"Village chief, village chief, please save my brother. He has fainted and I can't wake him up no matter how hard I try." The village chief had just calmed down the chaos when Tian An ran in from outside holding his brother.
An old lady nearby hurriedly asked her son to bring over a table and then went outside to get a quilt that she had seen drying under the eaves when she entered the house. She then spread the quilt over the table and asked Tian An to put his brother on it. Tian An thanked them and said goodbye.
"Someone go and invite Doctor Zhao from Xiaba Village," the village chief ordered hurriedly.
Shitou from the same village said, "Village chief, I'm fast, I'll go," and ran out.
When Qian saw Tian An, she screamed as if she had seen a ghost: "Ah...ah...you, aren't you dead? Are you a human or a ghost?"
Wang Qiaozhen, who was at odds with the Qian family, said sarcastically, "Oh, now you're scared. I'll let you do all the bad things you want on a daily basis."
Qian ignored Wang's sarcasm and just stared at Tian An.
Tian An held his brother's hand tightly and said, "My uncle threw me on the hill behind him and left. I thought I was dead at that time.
But then Big Ox, a man from the village, came up the mountain to hunt and found me. Seeing that I was still breathing but extremely hungry, he gave me some of his dry food. I felt better after eating it, and then he sent me down the mountain and left.
Qian suddenly thought of something and struggled desperately to pounce on Tian An. Fortunately, the aunt next to her was quick to pull her back and prevented her from succeeding.
Even though he was being dragged along, he kept talking: "Alright! You damned girl, did you go and find the village chief? You black-hearted thing, you want to kill our whole family, don't you? I'll skin you alive."
Tian An was "fearfully" pulling his aunt beside him, constantly trying to get into her arms, while muttering: "Aunt, don't hit me, don't hit my brother, don't hit us..."
The village chief slammed the table and said, "Qian, who are you trying to rip off? Is this how you treat Mingwu's child? What did you promise when you tricked Mingwu into joining the army?"
"You are treating Tian An and his brother like this now. Have you lost your conscience? The child was still breathing, and you abandoned her. If Da Niu hadn't found her and saved her in time, you would have committed murder."
The aunt who was protecting Tian An also spoke up: "Humph! They are like this in front of everyone, and who knows what they are like behind their backs. This family is not human."
Tian An looked at Qian and rubbed his eyes with his hands, sobbing, "I just looked for my brother in the room for a long time but couldn't find him. I thought he was abandoned by my uncle like me. There are wolves in the back mountain, it's so scary. Fortunately, I saw my brother in the woodshed later, but he didn't wake up no matter how I called him. Village chief, my brother will never wake up. Woo... Woo..."
Tian An squatted on the ground with his hands folded and cried sadly, his back shaking, just like an abandoned kitten.
The whole room was filled with her sobbing. The older people could not bear this kind of scene and covered their faces with tears. Everyone in the room was denouncing the Tian family.
"This Tian family is really heartless"
"Black-hearted and black-lung things"
"Sooner or later, there will be retribution"
"People like this are a disgrace to our Shangba Village."
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"Village, village chief, why hasn't Uncle Shitou come back yet? I'm worried about my brother," Tian An cried for a while and raised her head to ask the village chief. Her eyes were red and her face was stained with tears. She looked so pitiful.
"Here I am, here I am, everyone make way." As he was asking, Shitou pulled Doctor Zhao into the house.
Tian An quickly ran over and pulled Doctor Zhao to the table. "Grandpa Doctor, please save my brother. He won't respond no matter how I call him."
The doctor felt the child's pulse, then flipped his eyelids and looked at his eyes. He said, "He's fainted from hunger. He can't be woken up. How can you take care of him? If a child this old is starving like this, it will have adverse effects on his health in the future."
Tian An anxiously pulled the doctor's sleeve and said, "It's my fault. I didn't take good care of my brother. Doctor, please save my brother. I can't live without him."
The doctor wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "Fortunately, it was discovered in time this time, so nothing serious happened. He'll wake up after eating something and resting. Just be careful about recuperating from now on. It's obvious that he hasn't eaten enough in a long time. His body is much smaller than other children his age, and he's too weak."
"Thank you, doctor. I will take good care of my brother in the future," Tian An replied immediately.
The doctor looked at Tian An and said: You are not in good condition either. You are as thin as a bamboo pole.
He looked at everyone present and said, "What are you all standing there for? Go prepare some liquid food for the child! Are you really going to wait for the child to starve to death?"
Qian snorted coldly and said, "It would be better if you starve to death, so as not to waste my family's food."
Mrs. Du glanced at Mrs. Qian and thought to herself: What an idiot! You will suffer in the end.
Then he stood up and said, "I'll go to the kitchen to get the child a bowl of porridge."
Then he walked towards the kitchen, and did not forget to take Tian Laosan away with him.
In the kitchen, Mrs. Du heated up the coarse noodle porridge for dinner and said, "Master, judging by the situation today, I think something big is going to happen."
Tian Laosan looked outside and nodded.
Mrs. Du poured the hot coarse noodle paste into a chipped ceramic bowl and said, "We'll see what happens later..."
Tian An saw Mrs. Du coming out with a bowl and went to take it. "Thank you, Third Aunt. I can feed my brother. Don't bother me anymore."
Mrs. Du smiled and gave the porridge to Tian An without saying much.
Tian An carefully fed his brother half a bowl of coarse flour porridge, then put the bowl down and rubbed his stomach.
Doctor Zhao, who was sitting on a small stool nearby, stroked his beard and nodded.
Since the Qian and Du families had just revealed everything in their quarrel, the village chief didn't need to ask any more questions and looked directly at Tian An.
"Girl, now that everything is clear and your brother has been found, what are your plans for the future?"
Tian An looked at everyone present, walked to the center, bent down 90 degrees, and bowed to everyone.
"Thank you so much to all the uncles, grandparents, aunts and grandma today. Originally, when my parents were away, I should have taken care of my grandma on their behalf, and I have always done so in the past. All the uncles, grandparents and grandma have been watching me.
But after that, I really didn’t dare to stay in this house anymore. I was afraid that my uncle and aunt would beat me to death after everyone left, and I was also afraid that my brother and I would starve to death.
It doesn't matter if I die, but my brother is still so young. When mother was still alive, she said that my brother was smart and would definitely pass the imperial examination and bring honor to our Shangba Village. I can't let our Shangba Village lose a juren."
The village chief looked at Tian An, his lips twitched and he said nothing.
"So, I want to separate from my uncle and his family, and we will all live our own lives from now on without interfering with each other. Please agree to my request, village chief." I bowed to the village chief at another ninety degree angle.
"I don't agree"
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