Chapter 1021: Xibao’s Birthday 10
Bai Yuesheng suddenly realized, "I was wondering why the inkstand Brother Wen uses looked so familiar. I thought to myself, could it be my Clear Mud Inkstone? I’ve been glancing at it for over a month, but since it’s usually locked up in the Lu Family’s house, I felt it would be impolite to examine it closely."
"What use is an inkstand? You can’t eat it or drink it. When you’re at your wit’s end, surviving is what’s most important."
The elderly lady said this to her husband, then held Feng Qingxue’s hand and kept shaking it, unable to hide her joy at meeting her life-saving benefactor.
"Perhaps seeing my old age, my daughter could not withstand my persistent pleas, and later she managed to get some grain for me. All I gave in return were chicken-blood stones, soot ink, and items like calligraphy posts and brush-washing utensils. In your eyes, these are treasures, but weren’t they worthless at the time? Not to mention then, even now they are things that would just bring trouble. The grain my daughter gave saved our two elderly lives. Later, when I had time, I also often wandered the black market, but unfortunately, I never encountered you again. Now, having been sent down here, I thought I’d never see my life-saving benefactor again in this lifetime. I didn’t expect... I didn’t expect that the heavens would pity me, and actually let me meet you here. The debt of a life saved, that is truly a debt of a life saved!"
Everyone was stunned by her words. Could such a coincidence truly occur in this world?
Even Feng Qingxue had not anticipated she would encounter someone from the black market transactions. She worried, what should she do? Even disguising herself as ugly wouldn’t work; they recognized her by voice, then... didn’t that mean her previous actions were known to all? What to do if suspicion arose?
Lu Jiang squeezed her hand, signaling not to worry.
Smart people in this world do not delve into the bottom of things, especially when they themselves benefit from it.
"The people of the Lu Family are honest, and this child has a kind heart. Meeting them is our good fortune," Bai Yuesheng said to his wife, Xue Dongmei, after understanding the reason. "Since being sent down here, our lives have been comfortable thanks to the care of their family, actually even more so than when we were in the city."
Although they were a bit tired from the work they did every day, they did not suffer the double torment of spirit and body here.