didn't expect her mother-in-law to say such a thing, Liu Yan stood up abruptly and said emotionally: "Mom, what are you talking about?" Liu Qian, he's my own brother......"

"What's wrong with my brother? If you are reluctant to drive him away, then you go by yourself and save a mouthful. Shen Jinhua said angrily.

He Weifeng sat up and said to his daughter-in-law: "What is the current situation in our family, you also know, the snow will not understand how many days it will fall, if you keep your brother, in less than a week, our whole family will starve to death!" ”

"But if we drive him away now, the weather will be cold, and his hands will freeze again, and he will definitely ......."

"Think about Youyou, do you want your son to eat for a few more days, or do you want to feed your brother and starve the whole family to death?"

Liu Yan lowered her head, struggled for a long time, and finally gritted her teeth and compromised silently.

Her husband put on his coat, covered his aching head, walked to the living room, easily dragged the man on the couch up, then opened the door and threw him out.

Liu Gan, who was in a coma, was unconscious, like a piece of boneless meat, and fell to the ground softly.

During the night, he woke up from the cold, and the sharp pain in his arm made him frown and grin.

"Sister?" Liu Qian shrunk his neck and found that he was not at his sister's house, but in the dark aisle.

Cold, hungry and painful, he couldn't even cry, banged his head against the door, "Open the door, it's cold, let me in, sister, help, I'm so uncomfortable......"

Liu Yan couldn't stop crying in the house, she couldn't help but stand up, and her mother-in-law grabbed her wrist, "Either you and your brother get out together, or you just sit here and don't move." ”

The pleading outside the door grew quieter.

The next day, Grandma Zhao on the third floor was so hungry that her chest was pressed against her back, and she wanted to go to He's house to find Liu Yan to get some food back.

What she didn't expect was that there was a frozen corpse at the door of He's house, his head was against the door, his eyes were wide open, and he felt like he was dead.

This person looks like Liu Yan's younger brother? Last year, he spent Chinese New Year's Eve at He's house, and he was so drunk that he was foaming at the mouth from alcoholism.

That day, the ambulance was blocking the road, and seeing that people were dying, Liu Yan ran to her house crying and begged her for acupuncture treatment.

Grandma Zhao rescued Liu Gan with a needle, remembered his appearance, and made sure that he didn't recognize the wrong person.

Looking at Liu Gan's corpse on the ground, she let out a long sigh, knowing that it was impossible for her to get food back from He's house, and walked home hobbled.

At night, Grandma Zhao lay on the bed and looked at the empty position beside her, "Old man, I'm here to accompany you."

In the past, you always blamed me for being busy, saying that I only cared about patients, and I didn't have time to accompany you when I retired.

What's the point of being so busy? I've saved people all my life, and in the end no one remembers an old woman like me who was dying. ”

There was a knock on the door, so small that it was barely audible if you didn't listen carefully.

Although Grandma Zhao is old, her hearing is still very good, she supported the bed with two hands, sat up with difficulty, fumbled to open the door, and saw a dark figure.

After the power outage, there was no light in the corridor at all, and Grandma Zhao was about to ask who it was, but the other party said: "Grandma Zhao, it's me, ...... who lives on the fifth floor."

"Lemon, huh?" Grandma Zhao immediately heard Sang Ning's voice and asked, "Why are you here?" ”

Sure that there was no one around, Sang Ning whispered: "I'll take a look at you, it's so cold outside, Grandma Zhao, can I come into your house and sit?" ”

Grandma Zhao nodded hurriedly, "Come in." ”

After Sang Ling entered her house, she closed the door, "Ling Ning, you are hungry, did you come to me to borrow food?" To tell you the truth, I haven't eaten for three days, and there are still two bottles of mineral water left at home, so take them with you if you want. ”

Saying this, she said: "That's right, I still have flashlights and four boxes of batteries at home, which should be used, and there are three sets of quilts, you can take ...... away."

Sang Ning interrupted: "Grandma Zhao, I'm not here to borrow something from you, I'm here to bring you porridge." ”

"What? Gruel? After being hungry for too long, Grandma Zhao's reaction became a little sluggish, and she thought she had heard it wrong for a while, "Ling Ling, do you mean white porridge boiled with rice?" ”

"Yes, I accidentally cooked too much tonight, two more bowls, and put them in a thermos pot."

Grandma Zhao turned on the table lamp with the battery, and only then did she notice that Sang Ling was carrying a lot of things in her hand, in addition to the thermos pot, there was also a big bag.

Sang Ling poured the porridge in the pot into the bowl, "Grandma Zhao, you drink it while it's hot, I also brought eggs......"

She took out two boiled eggs from her pocket, knocked them on the table twice, and said, "I don't know if you like pickles or not, I brought some here, and the porridge is delicious." ”

Grandma Zhao looked at the things on the table in surprise, "Ling Ming, how can you still cook porridge at home?" ”

"I bought a cassette stove before, and I was going to use it to cook hot pot to eat, but I didn't expect that there would be a power outage for so many days, which just came in handy."

Sang Ning pushed the porridge in front of Grandma Zhao, and said while peeling eggs for her, "Porridge should be eaten while it is hot." ”

Grandma Zhao stared at the hot white porridge in front of her and swallowed her saliva, struggled for a long time, picked up the spoon, and slowly put it down, "I still don't eat this porridge, what I eat now is too precious, you better take it home and eat it tomorrow, right?" ”

"I still have several bags of rice at home, which can be eaten for a few months, not as many as these two bowls." Sang Ning said.

"Ningning, you are a good boy, and you still think about me as an old woman at this time," Grandma Zhao sighed, "but this heavy snow has been falling for dozens of days, and many families have run out of food, in order to ...... food."

She thought of the frozen corpse outside the door of He's house, and sighed softly, relatives are still like this, let alone outsiders?

Seeing her sad expression, Sang Ning persuaded: "Grandma Zhao, don't think too much, drink the porridge first, okay?" Look at your hand, it's cold and it's not warm at all. ”

She held Grandma Zhao's hand and rubbed it.

Grandma Zhao held her hand back, "I'm old, I'm going to die sooner or later, but it's just a matter of one day sooner or later, under such difficult conditions, I can't waste your family's food anymore, so I will have a bad conscience." ”

Sang Ning admires Grandma Zhao very much, she can still refuse this bowl of white porridge after being hungry for three days, change it to herself, don't say no, she will definitely gobble it up without saying a word.

What does it feel like to not eat in three days?

Dizziness and weakness, weakness in the hands and feet, a sense of impending death surging over me, and the brain cries out for hunger, as if eating an elephant at once cannot fill that huge hunger.

You won't feel so strongly when you're on a diet to lose weight, because having food around you guarantees that you won't die, but when you don't have food, fear greatly enhances hunger.

Sang Ling remembers that she drank water like crazy, trying to fill her stomach, but she kept spitting out sour water in her mouth, a painful experience she didn't want to go through a second time.

"Grandma Zhao, do you remember?"

Sang Ning mentioned the past, saying that in the third grade of primary school, she always coughed and couldn't sleep well at night, and it was useless to take Western medicine, and in the end, it was Grandma Zhao who took her pulse and prescribed medicine to cure her.

In the second year of junior high school, she had very severe menstrual cramps, not only did she break out in a cold sweat, but she also vomited and diarrhea, and it was Grandma Zhao who prescribed medicine to her to nourish her body, so that she didn't have pain for so many years.

Grandma Zhao's slightly cloudy eyes became clearer, the corners of her lips rose, and there was a little more smile on her face, "How long has it been, do you still remember?" ”