Chi Fangping sighed and sat down opposite her mother. "Mom, what happened between Zhu Weidong and me is in the past. You can't blame him for what happened back then. It was me who didn't choose him. I'm not worthy of him."

"His wife is also from a small county town, right?"

“It’s different.”

"So what if I'm younger than you?"

"Mom, now is not the time to talk about this. What's left is already in the past."

"If you had married into the Zhu family, would you have lived such a hard life? How many people envied you for getting into college? Look at the life you are living now."

"That's also my fault. It's wrong for you to blame Zhu Weidong and his wife." Chi Fangping pursed her lips.

"Fang Ping, what's wrong with Xiaoru?" Chi's mother suddenly raised her voice. As her voice fell, the child who was originally sleeping started coughing violently, grabbing his neck with both hands.

"Why are you having asthma attack?" Chi's mother panicked and went to find medicine.

Chi Fangping also held her daughter's hand. Chi's mother put the nozzle to her granddaughter's mouth, but the child didn't suck at all. Chi Fangping comforted her daughter.

"Xiao Ru, listen to your mother and just take a breath."

Xiaoru on the bed was gasping for breath, she seemed to be suffocating, and her eyes were wide open.

"Mom, go call a doctor." Chi Fangping cried.

Chi's mother stumbled out, and when the doctor arrived, Chi Fangping was still trying her best to get her daughter to take the medicine, but it was no use.

She was pushed away by the doctor and watched the doctors and nurses trying to save her daughter. She watched her daughter's rapid breathing gradually fade away.

Mother Chi collapsed on the ground, "Xiao Ru, grandma's Xiao Ru!"

"I'm sorry, we tried our best." The doctor came over. Whenever he faced such a scene, even though he had experienced it thousands of times, the doctor found it difficult to speak. "The child suddenly had an asthma attack, which triggered the snake venom in his body. The child passed away in a hurry and did not suffer much. I am sorry."

Chi Fangping walked to the bedside blankly and looked at her daughter. She seemed to be sleeping as usual, but she knew that her daughter was gone.

"Xiao Ru, mom is here, come and look at me." Chi Fangping gently held her daughter in her arms, "Xiao Ru, mom was wrong, I should have kept you by my side. You said you missed me, and I miss you too. Can you come back?"

When the doctors and nurses saw this scene, their eyes were wet. Chi's mother cried for a few times and then fainted.

The nurses and doctors were busy helping her up again.

Chi Fangping hugged her daughter tightly, tears dripping down her body. "Xiaoru, don't cry. If you cry, you won't feel at ease. You'll worry about me, right? But what can I do? I can't do it. Please don't leave me, okay?"

There were pleas and low cries. The ward was very quiet, but filled with deep sadness.

Chang Ya threw herself into Xu Li's arms, "Sister-in-law, we are back late."

Xu Li wiped her tears and said, "I'm back too late, too late."

Engineer Li looked at Zhu Weidong, asking him with his eyes what to do.

Zhu Weidong pursed his lips and walked to the doctor, "Doctor, why is the child suddenly serious?"

"He had an asthma attack, which triggered the snake venom in his body." The doctor was puzzled when he said this, "Why did he suddenly have an asthma attack?"

Chi's mother, who was carried to another bed, woke up at this time. After hearing the doctor's words, she was silent for a while, and then shouted hysterically, "It's her, it must be her."

Seeing how excited she was, the nurse held her down and said, "Auntie, don't get excited yet."

Engineer Li frowned, "Auntie, you have to be responsible for what you said. What can Engineer Zhu's wife do under your noses?"

"It's her anyway. If she hadn't come, Xiaoru wouldn't have had asthma." Mother Chi started crying and slapped her thighs. "My Xiaoru, please take grandma with you."

While howling, he got out of bed and rushed to his daughter, holding his dead granddaughter and crying loudly.

Li Gong advised Zhu Weidong, "Aunt Chi is too sad, don't take what she said to heart."

Zhu Weidong said nothing.

Chang Ya and Xu Li have already gone over to persuade them.

They had already inquired about what kind of snakes often appeared in the area where they rented a house. The venom of those snakes was not very strong, and when the locals were bitten, they would suck out the poison and apply some herbs they had picked themselves.

When they rushed back, the child was gone.

Ji Ling waited in the guesthouse until after eleven o'clock in the evening before Zhu Weidong came back. It was rare to see fatigue between his brows.

"How is the child?"

Zhu Weidong sat down. "The child is gone. Asthma triggered the snake venom in his body."

The words Ji Ling was about to ask were choked in her throat.

"How is Accountant Chi?" Ji Ling didn't know how to comfort him. She walked to Zhu Weidong and asked, "Do you want to take the child back?"

"Yes, the cremation will be tomorrow, and the car will be tomorrow night." Zhu Weidong pulled his wife to sit down, "Did you go to the hospital today?"

Ji Ling nodded, "I went there and wanted to throw some money to the child, but Accountant Chi refused to take it and said he would give it to the child himself after he woke up."

Zhu Weidong hummed, his eyes fell on the vase on the table in the guesthouse, and he paused for a moment, "Where did you get these flowers?"

"The owner of the guesthouse sent it to us. He said they picked them in the mountains. Since we are from outside the area, he sent us a bouquet and even brought us a vase."

"When was it delivered?" Zhu Weidong continued to ask.

"When you leave in the afternoon." Ji Ling replied, and then she felt Zhu Weidong's breathing tighten. She looked up at him in confusion, "Is there something wrong with this flower?"

They were just some small daisies. She suddenly remembered that at this time, everyone called small daisies "miserable flowers" and believed that anyone who came into contact with these flowers would have a miserable life, so she didn't like them very much.

"Nothing." Zhu Weidong stood up, his expression revealing nothing, "I still have to go to the hospital, you go to sleep first."

Ji Ling nodded, "Okay, then you should also take care of your rest and take a nap when you have time."

After seeing Zhu Weidong off, Ji Ling stayed in the room alone. She always felt something was wrong but couldn't put it into words. Her eyes fell on the flowers.

I thought to myself, Zhu Weidong is not really that superstitious, right? After Zhu Weidong arrived at the hospital, he went straight to Chi Fangping. Chi Fangping also fell ill due to the shock, and the child was gone. Xiao Song drove back to his residence, and soon Director Wang and a few people also rushed over.

Chi Fangping was trying hard to get up, but Director Wang said, "Hurry up and lie down. Don't move. Everyone is worried about you. You should take good care of yourself now. No one wants to worry about the child. Now that it has happened, if you ruin your health again, the child won't be at peace in the grave."

Chi Fangping turned her head away and cried. She didn't say anything, and everyone in the room felt uncomfortable too.

(End of this chapter)