Chapter 719: My Daughter is the Heroine Who Runs Away with the Baby (8)
The HR manager immediately looked at her with a surprised look, but it was normal for single mothers in this era, so she was only surprised for a moment and no longer paid attention to it. Instead, she said to her with concern: "You are about to give birth, and you still need the help of your family. It's best to let your mother take care of you."
The HR manager had good intentions. She didn't know what was going on between Jiang Zhuyin and Zhou Shichu, and thought they had a normal mother-daughter relationship, which was why she made the suggestion.
Unfortunately, Zhou Shichu is no longer the original owner who regards his daughter as his life and lives for her. He will no longer help Jiang Zhuyin without regrets.
During these months, Jiang Zhuyin gradually realized that since she insisted on having a child out of wedlock, she could no longer rely on her mother as freely as before.
"My mother is in poor health and is recuperating in her hometown. I don't know if she can come to help me." Jiang Zhuyin said in embarrassment.
"If she is just in poor health and doesn't have any serious illness, it should be okay for her to help take care of you while you give birth, right?" said the HR manager.
"You're right. I'll ask my mother." Jiang Zhuyin could only smile awkwardly.
Jiang Zhuyin certainly hoped that Zhou Shichu could come to take care of her while giving birth and raising the child, so she called Zhou Shichu with a glimmer of hope:
"Mom, are you doing well in your hometown recently? How is your health?"
Zhou Shichu was a little surprised when he received her call. After all, she hadn't called him since the last time she didn't have money to pay the rent and wanted to hint to him to pay but failed. He didn't expect her to call him again.
"I'm fine. It turns out that the environment in my hometown is nourishing. After returning to my hometown, I feel much more relaxed and my mood is much better. I no longer suffer from insomnia at night. Going back to my hometown is really the right decision." Zhou Shichu said with a smile. Hearing her relaxed and cheerful voice, Jiang Zhuyin knew that her mother was doing well.
"As long as mom is happy." Jiang Zhuyin listened to her cheerful voice, feeling sad in her heart. She felt that her mother seemed to be able to live a better life without her.
"How have you been lately? Is the baby in your belly lively? Is it bothering you?" Zhou Shichu also expressed his concern for his adopted daughter.
When Jiang Zhuyin heard her long-lost words of concern, her nose suddenly sank, her eyes turned red, and a string of tears flowed down without warning: "The child, the child is fine, he will make a fuss occasionally...but I often have leg cramps at night recently, it hurts a lot..."
Jiang Zhuyin couldn't help but tell Zhou Shichu about the pain of pregnancy, and choked up and said, "I didn't expect pregnancy to be so hard."
"Of course being pregnant is hard. After all, it is a magical process of bringing a child into being. This is something every mother will experience. It was the same when I was pregnant with you, except that your father was still around at that time. He would massage me when I had cramps." Zhou Shichu poked Jiang Zhuyin's heart calmly, "If the father of your child was with you, he would probably massage your cramped feet like your father did, right?"
When Jiang Zhuyin heard her words, she couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears. She just felt wronged and sad. Why did she end up being isolated and helpless?
Zhou Shichu heard her crying on the phone, but he was indifferent, because she asked for it, why should she feel wronged? She could have other choices, but she chose the most difficult and worst path. In her previous life, no matter how difficult this path was, her mother helped her shoulder everything, but in this life, she had to bear it all by herself, so she felt unbearable?
Jiang Zhuyin cried for more than ten minutes, finally crying out all the grievances, sadness and frustration in her heart. Seeing that the phone was not hung up, she asked, "Mom, are you still there?"
"Yes." Zhou Shichu answered her, "Now that you're done crying, do you feel better? Sometimes if you feel too sad, crying will make you feel much better. I brought you out to work when you were little, and I cried like you when I was isolated and helpless."
Jiang Zhuyin was stunned for a moment. After a while, she asked in a low voice: "Mom, am I disappointing you?"
Zhou Shichu answered very frankly: "You really disappoint me. I worked so hard to send you to college, hoping that you would have a good job after graduation and live an easier life than me. But what did you do? You got pregnant, dropped out of school, and gave birth to a child whose father is unknown. You created many difficulties for your future, which could have been much easier. You messed up a good hand and walked in my old path. No, you are worse than me. At least you are my legitimate child, but the child you are carrying now does not even have a legitimate father.
I have myself experienced the difficulties of being a single mother, and I don't want you to follow my path. But you just insist on doing it head on and I can't stop you. Then I can only let you experience it for yourself and see if being a single mother is that easy.
Now, do you regret it?"
Jiang Zhuyin froze when she heard Zhou Shichu's last question. She opened her mouth and wanted to say that she didn't regret it because she gave birth to the child of the man she loved. For love, she could endure everything...
However, even though she was unwilling to admit it, she did regret it in her heart. She had suffered a lot during these months of pregnancy, but she had already paid so much, and it was too late to regret now.
Seeing that she was silent, Zhou Shichu continued, "If you regret it, you can contact the child's biological father now and let him take responsibility. Then your burden will be much lighter."
"No... I, I don't want him to know..." For some reason, Jiang Zhuyin was so persistent in not wanting Ouyang Muye to know that she was pregnant with his child. It seemed that if she told him now, it would prove that she was a woman who used her son to gain power and to curry favor with rich and powerful people. She was no different from other women who wanted to gain status by relying on their son and were vain. She didn't want to leave such a bad impression in her lover's heart.
Seeing that she was still so stubborn, Zhou Shichu was so angry that he laughed. He said impatiently: "In this case, no matter how many grievances and difficulties you have, you should swallow them all by yourself. Well, do you have anything else to say to me? If not, then I have to get busy."
Jiang Zhuyin felt very sad when she heard her words, but she had no choice because she insisted.
But in the end she still asked tentatively: "My due date is at the beginning of next month. Can you come back and help me, mom?"
"No, I can't. I have planted a lot of flowers and plants in my hometown and I need someone to take care of them. If I don't take care of them myself, I will lose all my money. I won't even have money to eat in the future. Zhuyin, you will give birth to a baby soon and you will ask for money everywhere. You won't be able to support me. I can only find a way to support myself." Zhou Shichu explained.
What else could Jiang Zhuyin say? She had no money to support her mother, so she couldn't let her mother lose all her money to take care of herself, right?
(End of this chapter)
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