Noticing her condition, Mother Shi screamed in panic with bulging eyes. When the daughters-in-law saw her appearance, they were so frightened that no one dared to approach her. Her husband and sons were stunned when they realized she had suffered a stroke.
Their family only had less than 10 yuan, and they still had to find more than 40 yuan to pay the old man. How can they have the money to treat her?
When they regained their senses, Shi Dalang looked at his father and asked, "Father, what should we do now?"
Sitting on the edge of the Kang bed, Father Shi took a deep drag from his tobacco. After exhaling a cloud of smoke, he said, "What else can we do? We don’t have money to take your mother to the hospital. For now, we can only invite Doctor Xie to take a look."
As soon as he finished speaking, the second daughter-in-law interjected, "Father, we still have to pay back that old man. If we invite Doctor Xie, how will we repay the debt?"
The moment she said this, Mother Shi glared at her and let out a series of muffled, angry sounds. "Umhh! Arrhh!"
Frightened by her mother-in-law’s terrifying expression, she quickly hid behind her husband and protested, "Mother, you can’t blame me for this! If you want to blame someone, blame your daughter. If she had obediently married that old man, would you be in this state? Would our family be drowning in debt?"
At those words, Mother Shi’s eyes turned ice-cold. If she had known that she would end up like this because of that useless, money-losing daughter, she would have strangled her at birth!
Noticing her mother-in-law’s growing resentment toward Shi Qiwan, Shi Erlang’s wife added, "Mother, don’t you still have some gold hidden away? How about giving us the map? If we exchange the gold for money, we can take you to the hospital and repay our debt."
As soon as she said this, everyone turned to Mother Shi in shock. None of them had known she had a secret stash.
Father Shi frowned at his wife and demanded, "Wife, if you had gold, why didn’t you bring it out when we needed money to repair the house? Were you planning to keep it all for yourself?"
Hearing this, Shi Sanlang felt his mother was too selfish. If she hadn’t hidden the gold, they wouldn’t have had to force his sister into marrying that old man, and none of today’s events would have happened.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he became. Standing up, he snapped, "Mother, you are too selfish and greedy. Everything that happened today is because of you!"
After he said those words, he stormed over to the cabinet and started searching through it. Seeing this, his brothers quickly joined him, rummaging through every drawer and corner.
They couldn’t let Shi Sanlang find the map first. That gold belonged to the whole family and it should be divided equally!
Watching her sons ignore her suffering and even blame her for everything, Mother Shi was so furious that her eyes rolled back, and she fainted again. This time, no one cared about her condition as they were too busy searching for the map.
While the Shi family was fighting over a hidden treasure, Shi Qiwan and Liu Fuyan arrived at the production team’s office.
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