Granny Lin pushed a small cart, stacked with collected bottles and neatly arranged cardboard boxes.
Today she had quite the haul; an old partner at a supermarket gave her a lot of cardboard boxes, among them some old books, which were especially heavy, making Granny Lin seem a little strained.
She occasionally stopped to rub her back with her hand, though her rheumatoid arthritis hurt more, she was just enduring it.
Due to the climate, this type of arthritis is very common in Bin Hai, and there is no good treatment for it, so to relieve the pain, they all choose to apply patches.
First, it can relieve pain, and second, it's cheap.
This is also why there's always a smell of patches on elderly people.
Lu Zimo saw from afar his grandma pushing the cart in this direction and quickly went to greet her.
He reached out to help, but when he touched the cart's handle and before he could exert any force, his hand passed right through it.
