"Little fish!"
Chi Yu, who was wrapped up tightly and had just left the general store, heard his older brother's voice and quickly turned his head to look.
She was startled to see the pleading look in her older brother's eyes and the way her sister looked like she was about to collapse.
"Brother, what's wrong with sister-in-law?"
Take her to my room quickly, throw what she's holding on the ground, and I'll come back for it later.
Oh, and there's still plenty of brown sugar ginger tea in the kitchen; I'll give her some later.
After saying that, she shouted loudly into the grocery store, her voice trembling:
"Aden's wife, something's happened, come quick and help."
Inside the grocery store, Liu Lingling, who was feeding water to her two children, heard the news of the accident and immediately dropped the bowl in her hand onto the kang (a heated brick bed).
At this moment, she couldn't care less about anything else. As she got off the bed, she called out to Liu Mei, who was standing there in a daze:
"Second sister-in-law, I just heard my aunt call out something like 'elder sister-in-law,' so I guess something must have happened to Mother."
"Keep an eye on Zhuangzhuang, Ali, and Aguang for me. I'm going out to see what's going on!"
Liu Mei had already calmed down and was writing the characters her aunt had taught her that day with her hand dipped in water.
Upon hearing this news, she was so shocked that she couldn't recover for a long time.
When I came to my senses, my first instinct was to run outside.
But as I looked at the kang (heated brick bed), I remembered what my sister-in-law had said earlier.
She glanced at the three children on the kang (a heated brick bed).
Apart from Zhuangzhuang being too young to understand anything, Aguang and Ali, perhaps influenced by the adults' emotions, both looked like they were about to cry.
Having no other choice, she could only calm them down before walking to the entrance of the grocery store and looking outside.
Unfortunately, everything was covered in white, and apart from two bags on the ground not far away, there was no one else around.
She tightened her clothes and put on her hat before leaving the grocery store and walking toward the two bags.
Upon getting closer, they were stunned to see the thatch peeking out of the bag.
The temperature plummeted the night before last, and then a heavy snowfall began around 3 AM.
The snowfall wasn't sudden, but it was exceptionally heavy.
By noon yesterday, the snow had almost reached her calves.
While the villagers were still shaken, they also felt grateful to their aunt.
Then several women with good weaving skills worked together overnight to make two straw curtains.
Then, led by Aunt Guihua, several older women from the clan came over to express their sincere gratitude to the younger sister.
This morning, one of them was hung on the main door by my aunt.
The remaining one was hung there because the grocery store was going to open for business.
With this feature, the grocery store can open its doors without the temperature suddenly dropping due to people coming and going.
Then, during lunch, she said that it would be great if they had one at home too.
With one hanging in the main room and one in the sister-in-law's room, Ah Guang and Ah Li wouldn't feel cold.
She never expected that her mother-in-law would take her casual remark to heart.
If my mother-in-law is alright right now, that's fine. But if something happens to her, then she'll be a terrible sinner!
Thinking this, Liu Mei's face turned deathly pale, and she felt as if all her strength had been drained. She gripped the two bags tightly in her hands, but couldn't muster any strength at all.
Chi Deng didn't go home after returning from Tanshan. Instead, he came to his aunt's place to pick up his wife, sister-in-law, and nephews.
Before they even got close, they saw their wife standing there blankly in the snow, not moving an inch.
Seeing this, he wondered if something had happened to his wife.
"Honey, what are you standing there for?"
When Liu Mei came to her senses and saw Chi Deng, she instinctively trembled with fear.
She quickly realized that she felt like crying, but she knew that now was not the time to cry, so she shook her head vigorously.
After shaking the snow off his hat, he gritted his teeth, mustered all his strength, and dragged the two bags a few steps forward.
"Husband, something's happened to Mother! You need to go see what's wrong!"
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