HCB Chapter 118 Someone Drowned
Chapter 118 Someone Drowned
Usually they are accompanied by older children. If there is no one to take care of them, it will not be long before you see a parent coming over with a bamboo stick in his hand, looking menacing.
After enjoying another lively version of stir-fried bamboo shoots with pork, Yu Qingxu pushed his bicycle slowly forward.
It was already afternoon, and the residual heat from the scorching sun was still strong. Yu Qingtang felt himself sweating whenever he moved.
The breeze from the river was cool, so she wanted to walk slowly along the road.
As she walked, she heard terrified screams coming from below the river.
"what--"
It was the scream of an adult. After a while, an aunt who looked somewhat familiar stumbled up from the river bank.
As she ran, she shouted, "Oh no! Oh no! The third daughter-in-law of the Lin family has drowned."
There was a group of children following behind her. Some of them were naked and ran up to her, shouting along with her:
"Oh no! Oh no! The third daughter-in-law of the Lin family has drowned."
Soon a group of people gathered by the river, and the team leader ran over with beads of sweat on his forehead.
The body of the third daughter-in-law of the Lin family had been fished out and placed by the river.
She must have died not long ago, her body was not swollen, but her face was pale.
The captain saw a group of children by the river and said to someone, "Hurry up and take the children back."
"Where are the Lins? Has anyone come?"
Someone answered, "He hasn't come yet. We sent someone to call him."
Every summer, a few people always drown, and most of them are children.
The team leader kept reminding everyone in the team to take good care of their children. As a result, the child was fine, but an adult drowned.
The problem is that no one knows when the person drowned. What if... what if he was killed by someone, their team will be in big trouble.
The adults from the old Lin family were late, so a pair of twins around five years old came running over and cried and threw themselves on the body of the third daughter-in-law of the Lin family, calling for their mother.
The captain asked angrily, "Where are the other members of the Lin family?"
The person who called the person over wiped his sweat and said, "I went to his house and didn't see anyone else, just two children playing on the lawn."
"Ah!"
The captain sneered: "Others are fine, but I don't believe that old lady Lin is not at home."
I don’t know why, but there are always some mothers-in-law in the team who are nice to everyone else, but treat their own daughters-in-law like enemies.
"Carry the person back. She is their daughter-in-law. They have to collect the body."
Several men found a large wooden board, laid the body flat on it, covered it with a piece of cloth, and carried it to Lao Lin's house.
The few people carrying the corpse walked in the front. The children had been sent back long ago, and the others followed behind in shock and fear.
Yu Qingtang was also among the group of people at the back. Aunt Xu saw her and asked her to go back quickly.
"If you can avoid joining in on this lively gathering, go back home."
Yu Qingtang asked her in a low voice: "Aunt Xu, what's going on with the Lin family? Why didn't any of the adults come to the house?"
Aunt Xu curled her lips and said, "I guess the rest of the family has gone to work and hasn't come back yet. As for her mother-in-law Cao Chunhua, humph, I think she is just too guilty to come, so she is hiding at home."
As soon as Yu Qingtang heard her tone, he knew there was something going on and became even more reluctant to leave.
The story of Cao Chunhua had actually spread throughout the village a long time ago, but Yu Qingtang and the others were new here and didn't know about it.
"Cao Chunhua married into Gaolitun right after me. The Lin family had been a single-line family for several generations. When she first married in, the Lin family hoped that she would give birth to a big fat grandson. But she gave birth to several daughters in a row. Her mother-in-law was not happy and started to bully her."
When talking about the past, Aunt Xu also sighed: "Alas, the Lin family has been a single-line family for several generations, and it is not easy to have children, so there are some secret recipes for having children handed down from ancestors."
"Cao Chunhua ate a lot of centipedes, ants, scorpions and all kinds of grass. We were scared just by looking at them."
"At that time, she was treated like a slave in the landlord's house. She did the most work and ate the least. Sometimes she was so hungry that she fainted outside."
"The few new brides who married to Gaolitun Brigade couldn't stand it and secretly sent her food."
"Later, I don't know if the food she ate worked, but she actually gave birth to three more sons in one year. Now she has a strong position in the old Lin family, and her mother-in-law has to endure her anger occasionally."
Yu Qingtang shuddered when he heard this and said quickly, "How can those things be useful? Whether you have a son or a daughter depends on fate."
Aunt Xu sighed and said, "That's right, she wasn't the only one who ate that thing, but no one else gave birth to a son."
"Cao Chunhua's life got better after that. We didn't think much of it at first, but when her son grew up and started his own family and we saw how she treated her daughters-in-law, we realized something was wrong."
"Her mother-in-law treated her like this because she gave birth to several daughters. But she, on the other hand, has never let her daughter-in-law rest for a single day since the first day she came into the family. She has never given her a confinement period, regardless of whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl."
"His eldest daughter-in-law is her niece from her mother's side. Her sister-in-law from her mother's side has been making trouble for her many times because of this matter."
Yu Qingtang was amazed when he heard this. This Cao Chunhua was either pushed to the extreme and then rebounded, or she was a little crazy.
Or maybe it's just her nature, but she was the weakest one before, and there was no one weaker for her to bully, so it didn't seem like she was that kind of person.
As they were talking, they had already arrived at the Lin family.
Cao Chunhua hid in the house, and the captain knocked on the door, but she refused to open it.
Aunt Xu commented: "She knows that she is not good to her daughter-in-law."
The captain suppressed his temper and said coldly: "Cao Chunhua, open the door for me quickly."
"How can a mother-in-law collect the body of her daughter-in-law? Doesn't she have a son? Let her son collect her body."
Cao Chunhua's voice was buzzing inside.
Letting the son of Lin family's third daughter-in-law collect her body, how ridiculous is that? The two children are only five years old and are still crying.
The captain was too lazy to talk to him anymore and turned to ask others.
"Where are the other members of the Lin family? Call them back."
"Someone has already called."
So a group of people blocked the door of Lin's house. There was a dead man lying on the ground, and it was difficult for others to talk.
The atmosphere was deadlocked for a while, and then a middle-aged woman hurried over.
When he saw the corpse covered with a cloth lying on the wooden board, he threw himself on the corpse and burst into tears.
"This is Lin Qiuhong, the aunt of the Lin family," Aunt Xu whispered to Yu Qingtang.
"Cao Chunhua is the younger sister of her husband. After giving birth to her son, Cao Chunhua was only thinking about getting back at her mother-in-law. She didn't care much about her children. Her three sons, including the first three daughters, were raised by their aunt Lin Qiuhong."
Now that Lin Qiuhong is here, she is finally someone who can take charge.