The other three gasped in surprise.
Fan Zhaodi, who was standing in the corner, hesitated before standing up.
Almost simultaneously, Fan Erzhu clutched his stomach and ran towards the latrine.
Fan Sanzhu's vision blurred, and he was having trouble breathing. He found a chair with a backrest nearby and slowly sat down.
Fan Sizhu felt his stomach rumbling and ran out without thinking. When he got to the outhouse, he found that his second brother had already taken it. He gritted his teeth and squatted down outside the outhouse.
Sun Jinhua realized that something was wrong with her stomach. She leaned on the edge of the table and headed to the outhouse. Before she even left the main room, she smelled a foul stench.
At the same time, everyone in the main room could smell it.
Everyone looked toward the source of the stench, only to see that Fan's mother was in so much pain that she didn't even have the strength to stand up, and had defecated right there in her chair...
Fan Qian's vision went black, and he almost suffocated from the fumes.
Fan Dazhu, facing the only normal person in the room, Fan Zhaodi, gritted his teeth and shouted, "Are you dead? Go and call someone!"
The thin and bony Fan Zhaodi, wearing straw sandals, ran out with her small feet shuffling along.
She was originally running towards her second uncle's family on the high slope, but suddenly changed direction and ran towards the old village chief's house.
"Grandpa Village Chief, my parents, grandma, and brothers are all in bad shape! Please help me go and see them."
The old village chief and his family had just finished lunch. The old man was chatting, while his son and daughter-in-law had not yet gone out to work.
Upon hearing Fan Zhaodi's panting words, the eldest son Li Wen, the second son Li Wu, and the third son Li Qiang immediately put down their work, stood up abruptly, and said, "I'll go take a look!"
Then he ran towards the Fan family's house.
Wang Guifen was feeding the chickens when she hurriedly dropped the basket and ran to Fan Zhaodi's side, anxiously asking, "What happened? Tell Auntie."
Fan Zhaodi described the symptoms of her family.
Upon hearing this, the old village chief instructed his second daughter-in-law: "These symptoms resemble those of someone who has eaten poisonous mushrooms. Go and call more people from the village!"
Especially Uncle Ding and Aunt Ding at the back of the village, ask them if they still have that herb from last time, and if so, see if they can bring some over.”
After he finished speaking, the old village chief and his three daughters-in-law all fell silent for a moment.
Shanshui Village is a village with multiple surnames. The ancestors of the villagers all came here to escape disaster and gradually settled down and made a living.
The Ding family was the same, but they arrived later, with the previous generation coming first. They had no fields, no land, and no mountains, but fortunately, they had a knack for identifying medicinal herbs, and they managed to survive by collecting them.
The Ding family only had one daughter, Dingxiang. Some people in the village would secretly call them "childless," especially Fan's mother, Sun Jinhua.
A few years ago, someone said that Sun Jinhua had many sons and that one of them could marry into the family, which completely enraged Sun Jinhua.
He ran to their door and cursed them for a long time. Still feeling unsatisfied, he would run over every few days to curse the Ding family as toads and say that Aunt Ding couldn't give birth to a son herself, so she was trying to take advantage of her son.
The words were as harsh as could be, and from then on, the Ding family never spoke to the Fan family again.
Even when Fan's mother and Sun Jinhua bumped into each other in the village, they would still make sarcastic remarks from time to time.
Even Da Zhu and the other men, upon seeing the Ding family's daughter, would chase after her and call her a toad.
Thinking of this, the old village chief sighed and then added, "Whether you go or make it clear that it's the Fan family and whether they're willing to provide the medicinal herbs, well, it's up to them."
Zhang Hui replied, "Okay, Father, I understand!"
He then said to his third daughter-in-law, "Someone has to stay home. You stay here to look after the house. Your sister-in-law and I will go over there to check on things. A woman in the Fan family has been poisoned. Your sister-in-law might be able to help."
“Okay, Father, you can go ahead. Don’t worry about things at home,” Zhao Lan quickly agreed.
In no time, a large number of people had gathered at Fan Qian's house.
That's how people in the village are. They're meticulous about small things, but when something really happens, they might not be able to contribute money, but they'll definitely lend a hand if they can.
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