"It's true! There is a word written with a pencil under each bowl on this stall. What is that word?" An old lady came up, turned over each bowl and took a look, and said in surprise.

"Lin, Lin Minjun's Lin." Lin Minjun said, took a deep breath, and her nose felt a little sore. She missed Erwa.

This idea was also thought of by Erwa, and he wrote them one by one with a pencil after coming home from school: Where is this kid and when will he come back?

"There are words on the bottom of my bowl. The bowl that the lady brought over looked exactly like mine, but there were no words on it." Lin Minjun continued, "So your son ate the fried potatoes you made and found a dead rat in them. Why are you saying I'm shirking responsibility? Was this something on my stall?"

Lin Minjun hit the nail on the head with one sentence, but she still wanted to ask, "I have one more question for you, Auntie. You said you were going to give me something as a gift to apologize, but you sent me a dead rat. What do you mean by that? Do you want to make an enemy of me?"

Lin Minjun had been wary of them from the beginning. Now the evidence was irrefutable. The old lady opened her mouth but couldn't utter a word. Cao Bin was even more embarrassed. His head was a mess. Seeing that everyone was looking at him, he immediately pretended to vomit, and then went back to vomit with a dry gurgling sound.

"You're not going to say that this was sent to the wrong person and you guys ate it yourself, right? But how come there are dead mice in your meal? I remember that the eldest master is a level 7 electrician. He should be paid very well and should not be unable to afford meat." Even rabbits bite when they are angry. Their family has bullied them time and again. Lin Minjun has made up her mind to tear her hostility away and of course she will not be polite.

The mother's brain, which was not very smart to begin with, was working frantically at this moment, trying to find a suitable excuse to get away with the matter.

Who knew that before she could even open her mouth, someone suddenly said, "Oh! I know, it's because Brother Bin has epilepsy!"

"It's epilepsy, not epilepsy. That's not right, Goudan. How did you know?" The lady next to him retorted subconsciously, and suddenly she was stunned.

Goudan looked as if he had suddenly understood something, because he still remembered that his aunt had not allowed him to tell anyone about this, so the child didn't say anything.

Everyone else was dumbfounded. Why was he brought up with epilepsy out of the blue?

Medical care was not well developed at that time, and many diseases were difficult and complicated. Hospitals did not have good treatment plans, so people would look for folk remedies, all kinds of strange things. The more they looked for folk remedies, the more ignorant people became about these diseases.

For example, the infertility in the previous life, and the epilepsy now.

In everyone's mind, epilepsy has the word "crazy" in it, and when it occurs it is just like a madman. They regard it as a mental illness.

But this is terrible. Is Cao Bin mentally ill? Crazy?

This is not something that can be said casually. It has a huge impact on a person and can even ruin someone's life. A grandmother next to him quickly said, "Goudan, stop talking nonsense. How can this be epilepsy? The child is just talking nonsense."

"If you keep talking nonsense, I'll tell your mother and let her give you a good beating!" someone threatened the child.

At Goudan's age, people hate dogs and he is particularly rebellious. If others don't let him do something, he will insist on doing it!

The child rebelled, "This is epilepsy. I asked a mother before and she said epilepsy causes foaming at the mouth, twitching hands and feet, crooked mouth and squinting eyes. That's what happened to Brother Bin just now."

This made everyone think it was similar. “It seems like Cao Bin was like this just now, with a crooked mouth, slanted eyes, and rolled eyes.”

How did they know that Cao Bin was giving a secret signal to his mother?

Goudan was confident and said proudly, "And there is one more thing you may not know. Previously, Auntie asked me for a dead mouse, saying that a patient in her family had epilepsy and needed to eat a dead mouse to cure the disease. Auntie, do you think this is true? I guess she got Brother Bin's medicine by mistake."

A group of people all turned their eyes to the old lady again.

The mother was so upset that she couldn't say a word for a long time. How could she, step by step, tie herself up in a cocoon and give her son epilepsy?

But the mother couldn't deny it at this time. If she denied it, everyone would start to ask her why she gave Xiaolin a dead mouse, or why she asked the child for a mouse for no reason if she didn't want to cure his illness?

She couldn't explain this.

So the mother thought for a long time and could only admit, "Yes, yes, I got the wrong medicine, it was Xiaobin's medicine."

"What disease did your Xiaobin have?" someone asked persistently.

The old lady gritted her teeth and almost squeezed out the words, "Epilepsy."

Everyone immediately took a step back at the same time, as if Cao Bin was a psychopath who might go crazy at any moment.

Cao Bin had just vomited and felt dizzy. When he looked up, he heard his mother say that he had epilepsy. Then he saw other people trying to avoid him as much as 800 meters away. He was so angry that he jumped up and stomped his feet. He wanted to yell, "I'm not sick!"

But he had been vomiting for too long and his brain was deprived of oxygen. As soon as he stood up, he fainted.

"It seems that Cao Bin is really seriously ill." Lin Minjun was also a little dumbfounded. She said this softly and suddenly burst into laughter.

After the lively show, everyone carried the fainted Cao Bin away. Business had to go on, so Lin Minjun had to clean up the ruined dishes first.

It was only four or five steps from the tricycle to the table where the guests sat down to eat. Lin Minjun laughed all the way, and she wanted to laugh when she thought of Cao Bin's crazy look just now.

However, as she was walking, she suddenly tripped over something. Lin Minjun thought it was a stone. When she looked down, she found it was a watch, a women's watch, very delicate and small, but because it had fallen to the ground and been stepped on several times, it looked dirty and gray.

It fell under a big tree on the street. It was probably dropped by a customer who was watching the excitement just now, but now the person has left, so she picked it up and planned to hand it over to the street office or the public security bureau tomorrow to find the owner.

…

When Cao Bin regained consciousness, he found himself lying at home.

He stared at a small spider weaving a web on the beam and actually felt relieved.

Fortunately, he fainted in time and did not have to face the embarrassing fact himself. Moreover, after waking up, the crazy nausea feeling was much better.

Cao Bin breathed a sigh of relief again.

At this time, footsteps were heard at the door. It was an old lady coming in.

A mother came in carefully with a bowl of egg soup. She was very happy to see her son awake. "Xiaobin, you finally woke up. Silly boy, why did you eat the fried potatoes for no reason? You even ate a dead mouse. You are so disgusting. Come, I made you some egg soup. Drink it while it's hot."

When he heard the words "dead rat", Cao Bin gasped reflexively, and the veins on his forehead jumped violently.

He endured it, said nothing, took the bowl of egg soup and gulped it down.

The old lady sat down beside the bed, and with her almost zero emotional intelligence, she spoke again, "Alas, how did you eat a dead mouse? I don't know if it will have any effect on your body. How about I go find your sister tomorrow to see if there is any medicine for this."

The vein on Cao Bin's forehead jumped again.

She was still thinking, "But it shouldn't be a big deal. Think about the first three years. When we were hungry, we ate not only dead mice, but also grasshoppers in the fields. There's no need to waste this money."

Cao Bin couldn't help it, he snorted at the old lady and yelled, "You damned rat, you're afraid I'm not hateful enough, right? How many times are you going to say it? Just shut up!"

"What's wrong with you? I'm doing this for you." The old lady got so scared that she stood up and said with a particularly aggrieved look.

But the son hadn't finished venting his anger yet, and the eldest uncle came in. As soon as he came in, he started to get angry at the eldest aunt, "Why do you two have one bad idea after another? I won't talk about the last time with Erwa, but this time, not only did you cheat others, but you also got a reputation of having epilepsy. You lost face, and you also implicated me. When I came back just now, everyone I met on the way said that Cao Bin had epilepsy. Even the leaders of the power supply bureau asked me about this. What do you want me to say?! I originally wanted Xiaobin to take over my job, what should I do now?"

The mother was so aggrieved that she almost cried. Why was I blamed for everything? Why was I such a nobody?

But she knew her son's work was the most important thing, so she just accepted it and asked, "So what do you say we should do now that things have turned out like this?"

"What to do, what to do? That's all you know." The eldest master was so angry that he walked around the room several times like a donkey pulling a millstone. His tone was particularly angry. "Now you hurry up and find someone to introduce a partner to the third kid. After they get married, find a place to live and live separately. After a long time, it will be better when everyone forgets about it."

"Now, who are you looking for?" an older woman asked hesitantly.

Well, this directly ignited the anger of the master, and he roared, "Don't you usually like to hang out in the alleys, Goudan's grandmother, Lao Xia, who can't? Go!"

The mother was still feeling aggrieved when she went out, and she felt even more aggrieved this time because she found that all the children in the alley were imitating the behavior of her son when he was sick.

"His hands and feet were twitching, his eyes were rolling, and his mouth was crooked." Goudan was still vividly acting out what he had seen.

The mother was almost mad to death!

He suppressed his anger and went to look for Goudan's grandmother, the old lady in the alley who loved to introduce people to potential partners. When he told her the situation, she was even more dumbfounded.

"Xiuhua, it's not that I don't want to help you, but your Xiaobin already has epilepsy and he still wants to get married? Which good girl is willing to marry him?" Goudan's grandmother even moved away from them on purpose, as if she was afraid of being infected.

The mother almost couldn't hold back and told the truth, saying that her son was not sick at all!

But when the words came to his lips, he held them back, "Don't mention the epilepsy. With my family's conditions, who wouldn't be willing to marry me?"

"After the girl got married, Xiaobin fell ill. People will say that I, the matchmaker, deliberately deceived them. No, no, this is too immoral. You should find someone else." Goudan's grandmother pushed and harassed her before finally driving the eldest lady away.

Only then did the mother realize how stupid her son's previous move was.

Now, the stall is still there, and her son won’t be able to find a wife in the future!

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became, to the point that the blisters in her mouth burst. When the mother got home, she looked around, picked up a broom and was ready to rush out.

"Silly woman, what are you going to do now?" A master followed behind and grabbed the person.

The mother was furious, "I'm going to find that girl Lin Minjun. Our Xiaobin was ruined by her. He will never find a wife in his lifetime. I'm going to settle the score with her!"

"You still want to go find her? Can your brain outsmart her?" the eldest uncle pointed at the eldest uncle's nose and asked.

"Then what do you say we should do? People won't even see you when they hear you have epilepsy!"

The eldest master was of course also very angry, but at this moment he sneered, "Why rush? In two days, this house will be ownerless, and there will be plenty of opportunities to ask her to get out!"

According to his original plan, all he had to do was make the landlord disappear, but now the eldest master has changed his mind. As long as Lin Minjun is here on this day, their family will not be at peace, so he will drive Lin Minjun away as well!

At this time, Lin Minjun didn't know that the eldest master and his family were plotting something. She had just packed up her stall and returned home.

There was a lot of commotion today because the mouse was not eaten from her hand. Everyone helped to explain it one by one, and this matter did not have much impact on her.

On the contrary, many people around heard that someone had eaten a dead rat today, so they came over to inquire out of curiosity, and the stall business was much better than usual.

The moon was high above the branches, and Lin Minjun had just arrived home on her tricycle.

She was so hungry that the first thing she did when she got home was to cook. But the moment she walked into the kitchen and turned on the light, Lin Minjun paused.

"Erwa!"

A figure huddled beside a pile of firewood, his hands folded across his chest, his eyes closed quietly.

Lin Minjun was still holding the thermos in her hand. When she first saw someone in the kitchen, she thought a thief had broken in and almost dropped the thermos by mistake. But after seeing clearly, she breathed a sigh of relief, "Erwa? Are you asleep? Wake up, why are you sleeping here?"

"What's wrong with you, Erwa?" Lin Minjun squatted down, stretched out her index finger and tapped Erwa's shoulder. Unexpectedly, the kid fell to the side and fainted.

Lin Minjun was so frightened that her heart almost stopped. She carefully reached her hand under Erwa's nostrils to feel his breath.

Fortunately, he was still breathing, but he must have fainted and couldn't be woken up no matter how we called him.

There was no time to eat. Lin Minjun dragged and carried the child onto the tricycle and took him to the hospital.

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