FSC [QT] Chapter 187.4

In an era of material scarcity, tea cups soaked in sugar water were a rarity. The other two daughters-in-law of the Xie family, Zhang Xiaojuan and Liu Landi, were the kind of people who cared about it. They would often use water to rinse the cups after the guests left. In this way, they could still taste some diluted sweetness. Although it was a little dirty, it was much better than ordinary well water.

But Xu Chunxiu never allowed her daughter to do that. It was funny that her daughter’s father earned dozens of yuan a month, but her daughter had never even tasted a cup of sugar water when she grew up.

So much so that when she drank brown sugar water now, she felt that the tap water consumed by city dwellers was of particularly high quality, with this indescribable sweet taste.

Xu Chunxiu turned her head, wiped away her tears in a place where her daughter could not see, and then turned her head quickly.

“There is still a lot of brown sugar. These days, Mom will make you three cups of brown sugar water every day.”

Xu Chunxiu bought these brown sugar with the brown sugar tickets given by the hospital. The amount was not much, but if she saved a little, she could make brown sugar water for her daughter for several days.

Looking at her daughter’s dark and thin face, Xu Chunxiu felt that she was too irresponsible as a mother.

People say that a mother is strong, so why was she like a soft noodle in her first thirteen years and didn’t harden up?

“Brown sugar!”

Ah Wu shuddered so much that she could hardly hold the cup in her hand.

Her grandmother’s gloomy face appeared in her mind, and the wound on her head began to hurt again.

“Don’t be afraid. These brown sugars are not from your Grandma.”

Xu Chunxiu knew what her daughter was afraid of.

In the past, when Xie Changzheng came home to visit, the old lady would allow her daughter to eat one or two eggs and one or two pieces of meat for the sake of pretending.

But every time Xie Changzheng left, the old lady would always curse for a long time. After that, the old lady would have to make them do a lot more work.

Her daughter was afraid that if she ate one more bite of good food, she would have to pay it back ten or a hundred times its value.

“Is the brown sugar water delicious? Isn’t it very sweet?”

Xu Chunxiu looked at her daughter’s face which had lost color due to excessive bleeding and coaxed her to drink a few more sips distressingly.

“Sweet. Mom, how can there be such delicious water in the world?”

Maybe it was because of the wound on her head, but Ah Wu’s consciousness was still a little groggy.

Her intuition told her that brown sugar water was not that rare and that she had tasted many better things. But her memory told her that brown sugar water tasted extremely sweet and that it was the most delicious thing she had ever tasted since she grew up.

“Mom, you drink a sip too.”

Ah Wu looked at the half-drunk brown sugar water.

Before, she thought that it was just ordinary water, so she drank too much in one breath. But when she learned that it was water made with precious brown sugar, she was reluctant to drink it.

She held up the hospital’s enamel cup with her two thin arms and brought the brown sugar water in front of her mother.

“Mom is an adult and doesn’t like sweets.”

How could Xu Chunxiu compete with her sick daughter for these good things?

“Brown sugar water is so sweet, how can Mom not like to drink it? Mom, take a sip. It’s delicious.”

Ah Wu was a little confused.

Was there really anyone who would refuse something so delicious?

She didn’t believe it!

Thinking of how she had picked some wild fruits while cutting grass for pigs in the mountains, secretly hidden them at home and gave them to her mother to eat in their small room, and how her mother had said that she didn’t like them but then secretly licked the juice of the berries on her fingers behind her back, she felt that she had discovered the truth.

After hearing this, Xie Changzheng really couldn’t bear it anymore. He rubbed his face with his hands to make his expression look less stiff, then pushed open the door, and went in.

“I bought a lot of snacks for Ah Wu. Didn’t the doctor say that Ah Wu lost a lot of blood and needed blood supplements? I especially weighed more than a pound of brown sugar. Your health is not good either. You and our daughter should drink brown sugar water to replenish your blood these days.”

Xie Changzheng put the basin on the small table beside him and then took out the things inside one by one.

Ah Wu was frightened by the man who suddenly came in. She subconsciously hid behind her mother Xu Chunxiu, sticking out half of her face and secretly staring at the man.

She thought that no one noticed her little action, but she didn’t know that her every move had already fallen into Xie Changzheng’s eyes.

“Drink the brown sugar water while it’s hot.”

Xu Chunxiu patted her daughter’s hand and then glanced at Xie Changzheng. She said in a somewhat indifferent tone, “Come out with me. I have something to tell you clearly.”

Xie Changzheng tightened his hands that were holding the cloth.

At this time, the couple was already aware of each other’s abnormality. Xie Changzheng didn’t know what attitude his wife, who had also been reborn, would have toward him.

 

 

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