Her schedule was so full that these people felt comfortable, but she didn't.
So at Tian Cai's strong request, she would be given a week to rest after treating these eleven people.
After the matter was settled, the logistics department immediately delivered the medicinal materials to the sanatorium. Tian Cai told Zhang Defa and moved in with Mimi and several other big cats.
Although he said he was taking them with him, in reality, only one, two, three, and four Mimi were always around. Mimi and Maomao still often stayed in the mountains, and the children were left to Tian Cai, the wet nurse.
As soon as Tian Cai got busy, there was no one to take care of these cats. They wandered around the yard and the wards, and soon became familiar with the young soldiers.
Few can resist a fluffy little kitty.
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On the other side, after returning to Beijing, Yang Jie did not tell her mother-in-law about the poisoning immediately, but pretended to be unaware of it. Hu's mother also did not know that her secret had been discovered by her son and daughter-in-law.
Yang Jie clearly remembered that when her mother-in-law saw her return safely, her expression was as if she had seen a ghost, but she quickly calmed down.
Hu Dewei also knew that his mother was in the wrong, but she was his biological mother, and he wanted to give her another chance, so he tried to find ways to comfort Yang Jie along the way.
Finally, Yang Jie agreed to put the matter aside for the time being and no one was allowed to remind her mother-in-law. If she knew when to stop, Yang Jie could pretend that nothing had happened for the time being. However, for no longer than one year, they had to find another house and no longer live with her in-laws.
If her mother-in-law didn't know how to stop, Yang Jie couldn't be blamed for going to her parents' home to break up with her mother-in-law.
Yang Jie was not afraid that her mother-in-law would disagree with them separating. She believed that her mother-in-law was such a proud person that she did not want to make the fact that she poisoned her daughter-in-law known to everyone.
After the couple talked it out, their relationship returned to what it was before, but this harmony froze that night when Hu's mother knocked on their door with a glass of milk.
Yang Jie never thought that her mother-in-law would come over with milk again.
She looked at her husband.
The smile on Hu Dewei's face disappeared at some point. He looked at his mother calmly and said directly without waiting for her to speak, "Mom, I want to split the family business."
Mother Hu thought she had misheard, but when she realized what her son had said, she was completely stunned. This was the first time she heard the word "divide the family" from her son's mouth.
"You, what are you talking about? What about splitting up the family? Who wants to split up? Why do we have to split up? Where are you going to live after the split up?"
Yang Jie sat on the edge of the bed without saying a word, leaving all matters to Hu Dewei. If he couldn't handle it to her satisfaction, it wouldn't be too late for her to step in.
"The factory can provide housing. I will apply for it tomorrow, and then we will live in the factory." Hu Dewei said calmly.
"We were living well at home, why did you move to the factory? What will happen to your father and me if you don't live at home anymore? This has never happened before, what happened today--" Mother Hu's voice became tearful as she spoke. As she spoke, she glanced at her daughter-in-law.
What he meant was clearly that he suspected that his son's plan to divide the family property was instigated by his daughter-in-law.
Yang Jie didn't even blink.
Hu Dewei hesitated for a moment, but still did not tell the truth. He just said that it was convenient for him to live in the factory and work, and he refused to say anything else.
Mother Hu looked at her son with an indifferent expression and felt as if an invisible wall had been erected between them. An inexplicable sense of loss came over her, as if her son was about to leave her and she would never be able to hold him again. For a moment, she began to speak without thinking.
"Xiaowei, Mom is so old. If you move out now, what will Mom do in the future? Didn't you say you would live with Mom even if you got married? Why do you want to separate the family just because you got married?"
"Did Xiaojie say something? Xiaojie, please have pity on me as a mother. I'm already so old, can you please not separate us from my son?"
Hu Dewei frowned when he heard this, "Mom, don't say that about Xiaojie. This has nothing to do with her. I'm the one who wants to divide the family."
Mother Hu didn't care at all and kept complaining while wiping her tears.
"People say that when a man marries a wife, he forgets his mother. Xiaojie, you can't ruin Xiaowei's reputation like this. People will criticize you—"
"Not to mention you, even your family will be criticized. They will all say that they don't know how to educate their daughter. After she marries into another family, she will become a troublemaker and make others restless—"
"Enough!" Hu Dewei couldn't help but interrupt his mother as she became more and more outrageous.
When Mother Hu heard her son's scolding, the tears that were still in her eyes instantly fell. She pointed at Hu Dewei with a trembling finger, "Okay, you actually yelled at me for such a small thing? I'm your biological mother!"
Hu Dewei felt a little guilty after yelling, but seeing his mother still like this, he finally decided to lay the matter out.
He opened the door and invited his father, who was listening to the radio in the main room, to come over.
"What's wrong?" When Hu's father came in and saw Hu's mother with a face full of grievance, he was also puzzled. His wife just went to give his daughter-in-law a glass of milk, why did she start crying?
"Mom and Dad, today we are all four of us here and there are no outsiders around, so let's just talk it out."
Hu Dewei took two deep breaths, trying hard to suppress his emotions that were about to explode, and held Yang Jie's hand in his before continuing.
"Xiao Jie has been suffering from headaches and feeling weak for over a year now. You all know this, right?"
Seeing that everyone was standing, Father Hu found a stool and sat down. He nodded and said, "I know. Didn't the doctor say that you didn't get enough rest?"
Hu Dewei nodded. "That's what the doctor said. For more than a year, the condition has been going back and forth, sometimes getting better, sometimes getting worse. He was once in good health, but he lost a lot of weight and became what he is now. I don't know about others, but as a husband, I feel heartbroken watching him."
"She can't rest well, so what can we do? Didn't we go to the hospital?" Mother Hu said with droopy eyelids, her voice flat. "I even ordered milk for her and bring it to her every day. I'm the only mother-in-law in our family who treats me like this."
Hu Dewei didn't comment on the milk incident, but continued, "Xiao Jie died right after we arrived in Huang County. She was in a coma for three days at the health center, and the doctors couldn't help. It was my uncle who found a great doctor who immediately identified the cause. It wasn't a lack of rest at all!"
Mother Hu's eyelids twitched, but she didn't say anything.
"Xiao Jie is suffering from chronic poisoning!"
"The doctor said that someone has been poisoning Xiao Jie, but the amount is so small that it's hard to detect. The person who poisoned her didn't do it every day, but rather gave her the poison intermittently over the past year!"
"If Xiaojie hadn't met that doctor this time, her life would have been in jeopardy!"
"This..." Father Hu looked at Mother Hu, then at his emaciated daughter-in-law, and said in disbelief, "How is this possible? Who would poison Xiaojie?"
Hu Dewei stared at his own mother with his eyes fixed on her. "Yes, Mom, tell my dad, who would poison Xiaojie?"
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