"Alright." Li Shi stopped the two of them and pulled them towards the Lu family's residence, preventing them from clashing with the Xiong family.
"Brother, is kindness wrong? What's wrong with saving lives?" Wu Qiu couldn't stand seeing Li Shi constantly regretting his actions and treating him like a sinner.
"Saving lives and helping the wounded is not wrong, and being kind is not wrong either, but it is my fault for not knowing my own limitations and not being able to take care of my own family, yet trying to help others."
Li Shi said, "You don't need to feel sorry for me. This is what I deserve. As long as they are alive and well, I will be content."
The two lackeys were fuming, feeling very indignant on behalf of their leader. But since Li Shi had already spoken, they couldn't go against his wishes. In the end, they only gave the Xiong family a resentful look and did nothing more.
Jiang Tangtang already knew about Xia's situation through the system, so she wasn't surprised at all by Li Shi's wife's situation. She calmly looked at the newly bought book, but in her heart, she was thinking about how to get a set of underwear from the system.
But for the villagers of Dawancun and the Lu family, this was big news.
After learning the whole story, many villagers exclaimed, "No wonder Doctor Li is usually so fierce and impatient with treating patients; he must have suffered a great loss from treating someone before!"
"I was wondering why a doctor always had such a long face, looking as fierce as a bandit. Turns out he's just a person with a hard life!"
"Fortunately, heaven has eyes and Doctor Li found his wife and children, but... his wife has become someone else's, and his children don't even recognize him. This is too tragic."
Some villagers felt that Xia was too shameless. Even if Li Shi was wrong in the past, she didn't have a husband who was still alive, so why was she looking for other men outside? Besides, Li Shi was doing a good deed. Li Shi should have killed the adulterous couple with two stabs and grabbed the child to teach him a good lesson.
What kind of unfilial and disloyal child is this? They don't even recognize their own father. Even if they've committed a terrible mistake, he's still their biological father.
Some people think Li Shi deserved it, because he was too kind-hearted. How could he possibly care for all the poor people on the road of famine?
The villagers each held their own opinions, and no one was willing to concede to anyone else. Some even said too much about Li Shi's matter, and they almost got into an argument.
Wang Qiuju did not participate in the villagers' fight. Instead, she pondered how to curry favor with Li Shi and get him to teach her some medicinal knowledge.
But someone acted faster than her.
That evening, when the group stopped to rest in an open space, they saw Li Shi standing alone under a big tree, looking towards his ex-wife who had abandoned him. Gao Shumei tugged at her clothes and walked over to Li Shi.
Gao Shumei lowered her voice and comforted him, "Dr. Li, don't be sad. You are truly a first-rate person in this world. It's her loss that the girl doesn't understand your kindness."
Li Shi stared straight ahead without moving, not even blinking, and completely ignored Gao Shumei.
But Gao Shumei wasn't discouraged, thinking he had taken her words to heart, and continued, "Actually, if you pay a little attention to the people around you, you'll find that not all women in this world are as heartless and ruthless as that girl. There are still many people worth cherishing. My children are all filial and well-behaved, much better than your two ungrateful brats—"
"Get out!" Before she could finish speaking, she was interrupted by Li Shi's cold, menacing voice.
Although Gao Shumei knew that Li Shi usually had a cold face and ignored everyone except for Lu Laosan and his wife and his two little followers, he seemed like a difficult person to get along with.
But to everyone's surprise, he had such a violent temper.
Gao Shumei was startled, but she often caused trouble in the village and no one really did anything to her, which made her bolder and bolder.
So, despite her fear, she continued to say what she wanted to say, trembling, "Why are you being so fierce when I'm trying to give you some advice? I know you don't like hearing this, but that girl is with another man, and you're being cheated on. Are you going to stay with her for the rest of your life?"
Li Shi grabbed her by the neck. "Who gave you permission to speak ill of my wife? Who gave you the audacity to call my son an ingrate?"
Gao Shumei never expected that just one wrong word would lead Li Shi to kill her.
Facing Li Shi's twisted and fierce face, she felt her throat tighten and her breathing become increasingly difficult; she was utterly terrified.
"Dr. Li... I know... I was wrong, I won't talk nonsense again, please let me go..."
Li Shi smelled a strong odor of urine. With a look of disgust, he threw Gao Shumei on the ground like trash, then clapped his hands, turned his head away as if nothing had happened, and looked back at the Xiong family.
Gao Shumei clutched her neck and scrambled away from the scene. Wang Qiuju, who had originally intended to curry favor with Li Shi, changed her mind after seeing Gao Shumei's fate.
Compared to Li Shi's ruthlessness, Jiang Tangtang's spoiled, willful, and unreasonable nature actually seems somewhat endearing.
She patted her chest and walked towards the direction where the Lu family had rested.
Right now, Zhou Qiongniang is tailoring clothes for Jiang Tangtang.
Lu Shiyan prepared tools and planned to lead his men to find a water source.
Jiang Tangtang has been reading these past two days, gaining a lot of knowledge she never knew before. Coupled with the shock she received yesterday, she's determined to rely on herself to return to her extravagant lifestyle.
She really wanted to combine the knowledge from the book with her experience of going up the mountain to see for herself.
Therefore, when she saw that Lu Shiyan was going to find water, she insisted that she go too.
Lu Shiyan thought that every time he took Jiang Tangtang along, there were always unexpected gains, so he squatted down and gestured for her to climb onto his back.
When Wang Qiuju arrived, she ran into Lu Shiyan and Jiang Tangtang walking out.
She inwardly scorned Jiang Tangtang, thinking she was being disrespectful. She was a grown woman, yet she still needed men to carry her all the time; didn't she know shame?
On the one hand, she couldn't help but envy Lu Laosan; he really had a good temper. If she dared to make a scene like Jiang Shi, her husband would have slapped her across the face long ago.
No matter how much she despised Jiang Tangtang in her heart, she smiled as brightly as a chrysanthemum on her face, "Jiang sister, where are you all headed?"
Jiang Tangtang raised an eyebrow at Wang Qiuju, then calmly looked away, and hugged Lu Shiyan's strong neck tightly, saying, "Husband, let's go!"
Jiang Tangtang is spoiled and willful, dislikes the Fang family's pretentious attitude, and can't be bothered with them, while Lu Shiyan is naturally aloof and cold.
If Jiang Tangtang wanted to talk to Wang Qiuju, he would stop and wait for her to finish.
But since Jiang Tangtang was unwilling to talk to him, he didn't want to waste his time either. He carried Jiang Tangtang and vanished from everyone's sight in the blink of an eye.
Wang Qiuju was dumbfounded. She had always known that Jiang Tangtang was difficult to deal with, but she hadn't expected her to be this hard to get along with.
And Lu Shiyan, just like his wife, treated her like she didn't exist.
Wang Qiuju suppressed her anger, chuckled dryly twice, and said to Luo Taohua beside her, "The young couple has such a good relationship. Why are you in such a hurry? What are you going to do?"
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