Traveling through the famine years, the best old woman, I was gnawed into the richest man by my children and grandchildren Chapter 216: Living in this world is a calamity
Looking over, a snowdrift was slowly moving towards them.
Lin Tao retreated to the car and grasped the handle of the knife hidden in the car.
The night was dark with sporadic light snow, and the view was limited.
When the snowdrift was no more than five or six meters away from her, she saw clearly that it was a woman, with a one or two-year-old baby in her arms.
The little baby was like a powerless little cat, crying for mother without saying a word.
The woman slowly raised her head, and the snowflakes on her head fell off. Her face was black and blue, her lips were chapped and black, and there was a thin layer of frost on her face.
The broken hair on his forehead and eyebrows were covered with ice stubble.
"Ghost! There's a ghost!" Xiao Wu screamed and ran to the back of the car.
"stop!"
Lin Tao yelled, and the woman stopped where she was.
She sent the child in her arms towards this side and said tremblingly: "Please, please be kind and take my child."
Lin Tao frowned.
The woman did not beg for food, nor did she take advantage of the sympathy of the majority for the child and pray for help.
"Where is your family?" Lin Tao asked.
Judging from the woman's appearance, she had been in the woods for at least a whole day.
It had snowed during the night, and it was almost impossible for her and the child to survive.
The woman slowly turned back and looked in the direction of the woods from where she came.
"Auntie, the child's father and grandpa have used their bodies to protect us. You, please do a good job and find a place for the baby! Don't look at him because he is young. He is very young.
If you are sensible, you can give it to those who stutter, as long as they are not hungry or die."
The woman tried again to send the baby to her side.
"Mom? That baby is so pitiful." Xiao Wu whispered beside him.
With a bang, Lin Tao pulled out the big knife hidden in the car.
The woman not far away seemed startled and suddenly hugged the child tightly into her arms.
"Mom!" Xiao Wu wanted to say something else, but she yelled and stopped him.
"Shut up! I'll be like you when I go out, and I'll die 800 times ago! And you! If you give birth to a baby by yourself, you have to figure it out by yourself! Don't place your hopes on others! I don't have that leisure, let alone that
Compassion. If you dare to come here today, I will reunite your family!"
He waved the big knife in his hand, led the ox cart and continued to move forward.
Li Wumei glanced at the old lady's back, then turned to look at the mother and son beside the official road.
The woman's trembling figure and the child's seemingly absent cry all hurt her heart.
She is also a mother, and she has even experienced desperate situations herself.
At that time, like this woman, her only thought was that her daughter could live...
But my mother can obviously help them! Why are you so cruel?
However, when she saw the familiar baggage and clothes beside the car mark behind her, her heart skipped a beat.
With widened eyes, he looked towards the front of the car.
"What are you doing behind there? Come and pull the car quickly."
Xiao Wu rubbed his hands and ran forward.
"Mom, I'm sorry."
"If you have the strength to speak, why not help the cowboy pull the cart?"
"Ai!"
She misunderstood her.
My mother said she wouldn't help the baby, but actually she wanted to help the woman as well.
If they take away the child, the woman will no longer have any hope of living and will undoubtedly die.
That's why my mother told the woman that she would have to figure out how to handle the baby she gave birth to.
He also said, don’t place your hopes on others.
It means that only she, a biological mother, would feel sorry for her baby!
Let that woman, no matter how helpless she is when faced with a desperate situation, still have to live for her children!
With that bag of pancakes and thick clothes, they should be enough for the two of them to enter Qingyuan Town!
Looking at the old lady's resolute profile, she said again: "Mom! From now on, I will definitely be a hard-working mother like you."
Lin Tao didn't answer, but when she looked at Xiao Wu, she glanced back from the corner of her eye and saw the woman picking up her clothes and baggage, and then turned back.
When people live in this world, they are going through calamities.
No one can help anyone except your own efforts!
All you can do is face the wind and snow and grit your teeth and move forward!
The heavy snow stopped in the middle of the night and the road became much easier to walk.
So at dawn, they entered Qingyuan Town.
"Hey! Auntie is here!" An officer and soldier guarding the city gate came over rubbing his hands.
"Are you sending charcoal to Mr. An again?"
"Yes!" Lin Tao responded.
"Mom, can you sell me some of your charcoal?"
Lin Tao was stunned at first, and then smiled and said: "Oh! That's right. Now, I'll see Mr. An later and tell him about it, and ask him to give you a cheaper deal. Do you think it's okay?"
The officer and soldier were so happy that they almost grinned from ear to ear and said thank you.
Far away from the city gate, Xiao Wu came over and asked softly: "Mom? Who is selling this charcoal?"
"What do you know? This money can be earned or not earned! What's more important to know is that others can earn it, but you can't."
"I know what you can earn and what you can't earn. But what does it mean if others can earn it but we can't?"
Lin Tao rolled her eyes and said: "I sold him charcoal, and other officers and soldiers found out about it and came to me to buy it. Didn't that cut off Xu Anzi's financial path? Looking back, the relationship that was originally good was ruined by these few taels.
Money is on the line! If you are a big-bellied person, remembering old feelings, don’t embarrass us. If you are a small-bellied person, do you think it’s worth it if you use some dirty tricks and make some stumbling blocks?"
"It's not worth it! How can we, the common people, compete with the officials? I didn't expect that there are so many things to pay attention to in this business."
Lin Tao laughed: "There are so many things in this. If you want to learn, just read more and don't say anything."
"Yes! My daughter has remembered it."
Arriving in front of Xu Deren's shop, Xu Deren greeted him.
"Quick, quick, quick, aunt, sit inside."
After exchanging pleasantries, he led Xiao Wu into the shop.
There are much fewer things on the shelves in the shop today than when I first came back.
"I'm still thinking, if my aunt doesn't come, my shop will be demolished by those gentlemen!" Xu Deren took two bowls of tea and put them down, then brought a charcoal basin from the back room and placed it in front of them.
It was frozen all day and baked for a while before my hands regained consciousness.
I saw Xiao Lizi leading two strangers to move goods, and I thought that Xu Deren's recent business must be good.
"Shopkeeper! Madam has brought a wild boar here again today! Look, there seems to be a deer in the car!" Little Plum was as excited as a child, full of energy.
"Auntie's hunting skills are really amazing! Now all the men in the family are crazy about this meat! I'll arrange for someone to send the wild boar out right away."
Xu Deren said he was about to leave, but Lin Tao stopped him in a hurry.
"The shopkeeper, Xu, please be busy first. I have something else to do. I'll go somewhere else for a while, and then I'll come back to settle the bill."
Xu Deren, who was busy with work, did not force her to stay.
Lin Tao thought of finding a restaurant first to fill her stomach. She didn't expect that many restaurants would be closed down along the way.
It was with great difficulty that I found a store that was not too big and entered.
The shopkeeper and waiters in the building warmly accommodated them.
Lin Tao asked: "Shopkeeper, what do you have to eat at home?"
The shopkeeper came over with tea.
"What the old lady said is true. It's been freezing outside for almost a month. Which store is not short of food? In my small shop, apart from some pickled vegetables, the only thing left is meat."
Lin Tao raised her eyebrows with a smile on her face and asked, "Could it be rice meat?"
"That's what the old lady said! Although the government doesn't care what kind of meat we sell, we don't sell such unscrupulous things as rice meat. The meat here is all pigs raised by myself! There are still hundreds of pigs in the backyard.
!If you are worried, you can follow me and have a look."
"Okay! Let's have the best dish then!"
"Okay! Today, the old lady will try my pickled cabbage trotters, it's so beautiful!"
After saying that, the shopkeeper took the kettle and went to the inner hall.