The wife of two taels of silver

The original body really disliked the two children she gave birth to. In this February day, the two children did not have a decent piece of clothing on them. They were wearing extremely thin cotton-padded clothes. They could not be called cotton-padded clothes because there was very little cotton inside. The two children were freezing and had no choice but to put on two or three single clothes on the outside, but they were all tattered. Almost no clothes were intact, with either the sleeves torn or the trousers seamed.

Lin Haitang looked at the two children's situation and felt so distressed that she almost cried, cursing her original body in her heart.

The original body was so cruel that because she didn't want to see the two children, she didn't let them go to bed at night and made the two children sleep in the east room, which was the room of the original body's mother-in-law. Lin Haitang took all the quilts and mattresses from the east room and only left a thin mattress and quilt for the two children.

The two children did not keep any of the firewood they collected during the day to heat the kang in the east room, but burned it all for themselves. The two children had to sleep in a cold bed.

It is God's blessing that these two children are still alive today.

Lin Haitang stuffed the two children into the quilt, covered them tightly, and then went outside to add two pieces of firewood to the kang.

The family was so poor that they didn’t even have a charcoal basin. They couldn’t even keep the hot water in the winter, so Lin Haitang had to go to the kitchen to boil it.

Lin Haitang opened the rice jar and saw that there was only the bottom left. After three more meals, there would be no rice left. The only vegetables were cabbage and pickled radish. The cabbage was grown by the original body in the yard, and the radish was given by Wu Cailing. The price of the whole jar was the five taels of silver.

Wu Cailing could have directly snatched the five taels of silver, but she gave him a jar of pickled radish, which was not much.

There was no time to cook or boil water, so Lin Haitang simply boiled water in a pot and placed a steamer on top to steam the rice. She had to make do with getting the two children a warm meal.

While the rice was steaming, Lin Haitang was not idle either, and went to the east room to look for the two children's clothes. The original body threw all the two children's things into the east room.

It's not like Lin Haitang didn't find Momo and Lanlan's cotton-padded jackets, but they were from their childhood and no longer wearable. Lin Haitang picked them out and put them away. The clothes were unwearable, but the cotton inside was still good after fluffing. Since they were poor now, every penny saved mattered.

By the time Lin Haitang finished choosing her clothes, the rice was almost ready. She quickly filled three bowls with rice and a bowl of salted radish, carrying them all onto a tray and bringing them into her room.

"Momo Lanlan, come and have dinner. Oh, I forgot to get some hot water. You guys eat first, I'll go get some hot water." Lin Haitang neatly arranged the bowls and chopsticks, then left with the teapot.

Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan did not sleep. They sat on the bed with the quilt in their arms, staring at the rice with their big eyes and swallowing.

"Brother, isn't mother scolding us anymore?" Gu Zhilan wrapped herself tightly in the quilt.

The original body had never beaten the child, but he almost always scolded him, and he often called him a money-loser and a burden.

Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan cried when they first heard it, but after hearing it many times, they lowered their heads and kept silent. They actually didn't remember much about how their mother treated them in the past. They only remembered that their grandmother was very good to them. Since their grandmother passed away, no one has been nice to them.

But today, mother treated them well.

This morning, they still remembered that Lin Haitang had sent them to the mountains to collect firewood. They hadn't even eaten or drunk a drop of hot water. But on their way back from collecting firewood, they ran into Erhu and his gang. Erhu and his gang often bullied them, but today they were even worse. A fight broke out, and Gu Zhilan was pushed to the ground, her hands scraped raw.

They hadn't expected Lin Haitang to come, to hold them in her arms, to help them chase away the bad guys, and to vent their anger. She even carried them to her bed and cooked for them. It was like a dream; their mother seemed like someone else's mother, someone who loved them.

"I don't know." Gu Mo looked at the rice on the table. He really didn't know what Lin Haitang was thinking.

Gu Mo didn't know if his mother would scold him, nor did he know if his mother would become the same as before, ignoring them, only scolding them and asking them to work. What he knew was that his mother had never been like today, hugging them, cooking for them, and letting them into the house. He had blamed Lin Haitang. Other people's mothers would think of their children at every turn, but he didn't even dare to call her mother. If he didn't, he would be scolded. If he did, the scolding would only be harsher, and maybe even a beating. But he was a child after all, Lin Haitang's biological child, and he still wanted to be close to his mother. He wanted to be close to her when he saw her, wanted to call her mother, and wanted to stay in her arms.

Gu Mo was happy with Lin Haitang's behavior today. He wanted his mother to be like this in the future.

Lin Haitang brought over the hot water, poured two cups and stuffed them into Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan respectively: "Mo Mo and Lan Lan, drink the hot water to warm your bodies first, I'll go find two clothes for you."

Lin Haitang found two of her own cotton-padded jackets. Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan were wearing too thin clothes. They would definitely get sick if they continued like this. They didn't have any clothes of their own, so Lin Haitang could only take two of her own clothes to put on the two children. They would definitely not fit, so she decided to keep them warm first.

"Come, you two, wear this for now, and you won't be cold after you put it on." Lin Haitang brought the clothes to the bed. The two children didn't move or speak at first. After a while, seeing that Lin Haitang was still looking at them gently and didn't seem angry, Gu Mo came out of the quilt and put on his clothes. Gu Zhilan saw her brother move, so she also started to put on her clothes.

Lin Haitang then turned around and sat on the table, sighing quietly. It was all the original body's fault, torturing the two children like this.

Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan also sat at the table, still silent, not daring to look at Lin Haitang. Lin Haitang placed the chopsticks for the two children and said in a soft voice, "Mo Mo, Lan Lan, let's start eating. You didn't eat in the morning, so I made a simple meal first. I'll make you something delicious in the evening, okay?"

Gu Mo's eyes were red, and he held the bowl with both hands, looking at Lin Haitang with both grievance and dependence. Gu Zhilan looked at Lin Haitang timidly: "Mom...Mom, can Lanlan eat?" Gu Zhilan first called out "Mom" softly, and when she saw that Lin Haitang had no intention of scolding her and was still looking at her very gently, she raised her voice a little and called out "Mom".

Lin Haitang's heart trembled. Although she accepted the two children, and even accepted the two children so quickly because she had a nephew who was the same age as Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan in the 21st century, she silently convinced herself to treat the two children as her own nephews and take care of them as if they were her own nephews.

But when Gu Zhilan called out "Mom", Lin Haitang's heart trembled. She realized that it was different, not at all the same. These two children were not at all like her nephew.

These two children have the blood of the original Lin Haitang flowing in their bodies. They were born after the original Lin Haitang carried them for ten months. Her nephew is not one of them. She is only the child's aunt, not the child's mother. She is not with her nephew every moment.

Now, she has inherited all the memories of her original body: memories of pregnancy, breastfeeding, and even her physical reactions at the time. From the moment she traveled through time, her relationship with her 21st-century nephew has ended, and she wishes him peace and prosperity forever.

Similarly, the mother-son relationship between her, Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan began and lasted for five years in her memory. She also hoped that Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan would be safe and happy forever.

She was really the mother of two children. When she heard Gu Zhilan calling her mother, she actually felt like crying. She truly accepted Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan, and they really became the children born after Lin Haitang had been pregnant for ten months.

Lin Haitang walked over to Gu Zhilan, picked her up and sat her down, "Lanlan, of course you can eat. It was my fault before. Lanlan, can you forgive me?" Lin Haitang's eyes were red.

"Mo Mo, can you forgive me too? I won't do that again. I will love you well in the future."

Gu Zhilan's eyes suddenly turned red, and she stretched out her arms to wrap around Lin Haitang's neck: "Mom, mom, wuwawa, Lanlan... wuwa, Lanlan dreams every day that mom is holding Lanlan, mom... wuwa... mom will hold Lanlan every day from now on, okay, wuwa--" Gu Zhilan cried so hard that she was out of breath and could not even speak a complete sentence.

Lin Haitang patted Lanlan's back, tilted her head and kissed her little face, and then shed a tear: "Okay, Mom will hold Lanlan every day from now on."

Gu Mo also started to cry, sobbing, and could no longer cry. Lin Haitang reached out and wiped away his tears.

"Can we stop crying and eat our meal first? Otherwise the rice will get cold soon." Lin Haitang coaxed her two children.

Although there were only pickles, Gu Mo and Gu Zhilan thought it was the most delicious meal.