Chapter 169: Premature Birth
Yun Qiao heard what Sister Fan said and nodded. "Sister Fan, your guess is correct. Her stomach is hard because she's having contractions. Her amniotic fluid broke again, so she's probably going to give birth prematurely."
"Oh! I've given birth to two children! I guessed it!" Sister Fan slapped her thigh anxiously and couldn't help but quicken her pace.
Yun Qiao also trotted over and said, "Sister Fan, I'm not a professional midwife and have no experience delivering babies. If Sister Wu is really going to give birth prematurely, I'm afraid I can't help her. You'd better find a car to take her to a hospital that can deliver her."
"I know that. You're still a little girl, how could you possibly know how to deliver a baby? Don't worry, we've already sent someone to invite a midwife. It's just that she lives a little far away, and it'll take at least half an hour to go back and forth. So we're going to ask you to check on Zhaodi first to make sure there's nothing wrong." Sister Fan explained, "As for going to the hospital, I've already told Zhaodi's mother-in-law, but she doesn't want to, so there's nothing we can do..."
Yun Qiao was puzzled: "Why don't you want to send her to the hospital? The hospital has professional obstetricians. If there is a difficult birth, they can perform surgery. It's better than trying to give birth at home."
Sister Fan sighed and said, "Because Zhaodi's father-in-law died of illness in the farm hospital two years ago. He spent a lot of money and suffered a lot, but his illness was not cured at all. Before he died, he was just a bag of bones. So Zhaodi's mother-in-law always felt that the farm hospital was a place to cheat people out of money and would not save people. She was unwilling to send Zhaodi to the hospital..."
After hearing what Sister Fan said, Yun Qiao understood: "Old people in their twenties are stubborn. Let's take a look first. If the situation is really not good and we have to send him to the hospital, we still have to go to the hospital."
Sister Fan nodded repeatedly: "It's natural. When the time comes, Mother-in-law Zhaodi will have to agree no matter how reluctant she is."
Yun Qiao asked again, "Sister Wu is already quite pregnant, why is she still going to the river with such a big belly?"
"It was a coincidence. Her mother-in-law was diligent and had a small plot of land by the river where she grew cucumbers and beans. Pregnant women have hot bodies, so they love to eat some cool cucumbers. She went to the plot every day to pick cucumbers, just as if it were a walk. We say here that pregnant women should walk more, so that they can have an easier time during labor."
Sister Fan said helplessly, "Who could have known that it would be such a coincidence today? She was standing on the riverbank picking cucumbers, and someone on the other side of the riverbank was just pulling a drowned child out of the river. They were so close to each other that they bumped into her all of a sudden."
"What a coincidence indeed." Yun Qiao said regretfully.
Then he asked, "Sister Fan, didn't Jiang Yiren send people to patrol the river? How could a child drown?"
Sister Fan said, "The children in our company have all been warned not to go into the river. The child who drowned today looked unfamiliar and was not from our company at all."
"How come a kid from our company is playing in our company's river?" Yun Qiao's heart sank. "Have you found out which village nearby this kid is from?"
"Not yet." Sister Fan sighed and said, "The child is only five or six years old and can't speak. He definitely didn't come here alone. As a result, when something happened, the other children all ran away. There is no one to ask. Where can we find him in a short time?"
Yun Qiao's mood sank to the bone when he heard this. "Those friends of his are such bastards. They brought the kid out to play, and when something happened, instead of yelling for help, they just ran off without a word and let the kid drown in the river. I wonder how worried the kid's father must be right now."
"That's right!" Sister Fan said angrily, "These kids are bastards. They brought someone out to play, and when something happened, they couldn't save him. At least they could call for help. Our company isn't far away. Even if they couldn't save him, we don't expect you to take responsibility. At least send someone to explain the situation and tell us which village he's from so we can notify his family to come and pick him up."
Sister Fan has two children, and she couldn't imagine how anxious she would be if this kind of experience happened to her! She would probably go crazy!
"When I get back, I have to warn my little Nian and little Cheng not to play around with the older kids anymore."
Yun Qiao nodded and said, "Children should play with children. If a half-grown child has no sense of propriety and can't even take care of himself, how can he take care of a child? If something really happens, it will be too late to regret it."
"I think so too. It's best for people of the same age to play with each other."
As they were talking, Sister Fan had already brought Yun Qiao to Wu Zhaodi's in-laws' home.
As soon as he walked out of the yard and before entering the door, Yun Qiao heard a woman's shrill screams coming from inside.
Hearing the screams, Yun Qiao couldn't help but quicken his pace and jog.
After entering the yard, Sister Fan hurriedly said, "The doctor is here, Doctor Ye is here."
As soon as the words fell, a familiar silver-haired old lady hurried over. Her eyes were red as she took Yun Qiao's hand and walked into the house. "Doctor, please take a look at my daughter-in-law. Why did she scream so miserably during childbirth? Is she not well?"
Yun Qiao recognized that this old lady was the one who went to ask her daughter-in-law about the gender of the baby in her belly on the first day the clinic opened.
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