The billionaire girl: Daddy and Mommy, love me again

The person who bought the fish walked through the town carrying the fish, and people who saw him were curious about where the fish came from.

In this way, more and more people knew that there were fish for sale in the town, and crowds came from all directions.

The fish sold out very quickly and were sold out in less than an hour.

There were only some small crucian carps the size of three fingers left in the bucket.

"Can I buy half a catty? I... I only have seven coins. My daughter-in-law just gave birth and has no milk. I want to buy half a catty of crucian carp to make fish soup for her to drink milk."

A hunchbacked, gray-haired old woman asked timidly.

The street was noisy and Boss Cheng only noticed her when she spoke for the second time.

"Are you talking to me, ma'am?"

Although Boss Cheng did not look fierce, he was tall and had a loud voice. The old woman was thin and hunchbacked, so she was only as tall as his waist. His height alone gave her a sense of oppression.

The old woman was so frightened that her face turned pale. She waved her hands and backed away repeatedly.

"No...no."

Boss Cheng frowned as he looked at the old woman who turned around and was about to leave, not ignoring the longing and loneliness in her eyes.

He guessed that she wanted to buy fish, but she was short of money, so she didn't dare to ask.

"Auntie, wait a moment."

The old woman thought that what she had just said had offended him, and she walked faster in fear.

"Hey! I asked you to wait for me!"

The old woman had a hunchback and was so skinny from hunger that she couldn't even walk fast. Before she had gone far, Boss Cheng caught up with her and grabbed her arm.

"Auntie, don't leave so quickly. I'm calling you. Didn't you hear me?"

The old woman's arm was grabbed and she couldn't break free no matter how hard she struggled. She could only look up at Boss Cheng with a panicked look on her face and pleading.

"Mr. Cheng, I won't buy any more fish! I won't buy any more!"

"Auntie, here you go. You don't have to buy it. I'll give it to you to eat!"

Boss Cheng let go of the old woman and handed her a string of fish, which looked to be about two kilograms.

"No, I don't need that much. I only have seven coins, which is only enough to buy half a catty. Can I just buy half a catty?"

The old woman held the seven copper coins in her palm in front of Boss Cheng and looked at his face timidly.

"Auntie, you don't need to pay me. I'm giving it to you to eat. This is the last bit left. The fish is small and hard to sell!"

"This, this won't do, no, these are all I have, please take them."

We haven't had meat for a long time. This fish is so cheap, how could it not sell?

The seven cents in her hand were earned from picking tea oil seeds on the mountain and selling them to the Cheng family a few days ago. She was old and hunchbacked, so she could not compare with others. She only picked twenty kilograms of tea oil seeds, which was one kilogram short. The Cheng family was kind-hearted and felt sorry for her, so they gave her seven cents.

Her last name is Deng, and everyone calls her Mrs. Deng.

Because of his congenital hunchback, he never got married in his life.

When he was young, he picked up a little beggar on the street, raised him with great difficulty, and married him off.

Fortunately, the couple were very filial, and their daughter-in-law became pregnant soon after their marriage.

Originally, their family of three lived in harmony and happily looked forward to the arrival of a new life.

Unexpectedly, a flood destroyed all of this.

They received a notice from the county government that they had escaped the flood but not the plague.

His son, who went out to look for food, accidentally contracted the plague. In order not to infect them, he refused to return home and died the day before the medicine was delivered from Yaowang Valley.

They didn't even get to see him for the last time before they were carried away by the soldiers and burned to ashes.

Fortunately, despite the extreme grief in her heart, the daughter-in-law gave birth to her grandson safely a few days ago. The little guy was malnourished in his mother's belly. He weighed only three pounds when he was born and was as thin as a kitten.

My daughter-in-law was in confinement and had no food to eat. She had no milk at all, so the child had to rely on a little rice soup to fill his stomach. He was so hungry that he couldn't sleep and cried all night long.

After listening to Mrs. Deng's story, Boss Cheng was filled with emotion. He was silent for a while and then stuffed the fish into her hand.

"Well, Aunt Deng, our oil press will open in a while and we will be hiring people to pick tea seeds. You and your daughter-in-law can come then. It's an easy job and you can do it while taking care of the children.

Take this fish back first and make sure it is healthy before you start working."

When Mrs. Deng heard him say that the oil press factory was recruiting workers and that she and her daughter-in-law could go, her eyes lit up with surprise.

"Okay! Okay! Thank you, Mr. Cheng. You are such a kind person. The Bodhisattva will bless you. I can't take this fish for nothing. Please keep the account for me. I will pay you back when I earn money in the future!"

Seeing that she insisted, Boss Cheng had no choice but to agree to her first.

"Okay, go back and take care of your grandson!"

After Mrs. Deng thanked him profusely, she carried the precious fish home.

When Boss Cheng returned to the stall, he saw that all the fish of Cheng Laowu and his friends were sold out, so they packed up and prepared to go home.

"Master Cheng, do you have any fish? Give me some!"

"I'm sorry, they're all sold out. If you want to buy fish, please come early tomorrow. We'll come back tomorrow morning."

Many people continued to come to the street, but when they saw that their buckets were empty, they could only go back disappointed.

When he learned that they would come again tomorrow, he secretly planned to come earlier tomorrow. Even if there was no pork to eat, fish would still be a rare delicacy.

Boss Cheng and his companions were carrying empty buckets and walking among the crowd. They noticed a lot of stares at them, and some people even followed them.

Maybe people thought their fish were caught from a river, so they wanted to follow them to see if they could find anything.

But they were not afraid. They went back to the brick factory openly, rolled up their sleeves and started moving bricks. It was not until the afternoon that the people who were following them dispersed after seeing that they had been moving bricks in the brick factory for half the day and had not taken any other actions.

Only after seeing that the stalkers had left did Boss Cheng and his men dare to go up the mountain.

Over there, old woman Deng hid the fish in her arms like a thief and went home. Fortunately, she had a hunchback, and the fish hidden in her arms could not be seen by others unless they bent over, otherwise it would have been snatched away.

In the shabby and crude shack, a young woman with a sallow face was holding a skinny baby in her arms, trying to feed him to sleep with her dry breasts. Unfortunately, the baby sucked hard for a long time but got nothing. He was so hungry that he couldn't even make a sound to cry.

"Juer, look, what I brought back!"

Mrs. Deng took the fish out of her arms and held it in front of her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Qiu.

"Ah! Fish!"

Qiu screamed in surprise, then quickly covered her mouth. After looking outside, she lowered her voice and asked, "Mom, where did the fish come from?"

"It was given by Mr. Cheng. He's the one I told you about last time, the one who collected tea oil seeds and built a brick factory. You still remember him, right?"

"Mr. Cheng gave it to you. Why would he give you fish?"

Mrs. Qiu asked in confusion. Her mother-in-law was hunchbacked, had no money, and had no strength to work. She was laughed at and bullied every time she went out. Why would Mr. Cheng give her fish for no reason?

"Mr. Cheng is a good man. He was selling fish today. He felt sorry for me and heard that my grandson had just been born and had no milk, so he gave me some fish. He also said that he would open an oil press in a while and would be hiring workers. He asked us to bring our child to work there."

"Is there really such a good person?"

Qiu still couldn't believe it. Just over a month ago, the world was still full of cannibalism. Could there really be such a kind-hearted person?

“The Cheng family are all good people, you will know when you meet them in the future.

Oh, my dear grandson, you must be starving. I will go make fish soup for your mother. You will have milk to drink later."

"Mom, how can it be so effective? Could it be that this fish is actually ginseng? Can I drink it and immediately produce milk?"

"Yes, it can help produce milk. If I say yes, then it can!"

Seeing that she was stubborn, Mrs. Qiu decided not to argue with her. She knew that her mother-in-law meant well and that she herself was reluctant to eat and was often hungry, so any food she had was stuffed into her stomach.

Her husband is gone, and the three of them, old and young, depend on each other for survival. Life is difficult in this world, and no one knows how long they can live.

If only the Cheng family were as kind as my mother-in-law said, perhaps they would still have hope of survival.

Not long after, a rich aroma of fish soup came over, interrupting her thoughts and making her drool.

"Juer, the fish soup is ready, drink it while it's hot!"

Old Mrs. Deng handed the fish soup to Mrs. Qiu, took the child and coaxed him softly.

Fortunately, many families nearby also bought fish. The aroma of fish wafted from thousands of households, but no one thought that this poor orphan and widow could afford to buy fish, so it did not attract anyone's attention.

Qiu was so tempted by the aroma of the fish soup that she didn't care that the soup was still hot and swallowed it in small sips.

She didn't know if it was her illusion, but the boiling fish soup seemed to clear the veins in her chest and she felt a little better.

It was not until she had finished two bowls of soup that she truly felt her whole body was warm and her chest was slightly swollen.

"Mom, this fish soup is really effective. Give me the child quickly. Maybe he can have a full meal!"

"Really? I said this fish can definitely increase milk production. The Cheng family is kind-hearted, so the fish they raise must be good!"

Of course, this fish grows up eating rice flowers and drinking spiritual spring water.