C4 (1/2)

With a whoosh of rage, my father sprang up from the ground and pointed at my nose, his entire body trembling.

I had already made up my mind. I told him to scold me. After scolding me, he would go and find Soo Soo.

Without a word, my father fell to the ground with a crash.

When I saw that he had fainted, I was startled and quickly helped him up.

After a long while, my father finally breathed a sigh of relief and woke up.

Seeing him like this, I carried him home.

My father was still shaking when I got home. From the looks of it, he was truly infuriated.

As we entered the house, I saw the old lady waiting for us at the door.

Although she is already old and stooped, her eyes are bright like a cat's. When she looks at me, she can make me jump.

I walked my father into the house, and the matron went to give him his pulse. I was a little surprised that she was still a teacher, so it was only my father who had nothing to do with her.

The Grand Matriarch told me that he was angry because of the blood and Qi attacking his heart.

I asked if I needed to buy some medicine, and the Grand Matriarch said no, she wanted me to go to each of the houses and ask for some cinders.

The cinders were the cinders left over from the cinders used to burn incense for the Kitchen King. These things were available in every house.

It was the first time I heard that cinders could cure illnesses, so I asked her why. The Grand Matriarch told me about the others. Just go and ask for them, the more the better.

Every time I knocked on a door, I saw people looking at me like they were crazy. I know that this must have been the result of me frantically searching for Soo Soo a few days ago.

At that time, they all thought Soo Soo had died, so they thought I was crazy.

However, I had no intention of explaining this much to them. Opening the door would show me the reason for my visit.

Who knew that after those people heard my words, their expressions immediately changed. After saying that it was inconvenient, they slammed the door shut.

I ate the shut door and felt extremely unhappy. I thought to myself, is there something wrong with my mother? Why did she have to guard against me like I was a thief?

In the end, I really couldn't get any ashes. Feeling helpless, an idea struck me and I suddenly thought of the village's temple on the ground.

On the fifteenth day of the first month, when there were still many happy events in the city, there would always be people who paid their respects to the incense and went to that place to look for ashes. There must be a lot of them.

In the end, I brought home a dustpan of fragrant ashes from the temple.

By the time we got home, my father was awake and talking to the matriarch.

Their voices were very low and their expressions were very secretive. The moment I entered the room, they saw me and immediately stopped talking.

It was obvious that they were intentionally avoiding me. I did not even need to think to know that there was a high chance that the things they were talking about were related to me and Soo Soo.

Even if my dad wasn't, he was my dad after all, and I didn't want to make the relationship too stiff, so I pretended not to see it.

When I handed the ashes to the Grand Matriarch, I gave her a hard look, warning her not to sow discord between me and my father.

However, the Grand Matriarch didn't seem to care at all when she looked at me. It was obvious that she didn't take my warning seriously.

She asked me if I had cinders from all the houses, and I didn't bother to explain, so I told her yes, and in the end I warned her not to give them to my father.

The Grand Matriarch glanced at me and said it was for my use.

I was stunned for a moment, thinking, could it be that this damned old woman wants me to eat this kind of thing?

Without a word, I went back to my room and lay down on my bed. I began to think about last night.

Last night, when Soo Soo and I were in the small room, it was like a somewhat real dream. I can't tell whether it was real or fake.

Was I really unable to find Soo Soo last night, or was it just a dream I had after fainting?

As I thought about it, I fell asleep. When I woke up again, it was already night.

I was awakened by a knock on the door, and when I woke up I found that the sound was coming from the window.

I saw a figure at the window. It was Soo Soo.

I was overjoyed. Just as I wanted to shout, Soo Soo made a booing gesture. I immediately lowered my voice and asked where she was.

Soo Soo said that two days ago, she saw people from the Zhao Family in the village, so she hid and did not dare to come out.

She's a girl, without any family, and now she has to rely on me.