358: 341 nd the pen after a sheep is lost (first update) 358: 341 nd the pen after a sheep is lost (first update) Regarding the death of their eldest daughter, both Chu Qing and Quan Sifang felt self-bla and guilt.
However, so much ti had passed that the past could not be erased, nor could ti be restarted.
Dean Niu ca out of the hospital, having aged considerably compared to his appearance back in the day, but Chu Qing recognized him imdiately.
“Doctor Niu, Doctor Niu,” Chu Qing called out, waving at Dean Niu.
Indeed, the person who had been just a doctor at the hospital years ago was now the dean.
Hearing his na called, Dean Niu looked over.
It was a family of four; the middle-aged couple looked sowhat familiar.
“Chu Qing, Sifang,” Dean Niu was quite surprised, “Why, it’s you!
Haven’t you gone back to the Imperial Capital?”
“We’re revisiting old places.
We wanted to see our old friend here.
It’s quite the coincidence to run into you just as we arrived,” Chu Qing said with a smile.
“Co on, let’s go to my office.
It’s really not easy to see you.
And who are these two?”
“This is Dabao, and this is Erbao,” Chu Qing looked at the two children, “Say hello to Uncle Niu.”
“Hello, Uncle Niu.”
“Are these boy and girl twins?”
“Yes.”
“When did you co?” Dean Niu poured a cup of tea for each of the couple and asked.
“We’ve been here for a few days.
The other day we ca to the hospital too; my nephew’s wife gave birth here, also to boy and girl twins.”
“These past few days, our hospital has delivered only one pair of boy and girl twins.
Could it be Su Xiaofeng you’re talking about?” Over the past couple of weeks, the hospital had only delivered Su Xiaofeng’s twins.
Su Xiaofeng’s case had made a particularly deep impression on Chu Qing.
“Yes, that’s her,” Chu Qing joked, “Can this dean still rember the records of all the patients in the hospital?”
Dean Niu wasn’t originally from obstetrics.
“Of course not,” Dean Niu then rembered sothing, “You said Su Xiaofeng is your nephew’s wife, is your nephew Ye Cheng by any chance?”
“Right,” Quan Sifang nodded, “That’s him.
Do you know them, Dean Niu?”
“Ye Cheng is quite skilled in dicine; I have always wanted to recruit him.
But from what you say, I guess I know why he has been hesitant to accept my offer.” Dean Niu knew Ye Cheng wasn’t local.
If he wasn’t mistaken, Ye Cheng must have co from the Imperial Capital, and he probably had reasons for concealing where he was from.
“Haha, making that kid practice dicine would indeed be underselling him,” Quan Sifang obviously could not disclose Yecheng’s true identity.
“Haha, it seems my eye for talent isn’t bad; I spotted a good prospect right away,” Dean Niu was very satisfied with his own judgnt, “This ti you ca to visit the child from back then, didn’t you?
So many years have passed, but you still can’t let go.”
Chu Qing’s voice trembled, “She was the baby I carried for ten months; how could I just let go?
After all, we feel guilty about her; if I hadn’t suddenly fallen ill back then, and Sifang hadn’t been so rushed as to neglect the child, she might have…”
“Having you two as parents is a fortune for this child.
The past is the past; you also need to try to let go,” Dean Niu hadn’t expected that after so many years, Chu Qing and Sifang were still haunted by that infant’s death.
“It’s not that we can’t let go.
We just brought her brother and sister to see her,” Quan Sifang held Chu Qing’s hand, “Xiaonian and Xiaoyan have always been nagging to visit their sister.”
“Back then, you handed the baby to to deal with; you asked to find a nice place to bury her.” At that ti, Chu Qing’s life had been in danger, and they had had to return to the Imperial Capital overnight; Sifang couldn’t take the baby along and had left her with him, instructing him to find a good place to bury her well.
Chu Qing looked nervously at Dean Niu, waiting for what he would say next.
“How about this, tomorrow morning, I’ll take you there,” Dean Niu had buried that baby girl under a pear tree on a small hill in his hotown.
He had not returned for many years and didn’t know whether that small hill had been developed.
“Yes, thank you so much,” Chu Qing had always worried that her eldest daughter had been disposed of carelessly.
Hearing that she had been well buried, she finally felt sowhat comforted.
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“Look at these two little ones, how lively they are,” He Xii held Dabao, and Guaizi held Erbao, finding them cuter and more irresistible the more they looked.
“Exactly,” Guaizi looked at his two little nieces and nephews, overjoyed, “Have they been nad yet?
I think the twenty-sixth of this month is a good date.”
As Guaizi spoke, he raised his voice and called out to Xiaofeng in the room, “Xiaofeng, ask Ye Cheng if the twenty-sixth is okay for the full month celebration?”
“Dad, whatever you decide is fine,” Xiaofeng wasn’t concerned about the celebration for the full month.
“Then let’s settle on the twenty-sixth; if not, next month is fine too.” After next month, it would be December, and after December, the New Year would arrive.
“I just don’t know if Ye Cheng will co back to his hotown.” Guaizi was a bit troubled, as he was unclear about the current situation between Ye Cheng and Xiaofeng.
He wanted to hold the full-moon celebration earlier for personal reasons, for if Ye Cheng appeared at the celebration, others wouldn’t have the chance to gossip.
If Ye Cheng didn’t co for the full-moon celebration, who knows how awful the village folks would speak.
“When Ye Cheng cos back, discuss it with him.
This is a big deal, so it’s best everyone decides together.”
Guaizi thought so too.
When Ye Cheng heard that Guaizi planned to hold the full-moon celebration on the twenty-sixth, he naturally had no objections, “Dad, I have no objections; it’s just that I should be the one organizing this, but since my parents are far from here, I can only trouble you all.”
“These are just trifles,” Guaizi didn’t mind the details.
“Once Xiaofeng’s confinent is over, I want to take her to my ho,” Ye Cheng thought it over and decided to speak up.
This was sothing Xiaofeng had agreed to herself.
Guaizi opened his mouth, but eventually nodded, “A holy bride always has to et her in-laws.”
After all, she was married; how could she always live in her parents’ ho.
Soone knocked at the courtyard door, and Great Aunt i went to open it, frowning slightly when she saw who it was, “What are you here for?”
Great Aunt i rembered these two; their last visit had brought no good.
The people outside the yard were none other than Luo Yuzhu and Lin Yue.
With a forced smile, Luo Yuzhu said, “Big sister, I heard Xiaofeng had a baby, and I ca to see her.”
Luo Yuzhu only knew after visiting Xiaofeng’s ho that the original house had caught fire, and upon not finding anyone there, she learned at Xiaofeng’s factory that Xiaofeng was living here.
He Xii was in the courtyard holding the baby and getting so fresh air when she saw Luo Yuzhu and her daughter.
Her tone was not pleasant, “I wondered who it could be.
It’s you guys, what’s the matter?”
Luo Yuzhu imdiately noticed the chubby baby in the arms of the plump woman, looking extrely adorable.
“Plump lady, Lin Yue and I are planning to leave here.
We specifically ca to say goodbye to Xiaofeng.
Is Xiaofeng here?” Luo Yuzhu’s attitude was not as arrogant as before, much gentler.
“You’re leaving here?” He Xii responded with a frown.
“Mom, let them co in,” Xiaofeng called out from inside the house.
Smiling at He Xii, Luo Yuzhu walked into Xiaofeng’s room with Lin Yue.
Xiaofeng was sitting by the bed, already dressed and planning to enjoy so sunlight in the courtyard.
She looked at Luo Yuzhu and her daughter and pointed to two chairs nearby, “Have a seat.”
Luo Yuzhu placed so baby items aside, “These are for the twins.
After all, we’re mother and daughter; consider it a little sothing from to the children.”
“Sister Xiaofeng,” Lin Yue sounded much more composed than before, “My mother and I are planning to leave here and live sowhere else.
Sister Xiaofeng, thank you for helping the last ti.
Without you, I don’t know what would have happened to .” She was naive, not incapable of distinguishing right from wrong.
Sister Xiaofeng had saved her; it was a favor she would of course rember.
“After everything I’ve been through, I just want to live a good life with Lin Yue.
The way I am now, I definitely can’t stay in the county any longer, so I want to move sowhere else,” with the Lin family gone, her dream of being Mrs.
Lin had also ended.
She and Lin Yue’s better days ahead would have to depend on themselves, relying on others was not feasible.
“Where do you plan to go?”
“We might go to Dongcheng; I heard it’s easy to find work there.” Luo Yuzhu had so money left, and if they could settle down quickly in Dongcheng, they wouldn’t have to worry about the future.
“Isn’t she going to school anymore?” Xiaofeng looked at Lin Yue.
“With my current grades, hoping to get into a good university is out of the question.
I’ve thought it over, instead of wasting ti in school, I’d rather start working early.” During this ti, her classmates had learned about the troubles at ho and pointed fingers at her, and she was almost at her breaking point.
“As long as you both have thought it through yourselves.” She wasn’t Lin Yue’s mother and couldn’t plan everything for Lin Yue.
If Lin Yue didn’t want to study anymore, and even Luo Yuzhu didn’t object, it wasn’t her place to say anything.
“Xiaofeng, about helping Yueyue, I heard it from Yueyue,” Luo Yuzhu picked up a piece of luggage nearby, “Xiaofeng, you didn’t hold a grudge against , and even helped Lin Yue.
I am very grateful for that.”
Xiaofeng stared at the bag in her hand, not understanding what she intended to give her.
“Over the years, I kept asking myself whether stealing you back then was right or wrong, but so mistakes have already been made, and talking more about it doesn’t help.
This bag contains the clothes you were wearing when I took you ho.
I brought them here today in the hope that one day, you can find your birth parents.”
So mistakes have already been made; is it too late to nd now?
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