Chapter 158 Uterine Rupture
Before Lin Baozhu finished speaking, she picked up a plump chicken leg and put it into Guo Rongrong's bowl, saying in a reassuring tone, "Now that Da Ni and Er Ni are staying at my house, with us protecting them, those beasts, cough, people from the Li family won't be able to touch a single hair on their heads again!"
After speaking, her sharp gaze turned to Li Xiaoxian again, as if interrogating him:
"Your mother, your elder brother and sister-in-law, selling Da Ni is a done deal! According to the current criminal law, the lightest punishment is being sent to a farm for a few years of labor reform! As for your sister-in-law having an affair with Ge Gensheng? She might get shot! Li Xiaoxian, don't you have anything to say to these 'relatives' who are driving your wife and children to their deaths?"
Li Xiaoxian met her gaze, his eyes filled with complex emotions, yet unusually calm. He didn't look away, his voice low and clear:
"What do you want me to say? That they deserved it? That they brought it on themselves? Or... that I should kneel down and beg your aunt and Da Ni to show leniency?"
He gave a self-deprecating twitch at the corner of his mouth, "Nothing I say will be right, and everything I say will seem hypocritical. Rather than that, I'd rather say nothing."
He lowered his head, gently grasped Guo Rongrong's bandaged hand, and continued:
"The only thing I can do now is stay by your aunt's side and help her recover from her injuries. As for my mother..."
He paused, a hint of heaviness in his voice barely perceptible: "She broke the law, and the police will handle the case. As her son, all I can do is... try to find a way to make her life on the farm less difficult. As for the rest... let fate decide."
These heartfelt words, devoid of sentimentality or explanation, conveyed only a resigned clarity and a faint, lingering sense of responsibility. They were like a bucket of cold water, extinguishing most of the anger in Lin Baozhu's heart and causing a subtle, almost imperceptible, change in her opinion of her uncle, whom she had always looked down upon.
She subconsciously glanced at her three silent uncles beside her. Sure enough, her eldest uncle's tightly furrowed brows relaxed slightly, her second uncle's taut jawline loosened a bit, and the murderous intent in her third uncle's eyes, which had been so intense he wanted to tear Li Xiaoxian apart, faded.
Lin Baozhu secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She leaned closer to her uncles, lowered her voice, and spoke with a hint of probing and persuasion:
“Uncle, since he’s said that… why don’t we… give him a chance? Let them stay in our village for a while. Let’s see what they’re made of! If he can show some promise and change his ways, then… we’ll have something to say to Grandpa, right?”
“Baozhu is right!” Uncle Guo chimed in, his voice filled with suppressed anger as he pointed at Li Xiaoxian.
"Why did Dad absolutely refuse to let Rongrong marry you back then? It was because you spent all your time hanging out with those hooligans in town! We don't expect you to be successful, but a farmer has to put in the hard work, right? What did you do? As soon as it was busy with farming, you'd slip away faster than anyone else! Leaving your wife and kids in the fields, toiling under the scorching sun until the moon climbed over the roof—is that what a man should do?"
Li Xiaoxian lowered his head, listening to his three brothers-in-law scolding him one after another, nodding occasionally and muttering, "Yes, it was my fault... Brothers-in-law are right to scold me..." His attitude of admitting his mistakes was exceptionally sincere, leaving no room for criticism.
After Lin Baozhu finished feeding him the last mouthful of warm chicken soup, the ward door was suddenly pushed open with a "bang"!
Lin's mother and Lin Sanlang barged in with Li Dani in a flurry of activity.
Li Dani's gaze instantly locked onto the figure on the hospital bed, which was wrapped in thick gauze and was almost unrecognizable as human!
"mother--!"
A heart-wrenching scream rang out! Li Dani, like an arrow released from a bow, lunged to the bedside. Seeing her mother's horrific state, overwhelming grief and fear instantly engulfed her. She buried her face in her arms at the bedside, wailing uncontrollably, her shoulders trembling violently.
"Mother! Waaah... Mother..."
“Ni’er…don’t cry…” Guo Rongrong’s weak but trying-to-comfort voice came from under the gauze, “Mom is fine…it looks scary…but actually…nothing serious was hurt…your sister Baozhu…even made me…a delicious chicken soup…I’ll be able to leave the hospital in a few days…”
Hearing their sister's forced words of comfort, the three Guo brothers abruptly stopped scolding Li Xiaoxian! The ward fell into a deathly silence, broken only by Li Dani's suppressed sobs.
They simultaneously recalled the doctor's somber words, and felt as if a massive, water-soaked boulder had been pressing down on their hearts, a heavy, suffocating pressure that instantly seized their breath!
Lin Baozhu keenly noticed the sudden turn of Guo Dajiu's face and the surge of pain in his eyes. Without changing her expression, she picked up the empty bowl and said gently to Guo Rongrong:
"Auntie, you rest, I'll go get some hot water."
After Lin Baozhu finished speaking, she picked up the thermos on the table, turned around, and left the ward. A little while later, Uncle Guo followed her out with a somber expression.
In the empty washroom, only the sound of rushing water could be heard. Lin Baozhu held the thermos spout to the tap, watching the hot water gushing in, and asked in a low voice without looking up:
"What exactly did the doctor say?"
Uncle Guo's tall frame trembled violently. Leaning against the cold white wall, the suppressed grief and indignation made his voice hoarse and trembling:
“The doctor…the doctor said…she has a tumor in her uterus…” He closed his eyes in pain, his clenched fists turning white at the knuckles. “Originally…it would have been fine if it had been removed! But that beast Li kicked it…and it ruptured the tumor.”
He suddenly opened his eyes, his bloodshot pupils filled with a murderous hatred and despair:
"The doctor said that to save my life... the only option is to have surgery as soon as possible... to remove... the entire uterus."
He slammed his fist against the wall with a dull thud.
“But Rongrong…she only gave birth to two daughters! Why did those bastards in the Li family treat her like this? Isn’t it because she didn’t give birth to a son?! Now even this…even this little bit of hope is gone…”
Lin Baozhu's hand gripping the thermos tightened suddenly, her knuckles turning white instantly! She was completely unaware of the hot water splashing onto the back of her hand, her face so gloomy it could drip water.
She had plenty of medicine in her space, but could she find a special medicine to treat a uterine rupture caused by external force that required surgical removal? No! Absolutely not! Otherwise, there wouldn't be so many people with missing organs and barely surviving in the apocalypse.
"What about conservative treatment?" Lin Baozhu's voice was dry, carrying the last glimmer of hope. "The city hospital? The provincial hospital? Money is no problem! As long as we can save him..."
She knew all too well what losing the uterus, such a vital organ, meant for a woman—her body would deteriorate rapidly, and her appearance would age quickly. In an era where the deep-seated prejudice against daughters still lingers, what a difficult situation a woman who cannot bear children would face.
Her seemingly honest uncle-in-law, Li Xiaoxian... who knows if he still harbors dreams of carrying on the family line and having a son?
certainly……
A cold glint flashed in Lin Baozhu's eyes, and a poisonous vine grew wildly in her heart:
If that coward Li Xiaoxian dares to treat her badly and make her suffer just because her aunt can't have children...
Then don't blame me, Lin Baozhu, for being ruthless! Getting my aunt to divorce him is the first step! And then…
She was determined to secretly administer the drug that would render Li Xiaoxian childless!
Having a son?
Let him die without offspring!
Uncle Guo shook his head and said sadly, "The hospital director called and asked, and even if we go to a hospital in Beijing, the result will be the same!"
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