The feeling of having someone toyed with at his fingertips filled Sanlaizi with pride, and he couldn't help but whistle. But his pride soon faded, as a quiet voice suddenly echoed in his mind, sending a frightened expression through him, as if he had seen a ghost in broad daylight. He looked around, but aside from children playing in the distance, there was no one in sight. The voice told him that if he continued to do evil, he would be punished accordingly, just as he had been at Xiaocang Mountain.
During the time at Xiaocang Mountain, he originally thought someone had attacked him from behind, since Zhou Yan was in front of him. He went to Zhou Yan and asked who that person was, but she insisted that he had fainted on his own. He didn't believe it at all. Yes, he had just felt a headache and passed out. But before he fainted, he didn't feel like he was hit or anything. How could someone get so close to him so unnoticed and still make him faint? Could it be that they weren't human at all? That's right, the Earth God. Earlier, when Old Lady Chen was possessed by ants, she said that the Earth God was warning her.
But was all this really too hard to believe? After all, they had destroyed so many temples before, even the statue of the Earth God, and yet he hadn't appeared. Perhaps it was just someone playing tricks. Thinking this way, he rushed towards the group of children, grabbed one and asked, "Did you hear any noise just now?"
"Yes." The child was probably frightened by his ferocious appearance and wanted to cry but didn't dare to.
The three beggars were delighted and asked, "Tell me quickly, what did you hear?"
"I heard Xiaozhu shouting that he was hungry again." The child said weakly.
"Not these. Besides these, did you hear any other sounds?"
A child nearby bravely said, "There are also the sounds of frogs."
Disappointed, Sanlaizi threw the child to the ground and angrily shouted to the sky, "Who are you? If you are really the Earth God, why didn't you come out when they did the bad things? Do you think I, Sanlaizi, am easy to bully? I tell you, I'm not afraid of you. Come on. Come on, if I, Sanlaizi, am afraid, I will be a good person from now on."
As soon as Sanlaizi stopped talking, he felt a black screen in front of his eyes and fell face down on the ground, looking very miserable.
The children had already run away when he started yelling, but when they heard the splash, they all turned back. One of the older children saw this and immediately shouted at the top of his voice: "Someone, come here! The third beggar has gone crazy and fainted."
His shouting didn't attract anyone else, but it did attract Widow Liu. She first shook the beggar, but found that she couldn't wake him up, so she had to cry and beg the children to call Chen Youguo.
Chen Youguo was already feeling annoyed, having just returned home when his wife asked him to match Youjie with his youngest daughter. The Zhu family was about to get up, and what would others think if he went there now? If he refused to go, Wang Xiu would constantly argue with him. He had originally wanted to avoid the three beggars, but when he heard them calling, he followed them anyway.
Not far from them, Tongtong was asking Zhu Xingtong, "Sister, what happened to Uncle Laizi?"
Zhu Xingtong said seriously: "I don't know either. The captain is watching over us, let's go home." She didn't feel sorry for Li Xiaotao, she just didn't want to see San Laizi harming more people.
Chen Youguo had someone carry Sanlaizi to the community clinic, but after a thorough examination, the doctor declared he couldn't be treated and sent him to a hospital in the city. Because Sanlaizi's vital signs were normal, except for the fact he couldn't be woken, the doctor suspected a brain problem.
When Widow Liu heard this, she felt like the sky had fallen. She immediately knelt in front of Chen Youguo and said, "Captain, please save San'er. I only have this one son. How am I supposed to live if he dies? I beg you, just for the sake of Daniu. He died for the team!"
Chen Youguo frowned, thinking he might as well stay home and listen to the old woman's nagging. Just as he was thinking of asking the doctor if there was any other way, he saw Sanlaizi sitting up from the bed and yelling at Widow Liu, "Don't mention my father's name, you don't deserve it."
The people who had carried him here were somewhat embarrassed. Most of the people in the village knew about Widow Liu's affairs. Seeing that Sanlaizi had woken up, they thought about going back first.
When Widow Liu saw that he had woken up, she was not angry at all. Instead, she rushed over and hugged him: "Son, you scared me to death. It's good that you're awake, it's good that you're awake. Doctor Liu, please come here quickly, my son is awake, please take another look at him."
Doctor Liu came over, examined him, and asked Sanlaizi a few more questions. Finally, he said, "Your condition is very rare. The initial diagnosis is that it may be heatstroke, but other possibilities cannot be ruled out. I still suggest you go to the city hospital."
Sanlaizi's roar just now was so full of energy that Chen Youguo suspected he was pretending to faint. As for whether they went to the city or not, he didn't care. After all, it seemed that Sanlaizi was fine now. So he asked rudely, "Sanlaizi, what are you doing? You are causing trouble. The medical fee is only one cent, and you think you can find a way to treat it yourself. Do you think the hospital is easy to come by?" After saying that, he was about to leave.
Seeing him about to leave, Sanlaizi immediately chased after him. Widow Liu thought he didn't want to pay for the medical expenses, so she followed him out as well, but was stopped by a young nurse, "Hey, you haven't paid yet."
Widow Liu angrily said, "My son just came to lie down here with you, and you just put some medicine on his face. You didn't prescribe any medicine or give him any injections. He woke up on his own, and you still have the nerve to charge him?"
The nurse replied, "You've been here for half a day, and the doctors here have spent half a day too. It's not unreasonable to charge you a dime for the consultation, right? This is just because you've worked so hard. Why are you being so unreasonable?"
"So what if you're being unreasonable? You didn't do anything. You just touched here and looked there, but didn't find anything. Why should you take my money?" Widow Liu said in a loud voice.
At this time, Doctor Liu came out of the office next door and said to the young nurse, "Let her go. I'll pay her ten cents. Her son did wake up on his own."
The young nurse wanted to say something else, but Dr. Liu had already returned to the office.
Widow Liu glared at her and walked away.
Here, Sanlaizi finally caught up with Chen Youguo. Seeing that no one was around, he whispered, "Captain, I obey you alone in this village. I want to ask you something. Please tell me the truth: is there really a land god protecting this bay?"
"No. What's the land god? It's all feudal dregs. Don't listen to the nonsense of those old women." Chen Youguo said firmly.
Despite his words, Sanlaizi was thinking, Chen Youguo was a righteous man, so the Earth God certainly hadn't come to him. No, he had to ask Mrs. Chen. He wasn't just thinking this, he was also thinking about whether he should go to the elementary school to burn some paper money that night.
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