Su Shikuan asked curiously, "Father, did you offer them any help?"
"Of course I did!" Su Yu replied with a smile. "I gave both families a string of cash as a token of our sympathy. Furthermore, I gave them the snacks and dry rations your mother prepared for me to help them through the emergency. As for the other children in the village, I gave them ten copper coins each as a New Year's gift." He turned to look at Deng Xian as he spoke.
Deng Xian nodded in approval. "You did very well, my dear. The children must be terrified by this blizzard; after all, it is the worst one we have seen in these parts in years." A glimmer of worry appeared in her eyes.
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