“Doctor, the child is in great pain. Can you prescribe some painkillers?”
Xie Changzheng watched his daughter calling for her mother in a low voice and burrowing into his wife’s arms. There was no trace of him as her father in her eyes. He suddenly retreated the steps that were originally approaching the bed and stood four or five steps away from the bed, asking the doctor in a low voice.
“Aren’t you afraid that using too much anesthesia on a child this old might damage her brain?”
The female doctor glared at Xie Changzheng.
She heard that this man was a soldier, so his allowance should be quite high. How could he force his child’s mother to become like a grandmother?
Even the child on the hospital bed had wounds that began to fester and was only rushed here by her mother. No relatives had come to visit her in the hospital in the past few days.
“You can only let the child endure it. If conditions permit, go to the supply and marketing cooperative to weigh some candy and let the child have a sweet mouth. Maybe she will forget the pain in her head.”
Seeing Xie Changzheng’s humbly seeking advice, the female doctor’s expression eased a lot and she gave Xie Changzheng an idea.
“Hey.”
Hearing that there was such a way, Xie Changzheng’s eyes suddenly lit up.
He looked at his daughter who was sobbing softly on the bed with a rare look and then left the ward reluctantly with crutches.
Because the wound on her head was too painful, Ah Wu couldn’t stop crying at this moment. When Xie Changzheng left, she could only see a tall and broad unfamiliar back in her misty eyes.
Ah Wu felt that she seemed to have seen this figure somewhere before, but compared with the figure in her memory, it seemed to be much more hunched.
Before she had time to think about it, her head began to ache again. Ah Wu could only hug her mother and sob softly.
***
“Mom, you said that the Third Brother is back!”
Xie Xiuzhu, who had just come back from school and learned about the big things that happened at home in the past two days, stood up in surprise, with a look of horror on her face.
As far as she could remember, the Third Brother did not retire at this time.
Xie Xiuzhu clenched her sleeves and began to wonder whether this change was the butterfly effect brought about by her rebirth, or whether Xie Changzheng had the same opportunity as her. (T/N: Yes, she is the last one, haha… Interesting, right?)
In her previous life, Xie Xiuzhu and this promising third brother did not have a good relationship.
According to the original trajectory, Xie Changzheng would retire soon due to disability, but he was injured because he made meritorious service on the battlefield, and he was already a deputy battalion-level cadre before retirement.
After retirement, Xie Changzheng was directly arranged by the army leaders to serve as deputy director of the Public Security Bureau of Yunmao County in his hometown, and his allowances and other welfare benefits remained at the original level.
Even if he was disabled, perhaps he would stop at the position of deputy director in this life, which would be enough for him to have no worries about food and clothing in the future.
Now that they were closer, Xie Changzheng naturally took his wife and daughter to his side to take care of them.
He was not a stupid man. In the past, they were rarely together and perhaps he could not see the fact that his wife and daughter were being treated badly.
Now Xu Chunxiu and Xie Wu were living under his nose, but some people in the Xie family still did not know how to restrain themselves. With Xie Changzheng’s intelligence, he naturally discovered the truth that he had overlooked before.
Later, some things happened.
Xie Changzheng gave up on these relatives in his hometown. Even Miao Fengmei, his biological mother, could only get the most basic support.
Xie Xiuzhu watched Xie Wu, the little girl who was inferior to her in every way, live a life like a young lady and finally marry a very outstanding man who only cared about her.
Xie Xiuzhu’s jealousy almost swallowed her.
After discovering that she was reborn, Xie Xiuzhu was excited.
She instigated the old lady step by step to make Xie Wu live a more unbearable life than in the previous life and did not remind Xie Changzheng, her Third Brother, to avoid disaster.
Everything was going as she planned.
But now Xie Changzheng has come back early.
Although she heard that he was still disabled and the possibility of rebirth was slim, Xie Xiuzhu still couldn’t let go of the heavy stone in her heart.
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Translator’s Comment:
What a good sister!!! May you die in peace!
Btw, Xie Xiuzhu’s rebirth has different nodes than the other two people.
I let you know this point first, lest you be confused in the next chapter. I’ll explain it further in the next chapter.
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Ah! So, XW wasn’t dead in the very first (original) timeline. But, XXZ was so jealous of her that she reincarnated/reborn and changed to history into the one with XW being dead and XCX being insane, making the second timeline. Then, XCX and XCZ were reborn in this (third) timeline. 🤔
Guess, XXZ is the main villain in tgis arch. What a waste of second chance (of life) for such selfish and greedy person. She only learn and know how to harm weak people and kill a child to satisfy her vanity and greed.