The peasant widow is famous all over the world

Chapter 20 They can’t stay

Thinking of what he just heard, the sadness in Lu Zheng's brows never left.

"Zhuang Zhuang takes medicine because he has a physical illness, and it is a serious illness. He needs to be nourished with precious medicinal materials for a long time."

"What? How could this happen? It's impossible, right?" Li clearly didn't believe it.

That little guy looks a little thinner and a little paler. He doesn't look like someone suffering from a serious illness!
"Old man, I haven't asked Mian Niang about this, how can I believe it!"

Lu Zheng frowned slightly, "Zhihai's wife said this, so she can't be wrong."

"What did Xiang say?" Li asked.

Lu Zheng nodded, "Zhiqiang must have said something about Zhuangzhuang at home yesterday after he went back. I guess Xiang also heard it and said it this morning."

Mrs. Li picked up the needles and threads that had just been scattered on the table into the frame and said thoughtfully: "Ms. Xiang is a pretty good person, but he can't hide his words and talks about everything."

"No, what does this have to do with Zhuangzhuang being the child of Mianniang and another man?" Li said after a pause while picking up needle and thread.

Lu Zheng glanced at Mrs. Li, "People in the village think that since Zhuang Zhuang needs to spend so much money to raise him, who can do this if it's not his own son?"

Li was speechless for a moment, and after a moment of silence she said, "If this is really the case with Zhuang Zhuang, then we have to talk to Mian Niang as soon as possible."

Lu Zheng sighed and nodded in agreement, "I just heard that what Dr. Wu got yesterday were all cheap medicines, and they all cost [-] yuan."

Li's heart trembled, eighty cents!

"How much money does our family have?" Lu Zheng paused and asked.

Mrs. Li stopped what she was doing and said: "My son has been taking medicine intermittently over the years, and most of the money he earned was spent on him. Later, he spent a large amount of money saved to build his current brick house to marry a wife. Now. , there are only a few hundred coins left at home."

The family had no money, and Ms. Li was always worried.

After packing up the sewing frame, Mrs. Li said: "Old man, if there is a patient at home, we really can't afford to support him! Think about it when Ah Xun was here, we were tightening our belts all the time. Besides, Ah Xun Xun uses some common medicinal materials."

"I heard you just said that Zhuangzhuang needs to be nourished with precious medicinal materials for a long time. With the precious medicinal materials, our family's current wealth is probably not enough to buy medicine once."

"I like Zhuangzhuang, but I can't give up my whole family for him! I also feel sorry for him having such a difficult life at such a young age, but we are not Bodhisattva, how can we care about so many human sufferings."

Even a Bodhisattva can’t control it!

Although Mrs. Li felt sad, compared to the whole family, she had no choice.

Lu Zheng couldn't say a word for a long time after listening.

Zhuangzhuang, they can't keep him.

Lu Zheng and Mr. Li sat in silence in the room, unaware that all their previous conversations had been heard by Zhuang Zhuang outside the door.

The little guy lowered his head sadly, turned back to Tang Mian's room, and took the remaining two packets of medicine with tears.

Then he went to the kitchen and found a bamboo tube. After cleaning it, he stepped on a stool to open the cupboard and poured the remaining soup into it.

I wiped my tears and walked out of the kitchen. When I walked to the yard, I looked at Lu Zheng and Li's rooms, put down the medicine bag and bamboo tube, knelt on the ground and kowtowed three times towards their rooms.Then he got up and walked to the door. He found that he couldn't reach the bolt to open the door. He turned back to the yard and got a bench. He stepped on the bench and struggled to open the door. He picked up the things and crossed the threshold before turning around and closing the door.

Zhuangzhuang looked at the door reluctantly and finally left in tears.

He walked on the road in confusion, not knowing which way to go out of the village.He didn't know where to go after leaving the village.

After a while, the little guy stopped on the side of the road and took a look. A young man was walking towards him.

Zhuang Zhuang walked up to the young man with short legs, raised his little head, looked at him with a smile and asked: "Uncle, which way to the village entrance?"

"Which family are you from? Why haven't I seen you before?" The young man who was asked by Zhuang Zhuang looked at him doubtfully.

Zhuang Zhuang lowered his head and said sheepishly: "I live in the town, and I came here with my parents. I got separated out of fun and wanted to wait for them at the entrance of the village."

"Oh, that's it. You're going in the right direction. Go straight ahead and there's a big yellow kudzu tree about a mile away. That's the entrance to the village." The young man pointed to the front and said.

Zhuang Zhuang raised his head and smiled, "Thank you, uncle, I understand. Goodbye, uncle!"

The little guy waved to the young man, wiped his sweat and walked forward.

"Little guy, you don't look good, why don't uncle send you there!" The young man looked at the strong back and shouted.

Zhuang Zhuang stopped and turned around with a bright smile, "Thank you, uncle, no need, I'm fine."

After saying that, he turned back and continued walking towards the entrance of the village. Not far away, he saw several women walking in a group and talking happily, among which the woman in floral clothes talked the loudest.

As he got closer, he heard the woman in floral clothes say: "This woman Tang Mian might have a lover outside, otherwise how could she even refuse the scholar's marriage? No, now all the children have been brought back. I heard That child is sick, and it will cost a lot of money to raise that child. If it wasn't because of her external acquaintance, would she be willing to do it? "

Zhuangzhuang paused. Is the Tang Mian they are talking about an aunt?
He heard his grandpa and grandma both call Aunt Mianniang before. Are they the same person?
The sick child, is it him?
"Okay, Mian Niang behaves well on weekdays, is filial to her parents-in-law, and has no trace of her love affairs. Don't ruin her reputation. You are just jealous of her good looks, so you say a few words to her in a different way to feel comfortable. "An old woman next to her shook her head and said disapprovingly.

The woman babbled, "Aunt Fang, who is jealous?"

"Ah! Where did you come from, kid, let go." After Zhuangzhuang confirmed that the woman in colorful cloth was talking about her aunt, he rushed over like a small animal, hugged the woman's leg and bit her hard.

The woman asked her to let go, but instead of letting go, the little guy bit her even harder.The woman's anger surged and she pushed Zhuangzhuang away with force.

Zhuangzhuang was pushed to the ground and subconsciously stretched out his palms to support the ground. His palms were scratched painfully by a sharp stone. The medicine packets and decoctions he brought out were also scattered on the ground.

The woman discovered that it was a child she had never seen before, and yelled angrily, "You bastard, you must be sick."

"You said bad things about my aunt." Although Zhuang Zhuang was weak at this time, he still glared at the woman fiercely.

"Where did you come from, little brat? Who said anything bad about your aunt? Who is your aunt?" The woman was very annoyed when she was bitten by a little brat for no reason.

"Ouch! Why does this child look so ugly! I said Mrs. Chen, did you break this child?" Another woman next to her said.

Mrs. Chen panicked for a moment, looked at Zhuang Zhuang's face, and felt a thump in her heart, why was this poor kid's face as white as a ghost.

"Oops! It's bleeding. There's a lot of blood on this kid's hands."

(End of this chapter)