Chapter 52: Wasn’t Lin Nan Taken As A Disciple By The Doctor In Town?
Everyone was stunned by this scene. An elder aunt reacted the fastest, hurriedly sending someone to call the Lin family and the village midwife, while she herself quickly walked up to Zhou Shi to check her condition.
At this moment, Zhou Shi only felt her belly aching as if a knife was twisting inside, with something continuously sinking downward, and waves of scalding hot fluid surging out from below. She suddenly felt extremely frightened in her heart. Her child, this was a son, her only hope—he couldn’t have anything happen to him.
The elder aunt saw Zhou Shi’s face drain of color, her head and face covered in cold sweat, her eyes bulging, her mouth emitting intermittent groans, occasionally spilling out a word or two of delirium, as if her mind was no longer clear. Her heart sank, and she hurriedly shouted toward the onlookers: “I see her condition isn’t right. Who will go call the doctor to take a look!”
Someone ran off to call the doctor, and a few kind-hearted women came over to help comfort Zhou Shi.
Lin Duo stood not far away watching Zhou Shi writhe in pain on the ground, her gaze cold and tinged with madness.
Lin Laosan arrived, Xu Shi arrived, the midwife arrived, and the old doctor was also found.
Zhou Shi’s skirt was already soaked through with blood. Her face was ghastly pale, her head drenched in sweat, her hair disheveled and sticking to her face in strands. Her hands tightly clutched her belly, her mouth murmuring nonstop: “Son, my son, I want a son······”
The midwife walked up to her, saw the blood all over the ground, and her expression changed. She muttered softly: “So much blood has flowed; this child must have already come down!”
The old doctor wanted to take Zhou Shi’s pulse, but no matter what he couldn’t pull her hands away from her abdomen. He could only take her pulse while she clutched her belly. After a long time, he finally released her hand with a long sigh: “The child has already fallen out, and the blood won’t stop flowing. I can’t treat this condition either. You should hurry and send her to the town medical hall. If you’re too late, I’m afraid even the mother won’t be saved.”
Lin Duo had been listening intently with her ears perked up. When she heard the old doctor’s conclusion, she froze for a moment, then suddenly burst into mad laughter, laughing so hard she doubled over.
“Hahaha······ You kept going on about son, son all day every day. Now your son is gone—let’s see what you do! Hahaha······”
Lin Laosan was dumbfounded. He never imagined how their perfectly fine life had turned into this. The son was gone, and the daughter had gone mad too.
“Laosan, hurry and take your wife to town to find a doctor. If you’re too late, it will be too much,” the old doctor said, seeing him standing there dumbfounded, and urged him again.
“Go to town,” Lin Laosan turned his head and looked blankly at the old doctor. “Right, go to town, find a doctor. My son can’t have anything happen to him. I’ll go right now.”
He turned to run and find an ox cart, but instead collided head-on with Xu Shi supporting Old Madam Lin as they approached. Old Madam Lin slapped him across the face with her palm. “What are you rushing off to do in such a panic?”
“Mother, I have to take her to town to find a doctor, or if I’m late, my son will be gone.” Lin Laosan clutched his face as he looked at Old Madam Lin.
“Go where? Does finding a doctor not cost money! Didn’t the doctor say the child has already fallen out? Which woman hasn’t lost a child before? Why go to town to find a doctor for that?” After speaking, she walked up to the old doctor, rolling her triangular eyes as she said:
“I say, Third Brother, after all, he’s a younger member of the clan. You can’t cheat our family’s Laosan like this. His wife just lost a child—how come you can’t treat it! Are you just refusing to treat us? I tell you, if something happens to my daughter-in-law today, it’ll be on you.”
The old doctor was so angry his beard stood on end. He shakily stood up. “Cheat your family’s Laosan? Lin Lao Nian Er’s family, you have to speak with conscience. I already said her blood won’t stop, and told you to send her to the town medical hall but you wouldn’t. Why blame me if something happens to her?”
By this time, Zhou Shi was already ice-cold all over and in a semi-comatose state. Lin Laosan ran over and knelt before Old Madam Lin, pleading: “Mother, let me take my wife to town. She’s about to die!”
Old Madam Lin rolled her eyes and glared at him irritably. “You say it so easily. If you want to go to town, fine, but pay for it yourself! This old woman has no money to waste on this hen that won’t lay eggs.”
Lin Duo, listening from the side, laughed even harder. “Dad, did you see? Grandma’s money is all saved up for Eldest Cousin Brother and Yang Ge’er! Mom is about to die and she still won’t take it out to save her life. Did you see my elder aunt’s smiling face? And yet you still want to sell me off to Eldest Cousin Brother for betrothal gifts money. Isn’t that ridiculous?”
“Wow!” The surrounding villagers watching the spectacle had their eyes opened once again. The Old Lin Family really dared to do anything!
At this moment, someone in the crowd said: “Isn’t Lin Nan taken as a disciple by the doctor in town?”
This sentence reminded everyone, and they began offering advice to Lin Laosan one after another: “Laosan, why don’t you beg Lin Xin to take you to find Lin Nan’s master. No money needed and he can still treat the illness.”
“Yeah, isn’t there that saying about healers······ what was it? Oh right, healers have parents’ hearts. He’ll surely be able to treat your wife well.”
Lin Laosan also seemed to see a glimmer of hope, looking expectantly toward Lin Xin.
Lin Xin coldly glanced at the crowd. The people who had been eagerly suggesting ideas to Lin Laosan suddenly felt a chill rise from their feet under her gaze, and one by one they shut their mouths.
Lin Laosan hesitated too, remembering that merciless kick last time.
Lin Zhi had been hiding somewhere not daring to come over earlier, but now she suddenly rushed forward and knelt before Lin Xin, even trying to hug her leg, but Lin Xin stepped back to dodge it.
She lowered her head to look at this girl who had no presence in the Lin Family just like the original owner, and asked indifferently: “What do you want to do?”
Lin Duo seemed very frightened and shrank back a little, then raised her head to look at Lin Xin, “Cousin Sister, no, Lin Xin Older Sister, can you let Nan Nan go beg his Master to save my mom?”
Lin Xin kept staring into her eyes, and easily saw the unease and anxiety inside, but there was no worry for Zhou Shi at all, instead it was full of······schemed against, yes, schemed against.
“Lin Xin Older Sister, is it okay?” Lin Zhi asked timidly again, with the volume just right to let the nearby villagers hear, and with her panicked and uneasy expression, it forcibly made Lin Xin look like someone who refused to save a life.
“Hehe,” Lin Xin suddenly laughed, the smile cold and not reaching her eyes, “Lin Zhi, do you really want to save your mom?”
“I······” Lin Zhi was still young after all, and was immediately scared by Lin Xin’s gaze; she felt Lin Xin’s gaze was like a sharp sword, slicing open her body and also her heart, exposing all those dark and unspeakable thoughts in her heart.
“You played this trick very well, moral kidnapping! If I agree, I can’t shake off your family anymore, if I don’t agree, it shows I’m refusing to save a life, schemed against very well!” Lin Xin sneered coldly, “It’s just a pity you miscalculated one thing; moral kidnapping only works on people with morals, and I happen to be the one without morals, so you can’t kidnap me.”
After speaking, her gaze locked onto a young lady wearing a pink cotton cloth dress in the crowd, “He Luan’er, do you know what they call ‘disaster comes from the mouth’?”
Panic flashed across He Luan’er’s face; she never expected that even after hiding in the place with the most people to dare speak, she was still spotted by Lin Xin at a glance—how were her eyes so sharp!
“No, I······” As soon as she opened her mouth, a black thing “whoosh” flew into her mouth, a fishy, stinky, and salty taste assaulting her taste buds, making her unable to hold back anymore and she vomited wildly with a “wah.”
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