Traveling through the Three Kingdoms: She brings unlimited supplies to build infrastructure

Chapter 261
Black and gray sewage flows on the bluestone.

Mrs. Xin couldn't bear to get her shoes wet. With the baby tied to her chest and her trouser legs rolled up, she walked among the charred ruins of the house.

They moved away the charred wooden beams and collapsed earth walls, looking for anything useful in the ruins.

The earthen pots covered with grass ash in the east kitchen, the large piece of wood with scorched marks in the main room...

Her feet stepped into the dark water and turned red from the cold.

The old man, who was dirty from smoke, and his two children sat in the corner.

From time to time the old man would breathe heavily like a bellows.

Two children, one large and one small, were nestling next to their grandma. The older girl's face was still dirty and her body was shaking uncontrollably.

Both cold and scared.

The bag of wheat that Xin Niang brought back was picked out from the sewage and held by the old man like a life-saving straw.

Realizing that his sister had been shaking, the boy who was about four or five years old ignorantly covered the girl's hand in his arms: "Sister."

Before he finished speaking, he felt the hand in his arms tremble suddenly.

The boy turned around and saw Xin Niang holding out another dark jar from the ruins with her bare feet expressionless.

The boy has seen many expressions on his mother's face.

The tenderness when my father was still alive, the sadness after his death, the crying when he came home late in a mess, the usual anger,
But he had never seen his mother so completely numb.

Most children have keen intuition, and he sensed that something was brewing under Madam Xin's calm appearance.

Mrs. Xin didn't say anything, and put on the Gebu shoes that she put aside without any expression.

The child in his arms moved slightly, his mouth flat and ready to cry.

Madam Xin lowered her head and glanced at him, unbuttoned her clothes in slow motion, and sat naked in the alley to feed her child.

The baby sucked hard and sucked out a few drops of milk, but could no longer suck out any more.

A baby's cry suddenly came from the alley.

The young and old in the family still have no grain of rice to stick to their teeth, and so does Mrs. Xin.

But at this moment, she was like a clueless wooden figure. The child in her arms cried, but she didn't respond.

"Yue Niang, it's okay, it's okay."

Her appearance frightened the coughing old woman. Panting heavily, the old woman managed to sit up and help Mrs. Xin pull up her clothes.

"Wait for tomorrow. Tomorrow we will leave the city and go to the countryside to find my biological brothers. We can always survive. We can always survive."

The old woman had been ill all year round, her body smelled bad, and the ravines on her face were filled with black ash.

She murmured to herself, not knowing whether to comfort Lady Xin or herself.

At this moment, there was a creak and a door opened.

Madam Xin was shocked, and a flash of light suddenly burst out in her eyes.

Tao's sister-in-law stood by the door, took two steps with an expressionless face, and stuffed a palm-sized piece of dry biscuit into Mrs. Xin's arms.

"We have been neighbors for many years. It's not that we don't help you, but that we really don't have the ability."

These days, even relatives dare not take in such a large family.

Mrs. Tao knew that she couldn't harden her heart today. If she let this big family into the house, it would be difficult to invite them out.

After she finished speaking, she pulled the skirt out of Mrs. Xin's hands, walked home without mercy, and slammed the door.

Mrs. Xin stretched her hands in the air, but couldn't catch anything.

After being stunned for a long time, the pancake in her arms fell out.

This voice woke up Mrs. Xin.

She stared blankly at the noodles on the ground, and then looked up at an old man and two children huddled in the corner.

With a stern look in her eyes, she picked up the dough and without looking at anyone, she tore the whole half of the dough into her mouth like a wolf.

The wheat biscuits were dry and hard, so Mrs. Xin swallowed them while stretching her throat.

The old man in the corner hugged the two children tightly, and no one dared to speak.

After finishing the choking noodles, Mrs. Xin stood up and snatched the wet sack from the old man's arms.

I took my two children with me and found a shelter at the end of the alley that smelled of urine.Stuff the old man and the two children into a corner.

Holding up this slightly wet sack, a few people huddled together, and they had a place to take shelter temporarily on the night when the curfew was about to begin.

She didn't speak during the whole process, but the old man breathed a sigh of relief and looked up at the vast sky.

The sky was dark and depressing near night, and some snow began to fall in the sky again. The old man hugged the two children closer and sighed.

……

The night passed, and the morning came.

The man surnamed Tao stepped out of the house and subconsciously looked around.

Seeing the family huddled in the corner, he touched the wheat cakes in his arms and walked over after hesitating.

"Ms. Xin's wife?"

He called softly and passed the wheat cake in his hand forward. His hands felt cold. He was startled. When he hurried to look, he heard a cough.

The sleepless old woman opened her eyes.

The man surnamed Tao breathed a sigh of relief. He didn't dare to say anything, just handed over the wheat cake and ran out of the alley as if he was running away.

The old man held the half piece of wheat cake and handed it to Mrs. Xin who woke up.

Sitting stiffly in the cold wind all night is not comfortable for anyone.

The old man had a cough, as if there was a big hole in his chest, and he was breathing heavily.

Yesterday I was frightened and frightened. I caught a cold at night, and the older girl's face became flushed.

She covered her mouth with her small hands and carefully put the cough back into her throat.

Mrs. Xin accepted half a piece of wheat cake from her mother-in-law, but she didn't eat it this time.

Instead, he got up and knocked on Tao's door.

It took a long time for the door to open. Before Sister-in-law Tao could speak, Mrs. Xin handed over the small bag of wheat grains in her hand: "Sister-in-law Tao, please lend me the stove."

"I'll make a hot meal for the whole family."

Sister-in-law Tao stared at her blankly, with a complicated expression, and finally turned sideways and opened the door.

Using the Tao family's stove and firewood, Mrs. Xin used her own earthen pot to mix the wheat grains and wheat cakes and cook a pot of thick porridge.

After thanking him, he carried the can of porridge to the end of the alley.

Put the jar on the ground.

After it cooled down, I took the wooden spoon borrowed from the Tao family and fed it to the two children alone.

Madam Xin's mother-in-law said nothing, the skin on her face sagging, staring at a withered yellow grass stalk by the wall.

"Mom, grandma, you guys eat too." The older girl took a small mouthful of porridge and stopped opening her mouth.

"Grandma doesn't eat, grandma isn't hungry."

Mrs. Xin’s mother-in-law touched her granddaughter’s hair.

"Fuck you," the younger boy also said.

Madam Xin shook her head and filled his mouth with another mouthful of porridge.

The older girl chewed the wheat grains in her mouth carefully, lowered her head and thought for a long time, and finally took a deep breath: "Mom."

"Sell me."

Mrs. Xin's hands trembled violently, and her tears fell into the jar of porridge.

"Hmm." She responded lightly.

After feeding the whole can of porridge into the two children's bellies, he lifted up his clothes and fed the weak baby in his arms.

Then, holding the two children, one on the left and the other on the right, they walked out of the alley without looking back.

The old woman who was left alone in the alley saw her granddaughter looking back, smiled and waved to her.

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