Chapter 121
Everyone in the compound was also wondering who had reported Aunt Liu and her family.
At the beginning of the movement, many people were reported by their own relatives, even their own flesh and blood. If Aunt Liu and her family were reported by their own family, everyone would feel more at ease. But if Aunt Liu and her family were reported by people in their own compound, then everyone would not be able to rest easy.
If there were such people in the compound, wouldn't they have to be on guard all the time? What if one day they were reported by the other party for some unknown reason?
On the day when Aunt Liu, Uncle Liu and Fang Ping were paraded through the streets, the people in the compound finally got the news and found out who had reported Aunt Liu and her family.
"Cui Yongfang, how could you be like this? You must have often gone to Aunt Liu's house to borrow things, and Aunt Liu always gave them to you with a smile. How could you repay kindness with enmity and report Aunt Liu's family!" Someone couldn't stand it anymore and went to Cui Yongfang to argue.
Cui Yongfang, bulging with a large belly, said confidently, "You're doing me a favor by lending me something? It's not like I haven't lent things to others before. The country has banned speculation, and Aunt Liu is still secretly renting out her house to others. Is it wrong for me to report something that goes against the country?"
"No one said you made a mistake in reporting it, it's just..." Mother Fan chose her words carefully: "Don't you even consider that we all live in the same courtyard?"
"It's precisely because we live in the same courtyard that I have to report it!" Cui Yongfang said, "Luckily, it was me who reported it. If it was reported by someone outside, they would think we were in cahoots with Aunt Liu, and wouldn't we all be implicated?"
"That's right!" Aunt Liang agreed. "Yongfang had to report it for all of us. Who allowed Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu to be so bold? With the situation outside so tense and serious, they engaged in speculation and profiteering in our yard. Have they ever considered the safety of us neighbors?"
Cui Yongfang continued, "Now that such a big thing has happened, Aunt Liu and Uncle Liu's two daughters haven't come back to see them. Maybe those two daughters already knew what they were doing and cut off all ties with them."
When everyone heard this, they knew that it was impossible to convince Cui Yongfang and Aunt Liang, so they stopped talking.
While speculation and profiteering are being cracked down on these days, there are still many people renting properties privately, likely due to the tight housing supply. People often claim that distant relatives are staying with them, but the reality is that few people have the time to meddle in other people's affairs.
People like Cui Yongfang are really disgusting.
But no one dared to speak too harshly of Cui Yongfang. After all, Cui Yongfang was the one in the right, and her belly was so big. If they provoked her and she had a miscarriage, the Liang family would definitely blackmail them.
So everyone dispersed with their own thoughts, and everyone thought that they should have less contact with people like Cui Yongfang and the Liang family in the future, so as to avoid being targeted one day.
After that, no one saw Aunt Liu and her family, nor Fang Ping, in the compound again. It was said that after the parade that day, the three of them were thrown into prison. The house Aunt Liu and her family had previously lived in was also repossessed by the factory.
Seeing the empty house, everyone in the compound, except Cui Yongfang and Aunt Liang, felt very sad.
Cui Yongfang's family had always been unpopular, but after this incident, even fewer people in the compound were willing to talk to them.
That day, Cui Yongfang moved a large basin of clothes and was about to sit in front of the house to wash them. When she saw Aunt Wu passing by, she greeted her with a smile.
"Aunt Wu, you're going out so early!"
Aunt Wu glanced at her, smiled perfunctorily, and nodded in response.
Then, Aunt Wu quickened her pace.
Cui Yongfang rolled his eyes at Aunt Wu's back and muttered softly, "You don't even say a word, you're dumb!"
She was about to sit down to wash clothes when she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach.
Cui Yongfang, who had already given birth once, had experience and knew that she was about to give birth. She hurriedly shouted into the house: "Mom - Mom -"
Aunt Liang heard her desperate cry and came out of the house unhappy: "What are you shouting for?"
Afterwards, Aunt Liang saw water flowing down Cui Yongfang's legs.
"Mom, I'm about to give birth, please take me to the hospital quickly." Cui Yongfang said.
"Oh." Aunt Liang became flustered.
All the men in the family went out to work, leaving only the two women and the useless Liang Tianxiong at home. Aunt Liang could only seek help from the neighbors.
No one in the compound wanted to bother with them in the first place, because what Cui Yongfang's family had been doing recently was really unpleasant.
But thinking that the baby in her belly was innocent and that they were neighbors after all, how could they really pretend not to see it? So they used a cart to send Cui Yongfang, whose water had broken, to the hospital.
Aunt Liang was waiting outside the delivery room alone. At noon, Liang Nan came home from work and learned from his son and neighbors that Cui Yongfang had gone to the hospital. He and his father also rushed to the hospital.
Seeing Aunt Liang walking around outside the delivery room, Liang Nan asked anxiously, "Is the baby born? Is it a boy?"
"The baby hasn't been born yet, why is it so soon?" Aunt Liang glared at Liang Nan and put her hands together to pray to the heavens: "God bless, it must be a son, it must be..."
Seeing this, Father Liang quickly clapped Aunt Liang's clasped hands and said, "Are you crazy? If someone sees you, do you want to be paraded through the streets or imprisoned like the Liu family?"
Aunt Liang finally reacted and looked around. Seeing that no one was paying attention to them, she breathed a sigh of relief: "Look at me, I was so anxious that I almost forgot about it."
Father Liang glared at her fiercely: "You forgot that it's okay. If this gets our whole family involved, I'll see what you can do!"
Aunt Liang lowered her eyes awkwardly and said nothing.
"Liang Nan and I will stay here, you go back and make lunch." said Liang's father.
"How can you two grown men do that! What if Yongfang gives birth? Do you two grown men know what to do?" Aunt Liang said.
Liang's father and Liang Nan looked at each other, they really didn't know what to do.
"Then Liang Nan and I don't know how to cook!" Liang's father asked, "What are we having for lunch?"
"Let's go to the state-owned restaurant to buy some steamed buns, and get some pickles from home, and we'll make do with what we have." Aunt Liang said.
Liang's father agreed and asked Liang Nan to buy steamed buns and pickles.
At noon, the three of them had a meal together in the hospital. Even Liang Tianxiong, who was not at home, ate the same meal as them.
After eating, Liang's father went back. Liang Tianxiong needed someone to take care of him as he had to go to work in the afternoon.
Liang Nanze did not go to work in the afternoon and took a leave of absence. He and Aunt Liang waited for Cui Yongfang outside the delivery room.
It was not until four or five in the afternoon that the door of the delivery room was finally opened from the inside.
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