"Sister-in-law, what's not serious?"
Jiang Si looked curious; she always felt that Teacher Hu had some juicy gossip.
Surprisingly, she actually guessed right.
"You two come here quickly, I have something to tell you."
Hu Meili beckoned the two women to her side and whispered, "Do you know why Li Mei had a premature birth?"
Xu Mingjuan shook her head.
She's been busy packing at home these past two days and has barely left the house.
Jiang Si's situation is very similar to hers.
As she shook her head, she looked over in surprise, "Sister-in-law, you know?"
Hu Meili nodded, "These past two days, quite a few colleagues have come to my house to look after their children, and we chatted for a while since we had nothing else to do."
"I heard from them that Li Mei accidentally ran into the inspection team when she went to the free market to buy things a few days ago."
"She was so scared that she didn't dare to take anything and ran away, but she accidentally tripped and fell."
"If it weren't for a kind person who took her to the county hospital, she and her unborn child might have died."
Jiang Si was taken aback. "She went to the county hospital?"
"right."
Xu Mingjuan couldn't understand it. "The county town is an hour's drive from here. She could just go to the town to buy things. Why does she have to go so far?"
"Yes, I find it strange too."
Hu Meili said, "On the day she went, several of her sisters-in-law tried to persuade her not to go so far, but she wouldn't listen."
"But that's not the most amazing part."
"I heard that when Grandma Xiang brought the person back the next day, she had a long face the whole time."
"They haven't stopped these past few days either, they've been scolding Li Mei at home every day."
Xu Mingjuan was speechless. "She's not acting like a mother-in-law at all. No wonder Li Mei schemed against her."
Although Jiang Si didn't have a good impression of Li Mei, to be honest, her mother-in-law was really suffocating.
"By the way, why did you scold the old lady like that?"
This is a long story, so Hu Meili will just give a brief summary.
Of course, these words came from the old lady's mouth, and whether they were embellished or not is unknown.
Hu Meili said, "I heard that the place where Li Mei fell is a bit far from the county hospital, and there are also people from the inspection team investigating. No one in the vicinity dares to take her to the hospital."
"Li Mei was in so much pain that she promised whoever took her to the hospital that she would give them two hundred yuan if the baby could be born safely."
"Two hundred yuan?" Jiang Si narrowed her eyes.
This amount of money is not small, but in that situation, if she hadn't gone to the hospital, she and her unborn child could very well have died.
Most importantly, if a military family member is arrested by the inspection team...
Xiang's military career as deputy battalion commander has come to an end.
Xu Mingjuan: "So, Grandma Xiang is scolding her at home every day because of this money?"
Hu Meili nodded, knowing how much the old lady valued money; everyone in the residential compound knew that.
"Fortunately, Li Mei gave birth to a son this time, otherwise Old Lady Xiang would have had a lot of trouble arguing with them about this money..."
"She gave birth to a son?" Jiang Si suddenly interrupted.
Hu Meili paused for a moment, then said, "Yes...it's my son."
Otherwise, given Grandma Xiang's temper, how could she have obediently taken out those two hundred yuan?
Upon hearing this, Jiang Si fell silent for a moment.
Dr. Jiang's complexion was indeed off that day, and he frowned the whole time.
But now that I think about it, the reason she frowned was probably just because she was wondering why Li Mei would lie.
She clearly didn't tell her whether it was a man or a woman.
But Li Mei told the old lady that the doctor had told her all of this.
In other words, she was overthinking everything.
That makes sense when you think about it; they wanted to switch a child secretly in a military hospital without anyone noticing.
The probability of her not being discovered by her mother-in-law's family is almost negligible.
They say pregnancy makes you stupid for three years, and Jiang Si says that's absolutely true!
Just as Jiang Si was jokingly admitting that she had made a big blunder, Hu Meili also looked over with an embarrassed expression.
"You just said she was in a real hurry when she borrowed money, and I was wondering if Li Mei might have some debts outside?"
"Then she probably used the fact that her child was born prematurely to extort money from her mother-in-law..."
Upon hearing this, Jiang Si's expression froze.
Meanwhile, on the other side...
Dr. Jiang was also processing this unbelievable news.
She was the one who performed Li Mei's ultrasound, and no one knew better than her whether the child was a boy or a girl.
But Li Mei hasn't come to the military hospital since she didn't tell them her gender last time.
Dr. Jiang had just heard the old lady's cursing and only then did he realize that Li Mei's child had already been born.
It's...it's a son!
Having practiced medicine for so many years, Dr. Jiang is still very confident in his skills.
Because of her confidence, she was stunned for a long time after hearing the news.
Finally, it was the exclamations from the side that pulled Dr. Jiang back to her senses.
"Dr. Jiang, please take a look at me quickly, my stomach is a little uncomfortable."
Upon hearing the name Dr. Jiang, Li Mei instinctively looked over.
Unwittingly, their eyes met.
During the ten or so seconds of eye contact, both of them had very complicated expressions.
Dr. Jiang pursed her lips, sighed softly, and ultimately said nothing.
There is no evidence, yet this matter concerns a family and a child's entire life.
She couldn't say it, and she shouldn't say it!
Li Mei took in Dr. Jiang's expression, a faint smile appearing in her eyes.
"Boom—Crack!"
"Boom—Crack!!"
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