Chapter 88 A Tragic Vicious Cycle
"Being beaten? Who beat him? Isn't the person who beat him responsible for the treatment?" Mother Gu frowned.
The situation at Widow Wu's home was very bad. Last winter, she and her mother almost starved to death.
In winter, if there is little food at home, people usually only eat one meal a day to fill their stomachs, as long as they don't starve to death.
Widow Wu has no husband. There are only her and Baozi in the whole family. Although Widow Wu works very hard to earn work points on weekdays, she can only make ends meet.
In winter, the little food we were given would last us several months.
Life was very tight and hard.
Last winter was very cold. Widow Wu took apart her late husband's cotton-padded clothes and added the cotton to her children's cotton-padded clothes. In addition, Widow Wu saved the food for Baozi and ate wild vegetable dumplings herself, and that's how she barely got through last winter.
The family was so poor that even when mice came, they had to leave two kernels of corn behind.
In a family like this, if Baozi was beaten, they would definitely have no money to treat the illness.
Then the person who hits someone should bear the medical expenses, right?
"Some people said that it was Li Baobao who beat him, but Li Baobao denied it. Some people said that it was Xu Wansui who beat him, but Xu Wansui also denied it..."
"Xu Wansui's father, Xu Chenggong, is a big and strong man. He insisted that it was not his son who beat him. Baozi's mother couldn't do anything..."
When Gu Ningning said this, she couldn't control her tears again.
"Sister Nian Nian, can you help take care of Baozi? He is really about to die."
Su Niannian felt heartbroken when she saw Gu Ningning crying so hard that she was out of breath.
If I had encountered such a thing, I would not have sat idly by, especially now that Gu Ningning came to me for help.
"Yeah, okay." Su Niannian agreed.
Wiping away the tears from Gu Ningning's face, "Ningning, don't cry. Sister Nian Nian will do her best to save Baozi."
However, Su Niannian would naturally not let go the culprit who beat Baozi like this.
Things always get figured out eventually, don't they?
"Let's go now without further delay." Su Niannian heard Gu Ningning say that Baozi was almost dying.
Without wasting time, he took Gu Ningning's hand and left.
"Aunt, I'll take Ningning over to take a look first." Su Niannian turned and said to Gu's mother.
"Well, okay, go ahead." Mother Gu responded.
She also felt sorry for the widow Wu, whose husband died at a young age. Baozi was the same age as her own Ningning, but also skinny and pitiful.
Last winter, Gu's mother gave Widow Wu ten kilograms of black flour and two kilograms of corn flour.
"Hey, I hope Nian Nian can save Baozi..." Gu's mother murmured as she watched Su Niannian leaving.
As long as there is still hope, Su Niannian can definitely save Baozi.
Mother Gu thought so.
Gu Ningning pulled Su Niannian and jogged towards the place where they had just seen Baozi and his mother.
Not long after, I met Gu Nan who was coming back from work.
"Where are you going in such a hurry?" Gu Nan saw that the two were walking in a hurry and thought to himself, could something have happened?
"It's Baozi. Baozi is dying. I'll take Sister Nian Nian to save him." Gu Ningning said anxiously.
Only then did Gu Nan see the tear marks on Gu Ningning's face.
"I'll go with you." Gu Nan was also worried that something else might happen, so his presence would provide an extra layer of protection.
Su Niannian nodded.
Soon, Gu Ningning rushed to the place where she had just seen Baozi and his mother, but they were no longer there.
"Ningning." The child who was playing with hoops nearby saw Ningning and called out.
"Heping, where are Baozi and his mother?" Gu Ningning asked anxiously.
"We went to the home of Xu Chenggong, who raises pigs. Baozi's mother only borrowed a few cents, which was not enough to take Baozi to the county to see a doctor."
"Yes, the adults all think that Baozi's family is poor and can't afford to borrow money to pay it back. Some aunts also advised Baozi's mother to stop treating Baozi, so that it would be easier for her to remarry without a burden."
"Baozi's mother said that if Xu Chenggong didn't give her money to treat Baozi, she would die in his house."
Gu Ningning's friends were talking to each other.
In fact, in this matter, both Li Baobei and Xu Wansui could have injured Baozi. Baozi's mother only went to Xu Wansui's house, which shows that she knew she could not get money from the village chief Li Guofu.
This is a last-ditch effort.
"I know where Xu Chenggong's house is." Gu Nan took Su Niannian's wrist and rushed to Xu's house.
Gu Ningning jogged behind to catch up.
Although Gu Ningning felt a little contemptuous of Gu Nan for having a wife and forgetting about his sister, now was not the time to care about it.
After all, Gu Ningning doesn’t know how to treat a disease, and Gu Nan just wants to get to the Xu family as soon as possible.
Although we were still some distance away from Xu's house, we could hear the noisy sounds coming from there. It was now lunchtime and a lot of people had gathered there.
It's already noisy over there.
Gu Nan took Su Niannian and squeezed towards the door of Xu's house.
I saw that Widow Wu was holding a wood-chopping knife in her hand, and the blade was already rusty.
If I get scratched by this knife, I'm afraid I'll get tetanus.
Not far away, Xu Chenggong was standing there with his hands on his waist, but he was not afraid at all.
He felt like he had a hundred ways to subdue the thin woman in front of him.
The buns were placed on the ground at this time.
There was only a tattered sheet beneath his body.
Baozi's face was still red, which showed that he was still alive.
If dead, the face will turn pale.
"Put down the knife first. If you have something to say, tell me slowly." Jiang Aiguo also arrived at this time.
Seeing that Widow Wu is so emotional now, I just hope she can calm down first.
"If you don't have money to treat Baozi, I can help you pay for it first, but if you cause a death or injure someone here, you will be arrested."
"Now that you've been arrested, what should we do with Baozi?" Jiang Aiguo slowly approached Widow Wu, hoping to persuade her to put down the rusty axe in her hand.
"Don't come over here. I don't want to hurt anyone, but my buns are dying!"
"If Baozi dies, none of the people who harmed him will survive!"
"I'm going to drag you down with me. You're such a bully."
"My life is already so difficult, and Baozi is still so young. Why? Why do you want to bully my mother and me?"
"I just want to raise Baozi well! I want to see him get married and have kids."
"It's all his fault! It's all his son's fault! He's the one who ruined my Baozi like this!" Widow Wu was very emotional.
The emotions that have been pent up for so long seem to be released at this moment.
She also didn't want her man to die at such a young age, and she also wanted to give Baozi a good life.
She has tried very hard, but rural women only know how to work in the fields. However, she does not eat well and does not get enough nutrition. Even if she works with all her might, she can only maintain a basic standard of food and clothing.
This is a vicious cycle. The fewer work points she earns, the worse she eats, the worse her health becomes, and the fewer work points she earns.
She is really, really difficult.
"Secretary Jiang, you don't need to say so much to her. If she dares to do anything, I will kill her today! Let her and her son die together." These words were like a fuse, detonating the bomb in Widow Wu's heart.
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