"There are longans, lychees, bayberries, peaches, and watermelons in the kitchen. I'll take the kids out and wash them for you to eat."
To the fruit farmers, these things were valuable, and they were afraid to give them away, so they gave them away in baskets. So they just told Qiao Xinyi to keep them for giving away after she finished eating them.
The bayberries were kept for a few days. Fu Bailu kept the ones that were to be given away and those to be eaten at home. She washed the rest and took them out to dry. After she was done, she carried her hoe and went out to harvest the vegetables.
"Your house is like a fruit stand." Mrs. Lu took Zhang Xiao and went to the kitchen. After a while, she came out with a plate of washed fruits.
The twins, a boy and a girl, were grunting and chewing their feet in their crib. As long as there was no one around them, the two siblings would make a fuss.
"Xinyi, your whole family has been away from home these days. You must be going to take the exam, right?" Mrs. Lu sat down next to Qiao Xinyi.
"Everyone in the compound guesses this because your family didn't take the college entrance examination, and no one was at home during the college entrance examination. Even Captain Fu asked for leave."
Qiao Xinyi nodded. Anyway, she had concealed her performance in the later period, so she would admit it if someone asked her now.
"As expected!" Mrs. Lu's eyes lit up when she looked at Qiao Xinyi. "You know these people in the compound who are taking the college entrance examination. Many of them are really out of their minds and make jokes."
"Some people lost their admission tickets, some went to the wrong examination room and almost were late. Fortunately, the army has arranged a car to take these candidates. If it was a car, those who went to the wrong examination room would definitely have missed the exam." Zhang Xiao said.
Mrs. Lu pointed to the back and said, "I was speechless when I heard about what happened at Captain Zhu's house. The grandmother came all the way from her hometown to take care of her grandson who was going to take the college entrance examination. As a result, the old lady found a folk remedy, saying that eating it would make people very energetic during the exam. She secretly put it in the soy milk that her grandson drank in the morning. As a result, the child had diarrhea in the middle of the exam and ran to the toilet without finishing the test paper. I don't know if he fainted in the toilet due to diarrhea or illness. It was the teacher who was patrolling who found him and rushed him to the hospital."
"This is..." Qiao Xinyi simply didn't know what words to use to describe it.
"You are just fooling around, right?" Mrs. Lu nodded. "When we heard about this, we also felt that the old lady was fooling around and ruined her eldest grandson's future."
"You can repeat the grade tomorrow, right?" Zhang Xiao said, "You'll definitely get better grades if you repeat the grade a little longer. After all, the incident has already happened, and there's no point getting angry about it."
"That's true, but the problem is that it's too challenging." Qiao Xinyi said, "Look, many people study until the last minute and work really hard just for these few days of exams."
"I thought the results would come out after the last few days, but now it seems that all my efforts have been in vain. If the child's grades are good, he may be able to take it easy, but if the child's grades are average, his psychological endurance will definitely be worse." Qiao Xinyi shook her head, "This ruined his learning mentality."
"Yes, the child became better after being discharged from the hospital. I heard from his mother that he lay in bed all day long without eating or drinking. His mother even dared not go to work because she was afraid that the child would suddenly become depressed."
Mrs. Lu said, "The child's grandmother is crying at home all day, saying that she did it for the good of the child, but she didn't know something like this would happen. She said she was also deceived. She kept saying that she did it for the good of the child, she was not a bad person, and she was deceived, so don't blame her."
"Have you checked where the child's grandmother got that folk remedy from?" Qiao Xinyi asked.
"I was just about to tell you." Mrs. Lu nodded repeatedly. "At first, Captain Zhu thought it was the child's own health problem. Later, the hospital said that the medication caused such severe diarrhea. Then he found out that it was Grandma Zhu who added folk remedies to her grandson's soy milk."
"When Captain Zhu asked, he found out that the folk remedy was given by a neighbor from Zhu's hometown. That neighbor also had a grandson who was supposed to take the college entrance examination today, but he broke his right hand before the exam, so he took the exam today."
"Before coming to the military family compound, Old Lady Zhu heard from her neighbor that the folk remedy that was originally intended for her grandson had been used up, and she said it was a pity to waste such a good remedy, and that it would be available tomorrow. When Old Lady Zhu heard that it was a good thing, she asked for it, saying that her neighbor's grandson would use it anyway, so it would be a good bargain for her eldest grandson."
"Captain Zhu asked his father to call the police, and the neighbor was taken away by the police. At first, the neighbor insisted that the folk remedy he had obtained was for his grandson's exam. He also knew that the folk remedy would cause vomiting and diarrhea. Later, the police investigated and found that the folk remedy was clearly obtained by Zhu's neighbor after his grandson fell and was injured."
"We also found the barefoot doctor who gave the folk prescription. The doctor said that he only gave herbal foam for calming the nerves. He also told people to boil water for 15 minutes and drink it before going to bed. The folk prescription that Old Lady Zhu got was a gray powder. When Zhu's neighbors saw that the police had found out, they admitted that he had changed the folk prescription. He poured out the original medicine and replaced it with the medicine that the family used to treat cow stomach flatulence. He crushed it and added croton powder."
The expressions of Qiao Xinyi and Zhang Xiaobo were as if struck by lightning.
"Why would this neighbor do this?" Zhang Xiao was stunned. "What good would it do for their family if they caused Captain Zhu's son to fail the exam?"
"We are all normal people who can understand this, but he told the police that he hated Mrs. Zhu. She knew that her grandson had broken his hand and was taking the exam, but she still went to their house to show off to them that her grandson would go to college in the future. She said that going to college also depends on luck. If you are unlucky, all your efforts and talents will be in vain."
After finishing her words, Mrs. Lu spread her hands, looking helpless. "Isn't this obviously a mockery of someone's grandson's luck for not being able to go to college? It's easy to send children to high school in the countryside. The child broke his hand before the college entrance examination, and the family was already feeling bad. But Old Lady Zhu is so vicious. Do you want her to feel good?"
Qiao Xinyi and Zhang Xiaobo looked at each other in bewilderment. Old Lady Zhu's mouth was like a knife. She took pains wherever her neighbor was hurt. No wonder they wanted to retaliate against her like this.
"Is Captain Zhu's neighbor in his hometown going to jail?" Zhang Xiao asked.
"First, the folk remedy was sold by someone else. It was Old Lady Zhu who asked for it and didn't pay for it. Second, the folk remedy was put into the bowl of Captain Zhu's son by someone else. It was Old Lady Zhu who made it herself. Third, Captain Zhu's son didn't die, was not disabled, and didn't suffer any physical damage. Just for these reasons, they kept him in jail for a few days." Qiao Xinyi analyzed.
Captain Zhu often comes here and points out that his network of contacts in his hometown is as extensive as that in his neighbors'.
Furthermore, considering Old Lady Zhu's mouth, she probably had never offended anyone in her hometown. After this incident, it is said that most people in the village felt very happy and even helped Zhu's neighbors to plead for mercy.
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