Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11743

"Why was it premature? Something must have triggered it, right?" Yang Ruoqing asked again.

A melon falls from its vine when it is ripe; if a melon falls before it is ripe, it must be due to an external force.

Cao Bamei said, "I ate undercooked food, got an upset stomach, and went to the toilet so many times that my legs were weak. I tripped and bumped my stomach..."

I'm dizzy!

"If I'm not mistaken, was that half-cooked rice cooked by Fourth Aunt?"

Cao Bamei nodded, suppressing a laugh, "No one else could cook like that. Who else but our Fourth Aunt could do it! Asking her to go and take care of He'er is like asking a ditch for a needle in a haystack."

Wang Cuilian glanced at Cao Bamei: "I didn't feel comfortable asking back in Lijia Village. Didn't everyone say that your fourth aunt was there to keep He'er company? Didn't they say that she wasn't the one who cooked?"

This was mentioned by Liu herself when she came back to visit last time, saying that the cooking was done by the youngest son of the Li family.

At most, she only washes her and He'er's clothes. She doesn't even wash the clothes of the three Li brothers; they wash them in the middle of the night.

Her job was to keep He'er company, help her pour tea, and pass on messages.

“Aunt Cuilian, you didn’t understand before,” Cao Bamei explained. “Originally, it was Li’s third son who did the cooking. But these past two days, Li’s third son and eldest son took advantage of the rice harvest and had some free time, so they went to a neighboring town to do odd jobs picking cotton for a landlord. Li’s second son stayed at home.”

"Yesterday evening, Li Lao Er was working late and He'er was hungry, so Fourth Aunt went to the kitchen to stir-fry a plate of green beans for He'er. The green beans weren't cooked through, and that's probably when she ate them and got sick!"

"Is that so?" Wang Cuilian was speechless. "Like green beans, they're not like other ingredients. If they're not cooked thoroughly, they can cause problems. Something like that happened in our Changping Village before, sigh!"

Everyone present remembered what Wang Cuilian said.

Yang Ruoqing remembers it vividly.

Every year around the summer and autumn seasons, many strange things happen in the village.

For example, being bitten by a snake while working, having a leech crawl into your calf, or eating leftover or spoiled food and experiencing vomiting and diarrhea.

Another issue is lentil poisoning.

Every household likes to grow broad beans. Broad beans are very vigorous. Just throw two seeds in the corner of the wall, and wow, they will grow and climb the wall in no time, producing a bunch of flowers. The broad beans grow in clusters, and there are simply too many to eat.

However, many people don't know the trick to cooking green beans, or perhaps they're worried about wasting firewood at home, thinking that they can just roll them in the pot like cucumbers and that's it.

But that's not the case at all. Eating undercooked green beans can cause poisoning. They contain a trace element that, when accumulated little by little, can lead to abdominal bloating and pain, unstable blood pressure, palpitations, shortness of breath, vomiting, and diarrhea.

“Your fourth aunt isn’t a very good cook to begin with, and she’s even less skilled at making green beans. Alas, it’s just a pity for He’er. I heard she ate a whole plate of green beans, and then this happened,” Sun sighed.

Yang Ruoqing frowned. "He'er is the same. She's not a child who doesn't know any better. Can't she tell whether the green beans are raw or cooked?"

A normal person should know from the first bite that it's raw and inedible, and should put down their chopsticks.

Upon hearing Yang Ruoqing's question, Cao Bamei suddenly laughed.

“If you ask me, He’er deserved it,” Cao Bamei said. “Auntie used leftover braised pork to cook the green beans. He’er probably thought the green beans tasted like braised pork and thought they were good stuff, so she couldn’t bear to waste them. Plus, she was more than eight months pregnant, and the fetus was consuming a lot of energy every day, so she got hungry quickly. So she forced herself to eat them.”

"Because your fourth aunt was also eating with her, and your fourth aunt was eating while cooking, He'er probably saw that your fourth aunt was eating without any problems, so she ate without worry."

"As it turned out, Fourth Aunt was perfectly fine after eating it, but He'er got into trouble. Sigh, what a mess!"

When the group talked about this, they were all at a loss for words, unsure whether to laugh or cry, or to praise or scold.

Yang Ruoqing shook her head and smiled bitterly. He'er had given birth despite food poisoning, meaning she'd truly had a brush with death and endured all sorts of suffering. "So what's the situation now? Has she been taken to a clinic?" she asked.

Cao Bamei nodded: "It's been sent. Li Lao Er, Fourth Uncle, Fourth Aunt, and Third Uncle all went."

"Because my third and fourth uncles walked to Lijia Village, they used a handcart to spread out bedding and pull He'er and her child to the town."

"Why don't you come back and work on the horse-drawn carriage?" Wang Cuilian asked, puzzled.

Sun said, "It's said that going back and forth would take too much time, so it's better to go straight to the town from Lijia Village."

Wang Cuilian nodded.

Yang Ruoqing said, "So He'er's condition is that the poisoning hasn't been cured yet, right?"

“Yes, we’re going to town for detoxification,” Cao Bamei said. “We also need to check on other things, in case she has postpartum hemorrhage or something. Also, because the baby was premature, my third and fourth uncles are worried about her, so they’re bringing the baby along so the doctor can take a look and see if there’s anything weak and treat it.”

Well, both mother and child are suffering.

This fourth aunt...

"Auntie must have been scared this time, right?"

"She's scared my ass! She's still yelling that it wasn't her fault, that she's cooked green beans her whole life and no one has ever died from them, and that she ate from the same pot as He'er and she's perfectly fine. It's not about the green beans, it's something else..."

"Then her fourth uncle slapped her, shutting her up. She obediently went with him to town to serve him."

I got beaten up again...

Hey!
well played.

She doesn't act like a mother at all.

If it were any other mother, in this situation, she wouldn't even have the energy to argue about right and wrong.

How could they possibly have the mind to shift the blame?

She must be focusing all her attention on her daughter and grandson, afraid that something might happen to them, right?
Therefore, Aunt Si's beating really doesn't deserve any sympathy.

"I hope they, mother and child, are safe and sound!" Yang Ruoqing said.

That evening, the two brothers, Yang Huazhong and Yang Huaming, returned.

Kang, the boy from next door, also came back with them.

Yang Huazhong arrived at the Luo family's residence, while Yang Huaming and Kang Xiaozi went to the new courtyard of the fourth house next door to discuss matters.

On the Luo family's side, Yang Huazhong brought back the latest situation of He'er to Yang Ruoqing and the others.

“He’er was indeed poisoned. She vomited up beans at the clinic.”

"Currently, there aren't any major issues with the gynecology department; nothing we're worried about has happened."

The "worries" Yang Huazhong mentioned refer to postpartum hemorrhage, etc.

"That's good. As long as those things don't happen, there's nothing to worry about!" said Mrs. Sun.

"Where's the baby? Is the baby stable?" This was what Yang Ruoqing was concerned about, because as she asked this question, Nini was being held in her arms and coaxed to sleep.