Chapter 90 (Can't figure it out)
Li Banxia felt a buzzing sound in her ears and her heart raced with panic.
"What happened?"
The eldest daughter-in-law shook her head, her voice trembling with tears, and said, "I don't know. My second uncle answered the phone when my maternal grandmother called home. He called the school and told us that my third uncle was covered in blood and had been taken to the hospital. He told us to hurry over."
Covered in blood?!
Li Banxia's legs went weak. "How...how could this be?"
"...Guo-ge rushed to the hospital before school was over, telling me to wait for you at home. As soon as you got back, he told me to go to the hospital right away, Mom, hurry up..."
"Okay, okay, don't worry, I'll go get the money and go right away."
Li Banxia suddenly remembered that when she went back to her parents' home a couple of days ago and brought up the topic of continuing to resell government bonds, her third sister-in-law's evasive answers seemed off.
She didn't dare to delay, so she stumbled back into the house, grabbed a handful of money she had just collected at noon, stuffed it into her handbag, and then went outside.
As they walked, he instructed his eldest daughter-in-law, "Yao Yao, make yourself something to eat. If you don't want to, go outside and buy something to eat. If you're scared being home alone, take a taxi back to your parents' house. We don't know when we'll be back."
I casually slipped two ten-yuan bills to my eldest son's wife.
The eldest son's wife responded twice.
Li Banxia asked which hospital it was, slung her bag over her shoulder, and quickly left the courtyard, jogging to the intersection to hail a taxi.
Perhaps because it was getting late, she waited for more than ten minutes without seeing a taxi.
Li Banxia was extremely anxious.
With no other option, I immediately went home and rode my bike to the hospital.
When she arrived at the hospital, her clothes were soaked with sweat. She didn't bother to wipe the sweat away and rushed into the hospital as soon as she got in the car.
From afar, someone asked, "Nurse, do you know where Li Guangbai, who was brought to the hospital today, is?"
The nurse glanced down and pointed towards the stairwell, "It's on the third floor, the operating room. You'll see it when you go up."
"Thanks."
Li Banxia climbed up to the third floor, panting heavily, and saw a family anxiously waiting at the innermost floor.
Li Sansao slumped to the ground, her face covered in tears, her eyes unfocused as she stared at the operating room door.
Everyone kept their distance from her.
"mom."
The eldest son of the Su family came forward, his voice filled with fear as he called out to her, his eyes bloodshot, "Third Uncle, he..."
"How is the situation? What did the doctor say?" Li Banxia took a deep breath to calm herself down.
Boss Su choked up, "The doctor said he lost too much blood, and his vital signs were already..."
Li Banxia grabbed his arm instantly, stopping him from continuing.
"Don't talk nonsense, your third uncle will be fine."
Su Laoda felt a lump in his throat and gave a heavy "hmm".
Li Banxia let go of him, took a few steps to her mother, and helped her up. "Mom, Third Brother will be alright."
Li's mother, her eyes bloodshot, glanced at her and said, "Xiaxia, your third brother is an idiot. How could he reason with an unreasonable person? Don't be like him. I'd rather visit you in prison than wait outside the operating room to see you off at your deathbed..."
"mom?!"
Li Banxia was startled and turned to look at her father.
Mr. Li took Mrs. Li from him and shook his head at her. "Your mother was too traumatized. When your third brother was brought back by the people from Zhoujiazhuang, he had a big hole in his head and was covered in blood. Some of the blood had already scabbed over. I don't know how long it took..."
"A head?!"
A head injury?
How could his head be injured?!
It's her! It's all her!
Li's mother pointed angrily at Li San's wife, "She secretly gave all the money to her younger brother from her maternal family without your third brother's knowledge. That beast surnamed Zhou has become addicted to gambling. When your third brother went to confront him, a group of people were gambling there. Your third brother said a few words to him, and he started shouting and threatening to kill him..."
Li's mother's voice was almost a roar, and her eyes were full of resentment as she looked at Li San's sister-in-law.
"She's the one who ruined your third brother, she's the one who ruined my son..."
Li Banxia refused to believe it. "Although Third Brother is a bit weak, he still has some martial arts skills. How could he have been injured in the head by the Zhou family? How could Third Brother have let them get close?"
"It's my fault, it's all my fault."
Li San's sister-in-law murmured hoarsely, "I shouldn't have kept it from Guangbai, I shouldn't have lent the money to my brother, I shouldn't have hugged Guangbai to stop him from hitting my brother..."
Li Sansao turned her head and looked up, her gaze unfocused as she looked at Li Banxia.
She said, "Brother Guangbai didn't want to hurt me. He bowed his head and urged me to let go, saying that if I didn't get involved in this kind of thing, I would become addicted and be ruined. I was scared. I was afraid he would hurt my brother, so I refused to let go no matter what. Who knew that my brother, who usually called me 'brother-in-law' so affectionately, would suddenly go crazy and hit Brother Guangbai on the head with a stool?! He's gone mad. He's been corrupted by those people..."
"Mom and Dad, Aunt, Second Uncle, if you want to blame someone, blame me. If Guangbai is gone, I will pay with my life for him!"
Li Sansao's last words were very resolute.
But what they wanted was not her life.
Li Banxia felt as if all the blood in her body had frozen.
Her fingernails almost dug into her palms, causing her to break out in a cold sweat, which finally made her suppress the urge to kill!
She hated herself.
She clearly noticed something was wrong with her third sister-in-law that day, so why didn't she get to the bottom of it?
Why not let Third Sister-in-law tell the truth!
Maybe if we had spoken up back then, and the whole family had made a decision together, my third brother wouldn't have...
"Who wants your life? What's your life worth?!"
Li Erge's voice was chilling, his eyes like knives, as if he wanted to chop the woman on the ground to pieces. "Do you think that by taking all the blame upon yourself, your family can get away with it?"
"Second Uncle, my brother was also instigated by someone; he didn't do it on purpose."
Upon hearing this, Li Sansao hurriedly offered an explanation.
Li Erge's face was cold, his eyes were sinister, "You better pray that the third brother survives, otherwise, I will make your Zhou family's precious darling pay for my third brother's life!"
"Second Uncle, you can't."
Li San's face turned pale. She crawled a few steps to Li Er's side and pleaded, "I only have one son. He's still young and doesn't know any better. Please let him go."
"...Your man's life hangs in the balance inside, and you're begging me to spare the culprit?!"
Li Erge could barely control his temper. Clutching the coupon, he stared down at Li Sansao, gritting his teeth, "Zhou Xiaolian, you really are something else!"
"Isn't my life enough? I'll give it to Brother Guangbai, I'll give it to him..." Sister-in-law Li cried bitterly.
Brother Li shouted angrily, "Of course it's not enough!"
Li Banxia squatted down, met Li Sansao's gaze, and said, "Third Sister-in-law, what kind of life did you have at your parents' home? And what kind of life have you had since you married into my family? How have your family treated you? How have my parents and Third Brother treated you? Don't you have any sense of right and wrong?"
"...I know, I know you're all good to me, but that's my own brother, I... I can't bear to see him get beaten. I didn't mean to hurt Guangbai, I want him to be alright more than anyone else..."
Li Sansao knelt on the ground, crying uncontrollably, tears streaming down her face.
The door to the emergency room suddenly opened.
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