Chapter 277: Some are born in Rome, others are born as beasts of burden

"Wawawa."

In a dim corner, an infant as thin as a little monkey lay in a washbasin, crying loudly.

Getting closer, one could smell a foul odor emanating from the infant's lower body, flies circling nearby, and unknown little insects crawling on the infant...

The scene made people frown, but thinking of something, they covered their noses and hurried away.

On a rusty little cart, piles of dirty clothes were stacked.

Zhang Xuemei sat on a small stool without any image, her swollen joints like carrots, scrubbing the dirty clothes hard.

Her numb face, her chapped lips, were pursed very, very tightly.

Manjin was hungry, but there was nothing in the house; Father Zhou had moved away, whereabouts unknown.

Zhou Haitao had been transferred to another place, saying he would send her twenty yuan a month; he had been gone for nearly two months, and he hadn't sent her a single cent!

Now she couldn't find the Zhou father and son, so she could only find odd jobs to do herself, barely supporting herself and the child.

But milk powder? Don't even think about it.

Breast milk?

It was good enough that she could eat steamed buns to fill her stomach; where would she get breast milk?

The child's surgery had been dragged on because there was no money; in the hot weather, she couldn't cover the palms, and soon the child grew an extra tail finger on both hands, and the tail behind his butt was seen by the neighbors!

Overwhelming insults and disgust followed, saying that this was retribution on the child—such words were everywhere.

Retribution, is it?

Perhaps it was.

But she didn't regret anything she had done; she was just trying to live better!

If wanting to live beautifully was wrong, she didn't regret it!

She firmly believed that all the difficulties in front of her would pass; her Manman was reborn, and they, mother and daughter, had lived very gloriously in their past lives!

Yes, that's right.

As long as her daughter came back, she could make a comeback!

Daughter, where exactly had her Manman gone?

Was the space still there?

How to make a comeback against the wind?

Why hadn't she come back to find her yet? She still wanted to make a comeback against the wind with her daughter!

"Wuwa."

Zhou Manjin was still howling, crying until his throat was hoarse, without getting his mother's love.

Humans say that children who cry often get favoritism.

This sentence was wrong; clearly, he was crying, so why didn't anyone come to coax him?

Clearly, he was the bad woman who came to torture and kick his clone to death, so why was he the one being tortured by the other party now?

The fledgling Evil God hated himself for choosing the wrong person for the first time; if he had known this, he wouldn't have helped that Child of Destiny seize the opportunity of the Goddess's reincarnation!

He had lost his wife and his army, and his clone had been folded in!

It was too late to regret now; a hundred years of cultivation, just to take revenge on such a thing.

Instead of taking revenge on the other party, he had suffered all the hardships himself!

Misfortunes never come singly; after he was one year old, he would gradually forget the Evil God's original memory, degenerate into a mortal, and fall into mediocrity!

Damn it, he regretted it to death!

The infant's crying went from high-pitched to weak; many neighbors heard it, but they all hardened their hearts and didn't meddle in other people's business.

Their own food wasn't enough to eat; why help outsiders?

Not to mention that the mother and son were more abnormal than the other!

Now, behind their backs, they were all saying that Mother Zhou's death was suspicious; was it possible that Zhang Xuemei had set a trap?

If so, Mother Zhou had been with them for a long time, so they would naturally stand up for Mother Zhou.

Plus, the son Zhang Xuemei gave birth to was a monster!

They believed even more that Zhang Xuemei had done too many bad things and had ghosts taking revenge!

That was why the child Zhou Manjin had two extra tail fingers and an extra tail on his butt!

People spread rumors, and the rumors mixed with the guessed truth; Zhang Xuemei and her son's situation became more and more difficult...

But no one would reach out to help, because the story of the farmer and the snake was never a foreign story.

Similar events happening in the country were everywhere.

In this day and age, biological fathers would tear their faces off, publish in the newspaper to sever relations, and cut off their tails to survive, let alone outsiders...

Some are born in Rome, others are born as beasts of burden.

Gu Yinyin successfully gave birth to a healthy baby boy at the First People's Hospital. The Liu family treated her as a great hero, welcoming her home to sit through the month in style, asking about her well-being, and being meticulous.

Even the sister-in-law specially asked for leave to take care of her, doing everything herself, wiping her body, massaging her, and keeping her company to relieve boredom.

Both parents-in-law had jobs, and there was no shortage of milk powder at home.

The parents-in-law didn't require her to breastfeed the child, fully respecting her wishes.

Gu Yinyin felt that the pain brought by childbirth had passed.

As long as she saw the child healthy and saw friends and family around her, surrounding her, she felt that the bitterness had passed and the sweetness had come!

Especially when she saw her grandfather, her eyes instantly turned red.

The sister-in-law hurriedly coaxed her not to cry; sitting through the month, she couldn't cry, it was bad for her eyes.

Then she sensibly left the room, giving up space for the grandfather and granddaughter to reminisce.

"Grandfather."

"Yinyin, good child, Grandfather came late."

Elder Gu had aged a lot, and his body was far from as healthy as it had been two years ago.

It was mainly the successive blows, the sense of powerlessness, and the worry about the future of the Gu family that had turned his hair white and his back hunched in just one year.

After all, she was the granddaughter he had raised by his side since she was a child; although she was picked up, he treated her as his own and never thought of using her.

He didn't expect that heaven would play tricks on people, and for the sake of his future, his grandson still...

"Child, you've suffered."

"Grandfather, I haven't suffered. Don't blame Brother; it was my own willingness."

"The Gu family has raised me for so many years and treated me as their own. I also have the surname Gu. It is what I should do to contribute to the future of the Gu family..."

If it were the Gu Yinyin of the past, she would cry, make a scene, and refuse to accept her fate.

But the current Gu Yinyin had completely figured it out.

Because she hadn't married poorly; she had even married up. Even if her husband wasn't perfect, he was full of her!

Her husband gave her unique favoritism, and her parents-in-law gave her respect and confidence.

Her brother, sister-in-law, and sister-in-law also gave her love and courage.

Gu Yinyin used to wonder why God was unfair and couldn't give her a complete family.

But after getting married and being pregnant, she suddenly had no thoughts of self-pity; instead, she felt she was lucky enough!

Contentment is happiness; that was what she realized.

"Good child, don't cry, smile. Grandfather blesses you to be happy, happy, healthy, and worry-free for the rest of your life."

Elder Gu felt even more guilty; his granddaughter was too sensible, but his grandson was... living in blessings without knowing them, his ambition growing day by day; he didn't know if it was a blessing or a curse...

Old people, before they feel their time is up, always act like a flash of light before death, explaining their affairs and settling everything they are worried about.

He was just like that.

Gu Yinyin didn't know that this was the last time she would see her grandfather.

She only knew that her grandfather had come to visit her, and she hugged her grandfather's arm affectionately as before, talking about her husband, parents-in-law, sister-in-law, and child... ===== CHAPTER 278 =====