Chapter 198: Divorce and Division
Li Laiying cried and cursed all the way. Several grown men carried her. If it wasn't for the fact that it was a life, they really wanted to throw her into the ditch. It was the first month of the year, not only was it unlucky, but it was also embarrassing.
After arriving at the brigade, Zhou Wanlin took a look at the situation and immediately ordered people to go to the commune: "You can't save the baby at this level. If you can't save the baby, you have to have a uterine curettage. I don't have all the medicine, so hurry up and get him to the commune clinic. If you delay any longer, the adult will be in danger."
I don't know what happened. She had a miscarriage in the first month of the year. Judging from her crying, there must be a reason.
Since he said so, of course I have to go to the health center.
There are two doctors in the health center of Ganling Commune, a couple who know both Western medicine and traditional Chinese medicine.
After taking Li Laiying's pulse, the doctor prescribed medicine: "You've lost so much blood. The baby in your belly can't be saved. You need to take medicine to abort it. You need to wait for a while. You need to take the medicine here. I will take you back after the placenta is delivered."
Li Laiying had just calmed down, but now she started crying again, as if the sky was falling.
The doctor got a headache when he heard this: "You're so young, if you take good care of yourself, you won't have to worry about not getting pregnant. This miscarriage is even more annoying than a normal birth. It's like the difference between ripe fruit falling from a tree and being hit with a stick. You're crying like this, and you'll be the one who suffers in the future. But you must remember this: pregnant women are different from ordinary women. You must avoid certain foods, such as hawthorn and amaranth. Oh, and you can't drink brown sugar either. It invigorates the blood, and drinking it will cause trouble, and you'll have spotting."
When Li Laiying heard the last sentence, she felt as if she had been struck by lightning, and kept muttering, "Impossible, impossible."
At this moment, no one noticed her abnormality, thinking that she had taken the doctor's words to heart. Gao Xiulan followed up and asked, "Did she eat something she shouldn't have, or is there some other reason?"
"She's suffering from this because she took something that invigorates the blood circulation. I'm afraid she had spotting early this morning, but the amount was small and she didn't pay much attention to it, right? Judging from her condition, she must have taken quite a lot. This situation is very dangerous. Our area is not convenient for transportation and has limited medicine. If there is heavy bleeding, it will be very difficult for adults as well, not to mention children. She is lucky."
Lu Chunmei stood outside the door and breathed a sigh of relief. Tears rolled down her cheeks as she told her husband what had happened. "She ate something she shouldn't have. If it really was because Shunzi pushed her that she lost that piece of flesh, I'll never be able to speak or raise my head again in this life. It will also implicate my mother and Dongcai."
Wang Guoxing is an honest man, so honest that he doesn't know how to comfort others.
"That's not worth crying about. What's there to be ashamed of? Your home is in Wangjialiang, not Lujiazui. If you can get along, then visit more often. If not, then just go back to visit during the holidays."
Inside the house, Gao Xiulan frowned: "There are no amaranth and hawthorn in this season. Those are the things I've been eating these past two days, except for the rice porridge and dumpling soup, and they are all radish and cabbage--" She couldn't continue speaking and turned to look at Li Laiying who was curled up on the door panel.
They ate from the same pot the night before yesterday and yesterday and this morning, but Li Laiying didn't eat the morning before yesterday because of the quarrel, so after dinner she took Chuyi out.
She was too embarrassed to say anything. She just waited for the medicine to be brewed. Li Laiying drank it, and soon, the finger-sized piece of flesh fell off.
After the doctor said it was okay, he paid for the medicine and then put the patient on the stretcher and carried him back.
As soon as I walked out of the clinic, I met Lu Dongping who came out from the Armed Forces Department.
The commune was so small, and the health center was right across from the commune compound, which wasn't a coincidence. 'Lu Dongping, it's time to go home.
Looking at Lu Minghai, they were stunned.
"Uncle, Dad, what's going on? My eldest brother-in-law and second brother-in-law are here too. What's going on?"
After taking a look at the person on the sedan chair, there is no need to say more, you can guess the general idea.
It was replaced by Lu Dongfu, who helped carry it for a while.
Gao Xiulan didn't say a word along the way.
Everyone, let Lu Dongcai help the person into the house, and she went into the house to look at the sugar jar on the desk. She was reluctant to use the half pound of brown sugar and ate almost half of it.
Is there anything else you don’t understand?
There were only a few people in the family, and neither Lu Minghai nor Lu Dongcai cared much for food, nor did Lu Dongfu. Unlike the women in other families, she was not fond of collecting things, locking everything up tightly and leaving anything edible and useful outside. The men didn't care, so she was in charge. If the children wanted something to eat or drink, they just had to tell her.
She was shaking with anger.
Not only did she have a miscarriage in the first month of the year, but she also got rich. She wanted to sweep the person out of the house like weeds with two brooms.
She took one look at the sugar jar and stopped moving. She stood in the room and called out, "Dongcai, come in. I want to tell you something."
Lu Dongcai's body was still stained with Li Laiying's blood, and before he had time to clean it up, she called him into the house.
Gao Xiulan pointed to the sugar jar. "I bought it before the New Year. I haven't touched a pound of brown sugar yet, and I ate almost half of it yesterday. That's not all. When I left yesterday morning, I felt like there weren't enough eggs in the drawer. I checked again today, and there were still as many as yesterday, but Dongfu said he's been picking up two eggs every day lately. You heard what the doctor said. Brown sugar is good, but you can't drink it when you're pregnant. Not to mention her sneaky behavior, but she drank so much in two days, how could nothing go wrong?"
Lu Dongcai clenched his fists tightly.
Gao Xiulan continued, "Let's leave it at that for the next few days. When she's feeling better, we can go to the commune and complete the paperwork. If you can't bear to part with her, then you can separate from her. Chuyi will stay with me and I'll take care of her. I don't care how you two live your lives. Out of sight, out of mind."
Lu Dongcai lowered his head and looked at his toes. After a long while, he said, "My eldest brother is in the army and can't come back. Dongfu won't be home either. You and Dad only have me as your son to support you in your old age. How can you talk about dividing the family property? I will clear this matter up with her and we will get a divorce."
He wouldn't abandon his parents for such a woman.
Thinking about the things she cried and yelled at along the way, Lu Dongcai wanted to kick her out of the house, so how could he split up the family business for her?
Outside, after Li Zhongquan and Wang Guoxing carried the person back, they called their wives and children and planned to go back home, but they were pushed and shoved by Lu Mingjiang, Lu Dongping and Lu Donglin and taken to their homes.
After the people were gone, Lu Donglin ran over and called out to Gao Xiulan and Lu Dongcai, "Aunt, Dongcai brother, what are you doing in the house? The meal is ready. My elder and second sisters are already there, and we're just waiting for you two!"
The mother and daughter really had no appetite at the moment. They were so angry that they were almost full of it.
But no matter how angry you are, you still have to live your life.
In addition to this person, there is also a daughter, son-in-law and grandson. They only come back once a year, and they don’t even cook a bite of food for them. They can’t even talk to each other for a few words.
Gao Xiulan wiped her eyes and responded, then went to the kitchen, found a bowl to scoop up the cooked bacon in the pot, and took it to the next room.
Lu Mingjiang's house was very lively. There were two tables put together in the kitchen, directly next to the fire pit and extending to the door.
Lu Dongping was chatting with Li Zhongquan and Wang Guoxing, while Lu Minghai and Lu Mingjiang were talking to each other.
A few children were still outside, not feeling at all how cold it was after the sun went down at the beginning of the Lunar New Year, and were jumping around with their faces sweating.
Wen Wan helped Zhang Hongying carry the dishes to the table.
Half a pot of the ash vegetables from the previous year, mixed with spinach, was filled. A whole piece of bacon was chopped up and stir-fried with garlic sprouts in one dish and fermented black beans in another. A few bones, with the lean meat still attached, were left in the pot and stewed with dried radish and other vegetables, also in a pot. This was truly a sincere way to entertain relatives.
When the dishes were served, Lu Dongping stood up and got the wine that he hadn't drunk much during the New Year to entertain the guests.
Li Zhongquan and Wang Guoxing hurriedly said, "No more drinking, no more drinking. We have to go back after a while. Drinking makes it difficult to walk."
Lu Dongping said, "Don't drink too much, that's what I mean. If you really get drunk, you won't go back. Stay here for one night. It's not like there's no place to stay. We can still squeeze in."
That won't work. Even if there is space, there are no extra quilts. There are so many of them!
As she was speaking, Gao Xiulan came in and placed the bowl on the stove.
Zhang Hongying hissed, "Sister-in-law, what are you doing? I'm just entertaining my niece and nephew-in-law, why are you still acting like this?"
Gao Xiulan wouldn't let her refuse: "You know my temper. I'm straightforward and don't do those empty words. Look at what happened today. The kids finally came home for a day, and I didn't even have time to boil water for them. If you hadn't worried about making a meal for them, they would have gone back hungry. This really is like there's no next year."
Li Zhongquan said, "Mom, please don't say that. We just came back to see you and Dad when we had some free time. As long as you two are doing well, nothing else matters."
Wang Guoxing also echoed: "That's right, it's not a big deal, don't take it to heart, mom."
Zhang Hongying greeted, "It's all done. Hurry up, sister-in-law. You've been running all day. Sit down and take a break. They said they want something to drink. Let's go get some rice first."
Don't mention anything about Li Laiying.
But while scooping the rice, he called out to Lu Chun'e, "After you scoop the rice, ask your sister-in-law for her flashlight and take it to the next door. Your aunt is angry right now, but she can't let anyone say she owes her daughter-in-law anything."
Lu Chun'e responded and walked out with the bowl in her hand. Gao Xiulan saw it but pretended not to see it.
As long as they didn't divorce, Li Laiying would still be a member of the Lu family, no matter how impossible it was. She just hoped that Lu Dongcai would be tough this time and break up cleanly, otherwise life would be unbearable.
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