Chapter 81
Zhang Cuilan's hands were covered in blood. Gu Mancang thought that the old woman was beaten up. The family was anxious and dragged her to the hospital.
Zhang Cuilan groaned and pinched Gu Mancang's arm, which made Gu Mancang grimace in pain.
Lin Yao also said anxiously, "Mom, your hand is injured. Let's go to the hospital quickly."
Gu Shian had already gone to push the bicycle.
Gu Shidong ate two mouthfuls of rice and ran behind.
Zhang Cuilan felt funny and warm in her heart. She spread her hands and said, "What? This is not my blood. It's from Wang Shengcai's wife in the front yard."
The Gu family was all stunned.
"What's wrong with Wang Shengcai's wife?"
Zhang Cuilan sighed, "Wang Shengcai's wife is pregnant. Wang Shengcai was on the night shift today. I don't know what happened, but the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law started arguing. Old Mrs. Wang pushed her daughter-in-law, and Wang Shengcai's wife lay on the ground unable to move. There was blood all over the floor. Old Mrs. Wang was scared and started shouting that she was on fire. She wanted to call the eldest brother over to send her daughter-in-law to the hospital. I just went over to take a look, and it seems that Wang Shengcai's wife is having a miscarriage."
The old Gu family was speechless. This old Mrs. Wang was really weird. If she wanted to call someone, she should just tell the truth. They were all neighbors living in the same courtyard. As the old saying goes, a close neighbor is better than a distant relative. How could they not go to help the Wang family when something happened?
Gu Shian rolled up his sleeves and went to the old man's house in the next yard to borrow a cart without saying a word. Uncle Dafu and his wife next door also started to quarrel. It was heard that Wang Shengcai's wife pushed the small birth for her mother-in-law.
Uncle Dafu put on his clothes and went to help.
Aunt Dafu slapped her thigh in anger, "Old lady Wang is really a piece of shit. She is old and still does evil things!"
Lin Yao believed it deeply. That's right. Just now she went to the front yard to take a look. Li Gouya was still lying on the ground, holding her stomach and her face was pale.
It was one thing for the people in the yard to look down on Li Gouya, but now seeing her sweating in pain, her hair stuck to her face, and struggling on the ground holding her stomach, they couldn't help but feel sour in their hearts.
The rich lady fetched a basin of water, and Lin Yao rolled out a towel to wipe Li Gouya's face. Li Gouya was pregnant and bleeding, so they didn't dare to move easily and could only wait for Gu Shi'an and the others to push the cart over.
The two boys from the Wang family were so scared that they cried on the side.
Lin Yao held the two children in her arms and stuffed a piece of candy into each of them. The two boys held the candy in their hands and followed Dongzi to Gu's house sobbing.
Li Gouya, as a mother, didn't want the children to see such a bloody scene, so she weakly thanked Lin Yao.
Lin Yao waved his hand and wiped her face again.
Li Gouya didn't know what she was thinking about, and tears seemed to flash in her eyes.
The daughter-in-law's life was hanging by a thread, but Old Lady Wang didn't even bother to care. She just kept cursing and making dirty remarks, saying that Li Gou Ya was just pretending to be nice. What woman hasn't given birth to a child? She herself had given birth to three, and it was as smooth as an old sow giving birth. She went into labor after just one push. She was just
pretending. When her son came back, she would divorce this troublesome woman! Aunt Sun couldn't stand it anymore and told Old Lady Wang to stop talking and be more virtuous.
Old lady Wang frowned and said, "I can scold my daughter-in-law if I want to. You are an old woman, why are you meddling in other people's business?"
This was a big deal. Old lady Wang had disturbed the hornet's nest. Aunt Zhang and Grandpa Zhang were the most senior couple in the compound. Aunt Zhang was ten years older than Old Lady Wang.
Old lady Wang was only about fifty years old, while Aunt Zhang was already sixty-five or sixty. If Old Lady Wang dared to act arrogantly in front of Aunt Zhang, it would be strange if Aunt Zhang could spare her. Old lady Wang was being arrogant,
while Aunt Sun was swinging her cane vigorously, beating Old Lady Wang so hard that she ran away in fear.
Old lady Wang was howling in the yard. Gu Shian and Uncle Dafu came with a shuttle bus, but no one cared about her. One person helped to put Li Gouya on the cart covered with straw quilt. Wang Shengcai happened to get the news and came back panting. He saw his wife's pale face and felt resentful towards his mother for the first time in his life. He didn't care about Old lady Wang who was beaten, and they rushed to the hospital.
Speaking of which, the reason why Old lady Wang fought with her daughter-in-law was very simple.
Li Gouya was pregnant again. This was the third child of the Wang family. Old lady Wang already had two grandsons. She didn't care whether this baby was a boy or a girl. What
she cared about was her son's attitude!
As soon as Li Gouya got pregnant, Wang Shengcai treated her very well. He didn't let her work at home, and brought her food and drink. He was very considerate and caring.
Old lady Wang saw the growing affection between her son and daughter-in-law, and she felt a sense of crisis.
Over the years, Old lady Wang was able to hold power in the Wang family because of her son's filial piety.
If her son was taken away by Li Gouya, and Li Gouya turned over a peasant and sang, Old lady Wang's position in the family would be lost.
Therefore, the more Old lady Wang looked at Li Gouya, the more she disliked her. Tonight, when Li Gouya wanted to wash her feet with a basin of water, Old lady Wang instructed her daughter-in-law to get her a basin as well.
Li Gouya didn't let her beat him, so old lady Wang took the opportunity to make trouble. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law quarreled and started to fight. Old lady Wang pushed Li Gouya's lower back and hit the door frame...
Anyway, that's what happened.
Several aunts at the entrance of the alley said that Li Gouya's pregnancy was probably lost.
The old woman of the Wang family was so unreasonable that she even didn't let her grandson go.
While everyone hated old lady Wang, they also felt sympathy for Li Gouya.
Zhang Cuilan was taking care of Gu Doudou at home. The fat boy woke up and didn't see his sweet and soft mother to hug him, so he was whining and having a bad temper.
As soon as Lin Yao washed her hands and went in, the kid immediately waved his fat arms and asked his mother for a hug. Although the little boy pouted and wanted to cry, he was actually very smart. It was just thunder but no rain. When his mother picked him up, Gu Doudou happily started to suckle. Gu
Shian came back in the middle of the night. Lin Yao heated up the food for Deputy Director Gu and fried a plate of fresh and tender scrambled eggs as a snack. The couple was talking.
Wang Shengcai from the front yard also came back with a gloomy face. Soon, a shocking quarrel broke out in the old Wang's house, and the old woman Wang cried and cursed.
Lin Yao curiously leaned on the window, and Gu Shidong ran out in a flash, and the big and small ones poked their heads out at the same time.
Gu Shian pinched his brows, picked up Dongzi and threw him into his room.
Lin Yao came back reluctantly and sat at the table to watch Deputy Director Gu eat.
Lin Yao had just been feeding the fat boy, and she was only wearing a nightgown she made herself, with her dark hair loosely tied behind her head, revealing her small face, and she looked at him eagerly.
Gu Shi'an's heart softened, knowing that his wife wanted to ask him about Li Gou Ya.
Later, Lin Yao found out that Li Gou Ya was pregnant with twins. This time, Old Lady Wang pushed away her grandchildren.
Li Gou Ya was also injured because of this, and she would not be able to have children in the future.
Li Gou Ya came back without crying or making a fuss, but she had one request, that she wanted to live separately from Old Lady Wang. If Wang Shengcai did not agree, she would take her two sons out to rent a house and live alone.
Old Lady Wang was furious when she heard this, and sat on the ground and rolled around.
"Ahhh! My life is so miserable! My daughter-in-law bullies me so much that she wants to kick me out. God is so blind..." When
everyone heard the commotion, some came out to watch the excitement, some looked down on Old Lady Wang and pointed fingers at her, but no one stood up to say a word for her.
"Old lady Wang is such a bad person. She has killed her grandchildren and she still has the nerve to cry!"
"That's right. It's a sin."
"Should old lady Wang be arrested?"
"How can we arrest her? This is an accident, not intentional."
"No, there is a crime of intentional injury now." "
Wang Shengcai didn't call the police and still treated old lady Wang as her mother. If old lady Wang continues to do this, she will be put in jail sooner or later."
"………"
People were talking about it. Old lady Wang didn't dare to make a fuss. Director Ge of the commune came out to mediate and warn old lady Wang that if she didn't behave, he would call the police. Wang Shengcai and his family would not be able to live in the compound anymore.
In the end, old lady Wang packed up her house and rented a house in another compound. Wang Shengcai gave her living expenses every month, and the old Wang family was considered to be separated.
Without the troublemaker Old Lady Wang, everyone in the compound felt refreshed.
Lin Yao could finally cook delicious food at home openly.
Old Lady Wang was shameless. Whenever a neighbor in the alley of the compound cooked something delicious, she would go to their door to eat.
Nowadays, everyone is not well-off. If there is any delicious food, it is either given to the children or the elderly.
There is no spare food for Old Lady Wang.
Zhang Cuilan stewed a bowl of egg custard at home, hoping to supplement the nutrition for her daughter-in-law who was in confinement. Old
Lady Wang smelled the fragrance and stayed at the door of the old customer's house.
Later, Gu Shian came back. This guy usually had a cold face and dark eyes, which looked scary. That’s why Mrs. Wang was scared away.
The hot August passed in a flash.
In September, the autumn wind blew, and a batch of piglets came into the Yunshui County State-owned Pig Farm. Comrade Zhang Cuilan was honored to take up the post again. She went to the pig farm to raise pigs during the day and came back to look after Gu Doudou at night. Seeing
the fat boy grow whiter and fatter, Lin Yao suddenly felt relieved and realized the joy of raising piglets that her mother-in-law said.
The cotton textile factory where Lin Yao worked was also ready to start production.
In the 1950s, female workers in the city were given 56 days of maternity leave. When Lin Yao finished her leave, Gu Doudou was only four months old. The child was still young, and the whole family was working. They couldn't just leave the child alone at home.
Lin Yao discussed with Gu Shi'an to squeeze milk into a bottle for Gu Doudou during the day, and then send the fat boy to the nursery in the steel rolling mill.
The nursery in the steel rolling mill these days has dedicated care for babies from two years old to infants of a few months old, and the service is quite good.
Zhang Cuilan disagreed. The women in the nursery in the steel rolling mill were not careful caretakers, and their hands and feet were rough. Some of the children were sent in with sleeves so dirty that they could get tangled in the middle of winter.
Lin Yao was troubled. If he wasn't sent to a nursery, where would the fat boy go?
Zhang Cuilan pointed at Gu Shian and said, "He's the father."
Lin Yao: ???
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