Chapter 46: She is just an ordinary woman
Deng Xiuzhen had a high fever that night and became delirious.
Old Man Zhao asked the three children to rest at home while he took Deng Xiuzhen to the hospital.
The child refused and insisted on going to the hospital with us.
When Deng Xiuzhen woke up, Wen Jing and Wen Xin were lying on the bed, and Wen Yu was sleeping next to her.
She raised her hand and touched Wen Xin's head. As soon as she moved, Wen Jing and Wen Xin woke up.
"Mom, are you feeling better?" Wen Jing asked
"Mom, do you want some water?" Wen Xin asked.
"Come, lie down for a while." Deng Xiuzhen said as she prepared to get up.
"Mom, don't move." Wen Jing held Deng Xiuzhen down, turned her head and said to Wen Xin, "Wen Xin, lie down next to your mother's feet for a while, be careful not to kick Wen Yu."
"Wen Xin said: Sister, go to sleep."
Wen Jing said: "I am your elder sister, you have to listen to what I say."
Wen Xin obediently snuggled up to Deng Xiuzhen's feet.
Wen Jing poured Deng Xiuzhen a cup of hot water and asked her to drink it. Then she took the cup and said, "Mom, you should have a good rest. Don't worry. Dad will be back soon."
Deng Xiuzhen felt a pang in her heart when she heard this and couldn't help but shed tears.
Wen Jing wiped her with a towel and said, "Don't cry, mom. We have to believe in dad and believe that he will come back!" After a pause, she added, "What if, what if he doesn't come back, I'm still at home."
The children were on winter vacation, so the family walked through every corner of Pucheng and asked every household, but there was still no news.
Deng Xiuzhen went to the police station several times, and Tian Guoqiang told her: Trains, buses, taxis, etc. have all been checked, and there is no record of Qin Yanlin taking a bus, and no one remembers such a person.
The New Year is here, and Deng Xiuzhen has no plans to go back to her hometown. If Qin Yanlin doesn't come back, her parents-in-law will always hate her, and her parents' home will only ridicule her.
On the twenty-ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, Old Man Zhao said to Deng Xiuzhen, "Spend the New Year with me this year."
Deng Xiuzhen remained silent. In just over ten days, she lost more than ten pounds. The clothes that fit her in previous years now looked like clothes hanging on a rack.
"Okay, let's celebrate the New Year together. Thank you, Grandpa Zhao!" Wen Jing looked at Deng Xiuzhen, whose face was sallow and who looked lifeless, and turned to Old Man Zhao and said.
Wen Xin looked at Deng Xiuzhen worriedly, then at Wen Jing. Seeing Wen Jing nod, she quickly agreed.
Wen Yu stood quietly beside Deng Xiuzhen, resting his head on her arm, and it was unknown what he was thinking about in his little head.
Early in the morning on New Year's Eve, Old Man Zhao set up a long table in the yard and placed all the New Year's items on the table.
Wenjing brought Wenxin over early and helped with picking, cutting and cooking vegetables.
Deng Xiuzhen was pulled over by Wen Yu.
When she arrived, the yard was bustling with activity: Wen Jing was chopping carrots, Wen Xin was picking Chinese cabbage, and Old Man Zhao was cutting bacon. There was a fire burning in the kitchen, and a pot hanging over the fire was simmering pork ribs and lotus root soup, the aroma spreading everywhere and drilling straight into her nostrils.
Deng Xiuzhen was a little dazed. She remembered that this scene had happened before. Wen Jing, Wen Xin and Wen Yu worked together to build a new house in the countryside. That year, the family gathered in the new house in the countryside to celebrate the New Year.
It was just as lively, the difference was that it was her who was cutting the meat, and the same thing was that Tan Yanlin was not there.
Was it my destiny that I and Tan Yanlin would have a shallow relationship? Or even that the days we spent together would become shorter and shorter in each life?
"Are you here? Come in and warm yourself by the fire. You haven't fully recovered yet, so don't catch a cold again." Seeing Deng Xiuzhen, Old Man Zhao said with concern.
"Mom, come in quickly!" Qin Wenyu pulled Deng Xiuzhen in to warm themselves by the fire.
"Wenyu, go and help me peel the garlic." Old man Zhao came in and said to Qin Wenyu. Then he took down the hanging pot and placed it next to the stove. Then he put the tripod on the fire and put a large iron pot on it.
"The children know how to be strong. As a mother, you don't support them and even cause them trouble." Old Man Zhao glanced at Deng Xiuzhen and said.
Deng Xiuzhen lowered her head and said nothing. Her depression was not due to worrying about the future, but because she couldn't figure out the meaning of her rebirth.
If after rebirth you still cannot keep the person you want to be with for the rest of your life, if after rebirth you are only to repeat the trivialities of life over and over again, then what is the point of rebirth?
Old Man Zhao continued as he cooked, "What happened that day? Tell me about it, maybe I can help you figure it out."
Deng Xiuzhen raised her head and looked at Old Man Zhao. Perhaps they had known each other in their previous life, which gave her a sense of trust, or perhaps she just needed someone to talk to at this moment.
She hesitated for a moment and chose to tell the truth: "That day Yanlin said that he had prepared everything for opening an electrical appliance store and that he would sign the contract the next day."
"And then?" Old man Zhao didn't look up and continued cooking.
"Then I told him that I had no money left because I had used all the money."
“Did you use it to buy land?”
"Yes."
"And he left? Never came back?"
Deng Xiuzhen nodded.
"Can you tell me why you insist on buying that piece of land?" Old man Zhao covered the pot lid and looked up at Deng Xiuzhen.
"I had a dream. It seemed like I had lived a lifetime. In the dream, Yan Lin opened an electrical appliance store, but his health broke down due to hard work and he passed away at a young age. I don't want to go down the same old path and repeat the tragedy of my previous life, so I was reluctant to open an electrical appliance store and thought about taking some shortcuts." Deng Xiuzhen said with her head lowered.
After Old Man Zhao scooped up the food from the pot, he said, "Did you buy the land because you had a dream? Did you dream that the land would be valuable in the future?"
Deng Xiuzhen nodded and said yes.
“If that’s the case, just do what you said, you’re not wrong, there’s no need to blame yourself so much.
We have been together for such a long time, and I can see that Qin Yanlin is a very family-oriented person. He will never not go home just because you bought the land.
I think something must have happened to him.
A man of his age would not normally be trafficked.
If you go out at night and encounter something, it is most likely something like robbery, but you shouldn't be unable to come back from a robbery.
If it's serious, at most it's just accidentally injuring someone, or...
But I haven't heard of anything like that happening recently, so he is probably still alive and well, but just can't come back for some reason.
Think about it, have you found anything special? If so, go to the police station as soon as possible, maybe some cases will be solved and Tan Yanlin will come back. Just like the last time Wen Jing and the others were abducted. "Old man Zhao analyzed.
Deng Xiuzhen had thought about all these, but no one understood her. Her family members tried to look for her, but when they couldn't find anyone, they blamed her for starting a quarrel.
Her in-laws treated her as an enemy and even wanted to kill her.
She was just an ordinary woman, an ordinary person who had spent most of her previous life confined to a small shop, and then spent the rest of her time busy in her children's homes.
She doesn't have much knowledge or a broad mind.
Being reborn only gave her the opportunity to start over, but it did not change her origin, her family, nor did it give her any favorable conditions.
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