"What? She's making trouble again?" Chen Xiaoying frowned.
Li Yutong was not here at the moment. She was young and had nothing to do during the long summer vacation, so she divided the store employees into several groups, agreed on a location, and went out for a water barbecue.
We went to the Stone Beach not far from the county town. The water there was only knee-deep at its deepest. There were many trees and a large river beach, where you could cool off and have a barbecue. It was only later that it was made into a tourist attraction.
She went out to play.
Chen Xiaoying is old and can't rely on her granddaughter for everything. She said, "You stay in the store and I'll go take a look."
She rode her bike there, luckily the clinic was not far away.
From a distance, she could see a lot of people crowded in the corridor. Li Hongli's sharp voice could be heard from far away, and she could hear it clearly even though she didn't get close.
"I am an independent individual, I am free, why don't you let me leave the hospital? The doctors in your hospital are not good at skills and service attitude. Whoever is hospitalized here will be in trouble."
"I want to be discharged from the hospital. Please help me with the formalities quickly, or I will leave on my own."
The doctor didn't know what to say, and Chen Xiaoying listened to her mother-in-law Ma Xiufen's words: "What? Signing a letter of responsibility? Who knows what this is for? We are uneducated, so don't lie to us."
"If we don't sign, why won't others sign?"
Chen Xiaoying squeezed in and saw the scene in front of her. The doctor was panting with anger, his eyes wide open with rage. Several doctors and nurses nearby helped to explain and to prevent Li Hongli from rushing over and hitting people.
Ma Xiufen stood aside.
Li Hongli was like a dog led by Ma Xiufen on a leash. Whenever Ma Xiufen instigated her, Li Hongli would yell and curse non-stop, relying on her big belly that no one dared to touch her, and she kept yelling everywhere.
Chen Xiaoying was annoyed: "Li Hongli, what are you doing?"
Li Hongli was shouting angrily. When she heard her mother coming, she thought she had help. "Mom, you came at the right time. Look at this doctor. It's her. She deliberately bullied me. I've been in the hospital for more than a month, and she won't let me leave. She just wants to cheat us out of our money."
When the doctor heard this, he was in his forties and burst into tears because of this young woman. He said, "You are slandering me. I will sue you."
Chen Xiaoying glanced at Ma Xiufen coldly, and Ma Xiufen immediately looked away guiltily.
Chen Xiaoying didn't say anything else and just slapped him twice.
Li Hongli was slapped twice and was stunned for a moment, but in an instant, she burst into tears: "Mom, you hit me? Why did you hit me? Wuuwuwu."
"I was bullied, and you didn't say you would help me. You, you, wuwu, you, even hit me."
Li Hongli felt so aggrieved that she kept sobbing.
Seeing her like this, Chen Xiaoying wished she had never given birth to her. It was so embarrassing: "You are in the hospital and everything is served to you. This is the life that only gods can live. What are you dissatisfied with?"
"What grudge does the doctor have against you that makes you want to throw dirty water at him? Are you trying to ruin his future? Is your brain soaked?"
Li Hongli was in tears, hugging her big belly: "Mom, woo woo."
After being slapped twice and being made such a fuss, her mind seemed to be clearer. Why did she want to be discharged from the hospital?
Chen Xiaoying remembered what her granddaughter Li Yutong had said.
"Hongli, the doctor didn't let you leave the hospital because he was concerned about your health. Think about it yourself. If something happens to you, it will be your own fault for asking to be discharged today. There are so many people here, and they are all witnesses. Even if your in-laws blame them, at most they will compensate you with some money, but what about your life?"
"You'll have nothing when you die, you know that?"
Li Yutong told her that some people's husband's family would not allow caesarean sections or painkillers when they gave birth in order to save money. There was a news report about a woman who had severe stomach pain and her husband's family would not allow her to have a caesarean section, so she jumped off a building. Then her husband took the compensation and married a new wife.
Chen Xiaoying looked at Ma Xiufen with a chilly look, which made Ma Xiufen feel a little flustered. She was now suspicious.
She pointed at Ma Xiufen and cursed, "Ma Xiufen, you were the one who instigated my daughter to be discharged from the hospital. Don't think I don't know what you and Xu Xiaodong are planning. Are you planning to wait for my daughter to get into trouble so that you can come back and blackmail the hospital. After the hospital compensates you, you will find another wife for Xu Xiaodong, right?"
Ma Xiufen was stunned. How did she know that?
As soon as she saw her like this, Chen Xiaoying knew that she guessed right.
The doctor also started crying. There were some things that were hard for a doctor, an outsider, to say, especially to a confused daughter-in-law like Li Hongli, who would not only not appreciate it, but would also help her husband's family to do evil.
Her life was clearly in danger and giving birth was very dangerous, but she listened to her mother-in-law and decided to be discharged from the hospital.
This is not taking your own life seriously.
The people in the health center have seen too many ugly faces of the mother-in-law. They have seen too many cases where the mother-in-law took the compensation money to remarry after her wife died. No one cares about the dead woman.
"I don't think this mother-in-law is a good person. With such a big belly, it will be more dangerous as the birth approaches. What is she going to do at home?"
"This daughter-in-law is so stupid. Giving birth is so dangerous. She is in the hospital with doctors and nurses serving her. If there is any danger, she can run back at the first time. Why does she go back to her husband's house? If there is danger, her mother-in-law is more useful than the doctor?"
"Listen, listen, her mother said that she was planning to treat her daughter-in-law as a cash cow, and then marry another one after killing her. It's really terrible."
Li Hongli's face turned pale with fear. She looked at her mother-in-law Ma Xiufen in disbelief: "Mom?"
Ma Xiufen immediately shouted: "It's unfair, it's unfair, I didn't think like that, if I thought like that, God will strike me with lightning."
Even if it exists, you can't admit it.
She just had this little idea when she found out that Xu Xiaodong was still in contact with the only daughter. After all, Li Hongli's family didn't care about her, and Xiaodong's name was also on the house. If they refused to give it to Chen Xiaoying, her family would marry the only daughter, wouldn't they become rich?
It’s so hateful! How could Chen Xiaoying, an old woman from the countryside, be so smart and guess it right at the first try?
"Then why did you let my daughter be discharged from the hospital? Now is the most dangerous time for her. If she is discharged and something happens, will you compensate for my daughter's life?" Chen Xiaoying said, and rushed over to slap Ma Xiufen, pushing her to the ground.
"Ouch, someone hit someone." Ma Xiufen sat on the ground and slapped her thigh in a rage.
Chen Xiaoying was not afraid of her: "Alright, even if you cry to death, I won't compensate you a dime. I will also take away the house that was allocated to Li Hongli. Now I suspect that you are planning to kill my daughter so that she can inherit the house in her name."
Ma Xiufen was dumbfounded and quickly got up: "No, no, didn't we agree that it was for Xiaodong and Hongli? You can't take it back."
Chen Xiaoying ignored her and just looked at Li Hongli: "You decide, do you want to stay in the hospital until you give birth, or should you be discharged now and go back to your in-laws' house and let her take care of you?"
Li Hongli was already scared: "No, no, I won't leave, I want to be hospitalized."
Chen Xiaoying breathed a sigh of relief, but she was still gritting her teeth in anger: "You pig-brained person, when can you be smarter?"