Read Novel Full Chapter 118
Chapter 118 : Rat Poison
“You have money to spend on vixens outside, but you have no money to spend on your own son, and you still call yourself a father!”
Jiang Hongmei’s words made the exhausted Zhuang Guoliang completely angry. “I work in the fields during the day and make baskets to sell at night. What do you do at home? Ask for money?”
“Don’t you need to wash clothes at home? Don’t you need to cook?”
The quarrel between the two did not affect Zhuang Xiaoyu at all. She stared at the pork slowly cooking in the boiling water. Looking at Zhuang Xiaobao playing outside, she had an idea.
She waved at Zhuang Xiaobao and whispered, “Xiaobao, are you hungry? There’s pork in the pot, please eat it.”
Zhuang Xiaobao smiled happily and wolfed down the food as soon as he got it out, not caring about Zhuang Xiaoyu, who was swallowing her saliva and trying her best to endure it.
Zhuang Xiaoyu clenched the paper bag with powder still in it in her hand and looked at Zhuang Xiaobao with a cold gaze.
Xiaobao, don’t blame your sister. As long as you’re in this house, I won’t be able to go to school and I won’t be able to eat the delicious food at home.
I also want to study like others, but unfortunately, no one listens to me. Since you listen to your sister, you should reincarnate as soon as possible.
“Oh, my stomach hurts so much!”
The rat poison was too toxic. The uneaten pork in Zhuang Xiaobao’s hand fell from his hands. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, and blood flowed from his eyes, ears, mouth, and nose.
Zhuang Guoliang and Jiang Hongmei both turned their heads back. Zhuang Guoliang was shocked and rushed to Zhuang Xiaobao, shaking him. “Xiaobao, what’s wrong with you?”
As he was shaking, Zhuang Xiaobao vomited all the pork in his mouth. Zhuang Guoliang asked anxiously, “What did you eat? Pork? I bought it at the market, how could it be poisonous?”
Jiang Hongmei was also startled, but then she felt a secret joy. This Zhuang Xiaobao killed her own son. God had eyes and let him be poisoned to death by the diseased pork. It was such a relief.
Zhuang Guoliang carried Zhuang Xiaobao and was about to find a doctor. When he rushed out of the kitchen door with trembling legs, he ran into Daya, who came in carrying herbs.
After being taught by Liu Lixin, Daya went to the county health center for training for several months and is now an official barefoot doctor in the village.
“Daya, look at your brother. He became like this after eating pork. Please save him!”
Zhuang Daya had also seen some patients these days. When she saw Zhuang Xiaobao’s expression and felt his pulse, she shook her head and said to Zhuang Guoliang, “It’s rat poison poisoning. I don’t have the antidote. Fourth uncle, why don’t you send him to the health center for a checkup?”
“What do you mean there’s no antidote? Daya, are you holding a grudge against your fourth uncle for not stopping your grandma from sending you to be a child bride, so you’re deliberately taking revenge on Xiaobao!”
Zhuang Guoliang’s mind had already collapsed. He rushed forward to pull Daya away but was stopped by Zhuang San, “Zhuang Guoliang, wake up. We don’t even have all the medicines in our village. People who are bitten by poisonous snakes have to be sent to the health center. The longer you stay here, the more danger Xiaobao will be in. Hurry up and leave. I’ll go borrow a bullock cart.”
The two of them harnessed up and headed to the hospital. On the way, Zhuang San felt Zhuang Xiaobao’s body and found that it was already half cold. He called out to Zhuang Guoliang, “Guoliang, Xiaobao is gone.”
Zhuang Guoliang couldn’t believe it and hugged Zhuang Xiaobao’s cold body and burst into tears.
Zhuang San also felt a lump in his throat and turned his back, unable to bear to watch any longer.
Zhuang Xiaoyu, quietly cleaned up the mess in the kitchen and threw the rat poison paper package into the stove and burned it cleanly.
Jiang Hongmei saw the whole scene. She was the one who bought the rat poison to kill rats, but she couldn’t find it in the past few days. She didn’t expect it.
Zhuang Xiaoyu is so cruel at such a young age that she can even harm her own brother.
The sound of Jiang Hongmei standing on the doorstep woke up Zhuang Xiaoyu, who was in a daze beside the stove. Looking at Jiang Hongmei’s expression, Zhuang Xiaoyu knew that she knew.
But she wasn’t afraid of being discovered at all, and even forced a smile, “Stepmother, can I go to school tomorrow?”
Jiang Hongmei felt a chill on her back. “Did you kill Zhuang Xiaobao just for this?”
“Xiaobao killed your child. Don’t you want him to die sooner?” The last piece of firewood in the stove burned out, and Zhuang Xiaoyu’s face was hidden in the darkness. “I helped you.”
Jiang Hongmei finally did not dare to tell the truth about Zhuang Xiaobao’s death. She only burned two more handfuls of paper money in front of Zhuang Xiaobao’s grave.
Zhuang Xiaoyu cried heart-wrenchingly and was held in Zhuang Guoliang’s arms. Both father and daughter cried like a tearful bunch.
Jiang Hongmei said nothing and gave Zhuang Xiaobao’s school supplies to Zhuang Xiaoyu, and she went to the first grade of elementary school as she wished.
The weather was getting hotter and hotter, and Jiang Li’s stall life became difficult. Qin Xiaoting encountered even more problems. In such hot weather, the braised meat would go bad if it was not sold out in a short time.
The two of them looked for a shop for a while, but either the house they were not satisfied with was priced too high, or the house had defects, and they couldn’t find a suitable one after searching around.
Just after class that day, Jiang Li was stopped by her teacher, Mr. Ye, who asked her if she would like to participate in an art competition.
Old Man Ye smiled and said, “The first place winner will receive a prize of one thousand yuan.”
Jiang Li agreed immediately, “Teacher, the prize money is not important. The main thing is that I am representing the school in the competition, which is a great honor.”
“Come on, I don’t know you yet,” Old Man Ye said seriously, “There’s nothing wrong with young people yearning for money. Art can also be tainted with the taste of money occasionally!”
“I heard from your wife that you have been looking for a shop recently? Have you found a suitable one?”
Speaking of this, Jiang Li was a little worried. “I saw a suitable one a few days ago. The rent was not high. It was rented out by an old lady. We had agreed on a contract and were about to sign it, but something happened that day and we didn’t get to sign it.
As a result, the next day the old lady raised the rent, saying that her son said that renting out the house for business was not honorable and it was not safe with people coming and going. She said that she would rent the house but had to pay an extra 20 yuan per month.”
“This family is not honest, it’s best not to do business with them,” Ye Shoudao said, shaking his head.
“I thought so too, and then I forgot about renting the shop. Unexpectedly, the old lady came to me again yesterday and said she was willing to rent it at the original price and even signed a contract with me. I thought if I rented it, there would be trouble later. Who knows, they might see my business is good and then make trouble with me. So I didn’t agree.”
“There’s no rush for the store, but you should focus on the competition ahead. Also, your wife misses you, so come over to her house for dinner if you’re free.”
“Okay!” Jiang Li agreed readily, mainly because Mrs. Ye’s temperament was very similar to hers. She loved eating, playing, and dressing up. The two of them went to restaurants and went shopping in department stores together, and they were as close as friends regardless of age.
Because of the competition, Jiang Li put everything else aside and prepared seriously for more than half a month before handing in her work.
Qi Shaoqiang has been going out early and coming back late these days. He didn’t tell Jiang Li the reason because he was afraid that she would worry.