If Chen Chunhua remembered correctly, Lin Erniu really died of drowning in his previous life.
She didn't know the whole process, she only knew that when her family was holding a funeral for her eldest daughter, Captain Lin's family was also holding a funeral. At that time, Shen Chunhua was in no mood to care about other people's affairs. But later, when she recovered and went out again, she found that Ma Fengjuan had gone crazy.
There were little boys all over the village being caught. Whenever they were caught, they would be taken home to be fed, saying that they were naughty and always playing outside.
Lin Shugan was a key target because he was about the same age as Lin Erniu. The children in the village avoided Ma Fengjuan for fear of being arrested.
As time went on, the Lin family felt that it was both embarrassing and harmful, so they found a small room to lock her up in and delivered meals to her three times a day.
Ma Fengjuan's life span was not even as long as Lin Guoqing's mother's. She seemed to have died before she was fifty.
Lin Fuqiang, too, was devastated after the funeral. He had been slated to succeed the village chief after the production brigade was disbanded. He was already fifty, and suddenly his son was gone. He probably wouldn't have any more sons, leaving behind only two daughters. He felt his family line had been cut short, and he had no desire to run in the election.
Just as Chen Chunhua and Wang Jingui said, God is watching what you do.
Ma Fengjuan is usually mean to others and always threatens to deduct wages. Today, apart from Chen Chunhua who took the lead in running to rescue people, no one dared to come out of the shed closest to the river.
If the men on the other side of the field came to rescue him, with the temperature of the river water in March, Lin Erniu would be frozen to death if not drowned.
Chen Chunhua suddenly remembered this incident and picked up the wooden stick. Otherwise, with only her and Wang Jingui being unable to swim, the child would still not be able to survive.
Lin Fuqiang took off his cotton-padded jacket and wrapped it around his son. He thanked Chen Chunhua and Wang Jingui in a low voice and said, "I'll come to thank you in person after I've settled the child."
Then he went home with the child without even looking at Ma Fengjuan.
Ma Fengjuan wiped her tears and stumbled back after Lin Fuqiang. Here, everyone also dragged themselves back to work at the command of their respective team leaders.
Lin Guoqing followed Chen Chunhua back to the tree where they had put the children. Lin Shumei had already climbed out of the backpack, but because her brother Lin Shuchao was holding her tightly and sitting on the ground, she couldn't run away to play.
"Why did you leave the children here? A four-year-old taking care of a two-year-old. What if they run away?" Lin Guoqing couldn't help but complain when he saw the look on the brother and sister's faces. Of course, he received a scolding from Chen Chunhua.
"How dare you criticize me? Didn't the third brother follow you? Why did he run to the river?"
Their family was a landlubber, from Liang Shengdi and Lin Guoqing to Lin Shuchao and Lin Shumei, none of them could swim. Self-aware, Chen Chunhua had always forbidden her children from going near water, not even a full water tank.
Although the children are naughty, they are still very obedient. If Lin Shuchao didn't follow the adults to run over from the river today, then the adults who were responsible for taking care of him will definitely not be held accountable.
Normally, Lin Guoqing kept a close eye on the children, taking them straight to the fields. But today, they were plowing the soil, so he made Lin Shuchao sit under the shed, fearing he'd get hit by the hoe. Unexpectedly, the other children started running around together.
Lin Guoqing looked embarrassed, knowing that he was in the wrong, and quickly dug his son up from the ground.
"Come on, come on, you should go to the fields with me."
Chen Chunhua sent the father and son away in a bad mood, and carried her little daughter back to the seedling shed, not forgetting to say a few words to Xiao Shumei.
"Xiaomei, you must never go to the river to play in the future, okay? Look at your brother Niu Niu..."
Lin Shumei lay beside the backpack, blinking her big eyes, not knowing how much she heard.
At noon in the cafeteria, everyone was still discussing what happened that morning. Master Jia, who was in charge of serving the food, even put a lot more rice and vegetables into Chen Chunhua's lunch box. It was not just the tip of the iceberg, it was already overflowing.
"Come, we have to give our heroine some good nourishment!" He also stuffed a sweet potato into Lin Shumei's backpack.
"Thank you, Grandpa." Lin Shumei said in a baby voice, which made Lao Jia laugh even more happily.
Wang Jingui was standing behind Shen Chunhua. Upon hearing this, he raised his eyebrows and said, "Old Jia, I also contributed!"
"Yes, yes, yes! How could I forget you!" Old Jia stretched out his long spoon and filled Wang Jingui's lunch box with it.
"Hey, National Day, I wonder how Captain Lin will thank your family. If it weren't for your wife, I guess his son, Erniu, would definitely..."
Xu Youqing, who was in the same team and lived next door to Lin Guoqing's house, held an aluminum lunch box in one hand and made a gesture of ascension with the other hand. He was spat on by Shen Chunhua, who had just finished her meal and sat down.
Lin Shumei was held in her lap and sat, nibbling on sweet potatoes. Chen Chunhua would occasionally feed her some vegetables during her free time.
"Youqing, you'd better not do this kind of thing." She meant that Xu Youqing should stop cursing others for no reason, after all, he was just a child.
Xu Youqing chuckled, "Sister-in-law, it's you. Look at your shed. Whoever heard the noise dared to go out because they were afraid that the female devil would deduct their work points! My wife didn't go out, right, wife?"
Youqing's wife nodded and said with disdain, "Ma Fengjuan was in our shed at the time. She heard the child crying and said to let them do whatever they wanted. As long as no one was killed, it's none of our business. Haha, if something really happened to Erniu, it would really be his mother's fault."
As she said this, she looked at Chen Chunhua and told her that Ma Fengjuan should have saved the child herself. Although Chen Chunhua saved Erniu, given Ma Fengjuan's personality, she probably wouldn't remember Shen Chunhua's kindness.
But Chen Chunhua doesn't think so.
"I didn't expect her to do me any favors. When it comes to matters of life and death, of course I'll help as much as I can. Erniu is only a few years old. Adult matters have nothing to do with children."
Chen Chunhua has always believed in reincarnation and karma. Maybe it's because of her rebirth, but sometimes she even recalls whether she did some good deeds in her previous life and was remembered by the Bodhisattva, which gave her the opportunity to come back and save her eldest daughter.
In other words, since you have given yourself this opportunity, it would be a good thing to make more good connections without causing any serious harm to yourself.
"To put it bluntly, you are kind-hearted." Youqing's wife curled her lips. Anyway, she was not that kind-hearted. Ma Fengjuan was thinking about deducting her work points every other day. As long as her child did not get into trouble in front of her, she would definitely not bother to care.
Lin Guoqing was also feeding his son, and he felt honored to hear others praising his wife.
"How can you save someone without visiting their family? Besides, Captain Lin is not an unreasonable person."
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