All of this was caused by Li Hongying.

Li Hongying must have found out something. After careful consideration, she decided that in order to prevent Li Hongying from revealing her secrets, she had to get rid of Li Hongying.

With Li Hongying dead, and no one questioning her identity anymore, she can continue to live a normal life here.

Having made up her mind, she was determined to shut Li Hongying up. As for how to make Li Hongying shut up, if she used force, it wouldn't be easy to do so with Zhao Wensong by her side.

Even if we kill her by force, it might leave evidence that the police can use against her; it's too risky.

She thought of the remaining poison she had. There was only enough for three people. If one person took the normal dose, the poison would take effect within half a month to a month. However, if Li Hongying took all the poison, the time it would take to take effect would be reduced to one-third of the original time.

She didn't know when she would find her enemy. As far as she was concerned, the enemy was still in Beijing, while her return to Beijing seemed a long way off.

Use these medicines first, and then take revenge using other means after finding your enemy.

The next morning, she went to the dilapidated house where Li Hongying and Zhao Wensong lived.

Early in the morning, Li Hongying was cooking at home while Zhao Wensong went to work in the fields.

Lin Shanshan had gone to the fields, but she secretly slipped back to find Li Hongying.

When Li Hongying saw her, she immediately realized that Lin Shanshan was indeed her aunt's daughter.

She walked up to Lin Shanshan and said, "Shanshan, are you here to admit to me that you are Gao Tieshan's daughter? Let me tell you, my father is Li Baojun, your uncle. We are family."

Lin Shanshan was shocked when she heard the news; she never expected to meet her own family here.

However, because she had never been in contact with the Gao family since childhood, she knew nothing about her relatives and had no idea whether what Li Hongying said was true or false.

Lin Shanshan glanced at the rice cooker and made up her mind that no matter who Li Hongying was, she could not let her continue to live in this world.

To save her life, her secret must not be revealed in the slightest.

"Comrade Hongying, I regret to inform you that I am not the daughter of Tieshan that you claim to be. You have really mistaken me for someone else. However, since I look like your relative, it can be considered a kind of fate that we are related. I am willing to be good sisters with you. I wonder if you will mind."

Li Hongying was disappointed. Was Lin Shanshan unwilling to admit her identity, or was she not her aunt and uncle's daughter at all?

The other party denied it, and she had no way to prove their identity.

"Alright then, Lin Zhiqing, let's be best friends from now on." Best friends are easier to take advantage of than strangers.

Lin Shanshan took a peach shortbread out of her pocket and handed it to Li Hongying.

“Sister Hongying, now that we’ve become sisters, this is a peach shortbread that my family sent from Beijing. Try it and see if you like it.”

Li Hongying was surprised: "Did your family send this to you?" Her family could still send her things, but her uncle had already met his demise, and her aunt had also been imprisoned.

Lin Shanshan urged her, "Try it and see if it tastes good."

"good."

Li Hongying took a bite of it and said, "It's quite delicious."

"If it's delicious, finish it."

"Um."

Li Hongying suddenly thought of Zhao Wensong. If Zhao Wensong found out that she was eating alone, that guy would definitely make a scene.

Let's finish this peach shortbread before he gets back.

So, under Lin Shanshan's watchful gaze, she finished the whole peach shortbread and also consumed all the poison that Lin Shanshan had prepared.

Lin Shanshan was relieved after she finished eating.

Li Hongying hadn't cooked any rice for Lin Shanshan in the pot, and secretly wondered if Lin Shanshan would eat here.

Lin Shanshan was afraid that leaving after delivering the peach shortbread would arouse Li Hongying's suspicion, so she took out two corn cakes from her pocket and said, "If Sister Hongying doesn't mind, can I stay at your house for dinner?"

Li Hongying waved her hand: "I don't mind, I don't mind."

She took the cornbread from Lin Shanshan's hand. "I'll heat it up."

Five or six days passed in the blink of an eye, and before the autumn harvest was even over, Li Hongying suddenly fell ill.

The illness came on suddenly and violently. It started as a slight cold and fever, but by the second day it had turned into a high fever. The village doctor prescribed medicine and gave injections, but unfortunately, they were completely ineffective.

Li Hongying felt that her illness came on very strangely. She had always been in good health and rarely even got sick like a fever or a cold. But this time she suddenly got such a serious illness.

On the third day, Li Hongying could no longer hold on and asked Zhao Wensong to take her to the county hospital.

When she arrived at the county hospital, the doctors treated her only as if she had a fever or a cold, because they only found a cold virus and did not find any organ diseases in Li Hongying.

After two days of treatment at the county hospital, Li Hongying's condition not only failed to improve but worsened.

The attending physician, who is also the director of the internal medicine department at the county hospital, recalled that there was a similar patient in early winter last year who had a persistent and increasingly severe fever. However, this patient's condition was obviously much more serious than that patient's.

That's incredibly risky.

Last year, because they couldn't cure that patient, they sent him to the city. They don't know if he went or not, but they haven't received any news of his death.

Perhaps they were buried on the spot after they died.

He asked Zhao Wensong and found out that Zhao Wensong and Li Hongying were also from the Shengli Brigade, the same brigade as Tong Jianxin, who was sick last year, and that Zhao Wensong was also an educated youth like Tong Jianxin.

He asked Zhao Wensong, "Last year, there was a young educated youth in your area who had this kind of illness, but it wasn't as severe as your wife's. Do you know how he is now?"

"Tong Zhiqing recovered in just a few days after returning from the hospital, and he's perfectly fine now, just like a normal person."

With Tong Jianxin as an example, could Li Hongying also gradually recover?

“If that educated youth has recovered, then it should be a self-limiting disease. We don’t know the source of the disease yet. Since that educated youth, Tong, could recover on his own, maybe your wife can too.”

The doctor dared not speak too definitively, in case Li Hongying's condition worsened or she died because her physical condition was not as strong as Tong Jianxin's, he would also bear responsibility.

He needs Zhao Wensong and Li Hongying to jointly decide whether to be discharged, continue treatment here, or go to a hospital in the city.

“Your wife is not as physically fit as that educated youth Tong, and her condition is quite serious. I suggest you continue to receive treatment and observation here. Of course, you can also go to the city hospital.”

Zhao Wensong didn't want to spend so much money, and since there was hope for self-healing, he would naturally choose to take Li Hongying home to recuperate.

Li Hongying is currently delirious with fever and has lost the ability to think.

"Doctor, I... I'll take her home."