Chapter 056 Children
On Monday morning, Jiang Nan had breakfast, changed into the red dress she had made yesterday, and headed out to work looking stunning. New dresses are wonderful. In her past life, as a designer, she wore all the latest styles from major brands. Now, if she wanted new clothes, she had to make them herself. That was tough.
Jiang Nan sighed for a moment, and then ran into Qiu Paner who was also working there. She saw that Qiu Paner was also wearing a dress, but it was a red and white plaid cotton dress, the same style as the one Jiang Nan wore two years ago.
Qiu Pan'er seemed not to notice Jiang Nan and walked downstairs in high spirits. She was going to work today and would not let others affect her mood.
Jiang Nan shrugged and complained to the system: "Why is she so stubborn?"
[Host, we're feeling sweet right now. This is called deep affection.]
Jiang Nan glanced at the door next door. Old Lady Liu was peeking in to see what was going on. Really? So that's how Old Lady Liu got her gossip.
Jiang Nan skipped downstairs. Zhou Zhixing was already waiting downstairs, being pulled by Old Lady Sun to talk about catching ghosts. Seeing Jiang Nan's eyes light up, he quickly pulled his arm away and said to Old Lady Sun, "Grandma Sun, we'll be guarding the public toilet again tonight. Don't worry."
Old Lady Sun curled her lips and muttered, "You heartless kid, you forget your elders when you see your wife."
After that, she ignored Zhou Zhixing and started chatting with her old sisters about other gossip: "There have been a lot of happy events in Building No. 4 recently. The boy from the Wu family, the girl from the Qiu family, and even Lin Bing is getting married..."
Balabala, the old sisters gossip group is online again.
Zhou Zhixing smiled, pretending not to hear the old lady's complaints. The two of them quickly rode their bikes to the police station. What? It's hard to ride a bike in a skirt? Damn it! Nothing can stop a woman from loving beauty.
Group 6, Zou Li and Wen Qiang had already arrived. Zou Li was grinning like a fool, and when he saw them, he handed out wedding candies: "Hey, my wife gave birth to a son, weighing 6.2 jins. Please have some candy."
"Congratulations, Brother Zou, you big fat boy." Jiang Nan took the candy and immediately smiled happily.
Zou Li started chuckling again, sent the messages to the two people, and then went to other groups. Zhou Zhixing nudged Wen Qiang next to him and asked, "Did you come together?"
"Well, I live close to the hospital, and I ran into him on my way to work." Wen Qiang peeled a candy and put it in his mouth.
"Should we go and take a look after get off work?" Jiang Nan asked.
"Of course," Zhou Zhixing said decisively. "I'll go to the supply and marketing cooperative at noon. Don't worry about the gifts, I'll prepare them. Just consider it a gift from our group."
"How could I be so embarrassed?" Wen Qiang said modestly. After two days of working together, he'd seen Zhou Zhixing's abilities—he was a better fighter and smarter than him. He considered himself incompetent, so he put aside his petty resentment and went back to work cheerfully. After all, Wen Qiang wasn't a very ambitious person. He loved to eat. His cooking skills weren't good enough to take over his father's job, so he ended up becoming a police officer by accident.
"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it." Zhou Zhixing returned to his seat and began to read the case summary of the previous few days.
Jiang Nan shrugged. Zhou Zhixing was trying to win people over, so she didn't care. The time to go to the countryside was getting closer, and she had to make good preparations. Wu Chunli was going to the countryside to replace Cheng Gaigai, so she had to think of a way to give Wu Chunli some self-defense supplies. Giving them openly wouldn't work; after all, it wasn't something to be proud of. Wu Chunli and the others would definitely have to do it secretly.
After a busy morning, Zhou Zhixing took Jiang Nan to the supply and marketing cooperative on his way home at noon. Although Zhou Zhixing agreed nicely, he wasn't very good at giving gifts, so Jiang Nan had to help him with this matter.
"Let's see if they have any adult formula. Giving birth is always a drain on women's bodies, so now's the time to replenish them." Jiang Nan headed straight for the high-end counter. Formula was a rare commodity, and expensive, so it was sold at the high-end counters. Luckily, they arrived early; there was only one can left in the cabinet, and it was priced at five dollars and twenty cents, quite a bit.
Jiang Nan bought another bag of brown sugar. She didn't know if it was safe to eat after giving birth, but it was a good thing after all. If she didn't use it now, she could always use it in the future.
"I'll pay for the brown sugar. I can't let you pay for it all. I've been working here for so long, and Brother Zou has been very caring towards me."
Jiang Nan saw that they had almost finished shopping, so the two of them left. Cheng Meijuan was at the fruit and vegetable counter, seeing the two of them chatting and laughing, and she felt very angry. Humph, this woman, she clearly has her eyes on Nanshan, but now she is chatting and laughing with another man, she is really shameless. Nanshan is so good, how could she still have eyes for someone else.
Look at this, the brain of a woman who has been manipulated by a scumbag into doing PUA is completely out of control. With this kind of thinking, it takes a lot of stimulation to get her back on track, otherwise it's really impossible to persuade her back.
Jiang Nan cursed Fang Nanshan inwardly, but kept it to herself. She and Zhou Zhixing quickly returned home. Jiang Mancheng, not knowing if it was intentional, made stir-fried water spinach for lunch. It was indeed delicious, and Chen Jinhua and Jiang Nan were extremely satisfied.
Of course, Zhou Zhixing, who was having lunch at his uncle's house, didn't know that the skill he showed the day before was outdone by his father-in-law who was very competitive.
After a busy afternoon shift, the six teams excitedly packed their gifts and went to the staff hospital to visit Zou Li and his wife, Luo Minjuan. Zou Li's father had been up all night and had gone home to rest. Only Zou Li, Luo Minjuan, and another haggard-looking woman were in the ward.
"Xiao Nan, Qiangzi, team leader, you are here." Zou Li was able to take three days off because his wife gave birth. He went to the police station to distribute wedding candies in the morning and then returned to the ward. At this time, he was peeling oranges for Luo Minjuan.
Zhou Zhixing: "Brother Zou, let's go see my sister-in-law and the child."
Jiang Nan: "Yes, Brother Zou, this is my sister-in-law, right? She looks really good."
Zou Li: "Yes, let me introduce you. This is my wife Luo Minjuan, and this is my wife's cousin Luo Minhui."
He turned around and introduced Luo Minjuan: "Wife, these are my colleagues. This is Jiang Nan, this is Wen Qiang, and this is team leader Zhou Zhixing."
Luo Minjuan, wearing a hospital gown, smiled when she heard this. She must have just given birth, as her expression was very gentle. She smiled and nodded as a greeting: "Hello, thank you for coming to see me."
Jiang Nan: "You're welcome, sister-in-law. Brother Zou and I are colleagues, so it's only natural for us to come and see you. These are some things we brought with us, please don't mind."
Jiang Nan placed the brown sugar on the table, and Zhou Zhixing placed the milk powder on the table. After a few more polite exchanges, Jiang Nan asked, "Brother Zou, where's the baby? I want to see the baby."
Luo Minhui, who had been silent, spoke up. She smiled at Zou Li and his wife and said to the others, "The baby is in the nursery. I'll take you to see it."
"Excuse me, big sister," Jiang Nan said politely, nodding to Zou Li and his wife before following Luo Minhui to see the baby. Zhou Zhixing and Wen Qiang were also very curious and followed them to the nursery.
The nursery wasn't entirely filled with babies; there were also some adults watching over the children. Luo Minhui led everyone to an elderly woman and asked, "Grandma, where's Aunt Jin? Isn't she looking after the child with you?"
The old woman, whom Luo Minhui called "mother-in-law," looked a little uneasy. She removed her right hand from the baby's blanket and replied impatiently with a stiff face, "I went to the bathroom. Where else could I go? Why are you so talkative? It's so annoying. You idiot who can't give birth to a son, I asked you to hold a boy and take him home. What's the point of you going to see Luo Minjuan? I really don't know what you are doing here. Why did my family marry such a jinx like you?"
Luo Minhui lowered her head, looking like a bullied young wife. Seeing this, the old woman scolded her even more fiercely.
Despite the old lady's harsh words, Jiang Nan felt something was amiss. The more she watched, the more she felt the old lady was bluffing. She looked down at the child and saw that the little one still had tears on his face and looked distressed.
[Host, this old woman has a needle in her right hand. She just pricked the child with it!]
As soon as the system's voice fell, Zhou Zhixing had already grabbed the old woman's right hand. His speed was as fast as a gust of wind, which no one expected.
"What are you doing?" The old woman didn't expect to be caught. Seeing the needle on her hand exposed, she wanted to hide it, but she couldn't move. She could only scream, "Young man is bullying the elderly! Doctors and nurses, come quickly! There are young men bullying the elderly."
Luo Minhui was startled by Zhou Zhixing's actions. She didn't know what was going on with her cousin's husband's colleague, but if she didn't speak up for him and bullied her mother-in-law, he wouldn't let her off. She said anxiously, "What are you doing? Let go! How can you hit an old person? Let go! This is my mother-in-law. She's here to see the kids. How can you hit her?"
Everyone else in the nursery looked over here, and some began to whisper.
"This young man looks like a decent man, how can he be a match for an old man?"
"That's right, this old lady is just looking after a child, how could he have the nerve to do that to her?"
Jiang Nan picked up the child, pulled back the blanket, and pointed at the needle in the old woman's hand. She said to everyone, "Auntie, what's with the needle in your hand? You came to see the child, why is there still a needle in your hand? If I remember correctly, when we came in, your hand was on the child, right?"
She pointed at the needle marks on the child's body and said, "Look, there are still needle marks on the child's body. Tell me, why did you attack the child?"
"You're talking nonsense." The old woman looked panicked. She had never expected that the truth would be exposed so quickly. She shouted, "I just came to see the child. This needle... I picked up this needle on the road. There's no needle mark on the child's body. It's a mosquito bite. Stop talking nonsense."
Someone leaned over to look at the baby and saw some redness near the baby's waist. Although they couldn't tell whether it was a stye or a mosquito bite, they looked at the old woman with a bad look.
Someone suddenly said, "Oh, I remember now. Two older women came to look after the child. The child was sleeping soundly, but then one of the older women went to the bathroom, leaving the other woman alone. Then the child started crying, really loudly. So that's what happened."
"Yes, yes, I was just wondering why the child suddenly started crying. This old woman is so cruel, she couldn't bear to kill such a young child."
"People like this deserve to be struck by lightning. They are such inhuman dogs. They attacked a child because he provoked you."
Everyone started to denounce the old witch. After listening for a while, an old lady at the door screamed, rushed in and started fighting with the old witch.
"I'll beat you to death, you old witch! I'll beat you to death for stabbing my grandson. You old witch, I was wondering why you suddenly came to see us, but it turns out you have no good intentions. I'll beat you to death!"
Zou Li's mother, Jin, was usually gentle and kind, but she was always quick to anger. This was the grandson she had been waiting for for years, yet he was being schemed against like this. How could she not be angry? She was ruthless in her beatings, slapping him across the face and pulling his hair, imitating every bit of the shrewish fighting she saw.
"Let me go, I didn't do it, it wasn't me."
The old witch's hands were tightly grasped by Zhou Zhixing. She couldn't break free no matter what she did. She could only dodge left and right, but she was still being held. She couldn't escape and was hit several times. The corners of her mouth were blue. She spat and yelled angrily, "If you stop, I will stab your grandson. What's the matter? Why haven't you had children in all these years, and you only gave birth to a grandson in your lifetime? I won't kill you by stabbing you twice, why are you so angry? Luo Minhui, you old hen that doesn't lay eggs, it's all your fault. You haven't given birth to a child in all these years, and I, an old lady, can't even hold my grandson. Stop hitting me. If you want to hit someone, hit Luo Minhui. It's all her fault."
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