"These sweets and biscuits were bought by your second uncle and sister Taohua. The plum fruit was picked from the ground for Qiqi to eat." As Li Cuifang spoke, she couldn't suppress the itch in her throat and turned her head to the side to cough twice.
Qiqi looked at the food. There were not many of them, but she had never eaten them before.
In the past, her younger brother had eaten sweets and biscuits in front of her and had even specially told her that they were sweet and delicious.
Qiqi pursed her lips and pushed the food back. "Thank you, Auntie. Qiqi doesn't like to eat it."
The child's voice was soft and sweet. She secretly swallowed her saliva when she pushed the things away, thinking that no one would notice.
Li Cuifang laughed and her love for the child increased a little. No child doesn't like to eat snacks.
She was just being too considerate.
"These things have been made for a long time, and no one at home has eaten them. They'll be a waste if they go bad. Qiqi, help aunty finish them."
In fact, these were bought by her husband and daughter for her as snacks.
She was not in good health and had to take medicine all year round. As time passed, there would always be a bitter taste in her mouth when she ate.
Her husband was good to her, and the daughter was filial, so they thought of ways to make things sweet for her.
Thinking of this, Li Cuifang sighed.
If it wasn't for her health, her family wouldn't be so poor.
Qiqi heard her sigh and thought that auntie was unhappy because she didn't eat the food she gave.
Thinking a little bit, she reached out and took candy from the pile of snacks. "Auntie, then, then I'll help you eat candy."
Li Cuifang was amused. "Okay, Qiqi, help auntie eat candy."
The crispy candy wrapped in sugar paper was a little sticky, probably because it had been left there for a long time and the weather was humid.
Qiqi carefully unwrapped the candy paper, bit off half a piece of candy and put it in her mouth. Her eyes suddenly widened.
Oh!
It was so sweet and fragrant!
So this was how sugar tasted!
It's so delicious!
The little child ate the candy, and her eyes widened in curiosity. Li Cuifang was amused and sad at the same time. She reached out and touched the child's head.
"It's delicious, right? Eat slowly, there's still more if it's not enough."
With her tender caress, a wisp of purple energy began to grow at the bottom of the system's storage pool.
The little egg-man laid by the pool, twitching. His whole body was charred and smoking, and his eyes were dull.
Receiving energy could not comfort its broken heart.
It had a premonition that even a star player would not be able to carry this dumb kid.
It wanted to change its host person.
It must be done soon!
...
After Zhang Xifeng finished discussing the matter, she didn't stay in the Chen family's house for long. She politely refused Chen Jian and his wife's invitation for a meal and took Qiqi home while it was completely dark.
She still had to prepare dinner when she went back.
Before they left, Qiqi secretly put back the snacks that Li Cuifang had given her.
Chen Jianhe and his wife sent her off at the door before closing it.
Behind the door, they could still hear the conversation between the couple.
"You coughed again just now?" The man asked.
The woman replied in a soft voice, "my throat is just a little itchy. I'm fine, don't worry."
"I'll go and cook the rest of the dishes. Don't go into the kitchen. The smoke would hurt your throat."
"I'll listen to you. Taohua should be home soon. It'll be good time for dinner."
...
On the way back, the light in the sky had already disappeared.
A faint crescent moon rose in the sky, and the village at night seemed quiet and peaceful.
The houses on both sides of the path had lights on. When they passed by, they could occasionally hear vague conversations and sometimes, they could even hear a dog or two barking.
When these sounds interweaved into one's ears, it made one feel at peace for no reason.
"Granny, is second aunt sick?" Thinking of the smell of Chinese medicine in the Chen family's courtyard and second aunt's uncontrollable coughing when she spoke, Qiqi raised her head and asked the old woman.
Zhang Xifeng sighed. "Your second aunt's health isn't very good. It's a chronic illness from when she was young."
"Not long after your second uncle and aunt got married, your second uncle joined the Army. At that time, your second aunt was already pregnant, and there was no one by her side to take care of her. She had to go up the mountain to plant rice seedlings in the underground fields by herself, and she was busy both inside and outside."
"She was exhausted, especially when she had a difficult labor when she gave birth to your sister Taohua. The situation was urgent at that time, so I took the initiative to send her to the town hospital. Fortunately, I arrived in time and saved the adult and child just in time."
"It's just that your second aunt's birth this time hurt her body and stamina. She was rescued but the strength of her body was hurt. Not to mention that she can't get pregnant again, she still has to take medicine all year round."
It was also because of her help back then that Chen Jianhe's family remembered her kindness, so they always tried their best to help her later on.
In the end, Zhang Xifeng couldn't help but sigh. "Actually, their family is also in a difficult position. Our Taoxi village is too poor. The land can't grow any grain. We can't make much money by working all year round. Most of the money earned at home was used to buy medicine. Don't look at your second uncle's family of three. Their days are also very tight. Your sister Taohua also delayed her marriage because of family reasons. She's already in her twenties now, but she still hasn't married."
It was almost night, and the light was dim.
Qiqi heard the melancholy in the old woman's words and saw her unconsciously frowning. She pursed her small lips. "Granny, you should squat down a little."
Zhang Xifeng didn't know what was going on. She stopped and looked down at the child.
She saw the little child trying hard to stand on her tiptoes and raise her little hand to stuff something into her mouth.
Zhang Xifeng didn't have time to look at it carefully and subconsciously opened her mouth.
A sweet taste spread in his mouth.
The child put her hands behind his back and twisted her little body. "This is the candy from second aunt. Is it sweet, granny? "
This was the remaining half of the candy she had eaten. She had secretly kept it and was unwilling to finish it.
She wanted to leave some for her Granny.
Zhang Xifeng sipped on the sugar. The wind blew from the front, making her eyes warm.
"Sweet, it's very sweet." She said in a hoarse voice.
This sweetness could be felt from the mouth to the heart.
The moon in the sky climbed higher, dragging out the faint shadows of the old and the young.
The conversation between the young and the old continued. It was warm and cozy in the evening wind.
"Granny, second Uncle Chen is a good person, and second auntie is also a good person. In the future, second auntie's illness will be cured and sister Taohua will also marry a very good brother-in-law."
"Oh, Qiqi knows about brother-in-law?"
"Qiqi is not stupid."
"Who said Qiqi is stupid? Our Qiqi is so well-behaved and smart!"
In the sea of consciousness, the little egg-man looked at the storage pool in front of him and softly said, "Damn."
As the little child's words of blessing were spoken, the wisp of purple Qi that he had just received immediately became faint. A wisp of it split off and drifted into the Chen family's house with the wind, disappearing.
As a system that regarded its host as a tool, the little egg Man didn't explain many rules to Qiqi.
When the host gave her sincere blessings, the system's energy would be converted into luck value along with her blessings and given to the person who was blessed.
The little egg-man felt a sharp pain in its heart. It might be bleeding.
It didn't know when it would be able to collect enough energy from such a large storage pool, but that little brat actually dared to use it as she pleased?
"This brat must be a goddamn BUG, right?"
"Where's the mainframe? Come out. I want to change the host."
"Immediately, immediately!"