Niu Baolan also toddled over from the next room, calling out, "Daddy, Daddy! I want a hug, I want a hug!"

Niu Da laughed, "Alright, carry my fourth daughter! Haha!" He put down Xiao Fubao and reached out to pick up Niu Baolan. "Let Daddy smell her. Does our Baolan smell bad? Ugh, she smells awful!"

"It doesn't smell, it doesn't smell!"

"Big brother, big brother, are you home?" A woman's voice, trembling with tears, called from outside the door.

Niu Da and Shen Yu rushed out and saw that it was their third younger sister, Niu Huahua. "Why are you back? Where's your husband?"

"Brother, I'm so sorry! You even sent me eggs and a hen during the New Year, but I couldn't come to pay my respects!" Niu Huahua cried.

"Little sister, what's wrong with you?" When Shen Yu had just given birth to Niu Cuihua, this third sister-in-law had taken good care of her. So before the New Year, she asked Niu Da to send two trays of eggs and an old hen to her sister-in-law.

Shen Yu's mother-in-law treated her very well. Although her mother-in-law helped take care of the child at that time, farmers always had endless work to do. Normally, a woman would go back to work in the fields three days after giving birth, but her mother-in-law said that a woman should take good care of her body and have a proper postpartum period.

However, since her mother-in-law had to work during the day and take care of her child at night, she inevitably had to ask her sister-in-law, who was only fourteen years old at the time, to help take care of her.

Niu Huahua married into a small landlord family surnamed Huang. The family owned fifty acres of land and raised two pigs. Her husband was an only son, so they should have been living a good life.

But now, Niu Huahua's body was tattered and torn, covered in bruises, her face was red and purple, blood was still flowing from her calves, and there was a bloody scar the size of a bowl on her head, which frightened Chen Yu quite a bit:

"Come in quickly, Cuihua! Go to town and fetch Doctor Xue to take a look!"

Niu Da asked with a stern face, "Did that brat from the Huang family hit you?"

"Big brother!" Niu Huahua burst into tears: "This isn't the first time! He not only hit me, but also... he also... he said that if I dared to divorce him, he would kill our two daughters!"

Niu Da's sister was the type to only report good news and never bad. Niu Da knew that the Huang family mother and son treated his sister very badly, but his sister never told her family and always said that life was still okay.

Niu Huahua was helped into the house by Chen Yu and sat down. Niu Huahua cried:

“He resented that I could only give birth to daughters, which brought bad luck to his family. Today he lost money gambling and beat me when he got home!”

Niu Huahua had been married for five years and had given birth to two daughters. Two years ago, Niu Huahua said that she could not have a son, so she arranged for a concubine for the man surnamed Huang.

“The concubine he took in also bore him three daughters, and he said it was because of me that he had bad luck. A few days ago, he said he wanted to take a singer as a concubine, and that the singer was pregnant, saying it would be a son. He mortgaged all thirty acres of his land to redeem her.” “Yesterday, he lost money gambling and mortgaged the only twenty acres of his land, saying it was because I gave birth to daughters that he had bad luck!” “He also said that I was definitely carrying a girl, and he stomped on my stomach several times. My three-month-old baby probably won’t survive.”

Niu Huahua said.

"You, you're pregnant?" Shen asked.

Niu Huahua nodded.

Old Mrs. Zhong hurriedly said, "This is no small matter, quickly stop the bleeding for her!" Old Mrs. Zhong and Shen Yu had both given birth several times and had some experience.

"Plum Blossom, quickly go and fetch a basin of hot water for your aunt!" Chen Yu said, "You stubborn child, how come you only went through those two counties!"

“It was their neighbor who brought me here in a horse-drawn carriage. I thought it would be clean to die like this!” Niu Huahua said.

Chen Yu used aloe vera and grass ash to stop Niu Huahua's bleeding. "If you die, besides me, your eldest brother, and your second brother being sad, will the Huang family be sad?"

Old Mrs. Zhong said with a hint of exasperation, "If you die, wouldn't that make room for your husband's singing buddy?" "If I were you," the old woman replied, "I'd live a good life! I'd make them furious!"

"Mom, Dr. Xue is here!" Niu Cuihua said.

Niu Da borrowed a carriage from the old clan chief and hurried there. Xue Simiao was a famous medical expert in the town, specializing in gynecological and pediatric diseases.

Xue Simiao was dizzy and lightheaded from the jolting of the carriage, but upon seeing the patient, he disregarded everything else and said:

"Quickly! Induce her labor!"

Old Mrs. Zhong, Shen Yu, Niu Cuihua, Niu Da, Niu Er, and the whole room of people busied themselves with the task. "They brought it down; it's a boy!"

Niu Da and Niu Er each grabbed a knife from the kitchen and rushed outside, shouting, "Honey, where are you going?"

Niu Dadao: "I'm going to slaughter that beast!"

Niu Er said, "Sister-in-law, that man surnamed Huang treated my fourth sister like this, I'm going to kill him!"

The two brothers really do share the same temperament.

"Even if you kill him, what difference will it make? What will happen to my sister? What will happen to her two daughters? What will happen to me and the other girls?" Chen Yu said.

Niu Er's eyes reddened, and he said, "Brother, don't go, I'll go!"

"No one is allowed to go. I have a way to deal with them!" Chen Yu said.

Just as Xue Simiao was about to dispose of the child, Madam Shen said, "Dr. Xue, wait a minute, give me the child and the placenta!"

"Sister, tell your sister-in-law, are you still willing to live with that man surnamed Huang?" Chen Yu said, "If you still want to live with that man surnamed Huang, then whether you live or die, don't ever set foot in my house again."

Niu Huahua shook her head, but couldn't make a sound.

Little Fu Bao lay quietly on the bed, and if you looked closely at her eyes, they seemed to still hold a hint of anger.

Xue Simiao pulled Niu Da aside and whispered:

"Your sister has injured herself this time. Her uterus was displaced due to the force of the impact, but given her current condition, it might be difficult to treat." "She may have difficulty conceiving in the future."

Niu Da was filled with rage upon hearing this.

Shen Yu retorted angrily, "Isn't their family desperate for a son? In a few days, once you've recovered, we'll send our son to them!"

Old Mrs. Zhong said, "What a son of a bitch! My dear sister, you have such a bad life, ending up with such a family. But you're still young. Now that your older brother is doing well, I think you should take those two girls and raise them, and get a divorce!"

Chen Yu said, "Yes, divorce!"

Niu Er said, "I'm afraid that family might not be willing to divorce so easily!"

Chen Yu asked Niu Huahua in a gentle voice, "Little sister, are you afraid of going to jail?" A wife suing her husband, getting a divorce, or appealing to a higher authority would result in a three-year prison sentence.

Niu Huahua shook her head: I'm not afraid!

"Fine, if we can't get a divorce even if we pay compensation, then we'll sue them! You can rest assured that your child will be raised by me and your older brother!"

Niu Huahua shed tears and nodded.

"Good girl, you should rest! Once you're well, we'll go there ourselves!" Chen Yu said.