“Silly boy, if we don’t finish the task, we’ll lose work points. What will we do if we don’t have enough food? Quick, help me up! I can still…” Ding Youliang said, trying to stand up, but then he felt dizzy.
Just then, the loudspeaker blared throughout the village: "Attention militia comrades! Please proceed to the brigade headquarters to collect your weapons! Please proceed to the brigade headquarters to collect your weapons! Su Ruyi, a sent-down youth, has assaulted the brigade leader Ding Changsheng without cause—that is, me! Militia comrades, assemble immediately! Make sure to apprehend this person and send him to the study session!"
Su Ruyi heard it, all the educated youth heard it, and all the villagers heard it.
However, the stunned silence didn't last long; suddenly, a chorus of exclamations erupted from the field:
"Oh dear, why did her third aunt fall down?"
"Er Ya Dan'er! What's wrong with you?"
"My God, Er Mangzi is foaming at the mouth!"
"Dad! Dad, please stop sobbing!"
"Grandma, don't die... Waaaaah..."
...
A chorus of gasps and wails erupted.
In less than a minute, more than a dozen people were carried up the ridge of the field.
Su Ruyi hurriedly shouted, "Everyone, immediately move the heatstroke patients to a shady place and pinch their philtrum! Then come over and fetch a bowl of cooling soup and give it to the patients! I'll come over right away to give everyone acupuncture! Those who have needles, prick the patient's ten fingers and squeeze out three drops of blood from each finger!"
In this urgent situation, we had to act quickly and didn't bother with disinfection; there wasn't enough time.
Fortunately, Su Ruyi's needle pouches were refreshed as needed, so people could see her taking out one needle pouch after another from her handbag.
The crowd was in a flurry of activity.
Just then, Ding Changsheng's broadcast blared again: "Militiamen, assemble immediately! Are you all deaf? Battalion Commander Ding Changsheng has been beaten! Come and collect your weapons right now! Arrest educated youth Su Ruyi and take her to the study session! Where has everyone gone?!"
The villagers and militiamen all gathered at the edge of the field.
Watching Su Ruyi busily administering acupuncture to the patient, and hearing the urging from the loudspeaker, all the militiamen shrank back and didn't move.
The people Su Ruyi saved were all their relatives, friends, and neighbors...
"Everyone, patients first, drink a bowl of cooling soup right now! Those who are unconscious or can't be fed, wait for me to feed them!" Su Ruyi shouted as she ran toward the next patient.
People began to spontaneously line up to receive cooling soup.
The soup was warm, but as soon as I tasted it, I felt most of the summer heat subside.
"Damn Ding Changsheng!" Ding Sihou cursed.
"Even a dog wouldn't recognize its own kinship! We have no such relation!"
An auntie who loved to make witty remarks chimed in, "If he hadn't stopped them from drinking the cooling soup, would so many people have fainted from the heat?"
"You're so heartless!"
"What is that?!"
...
The crowd was outraged.
Ding Changsheng's relatives were ashen-faced, but they couldn't utter a word in rebuttal and could only keep their heads down in the crowd.
After about ten minutes of treatment, all fourteen people who had fainted due to heatstroke regained consciousness, except for an elderly woman with a full head of white hair.
In addition to the first round of basic treatment, Su Ruyi also performed bloodletting on the old lady's twelve Jing-Well points on her hands and feet, but she remained unconscious and her whole body was burning hot.
The old lady's three sons and two daughters knelt on the ground, kowtowing repeatedly to Su Ruyi, begging her to save their lives.
Su Ruyi was in a panic and didn't have time to get them up. She just kept pricking her skin to draw blood and shouted, "Go! Take off your clothes, soak them in the river until they're completely wet, and then bring them back!"
The group hurriedly got up, frantically taking off their clothes as they ran towards the small bend in the river in front of the village.
Just then, a loud shout came from behind them: "You think you can turn the world upside down?!"
When everyone turned around, they saw Ding Changsheng holding a shotgun with the muzzle pointing skyward.
After Ding Changsheng finished shouting, he realized that not only were the villagers gathered at the edge of the field, but many others were also lying on the ground.
Su Ruyi, upon seeing the gun, didn't run away. She merely glanced up at him before lowering her head again, her hands seemingly busy with something.
Ding Changsheng walked to a spot three or four meters in front of Su Ruyi, stopped, raised his hunting rifle, and pointed it at her: "Hands behind your head, kneel down!"
As soon as Su Ruyi raised her head, she saw Shen Heping rush forward in two steps, stretching out his arms to block the gun barrel.
At the same time, a group of villagers had also crowded around, each one shielding her with their bodies.
Ding Changsheng roared, "Are you all going to rebel? Su Ruyi assaulted a brigade cadre, and she's going to be sent to a study session! You want to be sent to a study session too?"
Ding Sihou walked up to Ding Changsheng: "Captain, are you blind or insane?!"
"Get out of my way!" Ding Changsheng's hand trembled slightly.
At this moment, Su Qiaoqiao appeared out of nowhere and stood next to Ding Changsheng: "Captain, should we deduct another half a day's work points from him?"
"Hahahaha!" Someone laughed, and the villagers all started to laugh, the scattered laughter eventually turning into a roar of laughter.
People laughed as they stepped forward, their heads resting on Ding Changsheng's wooden gun barrel.
Ding Changsheng retreated step by step.
Suddenly, he took two quick steps back, loaded three bullets into his gun with a click, and then fired a shot into the sky.
With a loud "boom," the laughter stopped abruptly, and everyone was stunned, crouching down on the ground with their heads in their hands.
Apart from Shen Heping, who was still blocking Su Ruyi's way.
Ding Changsheng's gun was still emitting blue smoke.
He gave a smug sneer and looked at Su Ruyi: "I've lived for so many years, what kind of troublemakers haven't I seen? Su Zhiqing, are you still going to resist arrest?"
Su Ruyi finally finished needling the old lady's twelve acupoints on her hands and feet, and the old lady showed signs of recovery.
She stepped forward and first used her divine sense to collect the other two bullets in Ding Changsheng's hunting rifle into her spatial storage, and then she also collected the ten bullets from his pocket.
Shen Heping tried to protect her anxiously, but she smiled and said, "Brother Heping, let me handle this myself."
As he spoke, he walked up to Ding Changsheng and whispered, "Come on, shoot me dead, or you're a coward!"
Ding Changsheng's face turned purple, blood rushing to his head. He raised his hunting rifle and pointed it at Su Ruyi's forehead: "You're going to resist arrest, are you? You think I wouldn't dare to shoot?"
“You wouldn’t dare.” Su Ruyi looked directly into his eyes.
"Ding Changsheng, are you crazy?!" Shen Heping exclaimed urgently, "She's the one my second uncle asked you to..."
Before he could finish speaking, a hollow "poof" sound came from the wooden barrel.
Ding Changsheng opened a timber warehouse.
Even without bullets, the airflow from the gun barrel still made Su Ruyi sway.
Just then, a commanding voice came from behind them: "Ding Changsheng, murder in public?!"
Everyone turned around and saw General Shen Guoliang in full military uniform, holding a small, exquisitely crafted pistol, pointing it at Ding Changsheng, striding over!
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