Chapter 34: Encounter, Reunion (33)
Once the congee was ready, he turned off the fire. She and he then carried the congee back to the teaching building. There wasn’t much, and it had to be given to patients and the wounded first.
Just as she was holding the congee, preparing to enter the clinic, Wang’s sneaky figure appeared again. Tu Hengsha simply didn’t want to see him. He brazenly stood at the stairway, smiling, "Oh, there’s hot congee to drink?"
Tu Hengsha ignored him, yet he blocked the way.
"Look, my wife just had a baby, and there’s nothing warm for her to drink." Wang grinned.
"What’s that got to do with me? Didn’t they say those who pollute should clean up? Whoever had the child should handle her meals! Why come to me? Besides, your wife is a postpartum woman, quite particular. What if my congee isn’t sanitary and makes her sick? I can’t take that responsibility!" She was always straightforward, adding a bit of gunpowder to Wang’s words and throwing them back at him.
Wang had a big chubby son, and at that moment wasn’t overbearing. He chuckled, "Aren’t you good people?" Then, probably finding Tu Hengsha difficult to deal with, he switched his target to Ronggui, calling out, "Big brother, didn’t we just have a disaster? Where can I find something warm to eat?"
Seeing this, Tu Hengsha knew Ronggui would definitely give, so she blocked him, "It’s not that we can’t give you congee! You have to show some attitude!" At the very least, express some gratitude and say thank you?
A savvy person like Wang understood immediately, nodding his head, "Thank you! Thank you! And big brother, I haven’t thanked you yet for saving our family!"
Tu Hengsha thought of Ah Gua again, the boy swept away by the raging flood. He wouldn’t come back with a mere thank you, nor would he ever hear another thank you...
Filled with grief and anger, she turned away and left.