Keiko is ill
"Xiu'er, the matter you asked me to help you keep an eye on last time has shown some progress in the past two days..." After seeing off the guests, Xu Runling saw that Yang Xiu Ke was free and hurriedly called her aside.
Today is the full moon banquet of Yaya, the daughter of Yang Li and Liu Yunxia. Yang Xiu came over the afternoon before to help with the preparations. With so many people coming and going in the house, it was difficult for Xu Runling to speak in private to her daughter. Seeing that all the relatives and guests had left, she hurried forward.
Yang Xiu cooperated and walked to a secluded place, and asked anxiously: "What's wrong, Mom, what happened to Huizi?"
Speaking of this, Xu Runling got angry. "It was her mother-in-law who urged Huizi to have a third child and forced Huizi to take some folk remedies. I don't know why, but Huizi's stomach was swollen at first, and then it got bigger. Her husband took her to the hospital for a check-up and was told that she had an ovarian cyst that had grown big and needed surgery immediately."
"Ah, has it been done?" Yang Xiu's face also changed. If an operation is required, it must be an emergency.
"No, her mother-in-law complained to everyone that she had no money. In fact, she didn't have money, but she was definitely worried that the surgery would affect her ability to have children. Not only would they spend money, but they wouldn't even have a grandchild. It wasn't worth it!"
Yang Xiu's face turned blue with anger when he heard this. Can a living human life be measured by money? He doesn't even care about Huizi's life, and yet such a person wants to have grandchildren, bah!
"What about her man? What did he say?"
"What else can I say? I listen to my mother in everything. What good can he say!!!"
"Then just watch Huizi die. What kind of beasts are these!" Yang Xiu cursed angrily.
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Guo family. Huizi lay on the kang, gently stroking her lower abdomen with her hands. The serious voice of the doctor rang in her mind: "The patient's left ovarian cyst is already 15 centimeters, which is a huge cyst. It must be removed surgically as soon as possible, otherwise it is very likely to twist, rupture, become infected, or even become malignant. A pathological examination is also required after the operation to rule out the possibility of a malignant tumor..."
"But doctor... we had a vasectomy on the right side before. If we remove the left side, will we be unable to have children at all?" Her husband's timid voice sounded. They are a family with two daughters. After the second daughter was born, the family planning policy was strictly enforced and they had no choice but to get sterilized. It’s just that I gave the doctor a red envelope when I was vasectomying, so he only did the right side.
"What are you thinking? You still want to have a baby in such a difficult situation!!!" The doctor's stern and dissatisfied eyes flashed through her mind again and again. Huizi could not help but close her eyes and then open them again. No, she couldn't just wait to die like this! No matter whether she gave birth to a son or not, she had to stay alive first. Only by staying alive could she protect her two daughters.
The courtyard door creaked, and then the mother-in-law's scolding voice rang out in the courtyard: "You do nothing at home all day long, and I still think you are a young lady. You are so ignorant. You are not paralyzed or lame, so you can't move just because of such a minor illness. I still expect you to take care of me in the future."
"Niuniu, tell your mother to get up and go to the team to ask around. Whose wife has a minor illness and is taking care of the family? Aren't you afraid of getting an illness from sleeping..."
There were rustling sounds of footsteps coming from the door. It must be the little daughter who wanted her to rest for a while and was deliberately dawdling. A gentle smile appeared on Huizi's pale face. The next moment, the old woman in the yard started to curse again: "I told you to call for help but you were so slow. Do you have a chain on your foot or a sore on your foot? You are just like your mother..."
Huizi's smile turned bitter. She reached out her hand to smooth out the depression in her chest, then turned her head to the door and whispered, "Niuniu, come in here, mommy..."
The door curtain was quickly lifted, and a thin figure ran in, with his little face gently pressed against his mother's head: "Mom, does it still hurt?"
Huizi's tears flowed silently down her cheeks. Niu Niu felt the wetness on her face, and hurriedly raised her head to wipe the tears from her mother's face with her two little hands, pursing her lips and not daring to cry out loud.
"It's okay...Mom, I'm okay." Huizi's eyes were blurred with tears, but she forced a smile and pulled Niuniu's hand to press it on her face, as if this was the only way she could strengthen her determination.
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"Have you had enough of lying down for a whole day? What's the matter? You didn't move even when your mom called you. Are you waiting for me to invite you in person?" The man angrily lifted the curtain and came in. He became even more angry when he saw Huizi sitting on the kang.
Huizi looked at the man in front of her calmly. She had lost hope when she thought of resisting, and now seeing his angry look, she wanted to laugh for no reason. Then she laughed, and this laugh was like opening a floodgate. Thinking of her short life, the more she thought about it, the more she wanted to laugh.
The man was a little angry at first, but when he saw that Huizi was laughing until tears came out and didn't stop, he couldn't help but panic:
"What's wrong with you? What are you laughing at?"
"Mom, mom, come and see what's wrong with Niuniu's mom. She looks like she's been possessed by an evil spirit..."
It was just evening, and the people who were working at home and herding sheep had all returned, and a group of people rushed into the small house.
Looking at Huizi who was laughing so hard that she was bent over, Huizi's grandmother couldn't help but scolded: "Why don't you stop? It's fine if you don't want to work, but why are you acting like a ghost now..." She urged her eldest son to pick a peach branch quickly, wondering if he was really possessed by an evil spirit.
Huizi's sister-in-law pushed her mother-in-law aside, took Huizi's hand and stroked it gently, saying softly: "Okay, let's talk it out. It's not worth it to make yourself angry..." She looked up at her sister-in-law who was gentle and kind in the past, and her eyes became moist.
Huizi laughed enough, then wiped away her tears, glanced at everyone, and then looked at her husband intently. The man shrank under Huizi's sharp eyes, and glared back when his mother poked him, "What's wrong, have you had enough of the trouble?"
Huizi wanted to laugh again, "Guo Shengli, let's get divorced!"
It was like a bolt from the blue. The man's pupils shrank when he heard that, and his eyes instantly became fierce. Grandma Huizi also looked at her in shock, as if she had heard some weird story. Only Huizi's sister-in-law paused slightly and continued to pat Huizi soothingly.
Seeing everyone's incredulous expressions, Huizi mocked them, "The doctor also said that if I don't have the surgery I'll die, and if I do I won't be able to have a child. Anyway, it doesn't necessarily mean anything will happen if I spend the money. You're still young, and if you get divorced you can marry another woman and have a son."
As soon as the words fell, Huizi's husband said anxiously: "You're talking nonsense. You are my family in life and my ghost in death. You still want to divorce? How can I not be happy to death?" Huizi's mother-in-law's expression relaxed a little.
Huizi's eyes flashed when she saw this, and she said to her mother-in-law gently, "Mom, Shengli can't figure it out for a while, think about it, is this the truth?"
Mother-in-law Huizi glanced at her, turned around and said to everyone in the room: "Go out, what are you crowding here for..." Then she pulled Father-in-law Huizi, and everyone went out one by one.
Huizi smiled self-deprecatingly, realizing that she was moved, so she called the old man's son to discuss it.
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Only Huizi's two daughters and her eldest sister-in-law were left in the room. Sister-in-law Huizi gently pulled Huizi's messy hair back, then looked into Huizi's eyes and asked seriously, "Have you really thought it through?"
Huizi nodded slightly.
Huizi's sister-in-law sighed almost inaudibly, "But if we get divorced, what will happen to your illness? Where will the money for the surgery come from? How will you live in the future?"
Huizi tightened his grip unconsciously, and after a while he chuckled and said, "Just wait and see, sister-in-law, can it be worse than it is now?" Yes, although the future is uncertain after divorce, one still has a life, right?
Huizi's sister-in-law squeezed her hand, turned her head and wiped her tears, then looked at Huizi and said softly, "You haven't eaten yet, I'll go make you something..."
Huizi looked at her sister-in-law's back and couldn't help wanting to cry. If there is anyone in this family who treats her well, it would probably be her sister-in-law. As a man who is a strong mother-in-law and a mama's boy, the two women from other families can only huddle together for warmth and support each other to endure the hardships of life day by day.
But she couldn't hold on any longer, and from now on, the eldest sister-in-law would be alone!
She raised her head and widened her eyes to force back the tears, then she said to her two daughters in a gentle voice: "Mom is leaving home, do you want to follow her?"
The five-year-old Niu Niu didn't know what divorce was. She just held her mother's hand tightly, as if she was afraid that she would abandon her. "I want to go with mom. Wherever mom goes, I will go."
The eldest daughter Huanhuan is eight years old. Since her mother fell ill, she has become diligent and silent. At this moment, she lowered her head and said nothing, letting her tears drop by drop onto the bed sheets, forming dark circles. Knowing that her mother was waiting for her answer, she choked up for a long while and said, "I won't go, Mom. You're sick and can't support both of us. My sister is still young and can't live without you. Let her go..." After saying this, she could no longer hold back her tears. My sister can't live without her mother, but she is only eight years old. Can she leave her mother? What can we do? She needs to go to school, eat, and wear clothes, and each of these costs money. Her mother would just be a burden if she takes care of her.
The tears that Huizi had been holding back suddenly burst out like a torrential rain, and the grievances and fears that had been pent up in her heart could no longer be suppressed and burst out. When Huizi's sister-in-law heard the noise, she hurried in and saw the mother and her two daughters hugging each other and crying. She couldn't help wiping away her tears.
"What a sin! How can God not see such a good person?"
"That's enough. You don't know what's wrong with your body. Don't cry like that. Eat something first..." Huizi's sister-in-law took a deep breath, stepped forward, pulled the two children apart and advised.
Huizi broke into an ugly smile, and the sister-in-law couldn't help but feel tears welling up in her eyes. She wiped her face under the pretext of serving the meal, and handed a bowl of noodle soup to Huizi.
Huizi sucked her nose and fed the food mechanically. The eldest sister-in-law helped the two children wipe their faces and sent them to find their sister. Then she sat on the kang and looked at Huizi.
"You don't have a family, so the road to divorce must be difficult. But like you said, how could it be worse than staying in this house and waiting to die?" Her nose was sore, and she patted Huizi's arm gently, and said in a firm voice, "Go, I won't keep you, you can rest assured that the children are at home, they won't starve as long as I eat..."
Huizi twisted two fingers, looked at her sister-in-law and said slowly: "I want to take Niuniu away, Huanhuan can stay at home..."
Sister Huizi was startled and said anxiously: "How can you treat the disease with the child? How can you afford to raise him? The child is not yours alone. If your family doesn't pay for your treatment, he should raise the child."
But seeing Huizi's stubborn eyes, the sister-in-law finally lost her temper: "Forget it, if you want to take the baby, then take it with you. But I'm afraid mom won't agree. So, I'll talk to your brother tonight, and he can talk to mom..."
Keiko smiled gratefully.
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