After the divorce, I became a rich girl

"What happened when I was born? It's been a long time since then. Why are you asking about this all of a sudden?"

"I'm just curious, Mom, why did you choose to give birth to me in Xishi Chinese Medicine Hospital?"

Cheng Ping gently handed the bottle to his granddaughter, letting her drink it by herself, then picked up the phone and turned off the hands-free function. "Didn't I tell you a long time ago?" She smiled and continued, "More than 30 years ago, your father and I worked on a construction site in Xishi. In order to earn more money, I didn't return to my hometown in advance to prepare for the birth of my baby. I thought that although I couldn't do heavy work, I could still do light work. I originally planned to return to my hometown a week before the birth, but who knew that I would be so tired after moving half a basket of tomatoes that day that I gave birth prematurely. Fortunately, the contractor of the construction site was there, and he quickly drove me to a nearby Chinese medicine hospital. I am usually in good health, but that day was a coincidence. I spent five or six hundred yuan to give birth to you."

Li Jiawei listened quietly to her mother's narration, and could still feel from her tone the deep pain for the few hundred dollars spent at that time.

"Mom, didn't anything special happen in the hospital?" Li Jiawei asked. The hospital has strict management of mothers and babies and a set of mature rules and regulations. The chance of taking the wrong baby is almost non-existent, otherwise who would dare to give birth in the hospital.

Li Jiawei never doubted that the parents would switch their children. She knew that the possibility was even lower than the probability of the hospital taking the wrong baby.

She recalled an incident her mother Cheng Ping had mentioned. She said that after she was born, she was taken back to her hometown. At that time, there was an uncle in the village who grew up with her father and lived a wealthy life. Because he had been married for many years but had no children, he came to her home to discuss with her father, hoping to take her back to raise her. Her mother was a little tempted at the time. After all, the family's conditions were limited, and she might live a better life with that uncle.

However, her father Li Jianguo firmly opposed it. He said: "If I can give birth to this child, I can raise her. If I have money, I can raise her in wealth. If I don't have money, I can raise her in poverty. But I will never let the child starve. If I can give birth to a child, I have the ability to raise it. What's wrong with giving birth to a child and not raising it myself but giving it to others to raise."

"Oh, now that you mentioned it, I remembered something. Thinking about it now makes me a little scared."

"Mom, what's going on? Tell me about it."

"There was another woman giving birth at the same time as me. She entered the delivery room before me, but because of the wrong position of the fetus, she could not give birth. The doctor suggested that she have a caesarean section and told her that if she did not have the operation in time, both she and the baby would be in danger of death. However, her husband and mother-in-law firmly disagreed, saying that babies born by caesarean section are not as smart as those born naturally. It is ridiculous, and I don’t know where they heard this fallacy from. Later, when I came out of the delivery room, I heard that the woman had died of dystocia, and the baby was out of breath as soon as it was born because it was held in the mother's body for too long. It was really pitiful."

When Li Jiawei heard this, she couldn't help but think of the day she had a miscarriage. If she hadn't called Zhao Chenyue for help in time, if Zhao Chenyue hadn't happened to be near her home, would she have faced the same tragedy? She took a deep breath and wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes. Some things, once they become scars in the heart, can never be erased, and every time you think of them, you will feel heartache.

"Then what?" Li Jiawei asked.

"Then? Of course the woman's husband didn't want to, he said it was the hospital that killed his wife and child, so he grabbed a knife from the fruit stand outside the hospital and rushed in, yelling that he wanted to chop the doctor. He even rushed to our ward, and your father saw that something was wrong, so he picked me up and hid away. What's worse is that the hospital warehouse was on fire at that time, and the whole hospital was in chaos."

"What about me? My dad took you away, and you just don't care about me anymore? Are there any parents like this?" Li Jiawei complained half-jokingly.

Cheng Ping couldn't help but laugh a few times when he heard Li Jiawei's complaints. "You were taken by the nurse for a physical examination at the time, so you were not with us. But it took less than ten minutes for the hospital security to subdue the man. Although there was a lot of smoke in the warehouse, the fire was not big. The cleaning staff put out the fire with a bucket of water. But the whole thing was really stressful, so I took you out of the hospital on the third day."

After hanging up the phone, Li Jiawei's thoughts drifted far away. She felt an inexplicable sadness in her heart. Maybe it was during that chaotic time that she was taken away by mistake. If that was the case, she had to sigh at the tricks of fate and the unpredictability of the world.

After bidding farewell to He Zhizhou, Li Ronghua took Jing Qiu, who was crying, back home. The servants in the house all stayed away from them. They knew something must have happened in the master's house, because they had never seen Jing Qiu cry so carelessly. In their impression, Jing Qiu was always gentle, dignified, generous and elegant. Now that she looked like this, they naturally did not dare to disturb her.

Zhang Qiushuang sat in the courtyard, watching the goldfish swimming in the pond, with a stack of photos on her legs. When she saw Li Ronghua and Jing Qiu coming over, she sighed and pointed to the chair opposite, "Sit down."

Li Ronghua helped Jingqiu sit down first, and then sat down himself. "Mom, you didn't take a nap?"

"It's already this late, how can I still sleep? Have you seen that child?" Zhang Qiu Shuang asked.

Li Ronghua nodded and said, "I saw it."

Zhang Qiushuang frowned as she looked at Jing Qiu who was crying non-stop, and said in a serious tone, "Don't cry, it's already happened, what's the point of crying anymore. Now, what do you two do about this?"

Jing Qiu wiped her tears and looked at her husband, as if waiting for him to come up with a solution. She knew that at this time they needed to face this problem together, instead of feeling sad and blaming each other.

Li Ronghua sighed deeply and spoke slowly, "The last paternity test proved that she is indeed my daughter. She has not lived well for 33 years. I think giving her more money might be a good idea, at least to improve her life a little."

Zhang Qiushuang stared at Li Ronghua and said in a somewhat unhappy tone, "Ronghua, are you really not going to take her back?"

Li Ronghua sighed and said, "Mom, if I recognize her back, what about Xuanbao? She is living well in the Yang family now, and I don't want to disrupt her life because of this." His words revealed his deep fatherly love for Li Xuanbao and his concern for the stability of the family.

Zhang Qiushuang frowned after hearing this. "Ronghua, she is also your daughter. You can't ignore the other because you favor one. Your big fanfare in looking for your biological daughter has already disrupted her peaceful life. Now that you have found her, you just want to use some money to settle the matter? Is this your way to solve the problem?"

Li Ronghua was somewhat helpless. "Mom, what do you think I should do? What about Xuanbao?"

Zhang Qiu Shuang stood up and said sternly, "How should I know what you should do? She is your daughter. It was your mistake that caused her to leave you for thirty-three years. She has lived a life that did not belong to her for more than thirty years. You should now think carefully about how to make up for the lack of affection for more than thirty years and how to make her feel the warmth of family, instead of just thinking about how to solve the problem with money!"

Li Ronghua was speechless at his mother's words, but he knew that his mother was right. He also wanted to make up to her emotionally and financially, but his fatherly love had already been given to Xuanbao, and now he really needed to think carefully about how to balance the relationship between him and his two children.