Traveling through the 1970s: The young wife loves to make trouble

Chapter 311 Slowly Settling Accounts
Seeing Wei Jingyuan bending over to talk to Han Ying, Tao Qiuyi felt sorry for him, seeing such a tall person bending over like that.

Her gaze swept over the items in the bamboo house, finally settling on the stone stool. Tao Qiuyi walked over, intending to gently kick the stone stool over, but to her surprise, the stone stool did not budge.

His temper flared, and he kicked it, this time with too much force, causing the stone stool to fall to the ground with a thud.

The other three people in the room all turned to look at them.

"Are you alright?" Wei Jingyuan asked first.

"Sister, did that rock fall down and hit you?" Han Ying asked.

"How did that stone fall over?" Grandma Chen wondered.

"It's alright, the stone didn't hit me, I kicked it over." Tao Qiuyi answered the three people's questions with one sentence, without any extra explanation.

He casually rolled the stone stool to Wei Jingyuan's feet.

Seeing the round stone stool roll to his feet, Wei Jingyuan instantly understood Tao Qiuyi's intention. His wife had specially found him a stool to sit on because she saw him bending over to examine Han Ying.

He stepped on one end of the stone stool, flipped it up, sat down, and did it all in one smooth motion.

Grandma Chen and Han Ying were both stunned by what the two were doing. They knew better than anyone how heavy that stone stool was; it hadn't been moved since it was brought back and placed next to the table.

Why do they look like balls under their feet?
"Thank you." Wei Jingyuan stood up and looked at Tao Qiuyi, his deep eyes filled with tenderness. He was deeply moved; his wife really cared for him.

"Get to work quickly," Tao Qiuyi said, then stepped aside.

"Okay." Wei Jingyuan sat on the rock, his back ramrod straight. He looked at Han Ying and said, "Extend your hand, let me take your pulse first."

With his height advantage, Wei Jingyuan was much taller than Han Ying, who was lying on the bed, even when he was sitting.

"Okay." Han Ying lay flat on his back and extended his hand, waiting for Wei Jingyuan to finish taking his pulse before withdrawing it. He then politely thanked him, "Thank you, Doctor Wei."

Before Wei Jingyuan could say anything, Tao Qiuyi, who was standing next to him, said first: "Alright, stop thanking me. Let him examine you quickly. I still have some questions for you after the examination."

Han Ying is not only a well-behaved child, but also a smart one. Hearing Tao Qiuyi say this, she immediately thought of what had happened today.

"Does Sister want to ask about what happened today?" Han Ying asked Tao Qiuyi.

Tao Qiuyi said frankly, "Of course, you know best what happened today."

"Yes, I know best." Han Ying nodded.

Wei Jingyuan had already seen Han Ying's face, so there was no need to look at it again. Wei Jingyuan said to Han Ying, "Lift up your clothes, I want to see the wound on your stomach."

"Lift...lift your clothes..." Han Ying blinked in surprise.

He didn't lift his clothes, but glanced at Tao Qiuyi, then lowered his head shyly.

Seeing Han Ying's face slowly turn red, Wei Jingyuan realized that the little girl was shy because Tao Qiuyi was present. He turned to Tao Qiuyi and said, "You, turn around."

"I'm not in your way, why should I turn around?" Tao Qiuyi retorted without thinking.

Wei Jingyuan was quite angry at her words, but he still said, "If you stand here, Han Ying will be too embarrassed to lift his clothes and let me see the injury on his stomach."

"He's just a kid, what's there to be embarrassed about..." Tao Qiuyi was taken aback, and stopped herself from saying anything more.

People these days are generally conservative and precocious. Han Ying was a city kid, so she must have received a very good education from a young age.

Therefore, her words might hurt the child's self-esteem. Tao Qiuyi looked at Wei Jingyuan with annoyance, blaming him for reminding her too late, leaving her in a difficult situation.

Grandma Chen noticed her grandson's embarrassment and was about to comfort Han Ying.

Tao Qiuyi spoke up first to make amends, "Hanying, I'm sorry, I forgot you're a man now. It was wrong of me to still treat you like a child."

"No...it's okay." Han Ying accepted her apology, but he still felt shy because his feelings had been directly spoken.

Her face turned even redder, and Han Ying lowered her head, clutching the blanket covering her tightly with both hands.

Tao Qiuyi gave Wei Jingyuan a look that told him to clean up the mess, then immediately turned away. She wasn't embarrassed at all about leaving the matter to Wei Jingyuan.

Wei Jingyuan resigned himself to cleaning up after her, talking to Han Ying while examining her body.

Listening to what the two were saying, Tao Qiuyi looked up at the sky speechlessly.

A few minutes later, Wei Jingyuan finished examining Han Ying and covered him with a blanket.

"How is she? Dr. Wei, is Han Ying alright?" Grandma Chen asked hurriedly.

Wei Jingyuan stood up and said, "The injuries on my face are superficial; the ointment Qiuqiu gave me will heal them. The bruises on my stomach don't seem to be a problem yet, so let's apply the ointment she gave me first."

"Okay, okay, I'll remember," Grandma Chen replied repeatedly.

Wei Jingyuan turned to Tao Qiuyi and said, "Didn't you say you had something to ask Han Ying? Now come and ask her."

Since they had said so, Tao Qiuyi wouldn't waste her time. She looked at Han Ying, a smile on her face, "Han Ying, do you have the energy to answer my questions now?"

Han Ying nodded, and without Tao Qiuyi asking, he recounted what had happened in the bamboo house that day.

As Grandma Chen listened to Han Ying recount what had happened that day, she grew increasingly terrified. This wasn't the first time someone had broken into their house and vandalized it, but today was certainly the worst experience they'd ever had.

In the past, they only robbed and smashed things, without hurting anyone.

This time... not only did they hurt Han Ying, but they also beat up Old Tao, who was already injured and bedridden. Grandma Chen choked up and said, "I never thought they could be so cruel."

"They wouldn't even spare the children and the injured; how could they do such a thing!"

“To kill children and the injured is not human,” Tao Qiuyi said. “What’s done is done, and your sadness won’t change anything.”

"It's better to take good care of your health and wait to see those people get their comeuppance."

The word "retribution" shocked Grandma Chen so much that she forgot her grief and stared at Tao Qiuyi in disbelief. With the crackdown on feudal superstition so strict these days, how could she dare utter the word "retribution"?

"It's nothing, we'll head back now." After saying that, Wei Jingyuan and Tao Qiuyi picked up the herbs, pheasants, and rabbits they had thrown on the ground and left.

As I stepped out of the bamboo house, I saw Huang Hao and the old Party Secretary standing outside.

Huang Hao remained silent, while the old Party Secretary grabbed Wei Jingyuan and asked about Grandpa Tao and Han Ying's injuries. Wei Jingyuan didn't hide anything and told the truth: Han Ying had minor injuries, while Grandpa Tao had serious injuries.

Because of his advanced age, Grandpa Tao's leg and body injuries take at least two months to heal.

"Why didn't you mention that the old man was also injured?" Tao Qiuyi frowned as she looked at Wei Jingyuan. She only saw the injury on the old man's leg and didn't know that he was injured on his own.

Before Wei Jingyuan could answer, Tao Qiuyi looked at the old Party Secretary again, "I will deal with the people who came to vandalize the bamboo house today in due time."