Chapter 203: Die Together 1 I’m sorry, kid, Daddy will...
Li Xiaobei has dug her own grave. Her father has been dead for more than a year, and until now, only she and her mother knew about it.
The two sisters were completely kept in the dark, but when they heard Zhao Pingyang say that he wanted to visit his sick father, they both agreed.
She could only continue to lie, "Dad is very ill, and the doctor won't let so many family members go. Besides, my sister is pregnant, and it wouldn't be good if she were to catch the disease at the hospital. Let's eat on our own, don't wait any longer."
Li Xiaohua thought about it and it made sense. She had just gotten pregnant not long ago, so she should not joke with her body. So she did not insist.
Zhao Pingyang asked, "Can't we go separately? Which hospital is so inhumane? They won't allow children to visit their elders? If not, let's file a complaint."
"That's right, go and file a complaint." The second child missed his father. He hadn't seen him for more than a year and didn't know how serious his illness was.
Li Xiaobei's face darkened. "Complain to the hospital? Are you afraid the doctor won't retaliate against our dad? Second sister, can you use your brain?"
The second child was depressed. It seemed... it seemed like she hadn't thought it through. She could only sigh, "Okay, okay, I won't go. Don't get angry. Come on, let's eat first."
Zhao Pingyang saw that the third brother was not easy to fool, so he had to keep calm and think of other ways.
When taking a nap after dinner, Zhao Pingyang went out on the pretext of taking out the trash.
There are only two large hospitals in Yicheng, one is Yicheng People's Hospital and the other is a military hospital. The military hospital is located in the eastern suburbs, closer to where the troops are stationed.
As for other areas, they are all small-scale health clinics.
It is impossible for someone of Zhang Tianping's status to live in a few small clinics, so Zhao Pingyang had a clear goal and went to the People's Hospital and the Military Hospital to inquire.
The People's Hospital is in the city center, not very far away, and it only takes about an hour to go there and back. However, the Military Hospital is in the eastern suburbs, and it takes at least two hours to go there and back. Moreover, when he gets there, he has to inquire about Zhang Tianping's condition in each department, so it is impossible for him to come back in two hours.
So that afternoon, the mother-in-law and son-in-law were both asking about each other's privacy and neither of them came back.
However, things were not going smoothly for Li Man. Zhao Pingyang's uncle's family was extremely united. Since she went there, she had been noticed. So before she met Zhao Pingyang's mother, the news had already reached his uncle's family.
When she arrived at her uncle's house, the whole family was already busy preparing for the party.
She didn't even have the chance to talk to her mother-in-law alone. After the meal, she finally spoke, "Pingyang told me today that Xiaohua is pregnant. In two months, she'll be pregnant. We're all working, so how can we not have someone to take care of her? So he plans to ask my mother-in-law to come over and help. It just so happens that there are still a few staff dormitories that haven't been allocated in the factory, so I'm asking my mother-in-law to go with me to look around and pick out a suitable dormitory. Then the couple can move in with you."
This is good. Zhao's mother was very excited. She could live in the city and live a decent life.
But just as she was about to agree, her brother called her out and asked her to bring her niece with her.
Of course, choosing a dormitory is secondary. The important thing is to be careful that Li Man doesn’t notice.
As long as someone is brought along, Li Man will be more restrained even if she has any ideas.
Mother Zhao agreed, returned to the dinner table, and said to Li Man, "Mother-in-law, I feel a little carsick. Can I ask my niece to go with me?"
When Li Man heard this request, she was almost certain that Zhao Pingyang was targeting her daughter instead of her.
If you ask why, my intuition is that he might want to find a job for this cousin.
The girl looked malnourished. She was less than 1.5 meters tall and had dry and yellow hair. It was unclear whether her parents deliberately made it hard on her by not giving her good food or whether she was born with a poor constitution.
All in all, nothing threatening.
Li Man didn't want to alert the enemy, so she agreed. Since the start was not going well, she decided to keep calm and look for other opportunities.
When we returned to the city, it was already past three in the afternoon, and Zhao Pingyang had not returned yet.
Li Man took the aunt and nephew to take a look around the dormitory and finally chose the one at the edge. It had two rooms and no separate kitchen, but there was a small warehouse in the yard where several families cooked. It was a little smaller than the dormitory Li Man lived in now, but it was quieter and more private.
Li Man had no objection. She was just fooling them. If they really wanted to move in later, she could say that a factory employee got married and the house was moved out early.
Li Man returned home only after Zhao's mother, aunt and nephew left.
Li Xiaobei hurried over and took her outside to talk.
When Li Man heard this, she felt bad: "He hasn't come back yet?"
"No, he wouldn't go to the hospital to inquire about my dad's news, right?" Li Xiaobei was very nervous. It would be terrible if Zhao Pingyang found out that there was no such person in any hospital.
Li Man thought for a moment and warned, "Don't be afraid. Wait until he comes back and see how he reacts. If he asks too much, just say your father went to his hometown in the countryside to recuperate."
"What if he goes to his hometown to look for her?" Li Xiaobei had to be on guard. If this matter were to get out, the consequences would be unimaginable.
Li Man calmed down and said, "What are you afraid of? Even if someone suspects he's dead, where's his body? When did he die, how did he die, and where did he die? No one can explain it. If you really push me to the limit, I'll just say someone asked him to borrow money and he went into hiding."
"Will it work?" Li Xiaobei was very uneasy and felt that something was going to go wrong.
Li Man took a deep breath. "Whether it works or not doesn't matter. No one has any evidence anyway. Even if the police have suspicions, they can't arrest anyone without any evidence."
"That's good." Li Xiaobei pondered for a moment and asked, "Didn't you find someone who looked like my dad last time? If that doesn't work out..."
"No, if he turns around and threatens us, we'll all be finished. Forget it." Li Man shook her head. It is better to remain unchanged in the face of all changes.
The mother and daughter hurried back and waited until eight o'clock in the evening before Zhao Pingyang came back.
Both sides had their own ulterior motives, but both looked calm.
Li Man, as usual, asked with concern, "Child, why are you back so late? Come on, I left dinner for you."
"Thank you, Mom." Zhao Pingyang did not show any emotional fluctuations. He did get some results in this afternoon and half a night. There was no patient named Zhang Tianping in the two hospitals. He did not believe in evil and even went to Zhang Tianping's hometown in the countryside, but there was no patient there either.
Now he reasonably suspected that something had happened to his father-in-law, either he had broken the law and was hiding, or he was dead.
But he had no evidence.
After dinner, he found an excuse to ask, "Mom, my grandma's 80th birthday is next month, and we want the whole family to go. Is my father-in-law feeling better? We can go together then."
Li Man sneered in her heart, thinking that he was indeed going to investigate Zhang Tianping.
She didn't show it, but just sighed silently: "I can't say for sure, I'll ask his attending physician later."
"Okay, let's go on a day off. If not, I'll buy some nutritional supplements and send them over. After all, we are a family, and as a son-in-law, I have to show my filial piety." Zhao Pingyang smiled and lowered his head to eat.
Li Man's heart sank completely. It was over. She couldn't keep this son-in-law.
But she couldn't let him notice anything now, so she said, "Okay, I'll go see him next time, you come with me."
Let's send you on your way together.
Li Man turned around and went into the house to do needlework. Her daughter was pregnant, and she had originally planned to make two sets of baby clothes, but now it seemed that there was no need.
But she still had to do it to avoid Zhao Pingyang's suspicion.
Zhao Pingyang washed the dishes and looked at the door. He asked, "Are you making clothes for the children again? Do you have enough cloth coupons?"
"It's enough. There are so many people working at home. We are all adults and we don't need to buy new clothes every year. We can just pool our money together." Li Man sat next to the kerosene lamp with a smile on her face.
Zhao Pingyang lowered his eyelids, turned around silently and went back to his room.
After turning off the lights, he stroked Li Xiaohua's belly and sighed silently, "I'm sorry, kid. You didn't have the chance to come into this world. Daddy is going to avenge your grandfather."
However, everything still depends on whether he confirms whether Zhang Tianping is dead or alive.
If he is still alive, he will be in big trouble.
A few days later, Li Man came back from work and said to Zhao Pingyang with a smile: "Go to the mall to buy some things tomorrow morning. I'll take you to see your father-in-law."
As soon as Li Xiaobei heard it, she knew that her mother was going to take action, but she was worried.
Zhao Pingyang is an adult male after all. If a fight really breaks out, her mother has no chance of winning.
It would be better to give Zhao Pingyang some medicine so that he loses the power to resist.
But what medicine should I choose? I can't let Zhao Pingyang die directly in the dormitory and make her and her mother suspicious, but I can't let Zhao Pingyang recover quickly and fight with her mother.
After much thought, I can only choose sleeping pills.
She hurried to the small clinic in the area and reported the name of Zhao Pingyang's cousin, saying that her elder had passed away and she had been having nightmares and couldn't sleep since the funeral.
Doctor Xiao Xu prescribed her sleeping pills and warned her not to take too much as it could cause accidents.
Li Xiaobei thanked him while crying, and only then did she breathe a sigh of relief after she walked out of the clinic.
Mix it in tomorrow morning's breakfast to prevent anything from happening to her mother.
The next morning, Li Xiaobei prepared breakfast and put six sleeping pills in Zhao Pingyang's porridge. She was afraid that he would taste it, so she added a little sugar to each bowl.
Afraid that he would become suspicious, she specially prepared two bowls of such porridge, but the other bowl did not have eggs and was placed in her sister's place.
Zhao Pingyang got up and saw that breakfast was ready, but he didn't eat it right away. Instead, he kept it in his mind and wanted to get Li Xiaobei out of the way: "Little sister, don't you have any pickles today?"
"Yes, but this porridge is sweet and it doesn't taste good with pickles. Brother-in-law, please eat it quickly. The countryside is quite far away, so I specially put an egg in it for you." Li Xiaobei said with a smile.
Zhao Pingyang insisted: "I can't eat without pickles. Please go get me a plate."
Li Xiaobei had no choice but to go to the kitchen. Li Man also got up. After her daughter left, it was her turn to keep an eye on things.
Zhao Pingyang smiled and pushed the bowl in front of him to the seat next to him: "Mom, Xiaohua is pregnant, let her eat the eggs."
Li Man did not stop him, because Zhao Pingyang had replaced the medicine with sleeping pills anyway.
When Zhao Pingyang lowered his head to drink porridge, the pickles arrived, but his eyes were fixed on the porridge with eggs that night.
Li Xiaobei picked up the bowl and took it to her sister's room: "Sister, my brother-in-law is reluctant to eat eggs, you eat it."
Li Xiaohua had no idea what tricks her sister was playing. She stood up with a smile and said, "I haven't brushed my teeth yet. Wait."
"Okay, then I'll put it here for you. Eat it while it's hot." Li Xiaobei said this, but when her sister went out to brush her teeth, she hid the bowl under the bed.
She went out with a smile and sat down to eat her own. The second child muttered, "Only the eldest sister has eggs to eat. I'm so envious."
"When you grow up, get married and get pregnant, there will definitely be one." Li Man smiled and rubbed the second child's head.
The second brother sighed: "Okay."
Zhao Pingyang looked at the others and saw that they were eating normally, so his doubts subsided a little.
Li Xiaobei picked up some pickles with chopsticks, her features twisted: "I told you, brother-in-law, this is really unpalatable. You actually like to eat salty and sweet things together."
Zhao Pingyang smiled and said, "Yes, when I eat zongzi, I eat sugar zongzi with soy sauce, and salted egg yolk zongzi with white sugar."
Li Xiaobei looked incredulous: "Your taste is so unique."
It was so unique that she harmed her sister for the sake of her law-breaking father, so you can't blame her mother for being ruthless.
After Zhao Pingyang finished eating, he was about to go to the room to see if Li Xiaohua's bowl had been eaten, but Li Xiaobei went in before him.
Li Xiaobei quickly brought out the porridge and took a sip herself: "Sister, you're too slow. The porridge is cold. I'll heat it up for you."
"Okay." Li Xiaohua was busy combing her hair and didn't pay any attention to the bowl of porridge at all.
Zhao Pingyang's heart was filled with alarm. As expected, Li Xiaobei wanted to harm him, right?
Maybe Zhang Tianping is already dead, and his mother-in-law taking him to see his father-in-law is just a cover?
Fortunately, he was smart and changed the porridge.
After arriving at the state-owned shopping mall and buying some things, he followed Li Man on the bus to the countryside.
He asked calmly, "Mom, why aren't we going to the hospital?"
"It's hot in the hospital. Your father went to the countryside a few days ago. It's close to the river and cooler there." Li Man smiled and waited for the medicine to take effect.
Zhao Pingyang also smiled and waited to find a secluded place after getting off the bus to strike first.
But who could tell him why he, who never gets carsick, felt dizzy and a little nauseous?
He suddenly became alert, and while he was still conscious, he quickly shouted, "Stop the car! Stop the car! I have diarrhea! Get in the car!"
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