mtlumby2d Chapter 271: Doctors Don’t Knock on the Door
Chapter 271: Doctors Don’t Knock on the Door
"Uncle, it's not that we don't want to help you, it's that we don't have the money. You know that Brother Zhu went to borrow money from my father before. We have to pay my father back first with the money we earned from selling chili peppers tonight."
Liu Shiying secretly pinched Shen Zuxiong's back again and asked him to cooperate with her.
Shen Zhuxiong nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, brother, I owe money to my father-in-law, where will I put my face?"
"There's no time to save face now. Your sister-in-law is almost dead. Give me the silver, give it to me quickly..."
Shen Jizu roared and started searching and robbing Shen Zuxiong with his hands.
"Brother, don't be like this, calm down first, let's find a solution!"
Shen Jizu: "There's no other way. Just give me the silver."
After searching Shen Zuxiong's body for everything they could find, they still couldn't find any silver. Liu Shiying pulled the two of them together and pushed Shen Jizu away.
"Brother, my sister-in-law is in danger now. It's too late for you to go to Wenzhu County to find a doctor. Doesn't Lin Ting know some medical skills? Go find her."
Shen Jizu stared at Liu Shiying with eyes as if he wanted to eat someone.
"No, Lin Ting will kill my child. She is a vicious woman."
Unable to find any silver on Shen Zuxiong, Shen Jizu's scarlet eyes immediately locked onto Liu Shiying.
Liu Shiying covered her chest and immediately hid far away. This was the only money her family had. Without this money, her whole family would be starving.
Shen Jizu couldn't just snatch Liu Shiying's things away, so he pushed Shen's mother's wheelchair and shook it, crying.
"Mother, please save your son, save your grandson, he is dying. If Brother Shen doesn't give me the silver, I will sell your two acres of land right now. Anyway, what you promised to give me is mine."
Brother Shen Zhu was stupid before, but this time it directly harmed his interests. He was very angry with Shen Jizu.
"Brother, mother gave me those two acres of land to plant this year. You can't sell it."
"I do not care!"
Shen Jizu's voice was hoarse from roaring. The noise in the old Shen family attracted the surrounding neighbors.
Everyone knows that an old woman named Xu is pregnant, and Shen's mother is now being taken care of by Shen Dali and Shen Zhuxiong.
Now that Shen Jizu is causing trouble frequently, the child born in Xu's belly will have the same temperament as him in the future.
"Mother, if Brother Shen doesn't lend me the money today, I won't be able to protect my son, and I won't live either. If I'm gone, you should just come with me. If we die, we'll die together..."
Shen Jizu went crazy. He sold everything he could and stopped farming. Now he doesn't have a penny.
Shen's mother no longer cared about him, and he realized how difficult it was to be an independent person. He had never been so tired before.
He was a scholar and had to take care of Xu. Others could go to the fields to work when they were pregnant, but today he just didn't want to work and let Xu serve him like before with a big belly.
Who knew that Xu was so weak? She had just cooked for him and ground ink, and after standing for a while, she suddenly had a stomachache and even had spotting. Now she was lying in the house in excruciating pain.
"Brother, calm down."
Mother Shen was almost shaken to death. Under Liu Shiying's care, she felt much better, but how could her eldest son let her die?
What kind of person is Shen's mother? Even though she can't move now, she doesn't want to die.
"Brother Zhu..., give him... the silver... and I'll leave my land... to you..."
Mother Shen couldn't speak clearly, but she still couldn't bear to see her once beloved child like this.
Human life is at stake. Shen Zuxiong looked at Liu Shiying, and finally Liu Shiying took out five taels of silver and gave it to Shen Jizu.
After receiving the silver, Shen Jizu went to the village chief's house to borrow an ox cart, and went to Wenzhu County to find a doctor instead of the nearby one.
Even if he knew that Lin Ting was a doctor, he would not let Lin Ting come to treat Xu.
Liu Shiying also knew that it would be impossible to get the five taels of silver back once it was in Shen Jizu's hands.
She asked Shen Zhuxiong to call the village chief and Shen Dali, and divide Shen's mother's land now, so that Shen's mother would not regret it again.
In the evening, Lin Ting's family and the village chief were called to Old Shen's house again to learn what had happened from Shen Zuxiong.
The village chief wrote a document and placed it in front of Shen's mother: "Mother Liu, you decided to give this one acre of land to Shen Zuoxiong, and whoever takes care of you will inherit the remaining one acre, right?"
Mother Shen nodded. It was difficult for her to nod now, and she knew that she didn't have much time left.
He stretched out his thumb with difficulty and wanted to put his fingerprint on the village chief's document. Seeing this, the village chief took the document away.
As soon as the handprint was put on the land, the one acre of land under her name became Shen Zuxiong's, and the remaining one acre would be given to Shen Jizu or Shen Dali in the future, depending on who would take care of her.
Shen Dali no longer cared. Lin Ting had bought three farms, and he had more land than he could cultivate, so when Shen's mother gave this acre of land to Shen Zuxiong, he felt nothing.
Liu Shiying was finally relieved after she got the documents. Now Shen Jizu could no longer sell her land. She spent five taels of silver to get one acre, which was a good deal.
In the main house, Xu, who had been silent at first, started shouting louder and louder.
"Help me...it hurts so much...help me..."
He was shouting and crying at the same time, as if someone was about to die.
"This, this, this...Isn't something serious going to happen to this sister-in-law?"
Lin Ting also sensed something was wrong. She was a doctor, but doctors don't knock on doors. This was her first lesson in medicine, taught by her master.
"Brother will be back soon, Lin Ting, how about..."
Brother Shen Zhu wanted to ask Lin Ting to go and take a look first, but Xu was not good to Lin Ting and had wanted to sell Shen Wanyi. He didn't know whether Lin Ting was willing to save her.
Although Shen Qingzhou felt reluctant, he put his arm around Lin Ting's shoulders and said to Shen Zuxiong.
"Uncle, we don't know what's going on with our aunt. Lin Ting's medical skills are all from books. If we don't handle it well, it's very likely to cause harm.
It’s better to leave professional matters to professional doctors. If something really goes wrong, Lin Ting and our family can’t bear the consequences.”
Shen Qingzhou knew very well that as long as Lin Ting took action, no matter whether they could be saved or not, Shen Jizu and Xu would stick to them like a dog-skin plaster.
Lin Ting also understood that Xu's pregnancy could not be saved, even if a god came.
If Lin Ting took action, the most he could do was to relieve her pain in advance. If he didn't take action, the doctor would come and handle it.
After the village chief's matter was dealt with, Shen Jizu also brought a doctor from Wenzhu County.
"Doctor, please hurry up, someone is going to die."
Liu Shiying and Yang Xiuxiu also followed the doctor into the room. There were many people from Wushan Village in the Shen family yard, and they were all curious about what happened to Xu.
Lin Ting seemed to have known the result long ago. She sat in the yard waiting. Beside her was Shen's mother in a wheelchair.