Chapter 577 Being able to eat is a blessing

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After a hearty meal, Ayusa took Geer to sit on the roof and enjoy the cool night breeze in the desert.

"Burp~! I'm so full! This is the first time I've eaten so much meat that I can't eat any more! It's so satisfying! You're so nice, Gel!"

Ayusa patted her belly and said happily.

"That's really weird. Where did you eat all that food?"

Gel asked curiously as he looked at Ayusa's belly which was still flat and had a clear waistline after eating a lot of food.

You know, even a big eater like Weibull will become like a ball after eating too much, and then slowly "lose weight" as the food is digested.

"Of course it was eaten! What's so strange about that?"

Ayusa turned around and asked nervously.

"Do you also think that I eat too much for a girl?"

"That's not the case. Being able to eat is a blessing!"

Gol said in a calm tone.

Ayusa couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when she heard that. The corners of her mouth curled up unconsciously, and her eyes curved as if she was laughing along. There was a hint of tenderness in her eyes as she looked at Geer.

"Besides, I have plenty of food. Even if you can eat ten times or a hundred times more, you still can't finish it."

Gel said with a smug look on his face.

"To be honest, everyone in my family eats more than the other. Compared to them, you eat less."

Gel was somewhat suspicious that it was because he could conjure up food that he had the physique to attract big eaters.

"I'm just curious, you ate so much just now, why is your stomach not getting any bigger? If not just a belly button, it should at least bulge out a little, right?"

As Geer said this, he naturally put his hand on Ayusa's belly and touched it.

Ayusa's eyes gradually became moist, and she quickly turned her head and wiped them secretly.

"Hey, hey, hey? Why are you crying, Ayusa? I didn't bully you!"

Captain Gel quickly withdrew his dirty hands and spoke seriously.

"I'm fine, I'm just, I'm just...happy."

"Ah?"

Ayusa rubbed her eyes hard with both hands, trying to stop the tears, but they still flowed out uncontrollably.

"Apart from my parents, this is the first time someone has treated me to so many delicious foods and praised me for my ability to eat. I should be very happy, but I don't know why, I suddenly want to cry. I'm sorry!"

Gel said he had seen this kind of small scene many times, and he was best at comforting people until they cried. He first took out a large bag of tissues skillfully, and then touched the girl's dark blue hair to comfort her.

"Ayusa, cry if you want to, it's okay!"

"You and your mother have lived together for so many years, and it must have been very hard! You must have a lot of grievances in your heart that you have no one to vent. If you want, you can tell me. If you don't mind, you can also lend me my shoulder to lean on."

"Sob! I'm sorry, I, sob!"

Hearing the caring words, Ayusa could no longer hold back and buried her head in Geer's arms and burst into tears.

Gel had a proud look on his face. His comforting skills and damn charm were still quite explosive even today, twenty years later.

But when he looked down and saw Ayusa blowing her nose on the corner of her clothes without any concern, Geer couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

"Hey, Ayusa, come here, there are tissues, use the tissues..."

When the old woman heard her daughter crying, she thought something had happened and ran out in a hurry. When she saw the two of them sitting together, she felt relieved and secretly returned to the house with a satisfied smile.

After crying for a while, Ayusa began to tell her story to Geer.

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She has had an astonishing appetite since she was a child. In the beginning, when the weather was good and everyone did not have to worry about food, she was praised for her strengths. Everyone said that being able to eat was a blessing. It was obvious at a glance that this child would do great things in the future.

But later on, the rainfall began to decrease year by year, and later on, there was even no rain at all.

Five years ago, the Bula Chamber of Commerce had not yet come here, but the severe drought had already hit, grain production was severely reduced, and many people who had no food reserves at home starved to death.

The weaknesses of human nature are always exposed when disaster strikes. In years of famine, eating too much becomes a shortcoming that everyone dislikes.

Even if they were eating their own food, everyone still felt that it was a waste to feed a child so much food. Some were even more selfish and thought that they should give up raising this child. The food saved could feed several other children. Of course, it would be best if the one who could be fed was their own child.

Only Ayusa's parents never complained about her eating too much, and no matter how difficult life was, they never thought of abandoning her.

Unfortunately, this terrible drought not only showed no sign of ending, but instead became more severe. The food reserves of every household soon ran out, and all the wells in the town ran dry. It became a luxury to have enough water or rice to cook rice soup.

The mayor organized the men to dig deeper those life-saving wells to see if they could get water. Ayusa's father also went, but because he had not eaten for a long time, he suddenly fainted from hunger when he was being hoisted out of the well after finishing his work. He lost his grip on the rope and fell into the dry well, unfortunately dying.

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Although everyone knew that her father's death was an accident, Ayusa always felt guilty about her appetite deep down.

"Later, just when all of us were about to despair, the Bra Merchants showed up and brought food and water."

"If I hadn't eaten too much, the food at home wouldn't have run out so quickly, and my father might not have fainted from hunger, leading to the accident!"

Ayusa lowered her head and said with a look of self-blame.

"Father could have held on until the arrival of the Bra Chamber of Commerce. It's all my fault."

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"No, Ayusa! This is not your fault. Parents love their children and choose to sacrifice for their children. This is the instinct of animals. They are not wrong. What is wrong is this day and this drought!"

"besides…"

With his eloquent tongue, Gel is determined to make the girl learn to refuse mental exhaustion today, and it is better to embarrass others than to inconvenience herself.

Gel is not sure whether the drought is man-made or not, so he can only blame it on the cruelty of heaven and earth.

Then Gel pointed to the sky and continued.

"Your father must think so too! He is silently watching you from heaven, and he hopes that you and your daughter can live well. He will be happy only when he sees you living a happy life!"

“…Is that really the case?”

Ayusa also raised her head and looked at the sky blankly and asked.

"Of course it's true! You have to believe me, I never lie."

Ger nodded affirmatively.

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