Chapter 390: That Child Is Dead

He had to make something of himself for everyone to see, especially Si Rong.

Li Xuan nodded, but in the end, she said nothing.

It might be good to go to the Black Market to struggle for a while; perhaps the whole family could follow her and live a good life.

Anyway, she had already been to Xiao Wen's place once; there was no difference between once and twice, and the key was that the big brother was truly generous to her.

Carrying a beautiful vision of her future life, Li Xuan boarded the train to Yunchuan.

……

"You all should go home first," Si Rong said, looking at the room full of family members, feeling somewhat between laughter and tears. "There's no telling when there will be any movement, and it's not a solution for you all to just keep watch here."

"That's right, Mom. You, Dad, and the eldest and second brothers should go home and rest first. Once there's movement on Rongrong's side, I'll have Xiao Yu notify you!"

As soon as Jiang Yu saw there was a task for him, he immediately responded, "That's right, Auntie, I run really fast."

In the room, there were indeed over a dozen adults gathered; the nurses who came in couldn't even tell who the patient was.

"Alright then, Mom will go back first. What do you want to eat? Mom will make it for you."

Si Rong thought for a moment, "I want to eat the preserved vegetable and meat buns made by Wang Ma."

"Fine!" Wang Ma said, very excitedly, "I'll go back and make them right now!"

Mother Si felt a bit disappointed; she blamed her own lack of culinary skill, which was why her daughter still wanted to eat the buns made by Wang Ma at this moment.

At this moment, Wu Shen in the corner was sinking into self-reproach. Could it be that the preserved vegetable and meat buns she made weren't delicious?

More self-reproachful than her was Hu Qian. Why hadn't the heavens bestowed upon her a talent for cooking?

It resulted in her being unable to make preserved vegetable and meat buns for her daughter-in-law now, which made her so sad.

So, on the way back, Jiang Aiguo's arm inexplicably hurt. He didn't dare to make a scene and only asked in a low voice, "Wife, what did I do wrong again?"

Could it be because he had just passed gas?

"Hmph!" Hu Qian said angrily, "Tell me quickly, why can't I make meat buns?"

Jiang Aiguo: ……

Si Rong ate the preserved vegetable and meat buns and was strolling leisurely in the hospital's back garden, with Jiang Cheng accompanying her by her side.

In her previous life, she had felt uncomfortable in her stomach in the middle of the night, and the next morning, she gave birth to two little treasures.

She wondered if they would choose the same time to arrive again.

On the night of the third day, Si Rong indeed felt the familiar contractions. "Jiang Cheng, our babies are about to be born!"

Jiang Cheng immediately dashed out to find a doctor, while simultaneously telling Jiang Yu, who was guarding outside the door, to go home and notify the elders on both sides.

……

At the same time, Li Xuan arrived in Yunchuan.

According to what was said by the person who sold her son to Xuyang, the girl who was with him had been sent to a family surnamed Gao in Yunchuan.

This area was all big mountains, and the weather was sometimes sunny and sometimes overcast.

After asking around several times, Li Xuan finally found the Gao family; unexpectedly, they were not too poor.

The three large rooms with green bricks and tiled roofs actually looked better than the Shen family's place in Xuyang.

She knocked on the door, and the person who opened it was a sturdy man who spoke with an accent, "Who are you?"

"Big brother, I'm here to find my kin. Did your family adopt a girl a while ago? I'm the child's mother. I can pay you back the money you spent to buy her."

"Get lost, get lost, get lost!" The man reached out to close the door, and Li Xuan stuck her foot in, crying out in pain.

"Big brother, I beg you, let me see my child!"

The man had no choice but to say, "A few days ago, our family did adopt a baby girl, but she's already dead."

"Dead?" Li Xuan shrieked, "How is that possible?"

She pushed the man aside and limped toward the courtyard, "I don't believe it! My daughter! Give me back my daughter!"

There was also a woman wearing a headscarf in the courtyard, who felt quite baffled to see her enter.

The man explained a few sentences to her, and the woman sighed, went into the room, and poured a cup of water for Li Xuan using a ceramic cup. "What my man said is true. Because I can't give birth, I bought a baby girl a while ago, but the child's body was very weak. She wouldn't drink formula after we bought her back and kept crying, and she died after only a few days."

She pointed it out to Li Xuan, "It's on that hill behind the village. We buried her under a tree, hoping she could be reborn into a good family."

"Big sister, I beg you, please take me to see her."

The woman couldn't bear it and tried to comfort her, "You'd better not go see. A tiny infant is just a lump of flesh; after it rots, nothing is left."

"No! No! No!" Li Xuan roared at the sky, "I must go see, otherwise I will call the police and have the public security officers arrest you all and put you in jail!"

"Eh? Are you a crazy woman? I told you the child cried herself to death; what does that have to do with us?"

The man saw her unreasonable appearance and felt like hitting someone, "Get lost immediately, or I will..."

"Alright, alright," the woman was soft-hearted after all and said to Li Xuan, "I'll take you to see."

Looking at the back hill from the Gao family's courtyard, it seemed very close, but when Li Xuan followed the woman toward the back hill, she realized it was very far, and she was panting from exhaustion.

The woman had grown up here, and her pace was quite brisk.

Estimating that they had walked for nearly an hour, Li Xuan was finally brought by the woman to a tree.

It was a type of tree she had never seen before; the canopy was very lush, and one person couldn't wrap their arms around it.

"That night, after the child stopped breathing, we buried her here."

The woman also seemed very sad, "Maybe I just don't have the fate to be a mother in this life; I accept it."

Li Xuan didn't believe her daughter was dead. She knelt and sat for a while, found a patch of soft soil, and began to dig with both hands.

When she was born, her daughter's cry was so loud, even louder than her son's.

How could she possibly be dead!

She didn't know how long she had been digging; when her ten fingers were about to lose all sensation, she finally felt her fingertips touch something soft.

Li Xuan's heart was shaken. At this moment, she finally felt some lingering fear, and the woman beside her made her feel slightly less afraid.

She pulled her hand out of the wet, soft soil and saw some sticky white substance on her fingertips.

She suddenly let out a shrill scream.

Those were maggots, many, many maggots crawling back and forth along the pit she had dug.

Li Xuan ran down the mountain, completely distraught.

……

"You must listen to me later," the head of the obstetrics and gynecology department said, having been invited to the hospital by the Si Family in the middle of the night; despite having her sleep disturbed, she remained very patient.

This was because the red envelope of benefits given by the Si Family was also very thick.

"Only push when I tell you to push, and do not push when I don't tell you to; follow my rhythm, do you understand?"

If a woman pushes indiscriminately while giving birth, it causes great damage to the mother's body, especially regarding future marital life.

Many women have no experience with their first birth, and after pushing, tearing occurs, resulting in wounds that can never heal.

Si Rong nodded, "I understand."

In her past life, it was this department head who delivered her baby, and she was very cooperative.