The air was full of the smell of disinfectant. As soon as Li Huai sat down in front of the hospital bed, the person on the bed opened his eyes.
Seeing it was him, Zhao Qinglan twitched the corner of her mouth and said, "You're here."
Looking at her weak and pale face, Li Huai felt heartbroken, held her hand tightly and started nagging. "Qinglan, if you feel uncomfortable, just sleep for a while."
"I won't sleep anymore. I'll sleep all day long. You talk to me." Her eyes were full of longing.
"Okay." Li Huai helped her shake the bed.
Thinking about the incident he just found out, he hesitated a little. Qinglan's body couldn't bear too much stimulation now. However, he also knew that his daughter's incident had always been a thorn in her heart.
The biggest regret in her life.
Although they had only been together for a year, they had known each other for several years, and Zhao Qinglan quickly noticed something was wrong with him. "Li Huai, you have something on your mind," she said sharply.
Hearing this, Li Huai sighed. "Qinglan, I told you not to get too excited. I have found Xiaoduo's whereabouts."
"What!" Zhao Qinglan's pupils shrank suddenly, staring at Li Huai and confirming: "Really?"
Li Huai smiled bitterly. "Really, how could I lie to you."
Looking at Li Huai's reaction, Zhao Qinglan knew that her daughter Xiaoduo's situation might not be too good, but this bad situation still exceeded her expectations.
At Zhao Qinglan's insistence, Li Huai told her about Xiaoduo's situation.
After Xiaoduo was lost at the age of five, she went to work as a child bride for a poor family in the countryside. She started working in the fields at a young age, fetching water, cutting grass, washing and cooking.
When she was sixteen years old, Xiaoduo was forced to marry the somewhat disabled son of the family. After that, she became pregnant and gave birth in successive years. Some of the children were raised and some died. However, she still had to endure all kinds of insults and beatings on a daily basis.
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Continuous childbirth and heavy labor crushed Xiaoduo's body. Xiaoduo, who was not yet forty-one years old, looked much older than the sixty-year-old Zhao Qinglan. There was one thing Li Huai didn't say, Xiaoduo's
My body looks like I won't be able to live for a few more years.
Every word Li Huai said made Zhao Qinglan's heart bleed.
However, the inside story that Li Huai discovered was even more unacceptable to Zhao Qinglan.
The loss of daughter Xiaoduo was not an accident. It was caused by her ex-husband Wang Dazhi’s son Wang Xiaofei, her daughter Wang Xiaoyan and her grandmother. The family where Xiaoduo was sent was a relative of Wang Xiaoyan’s grandmother.
That was all. The rest of the Wang family later found out about it, but everyone kept it secret from Zhao Qinglan. When she was worried about her daughter and tried every means to find her daughter, these people looked at her coldly.
With.
Zhao Qinglan couldn't bear it anymore and a mouthful of blood spurted out.
"Qing Lan!" Li Huai rushed over.
"Pick up, pick up Xiaoduo and go home." She held Li Huai's hand and begged.
Li Huai nodded with tears in his eyes.
On her deathbed, Zhao Qinglan was filled with only hatred.
Although she, Zhao Qinglan, was forced to marry into the Wang family, she has been filial to her parents-in-law and devoted countless efforts to educate her stepsons and stepdaughters. She has worked hard for the Wang family for thirty years, and what has she gained in exchange?
After Wang Dazhi became prosperous, he became increasingly impatient with her. After he kicked her out of the house, he married a young and beautiful bride.
Her parents-in-law, who were old but still healthy, didn't say a word for her.
Her stepson and stepdaughter, who she had worked so hard to raise, also looked on with cold eyes and advised her to leave the Wang family as soon as possible.
She was penniless and struggled to make a living, but the jobs she finally found were lost again and again due to the interference of her stepson and stepdaughter, because they felt that it was too embarrassing for them to stay in this city.
Forced to have no choice, she could only leave her hometown at an age when she knew her destiny.
Even though she suffered so much, she never thought of seeking revenge from the Wang family, but they should never, never attack her Xiaoduo.
Her little Duo was so cute. When she was doing laundry for a large family, only her little Duo would secretly tap her mother's shoulders. When she stayed in the kitchen to prepare food for the whole family and couldn't serve it, she was the only one.
Xiaoduo would secretly hide food for her.
How could someone from the Wang family do such a cruel thing to such a well-behaved and sensible daughter?
That's it for Wang Xiaofei and Wang Xiaoyan who did this, but as for the parents-in-law and Wang Dazhi who later learned about it, Xiaoduo is also a member of the Wang family. How could they watch Xiaoduo suffer like that and remain indifferent.
If her body hadn't been able to hold on any longer, she would have really wanted to rush to the Wang family immediately and die with this vicious and heartless family!
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"You are so delicate. Whose daughter-in-law doesn't work? She can go to the hospital just by doing some work, and she is wasting money. Da Zhi, listen to your mother, and get her home as soon as possible."
"Mom, if you don't cure her quickly and take her home now, who will do the work in our house and who will take care of Xiaofei, Xiaoyan and the others?"
Zhao Qinglan opened her eyes and looked at the mottled ceiling above her head. She blinked for a long time and didn't realize why she heard the voices of her annoying mother-in-law and ex-husband Wang Dazhi. Was it because she hated them too much?
Just as she was thinking about it, her ex-husband Wang Dazhi's face appeared above her head. "Qinglan, you are finally awake." Wang Dazhi said in surprise.
Like a conditioned reflex, Zhao Qinglan waved her hand up. When she heard the clear slap, she felt sour in her heart. She had wanted to beat Wang Dazhi, this scumbag ex-husband, for a long time, and now she had succeeded.
Wang Dazhi was stunned by the beating, and he touched his face for a long time without reacting.
"Oh, this is outrageous. How dare you, a mother-in-law, have such ambitions?" The Queen Mother, who was stunned for a moment, came to her senses and rushed over.
Just when he reached the bedside, he was stopped by Wang Dazhi, "Mom, there are others." He whispered, and then pulled his mother out.
Although he was very angry when he was beaten for no apparent reason, he was a very face-conscious person. His wife fainted while doing her work at home. When she got to the hospital, the doctor said she was malnourished and overworked, and looked at him with that look. He just felt that
It's embarrassing.
Now if someone watches me beating my daughter-in-law who is still lying on the hospital bed, and it is reported to their clothing factory, Wang Dazhi will still be around.
Zhao Qinglan had no strength in that palm, and felt the stinging pain in her palm. She raised her hand and looked back and forth, frowning in thought, what was going on? Wang Dazhi and his ex-mother-in-law came to the hospital to visit her who was about to die.
Wait, no, she has been in the hospital ward for so long. When did the ceiling become so shabby? And Wang Dazhi's face is a bit too young.
She looked around, and when she saw an old newspaper from the 1960s posted on the wall, her pupils suddenly shrank, and long-lost memories came back to her.
She remembered that it was November 1976. She had been wandering around the house for several days without getting a good rest, and she couldn't eat the leftovers left by the Wang family. She eventually fainted and went to the hospital.
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So, she is back in 1976?
While my mind was running wildly, a little girl ran over from the door.
"Mom, Mom, you finally woke up. Grandma didn't let me come to the hospital, so I secretly followed her and ran here."
Looking at Xiaoduo's young and cute face, Zhao Qinglan stood up suddenly and hugged her daughter, tears bursting out of her eyes.