Eating with oil dripping from her mouth, there’s a wooden bowl on the ground, looks like she plans to pack so to take away.
Aunt Tian wiped her mouth with her sleeve and smacked her lips, her face showing no difficulty at all: "I’m your second aunt, can’t I eat your food? How did you braise these, they’re so delicious. And these mulberries, where did you get them from? I heard you went to the town to sell things today, how much did you make?"
This visit from Aunt Tian was to probe into Tian Sangsang’s financial situation, after all, the family is setting up an arranged marriage for her, planning to sell her and her little brat for a good price. She hadn’t expected no one to be ho when she arrived, so she casually rummaged around, hoping to snag so things to take back, and lo and behold! She truly found so good stuff! The mulberries were both sour and sweet, making her feel drunk; pig trotters, chicken legs, all at, the aroma indescribable, making her feel on cloud nine. She hadn’t eaten at more than a few tis all year, and this ti she had the amount for a whole year in one go.
"Eh?" Tian Sangsang exclaid softly, "Second Aunt, why are you eating that?"
Her hands were all purple, Tian Sangsang looked at ng Shuyan and lightly scolded: "Yanyan, mom picked mulberries for you to eat yourself, you’re so naughty, learning how mom stores braised food, why did you put that in the jar? Where did you get that water from? I’ve told you so many tis, chickens only eat bugs, not mulberries, even if you want to feed your little flower, you can’t soak the bugs in mulberries! Eating that could be fatal, what if soone gets poisoned?!"
"Second Aunt, I’m really sorry, how are you feeling now, do you feel uncomfortable anywhere? Does your stomach hurt? Is your head dizzy? Has your whole body been bitten by sothing?"
Aunt Tian imdiately lost her composure, threw the jar away and stood up, touching her stomach and trembling: "What did you say, what bugs, this is soaked to feed the chickens?"
Tian Sangsang squinted her eyes, watching her sangren wine spill from the jar onto the ground, purple wine spreading everywhere. That was what she had painstakingly brewed!
"Mom, I didn’t." ng Shuyan bit his teeth in grievance.
Aunt Tian breathed a sigh of relief, thinking to herself, was Tian Sangsang deliberately deceiving her?
"I didn’t soak bugs, I clearly soaked this." His pale, soft hand opened, and in his palm was a long black creature, wiggling its body, each leg sharp.
"This is a scorpion," ng Shuyan said innocently and childishly, "I crushed the scorpion with a stone and threw it into the jar."
"No, no, son." Tian Sangsang seed petrified in place, motionless, emphasizing: "That’s not a scorpion, it’s a centipede."
Aunt Tian was thoroughly disgusted upon hearing the words scorpion and centipede. Now, looking at the still wiggling centipede in ng Shuyan’s palm, she bent down to mimic a vomiting motion, but what she had eaten was easy to ingest and hard to spew out. She reached to dig with her hand yet nothing budged. She thought back to whether she had consud sothing strange while eating, like a centipede. Could there be a centipede growing in her stomach? Centipedes were certainly poisonous. The more she thought about it, the more scared she beca!
"Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!"
The Tian family courtyard echoed with a loud scream from the woman, Aunt Tian pointed a finger at Tian Sangsang and ng Shuyan: "You two, you two, if sothing happens to , I won’t let you two go!" After yelling, she ran with a pale face. There was nothing when she ate, but now, her stomach really did start to hurt a little.
"Second Aunt, watch out, there’s a stone ahead."
"Thud." Aunt Tian was imdiately tripped to the ground, eating dirt, and stumbled as she got up to continue running.
"Yanyan, quickly throw away the centipede, it’s very dangerous!" As soon as the trouble left, Tian Sangsang imdiately said anxiously to ng Shuyan.
This son of hers truly has peculiar hobbies, always loves catching bugs, worms, centipedes, and the like, with a calm expression. Could this be the legendary "ignorance is bliss"? Thinking that he’s not yet four years old, indeed at the age of ignorance is bliss.
"It’s okay, mom." ng Shuyan smiled brightly: "It won’t bite, it’s talking to ."
Tian Sangsang stared intently at his hand, afraid he’d get bitten. However, the centipede seed truly harmless, looking non-aggressive.
Tian Sangsang regarded it rely as child’s play, so she asked: "What is it saying to you?"
Centipede: Is that dark one really your real mom? Not your stepmom?
ng Shuyan let out a cold hum, furrowed his small brows, flicked his short hand, and the pitiful centipede was flung into the chicken pen. Feeling a dangerous gaze from behind, it turned its head, a tall hen was looking at it with predatory eyes, opening its huge mouth.
Centipede: Brother ng, save !
ng Shuyan: Stop shouting, even if you yell until you’re hoarse, no one will co to save you.
Centipede: Until I’m hoarse, until I’m hoarse, until I’m hoarse... Save ...
"It says it’s tired and wants to find a place to sleep." ng Shuyan walked over, opened his arms and hugged Tian Sangsang’s leg tightly, softly saying: "Mom, you’re the best."
With the complint from her son, her frustration over the spoiled braised food and sangren wine instantly vanished into thin air, Tian Sangsang reached out, and patted his fluffy little head. "Son, you’re good too."
Aunt Zhong heard the noise and rushed over: "Sangsang, what’s up, who was that screaming just now?"
While cleaning up the yard, Tian Sangsang almost burst out laughing, Aunt Zhong’s taphor was so apt, it really was a ghostly wail.
She shrugged: "It was my second aunt, I just got back from town and saw her in my house."
"Why did she co to your house out of nowhere?" Seeing the ss on the ground, Aunt Zhong imdiately understood, shaking her head: "Your second aunt is notoriously stingy and greedy, she must have heard you did so small business and ca to snag so benefits. Make sure you lock your house well when you go out in the future."
"I thought so too, she usually doesn’t co, why suddenly now."
"Our whole family was out today, and didn’t see her enter your house, otherwise we would have blocked her. If she cos again, just co to , there are more of us, no need to fear her."
"Hmm." Tian Sangsang obediently nodded her head.
Tian Sangsang tidied up the yard, all the sangren wine had spilled out, and she had disposed of it all. The half jar of braised food left, she dared not eat again. After all, Aunt Tian had eaten it, and who knows if she used chopsticks? Thinking of her oily hands earlier, it seems she didn’t use chopsticks. After a day of selling braised food, she made 10.12 yuan, not bad. But there’s still so difficulty in saving enough to buy a shop. Wrapping the money in a piece of floral cloth, she didn’t trust it under the bed, so she simply put it into her space.
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