Chapter 56: I'm Studying
Inside the room, Ma Daya held Qiancheng with slightly red eyes. The little guy had a flushed face and a wet towel on his forehead. Zhang Jie and Qianqian were also anxiously standing around him.
"Sis, how's your future going?"
"Yuzhu is here. As for Qiancheng... he's fine. He'll be alright once his fever breaks. And this must be Comrade Zhou?"
Zhou Congsheng nodded quickly. "Hello, sister. My name is Zhou Congsheng. I grew up with Zhuzhu and I am her fiancé. I am currently stationed in the military in Ningyang County."
"Good, good, very good, Comrade Zhou, please sit down, please sit down."
Zhang Jie, being very perceptive, moved a wooden stool for Zhou Congsheng, placed it there, and quickly moved to the side. This uncle-in-law looked really tall, as if he could pierce through the roof.
Shen Yuzhu knew from the first sentence that it wasn't complete, and there was definitely something fishy going on.
"Sister, don't treat Cong Sheng like an outsider. He's your brother-in-law, your family. He hasn't hidden anything from me, and I've already told him about our relationship. So just tell him what you want to say, don't be afraid!"
Ma Daya's eyes reddened as she looked at the two people in front of her, then looked down at Qiancheng, who was only three years old.
"Oh, yes, it was that beast Zhang Li. Qiancheng is timid and has been beaten and scolded by his father many times since he was little. But as a son, he still cares about his father. Today, while I was picking vegetables in our plot, in just a short while, Qiancheng somehow ended up in Zhang Li's room. When I got home, I saw poor Qiancheng being strangled by that beast Zhang Li's arm. The child's face was red from holding his breath. I... I don't even want to think about it. If I had come home any later, would I have been able to see him again? Waaah..."
When Panpan and the other children saw their mother crying, they also wiped away their tears.
I was really scared when I saw a red mark on my younger brother's neck after school today. They originally wanted to go find their aunt.
But Mom wouldn't let me go.
Shen Yuzhu and Zhou Congsheng's expressions changed. Even tigers don't eat their cubs, yet he actually tricked such a young child into the house, intending to kill him?
"Cough, cough, cough..."
Qiancheng was not sleeping soundly, his little hands tightly gripping his mother's clothes, and his head burrowing into his mother's arms.
"Sister, Congsheng and I brought you some food. You eat first, I'll hold the baby for a while, and then we can discuss what to do after you've eaten."
Zhou Congsheng placed the food on the kang table, said hello, and got up to leave. He went to Zhang Li's room, looked around, and returned shortly afterward.
"Sister, I just looked into that room over there. There was a broken bowl. Maybe Qiancheng heard the noise and was worried that something had happened to his father, so he went to check. It's only natural for a father and son to worry about each other."
Ma Daya had no appetite and only ate a little bit of stew. When she heard Zhou Congsheng say that, she put down her chopsticks and cursed under her breath.
"It's too hot today, so I thought I'd let Qiancheng stay home. The plot of land is right behind the house, so nothing will happen for a little while. Before I left, I told Qiancheng not to go to his dad's room, not to go. That kid, sigh..."
"Hmph, today Cong Sheng suggested sending that inhuman thing to a sanatorium in the county town, because she was afraid that my sister and the children would be hurt, and that you would be unhappy seeing him every day. Now I think we shouldn't send him to a sanatorium, let's just send him to a mental hospital. If there isn't one in the county town, let's send him to the provincial capital, the farther the better."
"No, no, we can't send them to a mental hospital, Yuzhu. The children still have a reputation to maintain. When the girls grow up, they will get married. If their in-laws find out that they have a mentally ill father, which family will want them?"
Shen Yuzhu: "......."
Is she already planning to marry into a family at such a young age?
Seeing Ma Daya's worried expression, she really wanted to ask her older sister a very popular question in later years: "What are the benefits of getting married?"
She knew without asking that Ma Daya couldn't answer, and there were some things she couldn't say. The two of them had grown up in different environments, and her older sister had already suffered so much. Constantly negating her would make her feel bad.
"Then send her to the sanatorium in the county town. Send her tomorrow. Just say that my mother... well, Zhou Congsheng's mother, Aunt Chu's contact. When she went to the countryside, she gave me a list with the contact information of several of her friends. As for Zhang Li's matter..."
“I’ll take care of it. I’ll go back to the city tomorrow and talk to Uncle Gao. I’ll make sure Zhang Li is sent away within three days at the latest, so that my sister and the children can live a peaceful life.”
"Okay, okay, then thank you for your hard work, Comrade Zhou."
When Shen Yuzhu and Zhou Congsheng left, Qiancheng's fever had subsided. His fever was mainly due to being frightened. There were ready-made steamed buns and stew in the thermos, and two cans of food in the cupboard.
Ma Daya thought that once he woke up, she would cook it for them.
Her eyes caught sight of Zhang Li groaning in another room, and she gritted her teeth in resentment.
Thankfully, thankfully we only have a few more days to get rid of this damn thing, and soon we can finally live in peace.
The news that Qiancheng had been injured by Zhang Li spread throughout the village the very next day. The commune's barefoot doctor had visited the child, and Zhou Li had come over before dawn, so the news naturally spread quickly.
Qiancheng, who was squatting on the ground playing in front of the Zhang family's house, would occasionally be glanced at by passersby. The child was very thin and pitiful. After being treated like this by his own father, he became even less talkative.
His pitiful appearance touched the hearts of the villagers, and after finishing their work at noon, many families in the village went to visit him with baskets in hand.
Some gave her two eggs, some gave her a handful of dried vegetables, some gave her two pounds of flour, or some vegetables and fruits that she had grown herself. Ma Daya couldn't refuse, so she had to accept them.
Almost everyone in the educated youth settlement who was on good terms with Shen Yuzhu came. Even Zhang Shujuan and Wang Yanhong, who always opposed Shen Yuzhu and never got anything good from her, brought her half a pound of brown sugar and a handful of candy.
When Zhao Yue and Song Biao heard about it, they bought an old hen and ten eggs from somewhere and brought them over. They hugged Qiancheng affectionately, making Ma Daya feel flustered and at a loss.
In Shen Yuzhu's courtyard, Zhao Yue stood there, relentlessly spewing insults. Ever since she returned, her mouth hadn't stopped, her curses were vulgar and vicious, yet witty and eloquent, with not a single word repeated.
"It's nothing, it's all nothing. Don't be scared, sister-in-law. That's the only bad thing about our Xiaoyue. She's too quick to hate evil."
"I wasn't scared. I think Xiaoyue is lovable in every way. I wanted to scold her too, but I didn't have enough words in my head. You and your captain go ahead and do your work. I'll listen for a while and learn from her."
Song Biao, trying to comfort him: "..."
Zhou Congsheng, who was picking vegetables: "........"
This, this can actually be turned into a learning advantage?
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