Chapter 342
There was food at the night market!
The news spread like a hurricane through the streets of the city.
He Di is from Suzhou, her family was selling silk when she was a child, her mother raised her as a young lady, tied a small foot for her, after she married, she quietly put her foot, the pain for two years before slowly get better, and now walks with a limp.
After she married, she did not stop working, first as a cook, and then gave birth to a child and then as a milkmaid, milkmaid do more than ten years, can no longer milk, and then continue to do the cook, washerwoman, and now can not do anything, her husband died long ago, her son refused to support her, she rented a temple with a group of poor people who also have no home house to live together, eat and drink are in one place, sick people can also pour a water! We ate and drank in the same place, and when we were sick, someone would give us some water or something, so we lived quite well.
Before they could no longer buy food in the city, they began to store grain. They didn’t feel at ease until they stocked up, and the cupboards and boxes in their house were all filled with food, even if it was moldy and smelly, they didn’t care, they ate it all the same.
They would also go to the back door of a foreign restaurant to look through the garbage cans and pick up the leaves they threw out, which could also be eaten.
But there is still a day when they run out of food.
When there’s no more food, some people in the house leave, and some people don’t leave, but they don’t eat, trying to save the food for others to eat.
Wu Laosan died of starvation just yesterday. He saved the food for He Adi so that she could survive. She realized that Wu Laosan went out every day to collect garbage and came back saying he had eaten, but in fact, he hadn’t touched a single bite and left it all for her.
Wu Laosan was a yellow cart driver, his wife died in childbirth, he raised his son alone, gave him good food and clothes, and sent him to a foreigner’s school. As a result, his son was coaxed to go to the casino by the bad guys on the street, became a bad gambler and smoked cigarettes, and finally died on the street.
Wu Laosan’s leg was broken by a debtor, and his house was robbed, so he became a crippled beggar on the street.
He A Di buried Wu Laosan. She dug the hole with her own hands, pushed Wu Laosan in, and blocked the hole with stones. She thought that when she was almost dead, she would move the stone away and lie in it herself.
Her husband let her do a lifetime of work, born son also do not care about her, on the contrary, Wu Laosan this old beggar put the mouth of the province to eat down to her. Two people can not do husband and wife, dead lying together is also considered complete.
He Di buried Wu Laosan, went to the river to wash his hands washing clothes, heard about the charity Mrs. sell food in the night market, as long as you take ten dollars can buy three.
When she heard about it, she rushed home, peeled out a foreign jar from under the bed, opened it, and pulled out a handful of money from it.
This money was picked up by Wu Laosan.
Nowadays, money is not worth much outside, so you can’t buy anything. Not to mention ten dollars, Wu Laosan also picked up a hundred dollars, he took this money to the foreigner’s store to buy some food, but the result was given a beating, saying that Chinese money is not money, just paper.
She took the money out one by one, put it on her lap and spread it flat, put it in her bosom and went to the night market to find Mrs. Charity.
He A Di’s small feet will hurt when she walks far away, her feet are not flat, the front is missing three toes, the arch of the foot is twisted, she went to see the doctor after she put her feet, the doctor said that her foot twisted and broke, and then grew back on its own, want to cure the long good bones and then break, please good at orthopedic doctor to give her to straighten it, and then re-nourished, but also still will hurt when it is well nourished.
The doctor said: “orthopedic doctor is not easy to find, he gave you broken may not be able to give you again on, I say, your foot at most is not good to walk a little bit better than crippled, so forget it, do not have to cure, you also save some money, less suffering.”
He Di did not treat the foot, she walked like this for the rest of her life.
The soles of her feet began to hurt, and the tips of her toes hurt like a nail, and then her calves began to hurt, and her knees began to hurt, and her back and waist began to hurt.
He A Di walked halfway across the city in pain before arriving at the charity night market.
There were so many people everywhere.
Where is Mrs. Charity?
Where is she?
He Di searched and searched and searched. She was like a fly on the wall in such a big place.
Finally, she found her.
The line was long and crowded.
She was afraid of being beaten. She was dirty and her clothes were not good, so she didn’t look decent. She hid herself away, waiting for the people to leave before she went to buy from Mrs. Charity.
She waited and waited, and finally waited until the crowd dispersed.
Mrs. Charity was dressed in a very decent way, and she was accompanied by two subordinates, who turned around to leave.
He Ah Di walked over and stood far away, shouting in a low voice, “Mistress, Mistress, I want to buy some, I’ve brought money.”
Zhu Yuyan turned her head and piled on a smile, wanting to say that today’s was sold out and there would be more tomorrow. But then she saw He Ah Di, a huddled up homeless person who seemed to be shivering? A beggar?
She was too old, her hair was white, the top of her head was thinning, her eyes seemed to be unable to see, both of them were white, she turned in this direction, groped and stretched out a hand, holding a handful of newspapers and advertisement slips.
Zhu Yuyan smiled and said, “Okay, you’ve brought a lot of money, I can sell you some more.”
She took the handful of papers and told Driver Chen to get the potatoes from the trunk of the car.
There was also a box in the trunk as a spare, and although she didn’t know what the spare was, she thought that maybe she would run into a situation like this, maybe she would run into someone who needed food.
Driver Chen said, “Ma’am, this is a beggar woman, just give it to her, and it will be snatched away in the twinkling of an eye.”
Zhu Yuyan: “In a moment, we will drive and quietly follow her and send her back.”
Driver Chen thought to himself that this was indeed the case.
He went to the trunk and took ten potatoes, wrapped them in newspaper, and came back to hand them to He Ah Di.
Driver Chen: “Granny, hold it well, don’t drop it.”
He Ah Di hugged the packet and couldn’t say anything, bowed hastily to Zhu Yu Yan, turned her head and ran, as soon as she ran you could tell that both of her legs were bad.
Zhu Yuyan let Chen driver to drive carefully behind, also really scared away two groups of people who want to follow.
He A Di ran all the way across half of the city before returning to her home.
This way to follow down, half the night has passed.
Driver Chen drove the car and whispered, “Ma’am, go back and Mr. is going to be furious.”
Zhu Yuyan also did not expect He A Di to run half a city to buy potatoes, and had to say, “This …… who did not expect ah.”
Zhu Yuyan sent Buddha to the west, saw He A Di into the door before letting Chen driver turn around.
Chen driver drove the car out of the level of the plane, all the way back to the Zhu family building, just in time to meet the furious Mr. Su.
Mr. Su has already had the gendarmerie search Nanking Road and is planning to pay a visit to the Japanese.
Seeing Mrs. Su returned safely, Mr. Su’s face unprecedentedly black.
Zhu Yuyan hurriedly told the cause and effect.
Mr. Su asked Driver Chen to visit the old lady again the next day.
Su Chunjun: “If you can’t, send some food over. You should consider me even if you are doing a good deed, it really scared me.”
Zhu Yuyan threw herself into Mr. Su’s arms, “I’m sorry.”
The next day, Mr. Chen went to see He Adi, and came back to say, “The old woman went into a hole with potatoes in her arms, and there was a dead man in the hole, probably her husband.”
Zhu Yuyan panicked: “Could she have been poisoned by the potatoes?”
Driver Chen busily said, “I’ve looked at it, ten potatoes are not missing, she didn’t eat them at all.”
Su Chunjun: “What about the old lady? Is she alright?”
Driver Chen: “She’s dead too. Maybe she died of exhaustion. She wanted to eat before she died, so she ran that far?”
In the end, she died with food in her arms, so it was a good death.