Cheng Chaoxi slurped his porridge, then, upon hearing this, shook his chopsticks, swallowed the porridge, and finally spoke with a complicated expression.
"Don't even mention it. Everything's fine in our ward, but it's quite lively over there, just a few rooms away."
Hearing the commotion, Jian Dan and Jian Xin both looked up, while Cheng Chao involuntarily put down his bowl.
"Well, speaking of which, that person was also pitiful."
Didn't Lin Dongfang get hit by someone yesterday? It was an old lady. Her daughter and daughter-in-law were giving birth at the same time. I don't know how it happened, but it was just a coincidence. Her daughter went into labor, and a little while later, her daughter-in-law also cried out in pain. That's how they ended up together.
The doctor even said that the old lady was quite open-minded, willing to let her daughter-in-law come to the hospital to give birth. Yesterday, she was treated quite well, and the two of them were put in the same ward.
As a result, after giving birth, the daughter-in-law woke up in the middle of the night and started making a fuss.
The woman was conscious after giving birth and heard the doctor say she had given birth to a son. But when she woke up, she had turned into a girl. What could she do? People want their own children, whether it's a boy or a girl.
The old lady insisted that she had given birth to a girl, but the woman had misheard and that her daughter had given birth to a boy. The daughter-in-law wouldn't have it and insisted on going to see a doctor despite her illness. The old lady wouldn't let her, and while she was weak, she tried to shut her up, but ended up smothering her with a pillow.
As luck would have it, before the daughter-in-law went to the hospital, she had someone notify her family.
The rural roads were difficult to travel, so they arrived slowly. As a result, their brother and sister-in-law saw them coming. Her sister-in-law was straightforward and immediately started fighting with the old lady. As the fight escalated, it got out of hand.
The daughter-in-law was yelling that if they didn't bring her child back, she would have her brother report it to the police. The hospital wasn't happy about it. Why drag the hospital into your family's conflict?
Who knew that when the old lady saw that her daughter-in-law wouldn't budge, she probably got anxious and changed her story, saying that the hospital had switched the baby and demanding an explanation from the hospital.
The hospital got angry and brought back all the doctors and nurses who were in the delivery room at the time. They remembered clearly that there were only two women in labor at the time, so how could they be confused?
Well, before the daughter-in-law could even arrive, the hospital had already called the police.
The old woman rolled around on the ground, acting like a spoiled brat and demanding compensation from the hospital. But it turned out she was just a paper tiger. When the police arrived, she didn't dare to raise her voice and immediately confessed that she was the one who had replaced the item.
Her daughter had been married for several years without having children, and her in-laws had long been dissatisfied. This time, she was pregnant, and her life was similar to that of her daughter-in-law. The old lady had a nauseating thought and wanted the two of them to give birth together, which would cause chaos.
If the daughter-in-law gives birth to a boy instead of a boy, then the boy will be given to the daughter-in-law. After all, the daughter-in-law won't dare to treat the boy badly since he's under her watchful eye. She'll feel at ease knowing the boy is with the daughter-in-law.
The police made it perfectly clear, but she still stubbornly refused to accept it, arguing that it was her family matter, her own grandson and great-grandson, and that she had the final say. She said that changing their parents was for their own good.
When it came to her wanting to smother her daughter-in-law, she didn't mince words, saying, "Once you enter my house, life and death are my decisions, and no one else has a say in it."
The daughter-in-law's sister-in-law immediately reported them, saying that their family was feudal and superstitious, held landlord class ideology, and had committed murder; such a family was a living hell, and her sister-in-law could no longer live there, so she was taken away on the spot.
"Wow!"
Cheng Chao's storytelling was full of ups and downs, and Jian Xin listened intently to the story.
"Where is that mean old woman? Was she arrested by the police?"
Cheng Chao was surprised.
"Can you even tell which one is a bad guy and which one is a good guy?"
"That person who harms others is a bad person. They make it so that mothers can't see their children. If children can't see their mothers, they will cry. They even want to harm others. They are bad people, very bad people."
"My sister said that it's my own business, and no one else can decide for me. That child is so young, but he has a mother too. Why would that bad person want to give him a different mother?"
Being called out unexpectedly, Jian Dan was taken aback for a moment.
“I didn’t say much, but she packs her own things and can basically handle and decide things on her own. I usually don’t interfere, and she just assumes that’s how it should be.”
Cheng Jin and Lin Zhengde exchanged a glance. A five-year-old child, he can decide what's on his own things.
"So, you didn't stop her from giving away her own things?"
I glanced at the child briefly. "She manages her own things, like books and snacks. She doesn't take them out in a big way, and she always asks me first."
"See, you still don't believe me when I tell you?"
The bottom shelf of her room is full of Xiaoxin's picture books; she treasures them so much, doesn't she?
"Yes, my sister bought it for me, I won't give it to anyone else."
"What if other people want to see it?"
Cheng Chao laughed heartily.
“You’d never guess, Xin Xin can tell stories. Now, those kids are even learning to read in order to hear her stories.”
Simplicity brings laughter.
"I guess they haven't heard much entertainment besides the war stories the old people tell. They're all really into listening to stories, and she's willing to tell them too. There's also a little girl in the village who tells stories to others and teaches them to read. The little girl tells stories to her brother, who is the king of the kids in the village. And just like that, they all came over."
Later, by chance, using the storytelling as a starting point, these children weren't too resistant to learning to read, and now they've all learned quite a bit.
Needless to say, the two grown men's eyes were full of approval.
"This is good, this is good, hey, Cheng Chao,"
Cheng Jin, who was skilled in writing, suddenly thought of his own military camp.
"Do you think we could make one of these too?"
I get a headache just looking at those people who can't read a single word. If you ask them to read a newspaper or write a self-criticism, that's harder than running with a heavy load. They'd run away as fast as they can.
You have to ask someone for help to write a letter? How many letters have you written home to others?
Cheng Chao, even as a junior company commander, couldn't escape this task.
"Then tell me, there are very few literate people to begin with, what am I supposed to do if I don't write?"
"Yeah, think about it. If other kids can learn this, what's wrong with us adults? How can we not even compare to kids? Aren't we ashamed?"
Cheng Jin thought it was feasible more and more, while Lin Zhengde listened without daring to say a word.
Despite being the group leader, he doesn't have an advantage in this area, and, barring any unforeseen circumstances, he'll likely be the one being taught a lesson, with no say whatsoever.
This was a serious matter, and Cheng Chao thought about it for a moment.
"It's not that it's impossible, but other kids have a story to hold their attention, what do we have? Just empty words? We've tried before, and it always failed halfway through."
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