Xu Ruantang thought for a moment and said, "Let's wait two years. He'll be thirty then, and he'll be able to be a qualified father. I'll be twenty-two, which is also a suitable age."
She kept staring at Wang Xiuxiu as she spoke.
The fact that Wang Xiuxiu was urging her so urgently indicates that what happened next was related to time.
As expected, Wang Xiuxiu became anxious upon hearing this, her eyes darting around. "Thirty years old? No, that's too late."
Xu Ruantang looked puzzled. "Huh? What's late?"
"Well... I mean, look, Xiao Zhao is almost five years old, and we're only a few years old. You're falling far behind others."
Wang Xiuxiu seemed to be trying to smooth things over.
Xu Ruantang was now really anxious. According to Wang Xiuxiu, Chen Ji would have an accident before he turned thirty?
She was stunned; she was caught completely off guard.
Once they got back to the compound, Lu Shishen and Wang Xiuxiu, eager to pick up their child, left first.
Xu Ruantang followed Chen Ji absentmindedly, step by step.
"Tired?" Chen Ji looked down at her, his voice gentle and deep.
Xu Ruantang went around behind him without saying a word, hooked her arm around Chen Ji's neck, and jumped onto his back.
Chen Ji was prepared. He chuckled and reached under her legs, instructing her, "Hold on tight."
Xu Ruantang obediently tightened her arms and buried her head in his neck, pondering what to do.
After walking for a while, Chen Ji's deep, gentle voice slowly rang out: "Wife, were you frightened today?"
He sensed her presence the moment he saw her at the hospital.
Her eyes were not as bright as usual; she looked tired and helpless, her face pale, which broke his heart.
"Hmm." Xu Ruantang's voice was soft and gentle. "Under the same roof, the wife fainted for a long time, but the husband didn't notice, and the mother-in-law didn't notice either."
"They kept complaining about her, saying that she always throws tantrums and that she'll be fine in a little while."
Xu Ruantang thought for a moment and then said, "Of course, it's possible that Zhang Li often throws tantrums, which is why they act this way."
Putting that aside for now, what followed was truly legendary.
"When they arrived at the hospital, Hao Jianjun's mother shouted that she had to save her grandson. She said this at least dozens of times from beginning to end, but she never mentioned the woman who risked her life to give birth."
Despite the sweltering summer heat, Xu Ruantang felt a chill run through her body. She clung tightly to Chen Ji, saying, "Two lives are waiting inside, while outside, there's a huge argument about saving the mother versus the baby. The mother-in-law wants to save the mother, but the husband remains silent and refuses to sign anything, so they're just stuck in this stalemate."
All we can say is that Zhang Li was lucky. If she had really died along with her unborn child, who would have stood up for her?
"After the baby was born, the husband didn't even ask how his wife was doing, and just took the baby back to the ward."
Xu Ruantang blinked slowly. "They already have two children. Even if there's no love, there must be family affection, right?"
Even though she and Wang Xiuxiu were outsiders, they weren't as indifferent as the others.
Thinking about it carefully, it inexplicably sends chills down my spine.
Chen Ji carried her steadily. Upon hearing this, his brows furrowed unconsciously, but his tone remained calm: "People don't change suddenly, wife. This matter has nothing to do with men and women, or husband and wife; it's just a matter of character."
Xu Ruantang tilted her head and looked at Chen Jijun's handsome profile. "Are you trying to say that Hao Jianjun wasn't a good person to begin with?"
Chen Ji did not answer.
But that's clearly an implicit acceptance.
Xu Ruantang thought for a moment and nodded in agreement, "That's true. How could you not tell if the person next to you in bed is a human or a ghost after spending so much time together? It's just a matter of one being willing to give and the other being willing to receive."
Sometimes, a person's situation is entirely determined by a series of choices, both big and small.
Outsiders cannot judge right or wrong, good or bad.
The speed at which this truth was proven caught Xu Ruantang completely off guard.
That evening, she reviewed the contract with Chen Ji to confirm that there were no problems. Chen Ji then spent a long time providing her with psychological counseling.
Chen Jisheng was afraid that she might develop some psychological problems because of that family.
However, this psychological counseling session eventually moved from the study and bathroom to the bed...
It's crooked.
Completely skewed.
That day really exhausted her.
Chen Ji left in high spirits in the morning, while Xu Ruantang couldn't even get up and simply gave up and gave up.
She hadn't even finished rambling when Wang Xiuxiu yelled at her, waking her up.
It turns out that Zhang Li's incident yesterday caused too much of a stir. Hearing that she had given birth smoothly, everyone organized to go to the hospital to visit her.
Xu Ruantang didn't want to go at first, but remembering that Zhang Li had come to her hospitalization last time despite being heavily pregnant, she decided to go anyway.
A group of people rushed off, and before they even reached the ward door, the noise from inside could be heard.
Xu Ruantang rubbed her temples, her head aching. She had been dreaming about the old woman's voice all night, and hearing it now was like a nightmare coming true.
Just then, the ward door opened, and a nurse quickly walked out.
Everyone was stunned by what they saw inside.
As far as the eye could see, everything that could be smashed in the ward had been smashed. Zhang Li, who had just undergone surgery yesterday after suffering a massive hemorrhage, was now standing amidst the mess.
Her voice was thin and shrill, "Hao Jianjun, you..."
Every word he says is unbearable; he cries for his mother an extremely high amount.
At the same time, Zhang Li raised her hand and started slapping him across the face, one slap after another, showing no sign of stopping.
The old woman was unwilling and rushed forward to shove her away, angrily saying, "My son is honest and hardworking, earning money for the family and wanting to leave a lineage for the Hao family. What's wrong with that?! Zhang Li, don't be ungrateful. In all these years you've been married into our family, has my son ever hit you or scolded you?"
Search your conscience, hasn't he been good enough to you? If you want to hit someone, hit this old woman! Come on, hit me, hit me to death!
The old woman walked over to Zhang Li, who was slumped on the bed, grabbed her hand and brought it to her face, sobbing and crying with tears and snot streaming down her face.
Everyone outside was stunned. The son had already been born, and both mother and child were safe and sound. What were they still arguing about?!
Wang Xiuxiu reacted quickly, grabbing a nurse who was hurrying away and stuffing a handful of candy into her pocket. "Nurse, we came to see the mothers in this ward. What's wrong with them?"
The nurse looked troubled, shook her head, and didn't want to say anything.
Wang Xiuxiu continued, "Don't worry, we will definitely not talk nonsense. We just want to go in and visit him in a while, and we want to know what he is arguing about so that we can persuade him, right?"
Look, this is all a family. They've already had a child, and it's their beloved grandson. Making such a racket in the hospital only increases the difficulty of your work, doesn't it?
Tell me, and I'll go in and try to calm things down. I guarantee it'll quiet down in a bit. Otherwise, if they keep making noise, the other patients will complain.
What she said was exactly what the nurse wanted to hear.
Yesterday, because of this patient's lack of cooperation, their department was in complete chaos, and the head of the department even had to come and mediate once.
But we can't always ask the director to mediate; otherwise, they'll be accused of being lazy and unproductive!
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