Chapter 20: Tomatoes
Shen Min led a few people to walk through the dilapidated streets of the city, and it only took a few minutes to come to the place where Shen Min lived.
Looking at the signboard outside and the decoration inside, this should have been a small hotel before, and the floor was not high, only 4 floors, but the area was not small.
Shen Min took the four of them to the 2nd floor, a room by the side of the road, Shen Min stood still at the door, turned his head to give a few people a silent gesture, and then gently opened the door, carefully poked his head into the door and listened, before tiptoeing into the door, but as soon as Shen Min walked in, an old voice came from inside, accompanied by a cough.
"You dead girl, where did you run away so late, cough~cough~"
Shen Min shook his head helplessly, turned his head and motioned for a few people to come in, while he hurriedly ran into the room, picked up an old man lying on the bed, and patted her on the back.
"Grandma, I'll just go out for a while and look for them."
"They? cough~cough~" The old man raised his head suspiciously, looked at the four people who had just walked in, his eyes were a little nervous, and his mouth coughed even more violently.
"Grandma, you don't have to be nervous, they're not bad people."
Shen Min saw that her grandmother's cough was getting worse, and hurriedly explained.
"yes, grandma, we're not bad people."
Seeing that the old man was coughing badly, Ke'er hurriedly ran forward, took the old man's hand and rubbed it, this action made the old man feel a lot more relieved, and said to Ke'er with a smile.
"What a well-behaved little girl." As he spoke, he touched Kerr's head with his other hand.
Seeing that the old man was coughing badly, Lao Dao observed it for a long time, and then stepped forward, touched the old man's wrist for a while, and then came to the old man's back, and massaged his hands under the old man's neck and back skull.
"Old sister, you've hurt your lungs."
"Yes, I suffered from the cold when I fled before, and I haven't been well, and I don't have medicine, so I guess I won't get better."
Lao Dao massaged the old man for a while, the old man's cough was immediately relieved, Shen Min next to him looked at Lao Dao with a surprised face, her grandmother has been coughing for several months, and she coughs very badly every day until ten in the morning, Shen Min can't relieve it after thinking of many ways, but I didn't expect to be pressed by Lao Dao like this today, and I didn't cough.
"Real person, is my grandma okay?" Shen Min asked Lao Dao eagerly.
Lao Dao did not reply, but said to the old man.
"Old sister, I'll help you lie down."
The old man waved his hand, moved back and leaned against the head of the bed.
"Thank you, real person, these past few months have made my old woman suffer, and I can finally relax for a while."
After the old man finished speaking, he took Shen Min's hand, looked at a few people, and said.
"My little granddaughter is a little willful, but I think a few people are also generous, please forgive me if she has anything wrong, and I will trouble you to take care of my little granddaughter in the future."
"What are you talking about, grandma, I will take care of myself, not need them to take care of me." Shen Min heard what her grandmother said, and she wanted to withdraw her hand in anger, but the old man's strength today was surprisingly great, and Shen Min didn't pull it out at once, for fear of hurting the old man, Shen Min didn't dare to exert any more effort, so her grandmother grabbed her hand.
Cheng Ming saw the old man say this at this time, and he didn't understand what the old man meant, and was about to ask, when he saw the old man waving his hand at him.
"Old sister, don't worry, with us here, we will protect her."
"I don't want you to protect me." Shen Min pursed his lips and whispered.
"Don't talk nonsense." The old man glared at Shen Min, and then said to Lao Dao: "Then I'll rest assured." ”
After speaking, he took out an object from his arms, handed it to Lao Dao and said.
"Real person, I know that this thing is of little use to people nowadays, but I can't get anything good anymore, old woman, so this can be regarded as a thank you gift from me."
The old man handed the object to Lao Dao, who took it and hurriedly stuffed it back into the old man's hand, and was still busy talking.
"Old sister, this can't be helped, you better leave this thing to Shen Min."
"There's nothing to do, now this thing is a useless object, it's not as good as a loaf of bread, you can take it."
The two pushed and shoved for a long time, but in the end, the old man still couldn't take it easy, so he had to accept it.
"Grandma, what's that?" Shen Min poked his head out curiously, wanting to see what Lao Dao was in his hand clearly, but was stopped by the old man.
"Okay Xiaomin, you help grandma sleep, I'm going to rest, you let them live in the next room, and you get them something to eat, they shouldn't have eaten yet."
"Got it, grandma, I'll go." As he spoke, he helped the old man lie down, covered the old man with the quilt, and led a few people out of the room to the next room.
Shen Min settled a few people and went out to bring them some biscuits and tomatoes.
Ke'er and Lin Fan took the tomatoes curiously, didn't know what they were, and hurriedly asked.
"Sister, sister, what is this?"
"This is a tomato, do you want to taste it?"
The two little guys had never seen tomatoes, and when they heard Shen Min say this, they looked back at Cheng Ming, only to see Cheng Ming smile and nod, and immediately took a bite of it.
A slightly sweet juice flowed down the tomato's opening into the mouths of the two little ones, making the two little ones enjoy their faces.
"It's delicious, sister, where did this come from?"
"This is my sister's own planting, it's amazing."
Shen Min crossed his hands on his waist and said proudly.
"Awesome!" After the two little ones finished speaking, they couldn't wait to eat again.
"Real person, you and ~um~ who is that, you haven't told you what it's called?"
Cheng Ming was stunned for a moment, and he was also a little embarrassed, as if he really hadn't told others what his name was.
"My name is Cheng Ming, you can call me Uncle Cheng."
"What Uncle Cheng, you are only a few years older than me, I will call you Brother Cheng in the future. Okay, real person, you eat first, I'll go with my grandma. ”
After speaking, he went out, leaving Cheng Ming with a sluggish face.
"My daughter calls you sister, you call me brother, what is this?"
"Okay, Xiao Cheng, stop chattering, come over and eat something, I haven't eaten fresh vegetables for many years."
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After eating, Cheng Ming coaxed the two children to sleep, and then sat in front of the window and chatted with Lao Dao.
"Real person, isn't that old lady..."
Lao Dao nodded and said, "I hurt my lungs, and it dragged on for so long, and the old man was no longer good." ”
"Then why didn't you tell Shen Min?" Cheng Ming asked suspiciously, in fact, when Lao Dao was taking the pulse of the old man, Cheng Ming guessed something, but he was not very sure, and he didn't say it when he saw Lao Dao, and he didn't say it.
"What if you tell it, let the old man just go quietly."
After saying that, the two stopped talking, but looked out the window at the night sky, where a meteor was streaked across the sky.