Chapter 19
Chapter 19: Rice Soup
What else can she say? She can only quietly do her job . Mrs . Liu hadn’t cooked in the kitchen for two years now . Fortunately, she only had to cook a pot of porridge and stir a large pot of vegetables .
Bai Erzhu put the 60 copper coins in his purse and was about to go to their room . However, as soon as he walked out from his aging mother’s room, he saw Doctor Lu carrying his medicine box and a few packets of medicine into their yard .
Bai Erzhu hurriedly welcomed Doctor Lu: “Oh, isn’t this Lu dafu? What brings you here?”
Doctor Lu was feeling lazy to talk to Bai Erzhu . So, he simply said: “I came to treat Zhao Lan . Your not here earlier, so you might not know . But, your mother knew this . ”
Bai Erzhuo replied: “They are not here, their house collapsed, so they went to Hu Changlin’s house . ”
Doctor Lu look towards the broken house, and indeed, it collapsed . Doctor Lu sighed and said: “Okay, I’ll go to Old Hu’s house and give her the medicines . ”
When Bai Erzhu heard this, he hurriedly stopped Doctor Lu: “Give her the medicines? Isn’t she alright now? Her broken hand is not worthy to be spent with medicines . We don’t have so much money to waste with her . Just take back your medicines . ”
Mrs . Liu busily replied: “You shouldn’t blame me in this . You and I both eat the same meal . We don’t have much rice in the jar . Of course, I can add more rice to this . But, if I did that, we won’t have a meal on the following days . Not to mention, even rice soup will not do . ”.
For this reason, Old Lady Bai’s eyes become soft and so she waved her hand, then said: ” Stop it and let’s just eat . We still have work to do tomorrow . ” Then, the old lady turned her head to her second daughter-in-law: “After this dinner, we will divide the food per head to avoid this situation . ”.