"So when they found out I was a girl, they didn't even want to give me a new name."
She could imagine what the Hu family looked like at that time.
How did Li Aihua survive such a huge gap after giving birth?
"I don't know about that." Doctor Zhao stopped there. "The medicine is finished. I'll take out the needle for you."
"good."
This is the fundamental reason why Li Ai and Jian Ya were treated like this.
The son became a daughter, and the Hu family's expectations were dashed. Li Aihua could not give birth again, and the Hu family no longer had the idea of having a son. As a result, they also disliked Jianya, who was a girl.
Sun Fangfen schemed against Li Aihua because she knew that the Hu family and Hu Xiaoyi wanted a boy.
Li Aihua's family immediately arranged a blind date for her after she got divorced. They just wanted to sell her again. If Li Aihua gets divorced again this time, will she be sold again?
Now that she has lost her beauty and cannot bear children, what kind of family will be waiting for her?
Did she resist?
Maybe yes, maybe no, it doesn’t matter anymore. For her, perhaps being alive is the greatest blessing.
But what is the meaning of living like this?
Hu Lin didn't understand. After hanging the medicine and going home, he looked at Li Aihua busy at home and looked at this woman seriously for the first time.
Li Aihua had a haggard face, a body like a withered skeleton, and was wearing gray patched clothes.
She has been bending over and lowering her head for a long time, and her back can't be straightened. It's hard to imagine that this person was beautiful when she was young.
"Why are you back?" Li Aihua was shocked when she turned around and saw Hu Lin standing in the yard and staring at her.
Hu Lin looked at the frightened Li Aihua, and strangely, he resonated with her thoughts at the moment.
When she is alone at home every day, that may be the most relaxing time of her day.
She has no husband who doesn't love her, no sisters-in-law who scheme against her, and no mother-in-law who exploits her.
She should be relaxed psychologically, and having living people around is actually a burden to her.
"The infusion is finished. Doctor Zhao told me to go home and eat, and then go for the injection in the afternoon."
"Then you go back to your room and rest. We can eat after everyone comes back." After saying this, Li Aihua turned around and went back to do her own thing. Her back did not look that comfortable.
Hu Lin felt a little sleepy, so she went back to her room to take a nap. When the Hu family came back, she woke up too.
When Hu Xiaoyi saw her at home, he asked her why she was at home. She repeated what she had told Li Aihua.
After lunch, the Hu family rested for a while and then went back to work.
The production team has been planting rice these days, and due to the rush, there is no lunch break. They will go back to work as usual after these busy days.
After lunch, Li Aihua cleaned up and took some free time to mend clothes for her family members under the eaves.
"Aren't you sleeping?" Hu Lin asked in confusion.
Didn’t Li Aihua take a nap yesterday? She didn’t get enough sleep today, so why doesn’t she rest?
"Your grandma said that if she didn't take a nap, I couldn't sleep either." Li Aihua seemed to be talking about something ordinary.
"She doesn't know you slept."
Why is she so rigid?
Li Aihua glanced at Hu Lin and stopped talking.
Hu Lin suddenly recalled some fragments. It seemed that when Jianya was two years old, Sun Fangfen asked her whether Li Aihua secretly took a nap at home.
Sun Fangfen bribed Jianya with a little bit of maltose and made her lie. Li Aihua was severely punished because of Jianya's betrayal.
The old woman spanked her twenty times and asked her to work as usual the next day without giving her any medicine. It took more than a month for her injuries to heal.
It was also after that that the rift between Jianya and Li Aihua grew larger and larger, and Li Aihua often used Jianya as a punching bag.
Sun Fangfen is really vicious. She even uses her tricks on children.
"I won't tell them." Hu Lin promised weakly.
Li Aihua still ignored Hu Lin. She probably felt that the bitch's betrayal had left an indelible scar in her heart.
"Aren't you sleepy?"
Of course Li Aihua was sleepy, but she didn't want to be beaten again.
"Why are you talking so much? Before, you couldn't get anything out of me even if I hit you with three sticks. Now why are you just talking nonsense? Are you stupid?"
Hu Lin: "..."
I'm so angry that I'd rather not sleep.
Li Aihua's words wiped out the little bit of pity Hu Lin had in his heart.
After Li Aihe finished mending the clothes, she carried Hu Lin to the health center, and after Hu Lin finished his injection, he carried her back.
She was very tired from all this going back and forth, so when cooking dinner, Li Aihua asked Hu Lin to help her light the fire.
It was always like this before the little girl got into trouble.
In the evening, several children who went to school came back first.
They were playing in the yard. Hu Lin was guarding the stove, adding firewood from time to time, while Li Aihua was circling around the stove.
The Hu family started eating as soon as they got home from work.
There are still two dishes, one is boiled cabbage and the other is wild vegetable soup, and the staple food is still porridge.
Li Aihua is a good cook. Her boiled cabbage is fragrant and her wild vegetable soup is delicious, but it doesn't have much oil.
After cleaning up, Li Aihua brought some cold water for Hu Lin to wash up. Hu Lin refused and said he wanted hot water, which was objected by Li Aihua.
It is said that the old woman said that except when the weather is cold, you should use cold water to wash at other times to avoid wasting firewood.
In response to this, Hu Lin could only laugh in his heart.
What a waste of firewood. What are the men of the Hu family doing with it? When the firewood is gone, don’t they go up the mountain to chop firewood?
Hu Lin had no choice but to wash his feet. He didn't use the towel to wash his face, but just scooped water with his hands.
When she leaves this house, she will definitely have free hot water.
*
This was the day Dr. Zhao had mentioned for going to the county to bring back nutritional supplements. Yesterday, Dr. Zhao specifically told Li Aihua that the clinic would be closed this morning and asked her to go there in the afternoon.
Hu Lin was basking in the sun in the yard.
She watched Li Aihua clean up the family's dishes and go to the chicken and duck farm to feed them.
After feeding, he shoveled up the chicken and duck feces and put it in a dung basket. Then he fetched half a bucket of water from the yard and went to the backyard with one hand.
Hu Lin followed.
The seedlings in the vegetable field are lush and green and look very tender.
Li Aihua poured the small amount of feces into the wooden barrel under the eaves in the backyard, and then poured the water fetched from the yard into it. After stirring it evenly with a long-handled wooden ladle, she poured it into the small vegetable patch one ladle at a time.
Hu Lin looked at it and took a few steps back, afraid that it would get on his body.
The seedlings are growing well and there are no weeds in the field. It seems that Li Aihua is also good at taking care of the vegetable field.
She can cook, grow vegetables, raise poultry, and sew clothes. She is a down-to-earth and simple person. It seems that Li Aihua is very useful.
She is only five years old now. Even if she wants to leave, she must find someone like Li Aihua to take care of her. Otherwise, she will be annoyed by the trivialities of life and will have no time to do other things.
It’s decided, she wants Li Aihua.
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