Chapter 2
Sang Luo pinched her cheeks, which were now so thin that she looked unrecognizable. It felt so good to be alive!
She no longer thought about anything and without waiting for dawn, she dragged her weak body out of bed and walked out.
She had to go out to find food. Sang Luo had not forgotten that her original body starved to death. It was not easy to be alive. She didn't want to follow in her original footsteps just after she came back to life.
Imagination is rich, but reality is cruel.
She didn't feel anything just sitting on the bed, but now that she moved, the little energy left in her body began to be rapidly consumed. The feeling in her stomach went from being empty to a slight pain in an instant. She hadn't taken two steps when Sang Luo's eyes began to go dark.
Sang Luo knew that this was due to an extreme lack of food in her stomach, low blood sugar, and insufficient blood supply to the brain. If she didn't eat anymore, she would be on the verge of sudden death.
She could only be thankful that the hut was small enough.
Following her original memory, Sang Luo almost stumbled towards the clay jar containing water in the corner of the house.
The potential that erupted from her body at that moment was so great that she even staggered when walking. She picked up the clay pot and brought it to her mouth. The corner of her lip just happened to touch the corner of the pot. The stinging pain lasted only a moment and was soon overwhelmed by the pain in her stomach and her body's desire for food. The fishy smell of blood was diluted by the cold water in the pot and rolled down her throat into her stomach.
She gulped down the drink. Her mind knew she should stop, but the swallowing movement in her throat did not slow down at all and she did not know how to stop.
The wooden door was pushed open with a creak, and a soft, surprised child's voice was heard.
"Sister-in-law, are you awake?!"
Sang Luo finally pulled herself out of the sudden and crazy appetite. She put down her hands holding the clay pot and turned to look at the child who was speaking.
Shen Ning, the younger sister of the twins, was standing by the door at this time, having just returned from outside.
Yes, there was only one bed in the room. She was dazed when she came here just now, and was dominated by hunger, so she didn't notice that the two children were not in the room late at night.
Of course, she couldn't care about that now. The cold water went down her throat, and she drank it too quickly. The coldness seemed to soak into her soul. Sang Luo was too uncomfortable to squat, and she fell to the ground with a "thump". Most of the water in the clay pot spilled on her clothes, and the clay pot rolled to the side of the ground.
Sang Luo's body was trembling, and she leaned against the rammed earth wall, gasping for breath. The uncomfortable feeling was even worse than before she drank the water.
Shen Ning was startled by her fall and rushed over: "Sister-in-law, sister-in-law, what's wrong with you?"
While asking, he tried to help Sang Luo up.
However, although the little girl was nine years old, she lost her mother when she was born, and she was born on the road of fleeing famine. After that, she lived with her uncle and aunt, so she didn't have a good meal since she was a child. In the past two years when her brother was away, Li was very stingy in food. After the separation, she lived with her original body in this mountain for three months, living frugally and even going without food. She looked about the same size as a six or seven-year-old child.
He looked like a little refugee, how could he support fifteen-year-old Sang Luo?
Shen Ning tried his best to drag his eldest sister-in-law, but she couldn't do it. She was so anxious that her eyes turned red.
Sang Luo shook her head, signaling her to save her energy. She paused for a moment before saying, "I'm hungry, Aning, can you help... help my sister-in-law boil some hot water?"
Hot water is the only drinkable thing in the house now, if the water in the earthenware jar was not spilled out after the fall just now.
Shen Ning nodded repeatedly, wiping her tears while hugging the earthen jar on the ground.
The floor of the house was mud, and the clay pot rolled on the ground, leaving some water at the bottom. Shen Ning didn't even care whether the mouth of the clay pot was clean or not. He picked up the clay pot and ran to the stove not far from the table.
It was called a stove, but in fact it was just a simple "stove" made of a few stones, and the clay pot with a broken corner in Shen Ning's arms was placed on the simple stove.
This earthenware jar is usually used as a water jug and as a pot when cooking. Apart from three bowls, it is the only usable container in this house.
Although Chen Ning is young, he works efficiently and can light a fire and boil water without any ambiguity. If he hadn't wiped his tears from time to time, he would have looked more professional.
The eldest sister-in-law was sick, and she was hungry. Shen Ning knew it in her heart. Especially today, the eldest sister-in-law was in a very bad condition. She and the second brother were unable to get food from the third uncle's house. When the wild vegetable soup was served to the eldest sister-in-law, she couldn't swallow it.
The brother and sister were so frightened that they didn't dare to sleep tonight. They stayed by the bed the whole time. Seeing that their sister-in-law's face was getting more and more pale and her breath was getting weaker and weaker, she and her second brother didn't care that it was the middle of the night and ran out to find a solution.
Find a way!
Oh, she suddenly remembered something, turned around, took out a handful of light red wild fruits from her pocket and held them in front of Sang Luo: "Sister-in-law, I found some wild fruits, you should eat them quickly."
After saying this, he realized that Sang Luo's body was still shaking, so he put the handful of fruits into Sang Luo's palm, tore a fruit with both hands and put it into Sang Luo's mouth.
The strong fruity aroma wafted into her nose, and Sang Luo swallowed subconsciously. She lowered her eyes and saw the torn fruit in Shen Ning's hand, and then she realized it was a loquat.
Her body's instinct made her not think about anything. She opened her mouth and impatiently swallowed the wild fruit that the little girl's hand brought to her mouth, including the flesh and skin.
Sang Luo lived in the mountains for five years before she traveled through time. Naturally, it was not the first time she ate loquats, but it was the first time she ate them so awkwardly and anxiously.
The aunt and sister-in-law fed each other and ate seven in a row. The last one in the palm of her hand was picked up by Shen Ning, torn open and put to Sang Luo's mouth. Sang Luo finally restrained her instinct and turned her head away: "You eat this."
She has the memories of her original body, who was starving terribly, and these two children were not much better off.
Shen Ning's tears had not dried since she saw Sang Luo wake up. Now that she heard her sister-in-law's voice was obviously stronger, her tears fell again. Her face was as dirty as a cat, and was washed by tears. But she smiled while crying, "Sister-in-law, eat."
After he finished speaking, he stuffed the last bit of fruit flesh into Sang Luo's mouth.
The flesh was as sweet as honey. The food and the sweetness in my mouth soothed my almost collapsed body functions a little. At least the symptom of blackening in front of my eyes seemed to have gradually subsided.
Sang Luo just sat there on the ground, without moving or budging, to save energy.
She asked Shen Ning: "You went out in the middle of the night just to find food for me? Where did you find this?"
There was absolutely nothing edible to be found near this thatched house. Although I was born in a commoner family and never left the house, I was spoiled, but I followed my family members to escape famine and learned a lot of wild vegetables and fruits. Life was not easy in the past few months after I came to the branch of the Shen family. Most of the food that could be found nearby had been found by them. Now, even if I want to dig wild vegetables, I have to go a long way to find them.
"I searched the hillside west of the village but couldn't find any. I only found a few like these."
The ground fruit is delicious. Every year when it is ripe, the adults and children in the village will pay attention to it. Whenever they see vines, they will search for them. There are few left in the mountains and fields outside.
Sang Luo sighed: "You are too brave."
Shen Ning lowered his head: "I brought a stick to beat the grass, and I didn't go deep into the mountain. I just wandered around the edge of the mountain."
The little girl felt guilty, so she turned around to look at the water in the clay jar while she was talking, for fear of being scolded by her sister-in-law.
Sang Luo had the memories of her original self and knew the reason. Behind Shili Village were continuous mountains. Her original self was terrified to live in the mountains near the village. Normally, she would not allow the two little ones to go deep into the mountains, let alone go out at night to look for wild fruits.
But she also knew that the child dared to run out in the middle of the night to find food all for her, or in other words, for the original body, so she stopped talking and asked, "Where's Xiao An?"
Shen An, the older twin brother.
The little brother and sister usually go everywhere together, but today, after a while, only Shen Ning came back, and Shen An was not there.
Shen Ning slumped his shoulders: "Second brother went to ask Third Uncle to borrow food."
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In the middle of the night, the gate of the Shen family's courtyard was slammed loudly, and occasionally there was the sound of Shen An calling his uncle.
Shen San and Li in the room were already awakened by the noise.
Shen San was restless. After listening for half a quarter of an hour, he threw off the quilt and wanted to get out of bed, but Li held him down and said, "Don't go. It's been more than half a month. When haven't his brother and sister come to borrow food? They say they want to borrow, but do they have to pay? They have come up with all kinds of tricks. They can't borrow food during the day and they can't even borrow it at midnight."
Shen San paused as he tried to lift the quilt, and said in a low voice, “We can’t really ignore it. If we really get hungry and something bad happens to us… we’ll be criticized by the villagers.”
Li sneered, her face very calm: "Don't worry, I gave them food the day before yesterday. I know what's going on. The family has been divided, I can't spoil them and feed them, but they will definitely not starve to death. There are floods and droughts in the north, we are better in the south, although we have been affected a little, but we can find wild vegetables and fruits in the mountains. Can people really starve to death?"
The hesitation on Shen San's face gradually disappeared.
Li ended with a sentence: "Okay, wait until they come again tomorrow morning, I will give them something to eat then, but that Sang is too useless. I brought her back because I expected her to be able to support Chen An and Chen Ning. Now, she is useless. I should have found someone who can do the work."
The last sentence was said in a relatively low voice. In fact, being able to escape here from the north, the most difficult days had already passed. If one wanted to buy someone at this time, the price of silver would not be so cheap.
Although Li wanted to get rid of the burden, she was reluctant to spend several taels of silver to do so. That money could have been enough to support the two children for a year or two.
So even if there were other options, she would still choose not to sell herself but to exchange Sang Luo as her niece-in-law for half a bag of grain.
Shen San was not interested in this, and nodded and said, "It's fine as long as you have a plan. Don't be too tight on the matter of three or two mouths. If you get a reputation of being heartless and ungrateful, it will have some impact on our future life in the village."
The most important thing is that he still feels guilty to some extent, because his eldest brother only has these two bloodlines left.
The couple exchanged a few small words, and then really let it go. They didn't care that Chen An was knocking on the door outside, they just pretended not to hear it, and really lay back in bed.
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