Chapter 49 Liu Xihua is pregnant again, and the family of three returns to her parents' home

"What's the matter? Humph!" Aunt Jiang looked at Liu Xihua with a sullen face, "Xihua, you've been married to our family for eleven years this year. Other families' children are about to graduate from elementary school. Where is your child?"

"I……"

"What do you mean by mine? Are you saying wait a few more years? I'm already over 50 years old, how many more years can I wait? I'm afraid I won't be able to see my grandson until I die." Aunt Jiang interrupted Liu Xihua.
"You can't have children, so what's the point of picking up a baby girl to raise? What great things can a girl do? I think, since you picked up one anyway, you might as well pick up another one."

"I picked up this baby from outside. It's a boy. I asked the doctor to check it out. There is nothing wrong with him. He is healthy and plump. You can take care of him. He can take care of you when you are old."

Aunt Jiang stuffed the child into Liu Xihua's arms.

Liu Xihua didn't answer. She touched her belly and said with a red face, "Mom, I'm pregnant again. I went to the clinic in my mother's home to see a doctor early this morning. I'm 40 days pregnant."

"At the banquet in the morning, she ate some meatballs and vomited all over the place. I thought she caught a cold. When she went to the health center to get medicine, they said they would only prescribe medicine after checking whether she was pregnant. After checking, it turned out that she was pregnant, not catching a cold." Jiang Daguo said with a simple smile.

"Aunt, my sister is pregnant, so we don't need to adopt a baby, right?" Liu Changping waved his hand and said when he saw Liu Xihua looked unhappy when she saw the adopted baby boy.

When Aunt Jiang saw that Liu Xihua refused to take the baby and her elder brother disapproved of adopting another one, she immediately became angry and sneered, "She's pregnant again? It's not like she hasn't been pregnant before. She's been pregnant several times, but has she ever given birth? She got pregnant and then lost the baby. It's better not to be pregnant at all."

Liu Xihua's face gradually turned pale, "Mom... I just got pregnant, can you please not say that?"

"What did I say? Was I wrong? You didn't miscarry once, how many times have you miscarried? Six or seven times? You are not ashamed to say you are pregnant again?!" Aunt Jiang glared at Liu Xihua and stuffed the baby boy into Liu Xihua's arms, "Hold it! Hold the boy and give birth to a boy."

Liu Xihua didn't answer and stood up.

She said with red eyes, "Mom, this child is Meizhi's, right? If she doesn't want to raise him, why should I?"

Aunt Jiang's expression suddenly changed. "Nonsense! You are wrongly accusing Meizhi! I picked this up in the city. It has nothing to do with Meizhi."

She denied it.

"What? Aunt in-law? This is your eldest daughter's child? This is very unreasonable. If my sister hadn't been pregnant, she could have just raised the child. But now she is pregnant, and it's your baby. You don't care about your own child, but your grandson. How can you be a mother-in-law like this?" Liu Changping protected Liu Xihua behind him.

"Brother, I don't care that you care about your sister, but this is our Jiang family's business. Your sister has not given birth to a baby, and she is right?" Aunt Jiang said angrily.

"She hasn't had a baby yet, isn't it your Jiang family's fault? You asked her to carry loads and do heavy labor as soon as she got pregnant. It would be strange if she didn't have a miscarriage. Even a strong man would have had a miscarriage." Liu Changping was completely furious. "I told you last time when I sent you wedding flowers that if she gets pregnant again and your Jiang family treats her badly as before, I will take her back to her parents' home. Anyway, my Liu family has many more rooms, two more than yours, and they are more spacious. She won't stand that!"

As he spoke, Liu Changping pulled Liu Xihua out.

After thinking for a while, he turned back, snatched Jiang Xiaoxiao from Jiang Daguo's hand and stuffed her into Liu Xihua's arms, "Let's go together."

Jiang Daguo was completely confused, "Brother, what about me?"

"If you want to go, we go together. If you can't bear to leave your parents, just stay at your home." Liu Changping turned around and looked at Jiang Daguo coldly, then pulled Liu Xihua to the tractor and helped Liu Xihua onto it.

Jiang Daguo had no choice but to quickly catch up, sit in the back, and hold Jiang Xiaoxiao in his arms.

Aunt Jiang stamped her feet in anger, "Leave and don't come back!"

Uncle Jiang saw that they were quarreling and sighed, "Daguo, come back here and talk to your mother."

"What are you talking about? You don't raise your own child, but raise someone else's!" Aunt Jiang scolded. "Xihua is pregnant." Uncle Jiang shook his head.

"Who knows if I'll have a miscarriage? In the past, the pregnancy ended in miscarriage after more than a month. This time, it's 80%, no, 100%, 100% certain that I'll have a miscarriage!" Aunt Jiang said angrily.

Liu Changping was about to start the tractor when he heard Aunt Jiang's endless chatter about miscarriage. He jumped off the tractor in anger and said, "Aunt, I have been suppressing my temper for Daguo's sake. If you say 'miscarriage, miscarriage' again, I will not be polite!"

He shook his fist angrily.

Jiang Daguo couldn't stand it anymore, "Mom, stop talking!"

"Well, even you are siding with outsiders? Get out of here!" Aunt Jiang stomped her feet in anger.

Jiang Daguo was scolded so much that he couldn't say a word.

Liu Changping returned to the tractor, started the engine, and drove away.

"Just go if you want to. If you have the guts, don't come back to live in my house, hum!" Aunt Jiang stomped her feet and cursed at the driving away tractor.

"Mrs. Daguo, is this baby...really Meizhi's?" Aunt Gui did not leave. She came over from the corner and asked Aunt Jiang with a smile.

Aunt Jiang was very angry because her son and his wife had run away and they didn't help to raise their grandson. She gnashed her teeth and scolded Aunt Gui, "You have nothing better to do than chew cow dung!"

Aunt Gui's face turned pale after being scolded, "You are the one chewing shit!"

She went off cursing.

Aunt Jiang carried her grandson back to the house. Uncle Jiang looked at the child and sighed, "Why did you bring a child back? Now tell me, what should we do?"

"This is Meizhi's child. What will happen if I don't bring him back? This is my grandson! Your dear grandson!" Aunt Jiang said in a low voice.

Uncle Jiang was shocked. "Ah? Is it really Meizhi's? The Huang family doesn't want to keep it, so they want you to bring it back?"

Aunt Jiang stamped her feet and said, "It's not the Huang family's. It's... it's that city guy Wu Deyuan who ran away."

Uncle Jiang's eyes widened, not knowing how to respond.

"But Xihua and Daguo don't want to raise this child, and we are both old, so how can we raise him?" When Grandpa Jiang heard that it was a grandson, he was worried for a moment.

If the animal is picked up from someone else and your son or daughter-in-law doesn't want to raise it, the worst that can happen is that you send it to the village brigade and ask them to find a way to raise it for someone who can afford it.

But this is my grandson, it would be unreasonable to send him away.

"Hmph, if Xihua and Daguo dare not raise Meizhi's child, I won't let them come back! Get out!" Aunt Jiang said gritting her teeth.
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Liu Xihua, Jiang Daguo and Jiang Xiaoxiao were brought back to the Liu family by Liu Changping.

When Liu's mother asked why, she learned that Aunt Jiang had picked up a boy and insisted that the couple raise him. If they didn't, they wouldn't be allowed to go home. Liu's mother, who was already dissatisfied with Aunt Jiang, sneered and said, "If you're not allowed to go back, then don't go back. Qiongxiang, Lamei, clean up a room for Xihua's family to stay in."

She called out to her two daughters-in-law.

(End of this chapter)