After running away from the Qiu family, she had nowhere to go. By chance, a garment factory was recruiting workers. With the sewing skills she learned from the Qiu family, she entered the garment factory.
"Xiao 냫, do you think Mom should go see her?"
The Qiu family had impure motives in taking her in, and they had hurt her before, but the good things they had done to her were real.
She remembered that Aunt Jin had gently bathed her, caught head lice for her together with Sister Jin, and made new shoes and clothes for her.
When she had her first period and thought she was going to die, it was Aunt Jin who told her what was going on, taught her how to deal with it, and warned her not to touch cold water at this time.
When she was sweating all over because of stomachache, it was Aunt Jin who cooked motherwort and brown sugar eggs for her.
Lin Xiao thought for a moment and said, "It depends on whether you want to go and see it. If going to see it makes me feel uncomfortable, then I won't go."
"Forget it, don't think about it anymore, let's go to bed." Li Shuping reached out and turned off the light.
Beijing First People's Hospital
Li Shuping, wearing a white short-sleeved shirt and a black knee-length skirt, carried two cans of malted milk and two cans of canned fruit and went up to the second floor of the inpatient department.
"Comrade, where is Ward 403?" she stopped the nurse and asked.
"On the right," the nurse pointed.
"Thank you."
Li Shuping walked to the door of Ward 403, took a deep breath, and pushed open the door.
The ward is a private ward. There are patients on every bed, and there are also family members of the patients in the ward.
After Li Shuping pushed the door open and went in, many people in the ward looked up.
Li Shuping raised her head and looked around. In front of the innermost bed, she saw Qiu Jin sitting in front of the bed with his back to her.
She walked over carrying her things and saw an old lady with silver hair and a haggard face lying on the bed.
The old lady closed her eyes and gasped with her mouth slightly open, as if her breathing was not smooth.
"Sister Jin." Li Shuping called softly.
Qiu Jin, who was dozing off, shuddered and woke up. He saw Li Shuping's face full of surprise and said, "Shuping, you're here?"
"Yeah." Li Shuping nodded and handed her the things in her hand. "I bought some malted milk and canned fruit for Aunt Jin."
Qiu Jin took it quickly and said, "Come on, why are you buying so many things?"
Qiu Jin put the things on the bedside table and quickly pulled the stool a little further forward for Li Shuping to sit on.
"Come on, Shuping, take a seat."
Li Shuping nodded and sat down, looking down at the old lady on the bed. After not seeing her for more than ten years, Aunt Jin had aged so much that she could hardly recognize her.
At this time, Old Lady Jin slowly opened her eyes, her dim yellow pupils were dull and lifeless.
"Mom, look who's here?" Qiu Jin asked her, pointing at Li Shuping.
Old Mrs. Jin turned her head to look at Li Shuping who was sitting beside the bed, but did not recognize her at first.
I asked my daughter, “Who is it?”
"It's Shuping, the Shuping you always talked about. Don't you want to meet Shuping? Now she's here."
Old Mrs. Jin's expression was a little dull at first, but then she became excited and struggled to get up.
Seeing this, Qiu Jin helped her up.
"A Ping, you are A Ping."
Li Shuping nodded.
Old Mrs. Jin grabbed her hand, tears streaming down her face as her lips trembled.
"A Ping, have you been doing well these years? I'm sorry for you."
Li Shuping took a deep breath and blinked away the mist in her eyes, "I'm fine."
"It's my fault. I have let you down. This is my retribution. This is my retribution!" said Old Mrs. Jin crying.
"Mom..." Qiu Jin also cried.
Old Lady Jin cried so hard that her whole body seemed to be frozen, motionless. After more than ten seconds, she looked at Li Shuping blankly and asked, "Girl, who are you?"
Li Shuping looked at Qiu Jin, who wiped her tears and said, "My mother has been like this lately, sometimes lucid and sometimes confused, and her speech is incoherent."
"Mom, this is Shuping. Shuping is here to see you."
"Shuping?" Old Mrs. Jin rolled her eyes slowly, and suddenly became excited again.
"A Ping's back was burned by Jin Bao, that damn kid, with an iron. Go get some medicine, go get some medicine..."
Li Shuping was stunned for a moment. She didn't expect that Aunt Jin was so confused that she still remembered that she was scalded by Jin Bao.
That happened when she had just been taken in by the Qiu family. She was wiping the dust off the shelves in the store, and Sister Jin was ironing clothes. Aunt Jin called her from behind, so she put the iron on the table and went to the backyard.
I don't know when Jinbao ran to the shop in front, picked up an iron filled with charcoal, pressed it on her back, and burned her back.
It was summer at that time, and the wound was prone to inflammation, with pus and fluid oozing out. Aunt Jin gave her medicine for half a month before her condition gradually improved, but she was left with a scar on her back.
"Mom, that was thirty years ago. Shuping has recovered a long time ago."
Old Lady Jin: “Okay?”
"Okay." Li Shuping nodded.
"The birthmark is gone, gone, and I can't find it."
"Where's the newspaper? Where's my newspaper?" Old Mrs. Jin let go of Li Shuping's hand and searched on the bed.
Qiu Jinbo and Li Shuping were both confused by her. Why did she bring up birthmarks and newspapers again?
"Mom, there's no newspaper on the bed."
"I can't find it. I can't find the newspaper." Old Mrs. Jin said with a dull look.
Suddenly he knelt on the bed excitedly and kowtowed to Li Shuping continuously.
"A Ping, I'm sorry. I'm not that kind of person. I'm not that kind of person."
"Aunt, please don't be like this."
Li Shuping quickly stood up and walked aside.
How could she, a junior, accept kneeling and kowtowing by an elder?
The patients and their families in the same ward stared at them with curiosity.
Qiu Jin 냫 quickly hugged her mother, "Mom, don't be like this."
"I'm not a bastard, am I..." Before Old Lady Jin could finish the word "bastard", she rolled her eyes and fainted.
"mom!"
Li Shuping quickly called the doctor and nurse over.
The doctor entered the ward and examined Old Lady Jin. He looked at Qiu Jin and Li Shuping and said, "The old lady fainted due to emotional excitement, but judging from her physical condition, she has been ill for the past two days. You, her children, should also prepare as soon as possible."
Qiu Jin covered her mouth and cried, and Li Shuping patted her shoulder soothingly.
"I know that birth, aging, sickness and death are the norm of life. My mother is over 70 years old, which is considered a long life. But she is leaving, and I will have no relatives from my mother's family left."
Li Shuping looked at her and said, "Sister Jin, you still have me. I am also half of your family."
For so many years in the Qiu family, the two of them slept in the same room, and Qiu Jin also took care of her like a younger sister.
They are not sisters but are better than sisters, so why are they not considered half of her family?
It was Sister Jin who saved her in the first place. She knew that if she let her go, Uncle Qiu and Aunt Jin would be angry and might even beat her.
But Sister Jin still knocked Jinbao unconscious, helped her pack her bags, gave her all the money she had saved, and let her run away.
She will always remember this kindness.
"Shu Ping..."
Qiu Jin hugged her with tears in his eyes.
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