novelraw Chapter 29 My Aunt Was Injured
Chapter 29 My Aunt Was Injured
Later, Yang Guiping went to Yanshi to study at university and started dating Tong Jiaming. Her family demanded that she be assigned back to her hometown before they would agree to their marriage. So, Tong Jiaming obtained his family's consent and was assigned to her hometown, Rongcheng, after graduation.
Now she understands. Her parents' insistence that she bring her boyfriend back with her wasn't because they were worried she'd be alone and without support since she was far from her family home. They were simply scheming to divert all the money they earned to her two younger brothers. She was foolish; she thought her parents treated their son well and believed they still loved her.
Yang Guiping is a very resilient woman, capable both at home and outside, but with a gentle nature. She never complains and tries her best to mediate between her husband and her family after marriage, which is a very hard life.
But her family ultimately disappointed her. Instead of helping her husband when he was falsely accused, they pressured her to divorce him. They even tried to send her younger sister-in-law to the man who had persecuted them, all in an effort to get her a job!
Yang Guiping secretly went to the G Committee and confessed that she had provided her husband with data and was engaged in reactionary academic research. She requested to be sent down to the countryside with her husband.
This infuriated Yang's parents, who immediately severed ties with her and went to their home, emptying it of everything. Completely disregarding their grandson Tong Yuchen's life, they heartlessly left the child not even a single grain of food!
No one knows how the child got through those days. When they were sent to the farm, he came to them on his own and wanted to go with them.
From then on, Yang Guiping no longer regarded them as family; they would become her family's enemies!
Tong Jiaming was already injured during the previous struggle session when he was punched and kicked by radical Young Red Army soldiers. Seeing someone else attacking him with a stick, Yang Guiping panicked. She rushed forward to shield him, but was struck several times on the back with the stick, causing her to vomit blood immediately!
Those people still refused to take her to the hospital, so the brigade leader secretly brought her some liniment and anti-inflammatory medicine that night, and she finally recovered the next day!
Yang Guiping's internal injuries haven't healed yet, and those people don't want to cause any deaths, so they haven't bothered them in the past few days.
Tong Yuheng immediately took out his military water bottle from his pocket and gestured for his grandfather to bring a bowl. The old man immediately went to the kang (a heated brick bed) and brought over a rough porcelain bowl from the windowsill.
"Aunt, drink this bowl of water!" Tong Yuheng filled the bowl with spiritual spring water and made her drink it.
Yang Guiping took it, her eyes filled with doubt, but she obediently drank it.
"This water is so sweet, so refreshingly sweet," she said to everyone with a smile. Yang Guiping has a beautiful smile, and although she is now very thin, she still maintains an elegant and graceful demeanor.
"Yes, there's medicine in this water. Grandpa, Uncle, and Cousin, you should drink some too." As she spoke, she poured another bowl of water for Grandpa. After he finished drinking, she poured a bowl for Uncle, and finally for her little cousin.
After drinking it, the group immediately felt much more relaxed. Tong Anfu was shocked; what kind of medicine was so effective? In all his years of practicing medicine, he had never seen such a good medicine!
His eldest granddaughter must have had some extraordinary encounter, right? But he didn't ask about the potion; she must have her reasons for not telling him.
I thought the child must have gotten the news of their injuries from Zhang Limin, which is why he prepared the medicine for them.
"Grandpa, I have some Western medicine here. You can keep it; you might need it." Tong Yuheng took out several small medicine bottles, all labeled. Grandpa knew medicine, so he wouldn't use them indiscriminately.
Several people were talking quietly inside the house; no lights were on, and the atmosphere was eerie and desolate. Although the village had electricity, it hadn't been connected to the cowshed yet.
Tong Anfu had a kerosene lamp in his room, but he never lit it unless absolutely necessary. Kerosene was scarce; the little the brigade provided would last for half a year, so he never lit the lamp when the moon was out.
"Grandpa, I'm going back now. Tomorrow I'll come to the village to visit the brigade leader and the village secretary, and try to find a house to rent near you."
"There is a vacant house in the village, not far from here. The house belongs to the village and was originally owned by a small landlord."
Before liberation, during the banditry, that family was killed, and the villagers considered it unlucky, so no one wanted to live there. After liberation, the house was returned to the village and given to some elderly people living alone and unwanted teenagers as shelter from the wind and rain.
Old Mr. Feng, who lived there a while ago, passed away, and the place became empty. The house is quite dilapidated, but it's spacious. If you don't mind, you can stay there.”
"Grandpa, I understand. I'll head back first today. Please take good care of yourselves."
"Let's go quickly, don't let anyone see us!"
Tong Yuheng observed for a moment and, seeing that no one was spying on them, quickly climbed over the low wall and left.
When she returned to the guesthouse in town, it was already one in the morning. She still entered through the back window of her room, and no one noticed that she hadn't been in her room for most of the night.
After daybreak, she took out a lot of things from her spatial storage and stuffed her backpack full; they were gifts for the village secretary and the brigade leader.
The village party secretary and the brigade leader are from the same clan; they both share the surname Chen, and nearly half of the village's population has this surname. The village party secretary's name is Chen Deyin, and he is in his fifties. He is very respected in the village.
The brigade leader, Chen Hongxiang, is a retired soldier in his forties. He is the village secretary's cousin. He is a fairly upright person, which is why Zhang Limin chose to settle the old man from the Tong family here.
Zhang Limin brought Tong Yuheng porridge and flatbread early in the morning, and also packed some pickled cucumbers in the lunchbox. It wasn't anything fancy, but it represented Uncle Zhang's sincere and heartfelt affection for her.
Tong Yuheng made a decision: once her family settled down here, she would treat the Zhang family as true relatives.
Zhang Limin first went to his workplace to check in, then pushed his bicycle back and took Tong Yuheng to Chenjiatun.
They went directly to the brigade leader's house. It was cold now, and the New Year was approaching, so there was no work to be done in the brigade. The brigade leader was at home.
In winter, he doesn't have many work tasks; he only needs to organize people for regular study sessions. Today isn't a day for organizing study sessions either, and the couple is chatting idly at home. His wife, Wang Xiufen, is sitting on the kang (a heated brick bed) sewing shoe soles.
Zhang Limin came in and introduced Tong Yuheng to him. Tong Yuheng quickly greeted the couple. The brigade leader was also surprised that the people who were supposed to come in the spring had arrived so soon.
Because Zhang Limin was a cadre in the commune, and thus a leader in some respect, he still gave Tong Yuheng a warm welcome.
Zhang Limin dropped Tong Yuheng off, but left without staying because he had other things to do at work. The team leader then asked his wife to get some hot water to serve the girl.
Looking at her slender figure, the brigade leader couldn't help but shake his head. She's the eldest in her family. If her sisters were all this thin, could they do the work in the fields? Could they earn more than two work points a day?