Wang Tieshan's young wife was not very willing.
"I've turned on the air conditioner for you. We don't have heating at home. If you're cold, just wear more clothes. I've given you some clothes."
Bao's mother disliked the smell of the cotton-padded jacket given to her by Tieshan's wife, and she started crying again out of anger.
"I can wear more clothes, but the child can't. The child will be cold. Can't you light a fire in the house?"
Tieshan's wife was shocked: "What are you thinking? You are going to set the house on fire by lighting a fire in the room. Anyway, this is the condition of our house. You can live here if you want."
"Really? If I had known she was so troublesome, I would have given her another box of instant noodles and not let her come. What I gave her is not even as much as she eats. Instant noodles don't work, she wants eggs too. We haven't seen any eggs here for a month."
Tieshan's wife was not as good as Liu Qiaoer. She scolded the mother, who was hungry and angry, but her milk was not enough. The child cried loudly, and she regretted it more and more.
If she had known that the conditions outside were so bad, she would rather pay more money and stay at Liu Qiaoer's house. Now she wants to go back, but she doesn't know if she is willing to do so.
It's over 20 degrees below zero outside, and the village here only has ordinary cold-proof equipment, and it has never been this cold.
Wang Tieshan and his wife were also cold. They turned the air conditioner to the highest setting and still felt cold. But they were young people after all, with strong energy, and they were also broadcasting live.
It’s just that fewer and fewer people are giving gifts, and fewer and fewer people are watching live broadcasts. Now everyone is basically just chatting on the live broadcast and paying attention to the situation in various places.
Wang Tieshan knew that other places were colder and supplies were scarce, so he asked his wife to stock up early. Fortunately, there were only two of them now, and they could barely make do with two meals a day.
If the village chief hadn't said that he would give them food and vegetables in exchange for Bao Ma living in his house, he would not have agreed.
It was agreed at the beginning that Bao's mother would eat whatever they ate, but unexpectedly, Bao's mother started to dislike it from the beginning. Wang Tieshan added some instant noodle seasoning to the boiled noodles he had for dinner, but Bao's mother only ate two bites and stopped.
But at night she complained of being cold again, and the child kept crying. Wang Tieshan even regretted letting her move in.
Liu Qiaoer's side was calm. Seeing Lu Ming exercising every day, she was no longer decadent and started to exercise every day as well. After all, having a good body would help her escape faster.
It wasn't cold anymore when they started exercising, so they had to be more particular about eating. Liu Qiaoer fried steak and eggs for the two of them every morning, and also replaced milk with oatmeal.
Lu Ming's legs are almost healed. He used to use two crutches, but now he only uses one. He was a little surprised when he first saw such a delicious breakfast.
"It tastes so good."
Hearing Liu Qiao'er sweating profusely while exercising on the second floor, he immediately understood: "You exercise every day, are you ready to fight with others?"
Liu Qiaoer wiped the sweat off her face with a towel, took a quick shower, and changed her clothes.
"No, if I have a healthy body, I can save my life when I run away."
Lu Ming agreed with this statement. He had just finished exercising and took a quick shower.
"You're right. Our leader told us that on the battlefield, if you can win, you have to fight. If you can't win, you have to run faster than others, otherwise you will be the one who dies."
Liu Qiaoer smiled faintly: "The era of the survival of the fittest is coming soon. Even though everyone can help each other now, they will soon start snatching things away. In the future, tens of millions of people will die every year. If you can't even protect yourself, you can only wait to die."
Lu Ming nodded, and just after he finished his meal, he heard Liu Qiaoer's cell phone ringing.
The person who called was the mother next door, crying and asking Liu Qiaoer for help: "I beg you, let me live in your house, I really can't stand it, their house is too cold, I will pay, one thousand a day is fine, I will give you one hundred thousand, just let me live in your house."
Liu Qiaoer hung up the phone without saying a word.
The mother of the baby kept calling again and again, and Liu Qiaoer simply blocked her.
Lu Ming glanced at Liu Qiaoer with clear eyes and sighed: "You are right, the strong prey on the weak. Sometimes you are willing to show kindness, but others don't know how to be grateful."
After a while, Liu Qiaoer received another call from the village chief.
It’s still the same question. Bao’s mother wants to move back and asks Liu Qiaoer if she agrees.
Liu Qiao'er only had two words: "No."
Money here is equivalent to waste paper. Not only does the mother not know how to be grateful, but when she left, she also despised her. It is like a farmer raising a snake.
The village chief was also helpless and hung up the phone.
Who would have thought that two days later, early in the morning, Bao's mother cried and slammed the door of Liu Qiaoer's house.
"Help, please, save my child."
When Lu Ming opened the door, he saw the mother holding the child and almost kneeling down to him.
"My child has had a fever for two days. Please save her."
Lu Ming touched the child, who was burning with fever. But Liu Qiaoer was not a doctor, and a child who was not even a month old needed professional treatment in a hospital.
Lu Ming took the child to the village clinic and handed the child over to the village doctor.
The doctor frowned as soon as he saw it: "I don't think it's good. The child is too young. If he has a fever, it means he has pneumonia. And his jaundice is high. He needs to be exposed to the sun and ultraviolet light..."
At this time, the village chief also rushed over. Although the mother was wrapped in a down jacket from head to toe, her teeth were still chattering from the cold. The child was wrapped even more tightly by her, and the child had a high fever, so his face was abnormally red and his lips were purple.
"What's going on?"
The mother regretted it so much at this time. Liu Qiaoer lived comfortably in her home, but she insisted on moving out. The other home was as cold as a cellar.
Even adults can't bear it, let alone children. Now that the child has a fever, she went out and realized that it was really cold outside.
"Cold..." said the doctor.
The village chief was also helpless: "Several people have frozen to death in the yard these days. We almost burned the table as firewood, but it was really cold. The adults couldn't stand it, and the children were too young."
Bao's mother knelt down in front of the village chief and said, "Please let me go back to my old home. It's warm here and the food is good. I was too spoiled at first. I want to apologize to her. Since my child is still young, please let me live in her home."
Before the village chief spoke, Lu Ming spoke first.
"How dare you say that? Comrade Liu gave you the best food at home, and you complained about it. We usually don't even bother to turn on the heater at home, but she turned it on for you. And you actually said she wasn't good to you? She didn't ask for anything in vain to serve you."
"Now that you have offended her, she may not let you stay."
Unexpectedly, Bao's mother kowtowed to Lu Ming like crazy: "I will be obedient this time. I won't be picky. As long as I can live in her house, I can do anything. I will even give her all my money."
Neither Lu Ming nor the village chief said anything, because everyone knew how much Bao Ma had offended Liu Qiaoer.
Seeing that begging them was useless, the mother suddenly became angry.
"You don't want me to live here, right? If anything happens to my child, I will hang myself at her doorstep."
He even threatened them.
There was no other choice, so the village chief and Lu Ming brought Bao’s mother to knock on Liu Qiaoer’s door again.
Liu Qiaoer just glanced at them calmly: "What is the reward this time?"