While Feng Qingqing and the officials of the production brigade headquarters were discussing Old He’s Family, the family itself was far from peaceful. Old Madam He, who had tossed and turned for most of the night, had barely managed two hours of sleep before rising again to wail and clamor, demanding to head to the brigade headquarters to make a scene.
Following yesterday’s events, Old Madam He had originally planned to send her eldest son, He Yongan, to the county seat first thing in the morning to find out what had happened. She refused to let her youngest son be beaten up and left with a broken leg without getting to the bottom of the grievances he had suffered.
However, after they had brought her youngest son back from the Commune Hospital the night before, the eldest son had gone to fetch water in the morning and inexplicably collapsed on the road. This truly puzzled her. She had mistreated that boy plenty since he was a child, yet he had always been robust; why would he suddenly fall into an unconscious state?
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