Chapter 561: Daughter Reborn (16)

In the second year, when Zhou Zhiyuan was in the last semester of his senior year in high school, Cui Shichu transferred the bun shop and raised money to buy a three-bedroom, two-living-room house in Beijing. At that time, housing prices were not high, so her savings were enough to afford it.

Afterwards she hired someone to redecorate the house and returned home.

Zhou Zhiyuan was shocked to hear that she had bought a house in Beijing. He asked her with some concern: "Mom, do we have enough money?"

"Enough, don't worry. Our family's savings are not as little as you think. I have made a lot of money from running the bun shop in the past year. It is enough to buy a house, and you don't have to worry about your college tuition in the future. It is enough." Cui Shichu said to his mature son. He didn't know if it was because the child experienced Zhou Lizhi's previous life in his dream that he cared too much about money.

Zhou Zhiyuan was relieved when she said that. He smiled and said, "That's good. If I had to go into debt to buy a house because I went to college in Beijing, I would feel uncomfortable. But don't worry, mom. When I go to college, I will do a part-time job and earn money."

Cui Shichu patted his head and said, "The family doesn't need you to earn money yet. The most important thing for you right now is to study. It's the same even when you go to college. If you delay your studies because of a part-time job, then you are putting the cart before the horse. Are you stupid?"

The mother and son exchanged a few more words before parting ways. Cui Shichu came out of the high school carrying the empty thermal box.

She actually planned to sell the house at home and buy a house in Beijing. After all, the place would be demolished in the future, and then she could be a happy landlord.

Cui Shichu was thinking happily, and as he walked, he passed by the machinery factory. It was the time to get off work, and the workers were walking out of the gate in groups of three or two. Cui Shichu glanced over there and saw his ungrateful daughter.

Zhou Lizhi's belly is now very big, bulging like a watermelon, which is shocking to look at. She moves slowly, like a clumsy penguin, and her whole appearance is almost unrecognizable.

Before getting married, Zhou Lizhi was the flower of the machinery factory. She was young, pretty and beautiful. She was the dream lover of many boys. But now, her face is yellow and haggard, her hair is dry and dull, and she seems to have aged ten years. Her thin figure and big belly make people worry that her waist will break.

Normally, pregnant women would gain weight, but she did the opposite. She lost weight instead. Moreover, she came to work with such a big belly. It is conceivable that her pregnancy period was not easy.

Cui Shichu just glanced at her and then looked away. Anyway, they had stopped contacting each other a long time ago, and Zhou Lizhi had nothing to do with her anymore. Moreover, she had brought her current state upon herself and did not deserve any sympathy at all. Cui Shichu was too lazy to even look at her any more.

"Hey, Zhou Lizhi, is that your mother? Didn't she come to see you? Why did she leave?" A co-worker pulled Zhou Lizhi's clothes, looked at Cui Shichu's figure walking away, and asked Zhou Lizhi in confusion.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Lizhi suddenly raised her head and looked around. Sure enough, after a while, she saw Cui Shichu's figure.

Cui Shichu was carrying an insulated box and walking lightly. She was wearing a beige corseted long skirt. She had a slender waist and a slim figure. From behind, she looked like a young girl. If Zhou Lizhi had not been her daughter for twenty years, she would almost not be able to recognize her.

Zhou Lizhi was a little dazed. How come her mother suddenly became so young? Or had she always been so young and slim?

The Cui Shichu in Zhou Lizhi's memory is more of the image of the later period of his previous life, the image of someone who became exhausted both physically and mentally after his son became disabled. At that time, Cui Shichu was skinny, with a hunched back, gray hair, a haggard and numb face, and looked much older than his actual age.

But now, Cui Shichu was wearing a fashionable and beautiful skirt, with a straight back and a graceful figure. She had more charm of a mature woman than a young girl. Just at this moment, she had attracted countless men to look at her secretly. The word "old" had nothing to do with her.

If Zhou Lizhi stood next to her in her current state, people might think that Zhou Lizhi was the mother and Cui Shichu was the daughter.

Zhou Lizhi suddenly felt a mixture of jealousy and bitterness. How could a middle-aged woman like her become so young and beautiful, while she, who was much younger than her, became an ugly woman? !

Zhou Lizhi touched her belly and looked at Cui Shichu's back with resentment. Why was she so miserable and sad now, but she was so happy? Why did it turn out like this? Why was she living a more miserable life than her previous life? And why were Cui Shichu and his mother, who should have been miserable in their previous life, happier than her?

Zhou Lizhi's mood was fluctuating greatly and she was greatly stimulated. If she had not seen with her own eyes Cui Shichu, who was much more glamorous and beautiful than in her previous life, she could still deceive herself into thinking that she was not wrong to marry Chen Wenya. But she saw Cui Shichu, who was in a completely different miserable situation from her previous life, which made her collapse immediately.

"My stomach... My stomach hurts..." Zhou Lizhi felt a sudden sharp pain in her stomach. Her face turned pale and she tightly grasped the hand of the worker next to her. She squeezed out a few words from her teeth with a grim look on her face, "My stomach hurts..."

The coworker panicked and asked her in a panic, "You, your stomach hurts? Are you about to give birth?"

“I don’t know…” Zhou Lizhi was about to collapse to the ground. The worker shouted in panic, “Come and help, she might be giving birth. Please help send her to the hospital!”

"Who's going to give birth?"

"Is it Zhou Lizhi?"

"Is her belly full-term? Is she going to give birth so soon?"

"I don't know. Where is her husband? Go find her husband, Chen Wenya!"

…

There was chaos at the factory gate. Fortunately, the outbreak happened when everyone was getting off work. If Zhou Lizhi was walking on the street alone, there might not even be anyone to take her to the hospital, and the husband she insisted on marrying was nowhere to be seen.

Zhou Lizhi was stimulated by Cui Shichu to give birth prematurely, but Cui Shichu didn't know about it.

Zhou Lizhi was sent to the hospital, and other colleagues hurried to notify her family. Neighbors who did not know the true relationship between Cui Shichu and Zhou Lizhi and her daughter also notified Cui Shichu, saying that her daughter was about to give birth in the hospital and asked her to go to the hospital as soon as possible.

Cui Shichu thanked the neighbors for their kind notification, but she turned around and went back home with no intention of going to the hospital. People had already said that she would be a member of the Chen family in the future, so naturally it was the Chen family who would go to the hospital to take care of her. Why did she need Cui Shichu, her burdensome mother?

Cui Shichu didn't even bother to look at her.

(End of this chapter)