Fortunately, there were many people behind and they were quickly rescued.
The person just choked on a few sips of water and kept coughing after coming up, but there were no major symptoms.
After the condition eased, he kept crying. Zhou Xiaoju and her brother also cried. They looked so miserable.
Such a big commotion naturally attracted the attention of Zhou Shugen and his wife who lived next door.
Before Zhou Shugen could get nervous, his wife rushed out and yelled, "Why are you pretending to be pitiful in front of me? If you really want to die, then go quietly in the dead of night. That way you can die thoroughly. If you want to die in public, it seems that you are right, right? I see that you don't want to die yourself, but you want to force me to die? Okay, I'll help you. Let's just not live anymore. If I die, I'll take someone with me. Don't expect any of you to have a good life. If I die, you won't live either!"
Zhou Shugen quickly tried to persuade him, "What nonsense are you talking about? Who wants you to die? Forget it, let's pack up and go back to the city. I won't come back again, okay?"
Old man Zhou Shugen squatted in the yard with his bald head hanging down. No one could see his face clearly, but he must have felt bad.
There was a whimpering sound coming from the room, from the low and suppressed cry at the beginning to the collapse later. It was his paralyzed mother in bed.
The woman was still insisting, "If you want to go back to the city, go back to the city. If you want to come back, come back. You have the final say in everything about love, right? I'm telling you, I'm not that easy to bully. If you don't get rid of this woman, you can't live with two families at once. If you piss me off, no one will have a good life."
When Xiaoju's mother heard this, she still wanted to drive her away and started crying and wanted to jump into the river.
Zhou Shugen knelt down in front of her with a plop. The atmosphere suddenly became cold. No one said a word. Xiaoju's mother also sobbed and stopped struggling.
"I... I know I'm sorry for you. I'm a worthless person. It's all my fault that things turned out like this, but the two of us..." He lowered his head in shame and didn't dare to look at him. After a moment, he mustered up the courage again and said, "We've been apart for so many years. You said you had nowhere to go and I asked you to stay at home. You should understand me and then go!"
Xiaoju's mother broke down again, "I agreed to divorce you only if you said you wouldn't kick me out. For so many years, I didn't even care about you. I took good care of the children and the elderly at home for you. Now you want to kick me out, where do you want me to go?"
At the beginning, the suicide attempt might have been seen as a show for others to see, but at this moment, every word was sincere.
No matter what time a man is in, at least he still has a family. Even if it is poor and broken, it is a way out. But what does a woman have?
If not forced into a helpless situation, who would be willing to live in such a cowardly way?
"You are all forcing me to die. If I die, it will be up to you. You can all live a good life. Don't stop me. Please, let me die..."
Although Xiaoju's mother was thin, she had worked hard all year round and was still quite strong. She struggled and several women couldn't hold her down. It was the men who came to help and tied her to the tree with a rope. She kept crying and screaming, her eyes were bloodshot, and she was completely crazy.
She was undoubtedly pitiful, and many women shed tears silently and condemned Zhou Shugen.
But so what?
If you speak seriously, both women are innocent and it is clearly Zhou Shugen who is wrong.
The man who had originally envied Zhou Shugen couldn't help but sigh at this moment.
In the past, everyone thought he was lucky. He had a caring wife to live with and a man at home to help take care of his paralyzed mother and children. His life was simply a god's life.
Now it seems that not everyone can cope with this kind of heavenly life.
Shi Liu kept saying how pitiful she was, and that it was all because of Zhou Shugen's bad behavior. She also said that his current wife had a hard time too, as she was deceived into following him. But it was a new society now, and which woman could stand a man living with two families?
Jiang Nian felt a surge of irritability and anger rising to his head.
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