Chapter 118: Chapter 118 The Bigger the Trouble Chapter 118: Chapter 118 The Bigger the Trouble The woman next to her continued, “You’re right, and now with Sun i gone, her son has beco a burden in others’ mouths, living off others. He has even caused his own aunt such harm. Ah, it’s such a sin!”
Another woman whispered, “You didn’t see, but yesterday afternoon, my nephew from my mother’s side broke his arm, and I happened to be at the clinic. Stone’s back was covered in blisters; I couldn’t bear to look. The doctor said his buttocks and thighs were the sa.
The kid was biting his teeth, not crying out in pain. The doctor applying the dicine felt so sorry for him that his eyes reddened. That Kong Yuru is no good!”
“Is it that serious?”
“Why would I lie to you? The doctor even said if those blisters don’t get absorbed by today, they’ll have to do a procedure called drainage. They’ll have to puncture the side and let the blister fluid out before applying more dicine. Just thinking about it hurts my heart.”
“Poor Stone, Ning Ziping’s parents are no better. Even if they don’t want a daughter-in-law from the countryside, that grandson is still their own flesh and blood. To think they don’t want even their grandson, what they’re doing is absolutely heartless.”
“Isn’t that the truth? Likely, Ning Ziping’s spouse in the city doesn’t allow it. Sun i was also unlucky, marrying a Chen Shii.”
After Luo Qiao had breakfast at ho, locked the door, and went down to the riverside to get ready for work, the Sun Family’s house was still in an uproar.
The local officials had intervened, but the issue remained unresolved. Both the eldest and the third branches of the Sun Family agreed that they would only take the child back if he was in good condition, while they would not foot the dical bills from the clinic or the city.
As for the second branch, the man of the house, Sun Baoqing, was not in the village, having taken up a temporary job in the county since the beginning of the year, only returning ho three or four tis a month. Now it was Kong Yuru who was in charge of the second branch.
She had made herself clear, too—there was no money at ho, and they just had that twenty yuan; once it was spent, that was it. Whatever happened, happened; she couldn’t manage more, and the quarrel only escalated.
The village officials were enraged, declaring that the Sun Family must provide an explanation or else it would be taken straight to the police station, letting the authorities handle it.
With the ti for work having arrived, the head of the brigade didn’t want to waste more ti with the Sun family mbers, so he arranged for everyone to start working. But the Sun Family really had bad luck—every mber, regardless of age or gender, was assigned the heaviest tasks.
The daughters-in-law of the Sun Family wanted to rebel, but the brigade leader stated that anyone who didn’t want to work could go ho as there would be no work points.
Today, Luo Qiao was working with Auntie Gao and so other won from the village in the large warehouse, breaking up fertilizer. The fertilizer that the brigade had brought back so days ago ca in large chunks, so it had to be broken down before being taken to the fields.
In the fields, one person dug holes, another added fertilizer, and another covered the holes with soil. They worked in groups of three. Since Luo Qiao had twisted her ankle, she had been assigned this task for today. Her hands were sore from the fertilizer, and Qiao Lianlian told her she would bring a pair of gloves in the afternoon.
As Luo Qiao worked, she kept thinking, nearly smashing her hand several tis from distraction, scaring herself into staying focused. She was afraid that if she didn’t, her hand might get injured along with her foot, and then she would truly never hear the end of it from Lu Yichen.
Seeing that Luo Qiao was preoccupied all morning, Qiao Lianlian asked, “Luo Qiao, do you have sothing on your mind?”
Luo Qiao didn’t hide her concern, “I’m thinking about how Stone is such a good child and the Sun Family’s own grandnephew. Now that their only sister and daughter is gone, shouldn’t the uncles take good care of their only nephew?
But how can they be so at ease, taking compensation and then calling him a freeloader and a bastard? It’s one thing for outsiders to speak harshly, but when his own closest family does it, their morality is just too poor.”
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