Chapter 113: Fu Yuanshan, are you still human?!
"Fu Yuanshan, are you a human being?" Yun Tangyin's grip suddenly tightened, her nails scratching her palms painfully. "Second sister-in-law's child is yours alone? You can beat her up just like that?"
Fu Yuanshan turned around suddenly, his shoes leaving a white mark on the ground: "You have nothing to do here!"
"How come it's none of my business?" Yun Tangyin took a half step forward, the firelight making her eyes red. "Doctor Zhang just said that my second sister-in-law can handle it. Who are you to make the decision for her?"
Jiang Jianhua suddenly grabbed Fu Yuanshan's arm, his nails almost digging into his flesh: "Have you already given up on living with me?"
"What nonsense are you talking about!" Fu Yuanshan shook off her hand, but suddenly stopped when he saw the red mark on her wrist. "You had a heavy hemorrhage that year, and the doctor said that getting pregnant again would be a gamble with your life. I..."
"I'm willing to take the gamble!" Jiang Jianhua's voice suddenly rose, shaking the window frames. "I didn't keep Dabao. I dream of him crying every night. Do you think I'm not heartbroken? Now God has given me another chance. Why are you stopping me?"
Yuxia suddenly added a piece of coal to the stove, and the flames leaped up. "Yuanshan, I know you're worried about your second brother's wife, but you can't say that. The other day, I went to the commune and saw the wife of blacksmith Li. She also had a difficult labor, but she still gave birth to a big fat boy."
"She's lucky!" Fu Yuanshan clenched his fists until they crackled. "Jianhua is different. She has a weak constitution. Have you forgotten what Doctor Zhang said back then?"
Song Yushuang suddenly slammed the table on the kang, causing the tea bowl to jump up and down. "Back then, back then, the almanac couldn't be reversed! I asked someone to consult an old Chinese doctor in the city, and he said that with careful care, the baby would be born safely."
She stuffed a hot water bottle into Jiang Jianhua's hand and said, "Mom will make the decision for you. We want this child!"
Jiang Jianhua's tears suddenly fell on the hot water bottle, leaving a dark mark: "Mom..."
"Why are you crying?" Song Yushuang glared at Fu Yuanshan. "While I'm here, who dares to touch a hair on my grandson? Yuanshan, if you dare say that again, don't recognize me as your mother!"
Fu Yuanshan's Adam's apple rolled and he suddenly turned around and walked out the door.
The cotton door curtain was knocked up by him, bringing snow foam into the room.
"Where are you going?" Jiang Jianhua suddenly called him, his voice trembling like a leaf in the wind.
Fu Yuanshan stood frozen at the door, snow falling on his shoulders, forming a thin layer. "I'll go to the health team and ask Doctor Zhang."
The room suddenly became quiet, with only the humming of the kettle on the stove.
Jiang Jianhua touched his stomach and squatted down, his shoulders shaking violently: "He just doesn't want me to live..."
"Don't think the worst." Yuxia squatted down to help her, and the millet grains on her apron fell all over her collar. "Yuanshan is just not good at talking, but he loves you very much. I saw him buying brown sugar for you at the supply and marketing cooperative the other day. He said it was an old brand from Yunnan."
Yun Tangyin suddenly remembered the way Fu Yucheng scooped brown sugar into her porridge, and she thought to herself, "Second sister-in-law, why don't we go to the city and find a good doctor? Ah Cheng said there's a hospital in Shanghai that has abortion injections. I'll ask him to ask someone."
She can also use her Taobao space to buy a lot of good things for pregnancy.
Anyway...
Money is not a problem.
Several people took turns to comfort Jiang Jianhua.
After a long while, Fu Yuanshan's voice came from outside the courtyard gate, softer than before: "Doctor Zhang said... that if I take folic acid on time and have regular checkups, maybe it will work."
When he walked in, there were still grains of snow on his eyelashes, and he was holding a medicine bottle in his hand: "This is the medicine she prescribed to maintain pregnancy. She said to take it three times a day."
Jiang Jianhua looked at the medicine bottle and suddenly smiled, but his tears fell even harder: "Wouldn't it have been over if you had done this earlier?"
Fu Yuanshan looked at Jiang Jianhua and stuffed a cloth bag into her hand: "This is the candied fruit given by Doctor Zhang."
Yu Xia suddenly clapped her hands. "That's right. Yinyin, we haven't finished making the candied haws yet. Add twice as much sugar to give to my second brother and his wife to share some of the good luck."
Yun Tangyin had just picked up the hawthorn skewers when she saw Fu Yuanshan suddenly move closer to Jiang Jianhua and clumsily pull her scarf closer. "Are you cold? Why don't you go back and sit down?"
Jiang Jianhua rolled his eyes at him, but the corners of his mouth curled up: "Don't think that just giving me a bag of candied fruit is enough. From now on, make me millet porridge with red dates every day."
"Okay." Fu Yuanshan nodded, and suddenly remembered something, "Doctor Zhang said you can't eat hawthorn, and don't touch the candied haws."
"I won't touch it." Jiang Jianhua leaned closer to Yu Xia, "Is it okay if I try what my sister-in-law made?"
Song Yushuang watched this scene and suddenly stuffed a red cloth bag into Fu Yuanshan's hand: "This is a longevity lock prepared for my grandson, to match the one your wife has."
Fu Yuanshan's hand holding the red cloth bag suddenly tightened, and the gold thread on the corner of the cloth made his fingertips numb.
He passed it to Jiang Jianhua, his voice muffled as if filled with cotton: "Here you go."
Jiang Jianhua raised his eyebrows and didn't respond.
Fu Yuanshan's ears suddenly turned red, and he turned around and almost kicked the coal shovel: "Mom hired someone to beat me up, how could it be bad?"
Song Yushuang chuckled and stuffed a handful of melon seeds into Jiang Jianhua's hand. "He even sneaked into the silversmith's shop yesterday, saying he wanted to add a protective amulet to his lock. He was still stubborn even when I caught him."
Jiang Jianhua suddenly covered his mouth, his shoulders shaking as he laughed, "With his taciturn personality, how could he come up with such a trick?"
"Who's being silent?" Fu Yuanshan turned around suddenly, glancing at the radio on the windowsill. The tape fell to the ground with a "click". "I... I'm doing this for the good of the child."
When Yun Tangyin bent down to pick up the tape, she found it was a piano piece. Suddenly, she remembered Fu Yucheng's words: "Second sister-in-law, Acheng said there is imported milk powder for pregnant women in Shanghai. He asked me to get you two cans."
"It doesn't have to be that expensive." Jiang Jianhua added some firewood to the stove. "I'm fine with millet porridge. When I was pregnant with Dabao, I could drink three bowls in one meal."
She suddenly stopped talking halfway, and her eyes gradually turned red.
Fu Yuanshan's hands pinched folds in the cloth bag and suddenly stuffed an oil-paper bag into her hand: "This is the new malted milk from the supply and marketing cooperative. Doctor Zhang said it's good for your health when you soak it in water."
Yun Tangyin put the tape back on the windowsill, and while Fu Yuanshan was chopping firewood, she quietly tugged at Yuxia's apron.
The flames in the stove licked the bottom of the pot, stretching the shadows of the two people very long.
"Sister-in-law," she said, her voice as soft as a mosquito's hum, "How did Second Sister-in-law's child...die?"
Yuxia sprinkled a handful of sesame seeds into the sugar pot, and the syrup sizzled and bubbled. "That autumn, the rains lasted a whole month, and most of the sweet potatoes in the fields rotted. Yuanshan was working in the commune repairing a canal, and Jianhua, seven months pregnant, insisted on going to the fields to harvest."
She knocked the edge of the pot with a shovel. "Unexpectedly, the ridge was slippery, and she fell on a rock. Blood flowed down her trouser legs. By the time she was taken to the medical team, the child was already dead."
Yun Tangyin's fingertips dug into her palm: "Then..."
"A grown man locked himself in the woodshed for three days and three nights," Yu Xia added a piece of coal to the stove, sparks flying onto the floor. "When he came out, his eyes were as red as a rabbit's. Later we learned that he secretly sought contraceptive prescriptions from an old Chinese doctor and tried pinching his nose for half a month."
Yun Tangyin suddenly understood how Fu Yuanshan's stiff look concealed his fear of losing her again.
The emotional entanglement between these two people is really... complicated.
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