"Auntie, why are you here?"
The person who came was Shitou's mother, whom she had met yesterday. She welcomed her in and poured her a glass of water.
"The stone's medicine is still being boiled. We have to wait a while."
"There's no rush for this. Where's your mother?"
Shitou's mother looked at her with a smile on her face, completely different from the one who had her eyes swollen from crying yesterday.
Lin Shiyu didn't know what she wanted to do with Liu, so she asked Shitou's mother to sit down while she went to the backyard to look for someone.
When the mother and daughter entered the lobby, Shitou's mother sat properly on her original chair, unlike those aunties in the village who were very familiar with others and started looking around as soon as they came in.
"Auntie, my mother is here."
Shitou's mother stood up when she saw the figure, and when the person approached, she knelt down in front of the mother and daughter.
"No, no, what are you doing?"
Liu hurried to help the person up, but Shitou's mother was stubborn and kowtowed three times before she stood up.
"I'm kneeling for my son who's still in bed. Thank you for saving his life."
Shitou's mother didn't wait for Liu to greet her. She took out a string of copper coins from her sleeve and handed it over:
"This is my son's medicine money. I don't know if it's enough. This is all we have at home right now. If it's not enough, I'll have to wait a while before giving it to you. I hope you don't mind."
This was all the money their family received after the division of the family property, and she took it all.
Mrs. Liu turned to look at her daughter. She was the one who treated the patient, so it was her decision how to charge.
Lin Shiyu walked up to her, borrowed the money, took out one string, and gave the rest back to Shi Tou's mother.
"This is five days' worth of medicine, two hundred coins a day. Whether you need to take the medicine again after five days will depend on your follow-up visit."
Lin Shiyu felt very comfortable with this price, it was already a bargain.
The herbs in Shi Tou's medicine are all common herbs, and are almost the same value as the medicine for treating roundworms. The only thing that makes it expensive is that Shi Tou's medicine needs to be taken with sugar.
From the money she collected, she had to give at least one hundred coins to the village chief to buy candy.
Shitou's mother took the remaining silver and returned home gratefully.
She knew that she had definitely made a fortune by paying such a small amount for the medicine.
"Hey, what a poor guy! Shitou's grandmother is such a sinner!"
"Um?"
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There are stories to hear!
Liu looked at her daughter again and again. She originally didn't want to tell her daughter about these things and pollute her daughter's ears, but she couldn't resist her daughter's eager eyes, so she had to pick and choose and tell her some of the inside story.
It turns out that Shitou is not an only child, he has an older sister.
Shitou is ten years old this year, and his sister is only thirteen years old, but his sister has been married for three years, that is, she got married when she was ten years old.
Lin Shiyu’s eyes widened when she heard this. Ten years old, that’s still a child!
"Their parents have no other choice. For that child, getting married early might be a good choice."
This happened after Shitou's grandfather passed away.
After Shi Tou's grandfather passed away, Shi Tou's uncle became the head of the family, simply because they had not yet separated the family, and the eldest brother is like a father, so Shi Tou's uncle became the head of the family.
It would be fine if the brothers were harmonious, but Shi Tou's father and uncle have never been harmonious since childhood. However, because Shi Tou's father has a good temper and Shi Tou's grandfather suppresses them, although the two brothers have had friction since childhood, there have been no problems.
Until Grandpa Shitou passed away, no one in their family could suppress Uncle Shitou. In addition, Grandma Shitou had been biased towards Uncle Shitou since he was a child, so the Shitou family became exploited and lived a very difficult life.
Shi Tou's father had thought about dividing the family property, but Shi Tou's grandmother always refused on the grounds that she was not dead yet. If Shi Tou's father insisted, she would fight to the death and even say outside that he was unfilial.
So the matter of dividing the family was delayed, and life went on like this. Except for having to deal with Uncle Shitou from time to time, the Shitou family lived a good life.
The problem is that Uncle Shitou doesn't want him to live a good life like this, so he asks the old lady for money on the grounds that his son wants to learn a craft.
The old lady's money was taken away by her eldest son early on, leaving her with not a penny left, so she had to ask her youngest son for help.
Shitou's family has no money and hasn't even divided up the family yet. Most of the money has been turned over. Where did the money come from?
But Uncle Shitou didn't believe it, so he went into their house and searched, but he didn't find a single copper coin.
But it was true that his son needed money to learn a craft, and he didn't want to give up just like that, so he set his sights on Shi Tou's sister.
No one knew where he met the irregular human traffickers, but he sold the child as the head of a household.
The night before the human traffickers came, Uncle Shitou and Grandma Shitou were discussing how to trick Shitou's family out so that Sister Shitou could be sold more smoothly.
Once the person is sold, the human trafficker will take him away, and Shitou's parents will have no way to get him back, so they won't be able to cause trouble.
Fortunately, Shitou got up that night and heard everything that happened clearly. He immediately went back and told his parents.
Shitou's parents were also decisive people. They went out that night and married their daughter off early the next morning.
Rather than leaving a daughter at home where she might be sold without warning, it is better to marry her off to someone who knows her well. At least even if she dies, they can still see her body.
"Perhaps it was around this time that Shitou's parents lost their love for Shitou's grandmother. They used this as an excuse to divide the family and sever their relationship."
Liu guessed that Xiaopang said that Shitou's mother was talking and laughing like a madman, probably because of this!
Only Shitou's parents could tolerate this. Their daughter was about to be sold, but they didn't know how to fight back and could only block it.
"Even the palms and backs of the hands are made of flesh and blood. Why is Shitou's grandmother so obviously partial? She treats her own son like this, and yet she sells her granddaughter just like that."
It's not just Shitou's grandmother. She feels that many people here are sick and very biased.
If they have a son and a daughter, they will favor their son. If they have several sons, they will favor their eldest son. But no matter how partial they are, they are not as extreme as Granny Shitou.
Liu glanced at her daughter and said, "Don't talk about others. Don't we have biased old people in our family? Look at your father. Does he look like that poor little kid who was abused?"
But Liu didn't say this out loud. It was impolite to speak ill of the elders to the younger generation.
Lin Shiyu didn't know that her mother was complaining about her grandfather at the moment. If she knew, the two of them would close the door and chat for a whole day and night without stopping.
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