Chu Xianglan and Zhao Dayong both stared at Bai Ying eagerly, wanting to hear the truth from Bai Ying as soon as possible.
After all, this is related to how to deal with Huang Xia.
Bai Ying didn't keep the secret and nodded, "It's true. The pulse shows that the fetus in your sister-in-law's belly is about two months old."
Originally, she thought Huang Xia treated Gou Niu badly, so after this incident, she just asked her eldest brother to divorce her. Since she dared to plot against her, she should be prepared to be killed in return!
But now Huang Xia suddenly became pregnant, which undoubtedly disrupted her plans...
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Upon hearing this, Chu Xianglan opened her mouth in surprise.
There are few grandchildren in the family, with only a dog. Chu Xianglan has always been looking forward to the birth of a new life in the family, but now she has encountered this problem.
She couldn't help but sigh in her heart that this child came at a really bad time.
Huang Xia on the side was also shocked.
However, what surprised Huang Xia was not that she was pregnant, but that Bai Ying could actually take pulses!
You have to know that Chinese medicine is not easy to learn. It is not something that can be learned in just one month of training in a county hospital. If there are any Chinese medicine practitioners with real skills, they are all elderly men and women.
How could Bai Ying, a girl who just turned eighteen, have such advanced medical skills?
Huang Xia was a little nervous.
Now that her conspiracy with her cousin to plot against Bai Ying has been exposed, Bai Ying must be unhappy. They usually live together. What if Bai Ying takes the opportunity to put something that shouldn't be in her food and gets rid of her child?
Huang Xia was a little scared, her eyes flickered, and I don’t know what she was thinking about.
Bai Ying looked at Huang Xia opposite her with scrutiny and narrowed her eyes.
She suddenly remembered that in her previous life, after being thrown back to the Lin family by her evil mother-in-law, she heard gossip about Huang Xia when she went to the river to wash clothes.
Those people said that Huang Xia married a family from the same village as soon as she returned to her parents' home, and gave birth to a child within a year. Some people even joked that Huang Xia had already found her next husband.
Although it is just a rumor, it may not be unbelievable.
When Huang Xia first married into the Bai family, nothing was wrong. But in recent years, she has been going back to her parents' home every few days. She didn't think there was anything wrong before, but now she thinks there is indeed a problem.
In addition, she just took his pulse and it showed that he had only been ill for one or two months.
After considering all the doubts, Bai Ying boldly guessed that the child in Huang Xia's belly might not be her eldest brother's.
The most reliable way to confirm the hypothesis is paternity testing. However, it was the 1970s and the technology for paternity testing was not yet available. It had to wait until the late 1980s for the technology for paternity testing to become stable and popular.
It's almost impossible to start from this aspect.
Then we can only wait and see...
Bai Ying thought about it over and over again, and soon came up with a plan, without showing any abnormality on her face.
Zhao Dayong looked at Bai Ying apologetically, "Doctor Bai, I can't help you. Pregnant women who commit crimes won't be sentenced, let alone sent to a farm for forced labor. Even if they're sent to the police station, they won't accept them!"
Bai Ying pursed her lips and nodded.
Zhao Dayong was indeed right.
The Criminal Law stipulates that pregnant women cannot be detained or imprisoned, and must be served outside prison. Even if the baby is aborted, the period of confinement after childbirth is treated as a pregnant woman.
This was after a number of laws were enacted and promulgated in 1979, when the legal system was sound. It was still 1977, and Huang Xia's pregnancy was equivalent to carrying a golden medal of immunity from death.
What's more, Huang Xia was only Chen Gouzi's accomplice. She was not the one who actually committed the crime, and she was not necessarily the mastermind.
Chen Gouzi’s sentencing is a foregone conclusion, but Huang Xia is in a difficult situation.
Bai Ying had already made up her mind and didn't feel sorry. She glanced at Huang Xia and said calmly, "Since sister-in-law is pregnant, you should stay at home and take good care of the baby. Don't run around like a monkey on the mountain all day. It's really embarrassing."
Huang Xia pinched the corner of her clothes with both hands, her face flushed with humiliation, "Bai Ying! I am your sister-in-law, and I am your elder no matter how high or low. How can you, a little sister-in-law, lecture me?"
Bai Ying sneered and looked Huang Xia up and down, her disdain evident in her eyes. "If you want to be someone else's elder, then you have to act like one, right?"
"Ha, cough, cough..."
Zhao Dayong, who was standing by, wanted to laugh but realized the situation was not right, so he quickly switched to coughing. When Bai Ying looked at him, he said awkwardly, "Since you don't need me, I'll leave first."
After all, it is the chief's wife's family affair, and it is inappropriate for him to keep interfering.
Bai Ying nodded and followed him, her expression still calm and composed, not even a hint of discouragement. "Platoon Leader Zhao, I'm really sorry to bother you today."
This made Zhao Dayong look at Bai Ying with a new respect.
He is so cunning at such a young age, as unfathomable as the leader.
He silently shed a tear of sympathy for the chief in his heart. It would be better for the chief himself to explain why his wife's identity was hidden. He couldn't afford to offend either of these two great men.
In the courtyard.
Chu Xianglan stared absentmindedly at Huang Xia's belly, which had not yet bulged.
The second and third children are not married yet, and Gou Nuo is the only child in the family. It is obviously impossible for her not to want this child.
But...Huang Xia's personality.
Chu Xianglan felt quite troubled and regretted deeply that she did not oppose Huang Xia's marriage to Lao Da because she was afraid of contradicting Old Mrs. Bai. As a result, after she married him in, the family was in turmoil.
As for the option of asking Huang Xia to divorce the boss? Chu Xianglan had never considered it.
Farmers had no concept of divorce. What family wasn't always noisy? If they really couldn't get along and divorced, it would be so embarrassing. The whole brigade could drown their family in spit!
What's more, Huang Xia is still pregnant. How can you force a pregnant woman to divorce?
If this gets out, will the boss's reputation be ruined? Even if he really divorces Huang Xia, no woman in the surrounding area will dare to marry him.
"Old man, you!"
Chu Xianglan's thoughts turned over and over again, and finally she sighed deeply, "From now on, you and the eldest brother should live a good life, and don't look for trouble. If something like this happens again, you and the eldest brother will separate from the family, and we will pretend that we don't have you as our son and daughter-in-law!"
In general rural families, the mother-in-law cares most about her daughter-in-law's belly, but Chu Xianglan is different.
Faced with the choice between her beloved daughter whom she had raised and her grandson whom she didn't know whether she would be able to give birth to, Chu Xianglan decisively chose the former!
"Mom! A daughter who's married off is like spilled water," Huang Xia stamped her feet in anger. "I'm your eldest daughter-in-law, and you're giving up your eldest son and daughter-in-law for a girl who's about to get married. What are you thinking?"
Chu Xianglan frowned and corrected him unhappily, "Even if Yingzi is married, this place will always be her home. But if you, from the eldest family, continue to stir up trouble, this place will no longer be your home. You might as well go out and live alone with the eldest brother."
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