bookcurios Chapter 188 Completely unaware that the child was still alive
Chapter 188 Completely unaware that the child was still alive
That happened eight years ago.
That early summer, Yang fell ill and was so weak that she spent all her time in bed.
At that time, Zhou Jingyi was only nine years old. In order to earn money to buy medicine for his mother, he followed Xiao Yuanshan into the mountains to hunt.
Ms. Yang was home alone.
I drifted off to sleep, and in my daze, I felt someone enter the house.
The man crawled into the blankets; his body was burning hot, providing comfort to her cold body.
In Yang's memory, the man who appeared that night was her husband who had been dead for many years, and she firmly believed that he had come back to see her.
But when I woke up the next day, the house was empty, there was nothing there.
Yang ran to the Zhou family and told them that Zhou Qingshan had returned.
The Zhou family members looked very strange at the time.
No matter what Yang said, everyone in the Zhou family insisted that Zhou Qingshan could not possibly come back; he was already dead.
Mr. Yang didn't believe it; he had really seen Zhou Qingshan last night.
She searched everywhere and asked around.
But no one in the village had ever seen Zhou Qingshan. They all said that Yang had gone mad, and even if she had seen him, it could only be Zhou Qingshan's spirit.
Everyone said so, so Yang could only wonder if she was really imagining things.
But a month later, her period didn't come, and when she went to the town's clinic, she found out she was pregnant.
Yang became even more certain that the person that night must have been Zhou Qingshan.
Zhou Qingshan is not dead.
She went to the Zhou family again to talk to them.
Wang scolded her very severely at the time.
For a long time afterward, Ms. Yang stayed at home, in a very bad mood.
Wang often went to take care of her and brewed medicine for her.
They told the public that Yang had gone mad because she missed Zhou Qingshan so much that they wouldn't let her leave the house.
Because she was thin and wore many layers of clothing in winter, no one knew she had a miscarriage.
She gave birth to the child one winter evening.
After that, Yang had no memory of this child.
The experience of having a child felt like a dream, a hazy, unreal experience.
Wang came every day to serve her medicine.
Six months later, after stopping the medication, Yang's mind gradually cleared.
"So, you didn't know Chun Ya existed at all? And you didn't even know if she was a member of the Zhou family?" Xu Yingying was very puzzled.
"I don't know. That memory is so blurry that I don't know if it's true or not, but I guess it's most likely a child from the Zhou family."
If it weren't for the Zhou family bloodline, given Wang's temperament, her daughter-in-law would probably have been drowned in a pig cage long ago for committing such a disgraceful act.
How could he possibly serve her until the child was born?
"What about your memories of Zhou Qingshan?" Xu Yingying asked again.
"I don't know. The Zhou family kept saying that Zhou Qingshan was dead, and she believed it. Since she regained her senses, she hasn't thought about what happened that year. My feeling is..."
Yang Fenglan's expression was solemn. "If I had to describe it, I might have really gone mad that year."
"In other words, you have no idea what happened that year, but the Zhou family definitely does. Like you said, if the child isn't from the Zhou family, they have no reason to take responsibility."
"Do you think it's possible that this child is of the Zhou family bloodline? Perhaps it really is Zhou Qingshan who has returned. And then, when the Zhou family saw that it was a girl, they decisively sent her away. If it had been a boy, they probably would have found all sorts of reasons to take him into the Zhou family," Xu Yingying speculated.
"It's not impossible."
Yang Fenglan didn't want to dwell on things that happened so many years ago, and they happened to other people anyway; she couldn't understand them anyway.
Yang Fenglan looked at Chunya solemnly, "Child, I'm sorry, it's not that I don't care about you, I was sick back then and had no idea you were alive."
Chun Ya pouted with a wronged expression, looking at Yang Fenglan timidly. She seemed to have heard a lot of incredible things, but given her age and limited understanding, she couldn't comprehend what they were saying.
All I know is that it seems my mother didn't abandon her on purpose.