I am the prince of the Ming Dynasty, I don't give up

Chapter 186 Sweet

The people around wanted to understand the reason. The other three children knelt down and begged, "Mom, please eat quickly, please eat something quickly."

Seeing that she couldn't hide it anymore, Zhou's mother had to turn her head slowly. She ignored the bowl of porridge in front of her and said with difficulty: "Mother knows her own health. Mother will not make it through this. Let's not waste food."

"No!" Zhou Abao shouted suddenly. Like a wounded beast, he frantically searched his body and found two silver coins.

"Mom, look, my son is making money. This is what he earns! After staying at home for a while, he will go out to work as a worker. He can earn two silver coins every month. Two silver coins are one tael of silver. Let's go see a doctor! Let's go get some medicine!" Zhou Abao said anxiously.

Zhou Laosan also took out a silver coin and put it in Zhou Abao's hand. This was the only silver coin he had left.
"Don't waste your money! It's useless." Zhou's mother panted.
Zhou Abao took a few steps back and banged his head on the dirt floor in the house. "Mom, please, let's eat something, let's go see a doctor! Our family's good days are about to begin, but we can't live without you! My brothers, sisters and I can't live without you either! I beg you, mom!" Zhou Abao said with tears streaming down his face and extremely sad.

The other children also understood what was happening and started crying and begging.
"Mother, what the eldest brother said is true. He really made money. You can go and see it." Zhou Laosan squatted at the door, his head down, his eyes red.
"Don't waste money. I know my own body. This time it's really not going to work. If it can't be cured, save some money. If you take me to see a doctor, I'll die here." Mother Zhou paused for several times before she finished speaking.
To be honest, doctors these days are pretty unreliable.
Just when things were turning around, they were stuck in a dead end again. Although Zhou's mother didn't have the strength to kill herself, her words were still very intimidating, and made everyone present feel her determination.
Zhou Abao's brain was working rapidly, and he really wanted to save his mother.

In the end, he actually found some useful things from his mind.
"Let's not go find a doctor! Let's treat it ourselves!" Zhou Abao smiled.
"Treat yourself?" Zhou Laosan asked in surprise, "When did you learn how to treat illnesses?"

"It's not me who can cure diseases, it's my brother Erwa. Actually, my brother Erwa doesn't know how to cure diseases, but he knows how to cure them." Zhou Abao became incoherent.

"Brother Erwa is from Qizhou. Qizhou has received many refugees in recent years. Brother Erwa once worked in a refugee camp. Brother Erwa said that 80 to 90 percent of the diseases of the poor in Daming are caused by malnutrition. As long as you supplement enough nutrition, your body will get better." Zhou Abao spoke faster and faster
"Is this true?" Zhou Laosan said in surprise.

"It must be true!" Zhou Abao became more and more excited as he spoke. "You see, we had all kinds of health problems before, but after staying in Nanbao Salt Field for three months, all of them are gone, even the night blindness is gone. There are many people in the salt field with the same situation as us, and it's because we eat well and have enough food in Nanbao Salt Field, which makes up for the deficiencies in our bodies."

The more Zhou Laosan thought about it, the more it made sense. This was something he had experienced personally, so it was very convincing.

"Mother of my child, did you hear what the eldest brother said? We have a way to cure your illness. As long as we make up for the deficiencies in your body, your illness will naturally be cured," Zhou Laosan said as he approached Zhou's mother.

"My son's father, why should we nourish our bodies as a poor family? We cannot afford it." Zhou's mother said softly.

"We can afford it! Eat candy! Eat meat! Eat fish!" Zhou Abao said suddenly. He ran outside and brought in two large bags. When he opened them, he saw all kinds of strange dried fish inside. The two bags were full. Zhou's mother and the other three children were stunned. It was the first time in their lives that they had seen so many fish.
"These are all for mom's health!" Zhou Abao said firmly.

Zhou Laosan stood up, rummaged through the pile of large and small bags for a while, found a small bag wrapped in white oil paper, and then opened it carefully. Inside was a bag of crystal clear rock sugar.

He carefully took out a piece with his rough, dark fingers and placed it next to Zhou's mother's dry and flaky lips. He gently stroked Zhou's mother's gray and withered hair with one hand and said softly, "Mother of my child, you have been with me for more than 20 years and gave birth to four children for me, but you have never had a good day. You have always suffered. You have never complained in all these years of suffering. Now... Now..."

Zhou Laosan's eyes turned red, tears finally broke through the shackles and poured out, his voice became choked and hoarse.
"Just have something sweet."

Zhou's mother and the children looked at Zhou Laosan crying in surprise. It was the first time they saw Zhou Laosan crying.
Mother Zhou looked at the somewhat unfamiliar Zhou Laosan, her lips trembling and slowly opening, and Zhou Laosan put the piece of rock candy into her mouth with a little force.

Mother Zhou only felt a sweet taste in her mouth. The sweet taste flowed into her dry stomach and was quickly digested, turning into a warm current flowing to her limbs. She only felt a little strength in her body.
She gently closed her eyes, savoring the sweetness. A crystal tear appeared in the corner of her eye and flowed into her messy gray hair.
After seeing Zhou's mother finish eating the rock candy, Zhou Laosan looked at the three children who were staring at him eagerly, took out three pieces of rock candy from the paper bag, and carefully put them into the hands of the three children.
"You guys eat too." Zhou Laosan said cheerfully.

The three children looked at the candy in their hands with eager eyes, then exchanged glances with each other, and no one ate the candy.
They looked at their mother, walked to the bed with the rock candy in their hands, and gently placed it next to Zhou's mother's mouth.
"We don't want to eat candy. It's for mother's body. We want mother. We want mother to get better." Zhou Damei said softly.

Zhou Xiaobao and Zhou Xiaomei beside them also nodded vigorously.
More tears welled up in Zhou's mother's eyes. She nodded vigorously and ate the rock candy handed to her by the three children. She felt the sweetness spread from her mouth to her heart.
Seeing this scene, Zhou Abao couldn't help shedding tears again. He picked up a few salted fish and turned to the kitchen.
Soon a big pot of fragrant fish soup was ready.
After drinking the delicious fish soup and eating some fish, Zhou's mother felt a little better.
The other three children also began to drink fish soup and eat fish meat at the repeated requests of Zhou Abao and Zhou Laosan.
This is the most delicious thing they have ever eaten in their lives.
Zhou Abao looked at his three brothers and sisters wolfing down their food and couldn't help but remind them, "Don't eat so fast. No one will snatch it from you. Be careful of the thorns."

The three children then ate a little slower.

At this time, Zhou Damei saw that Zhou Abao and Zhou Laosan didn't touch the fish in the pot at all, and couldn't help but ask curiously: "Dad! Big brother! This fish is so delicious, why don't you eat it! There is still a lot here, we can't finish it."

Zhou Abao and Zhou Laosan looked at each other, sighed and said, "Sister, you may not believe this, but my father and I have eaten so much fish that we feel like vomiting just by looking at it."

(End of this chapter)