Lijiagou is really poor, especially compared with Xiwang Village. It is hard to believe that the two villages are less than 30 miles apart. It is no exaggeration to describe it as one in the sky and the other in the ground.
They lived in the house of the village head, with a courtyard wall made of mud and three tile-roofed houses covered with straw and surrounded by straw to keep warm. There were a dozen chickens and two pigs fed in the yard. It stinks, but it is already a mansion admired by everyone in the village.
Sitting in the yard was a young woman, who seemed to be no older than thirty years old, but already thin and rough. She was the daughter-in-law of the village chief and had given birth to two boys.
She was feeding the chicken with a winnow, her face was expressionless and her eyes were numb.
Su Tian watched her for a long time, watching her mechanically get up to sweep the yard, make breakfast, feed the pigs, feed the chickens...but she never looked back.
The two dirty boys also looked at Su Tian from afar, pushing me and pushing you back, not daring to step forward.
Su Tian noticed and smiled at them, and the two boys immediately got the courage to come together.
The elder brother is called Dazhu, and the younger brother is called Erzhu, both surnamed Li.
Dazhu plucked up his courage and said, "You are so pretty, can you be my daughter-in-law in the future?"
Erzhu: "I will earn a lot of money in the future, can you also be my daughter-in-law?"
Dazhu pushed the second pillar, "This is what I saw first."
Erzhu was not convinced, "My father and father said that I will make a lot of money in the future! I am richer than you!"
Su Tian ignored the two children and continued to stare at the woman.
The village chief took Yu Cai and Bai Qiyuan out to check for toxins, but Su Tian didn't follow and stayed at home temporarily. In addition to the woman and a child in the family, there is also the woman's mother-in-law.
Su Tian looked at the woman, and her mother-in-law stared at Su Tian.
The two children didn't get a result, so they asked Su Tian who to choose from the two of them.
Su Tian finally smiled and said, "I will choose whoever of you can be admitted to the university."
Hearing Su Tian's words, the woman's movement of feeding the chicken froze for a moment.
Su Tian glanced at the woman and smiled at the two boys.
The two brothers were in a daze. What they were taught since they were young was to earn money to buy a beautiful daughter-in-law. This is the first time they heard that you can have a daughter-in-law without earning money to go to college.
What is it to be admitted to university? is it hard
Su Tian continued: "However, when you enter university, you will find that there are many girls who are prettier than me."
"Dazhu and Erzhu, come here." The old man in the hall suddenly shouted, his tone not very good.
The two children hurried in. The old man looked at Su Tian warily, and said to his grandson, "Play inside."
The brothers didn't go out again, but their eyes kept looking outside.
"Grandma, how much money can I earn to buy..."
Da Zhu was glared at by the old man before he finished speaking, and he immediately shut up, saying that when outsiders were around, he would be beaten if he said buying a wife.
Erzhu also secretly looked at Su Tian, he wanted Su Tian to be his wife, she was the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.
But Su Tian said he wanted him to go to college... What exactly is going to college
When the medical team came back in the evening, Su Tian rushed up to meet him and asked, "Is there any result?"
Yu Cai took the sampling bottle from the researcher and handed it to Su Tian, saying, "It's in the well water."
There are two shared wells in Lijiagou, one at the east end and one at the west end. Those who are not poisoned live in the west end of the village. They have almost never tasted the water from the east end well, and in the countryside, well water is the most likely place to be poisoned.
Yu Cai's goal from the beginning was there, and it really lived up to his expectations.
The village chief followed behind, with a dry pipe in his mouth, with a very ugly face, and said in a hateful voice: "It must be that little bastard from Mr. Li's family who did it!"
At this time, the village head's wife also came with her two grandchildren, and she was surprised when she heard this, and said, "No way, Duofu is honest, and where did he get the poison?"
Yu Cai's eyes moved slightly, "How blessed?"
Village head: "Li Laosan's youngest son ran away not long ago. As soon as he ran away, people in the village began to get sick. He must have been poisoned and fled in fear of crime."
Yu Cai: "What's your name?"
Village head: "What a blessing, Li Duofu. But this little bastard refuses to admit that his name is Li Duofu, so he insists on calling his mother Ye Luo..."
Bai Qiyuan followed behind Yu Cai without any sense of presence. Half of his attention was on the village head's daughter-in-law who was sweeping the yard. There was a pinhole camera on the button of her clothes, recording every move of the woman.
He didn't raise his eyes to look at Su Tian until he heard the word Ye Luo.
When You Pinyan told him about Xiaomi before, he mentioned this name. This name is not Zhang San Li Si Wang Wu, but a small Xiwang Village and Lijiagou, so there should be no duplication of names, it should be the same person.
But Su Tian still had a cute and ignorant smile on his face, as if he had never heard of Ye Luo.
Bai Qiyuan, he has to tell Ji Shaoheng, this Su Tian is really weird.
The medical team made their own lunch. When they came, they brought food, vacuum-packed military rations, which could be eaten after heating. They only needed to borrow the village chief’s yard.
The food of the medical team was very good, big chunks of beef and shrimp, so hungry that the two children kept looking here.
The woman coaxed them numbly, although it didn't work.
Su Tian and Bai Qiyuan looked at each other, and finally the village chief's family came over to eat together.
During the meal, Yu Cai and Bai Qiyuan discussed the next work. Since it was confirmed that it was poisoning, they must report the case. After the police intervened, they could find the source of the toxin and go back to study with the samples.
Bai Qiyuan asked Yu Cai: "If we leave overnight the day after tomorrow, will there be enough time?"
Yu Cai nodded: "No accident, there should be time."
Su Tian: "Should we still walk from the east end of the village? The road is not very good."
They came from the east when they came.
The village head quickly said: "Go from Xitou, just behind my house, there is a road that can also lead to the village, but it is a little farther."
Bai Qiyuan smiled: "Don't be afraid, we drive as long as the road is good."
While talking, the woman still lowered her head, numbly eating her food while looking after her two children.
After dinner, the village head's wife and two grandchildren went to the main house. The village head took Yu Cai and the others to find a place to live. Many people in the village fell ill, and many houses were vacated, so they didn't have to worry about having no place to live.
The members of the medical team went to clean up, and Su Tian stayed with the woman to clean up the disposable tableware that everyone had used.
The woman finally said: "There's no need to clean it up, save it for the pigs."
There is still a lot of leftovers in the box.
Su Tian paused, smiled and poured the leftovers together, and asked casually, "Sister, your accent is from H province, you married so far away."
The woman was stunned for a moment, opened her mouth, then lowered her head after a long while, and muttered: "Yes."
Su Tian: "What a coincidence, I'm also from H province."
There was a flash of fluctuation in the woman's numb eyes, and she asked with some hesitation: "I hear your accent, it's from the imperial capital..."
Su Tian spoke a dialect of H Province, and said with a smile: "They are all from the imperial capital, so I had no choice but to follow the Romans. In fact, I grew up in H Province."
The woman buried her head and started packing her things.
Su Tian asked again: "Sister, where is your house? It's almost Chinese New Year, do you want to go home and have a look?"
The woman said in a muffled voice, "From City S."
Su Tian: "Ah, what a coincidence, my home is also in city S. You know about the twin towers, right? This year the government almost demolished the twin towers, but thanks to everyone's collective protest, they were not demolished."
The woman raised her eyes, her eyes flickering. Of course she didn't know that she had no news from her hometown for a long, long time.
Su Tian: "... I was still there at the time, and there was an old couple whose house was next to the Twin Pagodas. They refused to let it be demolished, saying that they would wait for their daughter to come back..."
The woman quivered her lips and asked, "Where's their... daughter?"
Su Tian: "I don't know, maybe I'm working in another place."
The woman stopped talking, and quickly cleaned up the things on the table. Su Tian didn't speak anymore, and helped her pack the leftovers for feeding the pigs tomorrow.
As soon as it was packed, there was a knock on the door. It was half dark at this time. The boy took off his hat, mask and gloves, and stood at the door refreshingly.
He withdrew his hand, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up: "Tiantian, it's time to go back to sleep."