Chapter 65 You decide your own fate, no one can save you
Shi Bai frowned, his eyes fixed on the man. "When your parents borrowed money from the Pang family, they already decided to marry you to Pang Er. This is your fate, and no one can save you!"
Chuan Miao cried and laughed at the same time: "Shi Bai, Doctor Shi, you are a doctor, carrying a medicine box and practicing medicine every day to save the world and heal the wounded. Do you doctors still have the concept of destiny in your eyes?"
There was no color on Shi Bai's tense face, and his clenched hands loosened and then clenched again.
“I only save sick people.”
"I am a sick person, but my illness is mental. Haven't I shown it to you clearly enough? You know that I admire you and like you, but you dare not look at me, dare not accept me, and even dare not say a fair word for me when I need you!" Chuan Miao's suppressed grief was difficult to control. He became more and more excited as he spoke, and almost lost his voice in the end.
"You are the master of your own life. No one can save you."
"Doctor Shi, you are just a doctor, a heartless doctor!"
After saying this, Chuan Miao ran away crying.
Shi Bai stood there for a long time before he started walking home.
When he got home, he walked into the house as if nothing had happened and analyzed some lost prescriptions in ancient books with Li Ying.
That night, a rapid knock on the door woke everyone up.
Everyone got up and went out to see what was happening.
In the yard, in addition to Chuan Miao's father, there was also a group of villagers holding torches, led by Pang Er's father Pang Da.
"Doctor Shi, do you know where Chuan Miao went?"
Chuan Miao's father asked anxiously.
Shi Bai's face was calm: "I don't know."
"Doctor Shi, you are a doctor respected by everyone in our village. Chuan Miao stopped you during the day. What did you say to her?" Pang Da asked with a dark face.
He suspected that Shi Bai had said something to Chuan Miao, which gave Chuan Miao the courage to run away.
"I didn't say anything." Shi Bai didn't think he did anything wrong. He just told Chuan Miao that she was the master of her own life and no one could save her.
"You must have said something, otherwise she would never dare to run away!" Pang Da had long disliked Shi Bai and pointed at Shi Bai's nose: "I tell you, if my daughter-in-law is gone and my son doesn't make it, you will be buried with our family!"
After saying this and waving his hand, everyone followed Pang Da to find someone.
Chuan Miao's father was still begging: "Doctor Shi, please, just tell me where Chuan Miao went!"
Shi Bai glanced at Chuan Miao's father and said, "I said I don't know, and that's it."
After saying that, he turned back to his room and closed the door.
Chuan Miao's father stomped his feet and left.
Aunt Hong sighed and Li Ying followed her back to the room.
"I don't know when Shi Bai became so cold-hearted."
"Aunt Hong, Second Senior Brother should have his own ideas."
Aunt Hong sat down, stroked Shi Bai's father's clothes on the table, and tears welled up in the corners of her eyes.
"Things in this world are always like this, never perfect. I married into the Shi family at the age of fourteen and became a child bride. Shi Bai's father was a well-educated man who told me that men could only marry one wife. I was his only wife."
"Two days after we got married, he joined the army. A month later, I found out I was pregnant. Every day I longed for him to come back to see me and the baby. But in the end..."
Aunt Hong choked up and said, "In the end, what came back was his cold list of casualties. I promised him that I would raise Shi Bai and see him get married and have children. I would have completed my mission and done my duty to Shi Bai's father. But Shi Bai... he's over 30 years old and still refuses to get married..."
Li Ying listened to Aunt Hong reciting the past over and over again. What she mentioned most was Shi Bai getting married and having children, which was her ultimate wish.
"Auntie Hong."
Aunt Hong held Li Ying's hand and said, "Child, your second brother listens to you the most. Please help me persuade him to get married and have children as soon as possible. I'm afraid that one day when I'm gone, I won't be able to close my eyes."
Li Ying held Aunt Hong's hand. Her hand was ice-cold and lifeless.
Li Ying subconsciously reached out and felt Aunt Hong's pulse, and immediately took a breath.
"Auntie Hong, you..."
"I'm fine, I'm fine." Aunt Hong said as she pulled her hand back, walked to the bed with Shi Baidie's clothes in her arms, and lay down holding the clothes.
Li Ying looked at Aunt Hong lying on the bed, feeling an indescribable pain in her heart. For so many years, she had been living like a walking corpse, relying on the clothes left by her second senior brother's father.
Such days may not be a big deal to outsiders, but to her, they are torture, and she suffers every minute and every second of her life.
Early in the morning, people from the Pang family came running to call Shi Bai to go to the Pang family to treat Pang Er.
"Second Brother, I'll go with you." Li Ying was worried. Looking at the vicious faces of the people from the Pang family, she knew they had bad intentions.
"It's okay, we are all from the same village, you don't have to worry about me." Shi Bai hung up the medicine box and left with the people from the Pang family.
Li Ying always had an ominous feeling in her heart.
"Zhou Qi, let's go to the Pang family!"
"good!"
Li Ying took Zhou Qi out and asked about the location of the Pang family.
"Go upstairs, that's the house where the funeral is being held."
Hold a funeral?
"Whose funeral is it for?"
"Pangda's son died of suffocation this morning. Earlier, they had agreed to hold a wedding today, with Chuan Miao as the bride's bride, but Chuan Miao ran away. When Pang Er found out, he was so angry he died. Now, Chuan Miao has been recaptured. I think Pangda is determined to have Chuan Miao marry his son, even if it's a ghost marriage."
After listening to the kind villagers, Li Ying suddenly realized something and said to Zhou Qi, "Let's go over there quickly, Second Brother is in danger!"
Li Ying and Zhou Qi walked quickly towards Pang's house. Sure enough, when they arrived, Pang Da was having Shi Bai tied up.
There were several trees in the Pang family's yard, and on one of the trees was tied the retrieved seedling. Her hair was disheveled, her clothes were in disarray, her mouth was tied with cloth, and she could only make whimpering sounds, with tears falling from the corners of her eyes, wetting them.
Shi Bai was tied to another tree.
"Pang Da, you are taking human life lightly!"
Pang Da gnashed his teeth and said, "Shi Bai, you are a doctor. You said you could cure my son, but he died. You are a quack who deceives the world and steals his reputation! We cannot have a quack in our village!"
"Right! We can't keep quacks!"
"Burn him!"
"Let him die!"
The crowd was excited. Shi Bai struggled in vain and stopped struggling. He knew that he could not escape the disaster today, and as the descendant of a hero, he would never say no.
"My fellow villagers, Shi Bai is not only unfit to be a doctor, he also instigated Chuan Miao to escape. He must have had an affair with Chuan Miao! Today I will enforce justice on the behalf of Heaven and burn this pair of dogs to death to accompany my son's burial!" Pang Da said viciously.
Shi Bai opened his eyes and stared at Pang Da. "You said I'm not good at medicine and couldn't save your son. I agree. But you said I had an affair with Chuan Miao. That's slander! Pang Da, you will be punished for slandering the orphans of martyrs!"
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