"Me? What could they possibly want from me?" Le Rong didn't think she had anything that they could possibly want from her. In any case, he wouldn't give her money, and she wouldn't offer any help.
Wang Yufen carefully approached Le Rong and whispered, "Everyone in our village says this is retribution for your elder brother and sister-in-law, since they drove Yuanyuan away."
They weren't destined to have children; it was because they adopted Yuanyuan that Yuanyuan was destined to have a younger brother. But they didn't treat Yuanyuan well, so…”
Le Rong's expression turned somewhat unpleasant. "Sister Yu Fen, do you mean my elder brother and sister-in-law still want to take Yuan Yuan back?"
"That's hard to say. You don't know how quiet your nephew is all day long, and sometimes he even hits people. When I went back last year, I saw that your older brother and sister-in-law had aged a lot."
"And I overheard your older brother and sister-in-law discussing taking Yuanyuan back from you. Xiaorong, you'd better be prepared. There are quite a few people from our village working here, and your older brother and sister-in-law might come any day now."
Wang Yufen genuinely cared for Le Rong. Although she couldn't offer much help, she could at least offer a reminder.
Le Rong forced a smile and thanked Wang Yufen, "Thank you, Sister Yufen, I understand."
"You know that's good. Okay, I won't say anything more. I have to go home and cook. We can talk again when we have time." Wang Yufen said and hurriedly walked out.
In the evening, after closing the door, Le Rong walked home with a belly full of worries, wondering what she should do if her older brother and sister-in-law really came to take Yuan Yuan away.
She wasn't afraid of anything else, except that the things between adults would hurt Yuanyuan.
"What's wrong with you today? You seem distracted. Who upset you?" Zhang Xueshan asked, noticing his wife looking preoccupied as soon as she returned home.
Le Rong couldn't help but sigh: "I ran into a girl from our village at the shop today."
"What? You can't get along? If you can't get along, then don't associate with each other."
"No, I only found out now that my older brother and sister-in-law's child has a problem; it can't even speak yet."
"Can't speak? What, is he mute?" Upon hearing that he couldn't speak, Zhang Xueshan's first thought was that he was mute.
Le Rong punched her husband hard, "What nonsense are you talking about? He's not mute, but he just won't speak."
Zhang Xueshan laughed, "Being unable to speak means you're mute."
"Oh, let's put that aside for now. Do you think my older brother and sister-in-law might want to take Yuanyuan back?"
"What are you thinking? Yuanyuan is registered under our household registration, she's our daughter. You want to go back? Dream on!"
Over the years, Zhang Xueshan had come to regard Yuanyuan as his own daughter, and he would fight anyone who tried to take her away.
"Of course I know that, but I'm afraid that if my older brother and sister-in-law really have that idea, they will go to Yuanyuan's school and make a scene, making Yuanyuan unable to hold her head up at school."
Le Rong felt that people like his elder brother and sister-in-law were capable of anything, and he had to be wary of them.
“Since your elder brother and sister-in-law don’t want Yuanyuan anymore, why would they want her back now? Don’t overthink it,” Zhang Xueshan comforted his wife.
“No,” Le Rong shook her head. “I only remembered it after hearing Sister Yu Fen say that Mom was muttering that my sister-in-law’s baby might be for Yuan Yuan, but they chased Yuan Yuan away. So, will that baby have a problem?”
When Le Rong heard her mother-in-law say that, she thought it was to comfort Yuan Yuan, but now she thinks there might actually be some truth to it.
"Impossible, Mom is just talking nonsense. How could you believe it? There's no such thing as superstition."
"Of course there are! There are plenty of strange things in the world, how can you explain them all?" Le Rong still believed in these things.
The person in this conversation, Brother Le, was looking at his son with a worried expression. "Sigh, why don't you say anything? You just eat and don't talk."
“What’s the point of talking to him? I heard there’s a fortune teller in Erlitou who’s very accurate. Do you think we should take our son to see her?” Sister-in-law Le looked at Brother Le with anticipation.
She has aged considerably over the years. I remember how happy and proud she was when she gave birth to her son!
When her son was born, she felt that her life was complete. Who could have imagined that her child would be unable to speak?
The couple took their child to the hospital, and the doctor said there was nothing wrong with his vocal cords, but he just didn't want to talk and had some kind of autism.
Thinking about this, Sister-in-law Le couldn't help but have doubts again, "The doctor said our son has that autism thing, do you think that's reliable?"
"Autism my foot! My son is perfectly fine! Those doctors just talk nonsense." Le Hai looked at his son, who was sitting there playing with his toys obediently, and thought to himself what a well-behaved child he was, never making a fuss, just unable to speak.
"Yes, our son is fine, but it's always a problem if we don't tell him. Let's take him to see a shaman!" Sister-in-law Le thought that if the hospital didn't work, she would look for folk remedies; surely one of them would work.
Afterwards, Le Hai and his wife took their child to Granny Ma's house. As soon as they entered, Le Hai's wife knelt down before Granny Ma and said, "Granny Ma, please take a look at my child. Why doesn't he talk? Is he being haunted by something?"
"Get up, let me take a look." Granny Ma walked around the child twice, then reached out and touched his forehead.
“I see it. Your child lacks awareness of the outside world, something is missing. I ask you, when you were pregnant with him, did something major happen in your family?”
"A major change?" Sister-in-law Le looked at her husband. "No, everything has gone smoothly."
The old woman tapped the table and reminded her, "Think again carefully, are you sure you don't have it?"
At this moment, Le Hai seemed to suddenly remember something, and replied with a very ugly expression, "My family used to have an adopted daughter who was raised by us. Later, my wife got pregnant, so we returned her to her mother. Is this considered a major change?"
The fortune teller slammed her hand on the table. “Yes, that makes sense. That little girl was destined to have a younger brother. Because she was raised in your family, your wife got pregnant. Then you sent her away, and that’s why there’s a problem with the younger brother.”
Upon hearing this, Sister-in-law Le slapped her thigh hard and cried out, "So it was Yuanyuan who caused all this trouble. I should have kept her by my side. She's ruined my son for nothing!"
Ma the fortune teller secretly curled her lip, thinking to herself that she was truly incorrigible, still blaming the young girl even now.
When Le Hai heard what the sorceress said, his expression relaxed, and he tentatively asked, "Grandma Ma, can we bring our adopted daughter back now?"
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