45. Brain or a string?

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Seeing the fresh vegetables he smiled. "She probably used all the time to transport this here."

Jackson came and sighed. "We need more food. It's not enough for all of us."

Even the trucks that came with food were just enough for couple days for this many people.

Anna Gale knew that as well and transported straight towards one of factories outside the town.

It was just packaging food and not producing and as food was already canned, it just needed energy to start the line.

Anna Gale entered large hall and finally knew that she can provide them all with food as she saw labels of various foods on already packed pallets.

She came back and looked at the three men that were waiting for her. The mule and carriage were already driven back so they sat silently there and didn't comment at all until the light didn't shine again and she came out.

"Now, I can bring you things no other person has but I can't produce things that don't exist. So be modest with your wishes. What do you need?" She wanted to see if she could make few wishes true.

The three thought about it and Mario was first to ask. "Our mother... she suffers from pain in her feet. She can't really move. If you could find some medicine for her..."

Anna Gale thought about it. "There are people that know medicine and I know few. I can ask them of they have something for her, but will they be able to help her or not is in hands of higher deities. I can't change things that are already written in our destiny."

People have various sicknesses and until her sister doesn't grow up and learn how to medicate and heal people with help of plants, she definitely can't promise anything completely.

"As I can't promise anything now, you can ask for another wish." She kindly offered.

"A bit of warm cloth for her clothes..." He saw that clothes she wore looked very warm so he was hoping to find material to make something warm for their mother.

Filial piety...

Anna Gale smiled this time. "No problem. You two, ask your wishes."

"Shoes... warm winter shoes for my siblings and mother." Jeremy bas bolder and asked for more.

"Bring me your siblings and mother shoes that perfectly for them. Don't bring the shoes that are too small as I need exact measurements." She looked at him and saw him nodding.

Last brother looked at her and just sighed. "They already said everything. I don't know what to ask for."

"Never mind. I'll just bring them all you asked. Gate." A shiny light appeared and she was gone.

The three men looked at each other and smiled.

Marco took out the bag with money and shook his head. "I knew that rosehips would be big sale, but never expected people to go crazy about it. I even rose prices twice and many still bought like it's nothing."

Both of them actually helped him selling rosehips and were stunned about the craze when people saw it. Luckily he had more at home so Jeremy and Carlo went home to get rest while Mario was selling.

They looked at bunch of shiny silver balls they earned and shared evenly.

"Brother why didn't you take more?" They both felt uncomfortable taking same like he did.

"Without you two I wouldn't be able to sell it." Marco shared evenly between them three and looked at now empty yard. All the food was gone.

Just as they prepared to leave Anna Gale and two more children appeared with hands full of things.

Anna Gale put three big woolen rolls onto carriage and the two girls had baskets with various yarns.

Anna looked at them and spoke. "Come to the gate. Just take things we push out."

The three men rushed towards the gate and saw a strange metallic thing coming out that rolled towards them full of all kinds of things.

Soon they justs stood there as they didn't know use of any of these things.

Anna, Michelle and Alice came out and explained. "I see that salt here is precious. This is bag of salt. But don't show it to anyone so you don't cause other people greed. Your family can use it to pickle food for wintertime. This here is honey. It is in special glass container. I will give you five jars of honey. It is healthy to drink it with various teas in winter. These here are socks. They are warm and women and men can wear it. I don't know how big are your siblings so I didn't bring more. Tell me their ages."

Marco looked at them solemnly and spoke. "How can we repay you for this?"

"After I make your wishes trough we will talk about serious things. Now tell me their ages." Anna Gale furrowed her eyebrows as she requested it.

Michelle and Alice took paper each and started writing as they counted.

Anna could only think how lucky their mother is to give birth to them in modern world.

Eleven children!

From the same woman!

No wonder she has pain all over her body.

She looked at them flatly. "Eleven children? And how many of you help in household with chores?"

They avoided her eyes and she almost wanted to take a stone and break their head to see if they have brain inside or just a thin string connecting their ears...?