"I’m not going, if Guang Yuan ends up in prison, it’s better not to have this child; being born with a father who has been in prison is worse than not being born at all."
Lin Jiayi’s stubborn tears were so heartbreaking for Mother Lin to watch.
"What nonsense are you talking about, it’s already been so many months, how can you just say not to give birth? Never mind, I’ll go find that foolish girl."
When Lin Jiadong came over, he saw the messy scene, and didn’t understand why everyone was fussing around in such heavy rain.
"Should I still go call Dad?"
"Yes, go bring your dad back here, and I’ll go to the village chief’s house to find their tricycle."
"Why do you need a tricycle? Is my sister going to give birth? Should she go back to the Li Family to have the baby? If not, don’t call Dad. I’ll go to Brother Sun and borrow their tricycle to take my sister back to the Li Family."
Lin Jiadong’s words had hardly ended when he received a slap on the arm, "Do what you’re told without all this nonsense."
Lin Jiadong felt he wasn’t being nonsensical—he was genuinely concerned. His elder sister was already married. Even if she stayed at her parents’ home, she couldn’t possibly give birth there.
But seeing the look in his mother’s eyes, speaking further might just earn him another beating, so he obediently went to get a raincoat and left.
Mother Lin, heart aching, couldn’t overpower her daughter’s stubbornness, "Are you sure we shouldn’t go to the clinic?"
Lin Jiayi nodded, "Mom, I can endure. Even if I give birth, I want him to be able to see his father right away."
Mother Lin had no choice but to entrust Lin Jiayi to Li Dongmei and covered herself with a plastic tarp before going out to look for a vehicle.
A bicycle definitely wouldn’t work in this weather.
It was only after seeing her mother leave the courtyard that Lin Jiayi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Seeing her sister-in-law looking anxiously at her belly, she stretched out her arm, "What are you looking at? Help me onto the Kang to rest."
Li Dongmei immediately supported Lin Jiayi’s arm, following her like a little maid. After a few steps, she spoke anxiously, "Sister-in-law, aren’t you supposed to be giving birth?"
"Give birth to what? There’s still over half a month to go. Wouldn’t giving birth now just add chaos?"
Li Dongmei nodded— the house was already in chaos; their eldest sister had run off somewhere, their brother had been taken away by the police, their mother was still crying indoors. If her sister-in-law really went into labor now, it would indeed be troublesome.
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Mother Lin didn’t say anything else when she arrived at the Sun Family’s, simply borrowing their tricycle to head to the county.
The village chief, knowing that Lin Chuxia was prepared, directly instructed the eldest at home to drive them there.
Outside the Xiyang Food Factory, Lin Chuxia was not surprised by Mother Lin’s arrival, though she thought she came quite quickly.
She expected they would only come the day after tomorrow at earliest, but this couple braved the rain to come.
It seemed that her big sister held a higher place in their hearts than she had imagined.
"They always say Old Qin Family’s daughter-in-law is capable and sensible, but look, her own mother is scolding her, she’s not that great after all. Putting her brother-in-law in a police station while her sister is pregnant, no wonder they say rich people are cold-hearted, it’s really true."
"I say Ma San, are you deaf or blind? Or is it your brain that’s faulty? Have you forgotten what happened a few days ago? Moreover, Factory Director Su has said it was not them who reported it."
The person speaking was indeed Ma San, whose house is next to the food factory. Hearing the commotion, he didn’t even finish his dinner and hurried out.
However, his words immediately drew displeasure from the people around.
"That’s right, Ma San. I’ve heard your chickens all died of bird flu recently, do you know why other people’s chickens were unaffected, but none of yours survived?"
"Why?"
Ma San suddenly looked serious.
His home’s chickens had been wiped out by bird flu recently, and he had suspected something was amiss.
Could it be someone from Xiyang Food Factory was behind this?
The person continued speaking, "Because you’re too immoral, always enjoying others’ misfortunes, and in the end, you became the joke."
Ma San’s face darkened immediately.
"In my opinion, even if the food factory did call the police, they should have. The incident that day was so loud, it needed to be clarified, really making people think there’s something wrong with the factory’s deli products. I heard even customers came to the factory to inquire, if there was a real problem, all contracts would be stopped."
"Exactly, even my son told me, he works at the food factory, having such relatives really is bad luck."
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