Li Jingqin was in no mood to argue with Old Lady Xu because her daughter was being rescued. She, her son, and her daughter-in-law all went to the emergency room trembling with fear to wait for news.
Old Mrs. Xu's face was disfigured after being beaten. There were bloody marks and bruises on it, and her eyelids were swollen.
Li Heng is her son after all. Although she was somewhat dissatisfied with Grandma Xu for not sending Li Xuejiao to the hospital in time, she still felt bad seeing her own mother being beaten by her mother-in-law and brother-in-law.
"Mom, are you okay? How about I go downstairs with you to get some medicine to apply?"
"No, the ointment that Old Seven's wife took me to the hospital to get last time is still here. I can just apply it myself when I get home. Don't waste your money."
When Li Heng heard this, he felt guilty again.
After all, she is his own mother, and she is still thinking about saving money for him.
This girl has nothing to do with Ning Jia, but the more she looks at Li Heng, the more she finds this person really unpleasant.
Li Xuejiao was so emotionally agitated that she suffered heavy bleeding. She is still lying in the emergency room. To be honest, it is still unclear whether she can get out.
But he didn't care about his daughter-in-law who was on the verge of life and death, but instead cared about Old Mrs. Xu's face.
I really can't tell the priorities, or the main from the secondary.
"Aren't you going to wait for Li Xuejiao?" Ning Jia reminded him, "Your mother-in-law and your eldest brother-in-law are both there. You are not here at the critical moment. Aren't you afraid of being blamed? When your wife comes out of the emergency room and finds out that you are not waiting for her, do you think she will still be nice to you?"
Old Mrs. Xu was just trying to find an excuse to leave, but when she heard Ning Jia say that, she hurriedly said, "Go ahead, go ahead. Old Six's wife is right. You go and look after your wife. I am not seriously injured."
Seeing his own mother said so, Li Heng nodded and said, "Okay, I'll go wait for Xuejiao. There's nothing else to do here. Otherwise, you can go with your sisters-in-law first."
"Yeah, I'm just causing trouble here."
Old Mrs. Xu was about to pass away, but she didn't want to go with her daughters-in-law, lest it ruin her big plan.
"You guys should stay here. It would be awkward for no one in our family to be here. At least wait until Xuejiao comes out, and then you can go back."
"That's right." Bai Jinfeng also felt that it was not appropriate to just leave, so she sought the opinions of her two sisters-in-law.
Ning Jia and An Ye had no objections, so the three of them stayed and went outside the emergency room to wait for Li Xuejiao.
Old Mrs. Xu came out of the hospital alone. As soon as she walked out of the hospital gate, she took the thing out of her arms, opened the paper package and looked at it from left to right to make sure that she had not made a mistake.
She had just finished packing and was about to put it in her arms when someone suddenly chased after her from behind, shouting, "Old sister, old sister, don't leave."
Old Mrs. Xu didn't know that the visitor was calling her, she just turned her head and glanced at him casually.
An old lady with bound and shriveled feet came running up to her breathlessly and grabbed her wrist, fearing that she would run away.
"What are you doing?" Old Mrs. Xu was startled.
"Old sister, don't be afraid, I mean no harm. I saw you coming out of the ward, and I chased you out! You walked so fast, I called you several times along the way but you didn't hear me." The skinny old lady was afraid that she would misunderstand, so she finished her words in one breath and almost suffocated to death.
Old Mrs. Xu's mind was so focused on the package that she didn't hear someone calling her from behind.
"Why are you calling me? I don't even know you."
The wizened old lady waited until she had caught her breath before she said, "You are from the obstetrics and gynecology department, right? Someone in your family has given birth, right?"
"Yeah, what does it have to do with you? Just tell me what you want to say. I'm tired of listening to you. I'm in a hurry to leave. If you're not serious, I won't waste my time talking to you."
"Yes, I have it." The wizened old lady pulled Old Lady Xu aside and said in a low voice, "I want to ask you, do you have a placenta in your hand?"
When Mrs. Xu heard this, her heart skipped a beat.
Seeing her face change, the wizened old lady hurriedly continued: "Old sister, if you have it, please sell it to me. Someone in my family is sick and is waiting for this thing to be used as medicine."
This is what Old Mrs. Xu found under Li Xuejiao's bed just now. Her daughter-in-law must have given birth to the baby late last night, and the placenta was taken out at that time.
There is an unwritten rule around the old locust tree that the placenta of a woman after giving birth is usually taken away and buried behind the house. No one knows why this is done, but it is said that it has something to do with Feng Shui, so every household does this.
Even though there are people who come to buy this thing, only a very small number of them are sold, and most people bury them behind their houses.
Old Mrs. Xu rolled her eyes and heard that someone wanted to buy it, so she became interested: "What's your price?"
In fact, there is no price for this thing. The buyer offers a price, and if the seller finds it acceptable, then the transaction is done.
The wizened old lady held out her hand and said, "What do you think of five dollars? If you can accept it, I'll buy it."
Mrs. Xu thought five yuan was not a lot, and she was greedy and wanted more: "Ten yuan!"
When the wizened old lady heard the price of ten yuan, she curled her lips and was not very happy. The price was too high and she was unwilling to buy it: "It's too expensive, sister. Let's talk about it. How about seven yuan? To put it bluntly, if you don't sell it to me, you can't sell it. Seven yuan is not a small amount."
After hearing what she said, Old Mrs. Xu felt that this shriveled old lady was definitely not someone who wanted to use the thing as medicine as she said her family needed. Maybe she was a specialist in this and bought this thing and then sold it at a high price.
"I don't like what you said. You think seven dollars is too little? I still want fifteen dollars from you. If you want to buy it, buy it. If not, forget it."
The skinny old lady saw that Old Lady Xu was quite difficult to deal with, so she thought the price was not low. However, the greedy woman in front of her asked for an exorbitant price.
"If that's the case, then you can take it. I won't buy it."
Mrs. Xu didn't have to sell it in the first place. She had her own reasons and plans for taking it away.
Since this shriveled old lady doesn't want to buy it, it's a good opportunity for her to take it away.
"If you don't want to buy it, then don't buy it. Am I begging you for it?" Old Mrs. Xu snorted twice, put the things in her arms, turned around and left.
It was almost noon, and the three sisters-in-law were already starving from waiting, but Li Xuejiao hadn't come out yet.
Li Jingqin was getting anxious and impatient while waiting. Seeing that her three sisters-in-law were still waiting with her, she felt touched and a little sorry.
"You guys go ahead, it's almost noon and time to go eat."
"We're not going to leave. Let's wait until Xuejiao is out of danger." Just as Bai Jinfeng finished her words, the door of the emergency room opened and the doctor pushed Li Xuejiao out.
"She's out of danger. Let the mother have a good rest these days and don't let her get too emotional." The doctor advised.
Everyone's hanging hearts finally settled down, and Li Jingqin's tears suddenly flowed down. She thanked the doctor again and again, and held her daughter's hand tightly, refusing to let go.
Seeing this, the three sisters-in-law quietly left and no longer disturbed Li Xuejiao's rest.
It was already noon when we came out of the hospital. If we walked to the village, it would take more than two hours. If we took a ride on a bullock cart, it would take at least an hour.
Ning Jia and An Ye were both very hungry and clamored to go to the state-owned restaurant for dinner. However, they remembered that they had given all their money to Li Xuejiao and had no money left, so they could only go back to the restaurant on an empty stomach.
On the way, the three sisters-in-law couldn't help but complain about what Grandma Xu did.
"But I didn't expect that the old lady asked the three of us to stay and wait for Xuejiao to come out of the emergency room. Her words were quite humane." Bai Jinfeng sighed.
Being used to seeing the rude side of Old Lady Xu, Bai Jinfeng actually thought she was pretty good when she said a few normal words.
"Don't you think this old lady's behavior is actually quite strange?" Ning Jia wanted to say this for a long time, but because he was worried about Li Xuejiao in the hospital, he didn't say it out loud.
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