After Zhou Qiming and Dong Chunfu were hooked up to IV drips, Li Xingfa and Dong Yonghui went back first.
Zhou Jianbin and Dong Chunfu's father, Dong Shuisheng, also went back with them. Zhou Qiming and Dong Chunfu were both going to be hospitalized. They had come in a hurry and hadn't brought anything except money. The group hadn't even had lunch yet. The two of them needed to go back to eat and then pack some changes of clothes to bring over.
As soon as the four returned to the village, they were stopped and asked what had happened.
"Shuisheng, how's your Fuzi? Is she alright?"
"Jianbin, is your son alright?"
"It's alright now. The doctor told me to stay for two days. I haven't had lunch yet, so I'm going home now." Dong Shuisheng was in a hurry to get home for lunch and didn't say much to anyone.
Zhou Jianbin looked a little uneasy, stammered that it was nothing, and hurriedly left.
Finally, Dong Yonghui, being the quick-tongued one, blurted out everything he knew. As a result, in less than the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, news spread throughout the village about Lü Sanmei's revenge on Yu Qiuying for feeding her chickens millet soaked in pesticide, and about Zhou Qiming and Dong Chunfu being forced to urinate and vomit.
"Good heavens, that Third Sister is so wicked! Those chickens at Widow Yu's house must have all been poisoned to death, right?"
“I used to think she was just a difficult person to get along with, and I didn’t dare to go near her. I never expected her to be so vicious. This is terrifying. I’ll have to stay away from her from now on.”
"Yes, that person is too vicious. In the past, every time she fought with Widow Yu, she was the one who started it. Now she hates her."
"So it's best not to do evil. Look, she did something bad, and now the retribution has come on to her son."
"If you ask me, that mother and son deserve it. One poisoned someone else's chicken, and the other stole someone else's chicken to eat. My Aunt Qiuying is really unlucky to have such a neighbor."
"Those two bastards deserve it. They do nothing but bad things every day. If you ask me, we should just pour manure down their throats today and see if they dare to steal other people's food again."
Everyone was talking about it all afternoon.
As the sun was setting in the afternoon, Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian returned from Xiaowan Village. They had just entered the village when someone called out to them.
"Oh dear, what have you two been up to all day? You're finally back! I have something to tell you, something happened at your house..."
The person who called out to the mother and daughter rattled off the day's events without taking a breath, finally urging, "Hurry back and check on your chickens; they're probably all dead."
Yu Qiuying and Zhou Cailian were already exhausted from walking for several hours, and upon hearing this, they were furious, even wanting to chop Lü Sanmei up.
The two hurried home, encountering villagers along the way who all came up to them to tell them about their day. By the time they got home, a group of people had already followed them.
Yu Qiuying opened the courtyard gate, and a group of people rushed to the backyard and saw that all the chickens were indeed dead.
"Oh, what a pity! That Lu Sanmei is such a scoundrel!"
"Sigh... we can't eat this chicken anymore, we have to take it up the mountain and bury it."
"Oh my god, it would have been so good to eat this chicken! What a waste!"
“That Lu Sanmei is too hateful. Old Yu, you have to make her pay for this.”
Looking at the chickens lying dead on the ground, everyone felt both heartbroken and angry. In this day and age, no one is well-off. They are reluctant to eat the chickens they have raised with great effort on ordinary days, and they can only afford to eat them once a year during festivals.
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