Caught in the act

【Ah ...

[I knew it! The child was indeed swapped by the heroine’s foster mother! ]

[This person is not necessarily the heroine's adoptive mother, right? In the novel, didn't the heroine get into trouble and only after a blood test did they find out that she was not her biological child? ]

[Forget about the previous part. Do you still believe the lies of the heroine's adoptive parents? The fact that the daughter is not their biological daughter was indeed discovered after the heroine got into trouble and a blood test was done. But as soon as they knew that the heroine was not their biological daughter, they found their biological daughter right after. If they hadn't been keeping an eye on the Meng family, I would have taken your last name!]

[My worldview is about to be overturned! Although I felt that the adoptive parents were not good people when I read the novel, I always thought that they were not kind to their daughter because they favored boys over girls. But now I know that they knew that this was not their daughter! ]

[And yet you still say the heroine is a fake daughter! When the real daughter of someone's family drinks high-fat powder and eats malted milk, the fake daughter's bowl has no rice in the soup? When the real daughter of someone's family wears Dacron, the fake daughter's clothes are full of patches? When the real daughter of someone's family can concentrate on studying for college, the fake daughter will be married to a domestic violence man by her adoptive parents? It's simply a scam! ]

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When Ye Min grabbed Li Wenxiu's wrist, the bullet screen above her daughter's head exploded instantly. Through those conversations, she was able to glimpse her daughter's life in the novel.

It would be fine if there was no rice in the rice soup and there were patches on the clothes, but the birth dates of her daughter and the child of the woman in front of her were only a few days apart. One was preparing for college entrance exams, and how old was the other?

Married at the age of 10? And the man she married was a domestic violence man!

The more Ye Min looked at Li Wenxiu, the angrier he became, and he gripped Li Wenxiu's left hand even harder.

Li Wenxiu tried twice to break free but failed. Then she heard hurried footsteps outside and panicked, so she simply let go of her left hand.

The little girl, who was sleeping soundly, was awakened by the noise and immediately burst into tears. Seeing this, Ye Min hurried to pick up her daughter. Li Wenxiu took the opportunity to break free, picked up the child at the end of the bed and was about to leave.

But she had only taken two steps when Liang Juan and Meng Zheng jumped down from another bed and blocked her way. Li Wenxiu took a step back and looked around. She saw that there was no way to escape. People from the nurses' station and other wards swarmed to the door of the ward. She simply stopped and asked, "What do you want to do?"

As soon as she finished speaking, the door of the ward was pushed open from the outside. The night nurse was standing in the front. After coming in, she reached out and pulled the light cord hanging by the door, and "clicked" to light up the bulb.

The yellow light suddenly poured down, allowing people to see the confrontation in the ward clearly. The night nurse was puzzled and asked, "What happened?"

"I, I don't know either." Li Wenxiu spoke first, and before she finished speaking, her face looked like she was about to cry.

Liang Juan was immediately furious and asked loudly, "You sneaked into our ward to steal the child, and you still have the nerve to say you don't know what happened?"

Hearing this, the first people who rushed into the ward to see the excitement couldn't help but exclaim, and their eyes as bright as light bulbs looked straight at Li Wenxiu.

"I didn't!" Li Wenxiu denied it flatly, and her eyes were red as she explained, "I went to the restroom, but the light in the corridor was too dim, and I had just given birth and hadn't recovered yet. I didn't have enough rest time, so I felt a little dizzy, and when I was returning to the ward, I made a mistake and ended up walking into your ward."

"Bah!" Liang Juan was furious, pointing at Ye Min and her daughter, saying, "Even if you went the wrong way, didn't you see someone lying on the bed when you got there? If you saw someone, why didn't you leave? And why did you reach out and steal the child?"

Li Wenxiu's face suddenly became full of anger: "When did I steal a child? ! ! I have children of my own, why would I steal yours? Sister, I went to the wrong ward so late at night and disturbed your sleep. I was wrong, but I really didn't mean any harm. After I saw that there was someone on the bed, I realized that I had gone to the wrong ward. If you hadn't suddenly jumped off the bed, I would have left by now!"

This was pure distortion of right and wrong. Liang Juan was furious: "You obviously stole the child! If Xiao Ye hadn't grabbed your hand, you would have stolen her child by now. And you are still making excuses here!"

"I didn't! I really didn't! You can't just accuse me like this!" Li Wenxiu burst into tears while stomping her feet and turning around. If anyone saw her, they would think that she was really wrongly accused, but she didn't know how to explain herself because she was tongue-tied.

Many of the people who rushed into the ward to see the excitement were indeed moved by her gesture, and they spoke up for her: "This must be a misunderstanding, right? There was only one light on in the corridor at night, and the lighting was really bad. It's normal to see the wrong ward."

"Yeah, isn't she holding a child in her arms? Who would steal a child while holding their own child?"

Some were suspicious and asked, "Is this her child? Could it be stolen?"

Li Wenxiu, who caught this, quickly shouted, "This is my child, my biological daughter, born four days ago. If you don't believe me, ask Nurse Li!"

Nurse Li, who was on night duty, nodded when her name was called and said, "The child is indeed her biological child."

The people watching the excitement started discussing again: "Since it's her biological child, that should prove she's not here to steal the child, right?"

"Her family is not well off, so what good would it do her to steal a child? She has children of her own, so could it be that the lesbian on the hospital bed gave birth to a son?"

Nurse Li interrupted, "She's also a daughter."

"That's even more impossible. She already has a little girl. What would she want to do by stealing another little girl home?"

"Yes, even if he was a human trafficker, he wouldn't want a girl! He couldn't sell her after kidnapping her. Besides, the nurse said she had just given birth, so she shouldn't be a bad person."

"It must be a misunderstanding!" someone concluded, and then looked at Liang Juan, "Sister, I think you two should just have a good talk and talk it out. There's no need to be so pushy."

Listening to everyone's persuasion, Liang Juan couldn't help but start to doubt herself: Are they really too sensitive? Is Li Wenxiu not a bad person?

Seeing this, Li Wenxiu started crying and secretly pinched her daughter through the swaddling clothes. The little girl felt the pain and started crying as soon as she opened her mouth.

Some people who were relatively cautious and had been slow to speak out because they were suspicious of the situation in the ward, saw the mother and daughter crying and felt sorry for each other, and couldn't help but persuade them softly: "She just gave birth and hasn't recovered yet. Her temperature is low at night. Don't get sick if you stay here. If there is anything, we can talk about it tomorrow. In fact, in my opinion, this is a misunderstanding, and of course it's not your fault. We can understand that you are nervous about the child, but you are all pregnant women, so you should be considerate of each other and forgive each other when you can, don't you think?"

Some people were worried that Ye Min and Liang Juan would not be able to speak out, so they simply called out to Nurse Li: "Comrade Li, you are a hospital employee, please come out and speak for justice!"

"Yes, Nurse Li, please persuade them."

But Nurse Li didn't dare to interrupt easily. She had only been in the hospital for a year and had little experience. She had never experienced such a thing. If she made a wrong choice, her future might be affected.

But she also knew that leaving them in a stalemate was not a solution, so she said hesitantly, "How about... I go to the duty room to see if there is a doctor there?"

Some people were dissatisfied with Nurse Li's attitude: "What's the point of calling a doctor? They don't know the situation."

Li Wenxiu also cried and said, "Sister, I'm not begging you to have mercy on me, can you please let me go for the sake of the child? I really just misread the ward number and didn't mean to do anything bad!"

Liang Juan already had self-doubt, and being forced into this situation, she couldn't make a decision for a moment, so she had to look at Ye Min who was coaxing the child.

Ye Min had just coaxed her daughter, and seeing that Liang Juan could not resist any longer, she put the child beside her, called Meng Zheng over and asked him to look after his sister, then she threw back the quilt, got out of bed, and walked in front of everyone.

Ye Min is 24 years old this year. He has a handsome face and fair skin. He looks a few years younger than his actual age.

Young girls are usually thin-skinned, and she looks even more approachable when compared to someone like Liang Juan who looks difficult to deal with.

Although Li Wenxiu thought that if she hadn't grabbed her and screamed when the child was stolen, there wouldn't be such a big commotion. But Li Wenxiu felt that most people would definitely fight with the child thief if they found out that their child was stolen, but she just tried to coax the child and didn't say a word when they were arguing. I guess she was just a little girl with no opinion.

The reason he screamed so loudly just now was because he was scared. It's nothing to worry about and can be used as a breakthrough point.

After thinking it over, Li Wenxiu grabbed Ye Min's hand and said, "Comrade, I really don't want to steal your child. I have concubines, so why would I steal your daughter?"

Ye Min lowered her head and looked at the baby in Li Wenxiu's arms.

Upon seeing this, Ye Min was stunned.

In her eyes, she certainly thought her daughter was the best and most unique. But even as her biological mother, she had to admit that the child looked a lot like her daughter.

That slight difference can be completely covered up by saying that a newborn baby changes every day.

No wonder she was totally unaware that the child was switched in the novel.

Thinking of the miserable life of the daughter who was switched in the novel, Ye Min shook off Li Wenxiu's hand and said coldly: "Of course you have a purpose in stealing the child. As for why you took the child with you, it's because you not only want to steal my child, but also want your daughter to take over my nest and let me raise her!"

Those people watching the excitement were startled again, and the trust in their eyes when they looked at Li Wenxiu was once again replaced by suspicion.

Li Wenxiu didn't expect her purpose would be exposed. Her expression was blank for a moment, but she soon burst into tears and said, "I didn't! I was taking the child out to use the restroom..."

"Going to the bathroom?" Ye Min looked directly into Li Wenxiu's eyes and asked, "Then let me ask you, babies have diapers when they poop or urinate. Why did you take the child with you when you went to the bathroom in the middle of the night?"

The people who were confused before seemed to be enlightened: "That's right! The child doesn't need to go to the toilet, why did she come out with the child?"

Li Wenxiu then realized that her excuse had loopholes and became panicked: "I, I..."

"Don't tell me you took your child out because you were worried about leaving her in the ward," Ye Min reminded sarcastically, "Your husband should not have left at night."

Li Wenxiu's heart skipped a beat. This was indeed the explanation she could come up with. After Ye Min stopped her from saying anything, she could no longer think of any other suitable excuse.

Then she turned around to look at the faces of the people who had gathered around to watch the excitement. Some of them were looking at her with anger, while others were full of suspicion... Li Wenxiu had never expected that this young woman with a fresh face could change the situation with just a few words and leave her completely defenseless.

After all, her presence in someone else's ward late at night was not a reasonable thing in itself. If she met someone with poor eloquence, she could get away with it, but if she met someone as difficult to deal with as Ye Min, she would easily get into trouble.

Li Wenxiu couldn't think of a solution for a moment, so she knelt down and cried, "I really didn't want to steal the child. As for what you said about wanting you to raise the child for me, I have never thought of it! Comrade, even if you are a family member of a military officer, you can't wrongly accuse ordinary people like this!"

"Look, she's trying to turn the conflict between her and me into a class conflict," Ye Min said, pointing at Li Wenxiu and looking at the crowd, "But I'm also a worker, and my husband is from the working class. What's your class, on the other hand? Rich peasant, landlord, small business owner, or capitalist?"

Ye Min took two steps back as he spoke, looked Li Wenxiu up and down and said, "You speak logically, so you must have a good education, but your clothes are covered with patches, your hands are rough and knotty, and your situation is not very good. You must have been sent to a nearby farm after the Great Movement, right?"

In fact, there were quite a few educated youth sent to the countryside at that time, but the large-scale sending of educated youth to the countryside did not happen until 1968, and it has only been a few years. Li Wenxiu looked to be in her thirties, and Ye Min said that she was sent down to the countryside, so the onlookers had a preconceived idea and started talking about it.

"No way! I thought she was a peasant comrade, but she turned out to be a capitalist?"

"It could also be the stinky old ninth. Didn't you hear what that comrade said? She speaks in an organized way and has a high level of education."

"I said that there couldn't be such a black-hearted person among our working and peasant classes. Since he was born into a capitalist family, it's not surprising."

In fact, although class struggle has intensified in recent years and differences in status are everywhere, ordinary people do not hate capitalists or rich peasants that much.

Just like after Li Wenxiu was sent to the hospital, the doctors and nurses' attitude towards her was not much different from their attitude towards other patients.

It's just that people, when they know that someone has behaved improperly and that he or she has a bad background, they will inevitably be distracted and think that it's not just that person who has bad character, but that all people from capitalist backgrounds are bad.

Faced with everyone's pointing and criticizing, Li Wenxiu was completely panicked.

She knew that her background was not good and she would be easily discriminated against when she went out, so she had no choice but to tell doctors and nurses about her background and never revealed it to anyone else.

In addition, she and Ye Min were not in the same ward and had never spoken to each other before, so she was sure that other people did not know her background, so she wanted to lead the matter into a case of military officers' families bullying ordinary people.

But she didn't expect Ye Min to guess her identity right away, and Nurse Li also chose to acquiesce when faced with other people's inquiries, so the situation reversed in an instant.

Being a soldier these days is not as unpopular as it was during the war between military leaders. Everyone has feelings for the military. It would have been fine if Li Wenxiu hadn't exposed Ye Min's identity. After she did, everyone sorted out the situation and found that the two sides in the dispute were military families on one side and capitalists on the other. The balance tilted instantly.

What's worse is that after the situation turned around, Ye Min did not act arrogantly. Instead, she pointed to the hot water bottle on the cabinet between the beds and said, "Since this comrade said that I wronged her, I will also produce evidence. The hot water bottle was drugged, and it was she and her husband who drugged it."

Hearing this, Li Wenxiu raised her head abruptly and shouted, "You are slandering me! When did I put medicine in your thermos?"

"You still don't admit it! When I went to get some water this afternoon, did you pretend to fall down in front of me, and then let your husband put drugs in the kettle while I was helping you up?" Speaking of drugs, Liang Juan instantly cheered up, pointing at Li Wenxiu and said, "I saw that you were slow and sympathized with you so I helped you up, but you and your husband were secretly plotting against us. If Xiaoye's ancestors had not been Chinese medicine practitioners for several generations and she had a good nose, we would not have known anything if we had drunk this kettle of hot water and fallen into a coma tonight and you had sneaked in and replaced the baby!"

The onlookers were immediately shocked and shouted in amazement: "Drugging? Is this true?"

"Nurse Li, something like this happened in the hospital, we must investigate it thoroughly!"

"It's so scary! After something like this happened, I don't dare stay in this hospital anymore!"

After hearing this, Li Wenxiu suddenly realized something. She wondered how Ye Min and Liang Juan could wake up so quickly. It turned out that they didn't drink any drugs at all. She was just lured into a trap!

But she also knew that she couldn't admit it. Once she admitted it, there would be no turning back. At the same time, she also understood that it was useless to pretend to be pitiful at this point, so she wiped away her previous pitiful look and shouted loudly: "I didn't! I went to the toilet after dinner, but I didn't fall, and I didn't see you at all! You are framing me!"

Liang Juan was furious and took a step forward to continue the confrontation, but before she could say anything, Ye Min stopped her and said, "I'll talk to her."

After saying this, Ye Min approached Li Wenxiu and asked, "Do you think that since no one saw you and your wife putting the drugs in the kettle together, this is a foolproof plan?"

Li Wenxiu turned her head away from Ye Min and bit her lip to insist, "I didn't give you any drugs!"

Ye Min was not affected by her stubbornness. He sneered and said, "But you forget that God is watching you. I can smell what herbs are in the drug you gave me. I believe that experienced Chinese medicine doctors can also smell it. Ordinary people don't know how to prepare herbs. Hospitals can only buy medicine with prescriptions. If you want to get herbs, you can only go to the health center or find a barefoot doctor. If you keep stubborn now, we will go to your farm with a list of herbs and ask around. Then the truth will come out."

Li Wenxiu's face changed: "You can't..."

"I can!" Ye Min interrupted her and turned to look at Nurse Li and the onlookers. "I can't leave here. If anyone has time, please go to the police station and ask the public security comrades to come. I believe the public security comrades will make their own judgment on whether what we said is a slander or the truth."

Someone among the onlookers immediately raised his hand: "I know where the police station is, I'll go find someone!"

"I'll go with you!" Someone immediately agreed, and finally the two of them went to the police station to report the case together.

After they left, Ye Min said, "She is in ward 216. Please send two people to keep an eye on her husband and don't let him run away."

“I’ll go!”

"I'm going too!"

Several people left in a flash.

After explaining all this, Ye Min said to Nurse Li: "When the police come, we may need to arrange for a doctor to check whether the kettle contains any anesthetic ingredients. Please -"

Ye Min's expression changed before she finished speaking: "Sister Liang! Stop her! She wants to destroy the evidence!"

It turned out that Li Wenxiu had put the child on the ground at some point, and jumped up and rushed towards the kettle on the cabinet.

Fortunately, Ye Min reacted quickly and stretched out her hand while shouting. Although she failed to catch Li Wenxiu, she slowed her down. Liang Juan also took action after hearing her shouting, limping in front of Li Wenxiu and reaching out to push her hard.

Li Wenxiu rushed in too fast and was unable to change direction. She was unable to avoid Liang Juan's push and was pushed directly to the ground.

When the people crowded at the door saw this, they also rushed into the ward. Some of them softened their hearts and went to pick up the child, while others went straight to Li Wenxiu, clasped her hands behind her back, and pressed her face down to the ground.

Li Wenxiu struggled twice without success, knowing that the situation was completely hopeless, and knocked her head to the ground.

Fainted.