"No matter what, she's now our Shen family's daughter-in-law. You can dislike her if you don't, but you can't curse her to die!"
Who cursed?
Zhu Xiuqin straightened her back abruptly, her eyes blazing with anger, and her neck stiffened.
"She's the one who deserves to be bitten by the snake! My son Zhiyu was dragged down by this jinx!"
Her finger almost poked Su Qingzhi's nose.
Su Qingzhi was waiting for Zhu Xiuqin to say those words!
It turns out that she had already planted a trap in her mind, just waiting for the other party to fall into it.
Sure enough, she slowly peeked out from behind Shen Cunpu.
Her big, watery eyes were wide open, and her face showed obvious timidity.
She looked at Zhu Xiuqin cautiously and said in a weak voice, "Mom, what you're saying... sounds like you knew in advance that someone would be bitten by a snake tonight?"
Then, she suddenly looked up and her tone changed.
"Could it be that you caught that snake? Or did you set a trap for it?"
Everyone gasped and turned to look at Zhu Xiuqin, their eyes filled with suspicion.
"you!"
Zhu Xiuqin's cheek muscles twitched.
He choked for a moment and couldn't utter a complete sentence for a long time.
Her face was both pale and bluish.
He finally shouted it out after a long while.
"What nonsense are you talking about? How could I do such a thing! What benefit would I gain from harming my own son!"
I also think you probably wouldn't.
Unexpectedly, Su Qingzhi nodded instead.
She then looked up at the dilapidated lintel hanging above the doorway.
"But people tend to have wishful thinking, thinking that no one will know if they do something wrong. But they forget that there are gods watching over them! If they do too many bad things, they will be punished sooner or later."
Zhu Xiuqin's back trembled slightly as she listened, and a hint of panic flashed in her eyes.
"Mom, the most important thing right now is to save lives."
Su Qingzhi did not press the matter further.
Instead, they promptly steered the conversation back to the main topic.
"Stop arguing. I might have a way to save my second brother!"
"What did you say?!"
Zhu Xiuqin's eyes widened suddenly, and she almost stood up.
It was as if I had been jolted awake.
The whole room fell silent.
Everyone stared at her with wide eyes.
Zhu Xiuqin quickly asked, "Do you really have a way? Don't try to fool me, I want to know the truth right now!"
"you……"
Although Shen Cunpu felt sorry for his younger brother, he still had doubts about Su Qingzhi.
But when he thought of the glass of water she brought him a few days ago, and how much better he felt after drinking it, he couldn't help but waver.
The taste was unlike the water quality of water drawn from one's own well.
Could it be...
While he hesitated, everyone else's eyes were also focused on Su Qingzhi.
Under everyone's watchful eyes, Su Qingzhi slowly raised her hand and gently pulled her sleeve to the side.
Then he reached into his clothes and rummaged around for a while.
Finally, a soft hand emerged from it, tightly clutching a small, dark blue handkerchief.
She carefully spread it out and laid it flat on the table.
The crowd immediately gathered around, holding their breath to watch.
When unfolded, it reveals a small box with extremely exquisite craftsmanship.
The lid of the box is engraved with intricate and elegant patterns.
The box was slowly opened, revealing a layer of bright red velvet fabric inside.
In the very center of the velvet, a round, dark pill was placed quietly.
It looks about the size of a longan seed.
Even more remarkably, the pill emitted a faint, elusive fragrance.
These villagers had never seen anything like it before.
Just one glance was enough to inspire a sense of awe, and they all began to believe in this so-called miracle cure to a great extent.
Su Qingzhi gently picked up the black pill from the box and carefully held it in her palm.
"This is what my father learned from France back then—"
She paused for a moment.
“The elixir brought back from France,” she continued, “is specifically for saving lives in critical situations, and it can cure even the most potent poisons… Most importantly, this is the last one…”
Before she could finish speaking, her eyes welled up with tears.
Zhu Xiuqin, who was standing to the side, sharpened her gaze upon hearing this.
"Give it to me now!"
She spoke urgently, and almost without thinking, stepped forward, trying to snatch the life-saving pill.
"Let me feed it to Zhiyu! As long as he's alright!"
But just as her hand was about to touch the pill...
Su Qingzhi quickly closed the box and hugged it to her chest.
At the same time, he took a small step back, cleverly avoiding Zhu Xiuqin's hand.
Then, she lowered her head, her eyes already brimming with tears.
"Mom, you know how important this medicine is. It was specially left for me by my father to protect myself and save my life. Now there's only one left, and it's the last one... I really can't bear to part with it."
Upon hearing this, Zhu Xiuqin's outstretched hand froze in mid-air, and her expression changed from enthusiastic to indifferent.
After a moment of silence, she finally spoke and asked.
"Alright, tell me, what do you want me to do to get this medicine?"
Su Qingzhi did not answer immediately. She looked down at the small box she was clutching tightly in her arms, her lips slightly pursed, as if she hesitated.
But he was still weighing whether or not to speak up.
After a while, the atmosphere became somewhat tense.
She slowly raised her head and whispered a few words.
"Mom, I know three hundred yuan is a bit expensive... but this medicine is really precious. I just want to ask you to give me three hundred yuan as compensation, really, that's all."
"three hundred?"
Zhu Xiuqin's eyes widened.
"Three hundred? Are you trying to rob me?"
She was so angry that she laughed and suddenly stood up from her seat.
"Three hundred? Why don't you just set fire to the place and rob it? You really have the heart to ask for three hundred! Are you trying to drive me to the brink of despair?!"
She kept calculating the importance of this expense in her mind.
Three hundred yuan, that's a lot of money!
That was all the savings her family had worked hard for over several years, saving every penny!
In those days, we were very frugal with every meal, saving even a couple of cents on oil and salt.
They wouldn't even buy a new outfit if their clothes got old.
All the hard-earned money was prepared for Shen Zhiyu to get married!
That was her retirement savings!
How dare Su Qingzhi ask for so much!
She actually blurted out three hundred silver dollars.
"Oh, it seems my second brother's life isn't even worth three hundred..."
Su Qingzhi tilted her head, shook her head and clicked her tongue, a slight upturn at the corner of her mouth.
She slowly turned her gaze to Shen Zhiyu, who was lying on the board outside the door, barely alive.
"If we drag this out any longer, my second brother will probably be dead by now."
After she finished speaking, she even had the mind to sigh softly.
Seeing her son's life hanging by a thread, his fate on the line.
Zhu Xiuqin suddenly felt a sharp pain in her heart, and her legs went weak.
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