Chapter 4 — I Raised My Children Alone

7My back hit the wall so hard it hurt so much that I let out a soft groan. Tieu Bao probably heard, the barefoot boy ran out, put his hand in front of me, raised his head and glared at Giang Dien, not letting him touch me anymore. Giang Dien bent down to look at the boy, smiled coldly, and calmly said: "You are just like your mother, so hateful." I saw Tieu Bao's eyes gradually turn red. That one sentence probably broke the boy's heart. Under his pillow he always hides a photo of Giang Dien. The boy has long known that Giang Dien is his father. During the painful nights of illness, Tieu Bao slept in my arms. In his dreams, he often saw his father returning home. He said that his father missed Tieu Bao very much, just like Tieu Bao missed his father, and always secretly cried. He said that his father would not leave again, nor would he let his mother have to work so hard. But then when he woke up from the dream, Tieu Bao also met his father. But what he heard was: "You're just like your mother, so hateful." Giang Dien just looked at Tieu Bao, then withdrew his eyes. He looked frustrated, frowned and threw me a bank card, his voice indifferent: "Use it to treat your beloved child, one million or ten million, it's up to you to spend." "Don't go drinking with others anymore, and don't forget to thank my wife." After saying that, he hugged On Uyen and turned to leave. Tieu Bao looked at his back as he gradually disappeared, softly calling: "Dad..." Then the boy turned back, holding back tears, softly telling me: "Mom, Tieu Bao doesn't need dad anymore." His face was serious as if he had many things to say, but suddenly he coughed violently, mouthfuls of fresh blood spurted out, sticking to the floor, my body, and even the picture of Giang Dien that he was holding tightly in his hand. I watched Tieu Bao collapse in my arms, hearing the boy weakly say: "Mom, I'm not dirty, I'm very clean. Tieu Bao was not good, dirty my clothes." "Mom, let Tieu Bao go, don't keep Tieu Bao anymore, don't let yourself suffer like that anymore..." I listened to my child's voice getting smaller and smaller, watching him slowly close his eyes, I frantically screamed his name. I still haven't had time to tell him, what mother in this world doesn't want her child? You are a piece of flesh that I carried for ten months, a part of my body that fell. The surrounding nurses rushed over, picked up Tieu Bao from my arms and took him to the emergency room. I tried to force myself to stay calm, then ran after them. When I raised my head, I saw Giang Dien rushing from the end of the hallway, tears falling like rain, his voice trembling and asking me: "Dong Nien, did someone call you dad just now?" 8 I watched the emergency room door slam shut, the red light turned on, then fell down and sat on the floor, speechless. Giang Dien reached out to help me up, but I grabbed his hand, biting hard, using all my strength. He didn't avoid it, just endured it silently, waiting until I felt the smell of blood, until I ran out of strength, then I collapsed and pushed him away. I stood up myself and desperately asked him: "Giang Dien, why did you come back? Why do you have to bother me! I just want us to end in peace, I live alone very well..." He gritted his teeth, interrupted me, asked again: "Dong Nien, you ask why I came back? Don't you know? It's because I miss you like crazy!" "Are you saying you live well? You borrow money from everywhere, drink with people, self-destruct "You think I want to find you to cause trouble? I'm so hurt by you that I can't stand it anymore, tell me what to do with you!" "Dong Nien, you betrayed me, so what right do you have to talk about breaking up peacefully?" Giang Dien grasped.

He tightened his grip on my shoulders and looked straight into my eyes. You want an answer, so I'll give you one. That year, when we graduated from college, Giang Dien cut ties with my family because he wanted to marry me. He was shunned by everyone, couldn't find a good job, and couldn't earn a penny. He didn't say anything but secretly hid from me and went to do manual labor at the construction site. I still remember, at that time, he was tired every day, even when sleeping, his eyebrows were furrowed, but his eyes looking at me were always full of gentleness and steadfastness, filled with love. He said he would try to make money, buy a small house, put my name on it, and then give me a real home. We will get married there, have children, and just hold hands and live a peaceful, happy life. Until I was pregnant, and he had an accident at a construction site, fell from a high floor, and almost lost his life. The doctor said that if not treated promptly, Giang Dien could be paralyzed for life. I know Giang Dien is a very proud person, this is more painful than death for him. That day, I went to beg Giang Dien's mother, asking her to save her son. I will never forget the look of contempt and disgust in her eyes when she looked at me. She said that she did not lack a son, and it was okay to lose Giang Dien, even though Giang Dien was once the pride of the entire Giang family, the most outstanding person. But a Giang Dien who cannot inherit the Giang family is no longer her son. On what basis did she have to spend three million to save a useless person who no longer had any value? That was the first time I knew that people could be so cruel. That day, I knelt on the floor, banged my head until my forehead was torn, and begged her to lend me three million. I said, I will leave Giang Dien. Sometimes I thought that Giang Dien would hate me to death. But never mind, who says that if you love deeply, you must be a couple? As I spoke, I grabbed Giang Dien's shirt and frantically shouted at him: "Don't you want to know whose child Tieu Bao is?" It's so miserable! He's about to die, but you still don't come to find me?" I slapped Giang Dien hard, then laughed and asked him back: "Giang Dien, why am I looking for you? Let me give up everything and follow me again? Do you think your mother will forgive me, forgive Tieu Bao?" "Giang Dien, there are more important things in this world than love. I just want to live in peace, why do you keep bothering me?" I can be cured! I don't need your money, even if I have to borrow, steal, rob, I don't need your money! I can cure him alone..."He is very obedient, every time he gets an injection or medicine, he doesn't cry. The doctor said he can completely recover. Until Giang Dien appeared, along with On Uyen, once again destroying my peaceful life. 9. That day, Tieu Bao was promptly saved by a doctor, but fell into a deep coma. No one knows when the boy will wake up. I blankly looked at the boy lying quietly on the hospital bed, looking like he was just having a good night's sleep. In my blurred vision, I saw On Uyen secretly smiling. She pretended to sigh, frowned and reproached me: "Miss Dong Nien, if you had told A Dien and I sooner, it would have been better. I'm not a narrow-minded person, I can let the boy go to Giang's house and call me mom."

suffered so much, all because you pretended to be noble, almost killed him..." She probably thought she could finally rest assured. Tieu Bao survived but it was as if he died, and between me and Giang Dien, there was a wound that could never be healed. She thought that I would never forgive Giang Dien, and in the end the person who married Giang Dien would definitely be her. She forgot that before I gave up Giang Dien because I wanted a life. But now, everyone knows that Giang Dien and I have met again, and that our child has grown up, and there are many people who will not let me live in peace. I think, if they don't let me live in peace, then neither of us can have peace. Before On Uyen finished speaking, Giang Dien coldly interrupted her, told her to shut up, and then go away. I quietly looked at the child lying on the hospital bed, hearing Wen Uyen's frustrated cry behind her back. She asked Giang Dien: "A Dien, how can you chase me away just because of Dong Nien?" "I've been with you for so many years, how you like me, that's what I will become. I love you more than Dong Nien, don't you know?" "A Dien, I will definitely do better than Dong Nien, I will never betray you, don't leave me, okay..." Hearing her words, I smiled slightly, then turned to Giang Dien and said: "Giang Dien, I've changed my mind." "I want you to marry me and take me home, to the Giang family. I want everything you have, give it to me." Then I smiled, looked at On Uyen's expression, saw her face pale as ashes.