Chapter 78 Second Sister is Pregnant
The summer of 1997 was destined to be a pleasant summer.
After returning home, it was also the beginning of summer vacation. My sister-in-law's two children were successfully admitted to high school. Pu Xiang thought she should celebrate for them. She herself had been busy in the past two or three years and had little time to rest.
Take advantage of this time to take your family out for some fun.
Pu Xiang discussed it with her sister-in-law, who agreed immediately.
Both of her children were admitted to high school. She was extremely happy. Now her family business is doing well and she has enough money. She has also bought a house in the county.
The remaining children are also successful, which was a life she could never have imagined a few years ago.
At that time, the family needed to build a house and was short of money from relatives, so they lived in extreme poverty. She didn’t know when this hard time would end.
"Let's go together. Bring the child's grandparents along with you."
My sister-in-law Yu Gaozhu looks refreshed. She was originally quite thin, but now she has become rounder and a little plump.
Pu Xiang asked Mo Yang and Mo Jingjing, and they also decided to go together.
Shen Xiaoyan is with Pu Xiang now, so naturally she has to be brought along as well.
Originally there were three brothers and sisters, and they were taking care of Pu Xiang's second sister's child as well, so it wouldn't be a big deal to take the couple along as well.
My sister-in-law Yu Gaozhu also had the same idea. Anyway, my sister-in-law had already asked for the money and said she would pay for it.
Pu Xiang didn't care. She didn't care where she came from.
However, Pu Fen's mind has become increasingly confused in recent years. Even her sister-in-law Yu Gaozhu, who is so nice, shakes her head at her, and is a little hesitant when asked to go traveling together.
"Would you like to go call my second sister to come with us?"
Yu Gaozhu was a little hesitant. She felt it would be awkward if she didn't call him, but if she called him, she was afraid that it would cause trouble and make everyone unhappy.
Pu Xiang understood her sister-in-law's dilemma. She was a younger sister, and her position was different from that of a sister-in-law from her natal family.
She would have a falling out with her sister and brother-in-law, but since they were both married daughters, they both had the same stance in their natal family.
But his sister-in-law is his brother's family, and with his brother's personality, his sister-in-law is still the head of the family. Whenever something happens, outsiders have to point at his sister-in-law and say that she is a bad person.
Pu Xiang said bluntly: "Sister-in-law, you can scream if you want. If my second sister and second brother-in-law dare to make trouble, I will buy tickets for them on the spot and send them back."
After hearing Pu Xiang's words, Yu Gaozhu felt a little more at ease.
That is, she is the one who gets paid, how can she spend money and still be bullied? After all, she is still someone's sister-in-law.
So, the trip was decided.
Pu Xiang and his friends decided to go to the capital. In this era, most people still have a dream in their hearts, which is to visit the capital.
There were twelve of us in the group, and we went straight to a travel agency and booked a small tour.
Car pick-up and drop-off were arranged throughout the trip, as well as a dedicated tour guide. It was easy for a tour guide to lead such a small family group. In addition, before departure, Pu Xiang told the tour guide that she would be the one to make the final decision if anything happened on the way, so the tour guide could contact her if anything happened, which made the trip even easier.
When a family travels together, what a tour guide fears the most is that there are only people in charge of the family. The elders have one idea, the adults have another, and the children have another. It's noisy and quarrelsome. Although it has nothing to do with his work, it's tiring, isn't it?
The tour guide was a man in his thirties who had been in this business for many years and was quite knowledgeable. On the day of departure, as soon as he met everyone, he knew that the only ones to pay attention to were not the old couple who looked honest, but rather the couple who looked a little shabby no matter how they dressed.
At this moment, whether one has money or not is clearly visible to outsiders.
The tour guide noticed Pu Fen and his wife, not because they looked poor.
Some people are poor, but simple, and easy to get along with at first glance. However, the temperaments of these two people revealed in their eyes and expressions are cunning, lazy and cunning. He has seen a lot of people like this. They are mean and difficult to get along with, and they have no conscience. Unless it is work, he doesn't want to deal with anyone at all.
The tour guide knew who Pu Xiang was. After joining the group, he was looking forward to meeting this legendary strong woman in their county in person.
After meeting him, he felt that there was a reason why he could be successful. At least he was a peaceful person with clear ideas, which made him suitable to be a leader.
I just didn't expect that someone like Pu Xiang would have such a relative. The woman who looks somewhat like Pu Xiang is actually her sister.
These two sisters really don't look alike at all.
The first day was basically spent on the road, by car and plane. After arriving in the capital, we checked in at the hotel, put our luggage down, and then went to have dinner.
This roast duck must be arranged. Whether it tastes good or not is another matter. If you don’t get to eat it, you won’t know how to brag about it to others when you go back.
Li Xiaocao, the grandmother, asked her four children to help themselves to the food as soon as the table was served. This was her tradition.
If you have something to eat, give it to the children first.
Pu Jun and Pu Li will both go to high school soon. They are both grown-up children. As grandchildren, they have spent more time with their grandma and are much closer to her than Shen Xiaoyan, let alone Mo Jingjing.
Pu Jun and Pu Li each picked up a piece of meat and put it into grandpa's bowl.
"Grandpa and grandma, please have a taste. This place is far away and we don't know if we can get used to the food. If you think it tastes good, we can eat it later."
On the surface, it was to let grandma taste the food for them, but in reality it was to let the two old people eat first. This would shut people up, and they wouldn't have to listen to anything their aunt didn't like.
The two of them also squeezed Pu Xiang's eyes.
Pu Xiang also secretly gave people a thumbs-up with her eyes.
Old people are sometimes like children and need to be coaxed, but Pu Xiang doesn't want to do that. Being able to get along with her parents like this is already her limit.
She will never get over what her parents did.
It is said that there is no overnight hatred between parents and children, but Pu Xiang feels that some things cannot rise to the level of hatred, and she does not want to talk about hatred or not, but she cannot be close to her parents again afterwards.
She can do this now, but only because she has lived to that age, experienced the death of both her parents, and understood what it feels like to no longer have a parent.
She is living a good life now and doesn't want to open up these scars all the time. She just wants to stay close to him without being too far away, not pursuing a black-and-white emotional relationship, and live her life in a "muddle".
As long as she knows where her bottom line is.
A group of people were having dinner, and the atmosphere was livened up by the two little ones.
Everyone was happy, but someone wanted to ruin the atmosphere.
When Pu Fen saw the interaction between Pu Xiang and her sister-in-law's two children, she immediately reached out and slapped her daughter on the back.
"Look at your brothers and sisters, they are all so good at talking, why are you like a person without a mouth, can't you say nice things? Can't you pick up food for your grandparents?"
When going out to play, parents are also around, so Shen Xiaoyan naturally follows her parents and sits together when eating.
Shen Xiaoyan was originally very happy, but immediately she couldn't laugh anymore.
Pu Fen was even more dissatisfied when he saw this: "Why are you looking so sad? Who owes you money?"
Everyone at the table looked at Pu Fen.
Pufen seemed to have no feelings at all.
Sister-in-law Yu Gaozhu quickly called everyone to eat: "Second sister, brother-in-law, this roast duck tastes very good, we don't have it over there, come and try it."
Gag him with food.
Pu Xiang did not say anything to dissuade them. Everyone has to rely on themselves to graduate from their own parents and parents' parents and relatives.
It's impossible for her to stand in front of Shen Xiaoyan all her life.
She once helped her son weather the storms and helped him rise to success, but what did she get in the end?
She was tired, and this time, she would not push anyone away. Let everyone choose their own future. Just go ahead.
Besides, she had already given her a chance to change.
After dinner, everyone went for a walk outside to experience the streets and environment of the capital.
Starting from the second day, we visited the Forbidden City, the Great Wall, and other famous must-see attractions and checked in one by one.
As a result, everyone was happy. On the third night, Pu Fen said she had a stomachache.
"If you have a stomachache, go to the hospital. Maybe you are not used to the local climate or the food here."
Yu Gaozhu seemed a little worried. After all, this place was not close to home, and it was possible that some sensitive people might have trouble acclimatizing here.
Pu Xiang would not say anything about this matter, let alone be unhappy.
When we set out with our whole family, young and old, we were mentally prepared for all kinds of situations.
Originally, it would have been sufficient to send Pu Fen to the hospital. Whether it was due to food poisoning or acclimatization, there are solutions.
But Pu Fen refused to go, no matter what.
Yu Gaozhu and Li Xiaocao tried to persuade him no matter what but failed.
Pu Xiang looked at the group of people surrounding her, trying to persuade her. Without saying a word, she asked the hotel to call 120 and had the people carried away directly.
Pu Fen was also a timid person. In front of her family, she was very stubborn, but when the medical staff arrived and the situation became very chaotic, she didn't even dare to fart.
After going to the hospital for a check-up, Pu Xiang was speechless.
Pu Fen is pregnant for more than two months.
Yu Gaozhu was also angry about this move.
"She was already two months pregnant, so she should have known about it. She has experience with giving birth before. And when we went to the hospital, she told us the truth after a checkup. She had miscarried four or five times in the past few years, but she kept it a secret. It's okay, she couldn't keep the baby, so there must be something wrong with her body. But she even dared to travel with us."
Just thinking about this makes me feel so upset.
Pu Xiang remained silent.
In fact, everyone in the Pu family is in good health. If anyone said that it was due to physical reasons and that they couldn't keep the baby and had repeated miscarriages, she really didn't believe a word of it.
In the case of Shen Chengcai and her second sister, rural families are allowed to have a second child if the first child is a daughter, but if the second child is also a daughter, they are not allowed to have a third child.
So this second child must be a boy.
Pu Xiang had more or less guessed how her second sister lost those children. Before, she guessed that her second sister wanted to have a second son, but there was no movement, so she thought it was because she couldn't get pregnant.
Now it seems that she is still naive.
"Let her stay in the hospital to take care of the baby."
Pu Xiang is really too lazy to care. It's her own body. If she doesn't take care of it herself, what else can they do?
The trip was scheduled for eight days, but Pu Fen spent the last few days in the hospital.
After checking her health, the hospital said she needed to rest, otherwise she might not be able to keep the baby.
Li Xiaocao was worried about her second daughter, who was out of town, so she wanted to go to the hospital to accompany her, but was stopped by Pu Xiang.
This might be the only time her mother would come out in her life, so why should she stay in the hospital to take care of a fool?
Pu Xiang paid for a caregiver. She was not short of money now, so this was something that could be solved by paying money, so it was easy to handle.
On the other hand, Shen Chengcai, the husband, was not anxious at all. He did not even say he would go to the hospital to accompany them. Instead, he accompanied them to visit tourist spots every day and ordered wine at every meal.
He lived a very happy life, eating and drinking for free without having to work.
Being so happy that he didn't want to leave, accurately summed up his mood at that time.