Lu Zhixia remained calm after hearing this and continued, "You should remember that I almost died from a massive hemorrhage back then."
Upon hearing about the massive bleeding, Tao Lihua carefully examined the woman's appearance and instantly remembered...
“I remember you, but I just didn’t think of you. You were incredibly lucky to survive that time; your ancestors must have been protecting you.”
Lu Zhixia further inquired, "Were you the one who took care of the child back then?"
“Yes, I took care of her. The child you gave birth to was so beautiful, quiet and easy to soothe.” Tao Lihua smiled, a rare smile appearing on her face as she thought of the child. “Based on the timeline, your daughter should be 10 years old now.”
Lu Zhixia, "I came here to ask you, do you know if that child has any distinctive features?"
"What do you mean by that?" Tao Lihua's smile vanished. "What happened to that child?"
As a mother, not knowing the child's physical characteristics meant that the child was not with her, which was difficult for her to accept.
Is my cousin home?
Yan Hong stood at the door and asked, then, realizing she didn't look her best, she took out a makeup mirror from her bag and looked at herself carefully.
Hu Xianghui glanced at her and turned to go home. This woman was very pretentious. It was best not to have anything to do with her in the future. Just pretend you don't know her.
Lu Zhixia recognized the sounds outside, then heard the clatter of high heels on the floor, and then saw someone enter the house.
It was the woman in the upper berth on the train. Lu Zhixia frowned. This was too much of a coincidence.
"Why is it you?" Yan Hong asked bluntly.
Tao Lihua wasn't particularly happy to see her cousin arrive; instead, she asked in a cold voice,
What are you doing here?
"Cousin!" Yan Hong called out, then pointed at them, "These two are bad people, don't pay them any attention, get rid of them quickly!"
Tao Lihua had been annoyed by her cousin's willfulness since childhood, because they grew up together and were only separated when they went to different schools.
"What are you making a scene for? They are guests. How can you behave like this?"
"What kind of behavior is this?" Yan Hong pointed to herself, then to them. "I came back on the same train as them. You have no idea how they bullied me. They wouldn't give me any water!"
Lu Zhixia did not rush to defend herself, but calmly watched.
Tao Lihua felt a pain in her ear, so she said to her cousin, "If you're coming to see me, just say what you need to say. If you're not, go do whatever you need to do!"
"Are you kicking me out?" Yan Hong said angrily. "We grew up together since we were little, and you're just kicking me out like this?"
Tao Lihua simply couldn't bring herself to like her cousin, whose personality hadn't changed at all.
"You know who I am. It's no use arguing with me like this. You might as well get down to business."
Yan Hong was furious. She put her hands on her hips and gasped for breath. Seeing that the two hadn't said a word, she turned her anger towards them.
"Why are you all so quiet now? Where did your energy go on the train?"
Lu Zhixia got off the kang (heated brick bed), put on her shoes, and then looked directly into the woman's eyes. "So what do you want! To argue or to fight? Take it one!"
Yan Hong realized that if she lost an argument and resorted to violence, the man would be standing right next to her. She knew that if she did, she would definitely suffer the consequences.
She couldn't speak, and then she became extremely anxious, so in the end she could only grab her cousin's arm.
"Look how they're bullying me, are you still going to talk to them?"
Tao Lihua pulled her arm away, then looked at her and said,
"Stop messing around, okay?!"
"This is my home!"
Yan Hong understood that her cousin was angry. Her purpose in coming here was to borrow money because her parents did not support her in buying a house. So she thought of her cousin, who had been married for many years but had no children.
At this point, I noticed the gauze wrapped around her face; it looked very old and hadn't been removed for a long time.
What happened to your face?
"It's none of your business."
"What are you saying?"
"Human language!"
Yan Hong felt like she was about to explode with anger, so she decided to mind her own business and said directly, "I came here to borrow money from you, give me 500 yuan!"
"How dare you ask me for 500 yuan right off the bat?" Tao Lihua's temper flared up as she looked at her willful cousin. "We haven't been in touch for years, and you come here and immediately ask me for money. Do your parents know about this?"
Yan Hong waved her hand, "It doesn't matter whether they know or not. This money is a loan I gave you, not money I asked you for. I'll pay it back later!"
Tao Lihua was already in a bad mood, and now she was even worse off. "I'm not going to lend you the money. Go back to where you came from!"
"You're my cousin, why won't you lend me money!" Yan Hong resorted to moral blackmail. "We ate from the same pot and slept in the same bed when we were little. Now that you're grown up and married, you don't recognize me anymore?" She looked at her face with disdain. "Or is it because you're disfigured that you've become so unreasonable!"
"Get out of here!" Tao Lihua roared, her hand touching her right cheek.
"Fine, get out! I'll never come to see you again, you monster!" Yan Hong said this and turned to leave. She hadn't expected to get herself into trouble after failing to borrow any money.
However, my beautiful cousin was disfigured, which was quite a novelty. I immediately announced it to the world when I got back.
After seeing the person leave, Tao Lihua clutched her chest; this really angered her.
Seeing her pale face, Lu Zhixia quickly grabbed her wrist and instructed her...
"Take a deep breath, in and out!"
Tao Lihua felt like she was about to die, but following the method the girl had described, her breathing gradually became even, and the feeling of impending death disappeared. She looked up at the girl...
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