Chapter 103 Antidote Pills
Seeing that Qianhuan didn't say anything, Wu Qiang quickly asked, "Aunt, I've told you all the deadly evidence against Cuihua. Can you give me the antidote for the March Heartbreak Grass now?"
He continued with a frightened look on his face, "I feel like I'm getting weaker and weaker lately. Could it be that the poisonous weed has started to take effect early?"
"Tell Sun Wang's mother about Cuihua drinking the contraceptive medicine. After you've dealt with this matter, come back to me and I'll give you the antidote."
When Wu Qiang heard that he couldn't be given the antidote yet, he immediately became anxious: "Oh, auntie, I beg you, please be kind and give me the antidote now. What if the poisonous grass takes effect prematurely and I bleed to death?"
Wu Qiang was afraid that he would bleed to death at any time, so he continued to beg: "Auntie, please have mercy on me and give me the antidote quickly. I will never dare to provoke you again."
Qianhuan had never expected to meet Wu Qiang today. She didn't have any antidote to give him. "Don't worry, this poisonous weed won't take effect prematurely. You won't die for a while. As long as you tell the Sun family about this, I will give you the antidote immediately."
Wu Qiang is usually lazy and never works in the fields. He must be weaker than ordinary people. In addition, he was frightened by Qianhuan before, so he has been feeling more and more unwell recently.
Unexpectedly, he mistakenly thought that the poisonous grass had taken effect prematurely, but in fact, what Qianhuan gave him to eat was just an ordinary unknown grass.
"Okay, Auntie, don't worry, I will tell the Sun family the news right away. You must keep your word and give me the antidote."
"Well, as long as you do this well, the antidote will be given to you naturally."
Master Cai threatened fiercely, "If you dare to have any evil thoughts towards Miss Qianhuan again, I will have someone chop you into pieces. Get out of here now."
"Master Cai, I won't dare to do that again. I will get out of here right now."
Wu Qiang was scared to death by Young Master Cai. He was really afraid of being beaten. If he had known earlier, he would not have been so obsessed and listened to Cuihua's words and offended this young lady.
After Wu Qiang left, Mr. Cai helped Qianhuan push the cart to the door of her house, then he said goodbye and went home. Qianhuan asked Liu to come out and help push the cart inside.
"Qianhuan, why did you want to buy a cart?" Liu asked while pushing the cart.
"Mom, it's inconvenient without a cart at home. I plan to make some bitter chestnut tofu in the next two days. With a cart, we can push the bitter chestnuts to the mill in town to grind them into pulp."
"Well, how was your search for Mr. in the county town today?"
"I have some clues. Once the tofu is ready in the next two days, I will go and pay a formal visit to that gentleman."
After the cart was parked, Qianhuan called Liu into the east wing and said seriously, "Dad and Mom, there is something I want to discuss with you."
Liang Lao Er sat on the bed, weaving a bamboo fence, and asked, "Qianhua, just tell me what's going on."
"I will make some bitter chestnut tofu in the next two days, and my family should be able to earn a lot of money by then. After I find a teacher, I plan to take Wenjie to study with me, and I will also pay for Wenjie's tuition."
When Liang Laoer heard his daughter's proposal, he didn't say anything. After all, his nephew was his own nephew. If his daughter was able and willing to help Wenjie, he, as the second uncle, would be very happy.
Liu was still a little unhappy when she heard this. After all, it was really expensive to train a scholar. She knew how much it cost when she saw Wenzhi studying in the Liang family's old house.
"Qianhuan, it's not that I'm stingy, but it's no joke to train a scholar. It requires a lot of real money. In addition to the tuition for the teacher, there are also precious study items such as pens, ink, paper and inkstone. Everything needs money. It will cost a lot of money for you to study alone, so why do you want to bring Wenjie along?"
"Mom, originally Mrs. Liang was planning to let Dad join the army, but my uncle volunteered to join the army and left Dad at home. My uncle was also serving in the army for Dad, leaving my aunt and Wenjie as an orphan and a widow to depend on each other. I like my cousin Wenjie very much, so let's help them if we can."
Liu was not an ungrateful person. When she heard her daughter say this, she immediately remembered how good her brother-in-law had been to her family.
She sighed, "Your uncle is indeed a good man. If your father had joined the army, we, mother and daughter, would have been driven out of the old house by your grandmother... and Old Lady Liang without your father's protection."
Liu thought for a moment and continued, "Qianhuan, it's not that mother is unhappy, but how can our family afford to support another Wenjie to go to school? We haven't even made the bitter chestnut tofu yet. If we can't make any money, you might not even be able to become a disciple and learn from him."
Although Liang Lao Er also wanted Wenjie to study together, he thought what Liu said made sense. He also had to consider the actual situation at home when helping others. "Qianhua, your mother is right. After all, we haven't made the tofu yet, and we don't know if we can make money. Wenjie is Dad's nephew, and Dad also wants him to study, but we have to help people within our means."
"Mom and Dad, you don't have to worry about the money for school. I am sure I can make this tofu and I am sure I can earn money. Besides making money from tofu, I will make other things to earn more money in the future. I am fully capable of supporting my cousin Wenjie to go to school."
"Okay, Qianhuan, since you want to help Wenjie so much and believe that you have the ability to do it, I won't stop you."
Liang Lao Er stopped what he was doing. He looked at Liu with a touched face and said, "Chun Xiang, I would like to thank you on behalf of my third brother and nephew Wenjie."
"Her father, don't say that. My third brother and his wife are both good people. I know that very well. Wenjie is also a smart kid, and I like him very much. Since our daughter is sure that she can support him, I am also very happy that we can help them."
Qianhuan felt relieved when she saw that she had convinced her parents.
"Mom, I'll go to my aunt's house soon. The bitter chestnuts have already cracked due to the sun. You can roll them over with a stool and the flesh will separate immediately. Peel off more flesh and soak them in water for two nights. The day after tomorrow, we will use a cart to push the bitter chestnuts to the mill in town to grind them."
"Okay, I'll go peel the bitter chestnuts right away."
Thinking that Wu Qiang said he would reveal the news to the Sun family today, Wu Qiang might come to her to ask for the antidote soon, so she had to make the antidote for him quickly.
She ran to every corner of the room and found a pile of rat droppings. She wrapped the rat droppings in rags and smashed them into pieces with stones. Then she found an abandoned broken bowl, filled it with rat droppings powder, mixed it with a little flour, poured in a little water and stirred it.
When it was almost mixed, she used the oil paper left over from selling chestnuts to wrap the half-dry, half-wet thing and rubbed it. When it was rubbed into a round particle, she put it in the sun to dry for a while, and Wu Qiang's antidote was ready.
Qianhuan felt sick when she thought of the scene of Wu Qiang eating rat shit balls. This was the result of offending her. Asking him to eat some rat shit was already considered polite.
Qianhuan prepared the antidote and walked out of the hospital to her aunt's house. She planned to talk to her aunt about letting Wenjie go to school.
When they were halfway there, they heard people in the village talking about it. They said Cuihua had made a mistake and was beaten by Sun Wang and thrown at the door of the Liang family's old house with a swollen face. The whole Sun family came to the door of the Liang family's old house and said they wanted to divorce Cuihua and demanded that Mrs. Liang return the betrothal money.
Qianhuan was delighted when she heard this. She didn't expect Wu Qiang to be so fast. It was worth her effort to make an antidote for him. Haha!
Qianhuan hurriedly trotted to the Liang family's old house to watch the show.