Tian Guifang regretted deeply when she learned that her husband had secretly become the direct promoter of this tragedy.
Although she was somewhat opposed to Qiu Decai, she had no issues with Cai Zhongsheng. Therefore, after Cai Zhongsheng was killed by her husband, he always felt a sense of guilt.
That night, after Cai Zhongsheng's accident, her daughter Wu Ying, who was placed in the cradle, suddenly woke up and cried loudly. Tian Guifang went over to pick her up and said, "Yo'er, your life is really hard, you are not even one year old yet." My mother died an untimely death, and my father will definitely have to pay for the murder with his life, and the family will be separated. How pitiful! Poor!
How could Wu Ying, who was not even one year old, know this and still cried loudly. Normally, when I wake up, that is, when I wake up an hour ago, my mother is still there. Knowing that her crying is causing trouble, I will definitely give her a piece of urine or hold her in my arms to let her finish the poop, and then wipe it clean. Then he naturally put his breast into her mouth. She sucked, her face with a few teardrops buried in her mother's arms, and her crying stopped.
But now everything has changed, and the child has no idea. She kept crying in Tian Guifang's arms.
In order to stop the child from crying for the time being, Tian Guifang unbuttoned her breasts and stuffed an exposed shriveled breast into her mouth.
She sucked hard at first, but then maybe she felt that there was no milk in the breasts, so she gave up and continued to cry.
Tian Guifang had no choice but to hold her in her arms and go out with a flashlight to find a lactating woman in the south of the village to feed her temporarily.
This is not a long-term solution either. Tian Guifang suddenly had an idea. After Cai Zhongsheng's funeral, she took Wu Ying to Willow Manor to be raised by her grandparents.
But Wu Ying has poor health, is ill, and is a girl, so she can't help the Wu family. For these two reasons, her grandparents are naturally unhappy.
When her condition got better that time, Grandpa Wu Jiaguang took Wu Ying back to Liulin Village and handed her over to Tian Guifang. He said that although the child was his granddaughter, they were unable to raise her and asked Tian Guifang to do the good thing to the end and accept Wu Ying. This baby.
Tian Guifang was stunned for a moment, feeling that if she refused, she would be even more ashamed of her deceased mother, so she took Wu Ying from Wu Jiaguang's hand.
When he saw that Wu Ying had become skinny and skinny, he was worried about whether he could feed him.
Wu Jiaguang was a little excited when he saw Tian Guifang taking Wu Ying. He took out a bag of milk powder from his bag and handed it to her and said, as for this naughty child, you can raise it if you can. If you can't raise it, you can give it to someone to adopt. The adopted daughter depends on fate.
Tian Guifang reluctantly took the bag of milk powder, muttering to herself: Since I can feed this little kid, why do I care about a bag of milk powder?
At this time, she looked at Wu Ying, who had fallen in love with Tai before he was even one year old, and felt pitiful.
When Tian Guifang teased her, she smiled slightly, but the laughter was hoarse and sounded sad.
Tian Guifang has clearly felt that this baby who has not yet finished infancy and should cry easily is no longer as easy to cry as before.
Crying is a normal expression for normal babies, but after losing her mother and maternal love, she seemed to have been deprived of even the right to cry. Her expression became a little numb, and even if she occasionally smiled, her eyes became dull.
This situation was clearly caused by being yelled at, "kicked", or even abused by the child's guardian.
Tian Guifang felt heartbroken just looking at Wu Ying. After the child's grandfather left, she once again gave Wu Ying to the woman in the village who had breast milk to feed her for a few days.
But after all, it couldn't last long. During this period, Tian Guifang asked people everywhere to contact anyone who was willing to adopt Wu Ying.
There was a couple who had not been pregnant for many years and had no children under their knees. They wanted to adopt Wu Ying, but when they saw her skinny appearance, they were afraid that they would not be able to feed her, so they did not dare to take her.
Tian Guifang wanted to convince her husband to raise Wu Ying as an adopted daughter. The husband disagreed, saying that the child had a difficult life and raising her would affect the family's fortune.
Tian Guifang gave up the idea of raising Wu Ying. She still came up with a feasible way and urged the village to come forward and send Wu Ying to the orphanage for feeding.
Tian Guifang used this to balance her guilt for not being sorry for Cai Zhongsheng. Whenever something bad happened, he would inevitably become suspicious and always thought that the deceased Cai Zhongsheng was to blame. He would often buy some incense, candles and money to burn in front of Cai Zhongsheng's grave on the hillside behind him, and then kowtow to ask for forgiveness and blessing. He also comforted and said, Zhongsheng, Zhongsheng, I sent your little boy Wu Ying to the orphanage. From now on, you can have nothing to worry about and rest in peace!
That night, Tian Guifang went home and heard from her husband Qiu Manfu that Wu Ying was sick in the orphanage and wanted to see her.
The husband said he heard about it from Qiu Jiangshui, who lives in a welfare home in the village. Qiu Jiangshui is a semi-blind man. His eyes are covered with a layer of white since he was born. They are not completely invisible, but a little dim. When he meets people face to face, if he looks at them, the two eyes look like they are bound by cocoons. His eyes were always unwilling to be hindered and wanted to shake them off, but they turned around helplessly, revealing the round whites of his eyes. Tian Guifang had an impression when talking about him.
He has never been married and has never been able to get married. Which woman would want to be with him? Both of his parents are deceased. He is also over sixty years old. Although he has several biological brothers, they all have their own families. They have young children and heavy burdens, and none of them is willing to assume the obligation to support him. Fortunately, the government has opened a social welfare home. Qiu Jiangshui belongs to the category of widowers and lonely people. If they meet the conditions, they will naturally be arranged to retire there.
Tian Guifang also heard that Qiu Jiangshui had gone home that day, and she went to look for him before he left.
As soon as she walked out of the house and walked through a field, she heard the bell of a cow. When she shined a flashlight, she saw Qiu Jiangshui leading a yellow cow to the owner's pond to drink water. This reminded her very sensitively of Qiu Decai's family. In order to retaliate against Qiu Decai, the scalpers ate the rice ears in her field, and as the problem became more complicated, a murder was committed.
At this moment, Tian Guifang felt guilty about Cai Zhongsheng. She stood on the roadside and waited until Qiu Jiangshui led Huang Guniu from the edge of the pond, then asked him about Wu Ying's situation.
Qiu Jiangshui said that it was not clear what illness Wu Ying was suffering from now, but it was serious anyway, and the director of the orphanage had sent her to the hospital for treatment.
Tian Guifang wanted to visit Wu Ying in the hospital, but she didn't know which hospital she was in, and she didn't know even if she asked Qiu Jiangshui.
Qiu Jiangshui said he would find out more tomorrow and then tell her.
Tian Guifang did not wait for the news and rushed to the orphanage not far from Qiu Jiangshui's orphanage the next day. To her surprise, the people at the orphanage told her with a heavy heart that the orphan named Wu Ying died in the hospital last night. , is now being placed in the morgue. This morning the hospital committee will discuss whether to send it to a funeral parlor for cremation or to dig a hole in the wild and bury it directly. The results will come after a while.
Tian Guifang had an idea and went directly to the dean who was preparing to hold a meeting to discuss the matter. She said, you don’t need to send Wu Ying’s body for cremation, just take it back to the hillside behind Qiujiazhuang and bury her next to her mother’s. Reuniting mother and son at the graveside.
The dean immediately agreed, because this way, not only would there be one less thing to do, but it would also save time and money. If it was sent to the funeral home for cremation, a fee would have to be paid.
So, the dean arranged for an employee to take Tian Guifang to the store to tear off a roll of white cloth, and then rushed to the hospital morgue to take out Wu Ying's hardened body of Xiao Shui, wrap it in white cloth and hand it to Tian Guifang. They called a car to take Tian Guifang back to Qiujiazhuang.
Tian Guifang took Wu Ying's body out of the car, and many villagers came to watch. Qiu Manfu temporarily hammered nails and built a rectangular wooden box. He packed Wu Ying's body wrapped in white cloth and nailed it with a wooden board to seal it.
Tian Guifang said, poor child, I will bury you next to your mother’s grave right away, so that you mother and son can be reunited!
Qiu Manfu glared at Tian Guifang and told her that the child died in infancy and could not be buried with the adults' graves. It would be unlucky to be buried together.
As a result, several villagers carried the wooden box containing Wu Ying's body and buried it on a low hill half a mile away from Cai Zhongsheng's grave.
Tian Guifang did not follow, but said in her heart, poor child, I want you and your mother to be reunited, but it's a pity that we can't go against the customs. As a grandmother, I can only wish you to be reborn into a wealthy family next time.
