Li Wenxiu

Donghe County Central Hospital is not very big, and the inpatient department only has three floors in total.

The obstetric ward is on the second floor. There are three rooms in total, two of which are large rooms for six people and one is a double room.

It sounds like there aren't many wards, but at that time, unless women were having a difficult delivery, most of them would ask a midwife to deliver their babies at home, so four wards were not only enough, but were also always not full.

For example, today the ward is mostly empty.

Especially in Ward 216, since the woman in bed 1 was discharged yesterday, there are only two women in the ward. There is no difference between a six-person room and a two-person room. The space is large and does not affect private conversations.

Even so, Li Wenxiu, who was sleeping in bed number three by the window, still took a special look towards bed number four before she spoke.

The person occupying bed number four was a female worker from the Donghe County screw factory. Like Li Wenxiu, she was also sent to the hospital after falling during pregnancy.

But the two people's situations were not exactly the same. Li Wenxiu was more than nine months pregnant when she fell. Although she suffered after giving birth in the hospital, both mother and daughter are healthy.

She was only four months pregnant when she fell, and the baby was not fully grown. And because the fall was so severe, she was told she could not save the baby as soon as she was taken to the hospital. After her family signed the consent form, she underwent a curettage and abortion.

On the day she first entered the hospital, in addition to her colleagues, a large group of people from her in-laws came to see her off. But after the miscarriage was confirmed, before she left the operating room, the large group of people had almost all left, leaving only her husband.

The man didn't stay long. He symbolically comforted her for a while that day and disappeared the next day.

Two days later, my husband's family only arranged for someone to deliver three meals a day to the hospital. Because there were many things to do at home, the meals were always not delivered on time, which looked particularly miserable.

I guess she herself felt heartbroken. She cried a lot during the two days in the hospital and her mood became increasingly depressed.

Compared to her, Li Wenxiu seemed to be much happier because her husband had been by her side and taken good care of her after giving birth.

But this was the consensus reached behind the scenes by several nurses in the obstetrics department. Li Wenxiu herself did not think so. She believed that she only looked happy. In fact, all this was caused by her falling at work and resulting in a difficult delivery.

If it wasn't for the difficult labor, she might not even be able to enter the hospital and would have to give birth at home. If she hadn't fallen at work, the farm manager wouldn't have easily approved her husband's leave, and she would have been the one left without anyone to take care of her child.

Besides, what difference does it make if someone is taking care of you?

No matter how heartless the husband of the woman in bed number four was, she herself was a regular employee in a state-owned factory. Even if the child was not saved, her in-laws would not dare to let her go hungry, and someone would bring her food three times a day.

Although she gave birth to the baby safely, she might not be able to complete the confinement period after being discharged from the hospital.

It would have been fine if she was born with a bad life, but she lived in a Western-style house when she was born and went to a girls' school at the age of five. Although her class background was not good after the founding of the People's Republic of China, she managed to finish high school safely and found a decent job.

Who would have thought that the situation would change overnight, and the past happiness would become a cloud of smoke. Not only was her property confiscated, but she and her husband were also paraded through the streets, and finally sent to a farm under Donghe County, where they lived a life of hard work.

She was not happy at all when she was pregnant this time.

What is the purpose of having this child? For their parents, this child is a burden and will make their already tight life even more difficult.

For the child himself, being born meant suffering, and his days on the farm were endless, with no hope for the future.

However, after being sent down to the countryside, her menstruation was irregular due to inadequate nutrition and heavy farm work. She did not have any drastic reaction in the early stages of this pregnancy. By the time she found out she was pregnant, she was already four months pregnant and it was not easy to have an abortion with medicine, so she had no choice but to decide to keep the child.

Because of this, although she gave birth to the baby safely, Li Wenxiu has rarely smiled since she left the delivery room.

When the nurses in and out of the ward saw this, they thought she was biased towards boys and was dissatisfied with the fact that the baby she gave birth to was a girl, but they had no idea of ​​the pain she felt.

After staring at bed number four for nearly half a minute and making sure that she was asleep, Li Wenxiu waved to the man sitting next to the bed, motioning him to come over.

The man's name is Xu Haiyang, and he is Li Wenxiu's husband.

He was born into a well-off family, and his education level was similar to Li Wenxiu's, and he was also a college student. Because he studied a lot, he was a little nearsighted, and he always had a pair of glasses on his nose, which made him look gentle and handsome.

But that was all in the past. After the Great Movement, he had his head shaved and was paraded through the streets. He no longer had the vigor and vitality of his youth. In addition, his skin had darkened several shades due to the sun and wind over the past few years, and his face had wrinkles. He also habitually hunched his shoulders and drooped his head, looking like a middle-aged man with no energy or spirit.

He knew what his wife was going to say, so when he saw her move, he did not move immediately. Instead, he lowered his voice and said hesitantly, "That matter... let's just forget about it."

Upon hearing this, Li Wenxiu couldn't help but raise her eyebrows: "Forget it? You're telling me to forget it now? Why didn't you tell me to forget it when we were dating? Why didn't you tell me to forget it when you were paraded through the streets? Why didn't you tell me to forget it when you were sent down to the countryside? Do you think you have a conscience when you tell me this now?"

It wasn't that she didn't have the opportunity to marry into a working-class family with a good background, but she was already dating Xu Haiyang at the time and couldn't let go of this relationship, so she finally chose to give up.

When she was paraded through the streets and exiled, she also had the opportunity to choose to divorce.

Although her background is not good enough, it is better than Xu Haiyang, whose biological father ran away abroad. Some colleagues in the unit also have feelings for her. Even if life after divorce and remarriage is not as easy, it will definitely be better than now.

But she couldn't bear to do so, and ended up in her current situation.

After she got pregnant with the child, she thought about these things every night, and her heart was always filled with regret. But now, regret is useless, and she can only endure this hopelessness.

They would occasionally bring up these things when they quarreled.

So although Li Wenxiu's words were vague, Xu Haiyang immediately understood what she meant, and as usual, he lowered his head in guilt: "It's my fault that I have implicated you."

Hearing this, Li Wenxiu fell silent. After nearly half a minute, she raised her hand to wipe away the tears from the corners of her eyes, took Xu Haiyang's hand and whispered, "Our lives are already like this. As long as we are together, we can grit our teeth and endure no matter how hard it is. But Haiyang, this child is innocent. She shouldn't suffer from the moment she is born. Or do you want her to be paraded through the streets like us when she grows up, and to make self-criticisms every now and then? To be criticized?"

Xu Haiyang scratched his hair with his hands: "Of course I hope she can live a good life, but..."

"No buts!" Li Wenxiu interrupted him, "If you don't agree to me, I would rather not have this child!"

Xu Haiyang raised his head suddenly: "What do you mean?"

Li Wenxiu did not answer, but slowly leaned back on the pillow, turned sideways and faced Xu Haiyang.

If Li Wenxiu had been more assertive, Xu Haiyang might have continued to waver, but she suddenly fell silent, hunched her back towards him, and his heart began to waver.

Li Wenxiu couldn't bear to let her child suffer, so how could he bear to do so?

However, swapping children was hurtful and contrary to his past values, but he soon remembered what Li Wenxiu said when she first proposed swapping children.

Their background is indeed not good, but they cannot choose their birth. If possible, they would also like to be born into a worker or peasant family and live a decent life with their bodies held high.

But even so, they never did anything bad in the first half of their lives, and they worked diligently after joining the workforce. However, because of their background, they never became model workers or advanced individuals.

When the big movement broke out, they were quickly labeled, lost their jobs, had their houses confiscated, and all their years of hard work went to waste.

And what about the other people in the obstetric ward?

I may not be more capable than them, nor more knowledgeable than them, but because of my family background, I live a life that they cannot even begin to compare to. How can one accept this?

After struggling for a long time, Xu Haiyang finally spoke up: "Do we have to exchange with the 216th? I heard that person's husband is a soldier."

"That's why being in the military is so good!" Li Wenxiu turned around and sat up. "Life is stable, and there's no need to worry about accidents in the future."

As the movement progressed, she finally realized that no job was as stable as being a soldier.

If we transfer the child to a cadre family, who knows whether the child's adoptive parents will follow in their footsteps? Farmers' families don't have to worry about it; their lives are not necessarily better than theirs. Workers' families may seem better, but most families are not well off. Boys are okay, but girls may not be able to live a good life.

Unlike the mothers in the 214 Incident, whose husbands were soldiers and whose families lived in military compounds, they were less affected by the movement. As long as their parents did not make serious mistakes, they would not follow in their footsteps.

Moreover, the rank of dependents who can accompany the army is not lower than that of deputy battalion commanders, and the salary is high, some can make 80 or 90 yuan a month. In addition, rooms 214 are double rooms, and the cost is much higher than that of six-person rooms. Even if they are dependents, the cost cannot be fully reimbursed and they have to pay part of it themselves.

If the family is not well-off, who would give up a free six-person room and live in a double room that costs money?

Xu Haiyang also knew that the women in ward 214 were the best candidates, but it was also risky to switch with them. He hesitated and said, "What if we get discovered..."

"How could she be discovered? A newborn baby changes every day. As long as she is not discovered when she changes, who would have thought that the person lying next to her is not her biological daughter?" At this point, Li Wenxiu remembered and asked, "By the way, have you prepared the medicine?"

"...Okay." Xu Haiyang said as he took out a small paper bag from his pocket and handed it to Li Wenxiu, saying, "This child was innocent to begin with. Now that he's in our house..."

Li Wenxiu took the small paper bag, opened it and sniffed the powder inside. She confirmed that it was the smell she remembered. She folded it up with satisfaction and said, "Don't worry. After all, we owe her this. When she comes to our house, I will treat her well and take care of her as if she were my own daughter."

…

While Li Wenxiu and her husband were plotting, Liang Juan and Meng Zheng were taking a nap in Ward 214.

Ye Min was afraid that someone would come in and steal the child, so she did not fall asleep. Instead, she was thinking about the origin of the bullet screen above her daughter's head.

After Meng Zheng reminded her that she could use a cabinet to block the door, the light white font above her daughter's head never disappeared, and she learned a lot of information from it.

First of all, this world is a novel called "The Wrong Life in the 1980s", and the heroine is her daughter, and her daughter is also a fake daughter.

At first Ye Min was a little puzzled. If the real and fake daughters were divided according to the wealth of the family, the real daughter should be her daughter.

There were many people on the barrage who had the same doubts as her, but soon someone came out to explain, saying that the original plot began in the early 1980s, when her daughter's adoptive parents had already been freed from poverty, and later a wealthy foreign grandfather came back to recognize them as his relatives, so the family financially better off was her daughter's adoptive parents.

An important message can also be drawn from these words: the overall situation in the 1980s should be more relaxed than it is now, but things that will happen a few years or even a dozen years from now are not as important as what is happening now. Ye Min did not think deeply about it.

The second is the AI ​​plot simulation, which is explained as using AI technology to generate portraits based on the plot of the novel, and then forming the picture.

Ye Min didn't understand what AI technology was, but she organized a more understandable version in her own language based on the context.

She thinks this software, called AI plot simulation, is equivalent to a TV. The process of using AI technology to generate pictures from a novel is similar to the process of a director and actors turning a novel into a movie.

Bullet screens are the audience's comments after watching a movie. In real life, they can only write letters to the production studio to express their thoughts after watching a movie, but with this software, the audience can publish their thoughts in real time, which is more convenient.

Then the software divides the viewing modes into three types according to the degree of adaptation for the audience to choose. However, as a person in the story, she only experienced the story presented in the detailed mode.

Therefore, the information known by those people on the bullet screen is incomplete. They don’t know that the process of her daughter being switched is the evidence.

In other words, although Ye Min is a character in the story, after seeing the barrage, she is already on the same starting line as those people on the barrage.

Even the audience who posted the barrage of comments can only watch and cannot decide the development of the plot. On the contrary, Ye Min, who is in the middle of it, has the ability to act on her own to change everything.

After realizing this, Ye Min felt more confident and was not so anxious during dinner. He finished his meal as usual.

After dinner, Liang Juan took the lunch box to wash the dishes. When she came back, she saw that there was not much hot water in the kettle, so she picked up the kettle to get more water.

There is a public water room on each floor of the inpatient department, but the water room is at the other end, and there are only two taps for hot water, so you often have to queue before and after meals.

Although Ye Min eats slowly and it is past the peak period, there are probably still many people fetching water. Liang Juan was gone for ten minutes and when she came back she was still yelling, "Oh, the line is so long, it's not easy to fetch a bottle of water."

After saying this, he saw that the enamel cup on the cabinet was empty, and asked, "Would you like some water?"

"Then give me some." Ye Min said, holding up the cup.

Liang Juan agreed, picked up the kettle, uncorked it and poured water into the enamel cup. After that, she asked Meng Zheng, "Are you thirsty, little Fengzheng? Do you want some water?"

Meng Zheng didn't like drinking water, so he shook his head and said, "I don't want it."

"You kids are all like this. You don't drink water all day long. I tell you, people need to drink more water to stay healthy, right?" Liang Juan said this, but she didn't force Meng Zheng. She just poured herself a glass of water and said, "If you don't want to drink water, I'll drink with your mother."

Liang Juan blew the hot water in the enamel cup while talking, and when she felt it was almost done, she tilted her head back and was about to pour it into her mouth. But just as the warm water moistened her mouth, she heard Ye Min, who had been holding the enamel cup and sniffing for a long time, say, "Wait!"

"What's wrong?"

Liang Juan took a sip of hot water and turned to look at Ye Min. She said seriously, "There's medicine in the water."

"puff--"

Liang Juan was stunned. Before she could think about it, all the water in her mouth sprayed out.