After dressing as a widow

The boiled salt and sugar water was cooled quickly, and one person poured a large bowl.

Then Lin Zhen asked Mrs. Lin and the others to grind a small bowl of millet that Gu Lin got from the county magistrate, and grind it into rice paste to feed Ma Min's children.

Sitting by the bed, Lin Zhen looked at Ma Min who was lying on Mrs. Lin's bed, and thought of the person the Lin family helped in.

Lin Xiaoyao, Ma Min, Zhong Yan, Wang Qin, Huang Yuwen, and the servant named Wang Youcai beside him were missing Mrs. Chen, the two servants beside Huang Yuwen, and another servant beside Wang Qin.

these people……

Just thinking about it for a while, I knew what happened to these few people. They bid farewell that day in a hurry. What happened.

Just when the images of these people who were not here appeared in Lin Zhen's mind, Lin Xiaoyao on the bed suddenly vomited violently, and the salt and sugar water she had just swallowed flowed out of her nose and mouth.

Lin Zhen quickly turned him into a side-lying position and patted his back.

It is easy to choke into the lungs if you vomit while lying flat, and it is dangerous if you don't deal with it in time.

After vomiting the last mouthful of salt and sugar water in her stomach, Lin Xiaoyao finally calmed down. Lin Zhen helped him up and leaned against the bed, went to the stove to fill a new bowl of salt and sugar water, sat on the bed and was about to feed him. He was held tightly by Lin Xiaoyao, gulping and swallowing impatiently.

"Slow down, don't choke." Lin Zhen looked at Lin Xiaoyao who was out of shape for half a month, and walked along his back.

Soon, a bowl of salted sugar water was in Lin Xiaoyao's stomach. He leaned softly against the wall, looked at Lin Zhen with half-opened eyes, and suddenly raised his arms towards Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen moved forward silently, letting him hold him, and gently wrapped his arms around his waist and back.

"That's great..." Lin Xiaoyao's voice was too hoarse, and she couldn't hear what he said unless she listened carefully.

Lin Xiaoyao is 21 years old this year. When Lin Zhen first met him, he was only 15 years old. He was thin and small, with dark skin, and he was also numb when he saw his third brother.

Later, he followed him to the town to sell Mala Tang, learned to read and write, and followed him to Fucheng to open a shop.

He has become more and more generous, and he is good at work and purchase, except for secretly liking Zhong Yan, his life seems to be smooth.

Lin Zhen hugged him and said, "Go this trip, do you regret it?"

Lin Xiaoyao's head was next to him, like when the two were still in the Lin family, there was no extra bed and they could only squeeze on a stone bed: "I don't regret it."

"I'm just sorry."

"I used my life to find him once and met him once. From now on, I will only live for myself. I am just Lin Xiaoyao."

No regrets, just regrets.

Lin Zhen didn't realize what he said in his previous life, but he heard it from Lin Xiaoyao, who was younger than him.

Both Lin Xiaoyao and him knew that as long as Lin Xiaoyao went to find Zhong Yan, with Zhong Yan's temperament and the friendship between the two families, there would be nothing wrong with letting Zhong Yan marry him.

Maybe it's not just the two of them who would think that Father Lin, Father Lin, the rest of the Lin family, including Zhong Yan's grandma, might think so.

There is no way to repay the grace of life-saving.

But Lin Xiaoyao said that he will only live for himself in the future, and he still likes Zhong Yan, but he doesn't plan to be with Zhong Yan.

Maybe, Lin Xiaoyao already thought this way before going.

Lin Zhen didn't know what it was like to like someone, he just felt that Lin Xiaoyao in front of him seemed to be broken: "Xiaoyao..."

Lin Xiaoyao buried her face on his shoulder, "People always have to be crazy for a while before they can understand what's going on inside. Zhong Yan and I..."

Mentioning this name, Lin Xiaoyao felt pain in his chest and eyes. He took a deep breath and said firmly: "He is a completely different person. He is suitable for finding a girl who understands his talent and poetry or Brother, and I, when the drought is over, I want to go out and do something of my own."

"I've learned so much from my third brother over the years, it should be enough for me to venture outside."

"Okay," Lin Zhen hugged him, "I'll check it out myself to see how you're doing."

After holding up her strength and talking to him for a while, Lin Xiaoyao fell asleep on top of Lin Zhen.

Lin Zhen helped him to lie down, and tucked him in the quilt. He looked at Lin Xiaoyao's thin face, and reached out to wipe away the water marks on the corners of his eyes and face.

"How is it, is Xiaoyao okay? I feel uncomfortable seeing him like that." As soon as Lin Zhen came out of the house, Father Lin ran up to ask.

Lin Zhen closed the door behind him and said, "It's okay, I woke up just now and said a few words to me."

"That's good, that's good," Father Lin patted his chest, and finally let go of his heart. Suddenly, he hesitated, "That Zhong Yan..."

Lin Zhen took his hand, pulled him to the side of the stove, and put down the empty bowl: "The two of them don't matter, whether it's Xiaoyao and him, or he and Xiaoyao, it's just a matter of getting to know each other in the future."

"Xiao Yao figured it out?"

"There is nothing that can be figured out or not. It's just that after some things, the thinking is different."

"Alas..." Dad Lin wanted to say something, but he didn't know what to say. Lin Xiaoyao was his child, so there was no dad who didn't hope for the well-being of his own child.

But there is no such thing as affection. Those couples who have slept together for most of their lives still have two hearts and can't get together.

Lin Xiaoyao and the others came back at night, and no one saw them. Lin Zhen thought about it, and said to Dad Lin, "I don't know when they will wake up. Dad, take the leftover wheat flour from the previous two days. After kneading, when they wake up to make noodles, I will go to Aunt Ma's house and tell him that Sister Ma Min is here."

"She and Uncle Ma have always cared about Sister Ma Min. They must be very happy to have Sister Ma Min back."

"Go." Carpenter Ma is a rare outlier in the village. Aunt Ma only gave birth to a daughter for him, and he never said anything. Aunt Ma is still the same as before. It's something to eat, something to use, or a novelty gadget.

After Ma Min married and went to Fucheng, the couple lived in the village. As long as Ma Min came back, the smiles on the couple's faces never stopped.

Many people said behind their backs that Carpenter Ma was stupid. With such a good craft, he quickly remarried a new daughter-in-law and gave birth to a big fat boy to inherit the incense while he was still young.

Carpenter Ma always said the same thing about this, no more tossing, no more tossing, as long as Min'er's mother is with me.

After the drought broke out, Aunt Ma became ill because she was worried about Ma Min. If she knew that Ma Min was back, she would be very happy.

The two families were not far away, so Lin Zhen fixed the oil lamp in a simple lantern and walked to Aunt Ma's house.

At this time, Lin Zhen thought that Carpenter Ma and Aunt Ma should be asleep, but he didn't expect that the lights in the house were still on, so he stood outside the yard and shouted: "Auntie, I, Lin Zhen, come to say hello to you information."

"Squeak," Carpenter Ma opened the door, and he stepped aside, "Brother Zhen, come in quickly, your aunt is making ginger tea, drink some."

Lin Zhen frowned: "Auntie caught the cold?" As he spoke, Lin Zhen put the lantern in the corner.

"No, that's what she wanted."

Seeing Lin Zhen, Aunt Ma beckoned him over, "Come and drink, I put less sugar and a bit more spicy, drinking it will make you sweat more."

The taste of ginger soup depends on the ratio of sugar and ginger. If you like it spicy, you can add more ginger. If you like it milder, add less ginger and more sugar.

Lin Zhen looked at the many gray hairs that Aunt Ma had grown out in just a few months, took a sip from the bowl, "Aunt Ma, I came to tell you good news, why haven't you asked me What good news."

"Anyway, that's what you want to say, I'll listen."

Lin Zhen finished drinking the ginger soup in her hand, and reached out to support the bowl in her hand: "I promise you will like this good news, auntie."

"Sister Ma Min is back, at my house."

"—"

Sure enough, the bowl in Aunt Ma's hand fell off, and if Lin Zhen hadn't supported it with her hand beforehand, all the ginger soup and the bowl in it would have fallen to the ground.

Her lips trembled, and she grabbed Lin Zhen's shoulder excitedly: "Brother Zhen, what did you say, I, why didn't I understand, you said..."

"Sister Ma Min is back, she came back with Xiaoyao, you and Uncle Ma come with me to have a look." Lin Xiaoyao put the bowl of ginger soup in her hand on the table next to her, got up and lifted the lantern in the corner.

Already stunned by the news, Carpenter Ma and Aunt Ma couldn't react at all, they were stunned, and followed Lin Zhen out of the door like a machine.

It wasn't until they got outside the yard that the old couple realized what Lin Zhen had said just now. The daughter they had been thinking about was back, and she is now at the Lin family!

Aunt Ma held Lin Zhen's hand tightly, and her steps became faster and faster: "How did Xiao Min come back, why did she go to your house, I always dream about her these days, both good and bad , if you, Uncle Ma, hadn't stopped me, I would have gone to find her, even if I died, it would be fine for the two of you to die together."

Ma Min has already returned, Lin Zhen did not continue to hide from them that he had traveled with Ma Min for a while, from the time he met Ma Min at the hands of a group of gangsters blocking the way, to the time when his foot was pierced , had to separate from them.

Aunt Ma and Carpenter Ma were extremely sad when they heard that Ma Min's husband and his husband's family were gone, leaving only a baby in swaddle.

Last year, Ma Min and her husband brought their two eldest grandchildren to visit them. At that time, they hadn't noticed that Ma Min was pregnant. Those two grandchildren...

Soon, the three arrived at Lin's house.

Carpenter Ma and Aunt Ma ran into the room where Ma Min and Lin Xiaoyao were lying like the wind. Lin Zhen, who was a few steps behind, heard uncontrollable crying from inside in an instant.

Lin Zhen didn't go in, nor did the rest of the Lin family, so they just did their own thing outside.

In this natural and man-made disaster, it is extremely lucky to be able to meet again, and it is not an easy thing.

There are so many corpses lying across the barren mountains and ridges, there is no chance of being picked up.