novelraw Chapter 53 The brat actually drank poison like soda
Chapter 53 The brat actually drank poison like soda
The good bricks were all piled up on the platform in front of the house, so full that you couldn't see inside from the outside. She planned to use the remaining defective bricks, along with the scraps from the kang (heated brick bed), to build the wall in the backyard.
She plans to tear down the pigsty in the front yard after the New Year. Even if they were to issue her a quota of pigs instead of keeping them in her yard, she absolutely wouldn't want it! Raising chickens or rabbits is fine, but raising pigs would just stink her to death! The pig farm less than 200 meters away in the backyard is already bad enough!
In the afternoon, Tong Yuheng went to the brick factory, paid for the 10,000 bricks she had ordered, and also delivered two large baskets of vegetables to Factory Director Yao. She asked him to share some with everyone, saying that she had brought them back from the county town.
Factory Director Yao was overjoyed to see the fresh and vibrant cucumbers, eggplants, peppers, and tomatoes, and insisted on paying for them. Tong Yuheng seized the opportunity to ask him to help her get some cement. As always, she didn't mind paying a little more; she needed it to renovate her house!
Factory Director Yao readily agreed. Since the cement factory was in the county, he had Tong Yuheng drive the factory's tractor, and the two of them went to find the person together.
The cement factory is closing for the holidays tomorrow, so their timing was perfect. Because of Director Yao's influence, they sold her ten bags of cement that weren't part of the planned supply, so she picked up the cement on her way back and then took Director Yao back with her.
"Uncle Yao, I left two bottles of wine in the car. Please remember to take them back!" This way of addressing him gives off the feeling of a true relative. Who said that Tong Yuheng can only use his hands and not his mouth?
"Oh? There's wine too? Then I won't be polite!" Director Yao could refuse other things, but he couldn't bear to part with the wine, so he thanked his subordinates readily.
The next day, Tong Jiahui took her daughters out to the market. This was permitted by the commune and the market was open on the 8th of each month. Because it was close to the Lunar New Year, it had been open three times in the twelfth lunar month, and this was the last time before the New Year.
Tong Yuheng didn't bother with the east room anymore. She took her youngest sister, Yuqi, and filled two baskets with a box of strawberries, some vegetables, and two meters of corduroy cloth to deliver New Year's gifts. She went to Zhang Limin's house first.
"Uncle Zhang, Aunt Miao, the New Year is almost here, so I'd like to wish you a Happy New Year in advance. These vegetables are ones I brought back from the county; please try them out!"
"Oh dear child! Why do you always bring things with you? If you do this again, I won't let you in! Last time you left so much food, and I only noticed after you left!" Miao Sanfeng said.
"I don't have anything nice to give you. Since your last visit, I've prepared a few pairs of cotton shoes for you girls. I don't know if they'll fit, so take them home and try them on!"
Miao Sanfeng took out a bag of cotton shoes, all with corduroy uppers, in various sizes, seven pairs in total, with fine stitches, all handmade by her.
"Oh my! You must be exhausted from making so many shoes! These shoes are so beautiful, I've never worn such soft cotton shoes before!" Tong Yuheng exclaimed, touching the shoes.
Before she returned to Yan City last time, she gave them some cotton and cloth coupons that were about to expire. Unexpectedly, Miao Sanfeng made a pair of shoes for each of them.
Aunt Miao made the shoes based on Tong Yuheng's height and feet, estimating the heights of the other girls while chatting with her. And she was surprisingly accurate; each pair of shoes was slightly too big, requiring insoles to fit perfectly.
The two sisters didn't have lunch at the Zhang family's house, saying they were going to visit Cheng Damei in Chengjiatun. They figured they should accept the olive branch extended to them, shouldn't they?
Fortunately, the two sisters went to Chengjiatun today, otherwise Cheng Damei would have suffered the pain of losing her son!
Tong Yuheng rode his bicycle with his younger sister and arrived at Chengjiatun around ten o'clock. After finding out the location of her house, he and his sister pushed their bicycles there.
As we approached her house, we saw several people gathered at the door, and loud wailing came from the yard. It was Cheng Damei's voice!
"My son! Open your eyes! Look at your mother..."
"Aunt Cheng, what's wrong with the child?" Tong Yuheng rushed over and saw her holding a little boy who was foaming at the mouth, limp and motionless, shaking him and crying.
"It's all my fault! I put the seed-dissolving potion in a soda bottle, and the child drank it..." Cheng Damei was completely flustered and could only cry.
"Take him to the hospital!" Tong Yuheng reached out and checked the child's neck; there was still a faint pulse.
"The village doctor said it was too late. When I found him, he was already dead! I deserve to die..." Cheng Damei continued to cry.
Tong Yuheng flipped the child's eyelids again and saw that the pupils were starting to dilate. It would be too late to get to the hospital!
"Give me the child, and I can save him!" Tong Yuheng decided to take out the spiritual spring water.
"What? You can save Xiaojun? I... I'll kowtow to you!" Cheng Damei was about to kneel down and kowtow when Tong Yuheng grabbed her and lifted her up. What time is it and you're still dawdling!
"Stop dawdling and go get a glass of warm water!" Tong Yuheng ordered coldly.
"I, I'll go right now!" Cheng Damei handed the child to her and rushed into the house to pour water.
Tong Yuheng picked up Xiaojun and followed him inside. Yuqi obediently followed her older sister, curiously watching the pale-faced, barely breathing little boy.
He thought to himself: How could he be so stupid? This brat actually drank poison like it was soda! Mom taught us a long time ago that we can't eat or drink things randomly! Didn't his mother teach him that?
Cheng Damei's husband's surname is Jiang. After they got married, the mother and son moved to Chengjiatun, so she lived with her mother-in-law. The one who had the accident was her youngest son, Jiang Chengjun, who was only five years old.
In the spring, my mother-in-law would plant in the garden and cultivate the land, and she had a habit of soaking all kinds of seeds in a solution to prevent insects and to keep out rats from stealing them. Cheng Damei got this solution from the agricultural station in the county town; she just put it in an empty soda bottle.
She put the bottle on the windowsill of the outer room and forgot about it. As a result, her youngest son thought it was something for him to drink and ate the whole bottle!
Today was the last big market day before the Lunar New Year in the surrounding villages. All the adults in the family went to the market, and when they came back, they found their child lying on the ground foaming at the mouth!
Seeing the empty bottle on the ground, what else is there to not understand? The old lady fainted from fright. She was carried into the house and had her philtrum pinched. After she recovered, she cried loudly just like her daughter-in-law.
Nearby villagers helped fetch the village doctor, just as the Tong sisters arrived. The village doctor pronounced the child's death sentence, and Cheng Damei naturally burst into tears.
Tong Yuheng said he could save the child, and that became her lifeline, which she immediately grasped tightly.
The village doctor thought the child was beyond saving and was curious about how she would save Xiaojun. He wanted to go and see, but Xiaoqi, who was following closely behind the older sister, stopped him and closed the door!