"Look at what you said. Where should I put the shoe powder? Isn't it my freedom? I just like to use milk powder cans to hold shoe powder. Is there a problem with that?" Ye Li asked back.
Huang Xiuxiu realized her misstep and quickly forced a smile: "No, no."
"That's good. Sister Xiu, please take more care of this matter!"
"Okay, I'll make a note of that."
Ye Li returned to her room, and Jiang Xun asked her, "What did you say to Huang Xiuxiu? Did she admit it?"
"Of course she wouldn't admit it. If I told her the truth, she might even accuse me of slandering her! I just said that I lost my shoe powder and asked her to help find it."
Jiang Xun laughed when he heard this and gave her a thumbs up: "My wife is smart."
"That's right." Ye Li puffed out his chest proudly, "I'll go to the kitchen to see how the soup is cooking."
"good."
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Huang Xiuxiu returned to the house, cursing: "What a piece of shit! Who is this person? Isn't this harming people?"
"Mom, what's wrong?" Li Chengcai asked with a frown.
What he just drank was really unpleasant, and he still couldn't help wanting to vomit.
"Your brother and I worked in vain." Huang Xiuxiu sat down at the head of Li Chengcai's bed with a snort, "Just now that woman came to me and told me that the milk powder bucket actually contained shoe powder!"
"Mom, what is shoe powder?" Li Chengcai's face changed.
"It's used to whiten shoes. Use this stuff and your shoes will be whiter!"
"Ah?" Li Dongliang's eyes widened, "Mom, can't I drink this?"
"What do you think?" Huang Xiuxiu rolled her eyes at him.
"No... I can't. But... what if I drink it? I won't die, will I?"
"Death? It's that easy to die? If drinking shoe powder can kill you, who would drink pesticide to commit suicide? Everyone would drink this stuff!"
"oh."
"Okay, we can't drink this stuff anyway, so let's save it for washing shoes in the future!"
"oh."
Li Chengcai and Dongliang brothers looked at each other, and no one spoke.
Before going to bed, Ye Li brought in a basin of water and helped Jiang Xun wash his feet. Just as he was about to go to bed, he heard a burst of crying coming from the yard.
"Help, help!" Huang Xiuxiu shouted in the yard, "Everyone come out and help, my Chengcai and Dongliang are almost vomiting, someone come and help!"
Ye Li's heart skipped a beat when he heard this: "Jiang Xun, I have explained this to Huang Xiuxiu. Did she give the child shoe powder to drink?"
"There won't be such a stupid person." Jiang Xun said.
"Then I'll go out and take a look." Ye Li was a little worried. Although there wouldn't be such a stupid person, it was hard to say what would happen to children.
"Don't go." Jiang Xun raised his hand and held her back. "It won't help if you go. Just lie down and sleep. We can talk tomorrow."
"But what if no one helps her?"
"There are people who can help. Huang Xiuxiu's husband died, and the neighbors in this compound are very caring towards her! There must be someone who will come out when they hear her shouting."
Jiang Xun had just finished speaking when he heard the brothers Daliang and Xiaoliang coming out, and Niu Dazhi's voice also rang out in the yard.
"Go, go, go, hurry up and send the child to the hospital!"
The yard was bustling for a while, but soon became quiet.
Ye Li waited for a long time but Huang Xiuxiu and others didn't come back. She was really sleepy, so she dropped her head and fell asleep in Jiang Xun's arms.
The next morning.
Ye Li got up and went to the yard to fetch water to wash up, and saw the brothers Daliang and Xiaoliang coming back with two children on their backs.
Huang Xiuxiu cried with tears and snot, while Niu Dazhi stayed by her side to comfort her.
"Sister Xiuxiu, how is the child?" Ye Li asked with concern.
It would have been fine if she hadn't asked this. As soon as she asked, Huang Xiuxiu burst into tears and couldn't stand anymore, and leaned towards Niu Dazhi.
Niu Dazhi hurriedly supported her: "Sister Xiu, Sister Xiu, take care of yourself and don't be too sad."
Ye Li: “…”
Is this a big deal?
Huang Xiuxiu leaned half of her body on Niu Dazhi, crying her eyes out and looking like she was about to collapse.
"Sister Xiuxiu?"
"Are you satisfied now?" Huang Xiuxiu suddenly spoke, but the first thing she did was to blame Ye Li. "My two children spent half the night in the hospital. I spent a lot of money, but they finally saved their lives! You know my family well. I have suffered so much, how can I make money to pay off the hospital's debt?"
When Ye Li heard this, she thought, is this a complaint about her?
These two kids got sick from stealing food, can this be blamed on her?
Originally she was a victim, but how come in Huang Xiuxiu's mouth, she became the perpetrator?
"Sister Xiuxiu, what do you mean by this?"
"Don't you understand what I mean?"
Ye Li was originally going to wash her face, but after Huang Xiuxiu's disturbance, she stopped washing her face and simply turned off the faucet. She wiped the water off her face and confronted her: "Sister Xiuxiu, I made it very clear yesterday. I think you should understand what I mean! If you don't care, I won't hide it for you."
"What do you mean?" Huang Xiuxiu frowned and wiped the tears from her face with a handkerchief. "My two children almost died! Do you have any sympathy at all?"
When brothers Daliang and Xiaoliang heard this, they said at the same time: "It's not that serious."
"It's not serious? They had their stomachs pumped yesterday. Didn't you see how much Chengcai and Dongliang were suffering?"
"Will everything be fine after the stomach is washed? Sister Xiu, the child has been tossing and turning all night, let him go to sleep first."
"You two should send the child back first. There is something I must clarify with Ye Li." Huang Xiuxiu said.
Brothers Daliang and Xiaoliang had been busy all night and had to go to work today. They were already exhausted. How could they have the mood to waste time with Huang Xiuxiu?
The two of them decisively carried the child and sent her back home, leaving Huang Xiuxiu and Ye Li alone to argue.
"Okay, go ahead. I want to hear what you have to say." Ye Li wanted to see how thick-skinned Huang Xiuxiu was and how shameless she could be.
"Look at your attitude. My two children have been through a near-death experience and finally came back. You don't even bother to show some concern for them. Instead, you treat me like this."
"I care. Didn't I care just now? Didn't I ask how the child was doing? What? Don't you think this is still caring?" Ye Li said a few words to her harshly.
The yard was noisy early in the morning. The neighbors who got up early and went out to the chamber pot heard the noise and stopped to watch the fun.
As for the chamber pot...it was placed under my feet.
It takes five minutes to go back and forth from the toilet to the compound. If I come back and miss the fun, wouldn’t that be a huge loss?
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