"Ah, ah, oh, Mother, it hurts, it hurts, woo woo..."
Liu Cuirong lay on the kang, wailing at the top of her lungs.
After Lu Shi and Liu Cuijin returned, she became even more demanding. One day she wanted to spend a little silver to buy something to eat, and the next she asked Lu Shi to cook her coarse grain congee. All the salted duck eggs at home were gone because of her.
This morning, when she woke up, her stomach started to ache. She thought she had caught a cold...
But after lying on the kang for a while, she realized she was actually going into labor.
She had given birth to Jinshan and Xiaobao before, and both deliveries were smooth. However, this time her stomach hurt exceptionally badly, as if being cut with a knife. It was simply too painful...
Lu Shi had delivered babies in the countryside before, and seeing Liu Cuirong's condition, she knew it wasn't good.
"Oh dear, your due date isn't for a while yet. Is this... is this a bit early?" Lu Shi said, her face contorted.
Liu Cuijin stood by and said, "Mother, Sister always eats smoked meat and fried foods. Those things are bad for the fetus. I suspect the baby she gives birth to will be stillborn..."
"You, you shut your mouth, oh!~" Liu Cuirong's head was covered in sweat. She glared at Liu Cuijin and said, "If you can't speak properly, then shut up. You're the one who's going to be stillborn, oh, it hurts, it hurts so much!"
What a jinx. Doesn't everyone hurt when giving birth? And a stillborn baby? Can't this sister wish her some good luck?
"It's happening, stop howling. Cuijin, go and boil some hot water, and find a few towels..." Lu Shi ordered.
Liu Cuirong was her daughter after all. No matter how annoyed she was, she couldn't just kick her out.
If only this daughter had been a little more obedient, filial to her in-laws, and helped with the chores, she wouldn't have been kicked out.
Being kicked out was one thing, but this wretched girl had almost sold out the steamed bun shop while she and Cuijin were collecting pigs...
Several tables and benches were missing, and it was as if she was about to sell the steamed bun shop itself.
Liu Cuijin glared at Liu Cuirong and went to the outer room to boil water.
Lu Shi sat on the edge of the kang, gripping Liu Cuirong's hand. "Take a few deep breaths, don't faint from the pain!"
"Woo woo woo, Mother, you say it so nicely. If you're so capable, why don't you try giving birth?" Liu Cuirong cried.
Lu Shi: "..."
What a thing to say. How old was she to be giving birth?
After an unknown amount of time, Liu Cuirong's cries grew weaker and finally stopped altogether.
The baby was born. Just as Liu Cuijin had said, it was a stillborn.
Moreover, it was a little girl...
Perhaps Liu Cuirong was not destined to hold a daughter in this life. In about a month, this little girl would have been born smoothly.
But she insisted on eating whatever she pleased, consuming anything that was bad for the fetus.
Now she was in trouble. She had finally conceived a daughter, only for her to die inside her womb.
If she could have taken this little girl back to the old Yun family, her parents might have kept her if they were in a good mood...
Now all her fantasies were dashed.
Liu Cuirong lay there for the entire afternoon. When she woke up, she saw her mother and Cuijin sitting at the kang table eating.
Liu Cuirong sat up and looked around. "Mother, where's my child?"
Lu Shi remained silent, continuing to slurp her sorghum rice. They had made stinky tofu, and a faint, unpleasant smell permeated the room.
"Mother, say something. Where's my child? Hurry and bring her over so I can have a look..." Liu Cuirong frowned.
Could it be that Mother and Cuijin had sold her child again?
They had sold Xiaobao before, so Liu Cuirong didn't quite trust them.
Liu Cuijin put half a piece of stinky tofu into her mouth and said while eating, "Sister, guess if you gave birth to a boy or a girl?"
"Cuijin, eat!" Lu Shi tapped her with her chopsticks.
Liu Cuirong looked at Liu Cuijin blankly, opened her mouth, her voice a little hoarse, "Is it... is it another boy?"
"Wrong, you gave birth to a little girl, and she's quite big..." Liu Cuijin shook her head.
"Ah? Really?" Liu Cuirong's face lit up with joy. She quickly crawled to the kang table. "Where is my daughter? Where is she?"
Heaven truly favored her!
Whatever she wanted, she got.
Let's consider, besides Gu Shi, who else in the old Yun family could give birth to a little girl?
Her eldest sister-in-law, that sycophant, had been pregnant for so long, yet she had given birth to a boy with a pair of trousers...
Liu Cuijin pouted. "She's dead. Mother has already buried her. I'll take you to the grave to see her tomorrow morning!"
"You, you said what? Dead?" Liu Cuirong's eyes widened.
How could a perfectly healthy child just die?
She hadn't lacked nutrition during this time, eating white flour steamed buns, smoked meat, roasted meat, and even various small pickles...
It must be that Mother and Cuijin sold the child and were now trying to fool her with these words.
"Cuirong, you were carrying a stillborn. It's true that the fetus was a girl, but she had already died. Alas!~" Lu Shi said with a sigh.
"Impossible, you two are colluding to deceive me! Hurry and bring my daughter back, quickly..."
Liu Cuirong, I don't know where she got the strength from, but she suddenly flipped the kang table onto the ground.
The sorghum rice spilled all over the floor, and the stinky tofu was also overturned.
"No, Sister, did you fill your head with sewage?" Liu Cuijin was furious. She rushed over and slapped her. "Why would Mother and I sell your child for no reason? If you don't believe me, I'll go dig your child out of the ground right now. You can sleep with the stillborn..."
Hmph, what a foolish thing. She didn't take care of her pregnancy herself, and now she's blaming others. She's truly shameless.
Liu Cuirong covered her face and sobbed, "Woo woo woo..."
At the end of the kang lay a pair of socks. She didn't care whose they were and grabbed them to blow her nose. "Woo woo, it's all because the old Yun family is too heartless. They kicked me out while I was pregnant. If I hadn't been tossed back and forth, would my daughter have died in my womb? Woo woo..."
"This damned old Yun family, every single one of them, will die a terrible death and have no good end in the future, woo woo!~"
Lu Shi couldn't help but twitch her lips when she heard this.
Her sons, Jinshan and Xiaobao, were both in the old Yun family.
By cursing and damning them like this, wasn't she including her sons?
"Oh, stop your wailing, aren't you annoying? If you push me too far, I'll kick you out too. You don't do any work at the steamed bun shop all day, acting like an ancestor. Mother is so old, yet she still has to serve you. How thick-skinned are you?"
Liu Cuijin frowned, feeling a surge of disgust...
"If you were like that, would the old Yun family have kicked you out? It's all your fault for being so disgusting that no one wants you!~"
Liu Cuirong was already in a bad mood. Stimulated by Liu Cuijin's words, the anger in her heart flared up instantly.
"You wretched thing, I'll tear your rotten mouth apart!"
Liu Cuirong cursed, and weakly lunged at Liu Cuijin...