"Brother?" The doctor looked up at Zhao Lei, his eyes filled with displeasure.
"Since you're the patient's brother, how come you don't care about your sister at all? She's been carrying a stillborn fetus for so long, and you haven't brought her to the hospital for checkups?"
The doctor's words were like a huge bomb dropped on a calm lake.
With a loud bang, the entire lake surface was blown apart.
Both Lu Zhengde and Qin Yanhua had their heads buzzing.
They ignored Zhao Lei and rushed over to grab the doctor's hand: "What did you say? You said Zhao Rui is carrying a stillborn fetus?" Lu Zhengde asked incredulously.
The doctor looked up at Lu Zhengde and, seeing Lu Zhengde's disheveled appearance, grunted in response.
"You're her father, right? How can you be such good parents? You didn't even know your daughter's pregnancy had stopped developing?" The doctor knew that people are careless these days, but it's very unusual that no one in the whole family noticed anything wrong with their daughter.
As he spoke, he glared at Qin Yanhua, who was standing to the side.
“Are you her mother? Your husband and son can’t tell Comrade Zhao Rui, but you’re too embarrassed to tell them? If you had come a few days earlier, when the fetus stopped growing, Comrade Zhao Rui would have suffered much less.”
The doctor in charge of operating on Zhao Rui launched into a tirade against Lu Zhengde and Qin Yanhua, saying that the young pregnant woman had given birth to a stillborn child and hadn't known for several days, which, in the doctor's view, was entirely due to the negligence of the elders in the family.
Lu Zhengde and Qin Yanhua usually thought they were quite young, so when the doctor mistook them for Zhao Rui's parents and scolded them, Lu Zhengde's face turned red, which was rare for him.
However, what they are more concerned about now is the condition of the baby in Zhao Rui's belly.
"Doctor, what did you say? You said my baby was stillborn?" Lu Zhengde asked anxiously.
The doctor glanced at him: "Didn't your daughter tell you about her unusual behavior these past few days?"
“She’s not my daughter, she’s my revolutionary partner.” Despite the inappropriateness, Lu Zhengde still acknowledged his relationship with Zhao Rui.
Because he knew that at this time, many things would be more convenient if Zhao Rui's husband did them.
After admitting that he was Zhao Rui's husband, Lu Zhengde immediately asked the doctor if the baby was definitely in trouble and if it could be saved.
"It doesn't matter what happens to the adults, the main thing is to save my child."
Lu Zhengde was too hasty. He had finally gotten a child, and of course he wanted to keep the child no matter what.
As for Zhao Rui?
Children are hard to come by, but women are plentiful. Lu Zhengde didn't think much of Zhao Rui anyway, feeling she wasn't worthy of raising his child. So, as long as the child was safe, it didn't matter who the mother was.
Before the doctor could even process Lu Zhengde's words, Zhao Lei rushed forward in a rage, grabbed Lu Zhengde by the collar, and shouted, "Lu Zhengde, what the hell do you mean by that? What do you mean 'adults don't care'?"
Seeing Lu Zhengde being arrested, Qin Yanhua quickly spoke up: "Xiao Zhao, save the child, not the adult. This is also your sister's wish."
"You're talking nonsense! How could my sister say something like that?" Zhao Lei simply couldn't believe that Zhao Rui would make such a choice.
He grabbed Lu Zhengde's collar and roared uncontrollably. Lu Zhengde scoffed and pulled Zhao Lei's hand away.
"Brother-in-law, don't get so excited. You have to remember, your sister and I are legally married and recognized by the state. In this world, we are the only people on the same household registration."
Seeing that Zhao Lei still didn't immediately understand his meaning, Lu Zhengde arrogantly said, "Simply put, your sister's life and death are now in my hands."
He paused for a moment, then continued, "So, brother-in-law, you'd better not make me angry."
If you anger him, he really won't care whether Zhao Rui lives or dies.
Zhao Lei was so angry at Lu Zhengde's shameless words that his face turned green. He looked at the middle-aged man in front of him in disbelief. He never dreamed that a school teacher, now a cultured person who had risen to the position of deputy director, could be such a hypocritical and vicious person...
The doctor on the side overheard the gist of the conversation and was shocked by Lu Zhengde's shameless words.
However, he frowned and said sternly, "No one asked you whether to save the mother or the child. I said that the baby in her womb has been dead for several days. The informed consent form that I am showing you now is to decide whether or not to perform a curettage on Comrade Zhao Rui."
The doctor repeated it again.
Zhao Rui's baby has been dead for several days.
Lu Zhengde's hands and feet were a little cold. He looked up and stared blankly at the doctor in front of him: "You're saying the baby in your belly is beyond saving?"
Qin Yanhua, who was standing nearby, was also paying close attention to this, staring intently at the doctor, afraid that she might have misheard.
Although the child was said to be Zhao Rui's, it was known that Lu Zhengde had gotten Zhao Rui pregnant simply to ensure the Lu family line continued.
As the legal wife of the Lu family, Qin Yanhua, who prides herself on being magnanimous and deeply in love with Lu Zhengde, naturally cares a great deal about the child in Zhao Rui's belly.
But she never imagined that their beloved child would be gone just like that? And for several days, Zhao Rui hadn't even noticed...
How could there be such a stupid woman as Zhao Rui in this world?
Qin Yanhua was furious, but she knew she had no right to speak at this moment. So she listened intently to Lu Zhengde's conversation with the doctor.
Seeing that Lu Zhengde still didn't believe him, the doctor snorted and said, "What good would it do me, a doctor, to lie to you? The stillborn fetus has already been removed, and the nurse will bring it to you for identification soon."
From the doctor's perspective, the child is definitely gone, so the more important thing now is the patient at hand.
Although Lu Zhengde is not young, Zhao Rui looks young, and with a couple of years of rest, she can still have a child.
But to everyone's surprise, right after the doctor said that, Lu Zhengde turned and left without any intention of staying.
"Hey, you surnamed Lu, what do you mean by this? Are you planning to abandon my sister?" Zhao Lei shouted loudly from behind.
Lu Zhen sneered: "A piece of trash who can't even protect a child has the nerve to ask me to take care of her?"
Zhao Rui is useless and cannot carry on the Lu family line, so she has no value to him. Lu Zhengde will not support any idle person.
Lu Zhengde left, and Qin Yanhua quickly followed.
They didn't even consider whether Zhao Rui in the operating room was still waiting for them to sign the papers...
Oh, of course. Lu Zhengde didn't like Zhao Rui in the first place, so Qin Yanhua was even less likely to like her. She was just after Zhao Rui's pregnancy.
Now that there are no more benefits, it will naturally be abandoned.
Zhao Lei watched Lu Zhengde and Qin Yanhua leave, and was so angry that he almost fainted.
Chen Lin, who had witnessed the entire scene from the corner, smiled faintly.
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