Traveling through 1942 with space

Chapter 171 Simple Happiness

"How could it be gone! How could it be gone!" Sun Gousheng looked at the empty big iron pot, his dark face becoming even darker with anxiety.

"My fellow countryman, the hot water is gone. Let's get up early tomorrow! We'll have it every day from now on." Hou Minyou said happily to Sun Gousheng.

"Boss, please, can you give me some hot water? My child is sick! I want a bowl of hot water for him." Sun Gousheng pleaded.

Although Sun Gousheng did not kneel down to Hou Minyou at this time, he kept bowing humbly.

"Well, the water is gone. We have no water now. How about you wait for two hours and when my wife comes, I will get you some more." Hou Min said with embarrassment.

The hot water has just been delivered, but the coal has run out. To boil more water, we have to buy more water and burn coal.

After all, it was his first day doing business and he still had a lot of debts. Hou Minyou was indeed reluctant to let go, even though he had just boasted.

"Okay, then I'll wait." Sun Gousheng agreed.

Hou Minyou was stunned by Sun Gousheng's words. He was just making an excuse just now. He didn't expect that this person would really wait for a bowl of hot water.

"Brother, don't you want to work? It's not worth waiting for a little hot water." Hou Minyou advised.

"Boss, I can't find a job." Sun Gousheng said with his head lowered.

Hou Minyou felt a little sad when he saw that Sun Gousheng was not much better than himself when he was in the Central Plains, but he really could do nothing to help.

When setting up the stall, Xiaoge and his elder brother repeatedly reminded them not to give away the spicy soup, as it would easily cause trouble.

Therefore, providing some hot water to fellow villagers from the Central Plains at the stall was already his limit, and he was really unable to help with anything else.

Besides, he didn't have a penny on him. His wife was in charge of the money. He wanted to give her money, but he didn't have any.

When delivering water, my eldest cousin had just come back to life from his trip with the cart, so Hou Xiaoge went over to chat with him for a while.

When he came back, he saw Erda chatting with a middle-aged man in a torn cotton-padded jacket, and he listened quietly beside them.

Hou Xiaoge also felt very sympathetic towards Gousheng's family situation and it was easy for him to help, but he was not prepared to lend a hand to help him solve his work problems.

There are so many people who need help, and everyone in the village has a good relationship, but he hasn't helped them yet! There is really no reason to help someone you don't know.

But even if you don't ask for help, it's still okay to give some connections.

"Uncle, this card is for you. When the stall closes at 4pm, ask your child to take the bowl to the braised meat stall.

That stall belongs to me. With this card, you can get meat soup five times a month." Hou Xiaoge took out a blue card from his pocket and handed it to Sun Gousheng.

"Really?"

"Brother, my nephew is the owner of the braised meat stall. He won't fool you." Hou Minyou said with a smile.

"Young master, I kowtow to you!" Sun Gousheng bowed his head.

"Forehead!"

"You're shortening my life by kneeling down, hurry up and get up!" Hou Xiaoge said directly without helping him.

"Young master, may you live a hundred years. May you live a hundred years." Sun Gousheng quickly got up.

"Grandma, I have space and elixir, Baisui, you are cursing me!" Hou Xiaoge cursed in his heart.

"Okay, okay, here are two yuan in French francs, go buy food for the child!" Hou Xiaoge took out two yuan in French francs and handed them to Sun Gousheng impatiently.

(The French currency has fallen so much that one dollar can be exchanged for one hundred yuan, and two yuan of French currency is two cents.)

"Thank you, Master!"

Sun Gousheng took the money, bowed, and left with an excited look on his face.

"Boss, give me a bowl of porridge and a whole sweet potato. Put the porridge in my bowl." Sun Gousheng took two cents and came to a stall selling food.

"okay!"

Two cents is not a small amount, for a bowl of white flour and corn flour porridge and a sweet potato the size of an adult's fist.

Sun Gousheng stuffed the hot sweet potatoes into his cotton-padded jacket, carefully covered the bowl of porridge in his arms, and hurried home.

"Mother, Tiezhu, are you there? Get up quickly." Sun Gousheng shouted loudly at the door of his house, then lifted the corn stalks that were used to block the wind at home and walked down carefully.

"Boss, didn't you go out to find a job? Why are you back now?" Liu Caihua, Sun Gousheng's wife, who was so hungry that she was exhausted, asked when she saw Sun Gousheng coming back and standing up.

"Oh! Don't mention it, I didn't find it.

But I met a kind person today. Look what this is! Hurry up and call your son to get up. It will get cold and won’t taste good.”

Sun Gousheng took out his right hand, which had been hidden in his pocket, and a thick and sticky fragrance immediately appeared in the closed earth pit.

"It's porridge! It's made of white flour and cornmeal." Cauliflower looked excited.

The son beside him woke up without needing to be called, as he smelled the food.

"Dad, Mom, what's so delicious that smells so good? Am I dreaming?" Sun Tiezhu, who was as thin as a monkey, opened his eyes in a daze and said weakly.

"Haha! Boy, you have a very sensitive nose. Get up quickly, the porridge dad bought for you is made of white flour." Sun Gousheng said happily when he saw that his son's voice was much stronger than yesterday.

In the earthen shack, Sun Gousheng's wife Caihua was holding the bowl, and his son Sun Tiezhu was wolfing down the porridge with a wooden spoon. In a short while, the whole bowl of porridge was finished.

"You kid, the bottom of the bowl belongs to your father, and you still want to lick it." Seeing that his son still wanted to lick the bottom of the bowl, Sun Gousheng snatched the bowl and scolded with a smile.

"hey-hey!"

"Dad, the porridge smells so good." Sun Tiezhu's face was filled with satisfaction and aftertaste.

"Nonsense, the ones made with white flour and corn flour must be delicious."

Sun Gousheng grabbed a handful of clean white snow from the shack, wiped the batter in the bowl clean, and then drank it in two gulps with the melted snow water.

"Boss, how come you finished drinking all of it? I'm still hungry!" Cauliflower rubbed his rumbling stomach.

"hey-hey!"

"I thought you weren't hungry! Don't worry, your man can let you starve. Look what this is." Sun Gousheng took out the still hot steamed sweet potato from his arms.

"Steamed sweet potatoes!" the mother and daughter said in unison.

"Haha! The young master gave me two cents. I used one cent to buy a bowl of porridge and the other cent to buy a big sweet potato." Sun Gousheng handed the sweet potato to his wife with a proud look on his face.

"Boss, you're so nice." Cauliflower said happily while eating sweet potatoes.

"Okay, then give me a bite too!" Sun Gousheng said with his mouth wide open.

"Give!"

Caihua knew that her husband didn't eat it either, so she just broke half of it and stuffed it into Sun Gousheng's mouth.

"It's too much. I even begged for some food outside." Sun Gou ate half of it and gave the remaining half to his wife.

"Mom, I want to eat steamed sweet potatoes too." Sun Tiezhu said enviously.

"Be good! Don't eat. You'll get hungry if you eat too much." Cauliflower quickly stuffed the sweet potato into his mouth and said to his son.

"Hmph! You're not hungry only when you're full. You're lying, mom." The little guy didn't want to pay attention to his old mother and simply turned around and went back to sleep.

"Listen to your mother carefully. Dad will take you out for some meat soup in the afternoon." Sun Gousheng touched his son's little head and said lovingly.

"Really?"

"real!"

"Great!"

For a moment, the small earthen hut was filled with joy because of a bowl of batter, a sweet potato and a portion of broth.