Chapter 816 - Fang Qiu Got Down On His Knees! (1/2)

Fang Qiu had been pondering for a whole night.

He hadn’t come up with a good idea. Hence, he was about to get up and have a good talk with the villagers so as to persuade them to stay positive.

All of a sudden, continual cries came from the village.

“What’s going on?” Hearing the wails coming from the village, Fang Qiu was stunned and had an ominous feeling.

“Did something happen?” Liang Fen said.

They rushed out of the room and ran to the village.

It turned out that almost every family was filled with heartbroken wails.

Without delay, the two of them rushed straight into a house.

As soon as they opened the door, the two of them saw a miner lying on the ground with foaming at the mouth.

Without hesitation, Fang Qiu hurried forward to have a check.

The man was already dead.

“What the hell is going on?” asked Fang Qiu hastily.

In the room, the woman, who was wailing sadly with her child, cried bitterly while kowtowing heavily to Fang Qiu. She said, “Thank you for your benevolence. My husband left this world with no regrets.”

The moment Fang Qiu heard what she said, he was dumbfounded.

What exactly did she mean?

“When my husband took the compensation back home yesterday, he was very happy.”

The woman continued, “He talked to me until the middle of the night. He asked me to repay the debt and then support our children to go to school. He also told me to express his gratitude to you. He arranged everything that he needed to. Then in the middle of the night… after we fell asleep, he committed suicide by taking drugs!”

Then the woman glanced at the man lying on the ground, wiped the white foam on the man’s mouth with a cloth, and said with a painful expression, “He couldn’t bear it a long time ago. If it weren’t for this compensation money, he would have died long ago. Now that we have the money, he also left. I know that he is afraid of treating the disease by spending this money. He didn’t want to burden us!”

After that, the woman couldn’t help but burst into tears again. The child on the side looked at Fang Qiu with red eyes. He kowtowed to Fang Qiu to express his gratitude while he couldn’t help crying.

At this moment, Fang Qiu was nonplussed.

He merely stood there in a daze. He had so many mixed feelings that he couldn’t calm down for a long while.

He did not know whether everything he had done was right or wrong.

He did manage to help them obtain the compensation.

However, this miner chose to commit suicide because he had fulfilled his wish!

Was this right or wrong?

Was he saving people or giving them a chance to die?

He supposed that he didn’t save them.

If they didn’t get their compensation back, no one would die. However, now they eventually received the compensation. Not only would no one stay alive, but many people died because of it!

Fang Qiu was in a disturbed state of mind.

He walked out of the house in frustration.

Soon, Liang Fen walked around the village with red eyes and came to Fang Qiu, telling him, “Yesterday, all the sick miners committed suicide. They were afraid of giving burden on their wives and children, so they chose to commit suicide without discussion. They all drunk pesticide!”

Fang Qiu was aware that it was extremely painful to commit suicide by drinking pesticide.

He could imagine the pain those people had gone through before they died. However, despite the unbearable pain, they still endured it and did not make a noise. They did not dare to disturb their wives and children.

They were worried if they woke up their wives and children, they would be sent to be rescued.

How hard did they try to endure the pain?

They even endured it to the extent that even Fang Qiu couldn’t hear anything from them!

Listening to the wails all over the village, Fang Qiu took a deep breath and couldn’t stop his tears from rolling down.

“Was everything we did yesterday right or wrong?” asked Fang Qiu as he looked at Liang Fen.

“We did nothing wrong.”

Although Liang Fen’s eyes were red, he said firmly, “Getting this money is their last wish. They have been suffering from illness all the time just to get this money for their wives and children. If we don’t get this money, they will die with regrets in the end although they can live a little longer.”

Fang Qiu turned around.

Standing at the entrance of the village and facing the entire village, he knelt heavily and kowtowed. He didn’t raise his head for a long time.

That was true. He didn’t do anything wrong, but he didn’t do it well!

He was responsible for this accident.

He swore in his heart that he must revive Chinese Medicine and make sure that there were more doctors in this land to help people in these remote towns. If there were doctors with good medical skills here, how could the pneumoconiosis of these people become so serious? How would such a tragedy happen?

“I must achieve this!” Fang Qiu clenched his fists tightly.

Then he raised his head, kowtowed heavily again, got up, and turned to leave.

Before this happened, being a beacon was his goal, but it seemed too ideal. Now, reality gave him a profound lesson.

He must achieve this goal, and more than that, he had to do it better!

Now, he couldn’t continue to develop like this and merely go with the flow. He had to take the initiative to promote the revival of Chinese Medicine as soon as possible because there were still numerous people who needed their help.

If he was one day late, maybe it would lead to more tragedies in the future!

Fang Qiu kept striding forward, and every step seemed extremely determined.

In this way, Liang Fen kept following Fang Qiu and didn’t say anything. He looked back at the Xiao Mount village from time to time.

All of a sudden, Fang Qiu stopped.

“Before this, how many people have come to Xiao Mount village to seek justice like you?” asked Fang Qiu.