Political Commissar Li was just about to go forward to check the child's wound when he walked behind her. Seeing the child fall, he jumped up and caught her in time.

He fell to the ground, but luckily he caught the child.

Liu Hongying herself had a son and a daughter, and she couldn't bear to hit them. "Xiujuan, why are you hitting the children?"

She loves her daughter more and has spanked her since she was a child.

Zhu Xiujuan said confidently, "This damn girl is disobedient and always causes trouble for me. She even wants to go to the hospital? She won't have that fate."

Political Commissar Li said, "Going to the hospital for a checkup is a good way to feel at ease if you're healthy and well. It doesn't cost much. But if you do get sick, you can catch it and get treated early so you don't have to spend a fortune later, right?"

Liu Hongying went forward and picked up the child. The child shook his head, his eyelids felt heavy, and he rolled his eyes before fainting. "Dizzy, nauseous, and in pain..."

Political Commissar Li held her gradually drooping head and said, "Child, don't sleep. Let's go to the hospital now."

He said to Zhao Jianguo, who had just come forward to check on the child, "Go downstairs first and ride your bike downstairs."

Zhu Xiujuan was more worried about the money than her daughter, and complained, "Why go to the hospital? Just pinch her philtrum and she'll wake up."

Zhao Jianguo, who ran to the door, was furious when he heard this. He turned his head and glared at her, "Stop talking to me."

An hour later, the military doctor finished the examination.

"How can you be parents? How can you abuse your child and beat him like this? You are soldiers."

"Military doctor, how is the child? Is the condition serious?"

"It's very serious, a moderate concussion. If he had been brought in any later, he would have developed a cerebral hemorrhage and would have been fatal."

"How could this happen? My daughter just fell down accidentally."

"That's right. If you fall, the back of your head will hit something hard. The human head is very important. Most people will die after a fall."

Military doctors also have children, and it is really hard to bear to see such young children suffer.

After explaining the condition and precautions, he scolded Zhao Jianguo harshly.

"A soldier's duty is to defend the country. You may be useful to the country, but you have failed in your duty as a father."

Zhao Jianguo hung his head in shame. "It was my fault. I promise I won't make this mistake again."

His hometown is extremely patriarchal. In order to have a son, he gave birth to several girls. Occasionally, he was lucky enough to have a son. If he had too many girls, they would become worthless.

Everyone around him brainwashed him into thinking that daughters were worthless, and he had been instilled with this idea since he was a child.

So every time Zhu Xiujuan scolded her daughter, he didn't interrupt.

…

Zhu Xiujuan stayed at home to take care of her children and did not come to the hospital.

Political Commissar Li and Liu Hongying came back to tell him that the child had to stay in the hospital for observation, and Deputy Battalion Commander Zhao would stay with him at night. He had training tomorrow morning, so Zhu Xiujuan would take over the care.

When Zhu Xiujuan heard that she had to stay in the hospital, her eyes widened. "What? I have to stay in the hospital?"

"At least two or three days."

"How much does the hospital cost per day?"

"We don't know either, Xiujuan. People are more important than money. No amount of money can compare to your daughter's life."

"How much can a little girl be worth?"

"It's getting late. You should go to bed early and replace Captain Zhao at the hospital tomorrow morning. We should also go back to bed."

Liu Hongying finally understood why Li Jiyue asked them to come over.

The next morning, Fu Chengyu just went to training.

Li Jiyue ate breakfast slowly.

The door was slammed.

"Li Jiyue, come out here."

"What are you doing?" Li Jiyue didn't open the door, but shouted through the door, "Why are you acting crazy so early in the morning?"

"My third daughter fell at your house, and you must pay for her medical expenses."

Li Jiyue threw the spoon back into the porridge. "You know exactly how the child fell, and you still have the nerve to ask for compensation. Your face is thicker than a city wall."

"If it fell at your house, you have to pay for it. You must be feeling guilty, otherwise why would you pretend to invite Commissar Li and his wife to my house?"

Each household in the family compound is separated by only a wall, so nothing can be hidden.

When she went to buy groceries in the morning, she heard that Li Jiyue had been to the political commissar's house.

She understood immediately that it was Li Jiyue who asked them to come. She was really nosy and must have bad intentions, wanting to make her bleed profusely.

This black-hearted bitch.

Li Jiyue explained impatiently, "I'm not feeling guilty. I studied medicine and accurately diagnosed the child with a concussion, so I went to the trouble of asking someone to persuade you to take the child to the hospital. I pity the child. It's the same whether he has a mother or not."

"Who are you cursing? If you have the guts to open the door, let's confront each other face to face. If you don't, I will break your windows." Zhu Xiujuan looked around, trying to find something to smash the windows.

There was a low wooden stool at the door of the house next door, and she picked it up and tried to smash the window.

Li Jiyue opened the door and went out, "How dare you! If you break it, you have to pay for it."

"You, the coward, finally came out."

"You are a coward, I don't want to bother with you."

"You, since everyone is here, come and judge the matter. My daughter fell down at her house, and she fell down when I was helping her clean the house. Do you think she should be held mostly responsible?" Zhu Xiujuan dared to make trouble because she thought that her sister-in-law in the family compound couldn't stand Yu Tingwan and Li Jiyue, and would definitely stand on her side.

If everyone stood on his side, she could extort a large sum of money, and the medical expenses for the third girl would be settled.

"We have five children, and only one of us earns money. Every month, we have to give 10 yuan to our parents in the countryside for their retirement. My parents are old and can't work, so we still have to give them some money occasionally. We are really poor, and we can't afford the children's medical expenses."

"If he really fell while helping to clean, it wouldn't be too much to give him some compensation. Captain Fu has a high salary, and your family doesn't have children to support, so you're well-off. Xiujuan's family is in trouble, so just help them out as a token of your appreciation."

Li Jiyue asked back, "Are you sure you were cleaning? Didn't you instigate the child to deliberately make the clean floor dirty? When the house was divided that day, before you left with your luggage, there were footprints all over the floor and the bed was dirty. When did you help me clean?"

"Children are ignorant. Can't they accidentally step on a few footprints?"

"There were more than a few densely packed ones. It took the four of us a long time to clean them up. You were so petty, afraid that I would take advantage of you, so you stepped on the floor you quickly gave me and made it dirty, causing your daughter to fall. It has nothing to do with me."

Zhu Xiujuan was a person with an impatient temper. She was speechless after being rebuked. She grabbed the stool tightly in her hand and threw it hard at her feet.

"Bang!--"

The stool fell apart.

Yu Tingwan, who had just taken her child to school, came back and saw her stool had been smashed. She pushed through the crowd, pointed at the stool on the ground, and shouted angrily, "Zhu Xiujuan, how dare you pick on my stool? Pay me!"

"Is this a broken stool? How much is it worth?"

"This stool was made by my father himself. It means a lot to me. If you don't give me two dollars, I won't let you go."

Zhu Xiujuan looked at the broken wood on the ground and said, "What? A stool costs two yuan? I can buy ten for two yuan. Who are you trying to cheat?"