Reborn in a virtual world, before the house was taken away

Chapter 124 Poisoning

Feng Qingqing chatted with Aunt Wu for a while longer before leaving Feng Qingqing's clinic. Aunt Wu had to go to the pond.

Just as Feng Qingqing finished packing her things and was about to leave, she suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside the door, accompanied by a loud shout:

"Dr. Feng, Dr. Feng, are you there?"

Hearing the urgent voice, Feng Qingqing knew something important must have happened, so she quickly stood up and responded loudly:

"Here he is, he was there."

Hearing the voices, the person quickly pushed open the door and came in. Feng Qingqing saw that the person was a young man in his twenties. He looked familiar and she knew he must be a relative of the brigade leader. He was panting heavily from running, but he didn't delay and quickly urged her on, still panting:

"Dr. Feng, you should go to the brigade leader's house right away."

Feng Qingqing had already taken out her medical kit and hurriedly walked out, locking the door as she asked the visitor what was going on. The young man's surname was also Xiong, and he was the third child in his family. People in the brigade usually called him Xiong Laosan. He was rushing to the brigade leader's house while answering Feng Qingqing's questions.

It turned out that when the team members went to the brigade headquarters to assemble this morning, they did not find the brigade leader. The other brigade cadres assumed that he had something to do at home. In addition, he was still going to dig lotus roots by the pond as arranged yesterday, and there was nothing else. Therefore, the brigade cadres let the assembled members go ahead and do their work.

After the team members dispersed, several brigade officers returned to their offices to handle their own work. However, after about two hours, when the brigade leader still hadn't arrived, they became somewhat puzzled.

There's no other reason than that, even if the brigade leader has something to do at home, he'll usually only be a little late. Unless he's going to the commune to handle some business or has special circumstances to tell other cadres, he'll generally arrive at the brigade office on time.

Puzzled, the group thought of the brigade leader's youngest son, who had broken his leg, and Ye Dahua, the brigade leader's wife, who had recently been unwell. Feeling uneasy, they went to the brigade leader's house to see what had happened.

To their surprise, when they arrived at the brigade leader's house, they found the door tightly shut. After knocking, no one answered for a long time. Seeing this, the group felt uneasy; something was clearly wrong.

The militia company commander, Lü Tianhua, was the most agile among them. He took a few steps and easily jumped onto the wall of the captain's house. Then, a thud was heard from inside the house. Company Commander Lü then opened the gate from the inside, and the group filed into the captain's house.

After entering the courtyard, the group called out to the team leader and Sister-in-law Ye, but no one answered. At this point, they felt that things were going to get worse, so they quickly walked a few steps and opened the main door of the team leader's house. The furnishings in the main room were immediately apparent: there was only a table and a few chairs.

Then the group split up to search, when suddenly they heard the women's director, Zhang Xiumei, shout:

"what..."

The other two rushed to Zhang Xiumei's room, where they saw her standing at the door of the first room on the right side of the main hall. Her eyes looked slightly uneasy. Seeing this, the other two knew that something must have happened inside, so they quickly came over.

At this moment, Zhang Xiumei stepped back a few steps so that the two could see more clearly what was happening inside. Liu Hezhi and Lü Tianhua walked to the door and saw Xiong Baoguo lying on the kang (a heated brick bed) directly opposite the door.

However, Xiong Baoguo had not left his home for many days and was depressed, which made him look pale, extremely thin, and had prominent cheekbones. This startled the people who had not seen Xiong Baoguo for a long time.

Given that he was lying upright in bed at that moment, it's understandable that Zhang Xiumei would have bad thoughts immediately.

Liu Hezhi and Lü Tianhua, being men, were slightly bolder than Zhang Xiumei. Lü Tianhua even rushed into the house and gently touched Xiong Baoguo with his hand. Feeling that his body was warm, he breathed a sigh of relief. Then he put his hand under Xiong's nose and found that he was still breathing.

Only then did he hurriedly call out:

"Director Zhang, please quickly notify someone to have Dr. Feng come and take a look."

When Zhang Xiumei heard Company Commander Lü give such an order, she thought to herself: She must have misunderstood. She readily agreed and went out to find someone.

Then Liu Hezhi and Lü Tianhua found the captain and his wife lying motionless on the bed in another room.

For some unknown reason, all three of them were unconscious on the bed. About ten minutes later, the two heard a series of hurried footsteps outside the door. Judging from the sound, there should be more than one person. Sure enough, besides the captain's nephew Xiong Laosan, there was Feng Qingqing who had been called over.

Feng Qingqing was startled by this situation. Because of the urgency, she didn't think twice and quickly checked on the team leader and his wife first, and then checked on the other cadres:

"Director Zhang, Company Commander Lü, Accountant Liu, and the brigade leader and his family of three—after my initial examination, I concluded that the three of them likely ingested some kind of poisonous food. My equipment and resources here are limited, so I suggest that they be sent to the commune hospital immediately for further examination. We must hurry; not a moment can be wasted, or their lives will be in danger."

Upon hearing Feng Qingqing's words, the group immediately instructed Xiong Laosan to arrange for an oxcart to rush the three to the hospital. At the same time, they contacted Xiong's other two sons, especially the brigade leader's second son, who was receiving government-subsidized grain rations in the city.

After explaining everything, Feng Qingqing did not leave immediately, but stood aside to accompany them. A few minutes later, Xiong Laosan arrived at the brigade leader's house with the cart driver. The group worked together to lift the three people onto the oxcart, and without delay, they hurriedly rode to the commune hospital.

Because there were many wounded, in addition to Liu Hezhi staying at home, the brigade cadres Zhang Xiumei and Lü Tianhua accompanied them, and Xiong Laosan also called two of his relatives to go to the commune hospital with them on the oxcart.

After seeing the three people being sent away, Feng Qingqing lost all interest in watching the commune members dig lotus roots by the pond and went straight back to the clinic.

As they walked back, they pondered the cause of the poisoning of the three members of the brigade leader's family. Feng Qingqing had only said it was accidental ingestion, but there was another possibility: they had been poisoned.

However, since she had no evidence at the time, she couldn't make any rash statements and simply explained that she had accidentally ingested it. But Feng Qingqing felt that there were very few such incidents in the Lanshan Brigade, which had a population of about a thousand, especially since the brigade leader should be very clear about foods that could cause people to fall into a coma.

Now that this has happened, Feng Qingqing felt more and more uneasy. At the same time, she thought of the recent conflict between the brigade leader's wife, Ye Dahua, and Jiang Yun. For some reason, when Feng Qingqing thought of Jiang Yun, she immediately felt that this matter was most likely Jiang Yun's doing.

If it turns out to be true in the end, then Jiang Yun is really crazy.

But then, thinking of Jiang Yun's shameful face, he understood.