Chapter 415 417: I dare not touch your family
"Please, Zhou Laoyao, it was my family that was wrong before, please... our family will always remember your kindness..." Zhou Sufang couldn't stop begging.
Zhou Huaian didn't even look at them. Li Guanghui's parents stepped forward and held him back. "Zhou Laoyao, my family has never bullied your family. I used to work in the same group with your mom and your husband. Our two families have always had a good relationship. Please help stop Guanghui's bleeding..."
Before he could finish, Zhou Huaian nodded readily, "Okay, pull up his trouser legs."
"Thank you! Thank you!"
Old man Li Guanghui unzipped his trouser leg with tears of gratitude, and looked at the bloody hole on his son's leg with deep regret. The thirty yuan he got last time might not even be enough to cover the medical expenses.
It's all the Xiong family's fault. If it weren't for their instigation, Guanghui wouldn't have suffered such a hardship. What if his leg became lame? He hasn't even found a wife yet!
When Zhou Huaian unscrewed the medicine bottle to apply medicine to Li Guanghui, he was a little scared when he saw the hole on his leg. He thought that he had to be extra careful when going into the mountains in the future.
The onlookers saw Zhou Huaian sprinkle hemostatic medicine on Li Guanghui without saying a word, and they all whispered, "Youngest Zhou brought the hemostatic medicine with him!"
Li Guangming said gratefully: "Maybe he brought the medicine when I asked him to drive the tractor to take them to the town just now."
"These kids from Zhou Dasong's family are really good. Even though the Xiong family treated them like that, they drove the tractor without saying a word and even prepared the hemostatic medicine."
After hearing this, Xiong Dahai and his wife thought that Zhou Huaian would stop the bleeding for Xiong Laoya without saying a word, just like he did to the Li family. They looked at each other and breathed a sigh of relief.
Everyone looked at Xiong Dahai and then at Zhou Huaian, "That's right, Zhou Laoyao is kind-hearted, so he could have thought of this. If it was someone with a bad heart, who knows what would happen!"
"I was there the day Zhou Laoyao drove the Xiong family's plague cow off a ridge and killed it. Xiong Dahai said at the time that if the Zhou family didn't pay compensation, he would send Zhou Laoyao to jail!"
"Oh! No wonder Zhou Dasong would pay the healthy cow money for the sick cow!"
At this time, several villagers came to watch the fun. "Everyone wants to make money by hunting wild animals. Why don't you think that if hunting can really make you rich, we can just stay in the mountains and hunt. Why should we work so hard to guard a small piece of land?"
"That's right. It's better to take good care of the land quietly, so as not to lose your life without making any money."
After hearing this, Zhou Sufang looked at the pale face of Xiong Laoyao and felt extremely regretful. She thought that since he had not made much money from hunting in the mountains, he had also lost the company commander of the militia. Now he was asking Zhou Laoyao for help. How could his family hold their heads up in front of the Zhou family in the future...
Xiong Dahai looked at Xiong Laoya and felt that his family was too unlucky. Li Guanghui was bitten on the leg, and his family was bitten on the stomach. The money from selling wild animals might not be enough to pay for the medical expenses.
Now the militia company commander is gone, and the three of us who went there shared the money last time, so we have to share some of it this time...
At this time, Zhou Huaian also applied the hemostatic medicine. "My wife said that wild boar teeth are poisonous. Hurry up and put it on the tractor and send it to the town for suture and cleaning."
Li Guanghui's parents thanked him repeatedly, "Thank you very much, Zhou Laoyao, when Guanghui wakes up, I will bring him to thank you for saving his life!"
Zhou Huaian screwed the cap on the bottle. "Forget about thanking me in person. Just don't curse me behind my back. If anything happens, just say that I was the one who harmed you with the poison!"
Old man Li Guanghui said hurriedly: "How can you still be a human being if you do that! Don't worry, when Guanghui wakes up, I will bring him to you to apologize and thank you for saving my life!"
Zhou Huaian waved his hand, "Let's talk about that after he gets better. Hurry up and lift him up. I'll start the tractor."
Li Guangming and his men hurriedly lifted Li Guanghui onto the tractor...
Xiong Dahai and his wife watched anxiously as Zhou Huaian applied the hemostatic medicine to Li Guanghui, thinking that he was going to apply the medicine to Xiong Laoya. However, he screwed the bottle cap shut and put the medicine in his pocket...
Xiong Dahai stepped forward in a hurry, "Zhou Laoyao, my youngest son's bleeding hasn't stopped yet..."
Zhou Huaian looked at him coldly, "I dare not touch your family." Then he looked at the old man Li Guanghui, "Go up and sit down, we are leaving."
Xiong Dahai grabbed him upon seeing this, and, not caring about the crowd watching, he humbly apologized:
"Zhou Laoyao, I know you hate me. I also know that my family was wrong in the past. We shouldn't have brought the sick cow to your house and asked you to pay for the healthy cow..."
"Pah~" Zhou Huaian spat, "How dare you say that? I almost died of anger after paying your family the money, and you spread rumors everywhere, saying that my wife saw that your cow had bezoar and deliberately drove the cow off a ridge to death."
As Zhou Huaian spoke, he looked at the Xiong brothers. The third brother Xiong quickly shrank behind the eldest brother Xiong, fearing that he would tell others that he and Zou Cuifen had gone into the woods.
Zhou Huaian only glanced at him, took out the medicine bottle, turned his head and looked at Xiong Dahai, "What did your second son say when he ran to my house to steal cement? I don't have the good temper of my old man. If you want hemostatic medicine, you can buy it with 250 yuan!"
Boss Xiong said angrily, "Zhou Laoyao, don't go too far. A small bottle of medicine costs two hundred and fifty, why don't you go and rob it?"
"I didn't force you to sell it, why are you saying such harsh words!" Zhou Huaian put the medicine in his pocket and walked towards the driving platform...
Zhou Sufang hurriedly pulled him back and knelt before him. "Zhou Laoyao, you can't just stand by and watch him die! We were wrong before. My youngest has never offended you. You want two hundred and fifty for a small bottle of medicine. You..."
Zhou Huaian dodged to the side and said, "Don't give me that. I'm just a second-rate guy and I won't fall for your tricks!"
Zhou Huaian looked at Xiong Dahai and his wife with a sneer on his face, "I am a second-rate, lazy guy who caused trouble. I am afraid that I will have to go to jail if I don't pay compensation, so I am willing to pay 450 yuan to compensate your plague cow!"
"Don't you love your youngest son very much? Why are you reluctant to spend 250 yuan to buy medicine to stop the bleeding of your precious son? Is your youngest son's life not worth 250 yuan?"
He just heard Li Guangming say that Li Guanghui's leg was still bleeding, so he brought the hemostatic medicine with him when he went back to drive the tractor.
There is no grudge between the Zhou and Li families, so they can sort it out a bit, but if you ask him to stop the bleeding for the youngest Xiong, I'm sorry, he is just a second-rate guy, not that noble!
The villagers who were watching the scene began to discuss among themselves, "Isn't it too expensive to sell a small bottle of medicine for 250 yuan?"
"That's right, how could Zhou Laoyao be so cruel? Even though the two families had quarreled before, Zhou Sufang, at such an old age, knelt down to him..."
Zhou Yiding stood beside Zhou Huaian after hearing this and said, "Yes, my second father was willing to use the money for repairing the house to buy the plague cow. I can save your youngest bear's life with just 250 yuan. Why are you still hesitating?"
He understood that if Zhou Huaian easily gave the medicine to the Xiong family today, he would be labeled as easy to talk to and easy to bully in the village just like his old man Zhou Dasong!
When the people who were on good terms with the Zhou family saw Zhou Yiding speak up, they also mocked the man and said, "You make it sound so easy. Didn't the Zhou family pay money to compensate for the plague cattle? Why didn't they pay to buy hemostatic drugs?"
"If it were the Zhou family today, the Xiong family would probably want even more!"
After hearing this, everyone thought of the Xiong family's character and felt that it was entirely possible. "You can buy it, but you can't sell it for 250. 250 is too ugly!"
After hearing this, the onlookers all thought that Zhou Huaian was a mischievous person! He wanted 250 just to disgust the Xiong family!
When old man Li Guanghui saw that the Xiong family wasted time stopping Zhou Huaian, he jumped off the tractor and looked at Xiong Dahai with dissatisfaction.
"Old Bear, your family and Zhou Laoyao had such a big fight. If you don't want to pay, don't make things difficult for him. He even has to send my Guanghui to town for stitches and disinfection!"
Xiong Dahai was so angry that he started to curse, "Li Fu, you bastard, damn your Li ancestors, if it wasn't for your Guanghui who instigated my youngest to go hunting, how could all this happen? You have to compensate my youngest..."
Only then did he understand that Zhou Huaian and Zhou Dasong, father and son, were not of the same mind. If he really didn't pay, he wouldn't give out the medicine...
"Fuck your Xiong ancestors!" Li Fu cursed back without any hesitation, "Your Xiong family is useless, why do you want Zhou Laoyao to stop your family's bleeding for free? Didn't you take 450 yuan from him? What's wrong with taking 250 yuan to buy medicine?"
The Li family members surrounded him and said, "Old Bear, please be polite when you speak to me. My Li family is not like other families. You can bully us if you want!"
At this time, someone reminded him, "Li Fu, stop arguing here. It's cold, and the baby has lost so much blood. Go back and grab the quilt to cover the baby. It will be troublesome if he catches a cold."
"I'll go right away!" Li Fu left Xiong Dahai behind and ran towards home along the ridge of the field.
The eldest brother Xiong stepped forward and grabbed Xiong Dahai, "Old man, don't ask him, let's go to the clinic to find a doctor to stop the bleeding of the youngest brother!"
Zhou Sufang, who had collapsed on the ground, got up and glared at Zhou Huaian angrily, "Yes, don't beg him, just carry the youngest one and leave."
"Boss Xiong, the doctor left yesterday. I heard that he went to the county to take an exam." said the onlookers.
Xiong Dahai glared at Xiong Lao Da and said, "We'll pay for it! And we ask you to take my youngest son to town with you!" He had known about this a long time ago, otherwise why would he beg Zhou Lao Da for help?
Zhou Huaian nodded readily, "Okay, it's just a matter of convenience, just carry it up!"
Xiong Dahai took out a stack of big unity from his pocket and said, "Here is 160 yuan. I'll ask the boss to go home and get the rest. Can we wait at the sun dam?"
The flesh on Zhou Sufang's cheeks trembled with pain. She had to pay back a hundred dollars from the sale of the wild boar, and she would have to go to the hospital later... She wished she could just faint so she wouldn't have to think about all these things.
When Li Guanghui's mother saw the money, she was glad that her family had not offended Zhou Laoyao, otherwise they would not be able to afford more than two hundred yuan to buy hemostatic drugs.
"Okay!" Zhou Huaian took the money and put it in his pocket without even counting it. He handed him the medicine bottle and said, "Hurry up and get the medicine and get the man onto the tractor."
"Boss, go back and get the money." After saying that, Xiong Dahai went to stop the bleeding for Xiong Laoyao. Xiong Laoda hesitated for a moment and then ran away quickly.
Zhou Huaian said to Li Guangming, "Let's go downstairs and wait for Li Fu."
"Thank you!" Li Guangming helped Xiong Dahai lift the person onto the tractor.
"I'll go too." Zhou Yiding whispered, "Let's ask Guangming what happened later so we can learn from his experience."
"Yeah!" Zhou Huaian walked forward with the crank, held the tractor with one hand, and shook the handle hard with the other hand, and the tractor started to make a "thump thump thump" sound.
(End of this chapter)
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