The night before Lu Amian returned to the village, Lu Weiwei had another dream.
In this dream, after being married for more than a year, she and A-Mian both became pregnant.
They were all girls.
Just like last time, this dream was divided into two scenes.
On the left, A-Mian's family had hired a midwife early on, along with Dr. Mo Man, whom they had met before. Dr. Mo Man promoted some strange items in this country, including one called "forceps," and a small booklet filled with detailed instructions. Because A-Mian was very robust, she gave birth to a baby girl smoothly in the time it takes to drink a cup of tea.
Amian's family was overjoyed, and the couple doted on the child. After learning of Amian's pregnancy, Meng Chijian stopped spending all his money each day and started saving. He also took on another apprentice, so the fire in the shop could burn until midnight (the apprentice stayed in the shop at night).
The couple devoted their hearts entirely to their little baby, wishing she could have delicious food and new clothes every day, and even wear a fine Hetian jade safety buckle around her neck.
However, Xiaomian takes after her mother; she is clever and mischievous, which sometimes causes trouble for the adults.
Shifting the gaze to the left, one sees Lu Weiwei's family.
Since becoming pregnant, she's been living quite well. Her in-laws have provided for her financially, and even her monthly allowance has increased significantly, giving her peace of mind. She also had a midwife during childbirth, and everything went smoothly.
But when they saw it was a daughter, the whole family reacted differently, some shaking their heads and others sighing, and even she herself was very angry.
Isn't it said that a pointed belly indicates a boy?
As a result, the family stopped paying attention to the child. The little girl often cried until her voice was hoarse, but no one cared. They didn't hold a full-month celebration, and her in-laws ignored her on a daily basis, only asking her sarcastically when she was going to have another child.
In her dream, Lu Weiwei had an emotional breakdown and tried to strangle the child several times.
After her baby turned one month old, she came up with a groundbreaking idea.
She wanted to switch her child with Ah Mian's child, so that her daughter could enjoy a life of luxury while Ah Mian's daughter would suffer in her own home!
The last scene in her dream was when she took advantage of Ah Mian being alone with Xiao Xiao Mian on the grass, she pushed Ah Mian into the river from behind, and then quickly put her own child, dressed like Ah Mian's child, into the cradle.
By the time Ah Mian frantically got up to argue with her, the baby had already been changed.
Lu Weiwei woke up with a start. It was three quarters past midnight, and all was quiet.
Her husband was fast asleep beside her. She sat up, covered in cold sweat and clutching her stomach. She went to the window, and in the moonlight, two streams of tears fell continuously onto the window frame.
Do all women shed countless tears when they get married?
Is the ability to foresee the future also an extremely cruel curse?
Before having her first precognitive dream, she was only a little bit jealous of A-Mian.
From a young age, A-Mian was the most pampered child in the village. She always got the best food, was the first to have any new gadgets, and even had her own pet, A-Dou! (Although A-Dou could do chores when he was two years old, A-Mian couldn't).
Even though her family's fortunes gradually declined, the scholar next door still liked her and wanted to marry her.
Lu Weiwei wiped away her tears with the back of her hand, leaned against the window, and looked up.
What I saw was little A-Mian, about five or six years old, running past with a small twig, laughing and joking. I, wearing a skirt, followed behind, shouting: "Sister A-Mian! I want to play house too!"
Little A-Mian said: "Then I want to be the mother, and you can be the child!"
Xiao Lu said softly: No! You be the child! I want to be the adult!
...
Lu Weiwei belatedly realized that ten years had already passed.
But... why should I?
Why are people so sure that Lu Weiwei would treat her daughter badly? Why do they think she would do something so heinous as to switch her own daughter with someone else's child?
At this moment, Lu Weiwei no longer regretted whether or not to "change the marriage." What's done is done, so what's the point of dwelling on the past?
Since she chose to marry into the Zhang family, there was no turning back.
However, dreams can be changed.
She already knew about this last time.
Nothing has happened yet, everything... is still possible.
She wiped away her tears and gently touched her lower abdomen. At this time, her belly was not showing yet, and there was no sign of a "pointed" shape. It was just that the villagers thought that saying this would make pregnant women happy.
"...Yellow rice, vegetable soup poured over it. Fried dried herring, its tail burnt. The cat carried it away, the dog's barking was unbearable..."
This is her first child, and she already knows it will be a little girl.
Lu Weiwei closed the window and lay back down on the bed.
She would never do something like swapping her child with someone else.
She wanted to raise her and make sure she lived ten times better than Ah Mian in her own home!
No, a hundred times! Ten thousand times!
She didn't want this child to become another Lu Weiwei who envied others for having too many good things.
"Why is it taking so long... Can't you sleep?" Zhang Yixing asked.
“No,” Lu Wei smiled slightly, “I dreamed about our child, a tiny little bundle, so cute.”
"Yes, you're pregnant, so please be careful these days. Tell me what you want to eat."
"By the way, let me go to the study with you tomorrow. You can teach me a few words so I won't be a mother who's illiterate..."
Zhang Yixing squeezed her hand. "Okay, and think of a name for my child while you're at it."
The next day, Lu Weiwei heard that A Mian's family was coming to pay their respects.
She's too lazy to join in the fun; what's the point if she can't provide for her daughter's basic needs?
In the study, she held Zhang Yixing's calligraphy brush, inhaling the delicate fragrance of ink, and diligently drew bold lines on the rice paper. She didn't care about wasting the brush, ink, and paper; most of the family's monthly allowance went to Zhang Yixing's studies, so what was wrong with her using some as well?
I'm very busy today. I have to learn five characters: "人 (person), 日 (sun), 月 (moon), 天 (sky), 大 (big). I have to copy each one several times."
When her in-laws found out she was pregnant, they gave her a red envelope and extra monthly allowance, which Lu Weiwei accepted.
The money wasn't squandered; the extra was temporarily hidden quietly in a small box on top of the wardrobe.
Lu Weiwei spent a day considering the various difficulties she would face: Her family was entirely dependent on their relatives for money and had no savings whatsoever. She could keep it a secret for now, but what about the difficulties that would arise after the child was born…
We can't be in a hurry, and we can't keep thinking about making quick money.
We need to carefully consider ways to make money.
Just then, someone passed by the window, shouting: "A-Mian is beating people up again! This time she hit the Huang family. Her husband is no better; he's an accomplice to evil!"
"What a wicked woman."
Lu Weiwei thought of the bloody hand of the Huang family, rolled her eyes in annoyance, and slammed the wooden window shut.
From now on, her daughter should stay away from the Huang family.
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