On her way home carrying her daughter, Chen Suwen encountered Zhou Min. "Min, go to the clinic and find Dr. Zhang. Have him come and examine your sister."

"Oh, okay."

Although Zhou Min was stunned for a moment, she still obediently turned around and ran to the clinic, afraid that something might have happened to her sister.

Chen Suwen returned home without anyone's knowledge, and after closing the door, she quickly stripped Zhou Ling of her wet clothes, changed her clothes, and then fed her a pill.

The weather is cold now, and she's worried that Zhou Ling might have gotten sick from falling into the water. She's giving her some medicine to help her recover, hoping she'll be alright.

Perhaps the medicine worked quickly, or perhaps Zhou Ling's condition wasn't serious; Zhou Min and the barefoot doctor, Doctor Zhang, hadn't even arrived yet when Zhou Ling woke up.

"……mom?"

When Zhou Ling opened her eyes, she saw her mother, Chen Suwen, who had already changed her wet clothes.

She carried Zhou Ling, who was soaking wet, home on her back. People wear thick clothes in cold weather, which absorb a lot of water, so Chen Suwen's clothes also got wet.

She had just changed her clothes when she saw her daughter wake up. She went over and touched her forehead. "Is there anything else that's bothering you?"

Zhou Ling's body temperature was normal; she did not have a fever.

She was more worried that she would develop a fever later, but she was even more worried about something inside her body.

As for external injuries, she checked when she changed clothes. There were no abrasions on her body, since the clothes were thick and the things in the water weren't sharp enough to tear the clothes and cause her injuries.

However, there were a few minor scratches on her exposed skin.

"Ouch...it hurts..."

Zhou Ling felt a headache coming on after her mother reminded her, and her eyes welled up with tears. "My head hurts..."

Chen Suwen frowned as she examined Zhou Ling and indeed found a wound on the back of her head that she hadn't noticed.

Chen Suwen let her daughter's hair down, wrapped it in a towel, and examined the wound.

"Luckily, we still had gentian violet at home."

Chen Suwen used disinfectant alcohol and iodine to clean the wound before finally applying gentian violet.

Applying gentian violet was merely a cover-up.

"Mom, Uncle Zhang is here."

Zhou Min brought over Zhang Ziping, a barefoot doctor from the Guangming Brigade Health Center, and Chen Suwen quickly asked him to take the patient's pulse.

Zhang Ziping is a true doctor with a family tradition of medical expertise and genuine skills; he is a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner.

It was only because things hadn't been going well in recent years that he chose to keep a low profile and return to his hometown, Guangming Brigade, to work as a lowly barefoot doctor.

"Dr. Zhang, please take a look at A-Ling and see if she's alright?" Chen Suwen stepped aside so that Zhang Ziping could take her daughter's pulse.

"By the way, A-Ling has a wound on the back of her head. I just cleaned it with gentian violet."

Zhang Ziping nodded. "That's good."

Zhang Ziping checked the wound on the back of Zhou Ling's head and was relieved to see that there was no further bleeding.

"Her wound is quite large. Although the bleeding has stopped, we still need to be careful."

"Okay, thank you, Dr. Zhang."

Chen Suwen asked Zhou Min to watch over Doctor Zhang while she went out to call for help, "Eldest daughter-in-law—"

"Eldest son's wife—"

When Zhou Ling was eighteen, Zhou Cunzhi was already married, so Chen Suwen went straight to Xu Huixue as soon as she came out.

"Hey—Mom—I'm here—"

Xu Huixue's voice came from a distance, and Chen Suwen's face darkened.

"Where have you been—don't you know something's wrong at home—"

"You're all never home, what are you all doing? What's the point of keeping you around? All you do is eat and eat—you don't even know how to do any work!"

Chen Suwen immediately started cursing. Having returned from an era of plenty to an era of scarcity and poverty, and from a working-class family in the city to a penniless villager, she was filled with resentment.

Now she could no longer control her irritable mood and began to curse and swear, revealing the face of a fierce and wicked mother-in-law.

"Mom—Mom, I'm home—"

Xu Huixue was terrified when she heard her mother-in-law cursing and swearing. She was worried that her mother-in-law would get angrier and angrier and would torment her even more, so she quickly ran home.

"Mom—I'm home—"

"Where have you been? Don't you know your sister fell into the water? Such a big thing happened at home, and no one is here."

"Don't you value this family? Don't you respect me, your mother-in-law?"

Even though she had been Xu Huixue's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law for decades in her previous life, Chen Suwen could still scold her naturally at this moment.

Although she didn't mistreat her daughter-in-law like the original owner did when she was reborn in her previous life, she still scolded her daughter-in-law.

She's holding back a lot of anger right now, and her daughter-in-law just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, so she can't blame her for taking it out on her.

"Mom, I just went to pull weeds in the private plot. I didn't know about this..." Xu Huixue explained.

"Hmph, why aren't you going to make ginger soup? It's so cold, and Ah Ling fell into the water. She'll catch a cold soon!"

"Also, cook a lot more so that everyone can drink some on this cold day. Even if you're not sick, it can help prevent colds."

We have plenty of ginger at home, and we even have a large clump growing in our yard, so we're not worried about not having enough.

Afraid that her mother-in-law would continue to scold her, Xu Huixue quickly agreed and ran into the kitchen to make ginger soup.

Chen Suwen frowned, and after walking out the door, she shouted—

"Zhou Cunzhi, you bastard—where have you been—get back here right now—"

When she gets angry, she scolds not only her daughter-in-law but also her son, treating everyone equally. Apart from Zhou Qingyun, no one holds a special place in her heart.

Not far from their home was Zhou Qingshan's house. Zhou Qingyun heard his wife's angry roar and worried that she would get too angry and hurt herself, so he told his older brother and went home.

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