Li Dan lay in the hospital for three days, taking a lot of medication to prevent miscarriage, but to no avail.

She panicked and, desperate for a cure, sought help from her maternal great-aunt.

Her third great-aunt used to be a fortune teller; her husband died early, and she had no children.

Because of the "Destroy the Four Olds" campaign, all the statues of gods in her house were smashed, let alone people going to her for fortune telling.

Only during the Chinese New Year, when all the relatives gather together, do they ask her to tell their fortune. It costs one yuan per reading. If the fortune is bad, they give her another five or ten yuan to change it. They never see anything supernatural about it.

Li Dan always thought of her great-aunt as a charlatan who cheated people out of food, drink, and money.

Although the method of "adopting a child with good sibling relationships and raising him/her will attract your own children" was told to her by her third great-aunt, Li Dan always felt that it was just a blind cat catching a dead mouse, a complete coincidence.

After all, if she really had any skills, why didn't she ask her to help her husband when he was in danger?

But now that she was about to lose the baby in her womb, Li Dan was desperate and would try anything, no longer caring whether the doctor was a charlatan or not.

"Great-aunt, please help me. I'm thirty years old, and it took me so long to get pregnant with this child. I can't lose him..."

As soon as Li Dan entered the room, she knelt down on the straw mat under the incense table in the main room and began to weep.

The elderly woman with gray hair raised her droopy eyelids and glanced at Li Dan. As she raised her eyes, the wrinkled lines on her forehead, like the bark of an old tree, also appeared.

"Oh, it's Xiao Dan. Tell me, what happened?" She spoke slowly, her voice sounding very hoarse.

Li Dan dared not hide anything and quickly told him everything that had happened recently.

When Li Dan mentioned that she had returned the adopted child, the third aunt snorted and muttered, "Foolish."

Li Dan's crying expression froze, tears welling up in her eyes but not falling, making her look quite comical.

"Great-aunt, did I...did I do something wrong?"

Third Aunt nodded and said, "You made a mistake, a huge mistake. This child in your belly was originally her destiny. Since you sent her away, this child will naturally go with her."

"Then, what should we do?"

Upon hearing this, Li Dan panicked and felt a pang of regret.

If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have sent Liu Lai'er away. We don't need her to feed us, and she could have helped with the housework if she stayed.

It's just like that saying, "A mouse crawling into a bellows is asking for trouble!"

"Now that things have come to this, we can only try our best to make amends. Go back and bring the child back, and treat them well in the future. Maybe we can still keep the baby in my belly."

When her great-aunt spoke ambiguously, Li Dan's tears immediately fell.

She took out a red envelope she had prepared beforehand and stuffed it into her great-aunt's hand, crying as she said, "Great-aunt, I must keep this child. It's been so hard for me to have a child. If I can't get pregnant this time, I don't know if I'll be able to get pregnant again. Please help me think of a way."

Third Auntie opened the red envelope with her hand, glanced inside, saw the satisfactory amount, coughed lightly, and put the red envelope away.

"Since you are so sincere, I will think of a way for you."

She leaned on the table, slowly stood up, and staggered into the inner room, where she took out two yellow talismans.

The yellow talisman paper spontaneously combusted without wind and landed in a broken bowl on the incense table.

Third Aunt added some rootless water that had been sitting on the table for who knows how long, poked it in with her finger to mix the incense ash and water evenly, and then handed it to Li Dan.

"Drink it."

Li Dan looked at the broken and dirty bowl in front of her and swallowed hard.

She closed her eyes and told herself: It's all for the child.

So he steeled himself, took it, tilted his head back, and drank it all in one gulp.

After drinking it, Li Dan felt a strange smell coming out of her mouth and throat.

My stomach felt like it was churning, and I was nauseous. This feeling was getting stronger and stronger.

Li Dan knelt on the straw mat with a pale face, her head hanging limply, trying to suppress the nausea in her stomach.

She tried and tried to hold back, but in the end she couldn't take it anymore.

With a "whoosh," he vomited.

Now, it was the third aunt at the head of the table who looked unpleasant.

Damn it!

She got her straw mat dirty!