The wind and snow outside are getting stronger and stronger. Judging from how cloudy the sky is, there may not be any good weather in the near future.
But Ling Shuang wanted to rescue Chu Tianjiao before the New Year. If she was late for one day, the child would suffer one more day.
After lunch and cleaning up, the sons, daughters-in-law and their children returned to their own rooms. In an instant, only Chu Renyong and Ling Shuang were left in the room that had just been bustling with activity.
Ever since Feng Su'e went crazy, Chu Renyong rarely communicated with the old woman. Now, Ling Shuang was sitting on the kang, staring out the window in a daze, while Chu Renyong pulled the quilt over himself and lay down to take a nap.
Ling Shuang looked back at him, unsure what kind of response she would get if she told him that she wanted to look for her daughter.
Or would she leave quietly on her own? The family's money was kept in a small box at the back of the kang cabinet, so there was no need to worry about lack of travel expenses.
Moreover, the original body was a lady from a wealthy family after all, and her family left her a lot of dowry. She used and lost some of it over the years, but she still hid a lot of it. Even Chu Renyong didn't know the exact amount and hiding place.
Moreover, after finding Chu Tianjiao, Ling Shuang did not plan to take her home directly. All the rumors and attacks she had heard in her previous life could be avoided in this life, so she would not have to torture the child again.
Thinking of this, Ling Shuang made a decision. She took out a set of clean clothes, inside and out, and went to the kitchen.
There was a pot of hot water in the big pot in the kitchen. Since the meal had just been cooked, the room was still quite warm.
The Chu family had several large wooden tubs for bathing. In the early years, Feng Su'e used one alone. She had been in this habit since she was a child, and even in the coldest winter, she would take a bath two or three times a week.
She has been acting crazy in recent years. Although her daughters-in-law are relatively filial, they only make sure she has enough food and clothes. They don't even pay attention to their own personal hygiene, so how can they think of taking good care of their mother-in-law?
Ling Shuang used two pots of hot water to wash off the thick layer of skin keratin cells. The hard and dry gray hair was difficult to take care of, so she simply used scissors to cut herself into a student's hair style. After doing all this, the water in the water tank was empty, and Ling Shuang also felt the weakness of this body.
"Mom?" The eldest daughter-in-law Huifang happened to come out to wash the clothes for her youngest son. Seeing Ling Shuang's new look, she was a little hesitant to recognize her.
Ling Shuang hummed, glanced at the basin of dirty clothes she was holding, paused, and said, "There's no water in the vat. Let Tiansheng and his brothers go get some more."
She said stupidly: "Hey? Hey!"
What did my mother-in-law say? Did her madness suddenly get better?
Huifang felt that the crazy mother-in-law seemed to have really regained her consciousness. In the past, whatever she said to the old lady was like talking to the air, because she only lived in her own world and did not respond to any voice from the outside world.
She screamed and rushed into the house holding the basin. After entering the house, without even putting the basin down, she began to shake her husband Tiansheng vigorously: "Dad, wake up, wake up quickly, our mom seems to be okay."
Chu Tiansheng was not sleeping soundly. When he heard this, he turned over and sat up: "Mom is not well? Why is Mom not well?" He walked out in a hurry without even picking up his shoes.
Huifang pulled him back and said, "What are you talking about? I think our mom's madness seems to have healed! She just took a bath and had her hair cut. She also told me that she had used up all the water in the tub and asked you to go get some more."
Tiansheng became even more worried, wondering if it was just a last gasp!
He walked to his parents' room in his slippers, lifted the curtain, and saw his father sleeping soundly and his mother wiping her hair with a piece of dry gauze.
Tiansheng: "Mom, what's wrong with you? It's so cold, why are you taking a bath? You'll catch a cold."
Ling Shuang smiled at him and said, "Mom is fine. Fill the jar with water later. When your brothers wake up, come over. I have something to tell you."
Was it really a last gasp? It looked like he was about to make arrangements for his final arrangements! Tiansheng, a 5'8" tall man, had red eyes.
"Mom, don't scare me. I'm going to borrow a tractor from Jianguo now. Let's go to the big hospital in the county. If the county hospital doesn't work, we'll go to the city. Mom, you can't be in any trouble!"
Before Ling Shuang was even hurt, her eldest son started crying.
It didn't matter that he cried. Chu Renyong, who was lying on the kang, sat up, and his other sons and daughters-in-law also rushed in.
The children came closer to her and asked, "What's wrong? What's wrong with our mom?"
It is said that there are no filial sons by the bedside of a long-term patient, but the original child is not bad, and is quite filial to her mother.
Ling Shuang looked back at the old man Chu Renyong lying on the kang with a look of doubt on his face, put down the comb in his hand, and waved to the children:
"Since everyone is here, I'll tell you now, Boss, don't cry, Mom is fine! Mom is fine now, her mind is clear."
She raised her hand to signal the children not to interrupt. When everyone was quiet, she continued, "Mom is going to go find your sister. Your sister has suffered a lot these years. Mom can't just leave her there. I have to go and bring her back."
The brothers looked at each other in bewilderment: "Looking for my sister again? Is this good? This is even more serious."
Tiansheng winked at his brothers, telling them to follow the old lady's lead. "Mom, we'll go find my sister soon. You can go lie down on the kang for a while."
The second son, Chu Tianming, also said, "Mom, my sister is in school now. She will be back during the holidays. Don't worry about her." He thought the old lady was sick again and her memory was still stuck at the time when Tianjiao was not lost.
Ling Shuang took a deep breath and looked at the children intently. "Your sister, Tianjiao, was kidnapped on a train during the summer vacation of 1978 and sold to the mountains of ********** in Guizhou. I'm clear-headed now. I have to go and get her back. It's my responsibility. You don't have to come with me. If you have concerns, I can go alone."
Chu Renyong sat on the kang with a gloomy face. When he heard her say that she would go even if she was alone, he picked up the cotton felt boots on the ground and threw them at the back of the old woman's head.
Ling Shuang had his back to Chu Renyong and could not see his movements, but the children saw everything clearly. The daughters-in-law all screamed in surprise. The fourth child, Chu Tianyang, was quick-eyed and quick-handed. He stretched out his hand the moment the boot flew over, and it almost hit Ling Shuang's head.
Ling Shuang turned around and glared at Chu Renyong fiercely. "How dare this fellow hit a woman?" She grabbed a nearly meter-long copper shoe horn and lashed out at Chu Renyong.
Although there are differences in physical fitness between men and women, and Chu Renyong has always had good physical fitness, he couldn't dodge it. The shoe horns in Ling's hands hit the old man one after another.
Chu Renyong howled in pain, crawling all over the kang but unable to escape, "What are you doing? What are you doing? You crazy woman, I'm your man, do you know? You bastards, why don't you stop her quickly! Ah~"
Chu Tiansheng and his brothers had never seen the old couple fight. They had never even had a quarrel in all these years, so how could they suddenly start fighting?
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