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Chapter 13: Porridge Warms People's Hearts
Madam Wu brought two bowls of chicken porridge to the house for Wen Nuan and Wen Ran to eat. There was obviously more chicken in Wen Nuan's bowl. In her gray-white bowl, there was a full helping of porridge and the chicken was piled up high. For Wen Ran, of course, there was only half a bowl of porridge with two pieces of chicken in it.
Wen Ran looked at the bowl of porridge with a contented expression, drooling, and had no opinion on it.
Looking back, Wen Nuan thought, this family member always eats closely by her, and never has any opinion on unfair treatment. They really love her.
"You eat slowly, be careful of the chicken bones. Sister Nuan should eat more to be healthy. Ah, Mother will go out to eat." Madam Wu put down the bowls and went out.
Sister Ran sees this and knows that her mother and grandmother are reluctant to eat chicken porridge.
"Third Sister, I'm going out to eat too. This room is a bit boring, you can eat slowly!" She held up the big clay bowl that was missing a full portion of food and walked out.
Wen Nuan knows that Madam Wu wants to hide in the kitchen again, so she can just eat some boiled cabbage or wild vegetables. This chicken porridge, she and Madam Wang are reluctant to eat it.
Wen Ran sees it too, and doesn’t want to eat it by herself.
Her heart a little heavy, Wen Nuan stood up, walked out, and came to the makeshift stove behind the house.
Sure enough, Madam Wang had just cooked boiled cabbage and put it in a bowl.
"Mother, I can't eat so much chicken porridge, so I will share some with you and Grandma." Wen Ran said.
After speaking, she poured a large spoonful of chicken porridge into both of their bowls, and split her only two pieces of chicken in a bowl each.
Madam Wu hurriedly pulled Wen Ran aside and said, "Sister Ran, you can eat it by yourself. I just ate some of this chicken porridge. I'm a bit tired it, so I want to eat some wild vegetables!"
Madam Wang also said: "Sister Ran, Grandma has eaten it too. Grandma is old, and I don’t like to eat this greasy thing, you can eat it yourself."
Steeling her heart, Wen Nuan took a deep breath and walked in: "Everyone eats together and eats with an open belly! After eating, there will be more! In the future, our family will share blessings and hard times together!"
Wen Nuan walked over, took out two clean bowls, and filled the two large bowls with chicken porridge. The bowls brimmed full with chicken meat.
She then added chicken to her sister's bowl until she couldn't fit anymore.
Three people: "..."
"Let's eat together." Wen Nuan said determinedly.
Panic flashed across the faces of Madam Wu and Madam Wang, and they remembered how the child forced them to finish the spoonful of meat porridge and steamed buns that day.
Madam Wu glanced at the porridge in the pot, saw that it was halfway gone in one go, and her eyelids twitched.
"Sister Nuan..."
In a tone that cannot be rejected and with an extremely strong force of will, Wen Nuan said: "Eat it with mother, eat it with Grandma, eat it together!"
Madam Wu: "..."
Seeing Wen Nuan like this, the three dare not refuse.
Madam Wang’s eyes shed tears unconsciously. She quickly wiped them away and said: “Okay, eat! Eat with your belly open!”
She lowered her head and ate silently.
Several people held up their bowls in silence and started to eat.
No one spoke, the porridge was creamy and moderately thick, soft and sweet, and the chicken, which they had never tasted before, was tender and silky.
As Madam Wang and Madam Wu were eating, tears fell into their bowls. This porridge is too sweet! It's too warm!
On this cold autumn day, this porridge is sweet to the heart and warms the limbs.
After everyone finished eating, Wen Ran let out a full belch, which is something that has never happened before.
When everyone was full, Wen Nuan said: "Grandma, Mother, I thought of a way to make money."
Madam Wang did not take it seriously, and smiled: "Sister Nuan thinks of a way to make money?"
"Lets sell fried snails while the farmers are busy."
Madam Wu heard this and shook her head: "If you grab a lot of snails from the river, no one will buy it. This thing is muddy and dirty. Someone once tried eating it, and the whole family had diarrhea after."
Madam Wang also disagrees: “That thing is really inedible, it’s too dirty and it will harm your stomach.”
So Wen Nuan repeated the story about the dream that she had told Wen Ran.
Madam Wang and Madam Wu were shocked.
The ancients were superstitious. They thought a lot. When Sister Nuan was still in Madam Wu's womb, she met a monk who said that Sister Nuan would be born prematurely and have congenital deficiency. When she was young, she would be weak and sick, and she would pass through many hard times. If she can survive to the age of eleven, she will have a safe and prosperous life, enjoy health and longevity, and the kind of wealth and glory which no one can match.
They didn’t believe it at first, but Sister Nuan was born prematurely. She had congenital deficiency, and was as frail as a newborn kitten.
She fell ill every two in three days and walked through the ghost gate once a year. They finally believed a little bit.
But no one can enjoy unmatched wealth and glory. They don’t believe it or dare to hope. They only hope that Sister Nuan can survive to the age of eleven, and then her life will be safe, healthy and long!
At this moment, the two of them listened to Wen Nuan's words, and felt that Wen Nuan might have been to the place where fairies lived, and saw many skills that the fairies understood.
Not long ago, when Sister Nuan had just turned eleven years old, she jumped into the river and almost lost her life again. This was the most precarious time, and she had been provoked through the ghost gate!
Now Sister Nuan is getting better day by day. In just a few days, people seem to be more energetic.
Are the monk’s words true?
"Grandma, if we try it tomorrow, we can see if what I saw in the dream was good. Now the rice in the field is mature. I guess that in these two days, when the weather is good, everyone will start the autumn harvest. During the autumn harvest, everyone has to eat enough to be able to live and work hard. Let’s take this opportunity to sell fried snails in the village. They are spicy and delicious. They can be served with rice. They can get a big bowl of meat for two copper coins. It’s so cheap. Everyone will be busy in the field for a long time. Not only are people selling in the streets and alleys, but they are also setting up stalls in town. There are a lot of these things in the river. Except for the silver for seasoning, we are making a net profit. A farmer can definitely make a few taels of silver!" The idea came pouring out.
Madam Wang thought for a while, and felt that Wen Nuan makes sense: If you can eat it, someone will buy it.
Now an egg costs one copper coin, getting a bowl of cooked meat for two copper coins, it's so cost-effective! Someone must buy it!
The key is that everyone is tired during the busy farming season, and they don’t want to cook, but they need to have enough food to be able to work. If you can spend two copper coins and don’t have to do it yourself, someone will definitely buy it.
Madam Wang used to run a noodle shop, so she had experience with food business. After she considered the matter, she made a final decision: "Okay, I will go to town to buy seasoning in the afternoon, and then I will make a meal of fried snails and try it at home tomorrow morning. If there is no problem after eating it, tomorrow we will go down to the river to gather more snails. It just so happens that your father and the others will finish their work today. The whole family can go down to the river to gather the snails.
"Okay!" Seeing that it was so easy to convince Madam Wang, she was relieved.
But selling snails is not a long-term solution. Someone else will soon figure out how to make this thing. She had to go to the town to figure out how to make money.
In the afternoon, Wen Nuan took a nap. After all, her body was still too weak. Being so busy for a long time, she felt tired.
After Wen Nuan woke up, she found that she was the only one at home.
She looked at the sky, it was almost dusk. She went to the water tank and picked up half a bucket of water and started watering the vegetables.
Ancient barrels were made of thick wood and were very heavy. Because of her congenital deficiency, she could only carry half a barrel at a time.
She watered the whole vegetable plot in the yard, and felt tired again.
Wen Nuan sat down on a short stump next to the vegetable field, looking at the newly sprouted greens and thinking, it would be good if you can grow up quickly.
We ate all the vegetables in the vegetable garden today, and the rest have not grown enough yet. Now if you want to eat vegetables, you need to go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables every day.
Just then, Wen Nuan's palms felt hot, and the purple qi appeared again.
Wen Nuan: "???"
She thought of the sudden appearance of the purple qi that first time, which was to help herself treat her body. This time she was just wishing that these sprouts would grow up quickly, and it appeared again.
Could it help them grow?
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