Lele saw a stranger and hid behind Xiaofang in fear, and asked in a low voice: "Sister, who are they?"

Xiaofang quickly denied: "No...no...what ten yuan? You heard it wrong..."

Seeing how scared the siblings were, Lin Banxia quickly winked at Gu Shiqing and said, "Don't look so stern. You're scaring the children."

Without saying a word, Gu Shiqing, who acted as the door god, expressed his grievance. He didn't say a word, but was scolded by his wife.

Oh, that’s difficult.

After talking about Gu Shiqing, Lin Banxia showed Xiaofang a very pleasant smile and said, "Xiaofang, children should not lie. Do you know the seriousness of this matter? If it is found out, do you know what the consequences will be?"

"The one next to me is a soldier uncle, the cutest man in our motherland. You can tell him if you have any difficulties, and he will definitely help you. Right, Captain Gu?"

Lin Banxia winked at Gu Shiqing.

Gu Shiqing immediately understood, showing a 'kind' expression, and said to Xiaofang and Lele, "Doctor Lin is right, you can tell me if you have any difficulties."

"But...if you insist on not speaking, we will have no choice but to report this matter to the organization. The nature of the situation will be different then." Lin Banxia continued. She knew very well that in this kind of situation, one person had to play the good cop and the other had to play the bad cop.

Sure enough, when Xiaofang heard this, she immediately cried and said, "Wow, I didn't lie on purpose. There is no money at home, my brother is crying because of hunger, and my mother needs medicine.

I took my brother to the mountain, hoping to catch a hare for him to eat. But I was too stupid, and the hare ran so fast that I couldn't catch it. I met Sister Zhou on the mountain. After she heard about my story, she said she could give me ten yuan to buy meat, but I had to do her a favor..."

The favor was to let Xiaofang pretend that her brother was rescued by Zhou Shiyu, and the army clinic would give her a banner.

Seeing Xiaofang crying out of fear, Lin Banxia quickly comforted her, "Don't cry. What's wrong with your mother? Take me to see her. I'm a doctor. Maybe I can cure your mother's illness."

Hearing this, Xiaofang stopped crying, and a look of joy and hope appeared on her thin, pale face: "Really?"

Lin Banxia nodded affirmatively: "Of course it's true."

Xiaofang quickly pushed open the creaking wooden door, and the house was filled with a strong smell of medicine.

A sallow-faced woman was curled up on the earthen kang, her belly bulging like a full-term pregnant woman, but her limbs were so thin that they were just skin and bones.

"Mom..." Xiaofang fell to the bed, "I've brought a doctor to see you..."

The woman nodded weakly at Xiaofang and wanted to speak, but she had no more strength. She was already tortured by her swollen belly.

Lin Banxia took two steps forward, and his heart sank as his fingers touched the woman's abdomen.

The skin was as tight as a drum, and when tapped, it made a dull, dull sound. She quickly untied the stethoscope, and the cool metal patch slid across the swollen abdomen, and the bowel sounds almost disappeared.

"It's abdominal effusion." Lin Banxia said after the examination, her eyes swept over the moldy herbal medicine bag in the corner, "What's accumulated in your mother's stomach is water, not the child."

Xiaofang never thought that her mother was pregnant until her mother's belly suddenly became bigger a few months ago.

Her father passed away half a year ago. When her uncle and aunt saw that her mother's belly was getting bigger, they scolded her harshly, saying that her mother had a child with some wild man.

My mother cried and explained that she didn't do that, but everyone scolded her for being unfaithful to her husband who had only been dead for a year.

The uncle and aunt drove them out of the house...