She Only Cares About Cultivation-Chapter 877 - 805: Famine Era 46

"Is the baby born already?"

"Yes, but your condition is not good. There’s some tearing. Once the rain stops, we need to get to the hospital quickly, because you’ve lost a lot of blood and you’re in confinement. You need to take good care of yourself. Don’t be afraid, I’ll be with you. For the time being, I’ll help take care of the baby for you."

The woman looked at Ye Huan with tearful eyes, "You are a good person. Did you help me deliver the baby?"

"Ah, haha, yes. My mom is a midwife, so I know a bit."

Luckily, tonight I dressed rather plainly, obviously looking like a rural person.

"Are you married? What does your family do?"

"Married, just a farmer, you know."

"Do you have any children?"

"No, we tried for two years but had no luck. My sister is having a baby, so I rushed home to pack things and happened to run into you. Are you feeling uncomfortable anywhere? Do you want to use the bathroom? Or are you hungry? I have some dessert here, would you like some?"

"Sis, why are you so kind? I’m just a stranger, yet you gave me everything you had."

The woman must have gone through something, as her eyes were full of sadness and pain. Ye Huan’s kindness only made her even more grateful, clutching her hand and crying uncontrollably.

"Don’t cry now, you’re still in confinement. You must take good care of yourself. Here, don’t be shy, eat something to keep yourself going. If we can’t leave tonight, make sure to keep warm, and tomorrow morning I’ll find someone on the road to take you to the hospital."

"What about your sister, then?"

"It’s okay. It’s her first child, so things are progressing slowly. Besides, it’s raining so heavily, my mom won’t blame me, haha. Oh, I’ve been so caught up talking, you haven’t seen your son yet, have you? This big, fat boy, he’s so handsome."

Just as Ye Huan wanted to hand over the child, the woman showed strong resistance: "No, I’m not his mother, I don’t want this child."

Ye Huan was stunned, "Sister, what nonsense are you talking about? This boy crawled out of your belly. I delivered him, didn’t I?"

This matter seemed to trigger the woman’s sorrow, and she suddenly started crying uncontrollably, speaking as she cried.

"I was wrong, Sis, I was really wrong. Back then, my parents were against me marrying him, saying his family was poor, with too many siblings, all burdens. But I didn’t believe it, wouldn’t turn back until I hit the wall. As a result, my parents broke ties with me."

"I thought I found happiness, but why did everything change after marriage? I became their servant. Everyone ordered me around, told me to do this, do that. Even when I was heavily pregnant, they made me cook and move things. Today I couldn’t move something and asked a neighbor for help; his mom saw it and said I was flirting with someone even while heavily pregnant. I felt she was insulting me, so I argued back a bit."

"When he came back, his mom complained. And this man—I gave up everything to marry him— without distinguishing right from wrong, slapped me! It stunned me. Back in my room, the more I thought about it, the more I felt my mom was right, I regretted it, I really regretted it." 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎

"So I packed my things overnight, wanting to leave this horrible place. But it started raining. My stomach hurt more and more, then I got faint. What happened after is a blur, but Sis, you gave me food and water and saved me, that I remember clearly. I don’t want this child, do with him as you will, just don’t send him back to that man. He doesn’t deserve to be a father, a hypocritical university teacher!"

"In front of others, he acts so nice, treats me well, but in private, he’s extremely selfish, a male chauvinist. Earlier he saw my parents as useful and fawned over me. Once I cut off ties with my family, he showed his true colors. Tell me, how could I have been so blind back then?"

...

Ye Huan had not expected the woman to have such a bizarre story.

"It’s not too late to realize now. After all, the child is a piece of your flesh, can you just abandon him like that?"

The woman cried her heart out, "It’s not that I don’t want him, Sis, but how can I raise him? I don’t even know where I’m headed, taking him along is a dead end for me. I can’t go back to my family; that man will definitely come looking for me. I can’t cause problems for my family. So, I have to leave here. As for the child, let us pretend we have no mother-son bond. Given how much I’ve already sacrificed for him, I hope you can find him a good home, so my giving birth to him won’t be in vain."

The woman said as she tried to leave, scaring Ye Huan who quickly grabbed her: "You are in this condition, how can you still think about leaving? At least get your health back before going anywhere. Otherwise, you might run into trouble before even leaving Beijing. I’m telling you, your situation is not optimistic; you must come with me to the hospital. As for this child, I can help find him a family and will keep your secret, but you must come with me to the hospital. We aren’t short on time, are we? Your health is your most important asset!"

After much persuasion, the woman finally agreed. Ye Huan breathed a sigh of relief, worried she might leave in the middle of the night, and couldn’t sleep a wink. Nor could she even if she tried, as the child kept crying and fussing. The woman, fearing she might grow attached to the child, resolutely refused to hold him.

She couldn’t blame her. As a fellow woman, she sympathized with her ordeal. The more she rejected the child, the more it showed how unfortunate her marriage was.

She expressed it in just a few words, but the suffering behind it could only be truly understood by the person who experienced it.