Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 483 - 432: The Feng Family’s Orphan Trust (Part 2)

Just now I took Madam Feng’s pulse. She won’t survive tonight. If you don’t believe me, come back tomorrow morning, and I won’t stop you then.

People have a thousand ways to die, but being burned alive is too painful. You are all neighbors with Madam Feng. Can’t you let her pass peacefully tonight?"

Yu Xiaolian knew that in the face of the terrifying epidemic, the villagers were very scared. Therefore, she decided to move them emotionally and reason with them, trying to persuade them kindly.

Ma Dashan found Doctor Che in the crowd, "Doctor Che, why don’t you check Madam Feng’s pulse? See if it’s like what Yu Xiaolian said. If she really won’t make it through tonight, then we’ll let her pass on her own. I don’t want blood on my hands either!"

Doctor Che had recently been researching how to treat epidemic patients and had participated in rescue operations in other villages. Having taken the pulse of epidemic patients, he knew their pulse patterns and symptoms.

Without hesitation, Doctor Che went into the house. Seeing Madam Feng’s body kneeling on the brick bed, her head supported in a strange position against it, he was taken aback. He gently approached, tested her breath, and seeing that she had already passed, he sighed and walked back outside.

"Madam Feng is gone!"

Upon hearing that Madam Feng had passed, Zhao Ping, who was tied up, burst into tears and fainted immediately.

Yu Xiaolian told Cao Gen, "Carry him to the carriage first!"

Cao Gen picked up Zhao Ping and quickly headed toward the carriage.

As they passed the courtyard gate, everyone stepped back, keeping distance, afraid of being contaminated by any toxic gas.

"Madam Feng is dead, Village Chief Ma, you can collect the body now!" Yu Xiaolian looked at Ma Dashan.

Ma Dashan hesitated for a moment. He thought to himself, who would be willing to handle Madam Feng’s corpse, risking getting infected by the epidemic? That would be disastrous.

"Madam Feng probably didn’t have the epidemic. Epidemic patients have blackened faces and nails, and Madam Feng showed none of these symptoms." Doctor Che spoke up.

The crowd trusted Doctor Che quite a bit. Hearing what he said, they collectively breathed a sigh of relief.

"Since it’s not the epidemic, let’s have Zhao Ping handle his mother’s funeral himself, shall we?" Ma Shi waved to take her sons away.

When they went to the back mountain to bury her eldest and second sons, their house was on fire upon their return. Although she didn’t witness Yu Xiaolian setting the fire, she firmly believed it was her doing.

Originally, Ma Shi thought it was time to settle accounts with Yu Xiaolian, but unexpectedly, Yu Xiaolian had become some kind of education official.

Can a woman become an official?

No, Yu Xiaolian’s eye color seems off too!

Could this Yu Xiaolian be an imposter?

But who would impersonate Yu Xiaolian and for what purpose?

As the saying goes, common people shouldn’t oppose officials. Ma Shi decided not to provoke Yu Xiaolian. After all, she couldn’t live in the village anymore, so it wouldn’t affect her future life.

Whoever it is, whatever official they are, it’s fine as long as she stays far away. Ma Shi waved and left with her sons and grandsons.

After the Luo Family left as a group, the dozen people Ma Dashan brought halved instantly.

Yu Xiaolian frowned. How come the villains never get retribution? After a few years, the Luo Family’s population hadn’t decreased but increased instead. Clearly, good people don’t receive good fortune, but evils linger for a thousand years!

With someone dead in the village, as village chief, Ma Dashan naturally couldn’t just leave.

He gathered a few people to carry Madam Feng up the back mountain for burial.

Yu Xiaolian took out a two-liang silver piece, "Please, Uncle Ma, get someone to make a thin coffin for Madam Feng!"

Madam Feng was her mother’s confidante and a kind-hearted yet unfortunate person. Yu Xiaolian couldn’t bear to see her hastily buried.

There were carpenters in the village, and there was wood on the mountain. Making a thin coffin was simple. By the time Zhao Ping slowly regained consciousness, Madam Feng had already been placed in a coffin, ready to be carried to the back mountain.

Yu Xiaolian told Cao Gen, "Follow Zhao Ping, let him bow at his mother’s grave, then bring him back!"

Cao Gen acknowledged and followed Zhao Ping behind Madam Feng’s coffin.

Yu Xiaolian stood in the shadow beside the carriage, waiting for Cao Gen and Zhao Ping to return.

When the afternoon arrived, Cao Gen finally returned with Zhao Ping. Yu Xiaolian asked Zhao Ping what he planned to do, whether to follow her or to find his sister Zhao Chunyu?

Thinking of his sister’s situation at the Zheng Mansion, Zhao Ping chose without hesitation to follow Yu Xiaolian.