"Can I just watch our baby from the doorway?"
Zhou Jiuzhen pursed his lips and spoke in a very serious tone.
But his trembling hands had already betrayed him.
He doesn't just want to see the baby, he practically wants to tear the baby's house down!
Ling Huanwu narrowed her eyes slightly and licked her dry lips in acquiescence.
The second child on the bed next to the first child was squeezed so much by the first and second children that he could hardly breathe. He could only try to adjust his sleeping position in his sleep to take up space.
Ling Huanwu stared at Erbao on the bed next to her and felt that her current situation was similar to his.
It started raining again outside.
Rain dripped through the cracks in the wooden shed onto the woman's reddened eyes, making them appear so red they were almost mesmerizing.
"Baby……"
Zhou Jiuzhen's heart stirred, and he couldn't help but call out to her.
These two words, uttered with a thousand turns and echoes, reverberated through the valley like hooks.
Ling Huanwu felt as if the hook was about to steal her soul, and she gripped the blanket tightly.
She forcefully pulled her captivated soul back, gently biting his earlobe, "Promise me one thing, and I'll..."
The wooden shed roof rattled and slammed under the rain.
A sudden, urgent knocking broke the idyllic atmosphere.
"Battalion Commander Zhou, something's happened! Comrade Su is trying to hang himself again in the wooden shed. You need to go check on him right away..."
Outside the door came the anxious voice of Guard Wang urging them on.
He had no idea what was happening inside.
At that time, everyone was helping the villagers build houses during the day and had to train early in the morning. Everyone was exhausted. Who would have thought that someone would have time to study human anatomy?
Inside the wooden shed, Zhou Jiuzhen stared at the woman beneath him with her cheeks puffed out, and he just wanted to go out and beat up Xiao Wang.
“That little wooden shed can’t withstand someone hanging themselves. Don’t worry about her. Once the shed collapses, she’ll stop making a fuss.”
Zhou Jiuzhen turned his head, his hoarse voice barely concealing his anger.
"But...but you built that little wooden shed yourself, and you hammered in hundreds of nails. It's very sturdy. Political Commissar Hao wants you to go and take a look right away!"
Wang, the bodyguard, calmly explained, and his voice clearly reached Ling Huanwu's ears.
Her face, which was already flushed, turned even redder.
I was completely driven by anger.
"More than a hundred nails? Zhou Jiuzhen, you're really good to your good brother's sister!"
The water flowed even more vigorously from the wooden roof, soaking the entire bed and half of her face in the blink of an eye.
Zhou Jiuzhen was somewhat stunned, unsure whether the water on her face was rain or tears. He reached out and tenderly wiped away the coldness from her face.
He grabbed a coat, wrapped it tightly around her, and carried her to the triplets' bed. Then, without stopping, he started getting dressed. "I'll be right back. You and the children go to sleep first..."
Under Ling Huanwu's resentful gaze, Zhou Jiuzhen finally swallowed his words of explanation, not daring to even look at her, and hurriedly pulled up his pants and rushed out the door.
Ling Huanwu wiped the rain off her face, got up, put on a raincoat, and followed him out.
When she arrived at the small wooden shed where Su Haiting lived, she heard a soft, sobbing sound coming from inside. The sound was so endearing that one wanted to hold her in their arms and protect her.
Peeking through the crack in the small wooden shed door, one could see Su Haiting clinging to Zhou Jiuzhen, her legs wrapped around his slender waist, her face nestled in his broad chest, her eyes red and swollen from crying.
In the past, if any other woman had clung to him like that, he would have picked her up and thrown her out long ago.
But he stood there dumbfounded, letting her hug him and tacitly approving of her overstepping boundaries.
Ling Huanwu felt a chill run down her spine as she watched this scene.
She turned her head and saw Wang, the guard standing awkwardly at the door, and Su, the old lady leaning on her cane with an arrogant and mocking expression.
Grandma Su stepped forward and whispered provocatively in her ear, "Comrade Ling, why did you come here to humiliate yourself? As long as Haiting is Haidi's sister, Jiuzhen won't abandon her!"
Ling Huanwu's eyes darted around, her gaze landing on the deeply lined face beside her. She curled her lips into a mocking smile. "If your grandson knew that you made his sister a homewrecker, he'd probably jump out of his coffin and curse you, refusing to acknowledge you as his grandmother!"
Grandma Su was so angry that her face turned red. She wanted to curse loudly, but she was afraid of disturbing the two people inside the room, so she could only swallow her anger and glare at Ling Huanwu.
Ling Huanwu ignored her and just watched as the person inside carefully carried Su Haiting to the bed with one hand and covered her with a blanket.
Then she watched as he reached out and placed his hand on the woman's lower abdomen on the bed, gently kneading it.
And just now, that hand was like a torch, expressing all its longing to her.
Ling Huanwu felt a wave of nausea and turned to leave, not wanting to look any longer.
The guard, Wang, caught up with her and wanted to say a few more words, but then he saw Ling Huanwu sway her body and faint to the ground.
The moment she fell, she saw the rain pouring down on her, extinguishing her burning heartbeat, and finally plunging her into an endless darkness.
"Help! Blood... so much blood..."
Wang's shouts broke through the rain and reached Zhou Jiuzhen's ears.
His hand, which was stroking Su Haiting's belly, froze, and his right eyelid twitched.
"What's wrong, Brother Zhou? My stomach feels much better after you rubbed it."
Seeing him stop moving, Su Haiting pouted and started sobbing again, "What's wrong, Brother Zhou? Do you also think I'm dirty? Waaah, I don't want to live anymore, I should have gone with my brother..."
Chaotic sounds came from outside the wooden shed, accompanied by Aunt Liu's crying, which became increasingly clear to Zhou Jiuzhen's ears.
The panic grew like a snowball.
Zhou Jiuzhen could no longer hold back and got up to leave, but Su Haiting reached out and grabbed the corner of his clothes.
Su Haiting looked up, her face streaked with tears, her expression filled with despair and hopelessness.
"Brother Zhou, I knew you thought I was dirty. A dirty woman like me should just die! What's the point of me being alive!"
Her expression was broken and sorrowful, but her actions were very decisive. She snatched the small knife from Zhou Jiuzhen's waist and slashed her own wrist.
"Are you crazy?!"
Zhou Jiuzhen hurriedly knocked the knife out of her hand, then pulled the struggling woman into his arms, utterly exhausted.
Outside the wooden shed, Ling Huanwu was lifted onto a stretcher, and a group of soldiers hurriedly took her to the military doctor's tent.
The military doctor was just about to go to sleep when he saw the soldiers carrying in Ling Huanwu, who was soaking wet.
Under the canvas stretcher, drops of blood dripped down, staining the dry floor inside the tent red.
The guard was so anxious he was almost crying. "It's all over, she definitely can't save the baby. The battalion commander will go crazy if he finds out!"
The military doctor hurriedly ordered someone to put Ling Huanwu on the bed inside, and scolded her angrily, "Where is your battalion commander? If you knew he would go crazy, you should have called him over immediately!"
The guard, Wang, was devastated. He tried to defend himself in a hoarse voice, "I was going to call for Battalion Commander Zhou, but that old woman wouldn't let me in. She said if I went in and called for the battalion commander, and something happened to her granddaughter, I would be held responsible!"
While taking Ling Huanwu's pulse, the military doctor cursed, "That old woman was just trying to scare you, and you actually believed her? Hurry up and tie up that idiot Jiuzhen, or he'll regret it for the rest of his life!"
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