Qiao Xin turned around and looked at his always gentle face. She couldn't help but want to reach out and destroy it, but after thinking about it, she didn't dare to take action. This guy is a black-bellied person, so it's better not to provoke him.
"Mom, why are you looking at me like that?"
"Are you angry? Don't keep a straight face every day. You'll age so quickly! If you have any ideas, just tell me. I'm not someone who won't listen to opinions."
"I'm not angry, but I just can't understand. Is there no bad person in my eyes? Why do I trust people so easily? This person may not have any real ability, but he is evasive in his words and deeds, which shows that he is obviously in trouble!"
"This old man may have lied about other things, but he is really good at making medicine. Look at his small house, even the straw mat is more exquisite than that of ordinary people. The mat is made of mugwort mixed with chang grass. Although the technique is a bit rough, it is mosquito-proof, odor-proof and insect-proof, no big problem.
There were kudzu roots and Chinese yam hanging on the beams. These were all medicinal herbs that could satisfy hunger. They could be used as both medicine and food to save lives during famine. The medicine he was pounding in the stone mortar was a hemostatic and cooling herb that lacked blood serum. So, it was not a lie that he knew medical skills.
As for whether it is troublesome or not, how many people don’t have so-called troubles these days! Sometimes, what seems like a big trouble to ordinary people can be solved by the powerful with just a few words.”
How could Qiao Xin trust someone based on just a few words? They just needed each other and were just keeping each other warm. In extreme weather, children are a group that is very likely to die. With someone who knows medicine to cover for her, she can have a specific explanation for any quick-acting life-saving pills she comes up with in the future.
"If we don't take care of this family, they probably won't survive this winter. This snowstorm is different from the past. The area affected is unprecedentedly wide. We have to hurry up and prepare. It's better for Old Man Mo to be alive than to die. Let's prepare for the children!"
Qiao Yunqing thought about it and realized that this was the truth. In his previous life, he had to endure the winter in the first half of his life. In the second half of his life, he returned to his family. Although everything went wrong and he was schemed against everywhere, he had enough food and drink. It can be said that he went from one extreme to another.
He had been living a life of luxury for more than a decade, with people doing whatever he needed whenever he asked. When he returned to the hard times, nothing had really changed.
He had never experienced someone like Qiao Xin who prepared everything by herself.
Shi Yazi's family was worse off than Old Man Mo's. In order to save more food for his grandson, the old man had only eaten a little bit of coarse grain a day for half a month. When he was hungry, he chewed grass roots to fill his stomach.
Now there is no more coarse grains, and the grass roots are almost gone. The old woman has been on a hunger strike for more than two days. If it were any later, I guess there would be no hope.
Upon hearing that they were willing to exchange food for firewood, Shi Yazi, an ordinary doctor, knelt in front of Qiao Xin and kowtowed three times, "Sir, can you give me some food first? My mother-in-law can't hold on any longer. I have ten loads of firewood at home, I'll send them to you right away."
Qiao Xin quickly helped the man up. She looked at Shi Yazi, who was obviously two years older than Dalang, but was not even as tall as his shoulders. She then looked at the shabby house that was leaking wind and snow everywhere. The old man was covered with a linen quilt filled with straw. Shi Yazi was walking in the snow in straw sandals, and his thin pants could no longer cover his ankles. He was simply a replica of the Qiao family's child when she first arrived!
Qiao Xin was silent. This family's problems could not be solved by simply giving them food.
"I need a boy to run errands and a woman to wash the laundry in my house. I only need food and lodging, but I don't have any money. I wonder if you are willing to do it?"
Shi Yazi was overjoyed and said, "Yes, yes!"
When she came to her senses, she immediately crawled to the straw mat where her grandmother was lying, held the old woman's skinny hand and cried, "Grandma, did you hear me? We have food and shelter now, please hold on, and don't leave me alone."
The mother-in-law obviously heard what Qiao Xin said and tried to get up and kowtow to Qiao Xin, but she was so weak that she couldn't get up twice in a row and had to give up. She pulled Shi Yazi's hand and said, "Hurry up and kowtow to the noble lady!"
Qiao Xin was impatient with others kowtowing to her, so she quickly stopped them and said, "Alright, stop being polite, hurry up and make some food for her to recover, and move in tonight, we can't live here anymore."
With the help of the villagers, the two families arrived very quickly. Actually, they didn't have much to take with them. All their belongings were in a small bag.
Qiao Xin asked Xu to find a room for them to live in in the front yard. No matter how shabby the room was, it was warmer than the house they lived in before. Although the doors and windows were a little damaged, at least there was no air leakage. Just fix it up, hang a straw curtain, and light a brazier, and the room would be warm in an instant.
Following Qiao Xin's instructions, Xu personally brought two quilts and two sets of half-worn warm clothes to Old Man Mo. Old Man Mo didn't expect that she would send things immediately after she became the master of the house, and his heart was relieved.
He looked at his old hands, which were covered with cracks and dust, and he had not cleaned them for many days. He was hesitant to reach out for the things that Xu handed over.
He was afraid of dirtying such a clean item!
Mrs. Xu pretended not to notice his little action, put down the things in her hands, and said, "Mother-in-law said that you should settle down first, and when you are done, you can go to the back kitchen to eat."
He asked hesitantly, "I'm afraid this is against the rules!"
"Mother-in-law's words are the rules of our family, just follow them!"
Old Man Mo nodded to show that he understood. Seeing that he had no other requests, Xu went directly to Shiyazi, gave his instructions again, and left.
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