Logically speaking, having diarrhea is a minor problem. For people who are in good health, they don’t need to take medicine at all. The diarrhea will be cured after two days. But this is already the fourth day for their family. They have seen several doctors and taken the medicine.
A lot of medicines didn't show any improvement at all. The doctor just now even said something about preparing for the funeral.
Judging from the doctor's tone, the condition of their family is not optimistic. They are going to be exterminated!
"I want to see him!" Hong's mother was unwilling.
The three of them were muttering here. Chow Tai Fook had seen him a long time ago, but he was just talking to the doctor and didn't take time out.
"Do you want to go to the city for treatment?"
Father Hong closed his eyes: "Wait a moment, I have something to do."
If it is really Xiaobai who poisoned them, then find Xiaobai and explain the matter clearly to him, and then get the antidote. Naturally, there is no need to go to the city.
But if Xiaobai didn't admit it, they would have to go to the city. Therefore, Hong's father didn't say anything.
Zhou Dafu frowned, he had been running all day, and the sun finally came out recently, so he had to quickly take out the sprouted wheat to dry it. If he didn't take advantage of these few days to dry the grain, it would have rained again.
, By then it won’t just be that it tastes bad, maybe all the food will have to be thrown away.
The Hong couple were also farmers themselves, and they could see Chow Tai Fook's thoughts at a glance. Hong's mother suggested: "Brother, come and take us to the city tomorrow morning."
She had said so, and Chow Tai Fook had no objection. Before leaving, he emphasized: "The doctor said that your family's condition is very serious. It is best not to delay and rush to the city immediately."
Father Hong answered: "We will leave early tomorrow morning."
He stubbornly wanted to wait until he saw Xiaobai before deciding whether to go to the city, but his hands and feet were so weak that he couldn't walk at all. It would be better to invite someone to the hospital. But Xiaobai didn't stop until he arrived in the town.
He didn't even show up, so it's not that easy to see him.
Among the Hong family, the only one who can move is Chu Yunli.
"Osmanthus, you go and reason with him." Hong's father emphasized: "He was originally living in the town. If Hualan hadn't taken action and he hadn't come to our home, he would have suffered even more. We don't ask him to remember that we took him in.
I just ask him not to hate me."
Chu Yunli lowered his head: "I don't dare to go."
"You have to go." Hong's mother gritted her teeth: "If you don't obey, I will divorce you."
To be honest, Chu Yunli was eager to do so.
Of course, with Chen Guihua's temperament, it would never happen to her to take the initiative to ask for a divorce letter. So Chu Yunli took a step back: "I... I will go home and get you a quilt..."
After saying that, he ran away without waiting for the Hong family's reaction.
But the Hong family has been burned down, where is the quilt?
There was only a ruin left in the yard together with the pig pen, and everything was charred. Chen Guihua in her previous life was also one of the charred pieces. Chu Yunli stood in the original yard for a long time.
Not long after, Chen Taohua came.
"Sister, don't stand here stupidly, come home with me!"
Chu Yunli did not refuse.
As soon as we arrived outside the Yang family yard, we found that Yang's mother was also there. She gave birth to three sons and took turns living in several homes. She liked to live in Chen Taohua's house the most. For no other reason than that Chen Taohua's betrothal gift was higher than that of the other two daughters-in-law.
Even though they are tall, they are still the kind of people who have almost severed ties with their natal family.
Nowadays, any married girl who has a bad relationship with her natal family will be bullied by her husband's family.
Among the three daughters-in-law, Mother Yang liked to yell at Chen Taohua the most. When she saw the two sisters coming, she asked directly: "Osmanthus, the Hong family has been burned, did you find any money?"
Chu Yunli shook her head.
The little money left at home is not enough to pay for medical treatment for the whole family. We don’t have that kind of thing in the first place. Where can we find it?
"Then what are your family going to do?" Yang's mother pointed out: "Expecting relatives to take her in is not a long-term solution."
Chen Taohua's face turned red with embarrassment: "Mom, sister just came over and sat for a while."
"That's good. Your family's life is already very difficult and you can't afford to support others." Mother Yang straightened her clothes and said, "The Hong family is so rich that they don't have a house, but they have land, so they don't need anyone else to pity them."
Chen Taohua asked tentatively: "Mom, I'm going to cook. Can you help me light the fire?"
"No." Mother Yang waved her hand: "Your eldest brother and sister-in-law are not here today, so I have to take care of a few children."
After she left, Chen Taohua hurriedly ran into the house. Just outside the yard, she had already heard the two children inside crying.
When they entered the house, they found that both children were wet with urine. However, Chen Taohua took it for granted and took out clean clothes for the two of them to change into. In the other room, a man's snoring could still be vaguely heard.
That Yang Dati was like a dead person, and the child couldn't even hear him cry like this.
Chu Yunli saw this and couldn't help but said: "Has his father never cared about his children?"
Chen Taohua smiled bitterly: "That's the youngest in the family. He has always been cared for by others. He is not a person who thinks about others."
Chu Yunli stepped forward to help and asked in a low voice: "He does this every day, how much money does he have?"
"Before, I gambled with someone and won some money." At this point, Chen Taohua hesitated: "It seems that he was cheating with someone. Recently, someone found out and he couldn't make any money. He drank with his brothers every day.
, to put it bluntly, I just go to other people’s houses to make a living. I’ve been back more and more these days, and I probably can’t make it any longer. After all, no one’s food comes from strong winds... I just lie down at home every day.
, but also disliked the bad food.”
Chu Yunli patted her shoulder: "It will be fine." She took out the ten taels of silver given by the man who robbed her things, and put them directly into Chen Taohua's hands: "Keep the flowers first."
Chen Taohua didn't take it seriously at first. She glanced at it and paused. When she spoke again, her voice changed with shock: "Where did you get so much money?"
"Someone robbed me of something, but I caught him. He was afraid of being beaten, so he took the initiative to give it to me." This incident happened on the street, and it would not take long for it to be reported back to the village. There is no need to hide it.
After hearing her explanation, Chen Taohua breathed a sigh of relief and stuffed the money back: "I can't take it, you keep it for yourself."
"I still have it." Chu Yunli pressed the silver into her palm: "Think more about yourself and don't give it to that bastard."
Chen Taohua nodded hurriedly: "I'll keep it for you. If you don't have any money to spend, come and get it. That's when the Hong family needs money, so we can't give it to them."
Chu Yunli didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "You can spend it first. Anyway, I don't have children, so I'm not in a hurry to use it."
Hearing this, Chen Taohua fell silent and said for a while: "It's autumn, and it's getting colder in the morning and evening. The two children are wearing other people's old clothes, and I want to make them cotton-padded clothes."
Chu Yunli said casually: "Then do it quickly, you can't wait too long for this kind of thing. If you catch a cold, it won't be cured by the price of a piece of clothing."
She spoke lightly without any embarrassment. Chen Taohua was extremely moved in her heart: "Sister, thank you." As she said this, her eye circles turned red: "We sisters all have a hard life, but you are the most miserable."
As the eldest child in the family, she was disliked for not being a boy from the day she was born. As a result, younger sisters were born one after another, all of whom were not liked by their elders. If Chen Guihua hadn't taken care of her, there's no telling how many of them would have died in infancy.
Chu Yunli smiled: "I believe that life will get better and better. Look, we have never seen such a big amount of money before, don't we have it now?"
Chen Taohua wiped away her tears and ran to the kitchen to cook.
The Hong family had been burned down, and Chu Yunli didn't want to go to the town to guard the smelly family, nor did he want to run errands for them. So, he simply spent the night at the Yang family.
I made porridge for dinner, and put a little meat left over from the Chinese New Year in it. It was really only half the size of a palm, but when it was put in the porridge, it looked particularly fragrant.
The two children devoured it. Yang Datie picked up the bowl and smiled half-heartedly: "You look at that bit of meat as if it is your lifeblood, so you are finally willing to cook it."
Chen Taohua didn't answer.
There are two rooms in the yard belonging to Yang Dati. Logically speaking, since the child is still young, the whole family should live in one room. But because Yang Dati often comes home drunk, Chen Taohua is afraid that he will squeeze the child, so she simply gives the empty room to
I had two children living there, and I was afraid that they would roll down, so I circled around them thoughtfully.
At night, when Chen Taohua made the bed, she felt a little embarrassed.
"The two children wet the bed, and the house smells a bit. I'm usually very busy, so I don't do much to clean it up."
All the hay and bedding have been changed, and most of the smell has gone away. It can be seen that Taohua cares about her sister very much, and this is enough.
The moon was as cold as water, and the two children beside Chu Yunli were already asleep. She looked at the moonlight outside the window, thinking about what to do next.
He heard the door of the next door open, and then there were footsteps heading towards the latrine. Someone must have gotten up at night. Chu Yunli didn't take it to heart after hearing the noise.
Not long after, the footsteps got closer and closer. Chu Yunli suddenly turned to look at the door.
Because she discovered that the footsteps did not go to the next door, but to the door of her room. Moreover, the footsteps were heavy and dragging, and they did not belong to Chen Taohua at all.
There was a knock on the door, but Chu Yunli didn't move.
The next moment, the door was pushed open.
It is worth mentioning that the door of this room was specially modified by Chen Taohua before, just to prevent the two children from being ignorant and bolting the door and unable to open it. Therefore, the door is only ajar at the moment.
Under the moonlight, a tall figure appeared at the door. He walked in step by step.
Chu Yunli turned over and sat up: "Is something wrong?"
Yang Dati's voice came: "Sister, my brother-in-law has been ill for a few days. Are you lonely?"
"Your mother is lonely!" Chu Yunli jumped out of bed, grabbed the stool next to her, and waved it towards him.
She beat him all over the head and face. Yang Datijiu hadn't quite woken up yet, and his brain was a little slow, so he had no time to hide. Within a few times, he was lying on the ground unable to move, covering his head and begging for mercy.
Chen Taohua was naturally woken up by such a loud noise. Seeing this situation, she became very angry and ran in, grabbed the stool from her sister's hand and hit him on the head.
Yang Datie had already received a beating and didn't want to be beaten again, so he hurriedly said: "She seduced me."
"It's your mother who seduced you." Chen Taohua was so angry that she cried while beating her: "Why can't you be more angry? You're always degrading my people...bastard...bastard..."
When she was tired from the beating, she threw down the stool in her hand. Still angry, she kicked the person again.
"Sister, are you scared?"
Chu Yunli shook his head: "I heard the sound when he got up and knew he was at the door."
"You bastard, you usually just mess around outside, but actually... unexpectedly..." Chen Taohua became more and more annoyed as she spoke, and tears fell down her face unsatisfactorily.
Chen Guihua worked hard on weekdays, knowing that her sister was in a bad situation, but she didn't expect that Yang Datie, besides not caring about his wife and children, was also looking for a woman outside.
"Why is he so messed up?"
Chen Taohua glared fiercely: "I was flirting with that Widow Mei at the west end of the village. I even bumped into her once with my own eyes."
The reputation of Widow Mei was so great that even people like Chen Guihua, who never chatted with the women in the village, had heard of her.
Widow Mei didn't have to fetch water on weekdays, because the elder brother she recognized would help her pick it every morning, and she didn't have to buy meat. There was a butcher in the town who would come every two days. Unexpectedly, Yang Datie also touched it.
Originally, Chen Taohua didn't want to say these things in front of her sister, so she said it impulsively. She didn't regret it, but she just felt very embarrassed. Besides being embarrassed, she was very angry, and kicked the person on the ground again: "Yeah.
Look, if you associate with a woman like that, you won't be afraid of getting sick."
Yang Datie: "..."
Chen Taohua went to bed to hug the two children, and then called Chu Yunli: "Sister, let's go sleep next door."
Chu Yunli couldn't sleep.
Early the next morning, she went to town.
First I went to a stall and bought a bowl of scallion noodles to eat, and then I went to the medical clinic.
After Chu Yunli left yesterday, the Hong family was unwilling to accept it and invited someone to go to the inn to report the news and ask Xiaobai to come and meet.
The letter was delivered, but there was still no news from there. No one from Xiaobai was seen until daybreak.
Seeing Chu Yunli come back, Hong's mother couldn't wait to ask: "Where did you stay last night? How was the fire at home?"
"I stayed at my sister's house. Everything was gone. The pig pen was burned down." Chu Yunli sat on a chair: "I didn't sleep well, I was very sleepy."
The doctor refused to take the Hong family in, and they couldn't move, so they lay under the eaves all night. The eldest child couldn't wake up since last night.
After this night, Hong's father was furious: "Go to the inn and call Xiaobai over. I want to ask him how our family has failed him!"
Chu Yunli nodded: "I can send messages, but I may not be able to call people over."
When she arrived at the inn, she happened to see Xiao Bai sitting in the lobby.
"My parents came to see you and said they have something to discuss with you."
Zhang Mingqiu narrowed his eyes: "Did you tell them I was here?"
Chu Yunli looked innocent: "I dare not not say it."
"Aren't you afraid that I will tell them about giving you two hundred silver?" Zhang Mingqiu half-smiled, "That family of blood-sucking locusts will definitely take them all away from you."
"It's their business whether to accept it or not, and it's my business to keep it or not." Chu Yunli said with a calm expression, "The letter has been brought to me. It's up to you whether you want to go or not."
She got up and walked out.
Zhang Mingqiu smiled: "We have lived under the same roof for so long, and now we meet again. It's not too late to sit down and have breakfast together before leaving."
Hearing this, Chu Yunli turned around and said, "Don't you rich families care most about the differences between men and women?"
"No one in this small rural place cares about these things." Zhang Mingqiu said indifferently: "Besides, what happens here will not be spread to my home."
Chu Yunli walked back generously and sat down, grabbing the buns unceremoniously: "I have already had breakfast. I heard that the buns here are good. They are good everywhere, but they are expensive!"
Zhang Mingqiu no longer had the gloominess he had when he was Xiaobai. He smiled and said, "You can't afford to eat a few buns now."
"Those who have endured hardship are reluctant to waste money, so I will pay for it myself." Chu Yunli finished eating two and said, "It's time for me to go back. That family is still waiting to go to the city for treatment. I won't see you for a long time.
I'm going to lose my temper again."
Zhang Mingqiu was curious: "Aren't you going to beg me? If I don't go, they will also get angry at you."
Chu Yunli waved her hand.
She is not afraid of the Hong family, the person she is afraid of is Chen Guihua.
Not long after walking to the door, I heard Zhang Mingqiu say from behind: "You stay here, I'll go there."
He went out alone, his movements were elegant, and he had an air of nobility and reserve.
Chu Yunli took another look.
The Hong family members who were lying at the door of the hospital saw Chen Guihua coming back from a distance. In other words, they were attracted by the dignified man next to Chen Guihua.
Hong Hualan looked at it foolishly.
Zhang Mingqiu approached her step by step, looked at her condescendingly, and said for a long time: "It's so ugly."
Hong Hualan: "..."
She held up her weak body and emphasized: "We have been married."
Zhang Mingqiu sneered: "You are looking for death!"
The tone and eyes were so sinister that Hong Hualan trembled with fright.
Next to him, Zhou Dafu couldn't believe that this man was once his junior. He stepped forward and said, "Xiao Bai, back then..."
"Don't call me Xiaobai, and don't mention the beginning." Zhang Mingqiu said with a cold face: "I came here just to tell you that from now on, there will be no relationship between me and Hong Hualan."
Father Hong looked at his son-in-law who looked like a different person in front of him. Such a person would never be willing to stay in the village again. And when he saw his daughter's eyes filled with disgust just now, he knew that there was no possibility of reconciliation.
"Sir, our family may be sorry for you, but we have taken you in for so long. Can you let us go this time?"
Zhang Mingqiu looked surprised: "Let it go? I haven't dealt with you, so how can I let it go?" He said seriously: "I really can't live with those things in the past, but I never thought about making things difficult for you. This time I came to town
, I want to revisit my old place, completely forget it when I return to the city, and then start a new life.”
He doesn't admit it!
Father Hong felt a little desperate: "Sir, I really know I was wrong. Please give us the antidote!"
He said it so bluntly because he was sick and confused.
In comparison, Hong's mother still had some sense and hurriedly answered: "Sir, our family is very ill. You have connections and money. Can you help us hire a doctor?" She glanced at Jisi.
The daughter continued: "Just consider it as an end to our fate. We will never look for you again in the future."
"This is the medical center." Zhang Mingqiu waved his hand: "I've seen it before, so that's it."
After saying that, he turned around gracefully, and the curvature of his clothes had a sense of elegance.
Hong Hualan shouted at his back: "You are my man!"
Zhang Mingqiu's face darkened: "Why is this girl suffering from hysteria at such a young age? I have some home remedies that will be delivered to her later. Please remember to give them to her, otherwise, you will ruin my reputation and bear the consequences!
"
The Hong family remained as silent as cicadas.
After everyone had gone away, Hong's mother patted her daughter and said, "You are crazy."
Hong Hualan cried silently: "Why is he so heartless?"
Chu Yunli was speechless and said, "You were not nice to him back then."
"I bought him, so he should listen to me." Hong Hualan yelled, "Who knew he was born into a wealthy family!"
She had a loud voice, and it was already unusual for so many people to be lying in front of the hospital. She shouted again, attracting passers-by to look at her.
"Shut up!" Hong's mother quickly covered her daughter's mouth.
Just at this moment, Chow Tai Fook arrived.
"Yesterday, the house caught fire. Fortunately, Xiao Shan was sleeping under the eaves, so he escaped." Yesterday, Chow Tai Fook heard from outsiders that the Hong family yard was on fire. He didn't hear of any casualties. He just felt sorry for his sister's house. He didn't expect it to be so close.
A pair of children were burned to death, and when I talk about it now, I feel full of fear.
"It's already this hour, let's not waste time. I'll find a carriage to take you to the city."
He wiped his sweat and got ready to go to work.
The Hong family was not very happy.
After Xiaobai came back just now, he was belittling Hong Hualan both inside and outside his words. It was obvious that he had hatred in his heart. This time, the whole family was in trouble because he was probably poisoned by someone.
If it is really poisoned, even if you get to the city, you may not be able to detoxify it. Instead of traveling all the way, wasting time, effort and money, you might as well beg him for mercy right here.
"Don't go!" Hong's father called his brother-in-law back, his eyes falling on Chu Yunli: "Go find him again, we need to have a good talk."
Chu Yunli looked embarrassed: "He doesn't listen to me at all."
Hong Hualan said sourly: "You weren't poisoned, and he wasn't even angry. It shows that he treats you differently."
"It's no different." Chu Yunli said unceremoniously: "I wasn't poisoned because you didn't let me eat meat. Otherwise, I would be lying among you now, unable to move."
This is the truth.
After saying that, Chu Yunli went into the medical clinic and asked the doctor to prepare her some health-preserving medicine.
The doctor checked her pulse and said that she was weak and had cold air in her body. If she was not treated well and continued to rest, her lifespan would be adversely affected.
In other words, if she continues to do this, she will die early!
The Hong family members fell silent.
I didn't think there was anything wrong in not sharing delicious food with Chen Osmanthus before, but now I feel the difference is too big. If eating meat is not poisoning, but nourishing the body, Chen Osmanthus will not be so weak.
Hong's mother didn't want others to say that she treated her daughter-in-law harshly, so she emphasized loudly: "It's none of my business if you don't have a good life in your mother's family!"