Chapter 1 Death in childbirth
Have you ever seen the news that she wanted to have a caesarean section, but no relatives were willing to sign it, and finally the mother jumped off the building in pain, resulting in the death of both mother and child?
I never thought it would happen to me.
Looking at my in-laws who insisted on giving birth smoothly, and my husband who always kept his head down and didn't say a word, I struggled to prop up my body from the delivery bed and hissed, "Zhu Zicong, the doctor has said that if you don't have a caesarean section, the child may suffocate to death, are you crazy?" Do you want your child to die? β
Perhaps my always gentle tone was too intense, and my husband, who was standing by the bed, raised his head, looked at me a little unbearably, and then turned his head to look at the door of the ward.
I subconsciously followed and looked over, and happened to see my stepsister walking over slowly.
I was overjoyed, and shouted as if I had caught a rescuer, "Qiongyu, Qiongyu, hurry up and help me sign, I want a caesarean section, hurry up, I can't hold on." β
"Sister Jiang." Zhang Qiongyu raised her delicate little face, walked to my husband's side with a smile, and said softly, "Mom said that smooth delivery is good for children and adults, you better endure it a little longer." β
"You ......" I looked at this stepsister who had always been obedient to me and intimate like a sister, and I felt a little strange inexplicably.
Suddenly, a labor pain came, and I no longer had the strength to support my body, and I fell back into the bed.
The doctors in the delivery room quickly got busy, the door was slammed shut, and my in-laws were blocked out, but my husband and my stepsister stood in front of me, fingers clasped and looking at me with smiles on their faces.
In a daze, I saw my stepsister say to me in lip language: "Back then, you and your sister blocked my mother from entering the door of your Shen family, and now, your retribution has come, and it is not in vain that my mother and I have endured for so many years......"
I was not a fool for my gentle disposition, and I knew what their clasped hands meant, and I knew what she meant......
Suddenly, a tearing pain came from my lower body, and my complicated thoughts were interrupted, and I finally couldn't hold it anymore and fainted.
When I woke up, there was a crisp sound in my ears, like ...... It's like the sound of a porcelain plate falling to the ground.
I struggled to open my eyes, and there was a messβ
The wooden shelves fell to the ground, the porcelain plates shattered into pieces, the pots and pans all fell to the ground, and two women in their thirties were standing in the doorway, arguing fiercely.
ββ¦β¦ Let me tell you, the country is mine, it's useless for you to occupy the name anymore, the person he accompanies every day is me, and the salary is given to me, what are you? There is a place in the house, but I live more like a widow than I am. The plump woman with her back against the wooden door shouted arrogantly.
"Nonsense...... You're talking nonsense......" The rather thin woman cried against the wall, trembling back, "impossible, you're lying." β
"Liar?" The plump woman smiled contemptuously, suddenly rolled up her sleeves, revealing a gold bracelet on her wrist that was not bright in color, but extremely delicately made, "You can see clearly, this is your dowry back then, I heard that it was the only thing left to you by your dead ghost father, and now Guozheng has not given it to me, come and take a look...... Look at ......"
"You...... You ......" The thin woman, who was already weak, suddenly couldn't get up in one breath, and slid down the wall with a slight.
After a few moments, she covered her face and burst into a howling cry.
I opened my eyes wide, and only then did I realize that the person who was huddled in the corner and cried like a child was not my own mother.
As for the other woman...... I pursed my lips, hid the complicated look in my eyes, quickly got up from the small chair, and tried to go over and support my mother.
Unexpectedly, there was someone who rushed faster than me.
It was a girl who was shorter than me, thin but athletic, rushing over like a little leopard, and resting on the belly of the arrogant woman.
The woman "ouch", although she was caught off guard by the collision, but in the end one is a child and the other is an adult, so after stumbling, she pushed the girl backwards with her backhand.
"Be careful!" I screamed and lunged over, blocking the girl's body with my body.
Although the price was the blood of my hands pressed on the broken porcelain, I did not regret it.
Just because, this girl is my sister of the same father and mother, and she is also the person I owe the most in my heart.
"Xiao Jiang!" As soon as my mother raised her head and saw the blood on my hands, she was so frightened that she forgot to cry, got up from the ground with her hands and feet, and wiped her tears with me in her arms, "Does it hurt...... Does it hurt or not......"
My sister Shen Bi held on to the crooked wooden shelf and looked at me with a shocked expression, and the woman who pushed her didn't seem to expect such a consequence, so she was so frightened that she didn't dare to speak.
Of course, it hurts, and there is a lot of blood, but I don't have time to grieve and be sad.
Gently pushing my mother away from my side, I pulled out a few large pieces of broken porcelain from my hand, and then rushed to the woman behind the door, grabbed her arm with one hand, and pulled the wooden door open with the other.
Subsequently, a push, a close, and then put on the lock, these actions are done in one go.
My mother and Shen Bi were both stunned, and there was silence outside the door for a moment, and the woman seemed to scold a few words with some resentment, and then gradually moved away.
I breathed a sigh of relief, and then I cried out in pain, "Hurry up...... Take tweezers and give them to me ......"
In the dilapidated small building, in the dim light, my sister Shen Bi was sweeping the garbage on the floor, and my mother was carefully bandaging my wounds, all the while softly asking me if I was in pain.
I blinked, barely controlled the tears that were about to erupt, and choked up, "It doesn't hurt, Mom, I don't hurt......"
What if it hurts or not?
After experiencing something like that, my heart was torn into countless pieces, and the pain seemed to have been numb for a long time, and now the pain of these dozens of wounds on my hand combined was not enough to move me.
It's okay, it's good that I'm back.
"Silly child, cry when it hurts, what do you endure to do." My mom saw the sourness I was holding back and hugged me gently.
This hug made me unable to restrain my emotions anymore and began to cry.
My mother sighed, and Shen Bi also stopped cleaning and turned her head to look at me.
They all thought I was crying because of pain, and no one knew that I was crying because of the plump woman today.
Her surname is Zhang, and she is a well-known merry widow in our county, and when I was sixteen years old, somehow hooked up with my father.
Because of this woman, my father had the idea of divorce, but my mother didn't let go, so Widow Zhang came to harass her mother every now and then, and the worst time was this time, smashing our home.
It stands to reason that I should be towards my mother, but this widow is so good at coaxing people that she deceived me with a few words, so that in this farce of divorce, except for the objections at the beginning, I did not say a word, did not stand, and did not express my position.
My attitude broke my mother's heart, and it also caused estrangement between my sister Shen Bi, who was originally close to me.
Later, my parents finally divorced, I followed my father, Shen Bi followed my mother, and Widow Zhang naturally married into the Shen family.
Because she has been very kind to me over the years, slowly, I have also treated this stepmother and stepsister sincerely, so to speak, in the years before and after I was twenty years old, Widow Zhang played the role of my mother, and therefore I respected and loved her.
But what I didn't expect was that the stepmother and stepsister, who I thought were extremely kind, were all secretly remembering my hatred against my parents' divorce, and gave me a fatal blow when I gave birth.
If I deserve it, I am to blame, and my mother and sister are exceptionally innocent.
Because since my parents divorced, my mother disappeared with Shen Bi, and during my pregnancy, I vaguely heard distant relatives mention that they were not doing well......
My heart is very uncomfortable, in addition to the regret of admitting the thief as my mother, but also the distress of my mother and Shen Bi.
"Mom, I'm sorry, I'm sorry......" I cried and said vaguely, "It's all my fault, don't worry, I will definitely protect you this time......"
This time, I won't let my mom and sister just disappear from my life.
We'll fight side by side to clean up that widow.
And her daughter!!!
I wiped the tears from the corners of my eyes with the back of my hand, got up from my mother's arms, and was about to say a few words to my sister, who was a little estranged from me, when suddenly I heard a somewhat rapid knock on the door.
Shen Bi and I turned our heads at the same time and looked in the direction of the wooden door with a wary expression.