frightfiction Chapter 842: Soft-hearted Liu Jingxue (2)
Chapter 842: Soft-hearted Liu Jingxue (2)
Seeing that his wife was unwilling to drink the ginger soup, the old man said that the soup could not cure her illness.
Although he knew that the ginger soup might not be able to save his wife, he was unwilling to give up as long as there was a glimmer of hope.
Besides, this is the only thing he can give to his wife at present.
"Don't talk nonsense, you just caught a cold.
Ginger soup is used to dispel cold, how could it not cure you?
Just don't worry, drink this bowl of soup and take a nap, and your illness will be cured.
As soon as you recover, let's go outside and see if we can find some rotten vegetable leaves or something to fill our stomachs.
We have to keep our lives and wait for the children to come back."
"You said they have been away for so many years, they must have given us grandchildren.
According to Jiaming's age when he left, he would have grown up by now and it's time for him to start a family. Maybe we will even have great-grandchildren."
"Don't you want to live a few more years to see our great-grandchildren?"
In front of the old woman, two fat white babies seemed to appear, opening their arms towards her and running towards her while shouting "Grandma".
The old woman, feeling happy, wanted to open her arms to welcome him, but unfortunately she didn't even have the strength to raise her hands.
The old woman suspected that she was meeting the person she wanted to see most before she died, and she made up her mind not to drink the ginger soup and leave it for the old man.
"Old man, I'm afraid I can't make it. I seemed to see our great-grandson and great-granddaughter just now.
You can drink this ginger soup yourself.
Remember to wait until the children come back."
As if she had used up her last bit of strength, the old woman said this and didn't say anything else.
"Old woman, old woman."
Seeing that his old woman did not respond, the old man became panicked.
He put the bowl back after finally taking it in his hand. He reached out his trembling hand under the nose of the old woman lying on the bed to check her breath.
After he smelled the breath, his legs went limp and he fell to the ground.
"Old woman, it's a good thing you're still alive. You almost scared me to death."
The old man struggled to get up, but after struggling for a long time, he was unable to stand up.
He simply sat on the ground and talked to his wife, trying to gather his strength.
"Old lady, how did we become like this?
If we had known that staying would lead to this situation, we would have left with the children."
But just after he finished saying this, he shook his head again and said, "No, we can't leave. If we leave, we will really die in a foreign land.
Even if we die, we must die here, guarding our ancestral home."
He said sadly again, "But even if we stay here, we can't protect our ancestral home.
We only managed to save this one room in such a big yard, and most of them have already been occupied by others."
"How could those people be so cruel? They used to rely on our family for food, and we didn't treat them badly. How could they become ungrateful?
All of them come to bully us two old lonely people."
Thinking of his experiences over the years, the old man couldn't help but feel sad, and tears were streaming down his face without him noticing.
He wiped his face and said, "But it doesn't mean that everyone has no conscience. There are a few people who still have a conscience.
If it weren't for their secret protection, we would have been demoted long ago.
If someone hadn’t secretly helped us, we would have starved to death.”
"Old lady, good people will be rewarded, and all the good deeds our family has done before are not in vain.
At least it has kept us two lonely old widowers together for all these years.
It’s a pity that we may not see the children come back.”
The old man's tears fell again, "In this situation, it's better for them not to come back. If they come back, we don't know what situation they will end up in.
As long as they are safe, it doesn’t matter if we can’t see them.”
"Old lady, if you go ahead and wait for me at the Naihe Bridge, I'll be there soon."
The old woman on the bed didn't respond.
Liu Jingxue couldn't bear to listen any longer, so she sped up and flew over there.
Soon, Liu Jingxue landed in the yard.
This courtyard was quite large, with almost ten houses. There were some simple stoves scattered around the courtyard, and it looked like several families were living there.
Recalling what her spiritual consciousness had heard the old man say before, Liu Jingxue realized that this was probably built by someone who had forced his way in later.
Without rushing to act, Liu Jingxue first used magic to check on the condition of the two elderly people through the window of the house.
She didn't even know the two men, and she was worried that she would save the evil people out of weakness and bring bad influence to herself.
After seeing the faint golden light of merit on the two people, Liu Jingxue breathed a sigh of relief.
"Fortunately, he is not a bad person and can be saved."
Just now on the road, Liu Jingxue had used her spiritual sense to investigate the situation of the two people.
The old woman had caught a cold and was too weak from not having eaten for several days.
If this disease happened to someone with a stronger body, he would not need to take any medicine and would just hold on and it would pass.
But that's how things are. The disease happened to fall on an old woman who had no food to eat and was weak.
As for the old man, he was also hungry, and he had caught the old woman's cold.
Liu Jingxue had already thought about how to rescue them on the way here.
Just give them some food, common medicines, and warm cotton-padded clothes and cotton.
After all, Liu Jingxue felt cold just by looking at the tattered cotton-padded jackets they were wearing and the thin quilts on the bed.
By the way, we have to save some firewood. After all, Liu Jingxue saw that there was not much firewood in their simple kitchen.
As for coal, there is even less.
Liu Jingxue thought about it and went into the space to prepare things.
She didn't plan to use the food produced in the space, but rather the food distributed by the production team.
Liu Jingxue still understood the principle of "a little help is a kindness, a big help is a grudge".
Besides, the space mostly produces fine grains. Given their current situation, they may not be able to keep the fine grains. They can eat coarse grains for a while longer.
As for cotton-padded coats and quilts, Liu Jingxue does have some modern quilts in her space, but she doesn't have any ready-made cotton-padded coats.
Then give them a thick quilt and some cotton and let them stuff it into their tattered cotton-padded jackets.
I left them some medicine for treating colds, bruises and injuries, and some medicine for external injuries.
After preparing the things, Liu Jingxue left the space. After scanning the yard and finding that there was no one there, Liu Jingxue put out the things she had prepared.
The door was locked from the inside, but this did not pose a problem for Liu Jingxue. She used her spiritual sense to remove the bolt, ended her invisibility, and pushed the door open.
After pushing the door open, Liu Jingxue walked in carrying a quilt and a backpack.
When the door was pushed open, the old man who was sitting on the ground was startled. He looked at Liu Jingxue who walked in and was very surprised.
Worried that the person was out to cause trouble for the old couple, he struggled to get up, but was unable to do so.
"Comrade, please be kind.
I didn't mean to not go sweep the streets. My wife was sick and was about to die, so I stayed at home to take care of her.
Don't worry, I'll be there to do the work in a moment."