The HR manager immediately looked at her with a surprised look, but it was normal for single mothers in this era, so she was just surprised for a while, then stopped paying attention to this, and said to her with concern: "You are about to give birth. You still need help from your relatives around you, so it’s best to let your mother take care of you.”
The HR manager was kind-hearted. She didn't know what was going on between Jiang Zhuyin and Zhou Shichu, mother and daughter, and thought they had a normal mother-daughter relationship, so she made such a suggestion.
It's a pity that Zhou Shichu is no longer the original owner who regards his daughter as his life and lives for her, and will no longer help Jiang Zhuyin without any regrets.
Over the past few months, Jiang Zhuyin also gradually realized that since she insisted on having a child out of wedlock, she could no longer rely on her mother without any scruples as before.
"Mom is in poor health and is recuperating in her hometown. I don't know if she can help me." Jiang Zhuyin said in embarrassment.
"If you are just in general poor health and don't have any serious illness, it should be okay to help you take care of your child, right?" the HR manager said.
"You're right, I'll ask mom." Jiang Zhuyin could only say with a smile.
Of course Jiang Zhuyin hoped that Zhou Shichu could take care of her in giving birth and taking care of her children, so she called Zhou Shichu with a glimmer of hope:
"Mom, how are you doing back home recently? How is your health?"
Zhou Shichu was a little surprised when he received her call. After all, she had never called since the last time she had no money to pay the rent and wanted to hint that she failed to pay the rent. He didn't expect her to call again now.
"I'm in good health. It turns out that the environment in my hometown is nurturing. After returning to my hometown, I feel much more relaxed and in a better mood. I no longer have insomnia at night. Going back to my hometown is really the right choice." Zhou Shichu said with a smile. Jiang Zhuyin said happily, hearing her relaxed and happy voice, Jiang Zhuyin knew that her mother was doing well.
"It's good if mom feels happy." Jiang Zhuyin felt sour in his heart as he listened to her joyful voice. He felt that his mom would be able to live a better life without him.
"So how are you lately? Is the baby in your belly active? Does it bother you?" Zhou Shichu also went back and forth to care about his cheap daughter.
When Jiang Zhuyin heard her long-awaited words of concern, he immediately rubbed his nose, his eyes turned red, and a string of tears flowed down unprepared: "My child, my child is very good. Occasionally, I make a fuss... That's what I often do at night recently. Leg cramps, very painful..."
Jiang Zhuyin couldn't help but tell Zhou Shichu about the pain of pregnancy. She choked and said, "I didn't expect pregnancy to be so hard."
"Of course pregnancy is hard. After all, it is a magical process of bringing a child from scratch. This is what every woman who is a mother will experience. It was the same when I was pregnant with you, but your father was still there at that time, and I had cramps. He will give me a massage." Zhou Shichu poked Jiang Zhuyin's heart gently, "If your child's father was by your side, he would probably massage your cramped feet like your father, right?"
When Jiang Zhuyin heard what she said, she couldn't bear it anymore and burst into tears. She just felt aggrieved and sad. Why was she left alone and helpless?
Zhou Shichu heard her crying on the phone, but was indifferent because she asked for it. What did she have to feel wronged about? There were obviously other choices, but she chose the most difficult and worst path. No matter how difficult the path was in her previous life, she still had the original owner, her mother, to help her carry everything. But in this life, she has to bear it all by herself, so she feels like she can't bear it?
Jiang Zhuyin cried for more than ten minutes and finally cried out all the grievances, sadness and frustration in her heart. When she saw that the phone had not been hung up, she asked, "Mom, are you still there?"
"Yes." Zhou Shichu answered her, "Have you finished crying? Do you feel better? Sometimes if you feel too sad, you will feel better if you cry. I used to take you out to work when you were young, and it was like this when you were isolated and helpless. You cried like this."
Jiang Zhuyin was stunned for a moment. After a while, she asked quietly: "Mom, did I disappoint you?"
Zhou Shichu answered frankly: "You really disappointed me. I worked hard to support you in college, just hoping that after graduation you would have a good job and live an easier life than me. But what did you do? You are pregnant , you have to drop out of school, and insist on giving birth to a child with an unknown father. You have created many difficulties for yourself in a future that could have been much easier. You have beaten a good hand of cards to pieces, and you have followed my old path again. No, you are better than me. What's worse, at least you are my legitimate son, but the child you are pregnant with now doesn't even have a legitimate father.
I have experienced the difficulties of being a single mother myself, and I don’t want you to follow the same path I did. But if you are going to hit me head-on and find yourself unable to hold back, then I can only let you experience it for yourself and see if it is so easy to be a single mother. of.
Now, do you regret it? "
Jiang Zhuyin froze when she heard Zhou Shichu's last question. She opened her mouth and wanted to say that she had no regrets because she gave birth to the child of the man she liked. For love, she could endure anything...
However, even though she didn't want to admit it, she did regret it in her heart. She had suffered a lot in the past few months of pregnancy, but she had already paid so much, and now it was too late to regret it.
When Zhou Shichu saw her silence, he continued: "If you regret it, you can now contact the child's biological father and let him take responsibility. Your burden will be much lighter."
"No...I, I don't want him to know..." I don't know why, Jiang Zhuyin is so persistent and doesn't want Ouyang Muye to know that she has his child. It seems that if she tells him now, it proves that she is a borrowed child. A woman who is in a position of power and has a high position is no different from other women who are vain and vain. She does not want to leave such a bad image of herself in the heart of her sweetheart.
When Zhou Shichu saw that she was still so stubborn, he laughed angrily and said impatiently: "In this case, no matter how many grievances and difficulties you have, you can just swallow them by yourself. Okay, do you have anything else to say to me?" Did you say that? If not, then I will start to get busy."
Jiang Zhuyin felt very sad when she heard what she said, but she had no choice but to insist on it.
But in the end she asked tentatively: "My due date is at the beginning of next month. Mom, can you come back and help me?"
"No, I have planted a lot of flowers and plants in my hometown, and I can't live without people. If I don't take care of them personally, I will definitely lose everything. I will not even have money to eat in the future. Zhuyin, you are going to have a baby soon. They were asking for money everywhere and there was no way to support me, so I had to find a way to support myself," Zhou Shichu explained.
What else could Jiang Zhuyin say? She has no money to support her mother, so she can't let her mother take care of herself without losing all her money, right?
