Paternity

Chapter 72

When the doctor arrived, Erniang and Yuanniang were still cooking pork and chopping firewood in the backyard, waiting to pour the cooked pork into the tub in the pigsty, watching the two fat pigs eating happily, then being dragged away by the front yard with tired bodies, I also saw Dr. Li was about to leave with the medicine box on his back.

Erniang was astonished, why did Grandpa Li come here, could it be that his father was burning again?

"Er Niang, go to the room to see your father."

Looking at his own nephew, Su Youtian's eyes flashed with pity. In the past, the second child was in good health and could not protect his daughter when she was burdened with a lot of work at home. Now his body is broken. To work harder.

Seeing the hatred of her stepmother who wanted to cut the meat from them with her eyes, in order to see the doctor for the second child, she took out twenty taels of silver at once, which was enough to cost the family for half a year. everything was as his and his two sons, so he hated them.

Not to mention Li Shi, Su Youtian and his wife were also slightly heartbroken at the moment.

But come to think of it, even if the money wasn't spent on the second child, there was a high chance it wouldn't be in their hands, the value that the second child created for this family over the years was only twenty taels of silver.

"My dad?"

Erniang looked into the eyes of the adults, some looked at him with sympathy, some looked at him with disdain.

The little girl's heart kept drowning, what happened? He pursed his lips, turned his head and ran back to the room.

Dr Li had just treated his wounds briefly, although the Chinese medicine of this dynasty was not as sophisticated as the modern medicine of the next generation, clearly not a shaman.

When dealing with rotten meat, the old man first wiped the sharp dagger with the spirit, then roasted the blade with fire, which was the equivalent of disinfection of a simple version for the next generation.

Before the operation, the old doctor gave him a pill to swallow, then took out a packet of medicinal powder and sprinkled it onto the surface of the wound.

After a while, the only pain that initially existed disappeared, these two drugs were supposed to have an anesthetic effect, somewhat similar to Mabosan.

He first cuts off some pieces of very necrotic leg meat until it loses its elasticity, and then squeezes the dirty black blood and collects pus from its wound.Half small bowl of muddy blood and dozens of slices of striped meat.

After treating his wounds, Dr. Li used a needle and thread to stitch up his wound, then wrapped it in a clean muslin cloth.

Only Dr. Li who knew that what he had just done was nothing more than nothing, Su Er Er's legs might be removed, and if she wanted to walk like a normal person in the future, she would have to walk, unless there's a miracle.

As Erniang walked into the room, the wooden basin filled with dirty blood beside the kang had not been emptied.As soon as he entered the room, he smelled the pungent smell of blood and saw his father's sturdy legs tightly wrapped.

"Second mother."

Seeing his daughter rushing in, Su Aobai moved the corner of his mouth and showed a forced smile. As the effects of anesthesia had passed at this moment, with a slight movement, thin and dense patches appeared on his forehead and back. There were grains of sweat, and her lips turned white with pain.When I forced a smile, it looked like a wrinkled bitter gourd.

"Dad, what happened to your leg?"

Su Erniang ran to the bedside, his eyes full of panic.

Yuan was not a good father who loved his children, so the relationship between their father and father was very strange. Although the eight-year-old Su Erniang also hated his father's foolish filial piety, complaining that he could not protect him like an uncle protecting the eldest sister, yet at this time, he was unable to protect her, he still had the nostalgia of a biological father in his heart.

He looked at the tightly wrapped right leg, and then at the wooden basin filled with dirty blood and carrion, his eyes immediately turned red, and tears fell.

It's just a fever in the morning, isn't it? Now what happened to this leg, why so much blood, why so much flesh was cut off.

"Er Niang's... Dad, Dad might be lame in the future..."

There are some things that even my daughter can't say now, otherwise the child won't be able to hide what's on her mind, and it's going to be bad, and his real body left an overly deep impression on others, even if he wanted to change, he should have a suitable chance.

Otherwise, in ancient times when superstition was more serious, if his words and deeds seemed to be slightly out of his original body, it would be, he may be considered a lonely ghost who occupies his original body and is burned in flames.

"It's okay, it's okay, don't cry."

Seeing Erniang's tears growing more and more rushing, Su Aobai hurriedly said a few words of comfort.

"This family still has your grandmother. They won't let our grandfather starve to death. The family spent twenty taels of silver to see the doctor this time. Your grandmother would give up that kind of money. It was seen that they had a boy like me in their hearts." , and your brother-in-law, he had passed the examination of a scholar, and he finally came forward, and he finally came forward, and our family will be able to benefit from your uncle's future honor, not just limping, how we live in the past, we will live in the future."

Su Aobai's face showed frustration knowing that she would be paralyzed, but at the same time, she did not lose hope for her future life, as she felt her family would not ignore her.

This was what Yuanshen thought, she always felt that as long as she was hardworking enough and listened enough to her stepmother, they would treat her as a family, so faced their unreasonable demands, she said, Yuanshen would gladly accept it.

Seeing such an optimistic father, Su Erniang only felt his ears buzz, and could barely hear what he said afterwards.

Dad's paralyzed!

His father truly believed that his stepmother and uncle considered him a member of the family!

Su Erniang's tears flowed more and more, faster and faster, his teeth tightly clenched his lower lip, almost tearing the skin of his mouth.

He desperately wanted to wake this stupid father up, all he wanted was a strong and hardworking second son, not because he could not work, not because he could not work, but also being the second son who was paralyzed became the burden of the family.

Why his father had always not understood this question that even a little boy like him could understand.

Su Erniang thought bitterly in his heart, he did not know the reason why his stepmother was willing to give her father twenty taels to see a doctor, but she knew that if her father's legs really couldn't heal, her stepmother would definitely do it. Find a way to get rid of them If she was expelled, she said, his father would definitely not be a burden to third uncle.

I was worried that his father would find out the true colors of those people until then.

Thinking of the confused and disbelieving expression that might appear on his father's face back then, Su Erniang felt extremely happy, after which his father would no longer be stupid.

But then, after being kicked out of the dorm, how was the crippled father and he supposed to live?

Su Erniang was very confused.

*****

Once at home, he could not help but chat with his old wife about what he saw and heard at Su's house today.

"What!"

Dr Li's son-in-law, Wang Jinhua, was so shocked that the melon seeds in his hand fell to the ground, he did not bother squatting to pick them up, but asked many questions.

"Could it be that Madame Li had actually poisoned Su Laoer? But why, Su Laoer is an honest child, let alone our village, even the nearest village was increasing, and no one who worked as hard as Su Laoer left. "

The animal still needs to be cultivated, but Su's second child is open all year, and he keeps working hard.

“Cannot be careless. After all, I had never seen the dregs of a bowl of medicinal soup that the second child of the family drank. It's just that according to the children of the two families, the food the night before was eaten together. In the middle of the night, he challenged the rain. He accidentally fell off the roof tile when he was about to fix the roof tile, and returned to his room in a daze and fell asleep. He couldn't help but find anything to eat on his own, and during that time, he only drank a bowl of medicinal soup that Ms. Madam had given him. Li to him."

Doctor Li said slowly.

After hearing this, Wang Jinhua stomped his feet furiously, and crushed the melon seeds that had just spilled on the ground.

He clutched his chest, half pitying his melon seeds, half angry at Su Li's cruelty.

The rain last night was so heavy that it inundated the river trenches. Were it not for that, the village would not have suddenly harvested rice today, for they were afraid that the next heavy rain would have submerged some of the rice planted underground.

In such weather, they ruthlessly asked Su Lao Er to go up to the roof to fix the tiles, but they did not ask anyone to watch over him, either, they did not even know that Su Lao Er had fallen, and forced her to remain standing.

Or how to say that he would rather be with a beggar mother than an official father, and Su Kuishan was not a good thing, letting his mother-in-law indulge the son born to a previous couple.

Wang Jinhua's eyes twisted, and he felt that the poison must have been given by Li Shi. Perhaps he found out that Su Youniu had injured his leg, and was worried that his stepson would be deformed and drag himself and his two children down. He killed her, however, it was common to burn people to death from a high fever.

Who knew there was a flaw in the medicine, most of the poison went into the legs, and Su Laoer was not killed by the poison, but only injured one leg.

The reason why it should poison Li Shi was another reason. Her husband said that Li Shi was unable to take out the rest of the medicine. They have a habit in the countryside, that the carriage will pass when the rest of the boiled medicine is exhausted.Pourished On the road, it is said that more and more people and horse carriages are stepping on the dregs of medicine, which is the, the further the disease will be carried away.

If Madam Li has no guilt, why is there no residue left behind?

Wang Jinhua mustered his massive brain power and thought he had grasped the ins and outs of the matter.

Right now, he couldn't wait to go out and share this crazy story with his sister, Tao.

"I'll tell you about this, don't go out and talk nonsense, it's all someone else's homework, it shouldn't be ours, and I'll add some more nutritious people when I hand out the medicine for my son." The second child's medicinal herb, it could be said to be devotion."

When he said that, Dr. Li shook his head again, not knowing what life was like after Su Er Er.

"I know, I'm not a woman******like that."

Wang Jinhua nodded repeatedly, he only spoke to the Liu family's wife, the Zhu family's sister-in-law, the widowed sister-in-law of the Li family, and the two village chief's daughters-in-law. Let them know they can't spread the word. In the entire Shili Village, no one knew that he, Wang Jinhua, had the loudest mouth.

Before leaving the house, Wang Jinhua filled his pocket with two bags full of melon seeds, and he had to do something in the afternoon.

*****

Therefore, under Wang Jinhua's "secret" for a long time, the entire Shili Village knew that Li was abusing his stepson, who allegedly poisoned his stepson to death.

Since Li's youngest son had passed the examination as a scholar, in the absence of conclusive evidence of his poisoning of his stepson, everyone was just talking behind his back and reasoned about the possibility of him poisoning his stepson.

But the fact that he let Su Laoer climb onto the roof alone to fix the tiles in the midst of the heavy rain is well documented.

Several young daughters-in-law who live near the dorm also revealed the news, namely some curse quotes from Ny. The Li they heard in his yard this morning.

It was said that Su Laoer was already exhausted in the morning, and Madam Li did not let her boss go to invite Dr.Li for her younger brother, she was afraid that she hoped Su Laoer would be burned. the boy is already a scholar now, his dependence on him is not as strong as it used to be, and the family may already be thinking of getting rid of the oldest and second wives, for fear of gaining the glory of his two sons.

Of course there were also people who scolded Su Kuishan, the mother was a stepmother, the father had to always be close to the father, he could not even control women, it was truly embarrassing for men.

In the next few days, every time Li came out, he could feel a strange look at her.Everyone's attitude towards her was very different from when her family had a scholar who passed the literary exam some time ago.

Madam Li knew that someone must have spread the news about Su's second child, and the eldest daughter-in-law was the most suspected.In addition, it wasn't until a day or two before the two of them ran off with her.

This conjecture made Li Shi extremely angry, all white-eyed ungodly wolves, he had to find a way to separate their two houses, especially Su Youniu.

I have eaten over half of the medicinal ingredients I bought in twenty taels, but Su Youniu's body looks unwell, she is still sick, and her injured leg is unable to work hard. money to see a doctor without saying a word Well, he could not help with homework at all, three meals of which were delivered by his grieving daughter every day, and he enjoyed it more than the old man.

And Madam Li was getting more and more worried, after the medicinal ingredients ran out, old man Li would ask them to pay for it.

So all this time, he was hitting and beating the door of the second room from time to time. On the surface, he scolded the grandchildren at home for not working well and always wanted to laze around. A barrier for the whole family .

If it was the original body before, he would release the kang out of embarrassment and anger this time, even with a stick, he would have to find a job, but Su Aobai did not!

She simply put on the emotions her real body was supposed to have, blushed in embarrassment and anger, picked up a pair of canes made by her older brother Su Arita to make it easy for her to go to the toilet, and walked out of the yard with great difficulty.

But it was not as Li Shi thought to go into the field to find work, after several days of fermenting public opinion, it was time to add fire.

Right now, Su Aobai wanted to separate the family far more than Li, but he would never leave in despair.Even if his family were to split up, he must stand on a high moral foundation and take advantage of public opinion.

As for blaming Madam Li for the poisoning?

What a joke, as long as he had no morals, who could kidnap him!