The neighbors in the yard are either Yu Hai and his daughter-in-law's good friends, or the neighbors who live closely. For the second child of the Yu family who was seriously injured and carried home, Zhang's hiding, and Zhang's crying and poor behavior when it comes to medical fees and medicine money, they have not seen it uncommon.

The daughter-in-law couldn't help but feel a little sad in her heart. She had heard the elders in her family talk about the Zhang family. Zhang's is the old Yutou's house-filling, and she is cousins with Yu Hai's deceased mother. Back then, Zhang's new widow was driven out by the ruthless in-laws and sisters-in-law, but Yu Hai's mother, who was sick and lying in bed, kindly took her in. Later, Yu Hai's mother fell ill and passed away, and the old Yu Tou saw that Zhang's care for Yu Hai's sister and brother was quite dedicated, so he continued to fill the house.

The eldest Yu Dashan was brought over by the Zhang family, and he was only two months older than Yu Hai. The third Yu Bo and daughter Yu Caidie were born to the Zhang family and the old Yu Tou.

When Yu Hainiang was there, Zhang's pretended to treat Yu Hai's sisters and brothers better than his own son, and when Yu Hainiang was dying, he would entrust a son and a daughter to Zhang. But not long after Yu Hainiang passed away, Zhang's true face was exposed.

Under the pretext that the situation at home is not good, he only gives Yu Hai's sisters and brothers a porridge and a small piece of bean cake that is so rare that they can show the shadow of a person every day. In front of Lao Yutou, he pretended that everyone ate the same, but kept good things, and secretly stuffed a small stove for his children at night.

Because he was hungry, Yu Hai climbed trees to dig birds' eggs, picked wild fruits, and went to the beach to pick up small fish and shrimp...... When he was older, he learned to catch small wild animals such as pheasants and hares in the mountains.

He is pure and filial, and he never keeps the pheasants and hares he catches, but takes them home for his father to pack up and eat with the family. Zhang's picked out the chicken and rabbit legs for his children to eat, and those places where there was not much meat could be the turn of the Yu Hai sisters and brothers. When Lao Yutou talked about her, she also said that the third child and the youngest daughter are young, and the second child should let the younger siblings ......

When he was a teenager, Yu Hai followed the old Yu Tou out to sea to fish, and within two years he became one of the few good fishers in the village.

Yu Hai also often went up the mountain to hunt with Zhao Lihu in the village, and every time he could bring back some prey. Most of the time, the Zhang family was reluctant to eat at home, and most of them were sold in the town for silver, and they were tightly covered in their pockets.

Gradually, the Yu family moved out of the dilapidated ancestral house on the side of the mountain, built five mud-tiled houses in the east of the village near the sea, and replaced the broken fishing boats with new ones in the past two years. Because of Yu Hai's ability, the Yu family has jumped from a well-known poor household in the village to a middle-class family with some surplus.

Zhang held the family's silver money, and no one wanted to pull out a copper plate from her hand. Even the family's vegetable money is calculated and calculated, every day the coarse grain cake bean porridge is pickled, or the vegetables grown in their own vegetable garden, boiled with water, and even the oil is not willing to put it. Except for the New Year, there is no trace of meat at home.

Even the poorest and poorest families in the village are better fed and warmer than his family. Who in the village doesn't know that the old lady of the Yu family is a rat drilling oil pot - the master who has in and out of the house.

The eldest daughter-in-law, Li's mother's family, is close to her family, and her family is good, and the Zhang family almost took out all the family resources as a dowry for the eldest son. Li took the child back to his parents' house every once in a while to make a tooth sacrifice, and when he came back, he always carried a large bag and secretly carried it into his room. Zhang only turned a blind eye. Therefore, both mother and son have eaten into a body shape - spherical, which is like the daughter-in-law and children in the second room with yellow faces and thin muscles?

Liu is Yu Hai's own match, and he asked his father to ask someone to talk about the matchmaker. At that time, the daughter of the grocery store owner in the town, who was fat, ugly and pockmarked, took a fancy to the tall, handsome and capable Yu Hai, and had already invited someone to tell Zhang that he would not give a dowry, and he would marry thirty taels of silver.

For ordinary families like the Yu family in the fishing village, the cost is only three or five taels of silver a year. Although the income from fishing every day is not bad, the third child has to pay the aftermath, and he has to prepare the money for the county examination in the future. The youngest daughter should also start saving the dowry...... Thirty taels of silver, for the Yu family at that time, was a lot of money, and the Zhang family was of course tempted.

Just as she was about to agree to this family business, the family affairs of Yu Hai and the Liu family over there had already been decided. The Liu family's background is average, and the family affairs of several elder brothers have just been completed, and it is not easy to scrape together a dowry of a few taels of silver, which is naturally far worse than the thirty taels of dowry of the grocery store owner. The thirty taels of silver in his hand flew like this, and the Zhang family naturally looked at how the Liu family was not pleasing to the eye.

After Liu's door, the burden of cooking and laundry, cutting grass and collecting firewood, feeding chickens and pigs, and packing up two acres of sandy land all fell on her. Even when she was pregnant, Zhang didn't let her be idle, and scolded her all day long.

When the youngest son Shi Shi was not out of confinement, he sent her to wash clothes in the frozen river, and fell ill. Every winter and rainy day, I cough non-stop, sometimes I cough so much that I can't breathe, and my face turns purple. A few times, they almost died.

Liu's illness, every year to see a doctor to take medicine, spend a sum of money, plus Yu Xiaocao was born sick and weak, three days and two sick, every time Zhang paid for the mother and daughter to see a doctor, it was like being dug up the ancestral grave. The old lady pointed to Sang and scolded Huai every day, saying that she had raised two medicine jars and bottomless pits of Liu's and Xiaocao......

In the past, for the sake of Yu Hai's ability to make money, although the Zhang family was nagging, he didn't dare not take the money when it came time to give out the medicine.

But today, Yu Hai was urged by the Zhang family to follow Zhao Bufan, a good hunter in the village, to go hunting in Xishan, and accidentally alarmed the blind bear who woke up from hibernation in the cave. In order to save Zhao Orion, Yu Hai's leg was bitten by the blind bear, and his back was also scratched to the flesh and blood, and he saw that he only had air out but no air in.

He is also considered fateful, and if his blood vessels are about to break, he can hold on until he invites a doctor from the town, thinking that the most famous doctor in the town will bring good news to everyone. But when Dr. Sun from Tongrentang saw it, he shook his head again and again and said, "Do everything you can to obey the destiny of heaven", and the medicine was reluctantly prescribed.

A pair of medicine costs nearly one or two pieces of silver, and it may not be able to save the life of the second child of the Yu family. How was Zhang willing to let the silver he had saved so hard go down the drain? Think about it, if Yu Hai can't wake up, the weak and weak family, and the sick will be a burden on the Yu family in the future. If Yu Hai amputates his leg and survives by luck, he can only become a burden to his family if he loses a leg.

The daughter-in-law of the bolt pillar has already seen through it: if the Zhang family can call the shots, needless to say, she will definitely hate to sweep the Yu Hai family out of the house immediately, but there is an old man who is pressing, and she is afraid that the people in the village will say it, so she doesn't dare to blatantly bring it up.

Alas! How should Yu Hai make a living under the Zhang family in the future? The daughter-in-law can't help but worry about them!

The smell of blood wafted in the air, and Yu Hai lying on the bed was like gold paper, and he could barely feel his breathing. Last time, he could earn at least four or five hundred wen in the mountains, but his body was only covered with a worn-out quilt that was washed white and sewn with patches.

The west room was dark and suffocating, with a kang taking up most of the space, a rattan box of some years at the head of the bed, and a table beside the bed that had been reinforced with many wooden strips, and that's it. Yu Hai and his wife, who are the main laborers of the family, have several children, all of whom are crammed into this house.

Yu Hai is still there, and the second room is treated like this, what if ......

"Hurry up and pay for the medicine to Dr. Sun!" The old man who was pulled into the main house by the Zhang family suddenly became louder. The neighbors in the courtyard looked at each other - could it be that this Zhang clan had to tear off even the last bit of skin, and he didn't even give Yu Hai the medicine?

"That's five taels of silver! The doctor also said that eating may not work!! Doesn't Xiaocao have Dr. You's medicine box? Grab some from it and eat it, and ask for peace of mind? Five taels of silver, enough for three children for a month's pen and ink! Zhang's low roar was like a mother beast guarding her cubs.

Old Man Yu's voice came again: "How much silver do you have in your hand, I still don't know?" Where there is a glimmer of hope, we must also make a final effort. Otherwise, can you pass with your conscience? Aren't you afraid that the grass and stones will complain about you? ”

Zhang was not to be outdone: "It's not that I don't save myself when I see death, other doctors have said that taking medicine doesn't have much effect, why spend that unjust money?" Let's save some money and raise the child for the second child......"

The old couple argued in the house, and the neighbors in the courtyard looked at the west house sympathetically and shook their heads.

"Uncle Yu-" The courtyard gate of the Yu family walked into a heroic man with a tiger's back and a bear's waist, and he was Zhao Bufan Zhao Orion, who was rescued by Yu Hai today.

Zhang heard his voice and burst out of the house with a "whoosh". She was thin, but her strength was not small, she grabbed Zhao Bufan's clothes, and shouted hoarsely:

"Okay, you Zhao Orion! If it weren't for you today, how could our family Yu Hai lie on the kang and his life and death are unknown? I don't care! The second child of our family is here to save you from being injured, and your Zhao family should pay for this medicine! Also, if the second child has a case, the orphans and widows in the second room, your Zhao family doesn't want to leave it alone! ”

said a thousand ways and ten thousand, Zhang has never cared about Yu Hai's life or death, the only thing she cares about is money, money, money!

"Auntie, don't worry! Brother Yu Hai blocked this catastrophe for me, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid I would have died a long time ago! I, Zhao Bufan, stand up to the sky and the earth, and I will never do something ungrateful! The blind bear who injured the Yu Hai brothers has been killed, and I dragged it to the town and sold it......"

Before Zhao Bufan finished speaking, he was interrupted by the greedy Zhang family: "Brother Zhao, if you have something to say in the house, please come in!" ”

A blind bear, not to mention the fur and bear bile, but also the bear's paw and bear meat, can not be sold to the town