MTL - Call Me Daddy-Chapter 39 , Foolish and filial man in Fu Baowen (4)

When the doctor came, Erniang and Yuanniang were still cooking pig food and chopping firewood in the backyard, waiting to pour the cooked pig food into the trough in the pigsty, watching the two fat pigs eat happily, and then procrastinated. Returning to the front yard with a tired body, I also saw Dr. Li who was about to leave with a medicine box on his back.

Erniang was stunned, why did Grandpa Li come here, could it be that her father is on fire again?

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

Seeing his own niece, Su Youtian's eyes flashed with pity. In the past, the second child was in good health and couldn't protect the daughter when he was burdened with a lot of labor at home. Now his body is broken. To work harder.

Seeing his stepmother's hatred for wanting to cut the flesh out of them with her eyes, in order to see a doctor for the second child, she took out twenty taels of silver at once, which was enough for the family's expenses for half a year. She regards everything as her own and her two sons, so she hates them.

Not to mention Li Shi, Su Youtian and his wife are also a little heartbroken right now.

But after thinking about it, even if the money was not spent on the second child, there is a high probability that it would not be in their hands. Besides, the value that the second child has created for this family over the years is only twenty taels of silver.

"My father?"

Erniang looked at the eyes of the adults, some looked at her with sympathy, some looked at her with disgust.

The little girl's heart kept sinking, what happened? She pursed her lips, turned her head and ran back to the room.

Dr. Li had treated his wound briefly just now. Although the Chinese medicine of this dynasty is not as advanced as the modern medicine of later generations, it is definitely not a witch doctor.

When dealing with the rotten flesh, the old man first wiped the sharp dagger with spirits, and then roasted the blade with fire, which is equivalent to the simple version of disinfection for later generations.

Before going under the knife, the old doctor gave him a pill to swallow, and then took out a packet of medicine powder and sprinkled it on the surface of the wound.

After a while, the only pain that was originally there disappeared. These two medicines should have played an anesthesia effect, somewhat similar to Mabosan.

He first cut off a few pieces of leg flesh that were so severely necrotic that they lost their elasticity, and then squeezed out some black dirty blood and accumulated pus from the wound. A small half bowl of muddy blood and dozens of sliced ​​meat strips.

After treating the wound, Dr. Li used a needle and thread to suture the wound, and then wrapped it in a clean muslin cloth.

Only Dr. Li knew that what he just did was nothing more than nothing, Su Er Er's leg was probably abolished, and if he wanted to walk like a normal person in the future, unless there was a miracle.

When Erniang walked into the room, the wooden basin full of dirty blood beside the kang hadn't been emptied yet. As soon as she entered the room, she smelled the pungent smell of blood and saw her father's tightly bandaged solid legs.

"Second mother."

Seeing his daughter rushing in, Su Aobai twitched the corners of his mouth and showed a forced smile. Because the effect of the anesthesia had passed at this moment, with a slight movement, a thin, dense patch appeared on his forehead and back. There are beads of sweat, and the lips are white from the pain. When I force a smile, it looks like a wrinkled bitter gourd.

"Dad, what happened to your leg?"

Su Erniang trotted to the bedside, her eyes full of panic.

Yuan is not a good father who loves his children, so the relationship between their father and father is very strange. Although the eight-year-old Su Erniang also resents her father's stupid filial piety, complaining that she can't protect her like an uncle protects the eldest sister, But at this time, she still has a nostalgia for this biological father in her heart.

She looked at the tightly bandaged right leg, and then at the wooden basin full of dirty blood and carrion, her eyes soon turned red, and tears fell down.

It's just a fever in the morning, isn't it? Now what is going on with this leg, why is there so much blood, why is so much flesh cut off.

"Er Niang...Father, Father may become lame in the future..."

There are some things that even my daughter can't tell now, otherwise the child won't be able to hide what's on his mind, and it will be bad, and the original body left too deep an impression on others, even if he wants to change, he must have a suitable opportunity.

Otherwise, in the ancient times when superstition was more serious, if his words and deeds appeared slightly out of line with the original body, he might be regarded as a lonely ghost occupying the original body and be burned on fire.

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

Seeing that Erniang's tears were flowing more and more fiercely, Su Aobai hurriedly said a few words of comfort.

"This family still has your grandma. They won't let our grandpa starve to death. The family spent twenty taels of silver to see a doctor this time. Your grandma is willing to give up that much money. It can be seen that they have a son like me in their hearts." , and your brother-in-law, he has passed the examination of a scholar, and he has finally come to the fore, and our family will be able to benefit from your uncle's honor in the future, isn't it just a limp, how we lived in the past, we will live in the future."

Su Aobai's face showed the frustration of knowing that he was going to be crippled, but at the same time, he did not lose hope for his future life, because he felt that his family would not ignore him.

This was what Yuanshen thought, he always felt that as long as he was hardworking enough and listened to his stepmother enough, they would treat him as a family, so Yuanshen would gladly accept their unreasonable demands.

Seeing such an optimistic father, Su Erniang only felt her ears buzzing, and could hardly hear what he said afterwards.

Her father is lame!

Her father actually believed that his stepmother and uncle regarded him as a family member!

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

She really wanted to wake up this stupid father, what he wanted was a strong, hard-working old second son, not because he couldn't work, but also became the lame second son of the family's burden.

Why her father always doesn't understand this question that even a kid like her can understand.

Su Erniang thought bitterly in her heart, she didn't know the reason why her 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 get better, her stepmother would definitely find a way to put them away. If she is driven out, her father will definitely not be a burden to the third uncle.

I'm afraid her father will know the true colors of those people until then.

Thinking of the distraught and unbelievable expression that might appear on her father's face at that time, Su Erniang felt very happy. After that time, her father would not be stupid again.

But then, after being kicked out of the hostel, how should the crippled father and her live?

Su Erniang was extremely confused.

*****

Doctor Li deserves to be the source of gossip without knowing it.

As soon as he got home, he couldn't help but chatted with his old wife about what he had seen and heard at Su's house today.

"What!"

Dr. Li's daughter-in-law Wang Jinhua was so shocked that the melon seeds in her hand fell to the ground. She didn't bother to squat down to pick them up, but asked a bunch of questions.

"Could it be that Mrs. Li really poisoned Su Laoer? But why, Su Laoer is such an honest child, let alone our village, even the nearby villages add up, and there is no one who works as hard as Su Laoer gone."

Animals still need to be cultivated, but Su's second child is open all year round, and he still works hard.

"It can't be so arbitrary. After all, I haven't seen the dregs of the bowl of medicine soup that the second child of the family drank. It's just that according to the second child of the family, the meals of the previous night were eaten together. In the middle of the night, he braved the rain. He accidentally fell off the tile roof when he was going to repair the tile roof, and went back to his room in a daze and fell asleep. He couldn't find anything to eat by himself, and during that time, he just drank the bowl of medicinal soup that Mrs. Li gave him."

Doctor Li said slowly.

After hearing this, Wang Jinhua stomped her feet angrily, and crushed the melon seeds that had just been accidentally spilled on the ground.

She clutched her chest, half feeling sorry for her melon seeds, half angry at Su Li's viciousness.

The rain last night was so heavy that it flooded the river ditches. If it weren't for this, the village wouldn't suddenly harvest some grain today, because they are afraid that the next few heavy rains will soak some of the grain growing underground.

In such weather, they cruelly asked Su Lao Er to climb on the roof to repair the tiles, but they didn't ask anyone to watch him. They didn't even know that Su Lao Er fell down, and forced him to stay up all night.

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

Wang Jinhua's eyes rolled, and she felt that the poison must have been given by Li Shi. Maybe she found out that Su Youniu had injured her leg, and was worried that her stepson would be disabled and drag herself and her two children down. He killed him, anyway, it is common to burn people to death due to high fever.

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

The reason why it must be Li Shi's poison is another reason. Her husband said that Li Shi can't take out the medicine residue. They have a custom in the countryside, that is, the carriage will pass by when the boiled medicine residue is poured out. On the avenue, it is said that the more people and horse-drawn carriages stepping on the dregs of the medicine, the farther the sickness will be carried away.

If Mrs. Li didn't have a guilty conscience, why didn't there be any residue left behind?

Wang Jinhua exerted her huge brain power and thought she had understood the ins and outs of the matter.

At this time, she couldn't wait to go out and share this insane story with her sister Tao.

"I'll tell you about this, don't go out and talk nonsense, it's all other people's housework, it shouldn't belong to us, and I'll add a few more nourishing people when I'm dispensing medicine for my second child Medicinal materials, it can be regarded as a dedication."

As he said that, Dr. Li shook his head again, not knowing what life would be like after Su Er Er.

"I know, I'm not that kind of bitch."

Wang Jinhua nodded again and again. She was only talking 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 daughters-in-law of the village chief's family. Tell them that they must not spread the word. In the entire Shili Village, no one knows that she, Wang Jinhua, has the strictest mouth.

Before leaving the house, Wang Jinhua filled her pockets with two full bags of melon seeds, and she had things to do in the afternoon.

*****

Therefore, under Wang Jinhua's "secrecy", within a long time, the entire Shili Village knew that Li's abused his stepson, who was suspected of poisoning his stepson to death.

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

But the fact that she let Su Laoer go up to the roof alone to repair the tiles in heavy rain is well-documented.

Several young daughters-in-law who live near the hostel also revealed the news, that is, the few passages of cursing from Mrs. Li that they heard in their yard this morning.

It is said that Su Laoer was already burnt out in the morning, and Mrs. Li didn't let the boss go to invite Dr. Li for her younger brother. She was afraid that she wished Su Laoer would be burned. Anyway, her son has become a scholar now. The dependence on her is not as strong as before, and the family may have already thought of getting rid of the eldest and second wife, for fear that they will get the glory of their two sons.

Of course, there are also people who scold Su Kuishan, mother is a stepmother, father must always be close to father, he can't even control a woman, it's really embarrassing for men.

In the next few days, every time Li went out, she could feel strange eyes on her. Everyone's attitude towards her was completely different from when her family had a scholar who passed the literary examination a while ago.

Mrs. Li knew that someone must have spread the news about Su's second child, and the eldest daughter-in-law was the most suspected. After all, it was not a day or two before the two of them got away with her.

This conjecture made Li Shi very angry, all the unconscionable white-eyed wolves, he must find a way to separate their two houses, especially Su Youniu.

I have already eaten more than half of the medicinal materials I bought in twenty taels, but Su Youniu's body does not have much complexion, he is still sick, and his injured leg can't work hard. During this time, he has been spending money to see a doctor without saying a word Well, he can't help with the housework at all. His three meals are delivered by his bereaved daughter every day, and he enjoys it more than the old man.

And Mrs. Li was even more worried. After those medicinal materials were finished, old man Li would ask them to pay for them.

So during this period of time, she beat and beat at the door of the second room from time to time. On the surface, she scolded the grandchildren at home for not working well and always wanted to be lazy. A drag on the whole family.

If it was the original body from before, he might have gotten off the kang in shame and anger at this moment, even with a cane, he would have to find some work, but Su Aobai is not!

He just put on the emotions that the original body should have, blushed because of shame and anger, picked up a pair of walking sticks that his elder brother Su Arita made for him to facilitate him going to the toilet, and walked out of the yard with difficulty.

But it's not like Li Shi thought to go to the field to find some work. After a few days of fermenting public opinion, it's time to add fire.

Nowadays, Su Aobai wants to separate the family far more than Li, but he will never leave in despair. Even if the family is separated, he must stand on the moral high ground and take advantage of public opinion.

As for wronging Mrs. Li for poisoning?

What a joke, as long as he has no morals, who can kidnap him!

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