12dz Chapter 254 Dare not gamble
Chapter 254 Dare not gamble
"If you're really worried, then come over early tomorrow. I assure you, by the time you arrive tomorrow, the young man from the Gu family will definitely be sober."
"Mother, I'm not worried about that. I'm worried that my three older brothers won't be able to take care of people. They're already covered in injuries. If another one comes, it will only make things worse. Wouldn't all our efforts today have been for nothing?"
"Don't worry, don't worry, they're all grown up, how could they not know how to take care of people?"
"If they really can't take good care of people, then they can forget about having a good life in the future."
Lin Cai eventually left, reluctantly. Even her mother sighed as she watched her go.
"The child is grown up and it's time for her to get married. We can't keep her at home anymore!"
Hearing this from inside the house, Lin Bao suddenly said, "Wasn't she already married a long time ago?"
As soon as he finished speaking, several pairs of eyes turned to him. When Lin Bao saw that they were all looking at him, he subconsciously swallowed.
"What's wrong? Did I say something wrong?"
Lin Long and Lin Hu didn't speak, but they moved a little further away. Lin's father went straight to the kitchen, while Lin's mother stared at Lin Bao with a deep, unsettling gaze.
Grabbing the broom behind the door, she swung it at him: "You're so good at talking, you're so good at talking. Do you need to remind me about your sister getting married?"
"Don't I know your sister got married? Don't I know your sister is a widow now?"
The broom landed on him, and Lin Bao jumped up and ran around the house frantically, yelling, "Ouch, Mom, I was wrong, I was wrong, I'm bad with words, I said the wrong thing..."
"Stop hitting me, I was wrong, I know I was wrong..."
On her way back to the Gu family home, Lin Cai was battered by the wind and snow. Just as she was about to reach the door, she saw someone loitering around there.
Because they were still some distance away, Lin Cai saw a figure but didn't pay much attention. However, as she got closer and closer...
Then they saw that person sneaking up to the Gu family's gate, peeking around suspiciously.
Lin Cai tiptoed up behind the person and said, "It's so cold outside in the dead of winter. Why aren't you staying indoors? What are you doing out here?"
The furtive person was startled by the sound and plopped down on the ground: "I...I...I was just looking, I didn't mean anything by it, I was just looking at myself..."
"I'll leave now, I'll leave now, I'll leave right now..."
She only asked one question, and without doing anything else, the person was scared away. Lin Cai looked at the person's back and shook her head.
Gu Zhan returned covered in injuries, but after applying medicine, he woke up the next day. When Lin Cai saw that he was awake, she bandaged up the wounds on his arm.
She began to apply medicine to the wound on her chest, but as soon as she put her hand on it, it was grabbed by another hand.
"What are you doing? Why are you grabbing me?"
Gu Zhan didn't speak, but his eyes made it very clear. Lin Cai froze for two seconds before pulling her hand back.
"I was just thinking of applying medicine to you, what did you think I wanted to do?"
"Look at how many injuries you've sustained. Your entire body is covered in wounds. Do you think I'd even look at you looking like this?"
"You like smooth skin?"
Lin Cai took out another bottle of medicine from the box: "What do you think?"
"Everyone has a love for beauty; who would like something full of scars?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhan gripped his clothes tightly, refusing to let Lin Cai apply the medicine.
Lin Cai didn't understand what he wanted, so she put the medicine bottle on the box next to her and sat down to watch him.
"Young Master Gu, do you not want to get better, or do you not want me to apply the medicine for you?"
"If it's the former, then after I leave, you can go back to your home and fend for yourself. I won't care about you anymore."
"If it's the latter, then I'm sorry, but now, apart from me, no one in this family will take care of you."
Lin Cai spoke these words in a very calm tone, and Gu Zhan did not react at all.
After a while, Lin Cai got really impatient and grabbed him directly: "Why are you being so dramatic?"
Have you forgotten what you told me before?
"Since you're so willing to do that, you'll have to listen to me from now on. No matter what it is, I'll be in charge."
Upon hearing this, Gu Zhan looked at Lin Cai with shining eyes, his joy was undisguised.
What happened inside the house is unknown to outsiders, but the three brothers are really unhappy right now!
Their younger sister came back these past two days, but not for them!
The Lunar New Year is getting closer and closer, and the weather is getting colder and colder. In just one night, there was already a thick layer of snow on the ground outside.
"Sister Lin, this year is probably going to be tough!"
"Even if things are tough, we have to get through them. Does that mean we should just give up?"
Scarface turned to look at Lin Cai: "You don't seem worried at all?"
"What am I worried about? What could possibly make me worried?"
Lin Cai looked at the snow falling outside and thought about Scarface's words. Wasn't she worried at all?
What might be a concern?
Although there may be almost no food, warm clothes and firewood in the entire Longxing County right now, so what?
She is neither a god nor a bodhisattva. She can save a family and a village, but she can't save the people of a town, a county, or a city!
Previously, because she had made and sold various pastries and other things, the refrigerator room had been expanded considerably, but that was only for the supplies she had stockpiled herself.
She can use the money to help the people of Gujia Village get through a few days of hardship, but what happens after those few days?
Nobody knows how long this snow will last.
No one knows whether the weather will continue to get cold.
If she takes everything out of the refrigerator now and feeds them, what will happen later?
Lin Cai wasn't selfish; she just didn't want to gamble, and she was also afraid to gamble because human nature is something you can't gamble with.
The weather is getting colder and colder, and many people in Gujia Village can't stand it anymore. They all go out in groups to find something to eat.
Instead of going anywhere else, they came to the Lin family's house together, because they firmly believed that the two brothers in the Lin family must have brought back the grain.
Lin's mother got up early in the morning and was about to empty the snow from the yard when she was startled by the huge crowd of people outside.
"Big Head's mother, what are you doing?"
Why would you come to her doorstep for no reason?
"Sister-in-law Lin, I know you have food at home, please give us some!"
"We don't need much, just one bowl is enough. We can even use just one bowl to cook two meals of rice porridge when we get back!"
Once someone spoke up, the others followed suit, all begging Lin's mother for a bowl of food.