Mother Wei cursed loudly, "Nothing happened, yet she had to make such a fuss. I'll teach her a lesson tomorrow."
Dr. Xiao wanted to keep Yu Rujia to talk, but the pitch black outside reminded her that it was the middle of the night and she should go to sleep, so she gave up the idea.
Dr. Xiao: "I won't bother Comrade Yu any longer today. I'll visit Comrade Yu at the Shangfen Brigade when I have a day off."
Yu Rujia: "No need for a visit. I'll come to see Xiaojie tomorrow. See you tomorrow."
Dr. Xiao happily replied, "See you tomorrow." Their work was simply too busy, so it was naturally most convenient for Yu Rujia to come to the hospital.
When Gao Shujing returned to Shangfen Brigade, Li Dashan was still leading a patrol and asked about the pregnant woman's condition.
Yu Rujia: "For now, both mother and child are safe. We'll go check on them again tomorrow."
The next morning, when Yu Rujia woke up, Huang Guihua was already waiting for her at her house.
Yu Rujia: "Sister Guihua, when did you get here? You didn't even wake me up."
Huang Guihua: "I know what you call me. You ran to town to save Xiaojie in the middle of the night yesterday. What can I do if I wait a while?"
The news that Yu Rujia ran to town to save people last night had already spread throughout the village. It was only after hearing this news that Huang Guihua learned of the danger Guo Xiaojie had faced last night.
Yu Rujia told her what she had seen at the hospital last night, emphasizing Wei's mother, saying that she was such a shameless scoundrel that even in the countryside few could match her.
Yu Rujia: "Xiaojie told me before that her in-laws were difficult to deal with. I had never met them and didn't have any sense of it until I met them last night. I realized that they weren't much better than Li Cuiniang back then. Are you going to cover for her again?"
Huang Guihua: "Hey, even if Li Cuiniang is difficult to deal with, there are ways to deal with her. People are much more honest now, so I'm not afraid of them. I'll go with you to the hospital to visit Xiaojie later and see what it's like."
Li Cuiniang is now truly docile. Given her age, without anyone to manage her daily life, she has to do all the mundane tasks herself. She gets so tired after just a few things that she can't catch her breath, and she doesn't have the extra energy to cause trouble.
Yu Rujia: "It's good that you're sure there's no problem. Wait a little longer, I'll leave after I've had breakfast."
Huang Guihua: "Don't rush, take your time. The hospital is right there, it can't be run away."
Last night, they took a drive around town. Yu Rujia got up a little later than usual, and the two of them arrived in town close to ten o'clock.
Guo Xiaojie has woken up.
Huang Guihua went in first, put down the things she had brought, and sat down on the edge of the bed, asking with concern, "Xiao Jie, are you alright?"
Guo Xiaojie's face was pale and her voice was weak: "The doctor said I'll be fine after some rest. I'm so grateful to Rujia. If she hadn't come over in time last night, I would have been dead already."
She was truly grateful for her acquaintance with Yu Rujia.
Guo Xiaojie is a saleswoman. As one of the eight most popular saleswomen of our time, she is extremely popular, and many people try to curry favor with her.
Guo Xiaojie was bold; she selected some people she got along with from among those who fawned over her and secretly conducted personal business with them.
She initially approached Yu Rujia because she was attracted by Yu's rural background and her generous spending, wondering if Yu had her own business like Yu.
As the two spent more time together, Guo Xiaojie hinted several times that Yu Rujia should make a deal with her, but the latter did not accept her offers.
After getting to know her, she concluded that Yu Rujia was generous because she had a highly skilled commune worker husband as her backer, and that she herself was an exceptionally good doctor.
Guo Xiaojie had just continued to curry favor with Ru Jia, but little did she know that this decision would save the lives of the mother and son, and prevent the person she disliked from getting her job.
Huang Guihua said matter-of-factly, "Rujia's medical skills are excellent. You made the right choice to call your husband to call her before you went into the operating room. With her by your side, she can pull you back from the brink of death."
Yu Rujia: "Only a god could do that. I'm just a mortal, I'm not that magical. Xiaojie, what exactly happened yesterday?"
Guo Xiaojie, her face grim, recounted what had happened last night: "My sister-in-law is back..."
In short, Wei's mother and her sister-in-law Wei Ruzhen wanted to take her job. During the few days when she didn't have to work during the Chinese New Year, Wei Ruzhen went home and repeatedly forced Guo Xiaojie to give up her job.
Seeing that she wouldn't budge, the mother and daughter started fighting, and the heavily pregnant Guo Xiaojie was beaten so badly that she ended up in the hospital.
Huang Guihua was furious: "To lay a hand on a pregnant woman is worse than an animal! If this happened in our team, we would have sent the person to the police station long ago. Xiaojie, what are you going to do about it?"
"Whether you want to go to their doorstep or send them to the police station, I support you."
Guo Xiaojie's eyes reddened: "I want to get a divorce and take the child with me."
She and Wei Jianqiang married after a period of free love, and she never imagined that married life would be so difficult.
Although Wei Jianqiang was on her side, his mother was his mother, and the pressure of filial piety put both Wei Jianqiang and her in a passive position.
She wanted to divorce Wei Jianqiang several times, but because she couldn't bear to give up the relationship, she never brought it up.
Now she really doesn't want to put up with it anymore.
Guo Xiaojie can get a divorce, but leaving with her child is undoubtedly a big problem, especially since she has a son.
Yu Rujia reminded them, "The Wei family probably won't let you take the child away."
Guo Xiaojie: "I must take my child with me. With a family like theirs, my child will only die if they stay."
She was a premature baby born in August. If it weren't for her, given how much her mother hated her, she wouldn't have bothered to take care of her. She might have died in a few days.
But if she were to endure it, the Wei family would threaten her with the child, and she would lose her job. Without a job, she would only face endless torment.
Huang Guihua cursed and said, "They dare to treat you like this because they value your reputation and don't dare to make a big deal out of it. In our team, this kind of thing would have already gone to the police station and been detained for a while, and then they would naturally behave themselves."
Guo Xiaojie said helplessly, "They are Jianqiang's relatives. How can we just lock them up like that? If we do that, we'll be humiliated."
"Sister Guihua, given my current situation, I'll have to ask you to work in February. Please take good care of me. The supply and marketing cooperative will reopen on the fifth day of the Lunar New Year. I've already spoken to the director, so you can just go directly there."
"I just need to be wary of my mother-in-law's side; they'll definitely cause trouble."
Huang Guihua: "Don't worry about work, I'll definitely take good care of it for you. Just think about how to resolve your current situation."
She truly felt aggrieved for Guo Xiaojie. In their eyes, what the Wei family mother and daughter had done was justifiable enough to accuse them of murder.
Huang Guihua looked down on Guo Xiaojie for letting them go just because they were Wei Jianqiang's relatives.
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