Chapter 1269: Bridges are bridges, roads are roads
Lu Miao didn't come out of the room.
Minjie and Minrui were sitting on the doorstep playing, just looking in the direction of Ma Hongguo without saying a word.
Fu Jingyou was even more straightforward and pushed the things back directly:
"Uncle, we should help each other if we can. We don't want anything from you. Besides, my uncle and aunt just brought over a dozen chickens a few days ago, and we can't even finish them at home right now. You should take this back! Save it for Jianshe and his wife."
The two chickens that Ma Hongguo brought were not just gifts of thanks.
He came here to apologize.
Of course, what Fu Jingyou said was true.
But he knew very well why Ma Hongguo came.
One of the reasons is to refuse to accept the gifts to prevent their original intention of "helping" from changing.
The second is to refuse the Ma family's apology.
Things can come to an end at this point.
Whether the Ma family appreciates it or not is none of their business, and making an apology is unnecessary.
From now on, each family will just live their own life, and there will be no more contact anyway.
He was firm in his attitude, and Ma Hongguo understood what he meant.
In the darkness, two old hens fluttered and clucked. Ma Hongguo sighed:
"Xiao Liu, I'm sorry for this. I'm too embarrassed to ask for your forgiveness..." "Okay, Second Uncle, it's over, you can go back! Let Jianshe and his wife live a good life in the future, so that my wife and I won't have to get involved in this."
Ma Hongguo wiped his face and nodded repeatedly.
Finally, he carried the two cackling old hens, hunched his back helplessly, and walked home in the dark.
Fu Jingyou didn't even glance at it, but patted Minjie's sharp head and said:
"Don't sit still, take your brother to take a bath first, otherwise it will be too late and there will be too many people fighting for it."
"I understand, uncle!"
Minjie took Minrui to the backyard to fetch water for a bath, and Fu Jingyou also locked the door of the main hall.
Lu Miao lit the kerosene lamp in the room.
When Fu Jingyou entered, Lu Miao said:
"After what happened today, we'll have to lock up our front door for a while."
Fu Jingyou nodded in understanding:
"Um."
Just as Lu Miao expected.
There was no need to wait until the next day or the day after, as people from the village came knocking on the door that very night.
They helped the Ma family to settle the matter. Those families in the village who were in similar situations as the Ma family did not say anything openly, but they actually wanted to seek help privately.
Just once is enough.
It's not Lu Miao's turn to have the final say in the town and the county.
What happened to the Ma family is enough to teach people a lesson.
Whether it is Lu Miao or Fu Jingyou, it is impossible for it to happen again.
So Fu Jingyou didn't open the door for anyone at all.
He just said from the window of the room that he had gone to bed because he had to harvest rice these days and was not free for the time being.
After I am done with my current busy schedule, I will take the time to explain the policy to them in detail and ask them to come back then.
Only then did he reluctantly send the person away.
For a period of time thereafter, the Fu family kept the main gate locked during the day and went in or out through the back door when they had something to do.
It was also during this period that He Hongjin complained about Lu Miao being spoiled and pretentious.
She said that the meat and fish that other people couldn't eat were not liked by her.
But what she actually did was to take some free time and go to the lake early in the morning to pick a handful of tender lotus roots and bring them back, and ask Tian Guihua to stir-fry them for her to change the taste.
And Hu Zhiyuan.
When he left Fu's house the day before yesterday, I heard that Lu Miao was always coughing and had a sore throat. When he came again later, he brought a lot of dried white fungus from the county on the way.
It is said that sweet stewed soup can soothe the throat.
Lu Miao thanked them one by one and accepted them.
Then there is the Ma family.
After being bluntly rejected by Fu Jingyou that night, the Ma family also came over once.
But the person who came was not Ma Hongguo, but Shuangxi.
Previously, his father-in-law sent them two old hens, but they refused them. Shuangxi guessed that they were a respectable family and knew that it was not easy to raise a few chickens in the countryside, so they would definitely not accept them.
So when he went to Fu's house again, Shuangxi didn't bring the chicken, but instead brought a big bowl of stewed chicken soup.
Lu Miao originally didn't plan to take it.
But she was pregnant with a big belly and was about to give birth in a month or so, yet she came here in the scorching sun.
Lu Miao sighed helplessly and felt compassion, so he asked Tian Guihua to take the things.
Lu Miao gave Shuangxi a chance:
"I know what you're thinking. Now we're even. Just live your life well from now on. Don't dwell on this all the time."
Shuangxi understood what Lu Miao meant.
Shuangxi stood there for a long time.
After Tian Guihua came out and gave her the bowl, she held her stomach and said "I'm sorry" to Lu Miao deeply before leaving.
In response, Lu Miao just smiled faintly.
Regardless of whether Shuangxi was sincerely apologizing or just trying to win her sympathy and gain her peace of mind with an attitude.
Lu Miao gave it all to her because she was pregnant.
But that's all.
From now on, the bridge will be the bridge and the road will be the road.
Where boundaries need to be drawn, they will be drawn.
The Ma family’s affairs came to an end, and the village officially entered the busy farming season.
When the family started to harvest the early season rice, Brother He was finally persuaded and borrowed an ox cart to take Zhao Lanxiang to the county to see a doctor.
However, the county doctor couldn't figure out what the problem was.
Judging solely from Zhao Lanxiang's symptoms, it might be a problem in her brain.
It is said that the county’s technology is backward and there are no relevant medical equipment.
If Brother He has the conditions, it would be best if he could take people to a large hospital in the city for a check-up and confirm the situation.
But Brother He was skeptical about this.
Zhao Lanxiang is sick, but she is not stupid.
The doctor said it might be a brain problem, but Brother He couldn't understand what the problem could be.
But as soon as the news got home, Lu Miao and Fu Jingyou already had a rough idea of what was going on.
The doctor probably meant that there was something growing in Zhao Lanxiang's brain.
If you think about it carefully, it actually makes some sense.
If it weren't for a malignant tumor or something like that, Zhao Lanxiang's health wouldn't have declined so quickly...
Lu Miao considered the current situation and asked Fu Jingyou to take some free time to take Brother He and Zhao Lanxiang to the city hospital for a check-up.
On the other hand, he said that if Zhao Lanxiang's condition was really bad, Minmin should also be informed in advance.
He Hongjin and Chen Guifen had no objection to the former.
But when it comes to Minmin, Chen Guifen and Tian Guihua both expressed their disapproval to varying degrees:
"That child has had a rough life since childhood, and now she finally has a way out. It's such a long journey back from Beijing, so let's not disturb her about this for now."
Lu Miao knew that they were speaking from the perspective of Minmin, who had always been abused by Zhao Lanxiang in the past.
But this matter is of great importance.
Lu Miao shook his head and said firmly:
"This is no small matter. It's up to Minmin to decide whether she's willing to come back and take a look. You don't have to and can't make this decision for her."
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