She was covered with injuries, and her husband had passed away.
All that the other party enjoyed was stolen from them with despicable means. They stole it away by stepping on her husband’s bones and drinking her blood.
This happy and peaceful life should have belonged to their family!
Old Lady Xia hated it.
The more she hated it, the more obvious the pain became, and the more she couldn’t sleep.
She didn’t know how long it took, but there was a bustling crowd outside the ward.
She closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, and then heard that Shijianwu‘s grandmother was sent to the ward next to her.
When there were only the two women and the newborn in the room, Old Lady Xia opened her eyes again, staring at the pale woman with closed eyes in the bed next to her with hatred.
Why did the victim have nothing and everything was destroyed?
While the perpetrators were living a happy life with plenty of food and clothing?!
She was unwilling to accept this.
She was also unwilling to let this family have an easy life.
Old Lady Xia knew that this was her only chance, and she had to make a decision as soon as possible.
Soon, Shijianwu‘s grandfather found know that his wife had a premature birth and came to the ward to visit his wife and newborn daughter.
After leaving this ward, she would never have the chance to approach and retaliate against this family again. How could she, a widow, shake the section chief of a government unit?
So Old Lady Xia, despite her painful body and her torn wounds, walked to the bed next to her step by step.
Looking at the peaceful sleeping faces of the woman and the child, she slowly picked up the pillow and wanted to smother both the mother and the daughter.
But when she was about to do it, she heard the mumbling of her daughter behind her and calmed down again.
She knew that if she killed the mother and daughter and avenged her husband, her daughter would become the offspring of a murderer and would be drowned in spit in this era. It was conceivable what kind of miserable life she would live since childhood.
Her brother and sister-in-law couldn’t treat her child as their children.
Looking at the woman and the sleeping baby girl, a bold idea came to her mind.
Not long after, the nurse entered the ward again and saw two pairs of mothers and daughters sleeping.
When newborns were born, their skin was red and their appearance was similar.
Therefore, the most obvious means used by obstetrics to distinguish children was the different colors of swaddling clothes.
After confirming that the color was correct, the nurse checked the child’s body temperature again. Everything seemed normal, and she didn’t think much about it.
How could the nurse have thought that the heartbeat of the woman who was lying next to Shijianwu‘s grandmother was beating like a drum, and she couldn’t calm down for a long time?
Old Lady Xia swapped the two children.
She had done all kinds of work in the countryside, raising chickens and ducks, and delivering pigs, and she had already trained her hands.
She only needed to take a closer look at the swaddling clothes when she opened them to know how to wrap them and in what order.
And what she did was indeed discovered by no one.
Later, Shijianwu‘s grandparents took the initiative to find her and expressed their apologies to her, saying that they had no choice at that time.
They have been living in guilt for these years, and they also said that when Old Lady Xia and her husband drafted the rehabilitation letter together, they signed and agreed immediately.
Although it was too late, they still wanted to make up for their guilt and wanted to compensate Old Lady Xia.
Facing the couple’s guilt, Mrs. Xia just said very calmly:
Let the past be the past, I don’t hate them anymore.
She held the child in her arms, and looked at the couple’s backs as they left, and a happy smile appeared on her face.
She didn’t hate them anymore.
Because her daughter would get the best of everything, the love of her parents and brothers, a rich and fulfilling family, and a smooth life, and she would be spoiled like a little princess.
Her daughter would get back the life she deserved.
After saying all this, Old Lady Xia stared at the dull-looking ‘Shijianwui’ and asked gloomily:
“Now you come to judge, is your family innocent or is my family innocent?”
Shijianwu’s throat was dry, and he said hoarsely after a while:
“But, but these are the grievances of the older generation, and have nothing to do with the younger generation! These emotions should not be vented on us!”
Old Lady Xia laughed coldly: “Yes, everyone always says that the child is innocent, but has anyone ever thought about a child who has no father, whose mother is looked down upon, and whose family has no money? What kind of life will your daughter live?
“Isn’t my daughter innocent?!”
“If your grandparents hadn’t done those things, I wouldn’t have needed to change the child, because my daughter would have lived a good life since she was born. It’s your grandparents who should have been sent to labor camps, and it’s your mother who should have lived a hard life!”
She said, and laughed foolishly twice: “I just put everything back on track.”
“I didn’t do anything wrong, it’s them who were wrong.”
“They deserve it.”
Looking at the crazy old woman, Gu Zhisang sighed lightly.
She knew that many years ago, on the night when her husband died in the countryside, the old lady had gone crazy.
The audience in the live broadcast room was speechless for a long time, not knowing how to express their current mood.
A highly praised comment was finally pushed to the front, representing the voices of countless viewers:
[Another mess that can’t be settled…]
Many people think that Old Lady Xia is indeed suffering, and they can understand her desire for revenge, but the mother and son are indeed innocent.
If she wants to take revenge, she should take revenge on the person who reported her husband, not torture the younger generation.
Shijianwu looked at the old lady’s hateful face and felt very tired and wronged.
He looked at his mother who was haggard on the bed, with a nasal voice:
“Grandma, I have called you grandma for more than 20 years, and my mother has called you “Mom” for almost 50 years. We have never been unfilial to you for a day, even if you have a strange temper, even if you don’t like my dad…”
“You have been mother and daughter for years, didn’t you feel any softness in your heart?”
Old Lady Xia’s body suddenly stiffened, and she couldn’t speak for a long time.
The audience in the live broadcast room realized that she had never looked at the bed from beginning to end.
Maybe it was because of guilt.
Gu Zhisang sneered, with an ambiguous meaning: “She was touched and soft-hearted, but your mother looked more and more like your biological grandfather as time passed by in her eyes.”
“Looking at you two, the hatred in her heart could not be reduced at all. She might want to treat your mother as a daughter, but she couldn’t do it whenever she saw that face.”
From the complicated and entangled relationship between Old Lady Xia and her children, it is enough to see that her feelings for her “helpless” mother are extremely complicated.
Gu Zhisang lowered her eyes slightly and said: “But one thing is certain, the luck-transfer spell on you was indeed cast by her on purpose, but the demon on your mother… or the devil? In short, it has horns on its head and looks like a beast. It doesn’t look very smart and strange. This thing has been entangled and tormenting your mother for so many years. It is not her initiative to cast it and want to torture and hurt your mother.”
She paused for a moment and thought of a more accurate statement:
“It should be said that the old lady never thought of hurting your mother subjectively, but the pain your mother suffered was indeed caused by her.”
“In fact, the person who was entangled by the devil should be your grandmother.”
Gu Zhisang: “Old Lady Xia, am I right?”
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