The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure-Chapter 132 Reduce Medication

Peasants’ lives are cheap; it’s already good enough to snatch back the life. How could they afford ginseng whiskers? As long as he didn’t die, he just needed to take some cheaper medicine, go home, and recover slowly. After all, Eldest Brother’s life is tough, so he should be able to pull through.

By eliminating the ginseng, the cost of the medicine could at least be halved. This way, the Li Family’s compensation should be enough, and their own and the head of the family’s coffin savings might even remain intact.

As for the subsequent medical expenses, what were Lady Lin and Eldest Brother’s two sons for? Surely, they wouldn’t be unable to recover the money for their own husband’s and father’s medicinal costs, would they?

Calculating this way, the outcome was much better than the expected complete financial ruin. With her own interests in mind, Old Granny Zhang settled the bill with Doctor Ma extra efficiently.

While paying the silver, she was also trying to ingratiate herself with Doctor Ma, hoping that he would agree to drop the ginseng from the prescription.

Doctor Ma naturally knew that peasants didn’t have much silver. After being harangued for a long time, he finally reluctantly agreed that he could substitute the ginseng for something cheaper and more affordable in two days.

This was his limit, after all, one can’t risk sending away a life that was barely snatched back just to save money, right?

Although Old Granny Zhang wished the ginseng could be removed tomorrow, it was, after all, her own son. Moreover, her daughter had just made some silver today, so after some thought, she accepted it.

It was only then that Wang Yongzhu wiped the cold sweat from her forehead. Thankfully, although Old Granny Zhang wasn’t very fond of Wang Yongfu, she hadn’t gone so far as to disregard a life just to save money.

Worried that Old Granny Zhang might become fixated on reducing the medicine if she stayed with Doctor Ma, Wang Yongzhu hurriedly expressed her thanks to Doctor Ma and dragged Old Granny Zhang out the door.

Old Granny Zhang also wanted to see how Eldest Brother was recovering, so without saying much, she followed the force of Wang Yongzhu’s pull and headed towards the back courtyard’s chamber.

They hadn’t gone far when they heard Lady Lin’s angry voice: "Jinguan, what did you say? Was it to take the fall for Laosi that your father got hurt? He’s suffered so much for him, and yet Laosi doesn’t even let you have one piece of meat to eat? Is there no justice in this world? Head of the household, look, you’ve suffered so much for Laosi, and he dared to bully your underage nephew while we were not home! What have I always told you, hmm? I said none of your brothers are good, all ungrateful wretches. For so many years, they’ve been eating and drinking from our Wang Family’s share, and now they’ve left you lying in bed, yet they can’t even spare a piece of meat for our Jinguan to eat! How are we, the main branch, supposed to live on like this? We may be destined to forever endure being bullied and knocked down by others~~

With that, she started wailing.

Wang Yongzhu’s brow twitched, was Lady Lin blaming this on Fourth Brother? Reading between the lines, was she accusing her parents of favoritism and her brothers of disrespect?

But were these allegations fair? To utter grievances just upon hearing a child’s few words?

Jinguan? Wang Yongzhu realized then, how could Jinguan be here?

As Wang Yongzhu was still wondering how Jinguan had come to town, Old Granny Zhang couldn’t hold back any longer.

She kicked open the door, rushed in, and saw Jinguan standing by the bed helplessly, with Lady Lin holding him while crying and scolding. On the bed, Wang Yongfu lay with a dim gaze, his eyes red and his chest heaving erratically. freeweɓnøvel~com

Upon seeing Old Granny Zhang storm in, Lady Lin was so scared that she stopped crying and forgot to scold, frozen in place.

Jinguan’s head shrank as he darted behind Lady Lin.

Wang Yongfu opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but then he closed it again, his eyes staring intently at Old Granny Zhang, gradually reddening.

"Smack—" Without saying a second word, Old Granny Zhang, with the swiftness of lightning, grabbed Jinguan and slapped him squarely across the face.

"I’m slapping some sense into you, you maggot-mouthing, troublemaking brat! What do you know? Running your mouth off like you know something? You think you’re smart, huh? A boy who’s supposed to be respectable, not learning anything good, but picking up your mother’s sharp-tongued, long-winded ways. Is it not shameful? Our Wang Family, for eight generations, has never seen such a clueless, babbling male—" With her smack, Jinguan covered his face and wailed, but Old Granny Zhang was still not pacified, hands on her hips, continuing to scold furiously.

Regaining her senses, Lady Lin pulled Jinguan behind her, protective like a hen with her chick, her face and neck flushing red as she confronted Old Granny Zhang, "Mother, aren’t you being too biased? It’s one thing to show partiality to my younger sister, but now our head of the family has suffered so much because of Laosi, and you haven’t said a word to us, keeping us in the dark. If Jinguan hadn’t cleverly come to tell us, wouldn’t we be complete fools? Just because he spoke a few truths, how could you be so ruthless to beat him to death?"

"Are you saying this because our head of the family has become disabled and can’t earn money to support the family anymore? Are you planning to abandon our family, fearing we’ll drag you down? The head of the family came from your womb, how can you be so heartless? Are you even his real mother? My mother-in-law was right; you are heartless. You were even harsher to our head of the family than a stepmother would have been! You neglected him right after giving birth, passed him to my mother-in-law to raise as soon as the confinement ended. When our head of the family grew up, you treated him like an ox or horse, making him toil and earn money for your expenses—"

Lady Lin, perhaps overwhelmed by the recent stresses and now seeing Jinguan beaten, completely lost control of her emotions and temporarily forgot her fear of Old Granny Zhang, letting loose a tirade of complaints.

Wang Yongzhu was a bit baffled by this barrage of significant information. Lady Lin’s words seemed to imply that there was some hidden story between Old Granny Zhang and Wang Yongfu?

She hurriedly turned her gaze towards Old Granny Zhang.

The usually fierce Old Granny Zhang now trembled in her extremities, her eyes reddening, looking as if she might faint.

Something was amiss—Wang Yongzhu internally exclaimed with alarm, moving forward to support Old Granny Zhang.

But she saw Old Granny Zhang grit her teeth and quickly stabilize herself. Without further ado, she pushed Lady Lin aside, walked to the bed, and stared fixedly at Wang Yongfu lying there: "Eldest Brother, who taught your wife to say these things? It was you, wasn’t it? It seems you hold a lot of resentment towards me, your mother, right from the day you were born. Do you regret being born in my womb? Every night, you and your wife curse me, wishing I would die, don’t you?"

At these words, Lady Lin shook uncontrollably and fear appeared on her face, now realizing the enormity and disrespect of what she had just blurted out in her anger.

Coming to her senses and seeing Old Granny Zhang’s livid expression, Lady Lin couldn’t help but fall to her knees, weakened.

Wang Yongfu clenched his teeth, yet said nothing, his eyes growing increasingly red, swirling with emotions that no one could fathom, ready to erupt.

Wang Yongzhu watched the mother and son, neither willing to back down, their looks not those of family but of enemies.

Suddenly, she had an ominous feeling—should Eldest Brother speak some ill-advised words at this juncture, the bond between him and Old Granny Zhang might be severed today.

And the Wang Family, she feared, might crumble into pieces.

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