"Mom, where did you hide your money?" Niu Tiezhu pushed open the door of the ward and murmured, "My wife wants 30,000 yuan for a bag she likes. Give it to me!"
Lying on the hospital bed, with tubes inserted all over her body and having difficulty breathing, the old lady Shen Guihua looked at her own son Niu Tiezhu weakly, cursing in her heart, "You can't even pay for my hospitalization, and you still come to ask me for money to buy a bag for your wife, what an ungrateful person."
Tian Cuihua, the girl sitting in front of the hospital bed, put down the apple she was about to peel and stood up when she heard Niu Tiezhu's words.
"Uncle, how could you do this? Grandma is so sick, and you don't care about her health. You even ask her for money to buy a bag for my aunt. That's too much."
Niu Tiezhu rolled his eyes at Tian Cuihua and said, "How can a granddaughter like you butt in on this? You're such a jerk! Born by a mother but not raised by one!"
"Second brother, watch your mouth. Cuihua is the orphan of our eldest sister and your niece. How can you say such things?"
Niu Xiahe, wearing a yellowed white shirt and carrying a stainless steel insulated lunch box, entered the ward and heard Niu Tiezhu's words of disdain for Tian Cuihua, and she became furious.
"Stop arguing," Chen Guihua's husband Niu Dali walked in slowly. "I have something to say to your mother. Shut up!"
Everyone fell silent when they heard Niu Dali's words.
Niu Dali, with gray hair, wearing a pair of reading glasses and a black jacket, slowly walked in from the ward door.
Several younger generations made way for Niu Dali to walk in front of Chen Guihua.
Niu Dali walked to the stool in front of Chen Guihua's bed and sat down. After looking at the younger generations around him, he turned around and looked at Chen Guihua lying on the hospital bed.
"Honey, I've been thinking about this all night. I'm going to sell the house and use the money to pay for your surgery. What do you think?"
As soon as the words fell, Shen Guihua felt warm in her heart. At critical moments, she still had to rely on her husband. He had been a little fickle in the past and had betrayed her several times, but when it came to this major issue, he still stood by her.
She was in so much pain that she couldn't speak. She could only nod slightly to show her agreement. A tear as big as a bean slid down from the corner of her eye, which was full of crow's feet.
Niu Tiezhu's eyes lit up as he grabbed Niu Dali's arm and said, "Dad, after we sell the house, can you give me a few tens of thousands of dollars? I want to buy a bag for my wife, and then..."
"Shut up, you unfilial son!" Niu Dali angrily pushed Niu Tiezhu away. "This is your mother's life-saving money."
Niu Tiezhu wanted to say something, but was frightened by Niu Dali's glare and shut his mouth. Anyway, his father loved him the most, so when his father sold the house, he would ask his father for it, and his father would definitely give it to him.
Niu Xiahe and Tian Cuihua, who were standing by, were a little puzzled when they saw Niu Dali protecting Chen Guihua in a way that was out of character, but they didn't think much about it. As long as Chen Guihua was safe and healthy, that was more important than anything else.
At this time, Niu Dali took out a piece of paper, a pen and a red round ink pad from his pocket and placed them on the small table next to the bed.
"My dear, it's not convenient for you to go out since you're lying in bed right now, so I thought you could sign to transfer the ownership of the house to me first, and then I can go and trade with others. This way it will be more convenient."
Chen Guihua felt that what Niu Dali said made sense, so she nodded again in agreement.
Niu Dali smiled and unfolded the white paper on the medical record book hanging in front of the bed and handed it to Chen Guihua, then took the pen and handed it to her.
She took the pen, her hands trembling, and was about to sign her name when suddenly a big hand hit her and knocked the pen in Shen Guihua's hand to the ground.
Everyone looked up in confusion and saw Shen Guihua's adopted son Niu Chunsheng rushing in at some point and standing in front of the bed, panting.
"Mom, you can't sign it. This is a trap!"
"A trap?" Several younger generations in the ward looked at Niu Chunsheng in confusion.
Niu Dali stared at Niu Chunsheng with a sullen face and said in a low voice, "Don't talk nonsense, we are all doing this for your mother's good!"
Niu Chunsheng didn't want to waste words with Niu Dali, so he just told him what he had seen last night.
It turned out that last night on his way home, Niu Chunsheng accidentally saw Niu Dali and the widow Liu Damei talking under a big tree.
Out of curiosity, Niu Chunsheng quietly stepped forward and eavesdropped.
All I heard was Niu Dali and Liu Damei discussing how to trick the house from Chen Guihua and transfer it to their names, and then divorce the seriously ill Chen Guihua and marry Liu Damei.
Niu Chunsheng had thought that Niu Dali was just talking and wouldn't really do such a shameless thing. Unexpectedly, when he brought nutritional supplements to see Chen Guihua today, he heard Niu Dali asking Chen Guihua to sign a contract to transfer the property, which led to the scene just now...
After hearing what Niu Chunsheng said, Niu Xiahe and Tian Cuihua stared at Niu Dali angrily.
Niu Xiahe said, "Dad, how could you do this!"
Tian Cuihua said, "Grandpa, Grandma are such good people, how could you have the heart to do this!"
Niu Tiezhu said, "Dad, you made me so happy for nothing, but in the end I didn't get any money from selling the house!"
Niu Dali saw that his conspiracy was exposed by Niu Chunsheng, and slapped him angrily, "You nosy bastard, I shouldn't have brought you home in the first place!"
Niu Xiahe said, "Dad, Third Brother is a good man, you can't say that about him!"
"Why would you care, you money-loser..."
Niu Dali's plan failed, and he was so angry that he started cursing in the ward...
Chen Guihua looked at the quarreling people and felt a headache and even more heartache.
She worked hard, lived frugally, and gave the best things to her only son and her husband. However, when she was in the most difficult time, her son only asked her for money without asking about her illness.
And this old partner was even more excessive. I had heard rumors about him and the widow Liu Damei before, and he had repeatedly said that he would reform himself, but in the end he wanted to take her life while she was sick.
However, the adopted son, biological daughter and grandson whom she did not favor stayed by her side to take care of her when she was critically ill.
How did she end up with such an ungrateful son and husband?
The more Chen Guihua thought about it, the more aggrieved she felt. She spat out a mouthful of blood, staining the oxygen mask hanging around her mouth and nose red. Her eyes turned black and she passed out.
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"Guihua, I have to go out today and will be home late, so you don't have to cook for me."
When Chen Guihua opened her eyes, she found herself sitting in the mud house that used to be in the countryside. On the blackened table in front of her was a desk calendar with the portrait of a great man, and the year 1988 was written on it.
At this time, Niu Dali, who looked to be in his 40s, walked in carrying a chicken.
"A distant relative is sick, and I want to kill a chicken and make some chicken soup to send to him."
At this moment, Chen Guihua concluded that she was reborn in 1988, when Niu Dali first stole her money to pay for Liu Damei's abortion.
If Liu Damei hadn't accidentally let it slip in an argument with her in her previous life, she wouldn't have known about this.
"Da Li, let me take care of killing the chicken and making the soup. You go inside and take a rest."
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