While Feng Qingqing and the officials at the production brigade headquarters were discussing Old He’s Family, things were far from peaceful at the He household. Old Madam He, having tossed and turned for most of the night, hadn't even managed two hours of sleep before she was up again, wailing and demanding to go to the headquarters to make a scene.
After what happened yesterday, Old Madam He had intended for her eldest son, He Yongan, to head to the county seat first thing in the morning to find out exactly what had happened. She couldn't let her youngest son be beaten up and left with a broken leg without getting to the bottom of it—he had suffered enough.
But who would have thought? After bringing the youngest son home from the Commune Hospital last night, the eldest son had gone to fetch water in the morning and collapsed on the road. It was truly baffling. She had worked that boy to the bone since he was little, and he had always been perfectly fine. Why, then, had he suddenly fallen into an unconscious state?
Chapter 34