Meng Tian placed the pan-fried steak in front of her and patted Qi Meng's head reassuringly.

She's been feeling really stifled these past few days, only daring to eat secretly, afraid of causing trouble and implicating her and Zuo Zuo.

"Because of Wu, the villagers have been avoiding people from the educated youth settlement lately. Oh, by the way, Aunt Yang and her family are back. Zuo Zuo, you should be careful lately too."

Gu Zuozuo gently rubbed the little fox that was clinging to her and unwilling to leave. She paused for a moment when she heard the name Aunt Ma.

Aunt Yang?

After thinking for a long time, she finally remembered that it was the family that had harassed Zhu Xiaoxiao.

"Why did they come back at this time? Has she given up on treating her son's illness?"

"I heard that it's incurable. Ma Sishui is already beyond saving. His tendons in his hands and feet have been severed and can't be reattached. The medical resources in the county hospital are inadequate, and they are unwilling to spend money to go to the city or province, so they can only carry him home."

Gu Zuozuo never expected that just last night she had talked about that family, and today Aunt Yang had her three sons carry her youngest son to the health station.

Apart from the two daughters-in-law who were educated youth, the family of six, except for Ma Sishui who was lying on the bed unable to move, stood in a row blocking the entrance of the health station.

Aunt Yang, who had lost a lot of weight, stared intently at Gu Zuozuo with her triangular eyes, her deep-set eyes revealing a stubbornness that seemed to be grasping at the last straw.

“Gu Zhiqing, it was all my fault before. I apologize to you, I'll kneel down and kowtow to you. Can you please save my Sishui! He's still young, he hasn't even gotten married yet…”

Gu Zuozuo tilted her head, her clear, bright eyes looking at Ma Sishui, who was as thin as skin and bones on the stretcher.

Ma Sishui, who used to be so obese that his eyes were invisible, now has sunken eyes and an expressionless face. If Gu Zuozuo hadn't looked closely, she really wouldn't have noticed the malice in his eyes.

A leopard can't change its spots.

"I'm sorry, I'm just a barefoot doctor, my medical skills are not good enough to cure your son's illness. You should find someone more skilled."

Aunt Yang clenched her hands tightly, so tightly that she hesitated.

"Gu Zhiqing, are you still holding a grudge against me for what I did to you back then? I'll kowtow to you! I'll kneel down before you! Please save my son!"

Gu Zuozuo dodged to the other side and looked at Aunt Yang, who was standing there in a daze, with a half-smile.

"Aunt Yang, I've already told you my medical skills are lacking, yet you keep kneeling and kowtowing. What? You're unwilling to spend money to send your son to the city or provincial hospitals, but you come here to make things difficult for me. Do you think I'm easy to bully?"

Aunt Yang waved her hands hurriedly, her words incoherent, her cloudy old eyes filled with pleading. The woman who once cursed the whole village without equal now dared not utter a single harsh word.

“Gu…”

Gu Zuozuo interrupted her and looked at the gloomy man again.

“Aunt Yang, it’s not that I don’t want to help, I’m just a barefoot doctor. I can treat common colds and fevers, but I really don’t know how to treat your son’s condition.”

Aunt Yang slumped to the ground, her face turning deathly pale.

Is her youngest son destined to be bedridden for the rest of his life?

Thinking of this, Aunt Yang forced a smile, waved her hand, and told her three sons to carry her youngest son away.

When he turned around, his face turned completely gloomy, and his eyes looked at the educated youth settlement as if he wanted to devour them.

[Hiccup~ Host... hiccup... Her malice level... hiccup~... So high... hiccup...]

Gu Zuozuo turned her gaze away from the family's departing figures, and she wasn't surprised to hear the system's warning.

There's always a reason why someone is pitiful; this family is rotten to the core.

It seems I need to remind Li Fanghua and the other female educated youth.

I'm afraid that Aunt Yang and her family might get desperate and do something to Zhu Xiaoxiao.

Can you still hold on?

She needs to retrieve the contents of the system as soon as possible, otherwise the system might burp and vomit them out one day.

[Burp... I'm so full... Burp~]

Listening to its incessant hiccups, Gu Zuozuo's big eyes filled with a gentle smile. Sometimes, the system really made her feel like it was a real child.

Playful and loves watching excitement, but loves its host the most.