"Xiao Xian, let's go over and have a look too," Zhu Shijun guessed from the looks of Qian family's father and son just now that Wang Chunhua was probably faking her illness, but San Gouzi's news was a sign that something was definitely not right.
In the time it took San Gouzi to bring the news, the villagers had already surrounded the Qian family's house in two layers, inside and out. Ma Sisa, the neighbor of the Qian family, was the first to notice that something was amiss.
"When the Qian family mother and daughter-in-law fell ill, I happened to be in the yard slaughtering a chicken. I had just boiled a pot of water when I heard two 'thumps' from next door and then their Dongzi started crying," Ma Sisa recounted vividly to the neighbors. She felt something was off: why wasn't there an adult comforting the crying child? So she went over to check.
