Seeing Ding Haowen's embarrassed expression, Li Yuzhu realized a problem.
"You didn't even know the baby needed formula? What have you been feeding him these past few days?"
Ding Haowen said awkwardly, "I know... but I forgot he needs formula, so I fed him rice water instead."
Li Yuzhu was somewhat dissatisfied, but she still patiently said, "Haowen, feeding the baby only rice water won't fill him up. Go and buy a can of formula."
Ding Haowen quickly agreed and went downstairs to the baby store to buy formula.
Ding Haowen didn't expect a can of milk powder to cost more than ten or twenty yuan. He bought a cheaper milk powder for about ten yuan.
Li Yuzhu quickly made formula for the child, and the child stopped crying and fussing after drinking it.
Ding Haowen breathed a sigh of relief. "Yuzhu, you're amazing."
Li Yuzhu smiled shyly, their gazes burning, and an ambiguous atmosphere spread between them.
In the middle of the night, Li Yuzhu was sound asleep when her child woke her up with crying and fussing.
Li Yuzhu smelled a foul odor of feces. Her expression changed, and she quickly checked to see if Dingxiang had defecated.
The white diaper turned yellow, and a foul smell filled Li Yuzhu's nose. She got up in disgust to clean it.
Seeing the child crying, Li Yuzhu prepared milk powder for Dingxiang to drink.
After finally getting everything sorted out, Li Yuzhu looked at the smelly diapers with a disgusted expression.
If it's not washed, it smells bad; if it is washed, she complains that it's dirty...
Finally, Li Yuzhu endured the nausea and washed the diaper clean, and was finally able to go to bed and continue sleeping. Dingxiang started crying again.
Li Yuzhu was getting impatient, but then she remembered that this was her own child, so she suppressed her impatience and coaxed the baby.
After finally getting the baby to sleep, Li Yuzhu lay down to sleep as well, only to be woken up by a strong stench of feces.
She quickly turned on the light, and there it was—she'd soiled her diaper again!
Li Yuzhu's face flushed with anger, and she couldn't help but curse, "You're such a debt collector!"
She impatiently cleaned up the child and was too lazy to wash the child's bottom with warm water, so she washed it directly with cold water.
The child started crying again for some reason, which gave Li Yuzhu a huge headache.
Suddenly there was a knock on the door, and Li Yuzhu heard an older woman's voice shouting, "Hey, can't you take care of your child? The crying and whining all night is so noisy!"
Li Yuzhu suddenly exploded!
She stormed out of the door, venting her anger at not having slept well all night and having to take care of the child.
"You're a woman too, haven't you ever had a child? Isn't it normal for a baby to cry often at night?"
The older sister only meant to offer a reminder, but she didn't expect the other person to have such a bad temper, so she also lost her temper.
"Why are you yelling? My child never cries at night!"
The hotel's soundproofing was already poor, and the noise from their argument disturbed other guests.
At four o'clock in the morning, the guests of the People's Hotel were forced to get up.
Chen Jiayi got up early to collect fresh vegetables, which cost her more than 20 yuan. She finished collecting the vegetables at about 5 a.m., when it was already bright and sunny.
By this time, the streets of Lianhua Town were gradually becoming populated. Chen Jiayi had just finished tidying up her stall when people came to buy vegetables.
It got hot around 8 o'clock.
Chen Jiayi handed a few bags to Wang Shulan, and the two chatted and laughed for a while.
"Chen Jiayi!" A furious voice suddenly rang out. Chen Jiayi turned around and saw that it was her father.
Wang Shulan frowned. "Jiayi, your dad is probably here to persuade you not to get a divorce. He has a bad temper, so just listen to him on the surface, but don't take it to heart in private."
Chen Jiayi nodded, feeling touched and understanding Wang Shulan's meaning.
Wang Shulan's words were for her own good. Every time her adoptive mother saw her, she would ask her for money. It was all about money, and she never cared about how she was doing.
Chen Xiaowei's face darkened, and he questioned Chen Jiayi with dissatisfaction.
"Chen Jiayi, how did you talk to your mother when she came to see you yesterday?"
Chen Jiayi shrugged innocently. "What can I say?"
Chen Xiaowei's face was cold and stern, his tone accusatory.
"Jiayi, I heard from Haowen that you want to divorce him?"
Chen Qiming casually picked up a tomato from the stall and started eating it, feeling that Chen Jiayi was being ungrateful!
"Now that you're divorced from Haowen, can you find someone better than him? Besides, there's no precedent for divorce in our family for generations. You can't break that tradition!"
Chen Jiayi frowned. "Dad, you're advising me to be patient, but Ding Haowen cheated on me. Are you going to wear the green hat for me?"
The people around were immediately in an uproar. They never expected that the intellectual from the Ding family who had entered the research institute would have an affair.
Chen Xiaowei was furious. "How can you talk like that? How will the property be divided now that you're divorced? What about the child? I never agreed to you bringing that child back to raise in the first place. You're young, and you're not incapable of having children. Now you're just saying you want a divorce? What about the child?"
He glanced at Chen Jiayi sideways, his tone commanding.
"Men cheating isn't a big deal. Just bear with it! You should go back to the Ding family. What kind of image do you have, constantly making a scene about divorce?!"
Chen Jiayi laughed and couldn't help but retort, "Others gossip because they're bored. I'm the one living my life. If I have to endure it all my whole life, am I going to wear a green hat for the rest of my life?"
"Besides, the new society emphasizes freedom of marriage. Chairman Mao said that women hold up half the sky. Why should I endure this? Why should I wear a green hat and serve Ding Haowen?"
Wang Shulan chimed in, "Yes, Jiayi's dad! We live in a new society now, and the most important thing is for the child to be happy."
Chen Xiaowei's eyes blazed with anger when he saw that Chen Jiayi was actually refuting him.
"You good-for-nothing! Are you trying to drive me crazy? You're an illiterate country woman who never leaves your home. Where will you find a man with such good qualities if you leave Ding Haowen? You're not allowed to divorce him!"
Chen Xiaowei thinks divorced women are like second-hand goods. If Chen Jiayi gets divorced, wouldn't the neighbors laugh him to death?
Chen Jiayi's eyes turned cold. "Then I'm definitely getting a divorce!"
Enraged, Chen Xiaowei slapped Chen Jiayi across the face and pointed at her nose while cursing.
"Chen Jiayi, if you dare to get a divorce, then don't ever be included in our Chen family's genealogy again!"
Chen Jiayi's face immediately turned red and swollen, which startled Wang Shulan.
"Honey, talk this out! Why are you hitting the child?"
Chen Xiaowei spat out, "What's it to you?"
Wang Shulan's expression darkened, but she really had no right to interfere in other people's family affairs.
Chen Xiaowei was stared at with displeasure, but since it was a family matter, he could not interfere and could only stand by and watch.
Chen Jiayi's ears rang from the slap, and she instinctively covered her swollen face.
A memory flashed through her mind: in her previous life, before she died, when she asked the Chen family for money, Chen Xiaowei had slapped her hard in the same way.
Chen Jiayi took a deep breath and calmly said:
"Even if you beat me to death, I'm still going to get a divorce! Ding Haowen and I have already filed for divorce, and there's no point in trying to persuade me now."
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