Xie Zhenghe was discharged from the hospital after staying there for more than a week. There was nothing he could do. He had something on his mind, and the cost of staying in the hospital was too high. He felt guilty every day he stayed there.
After being discharged from the hospital, he recuperated at home. During this period, Su Li, Xie Zhengchuan, Xie Yi and Xie's mother went to Liu's house with him.
It was the first time for Xie's father and mother to meet Pan Yumei, but they were happy from the bottom of their hearts. This girl was a good mother. They knew that she would do everything for their son and would not have any dissatisfaction with her just because she was a member of the Pan family.
The two families had a pleasant conversation, but Xie Zhenghe and Pan Yumei always looked away silently when their eyes met.
Ever since Xie Zhengchuan went to the county to take office, Su Li had completely let herself go at home with the children. While the children were out playing, she would go into the space every day to wash, do beauty treatments, try on luxury clothes from the department store, or put on makeup in the space courtyard, and patrol the mountain streams and fields in the space. There were too many supplies in the space, and Su Li wanted to clear out some of them, at least the food, chickens, ducks, and aquatic animals.
Thinking of this, Su Li took a trip to the county town when he had nothing to do, and found Wang Hong and Grandpa to produce some supplies. This was the first cooperation after the Chinese New Year, so both parties were very excited.
Especially Wang Hong, who was very happy to see Su Li holding her hand again, because not only did her own family have a good year, but even her parents' family was doing much better as well.
Su Li received nearly 30,000 yuan for this transaction. While she was in the county town, she went to see Su Huai again, but unfortunately she didn't see him. She heard from Su Huai's colleagues that it seemed that two rooms of the old house in his family had collapsed, and he was helping to repair the house at home today.
Su Li had wanted to help the Su family build a house before. Even if it was not possible to build a brick house, at least a mud house should be built, preferably a bigger one, as the Su family had too many people.
After noon, Su Li returned to Shanghe Village.
In a thatched hut at the end of Shanghe Village, Tian Laoshi was feeding his mother sweet potato porridge. The thick porridge was soft and sweet. The old lady was so thin that she almost looked like a human. She swallowed unconsciously with her mouth open, and she was breathing out more than breathing in.
And what Tian Laoshi had in his hand was the last sweet potato in his family. His family had run out of food. Originally, after the food supply was replenished, the family would have had enough food to last until the autumn harvest. However, his wife had a difficult delivery and almost died. Although she gave birth to a son, the child was too weak. The barefoot doctor said that she had to eat something good to replenish her body.
His wife was weak and had no milk, and his son was crying with hunger. When he went hunting, his mother took the family's grain without telling him and exchanged it for a pound of brown sugar and ten eggs. He fed his wife one brown sugar and one egg a day. After she finally had milk, she also had a full meal of milk.
Before he could relax, his mother fell ill from overwork again. Old Mrs. Tian had worked hard in her early years and was too weak to do heavy work. Now, because she was worried about Tian Laoshi's family, she saved her own food rations and secretly saved them to sell later.
He exchanged some money and tickets to buy some food for Mrs. Tian. After she fell ill, Tian Laoshi sold grain to Mrs. Tian for her treatment and health. As a result, not long after the Chinese New Year, the food in the house was gone.
Mrs. Tian was coaxing the child in the room. She had been kept in the dark all along because Tian Laoshi told her that he secretly sold the prey he hunted so that she could eat good food. She was grateful and told the man to be careful and not to be reported.
After feeding, Tian Laoshi walked out of the house, squatted beside the haystack at the door and cried with his hands covering his mouth. He had no choice, as there was no food at home. Tian's relatives had cut off ties with them many years ago and had been avoiding them all these years, fearing that their food would be borrowed.
He was so useless. He didn't expect that his family survived the winter and saw spring coming, but they didn't freeze to death but starved to death.
It doesn't matter if he dies, but what's wrong with his mother, wife and son? Especially his newborn son, who is so young and has only been a month old.
When Su Li was riding her bicycle and almost reaching Shanghe Village, she suddenly heard low sobbing. Su Li was a little curious, so she got off the bicycle and stretched her head to look. It seemed that the crying sound came from the haystack. She shouted,
"Who? Who's where?"
Originally Su Li didn't want to care, but the voice was full of despair, which made her unconsciously want to see what happened that made a man cry so sadly and so desperately.
Tian Laoshi touched his sleeves. Tian Laoshi was really honest. He usually stuttered when talking to girls, but now he was not afraid anymore. He was going to die soon anyway, so what was there to be afraid of?
When he came out of the haystack, he saw that it was Xie Laosan's house. He didn't say anything, just glanced at Su Li and left.
Su Li looked at Tian Laoshi with a strange look in his eyes, and it was obvious that he was determined to die.
"Tian Laoshi, has something happened to your family? If you can help, please tell me. Xie Zhengchuan is working at the police station now. If you encounter any problems, please tell me first."
Tian Laoshi was about to enter the house when he paused. He was not afraid of death anymore, so he just said it.
"My family is starving to death. We are out of food, not even a single sweet potato. My baby is still young and will die with us."
I thought I had accepted the reality, even though I had just cried. But as soon as I said this, my eyes turned red again.
"Can...your family lend me some food? I...I will pay it back later." Tian Laoshi looked at Su Li. Although he said this as a last-ditch effort, he didn't think that Su Li would lend him any money. He had heard of Su Li's bad reputation before. Their family were all honest and stayed away from gossip.
What I want to borrow is not just any ordinary thing, it is food! Who is willing to lend out life-saving food?
Thinking of this, his eyes became dim.
I lowered my head and turned around to walk into the house.
"Okay, I'll lend it to you."
"What?" Tian Laoshi looked at Su Li with wide eyes, urgently needing to confirm whether what she said was true.
"I'll lend it to you, but what do you mean when you say someone in your family is starving to death?"
"My...my mother is dying."
Tian Laoshi said that it was very difficult. Even though he had just fed his child a bowl of sweet potato porridge, he knew that he would not be able to hold out for long.
"Here are 20 kilograms of whole grains and 10 eggs. Take them first. I just came from the county town and didn't bring much. I'll go home and get them for you later. If it's convenient, can I go see Auntie Tian?"
Su Li said as she took out food from the snakeskin bag next to her car, actually she took it out from the space.
"Hey, hey." Tian Laoshi took the coarse grains from Su Li's hand, and the grown man couldn't help but shed tears. He really didn't expect that he would speak out. She actually gave him so much food. What he held in his hand now was not twenty kilograms of coarse grains, but their family's life. He now regarded Su Li as his savior and was polite to her.
Su Li pushed the bicycle and followed Tian Laoshi into the yard. After locking the bicycle, she took off the snakeskin bag and held it in her hand.
Tian Laoshi called his wife over. It was not appropriate for him as a man to be alone with Su Li. Tian's wife didn't understand why, but she still obeyed and led Su Li into Tian Laoshi's room.
"Mom, mom, are you asleep? Someone is here to see you." Old Mrs. Tian moved her eyes with them closed, but did not open them.
Mrs. Tian smiled awkwardly, "My mother may not be feeling well, don't worry about it."
Su Li had just heard Tian Laoshi talking about the family situation in the yard. Mrs. Tian was in very poor health, and Tian Laoshi was afraid that if she knew about it, her health would collapse.
Su Li said: "It's okay, sister-in-law, could you please pour me a glass of water?"
"My dear, wait a moment!" Oh, who would come to the door without pouring water? Thinking of this, Sister Tian blushed a little. Although she didn't like Su Li, she only heard about it from others. She had only seen her a few times. She didn't expect that Third Brother Xie's family was so gentle.
Su Li looked at the old woman lying on the slightly heated kang. The quilt on her body was torn and cotton wool was leaking out. The cotton wool was old and clumping. Su Li thought that if the kang was not heated, the family would never survive the winter.
He sighed, took out a tube of glucose from the space and fed it to Old Lady Tian's mouth, then dripped a dozen drops of spiritual spring water from between his fingers.
"Auntie, can you hear me? This is medicine to save you. Open your mouth and drink it. You will be fine after drinking it. Only when the difficulties are over can your life get better in the future."
Old Mrs. Tian swallowed it in a daze, and her complexion was visibly better afterwards. Without staying long, Su Li left five bottles of glucose for Tian Laoshi and asked him to feed Old Mrs. Tian a small bowl of it at each meal, saying that this was bought from the county hospital and was originally intended for Xie Zhenghe.
Tian Laoshi had heard about Xie Zhenghe's injury, and now he was particularly grateful to Su Li. At the same time, he was ashamed of his previous perception of Su Li, because it was she who saved the lives of the whole family at the critical moment.
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