"It's her, it must be her! I went to the village to collect my cloth ration coupons this morning, but they said our island's quota of cloth ration coupons is all gone. It's all your fault, you've made us starve and cold. Get out of the island right now!"
"Yes, get out of here! Down with the capitalists!"
A large group of villagers from the neighboring village, who arrived late, were instigated by someone to rush into the narrow and cramped stone house, while other villagers who couldn't get in blocked the small doorway.
Even if someone outside wanted to come in, they couldn't.
Ling Huanwu was surrounded by a large group of people.
Everyone was criticizing Ling Huanwu's sewing team for preventing them from receiving cloth ration coupons, and the criticism gradually escalated to calling her a jinx on the island.
The old woman struggled to her feet, her eyes red, and stood in front of the crowd. One by one, the villagers pointed at her and said, "You, Old Liu, last year you hurt your foot with a hoe in the production team and didn't have money to go to a big hospital for treatment. Did my daughter-in-law pay for your treatment in the city?"
"And you, Aunt Qiao, your child's pneumonia treatment needs several hundred yuan, didn't my daughter-in-law come to the rescue and give you the money? You all received kindness from my daughter-in-law, yet you're all ganging up to call her a jinx?"
"Have you all forgotten the days when you had rice and vegetables to eat? Who was it that got up before dawn to mix fertilizer for you?"
Wang Guihua was cursing with tears in her eyes, and as she made her accusations, the villagers from the neighboring village who had rushed over in such a large group showed no remorse whatsoever.
Instead, they shouted, "A jinx is a jinx. He has harmed so many of us. What's the big deal to save one or two?" They became increasingly angry and surrounded Ling Huanwu, trying to push her.
At the back of the crowd, Zhou Jiuzhen lay motionless on the bed, and no one noticed that his fingertips, resting quietly on the bed, were trembling wildly...
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