Now, she watched helplessly as her daughter risked her life to save her mother-in-law’s old lady.
Mrs. Jiao, heartbroken, felt as if her chest was blocked by a stone, suffocating, unable to breathe.
"Oh no, look, Zhenbang’s daughter-in-law is bleeding!"
"What? Bleeding? Where?"
In panic, Mrs. Jiao frantically felt He Tiantian’s body, trying to find the injured spot.
A relative of the Jiao Family, pointing to He Tiantian’s legs, stammered, "Look! Here! Jiaojiao, could it be, isn’t she—" pregnant?
And then, after the recent rough handling, did she have a miscarriage?
At this, not just Mr. and Mrs. Jiao, but even Granny Qiao and Qiao Zhenbang, who were around Granny Qiao, couldn’t help but be stunned. Get full chapters from novel-fire.net
Others didn’t know "Jiao Jiao" was pregnant, but the Qiao Family did.
However, since it hadn’t been three months yet, and according to custom, pregnancies under three months weren’t publicly announced.
But now, seeing He Tiantian’s blood flowing profusely, Mrs. Qiao’s heart plunged to the depths—
The child in her daughter-in-law’s womb might not be saved.
This was her grandchild.
Despite "Jiao Jiao" throwing her weight around at home these days, Mrs. Qiao had tolerated it, all for the sake of the child in her womb.
Uh, of course, the dominance of the Jiao Family, as well as the Qiao Family relying on Jiao Jiao’s dowry, were also reasons.
But, Mrs. Qiao indeed valued the child in her daughter-in-law’s womb highly.
Moreover, not to sound unpleasant, the reason the daughter-in-law was still willing to stay in the Qiao Family rather than actually divorce Qiao Zhenbang was because she was pregnant.
If the child was gone, the sole connection between "Jiao Jiao" and Qiao Zhenbang would also be severed.
What the future of this couple would look like, Mrs. Qiao herself couldn’t guarantee.
"Jiaojiao, wake up, what in the world happened to you?"
Mrs. Qiao left her mother-in-law and ran to He Tiantian, holding her hand, calling her with concern.
"What are you yelling for? Aren’t you going to get the money?"
Mrs. Jiao had always looked down on the Qiao Family, especially since her own daughter was unassertive.
Because of her daughter, Mrs. Jiao had to swallow her disdain and bow her head to Mrs. Qiao, not knowing how much grievance she had endured.
But today, seeing her daughter in this state, Mrs. Jiao’s long-suppressed rage fully erupted.
She snapped at Mrs. Qiao with disdain, "What are you looking at me for? Didn’t you say we’re going to the hospital? Does the hospital not require money?"
Mrs. Qiao:... Of course, I know the hospital requires money, but the problem is, the Qiao Family has no money left.
These days, because of He Tiantian’s high-handed behavior, Mrs. Qiao’s savings were completely depleted.
Now, the Qiao Family had really returned to the years when the children were still not grown up, without a penny in the house, truly penniless.
Moreover, even if the Qiao Family still had some money, they couldn’t withstand having two patients.
With granny Qiao’s frail condition and another "Jiao Jiao" in the hospital, without spending at least one hundred yuan, don’t expect to return.
As for what Mrs. Qiao held in her hands, let alone one hundred yuan, she couldn’t even procure ten yuan.
Mrs. Jiao was laughed at by her anger, "Your Qiao Family, after all, has two grown men and the children are all grown up. When you got married, our Jiao Family didn’t ask for a penny as a bride price!"
"We didn’t ask you to build a house, there was no banquet, and in the past two years, your Qiao Family had no big expenses, how come you don’t even have the money to take care of the old lady and the daughter-in-law?"
At this moment, Mrs. Jiao looked at Qiao Zhenbang, "Oh, that’s right, Qiao Zhenbang occupies a spot as a robust laborer, yet does nothing productive!"
"A grown man in his twenties, with a wife and a child, still idles every day, not working the fields, not earning money, really thinks of himself as the young master of a landlord’s family!"
"A man, unable to take good care of the elderly or support his wife, do you still have the face to live?"
"It’s only because my daughter was blind that she favored such a worthless fool—"
Mrs. Jiao seemed to vent all her resentment.
Before the cart arrived, she pointed at Qiao Zhenbang and scolded fiercely.
Qiao Zhenbang, embarrassed and blushing deeply, wished he could find a hole to crawl into.
Just after experiencing shattered dreams, knowing his future might not be that of a magnate or important figure, he was already feeling very low.
Granny’s accident, his wife’s fearless acts, and his mother-in-law’s public reproach had fully awakened Qiao Zhenbang—
What have I been doing all this time?
I, Qiao Zhenbang, am a grown man, yet I’ve truly become a good-for-nothing, a vagabond.