she couldn't, she wouldn't. The mouth was meant to be used for talking and asking questions. What's the point of just saying thank you?
Therefore, Sang Luo only left the impression of being useless with Mrs. Chen, who was only polite and would not ask whether she understood or not.
Looking at this house now, I guess except for the stone stove and a larger stone for placing bowls, it remains the same as it was when the family split up and moved in. More than three months have passed and not a single thing has been added.
Therefore, in Mrs. Chen's opinion, Sang really did not know how to live. The old lady even felt that it would be better if Sang had not come to the Shen family. Instead, she dragged down the two children, Shen An and Shen Ning.
At least if it weren't for Sang Luo, Shen San and his wife would never dare to separate Shen An and Shen Ning like this.
Now that the family has been divided, if Sang Luo dies, the two young ones, Shen An and Shen Ning, will be the ones to suffer.
Naturally, Mrs. Chen's words were not very gentle.
Sang Luo didn't understand what was going on, but the world was so difficult, and the old couple of the Chen family, who were not related to them at all, were willing to give out food to help them. Sang Luo was very grateful in her heart, so she didn't mind the old lady's tone and smiled lightly: "You are right, when I get better this time, I will definitely cheer up and at least not let Xiao An and Aning go hungry."
Mrs. Chen: “…”
These are just big words. They don't even dare to say that they can keep their children from going hungry. Sang Luo's family is penniless now, with no land or food. How can they keep their two children from going hungry? Do they really have the ability to eat up all the stored food and almost starve to death at home?
It was just that Mrs. Chen and Sang Luo had no relatives or friends with the two children from the eldest branch of the Shen family. At most, they were from the same village. It was just someone else's business and there was no need to say anything more, so they just nodded.
Just then, Shen An came in with a bowl of water. Mrs. Chen turned around and set up the clay pot to boil water. She dissolved the remaining half piece of maltose at the bottom of the pot and added some salt. Only then was the job done.
Seeing that Chen Ning took good care of Sang Luo and fed her salt and sugar water spoonful by spoonful, Sang Luo gradually recovered after drinking the salt and sugar water, so Mrs. Chen did not stay any longer.
"I brought two liters of rice from home for you. After you drink the salt and sugar water, you can cook some porridge. You should be able to recover after a few days."
Yes, they can only be nurtured, or in layman's terms, boiled. People in the country cannot afford to go to the clinic or see a doctor.
Sang Luo nodded: "Thank you, grandma. I will return the food and sugar to you later."
Although Mrs. Chen was mentally prepared to borrow but not return the two liters of grain when she packed it, she was not so generous as to say that she didn't have to return it after hearing Sang Luo say that she would return it later. She poured the grain in the cloth bag into the empty bag that Chen An had found and nodded, "Okay, then we'll go back first."
Her husband is still waiting outside the house.
Chen An didn't even need Sang Luo's instructions, and hurried to see the two off. At the door, the old lady drove him back: "We are grown-ups, we don't need you to send us off like a child. If we get worried, we'll have to send you back later. Go back and close the door."
After the door of the thatched hut was closed, the two old people took a few steps. As Old Man Chen was walking, his wife pressed his arm.
He turned his head and saw his wife raising her index finger to her lips, signaling him to be quiet.
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