He Ximei dared not imagine what would have happened if the other party hadn’t overdosed Pengzi, preventing him from acting; otherwise, what would the consequences have been.
Had they really gotten involved, her family would have no way to clear their name even if they had mouths to argue with.
"I’m not doing well now either, I guess I have to gamble on this, right?" Su Xiaotao said with a bitter smile, "You guys go ahead."
Outside, the sound of firecrackers began, and there was laughter and chatter at the nearby banquet. Su Xiaotao looked at these people, feeling indescribable inside.
If she hadn’t married Liu An and taken this road of no return, she should have been married by now, with her own children or a man.
Even if they didn’t love her much, they surely wouldn’t treat her like Liu An did.
But now, everything was irreversible; she suffered from a severe skin disease, incurable.
Unable to go out, she could only hide at home.
What was the point of such a life?
Such a life truly had no meaning at all.
Looking at the people outside, the only thought in her heart was how miserable she was living, what right did they have to be so happy?
Yes, rat poison. There was still rat poison at home. A packet of it would make these people fall to the ground, wouldn’t it?
Ha-ha, how fun, really fun.
As evening approached, she took rat poison from Hu Xiulan’s room, pouring handfuls into her mouth. She wanted to poison them all to death.
"Xiaotao, Xiaotao," Hu Xiulan said, watching her daughter collapse to the ground foaming at the mouth, and with a cry she knelt down, "Xiaotao, Xiaotao, what’s wrong with you?"
Nobody expected Su Xiaotao would choose to commit suicide by eating rat poison.
Hu Xiuying’s commotion was too loud, and many neighbors who were still eating at Xiaofeng’s house that evening rushed over when they heard it.
As Su Xiaotao had ingested rat poison, she naturally needed her stomach pumped.
In the countryside, the most primitive method of stomach pumping is to directly pour urine or feces down the throat, which provokes a reflexive vomiting of the stomach’s contents.
Having consumed too much pesticide, the effect of using urine wouldn’t be sufficient, so they had to proceed with pouring down feces directly.
A bucket of feces was brought over and poured into her, and she immediately began to vomit so violently that she lost consciousness.
It wasn’t until she couldn’t vomit anything more from her stomach, even bile, that they stopped.
However, the Su Xiaotao who woke up had a vacant stare with no light in her eyes.
Seeing her , everyone said to Hu Xiulan, "This doesn’t seem right; you should still take her to the hospital."
The whole house smelled so strongly of feces that it was unbearable, and everyone wanted to leave early and clean themselves.
"Which hospital? No, we’re not going," Su Changgeng said, standing at the door with a dark expression, "If she wants to die, let her. I just need to prepare a straw mat for her."
Hearing Su Changgeng speak this way, everyone waved their hands and left.
Su Peng woke up after dinner.
Xiaofeng learned that he had only overdosed on Anesthetic and did not infuse him with Spiritual Energy, allowing him to wake up naturally.
As soon as he awoke, he heard about what happened to Su Xiaotao. It was like how Hu Xiulan went to him at midday, saying Su Xiaotao had fainted in her room, asking him to lend a hand. He didn’t think too much about it then, feeling that Su Xiaotao was already so pitiful, helping her out was not an issue.
But as he entered and was about to kneel down to lift Su Xiaotao from the ground, she suddenly opened her eyes and threw two pills into his mouth. Not long after, he lost consciousness.
Upon waking, he learned that so much had happened.
Su Xiaotao was now truly mad; her brain burned by the rat poison, and she had become mute, no longer able to speak. It was unknown whether it was because the induced vomiting was too violent or because she had hurt her throat and hadn’t gone to the hospital, but now she was speechless.
About this incident, everyone sighed silently, thinking how such a promising girl had ruined herself to this extent, so pitiful that no one could even muster pity for her.
When Xiaofeng heard about Su Xiaotao’s situation, she sighed softly.
If Hu Xiulan and her husband had sent Su Xiaotao to the hospital that day, maybe she wouldn’t have become mute; after all, if her throat was injured, maybe medication could have treated it.
The incident with Su Xiaotao deeply scared Xiaonian, "Sis, is it that in some parents’ eyes, a daughter is worthless, while a son is the apple of their eye?"
In her view, Su Xiaotao was truly pitiful, even that way, her parents wouldn’t take her to the hospital, when maybe a hospital visit could have cured her.