Yu Hehua was suddenly stunned and said after a while: "It's okay, nothing happened."
"Don't lie to me. Did something happen to Brother Yu?"
"No, no."
"What about Brother Fish?"
Yu Hehua suddenly lowered his head and wiped the corners of his eyes.
"Ahem! Things have happened, and there's nothing we can't say. My old man went up the mountain to hunt for some things to exchange for money, and he slipped and fell. But don't worry, he's fine. He's been in the hospital for two days.
We should bring him back tomorrow and the day after tomorrow. The hospital is too expensive and we can’t stay there for too long.”
Only then did Lin Tao understand why Yu Hehua said she was here to deliver food.
Presumably, Brother Yu has spent all his family's money in the past few days since he entered the medical clinic.
After carefully looking at the corner of the room, I saw a large vat containing grain, which was open and empty.
There's not even a grain of food left! I'm afraid Brother Yu is in the hospital for more than two days!
Based on her understanding of Sister Yu, she would definitely be reluctant to eat the fish in the fish pond.
That's why I picked up those wilted and yellow vegetable leaves in the vegetable patch at the door.
As long as there are people who stutter, it will be fine if they hang around and starve to death.
In his absence, Yu Hehua opened his mouth again.
"I, Yu Hehua, remember your kindness in my heart. But I can't ask for your food! No matter how difficult our family is right now, if we don't have men at home, we have my two sons and the fish in this pond! We can't be hungry.
!”
"It's you, the man is gone, you have a stupid son to support, a wife and a large family of grandchildren. You, hurry up and drag the food home."
Huh? It’s true that the man is gone, but the stupid son is...
"You sit down, I'll catch some fish for you, and you take it back." Sister Yu said and got up and went out.
Lin Tao, who came back to her senses, hurriedly chased after him.
"Sister, I really didn't come here on purpose to deliver food to you. I brought the food to trade with you for fish." Lin Tao twitched her lips in embarrassment.
"Also, my four sons are not stupid. It's just that except for the third child, they are all ungrateful."
"Ah?" Yu Hehua clapped his hands together: "Look at the look in my eyes. When you first came back to Fangshi, I saw you yelling at them like that. I thought you were yelling at them..."
Yuhehua didn't say anything further, and nodded with her hands.
At that time, it was only when I saw a grown man in his early twenties who was treated like a mother and yelled at him like a child that I felt pity for the mother and her son and were willing to help her.
Only then did I realize that I had made a mistake.
"Ahem! Look at my eyes! If you don't say this, just sit down and rest and wait for me for a while."
"No, Sister Yu, I am really here to exchange fish. And I am exchanging fish for others."
Some things really get more troublesome the more they are explained, so Lin Tao changed her job.
Sure enough, Sister Yu didn't rush out anymore.
"Are you really here to trade for fish?"
"That's not true! The clan leader of Gongjiazhai took some grain and asked me to exchange it for him some fish."
"Oh! Clan leader?"
"I have to rush back soon. Come and see how much fish these grains can be exchanged for."
Lin Tao pulled Yu Hehua to the bullock cart.
"This, isn't this your tartary buckwheat noodles? You, you can't be..."
"No, no! My youngest is now the village chief of Gongjiazhai. My youngest taught them these sour buckwheat noodles and they found them themselves in the mountains."
"Lao San, you are now the village chief! What a great achievement! You are such a lucky person."
Lin Tao smiled politely.
In the eyes of others, this kind of thing is like a golden egg emerging from a hen's nest, which is a great thing.
Only she knew in her heart that such a thankless job was not done by humans.
Sister Yu looked at the grain selection and was very happy.
"Where's Bai Lai Sheng? Thank you for thinking of me whenever you do anything good. I'll go fishing for you. It's sunny, so you sit in the house and wait."
Lin Tao nodded, called Mrs. Zhu over, and sat together on the steps in front of the house to wait.
In just half an hour, Sister Yu picked out a bunch of fish.
The fish that had just left the water were swaying and jumping in the basket.
But this is almost a one-to-one exchange...
"Sister, no matter how cheap the fish is, it's not as much as how much food is exchanged for the fish! That fish is so expensive!"
"What's the use of expensive fish? No one will buy it! If you take this picky fish back, it's up to you to decide how to give it to the clan leader. The extra fish will be considered as eldest sister giving it to your grandchildren."
Unforgettable, the fish, lotus and fish were put in the basket on the oxcart.
The care Sister Yu and her elders have taken for her these days is really heartbreaking.
Lin Tao did not refuse, but found two mattresses from the big bag on the bullock cart and took them directly to Sister Yu's house.
"You, what are you doing?"
"Sister, I have nothing to repay you for your love for me. If you believe me, just accept all these things. In a day or two, it will snow heavily."
Putting down the mattress, Lin Tao found five thick pieces of clothing and gifts from the bag and put them together on the kang.
"Sister, the snow is going to be very heavy. Hurry up and collect the vegetables that need to be harvested in the fields. Otherwise, they will freeze and you will have nothing to eat. Although the fish can be sold for money, you two must be able to move it.
It’s very cold this winter, so be sure to prepare all the food at home!”
Seeing Yu Hehua's absent-minded look, Lin Tao said nothing more.
After a few simple instructions, he asked Mrs. Zhu to carry the tartary buckwheat noodles into the house, quietly left a small basket of salt, got in the car and left.
Fortunately, we were in a hurry, and it was noon when we left Qingyuan Town.
However, the streets are no longer as prosperous as before, and many shops have closed.
Occasionally, people fleeing with their families would head towards the south gate.
It seems that some villages near Qingyuan Town are suffering from famine.
Lin Tao glanced at the sky and urged Zhu: "Hurry up and get home before midnight."
That is to say, Zhu has mastered the skill of driving a car. Otherwise, no one would dare to make the car fly on the dark road.
When she got home, no one in the family could sleep, except the baby. They were all waiting for her in the yard.
"Quickly, move everything in the car into your home."
Everyone got busy.
After all the things in the car were moved, the two elders stood at the door of the stove.
"Peach, what are you buying?" the old lady asked, pointing to a pile of small bamboo baskets.
"Salt."
"Salt? Where did you get the money to buy so much? No, no, no, I mean, why did you buy so much salt?"
Before Lin Tao could answer, a few silly boys were heard yelling like crazy.
"Fish wow!"
"Such a fish!"
“Lots of fish!”
"Eat fish, eat fish. Can you eat fish every day in the future?"
Lin Tao took off her straw sandals and went up, bang bang bang, Li one, Li two, Li four, with big shoe marks all over her face.
"What are you shouting for in the middle of the night?"
The three of them stood silently.
Lin Tao was so angry that she cursed and put her straw sandals back on her feet.
Suddenly, a strong wind blew by, and the biting chill made everyone shiver.
"It's going to snow. Hurry and light fires in the pits of each house. Don't get cold."
Everyone started moving again.
Poor families would dig a hole in the ground for each house, which could be used for lighting in spring and autumn, and a fire would be lit to keep out the cold in winter.
Lin Tao, on the other hand, was busy finding thick clothes and bedding. This chapter has been completed!