Seeing that Li Yumei could not get married, Li's father asked her to stay at home to take care of her younger siblings and help with farm work.
Li Yumei had no regrets and was grateful that her parents had taken her in.
I work so hard to take care of the whole family, but I never thought something like this would happen when Mr. Li is not at home.
Li Yumei, who has always been taciturn, was scared. Unable to make up her mind, she called her second sister Li Yurong back.
Li Yurong was the backbone of the Li family, a steady and decisive person. She immediately made the decision to contact the village tractor driver, Old Zheng, and used her own work income to send her injured brother to the county town.
After driving for three hours, the tractor finally arrived at the county town.
Li Yumei helped Xu Jing get off the tractor, while Li Yurong stopped a passing woman and asked, "Sister, where can I pay for my medical treatment?"
"Come with me."
"Thank you, big sister."
Li Yurong followed the kind lady around and finally found the place to pay. With the lady's help, she made an appointment for Xu Jing.
There are countless people seeking medical treatment in the county town. Li Yurong saw that his younger brother was extremely weak and kept urging him to come.
The guide rolled his eyes and said, "If you have a serious illness, go to the emergency room, why go to the outpatient clinic? You're just a country bumpkin who hasn't seen the world. You treat the hospital like a vegetable market and keep pushing for this and that."
"What are you talking about?" Li Yurong was furious.
"Second sister, don't argue with her. My head is bleeding again."
Li Yurong immediately lost the desire to argue, rushed to the window, and said: "Sister, I need to go to the emergency room. My brother is dying."
"The emergency room is on the right."
"Okay, thank you." Li Yurong ran over to where the woman at the window pointed. When she saw the doctor in a white coat, she gasped and said, "Doctor, my brother is dying. Please save him."
"Where are the people? Take me there quickly."
After a busy day, the doctor looked at Xu Jing's bleeding forehead and frowned. "Quick, get him in."
Excessive blood loss can cause many problems, such as palpitations and hemorrhagic shock caused by low blood pressure.
Fortunately, Xu Jing took basic measures before coming here, otherwise he would not have been able to make it to the county town for medical treatment.
After lying in the hospital for five days, Xu Jing woke up because of a loud noise.
"Monkey, who do you think we are? They hurt my brother and wanted to settle the matter for 5,000 yuan. How can my brother's life be worth 5,000 yuan?"
"Hey, Sister Yurong, please keep your voice down. Aren't you afraid of disturbing the patient?"
Hou Liang, one of the original owner's cronies, dragged Li Yurong out and said in a low voice, "They don't want to make a big deal out of this."
"You don't want to make a big deal out of it, so you're planning on using five thousand dollars to keep it quiet? The doctor said if you send him later, he'll be gone."
Hou Liang nodded. "I know, I know, Sister Yurong. But he has someone above him, and Brother Heng is fine now, so just turn a blind eye."
Li Yurong was so angry that he put his hands on his hips and cursed, "Where did this shameless little bastard come from? What do you mean by turning a blind eye? My brother is almost dead and all he knows is to use money to fool people. What were you doing before? Go back and tell him that he must apologize in person."
"No one can come." Hou Liang was anxious, and he spoke without considering Li Yurong's face. "How can we villagers compare to those people in the city? Sister Yurong, don't take it lightly. If they want to mess with us, it's just a matter of a word."
"Bah!" Li Yurong rolled his eyes and cursed, "Forget about the money. We country folk are stubborn. If you don't apologize, this matter won't end."
A thousand words of swearing are omitted here.
Xu Jing's ears were almost callused from listening so much inside.
Li Yumei came over with some water and saw the two men still arguing. She said, "Monkey, go back first. Come back when my younger brother wakes up."
"Then, big sister, can you help me persuade him?"
Seeing that Li Yurong was about to curse again, Hou Liang quickly dodged.
"Why were you arguing with someone?" Li Yumei handed her the thermos and said, "The doctor said my brother is almost awake. Why are you arguing with someone outside instead of going inside to accompany him?"
"I'm also very angry."
"Alright, alright, calm down. My little brother still needs your care."
Li Yurong said, "Sister, the nurse at the nurse station just said that the money we paid two days ago is gone, and asked us to collect it as soon as possible. If..."
Li Yumei clutched the wrinkled corners of her clothes and forced a smile. "I'll figure out the money. You go take care of me, and I'll figure out how to raise the money."
Li's father was working away from home, with little to rely on. His third sister married far away, and the commuting wasted time. His fourth and fifth sisters still worked at the wool mill, their meager wages barely covering the family's expenses. The Li family was like this: fine when things were going well, but when things went wrong, they were broke.
Li Yumei thought that she had a few relatives and could take turns borrowing some money to get by.
Li Yurong knew her elder sister's difficulties, but she was having them too. If she took the money back, her husband would divorce her. It wasn't that she couldn't bear to leave her husband, but she couldn't bear to leave her children at home. The children were waiting for her to go back and take care of them.
Li Yurong wiped her tears with her sleeve and went into the house with the thermos.
As soon as she entered the room, she saw her younger brother struggling to sit up. She quickly put down the thermos and said, "Let me do it."
"Second sister." Xu Jing smiled and said, "I want some water."
"Wait, I'll pour it." Li Yurong adjusted the bed so that his younger brother could sit or lie down, then used the dining table on the bed to fill the ceramic jar he had prepared earlier with water. "It's still hot, wait a minute before drinking it."
Li Yurong carefully examined his younger brother and breathed a sigh of relief when he saw that he was in good spirits. "It's good that you're awake, it's good that you're awake."
"Second sister, I heard you talking about money at the door. Is your family short of money?"
"Nothing." Li Yurong always reported good news but not bad news. He said cheerfully, "Your brother-in-law only gave me two hundred, which is enough for us to spend. Don't worry, no one will be without you if you lose money. Just focus on recuperating and go back to school when you recover."
Go to school? It’s impossible to go to school after fighting in a group, unless the school is a charity.
Xu Jing didn't want to interrupt Li Yurong right after waking up, so he had to find another topic. "Second sister, how is Niuniu?"
After marrying into the Sun family, Li Yurong gave birth to a son and a daughter. The son was raised by her mother-in-law, while the daughter, who was considered a money-loser by her family, was raised by Li Yurong. Deeply influenced by the idea of favoring sons over daughters, Li Yurong did not share her love with her daughters, but instead valued her sons. When she heard her younger brother speak for her daughter, she smiled and said, "What's the problem? Do you miss her? I'll bring her to see you someday."
"Okay, where's my eldest sister?"
"Big sister went to pay the bill." Li Yurong served the younger brother some water and smoothed his blanket. "Take good care of yourself and don't worry about other things."
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