CHAPTER 49: CHAPTER 49: COUGHING BLOOD

A gash appeared on Mrs. Chen’s forehead, and the blood paused for a moment on her thick brows before dripping down.

Mrs. Chen didn’t wipe it away, she just looked at Mrs. Zhou and pleaded, "Mother, can we count this silver as borrowed? I’ll write you an IOU, I promise I’ll pay you back in the future."

Mrs. Zhou sprang to her feet, "No, I’ve said there’s no silver!"

She was so angry at being pressured by Mrs. Chen, her chest was heaving. She waved her hand, "Divide, divide, this family should be split up quickly for peace, save your old mother from having to keep taking this anger."

Mrs. Chen tilted her head, "Fine, then we’ll split the family, Da Lang is still waiting for silver for medicine!"

Mr. Jiang finally shouted angrily, "Nonsense!"

"This family absolutely cannot be divided!"

Mrs. Chen knelt on the ground, "Then father, give me the silver."

It’s not her being unreasonable, she’s had enough of these days, her parents-in-law tightly controlled the family’s finances. If it weren’t for some dowry she had before, she wouldn’t even have money to buy hair oil.

She wished to split the family, even if life without labor would be difficult, but money would be in her own hands and used as needed, unlike this suffocation.

She was very clear that Mrs. Zhou had money, accumulated over the years, at least thirty to fifty taels of silver, but just couldn’t bear to take it out.

Mrs. Zhou began to howl, "This is forcing someone to death, where in the world is there such a daughter-in-law!"

"Oh heavens, why hasn’t such an evil woman been taken away!"

"Harbinger of demise! It was a mistake to let the eldest marry you, you brought death to him, to my Da Lang, and now San Lang isn’t doing well either, it’s all you, all because of you, harbinger of demise!"

Mrs. Chen knelt straight on the ground, she almost forgot, the term harbinger of demise was once hers.

Mr. Jiang stood up at this moment, "Stand up, I’ll go with you to the county first to see, then think of a way."

Only then did Mrs. Chen stand up.

Mr. Jiang walked ahead, Mrs. Chen followed behind.

At the courtyard gate, Mr. Jiang suddenly stopped, "Your head, you better wipe it with a cloth, it looks quite pitiful."

Mrs. Chen neither spoke nor wiped the blood from her head, she left the courtyard and went straight to the neighboring Zhao Lizheng’s house.

Mr. Jiang was startled, "Hey, where are you going?"

Could it be she’s going to talk to Zhao Lizheng about splitting the family?

Mrs. Chen said coldly, "Borrow silver."

Mrs. Chen went in for quite a while before coming out, and as soon as she came out, she got on the carriage.

Once on the carriage, Mrs. Chen sat inside, Mr. Jiang and the coachman sat outside.

After half an hour of bumping, they finally reached the county.

Mr. Jiang entered the clinic, first looked at Jiang Youzhi, who seemed to want to say something upon seeing the old man. He inadvertently glimpsed the wound on Mrs. Chen’s forehead, his heart jolted, and he opened his mouth, vomiting a mouthful of blood.

Mrs. Chen almost fainted from fright, rushing over and clumsily wiping Jiang Youzhi’s blood while shouting, "San Lang, don’t scare mother!"

Da Lang died from vomiting blood, how could this not terrify Mrs. Chen.

Yun Jiao was outside brewing medicine, she heard the commotion inside and got up to take a look, seeing a small pool of fresh blood before the couch.

Her brows furrowed, she had seen Doctor Li’s prescription, although it was symptomatic, it wasn’t considered good.

But no one called her to treat San Lang, she wouldn’t just barge in herself.

Even if she did barge in, people wouldn’t trust her, it would just be asking for trouble.

Mr. Jiang saw Jiang Youzhi vomiting blood and was also a bit panicked, he directed Jiang Hua, "Hurry to call the doctor over."

Doctor Li was called over quickly, took the pulse, and stood up, "This is an injury to the internal organs from falling off the building, there’s no other way, just take medicine."