Scum Man Cannot Redeem Himself - chapter 50

While Ning Qing was worried about getting flowers, a careful voice came from outside the courtyard, “Girl Ning …”

Standing outside the door was Daqiang Aunt.

Ning Qing collected her mood and turned around.

“Auntie, come in!” Ning Qing said as she walked to the door and opened it.

Aunt Daqiang entered the yard with some hesitation while rubbing her hands uncomfortably.

Qing Ning knew the plight of her family.

She quickly took a stool from the side of the wall and asked Aunt Daqiang to sit down.

Xiuping in the house heard the sound and moved a chair from the back to let Ning Qing sit down. She patted her shoulders twice as if comforting her. Maybe she guessed her emotions.

Ning Qing turned her head to signal her not to worry.

“You talk. I’ll go to the kitchen to make some hot water for you to drink,” Xiuping said and went to the kitchen.

When Ning Qing turned to look at Aunt Daqiang, her eyes were full of despair and begging.

“Sister-in-law …” Ning Qing asked with concern, not knowing what happened.

“Miss Ning, I …” Her thin body sitting on the stool looked extremely soft. She rubbed her hands back and forth on the coarse skirt. It had layers of square patches on the cuffs which displayed her sadness and hardship.

“I’m embarrassed to say,” Aunt Daqiang said.

When she first came to this Qingshuipan village, Aunt Daqiang saw that there were only two women in the yard, so she said that they were her distant relatives of big families, who came to her because of difficulties. So those with bad ideas stayed away from them.

It also made Ning Qing to become a person with roots, and the people in the village no longer doubted it.

“Sister-in-law, if you have something to say, say it. When I first came, you helped me a lot and I would always remember it. If you have any difficulties in your family, I can help if I can.”

Hearing this, Aunt Daqiang finally had a glorious look in her eyes.

“There are two things.”

“One … is it possible to borrow twenty copper coins? Xiao Gen is sick,” the aunt’s eyes were red, and the tears slipped on her face.

Daqiang gave birth to seven children of which only three survived, and the rest died. Xiao Gen was the youngest child of the aunt. He was three years old and was very cute.

Maybe because she had lost a lot of children which gave her too much pain, she hoped that this child’s life would be as tenacious as the roots of the tree.

“I took him to the doctor in the village. He wrote down the medicines. I must go to the big drug shop in the town to buy it. The doctor in the village doesn’t have those medicines.”

“If it was another minor illness, I would’ve not been worried much. It would’ve got better with time. But this time his illness is dangerous, my third child also had the same illness, and I … I ca n’t … “Aunt Daqiang remembered the dying child. She thought of Xiao Gen’s illness, and she burst into tears.”Auntie, don’t cry, I’ll get it.”

Ning Qing got up and returned to the house, opened the locked box, and took out a silver coin from it.

“Girl, what’s wrong?” Xiuping asked.

“Xiao Gen is sick and has no money for medicine.”

Xiuping sighed, “It’s so hard for their family! He is three years old, the child is not yet an adult, and he suffers more than an adult. The one in the middle is only seven years old. There is also a man paralyzed in bed.”

“Sister Xiuping, go make some rice and send it to her house.”

Xiuping nodded. It was a matter of helping others.

Ning Qing was shocked when she first entered Daqiang’s house.

The house was so small, there was no good wall.

The three children were wearing thin clothes that were obviously too short. They sat around a large cauldron which had porridge.

There was no other widow.

The children drank it very slowly, but it was obvious that because of insufficient food, they had sucked in cheeks and deep eye sockets.

She never knew that some people’s lives would be so difficult. She would rather not see them. She sent some rice and meat on the same day, and then sent some fabrics and cotton to keep the children warm.

“Sister-in-law, you keep it first. It may not be enough.”

“How can I take this!” When the aunt saw that big silver ingot, she waved her hand, backed away and refused to accept it.

“Only twenty copper coins, those medicines only need twenty copper coins. Besides, borrowing so much isn’t good. Girl, can I borrow twenty copper coins?”

Aunt Daqiang raised two fingers to emphasize.

Ning Qing smiled and said, “Keep it, I know Uncle Daqiang still needs medicine. You can pay back slowly. Shouldn’t you think of surviving these hard days first?”

“Girl, I don’t know when I could return it to you. So much money, how could I pay it back? I can’t borrow so much. I can’t afford it.”

“Didn’t you say that I am your distant relative? You don’t have to pay it back.” Ning Qing looked at the silver ingot. She never knew that the money she used for buying one piece of clothing or one piece of jewelry could make a family survive a cold winter.

Aunt Daqiang was shocked when she heard that she didn’t have to return the money. How could she not pay it back?

“You really don’t have to pay it back. Aunt could help me when I get in trouble in the future!”

“How can my help be needed? This silver must be paid back,” Aunt Daqiang still insisted.

“Sister-in-law, didn’t you say there were two things? What is the other one?” Ning Qing shifted the topic.

Speaking of this, her face dimmed.

(Note: she isn’t really her sister-in-law)

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