Reincarnation in the 60s: My Spatial Supermarket Brings Forth Wealth-Chapter 227: Minds Start Working

Bai Xianglan’s uncontrollable tears started to fall. When had she ever enjoyed such family joy? In these times of panic, hearing such words made her feel both moved and at ease.

"Alright! Don’t cry! Grandma, go rest in your room for a bit! I’ll make dinner soon!" Lin Xue wiped away Grandma’s tears.

In her heart, Grandma was worthy of all respect. This little old lady, at her age, still worried about their large family’s ability to survive the winter, even taking out her own savings to support them.

This made her helplessly fall into despair. She had always been the type to repay kindness a hundredfold, and compared to Grandma Bai, her grandmother was simply perfect—she couldn’t find a single fault with her. 𝒇𝒓𝒆𝒆𝙬𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝒎

How could she bear to see such a small old lady living in fear and anxiety? To ease her worries, she decided to get some food by tomorrow.

Upon entering the kitchen, she was startled by the food her family had been eating during this period.

She had left them with two months’ worth of grain, and now, a month later, about one and a half months’ worth remained. How much had they cut back?

They had only consumed half a month’s worth of food in one month, which certainly meant they were eating a lot of wild vegetables.

Seeing the two sacks of dried vegetables her mom had stored under the cupboard further convinced her that her family had been eating mainly wild vegetables, sparing even the garden produce.

She could imagine her little siblings returning from vacation with pale faces.

Because she knew that the town’s food supply wasn’t affected, and her mom surely hadn’t told her dad what they were eating at home.

Otherwise, her dad wouldn’t be able to enjoy such decent food in town.

They were people who had experienced hunger, so eating wild vegetables was something they had long been used to. However, her little siblings were different. Although they too had been hungry before, over the past few months they had grown picky, and returning to eating gruels of wild vegetables would surely be torturous.

Bai Xianglan knew she couldn’t stop her eldest granddaughter from cooking wild vegetable gruel at night. Today, she didn’t want to stop her anyway. Her grandchildren were noticeably thinner, yet none of them complained and even got up at dawn to pick wild vegetables with their mom. Since her eldest granddaughter wanted to improve their meals, she let her go ahead.

So she went to her daughter-in-law’s room to take care of the two little ones.

Lin Xue prepared to cook, lifting the lid of the big iron pot. It was rusted, obviously not having seen any oil for a long time.

The sight made her nose tingle, her eyes welling up with tears. What kind of days had her family been living while she was away this month?

While she was in the Capital City, enjoying special delicacies and living the life of a young lady in a western-style house, her younger siblings were at home getting up at dawn to pick wild vegetables and eating gruels made from them every day.

Oh dear, she couldn’t bear the thought, imagining it brought tears to her eyes. What was she to do?

Although it wasn’t her fault, she still felt guilt-ridden.

If she hadn’t followed Zhang Yuan to the Capital City... Enough, enough. From now on, she wouldn’t let them eat wild vegetable gruel, and she’d secretly give them snacks every day to make it up to them as much as possible.

Thinking of making up to her siblings more, she started cooking in earnest.

Grandma didn’t even look at what she brought back, so she quietly took her bag into the kitchen and began unloading it.

Although there were vegetables in the garden, she was too lazy to pick them, so she simply took them out from her stash.

She made a stew, her favorite dish from the future.

It was a mix of potatoes, green beans, eggplants, peppers, tomatoes, and pumpkins stewed together with plenty of meat, oily and fragrant.

She also made a braised chicken and a spicy and refreshing cold side dish.

Then she cooked a large pot of rice.

With these three dishes, they would have her little siblings crying tears of joy in no time.

While cooking, she intentionally closed the kitchen’s doors and windows. Although it was a bit hot, it was better than letting the aroma waft outside.

In these times, when proper meals were scarce, and people were subsisting on wild vegetable gruel amidst a rainless, anxious period, she didn’t allow her family to eat gruel, but she also couldn’t be too conspicuous.

You had to close the doors to enjoy good food secretly, or else it would provoke public outrage.

As Lin Xue expected, after only ten days of vacation, the little siblings’ faces were almost ashen, lacking energy, as the two brothers carried the day’s wild vegetable harvest into the courtyard behind their mom.

Lin Xia was the first to spot their elder sister’s bicycle, and her eyes lit up instantly. She rushed towards the house.

"Elder sister... Is elder sister back? Elder sister!" she cried out loudly, with no trace of girlish decorum, full of excitement.

"What? Elder sister’s back?" The two brothers, hearing the third sister’s exclamation, quickly looked ahead. Sure enough, they saw their elder sister’s bicycle.

They hurried their steps forward, but couldn’t drop the wild vegetables to run inside. It was their day’s effort, having spent all day gathering them with their mom.

Now, every family was gathering wild vegetables, finding none nearby, they had to go further.

They went out early and didn’t return until noon, eating steamed buns quietly outside. If someone was nearby, their mom would never allow them to take them out to eat.

Lin Shuang was helping her mom with the farm tools, so she couldn’t rush inside, only hasten her pace to put down the tools and go see her elder sister sooner.

Meanwhile, Lin Yun was carrying the family’s ration and water bag, but that didn’t stop her from rushing inside.

After the vacation started, she thought she could go all out. She had already accepted orders from classmates and acquaintances introduced by classmates to make clothes, but upon returning home, she found no time to sew during the day, and at night, their mom supervised them while they did their homework.

Their mom said, "It hasn’t rained till now this year. Don’t you need to go out and find some food yourself? Besides, your elder sister left so many candles! Finish your homework in the evening, and pick wild vegetables with mom during the day! Is it easy for your elder sister and dad to support the family? We should share their burden a bit!"

With that, what reason did they have to argue?

They just buried their heads in work! What else could they do?

However, they all noticed a change in their mom’s demeanor since Grandma came back into their lives.

She spoke more fluently, no longer keeping her head down without a word, no longer looking tearful all the time.

Nowadays, when she lectured the kids, she did so without repetition, taking them out for a whole day, and anyone trying to slack off would face a frontal assault of education.

What impacted them most was hearing, "Your elder sister is working hard to support the family at such a young age. How can you complain about picking wild vegetables?"

They all knew how hard their elder sister worked, and with these reminders from mom, they found more strength and motivation thinking of her.

Wang Cuihua also noticed that the kids had become picky and a bit lazy after being spoiled by the eldest daughter over the past few months.

It wasn’t like before when they would go hungry and actively search for food, now they would complain when tired.

She knew her eldest daughter had money and small yellow fish, but she also had to put on a show for the villagers. If their family didn’t even eat wild vegetables, wouldn’t it arouse suspicion? That would be disastrous.

Indeed, since Wang Cuihua was no longer oppressed, her mind was sharper and she could even think of that.