Chapter 22 My Husband Can't Do It
Wang and Chen Laifu also came out of the house. Seeing the blood on old man Chen's forehead, Wang slapped her thigh and said anxiously, "I told you not to wander around at night, but you didn't listen. Now you've hit your head!"
Liang Jinyu went back to the kitchen and swept a bowl of wood ash, and asked Dingfang to fetch a basin of water.
"Dad, let me take care of it for you." Liang Jinyu stepped forward.
Wang finally decided to light a lamp. The tiny light was enough to barely show the wound on old man Chen's forehead. It looked like he had been poked by something sharp.
It looked scary, but the wound was not big. The bleeding stopped after it was cleaned and sprinkled with wood ash.
Liang Jinyu lowered her eyes, suspicious, and deliberately asked: "Dad, where did you fall?"
Old man Chen was so angry that he stood up suddenly and threw the porcelain bowl on the table away.
The bowl fell to the ground with a bang, shattered, and the ash inside scattered all over the ground.
"You still have the nerve to ask, if you hadn't been so slow in cooking every day, would I be able to go out so late at night? You can't give birth to children, and you can't cook dinner well. I don't know what use you are!" Old man Chen got angry at Liang Jinyu for no reason.
Liang Jinyu didn't get what he wanted, but the one who was most happy was Wang.
She glanced at Liang Jinyu with a schadenfreude, followed Old Man Chen into the room, and kept talking: "I told you she was an unlucky girl, let the boss divorce her as soon as possible, I feel unlucky when I look at her..."
Chen Laifu stood there awkwardly, pulled the corner of his mouth and said awkwardly: "My father was injured, so he is in a bad mood, you, you don't mind it."
Liang Jinyu certainly didn't mind, but the change in old man Chen's attitude made her a little curious.
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I have been busy at the kiln for a few days, but have been idle recently.
Chen Lai Fu and Liang Ding Fang didn't have to go to the city, so they took advantage of this time to climb the two acres of sloping land behind the mountain.
The price of grain has been low in the past two years, so many families in the village plan to plant tea trees next year, and the Chen family is no exception.
That day, Liang Jinyu had just finished washing clothes and was walking home from the river.
But from a distance I saw two people pulling each other on the bridge. Against the light I could vaguely make out they were a man and a woman.
Liang Jinyu thought that the man was too brave to do that in broad daylight, but she didn't expect that the next moment the woman suddenly knelt down, hugged the man's legs tightly and cried.
"...Please, save her...She is still young, any amount of money will do...I will find a way, please."
This sound?
Why does she look so much like Chunniang?
Liang Jinyu couldn't help her curiosity and walked along the path towards the bridge.
As they got closer, Liang Jinyu could see the two people clearly. The woman was Chun Niang, but the man was a stranger.
Chunniang was as thin as a paper doll. She knelt on the ground and cried till she was hoarse. Her head hit the stone bridge hard, and her body was bloody.
The man sympathized but was helpless: "It's not that I don't want to save her, but I just can't help it. Forget it, I won't ask you for the medical fee this time. Let go quickly, I have other patients to see."
"Doctor Cao, please, please think of another way. I beg you, you will let me do anything to save my girl." Chunniang begged bitterly and refused to let go.
Doctor Cao was annoyed by the pestering and said bluntly: "Even if I prescribe a prescription for you, you don't have money to buy the medicine. Even if you can buy the medicine, it will be useless! She is so weak, she has nothing to eat and nothing to wear. Even a healthy person can get sick. Well, just listen to my advice and give up. If the little one is gone, you still have the big one."
"No, no, doctor, she is my daughter, I can't watch her die. Doctor Cao, please help me, just write me a prescription, even if I have to beg for money, I will definitely save her."
"Oh, why bother?" Doctor Cao sighed and had no choice but to write a prescription for Chunniang.
Chunniang thanked him profusely, holding the prescription in her pocket like a drowning person grabbing a life-saving straw: "Thank you, Doctor Cao, you are a good person, I will remember your kindness all my life."
Doctor Cao shook his hand and said, "Okay, go back and take care of the child. I have to hurry back to Liuhe Manor."
Chunniang bowed deeply again and then hurried home.
Looking at Chunniang's pitiful back, Doctor Cao sighed and was about to leave when he heard someone calling him from behind.
"Who are you?" Doctor Cao asked doubtfully as he looked at the young woman walking towards him.
Liang Jinyu smiled and said, "Doctor, I just heard that you are from Liuhe Manor?"
"Yes, what's wrong?" Doctor Cao asked puzzledly.
Liang Jinyu explained, "It's like this. I plan to go to Liuhezhuang in a few days, no, tomorrow. I wonder if you will be home tomorrow, doctor?"
"Are you treating me or is it your family member who is treating me?" Doctor Cao asked, looking Liang Jinyu up and down. Although she looked a little thin, she had delicate features, bright eyes, and fair and rosy complexion, and did not look like a patient.
Liang Jinyu lowered her head slightly, looking a little embarrassed: "It's me."
"You?" Doctor Cao asked doubtfully.
Liang Jinyu hesitated and hesitated for a long time without saying anything.
Doctor Cao lost his patience: "If you have something to say, please speak quickly. I am in a hurry."
Liang Jinyu bit her lip, then mustered up the courage to say, "Actually, it's my husband. He's not good in that aspect, so we have never had children. He is a man with a strong self-esteem, and I'm afraid that if this matter is known to others, he will lose face. So I want to ask the doctor, when I go to see you tomorrow, can you tell me that I am the one with the problem?"
Doctor Cao's eyes widened. This was the first time he had heard such a request in all his years of medical practice.
"Sister, you can't talk nonsense about this kind of thing. Since it's his problem, you should let him see a doctor. It's not good to be afraid of seeing a doctor." Doctor Cao spoke earnestly, and there was a little more sympathy in his eyes when he looked at Liang Jinyu.
Liang Jinyu had no choice but to tell another "secret".
"In fact, he has a daughter, but she is not his biological daughter." Liang Jinyu looked embarrassed, "He doesn't know about this yet, so he always thinks there is nothing wrong with him."
Doctor Cao took a deep breath. This was quite a lot of information.
"Anyway, doctor, I really don't want to make him sad. He is a very nice person and is good to me. When the time comes, just say it is my problem. Please." Liang Jinyu said, pretending to kneel down.
Doctor Cao quickly stretched out his hand to support him: "I am a doctor, I can't talk nonsense."
"Aren't doctors supposed to save the dying and the wounded, and to save the world? You helped me and saved both of us, no, you saved our entire family. If he knew that his daughter was not his biological daughter, how pitiful that child would be."
Liang Jinyu pretended to wipe the corners of her eyes and said, "Doctor, if I can suffer a little injustice so that everyone can feel better, I am willing to do so."
"You, eh." Doctor Cao was embarrassed and still did not give a clear answer.
Liang Jinyu was not in a hurry. She asked Dr. Cao for his address and made an appointment to go there the next afternoon.
After Doctor Cao left, Liang Jinyu took a deep breath and said apologetically, "I am sorry for using my talent to talk nonsense and ruin your reputation. I hope you won't blame me if you know about it in the afterlife."
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On the way back.
Liang Jinyu was thinking about something when he caught a glimpse of Chunniang in front of him from the corner of his eye.
She walked very slowly, holding her abdomen with both hands, as if she was feeling unwell.
Liang Jinyu recalled what Chunniang had said before, and felt mixed emotions.
Although her affair with old man Chen was immoral, she really had no choice.
The situation of women in this world is already difficult, let alone she has two children.
"Tsk——"
Chunniang suddenly squatted down and started vomiting violently.