Chapter 30 A mental illness requires a mental cure
"Juan Niang, that old woman Zhang is deliberately trying to provoke you, don't fall for her tricks." Li Xiujuan coughed up blood, and Old Lady Li wiped away tears with heartache.
"Mother, I know." Li Xiujuan's face was pale, her smile was more like a cry, and hot tears rolled down her cheeks. She finally couldn't hold back and buried her head in Lin Fusheng's arms and cried bitterly.
Grandma Lin felt a pang of sadness as she watched, her eyes stinging with tears as she thought of her four grandchildren.
“Aunt, Grandma is right. That old woman said those heartless things just to get revenge on you for protecting your own. In my opinion, no news is good news. Brother Zheng and Brother Dan have always been lucky. They may have already made great contributions and are looking for you. There are also Sister Zhao Zhao and Yang Yang. She is a good archer. She was able to intimidate the entire Lin Family Village with one arrow back then. Now she has also escaped. You have raised your daughter since she was a child. Aunt, don’t you have any confidence in her?”
"Besides, Aunt, don't you think that old woman Zhang is a bit strange? She suddenly went crazy after that chubby boy said something."
“I was close enough to hear it clearly. The fat guy said, ‘They bullied my grandma, so we’ll skin them alive and eat their flesh.’”
"Yunhai, are you sure you said that?" Li Minghui asked seriously, making Li Yunhai stammer, "I should be sure... I guess."
His words were filled with uncertainty, which made Li Minghui want to punch him.
“Brother, to be honest, I also feel that something is not right.” Everyone looked at Li Minghuang, who scratched his head embarrassedly. “Logically speaking, my father-in-law’s whole family fled famine. There are about twenty people in the family. My eldest brother-in-law has three daughters and two sons, my second brother-in-law has four daughters and one son, my youngest brother-in-law has two daughters, and there is another one in the belly, who is two months younger than Zhaozhao.”
"This isn't right. I didn't see so many girls among the Zhang family members just now." Thinking of Zhang Bufan's indifferent look when he talked about skinning and eating meat, and the fact that the Zhang family members, who were not thin during the famine but still had meat buns to eat, a terrible conjecture surfaced, and Li Yunhai gasped.
If the conjecture is incorrect, how could a five-year-old child utter such terrible words? What else could it be besides being influenced by what they see and hear?
Li Yunhai thought of this, and so did Old Lady Li and Old Lady Lin. Their stomachs churned, and their faces turned pale.
Zhang Dandan, who had just reached the threshold, covered her mouth and knelt on the ground, dry heaving. She didn't vomit anything, but instead choked and coughed. After holding it in for a long time, she finally burst into tears.
That night, Zhang Dandan developed a high fever. Li Minghuang and Li Junsheng were at their wits' end, as anxious as ants on a hot pan. It was Li Xiujuan who took out the cold medicine that Lin Zhaozhao had given her earlier and forced it into Zhang Dandan's mouth.
The high fever lasted until midnight. When Zhang Dandan regained her senses, she had cried until her tears were almost dry. Li Xiujuan felt sorry for her and used a cloth to wipe her eyes. "The matter is not settled yet. Don't get stuck in a dead end, or you won't be able to get out later."
"Then how do you explain their stored grain? Before we fled the famine, my mother told me that the crops in the fields had been destroyed by locusts, and there was no grain left. Even the piglets I sent back were stolen. After nearly two months of fleeing the famine, our family was still relatively well-off. We were able to fill our stomachs only because of Xiao Guai. Even so, we only have a few dry cakes left now."
"How could I not know what kind of people my parents and three older brothers are? We are doing well because we are self-reliant, but what about them? How can I not have doubts?"
"Is it possible that your parents lied to you from the very beginning, and that their lives were never as bad as you imagine?" This question was undoubtedly a soul-crushing blow to Zhang Dandan. If she was an outsider from the very beginning, then everything would make sense.
Zhang Dandan lay on the bed like a puppet on strings. Li Xiujuan coughed lightly and came out of the room. A mental illness requires a mental cure. If she can understand, Zhang Dandan's future will be bright; if she can't, she'll be trapped in her own self-imposed prison.
"Spare me, sir, spare me!"
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