Chapter 8

A pair of peach blossom eyes, a strong nose, a beautiful curved petal-shaped lips, and a small oval face.

A gust of wind blew by, and a strand of hair blew on the bridge of my nose.

At this moment, a black car passed in front of her and drove away quickly.

Xu Leshu’s dazed eyes came back to normal, and it seemed that someone in the car that just passed by was looking at her.

He looked back at the car, of which only the rear was visible, and then looked away.

I saw the farmers’ market across the street, and just at that moment Old Mrs. Xu came back with a basket on her back.

“Grandma, let’s go buy some meat. By the way, do you have the meat ticket?”

Old Mrs. Xu took out her handkerchief and took out half a pound of meat coupons from it.

“I only have half a pound of meat coupons on me. Nannan’s grandmother bought meat this morning.”

As he spoke, he thought of something: “Do you want to buy it from Zhou’s family?”

Xu Leshu nodded and took the basket off her back to put things in it: “You know, if Aunt Zhou hadn’t found me and sent me to the hospital, I would have been in great danger.”

Old Mrs. Xu nodded affirmatively: “My family bought two kilograms today, and we’ll take them away later. Now buy this half kilogram as well.”

“Nannan, you are right. We should thank Shufen very much.”

As soon as they returned to the yard below the family building, a few people who were chatting under a big tree discovered them.

“Xiao Shu is out of the hospital. Does your head still hurt? Your little face still looks very pale.”

Xu Leshu greeted them with a smile: “Aunt Li, Grandma Feng, Grandma Zhou, it’s still a little painful. The doctor told me to go home and lie down to recuperate.”

“Oh, Auntie, you bought so many goodies, this big backpack.”

Old Mrs. Xu said, “Hi, this is not my daughter. I just got out of the hospital and I was thinking about going to thank Shufen and the Zhao family, so I bought these.”

“After all, if it weren’t for Shufen, my daughter would have suffered a lot, and the two little grandchildren of the Zhao family were also lucky to see it.”

“You guys talk first, we’re going to go back. The doctor told me to go home and lie down and not do any strenuous exercise.”

After the grandparents and grandchildren disappeared at the gate, the topic of conversation revolved around Xu Leshu.

“How much does this cost? I just saw meat, candy, cakes, and a few big watermelons in it. The Zhou and Zhao families got a good deal.”

“That can’t be said. If it weren’t for Shufen and the two children, who knows what would have happened to the Xu family girl. Besides, didn’t the Chen family pay 500 yuan in compensation?”

 I got home and no one was home.

Xu’s father and mother are at work, so Xu Lehui is not at home, so he must have gone out to play.

Old Mrs. Xu put down the backpack and went into the kitchen: “Nannan, eat some chicken first and then go to rest.”

Xu Leshu looked around the house. The last time she woke up, she didn’t take a close look and went out.

This is a house with three bedrooms and a living room. Since this residential building was built only a few years ago, the house has a kitchen and a bathroom.

It was not like what she thought, that cooking required going to the public kitchen in the corridor.

Originally, Mr. Xu was not going to get such a big house, but he was lucky and won it.

Old Mrs. Xu brought out a bowl of chicken with vermicelli from the kitchen, with a big chicken drumstick on top.

“Come on, girl, eat quickly. I know you like vermicelli, and I’ve got some.”

Xu Leshu was indeed a little hungry: “Grandma, eat too.”

Xu Leshu handed the chicken leg to the old lady. The old lady had been so nice to her during this period, so she didn’t mind being nice to the old lady as well.

Seeing this, Old Lady Xu pushed it back, her eyes full of smiles: “You eat the chicken leg, Grandma won’t eat it. Our daughter has suffered a lot, she has lost a lot of weight, she needs to eat more to make up for it.”

Xu Leshu insisted on giving it to her, but she didn’t want to feed it directly into her mouth.

“Grandma has worked so hard to take care of me during this period. If you don’t eat this chicken leg, how can I eat it?”

Old Mrs. Xu’s whole face was smiling, and she felt very relieved.

“You girl.”

After eating something, I went back to my room to rest. I fell asleep in a short while, and when I woke up again, it was time to get off work.

I heard voices in the living room and the old lady’s nitpicking voice.

Naturally, the last time the old lady found out that her mother had forced her out of the hospital, her eyes were no longer eyes and her nose was no longer a nose.

She has been finding fault with her mother these days.

“Second sister, come out for dinner.”

Xu Leshu stood up, smoothed her hair twice and said “hmm”.

When she went out, she saw a middle-aged man sitting on the sofa repairing a broken fan. When he heard the door open, he turned around and looked at her.

“Get up, does your head still hurt?”

Xu Leshu called him, “Dad, it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

“Nannan, wake up. Come over for dinner. Grandma made you some shrimp porridge. It’s so delicious.”

Everyone at the table was eating sweet potato rice, but she was the only one eating sticky rice noodles.

Shrimp porridge.

In the large bowl of chicken stewed with vermicelli, Ma Jinmei wanted to give the chicken leg to Shitou, but was knocked away by Old Lady Xu with a chopstick.

He glared at her coldly: “What are you doing? Isn’t there enough meat for you? You want to pick the chicken legs.”

Ma Jinmei took back the chopsticks and said weakly, “Mom, I don’t want to eat it. I want to give it to Shitou.”

“What to eat? Other meats are not okay, but we still have chicken wings.”

As she spoke, she slammed her chopsticks on the table and said, “You, as a mother, can’t see that there is still gauze on your daughter’s head. I bought this chicken specifically to nourish her body.”

“I’ve already done a good job by letting you eat, but you still wanted to take the chicken leg away. I haven’t settled the score with you yet. Why did you let Nannan leave the hospital at that time? Didn’t you see that Nannan had such a big hole on her head?”

“You took Nannan out of the hospital as soon as she woke up. The next day, Nannan’s condition worsened and she fainted. If I hadn’t seen that Nannan was born from your belly, I would have thought that you were a stepmother and didn’t like Nannan so much.”

“Now Nannan is eating a chicken drumstick, and you gave it to Shitou. I am missing Shitou’s chicken drumstick.”

Ma Jinmei was so embarrassed that she could not even lift her head. She explained in a low voice, “I saw that there was only one chicken leg left, and I thought that Xiaoshu must have eaten it when she came back today, so I thought of giving the other chicken leg to Shitou.”

“When I saw Xiaoshu was awake and could eat, I thought about going home to recuperate. It would be a waste of money to stay in the hospital.”

“Why give her a stone? Nannan is sick now, so it’s time to nourish her. Until she gets better, the chicken drumsticks belong to her.”

Then he looked at the stone and said, “Did you hear that?”

Shitou nodded quickly: “I heard it. I eat chicken wings. I like eating chicken wings.”

With his grandmother around, he never thought that the chicken leg would be his. In his grandmother’s eyes, his second sister was a treasure and he was just a weed.

Ma Jinmei glanced at her husband, but Xu Weiguo looked at her seriously.

“I also want to talk about you in this matter. At that time, I did not agree to discharge Xiaoshu from the hospital. It was you who insisted. The same goes for the chicken leg. Xiaoshu was injured, and Shi Tou should not have eaten it. He should have let his sister go.”

Ma Jinmei withdrew her gaze and picked up a chicken wing for Shi Tou.

But Shitou gave it to her instead: “Second sister, you eat it, I’ll just eat the chicken nuggets.”

Xu Leshu looked at the vegetables on his chopsticks and lowered her head to drink a mouthful of porridge.

“No need, just eat it.”