Rebirth 78, the beginning of the marriage was broken off by the female educated youth

The delivery room was still filled with a faint smell of disinfectant, mixed with the sweetness of milk and brown sugar.

Wu Wanchun was leaning against the head of the bed, her face finally showing some color. She was gazing down at the child in someone else's arms, with a soft light unique to motherhood at the corner of her mouth.

Zhou Yuejin sat on the edge of the bed and peeled an apple. The apple peel was connected into a long strip and hung to the ground without breaking.

When Li Xiangnan supported Qin Ruobai in, this was the peaceful scene he saw.

Qin Ruobai's belly was already noticeable, and she walked a little clumsily, holding a net bag of newly bought malted milk and brown sugar in her hand.

"Hurry up and sit down!" Zhou Yuejin hurriedly stood up and offered his seat. Wu Wanchun also looked up and gestured with a smile, his eyes full of gratitude.

Qin Ruobai came closer to look at the child and couldn't help but exclaim: "How handsome! His eyebrows and eyes are like Sister Wanchun, and his nose is like Brother Yuejin."

As she spoke, she pulled out a small red cloth bag from her pocket and carefully tucked it into the corner of the swaddling clothes. "My mother went to the temple to get a peace amulet for the child to use as a pillow."

Just as everyone in the room was talking and laughing, the child suddenly burst into tears again.

The cry was unusually sharp, not like the cry of an ordinary baby, but rather like the cry of a baby suffering from great torture.

It was this shrill cry that made Li Xiangnan focus his attention on the person holding the child as soon as he entered the door!

"Give me the baby!"

At this time, Li Xiangnan frowned and shouted loudly, and everyone's attention was attracted to him!

This man, who had been so kind yesterday and had saved Wu Wanchun and the child, and saved both the Zhou and Wu families, now had a gloomy look on his face. This expression made everyone a little confused!

Including the one holding the child!

At this moment, the woman holding the child was an old lady in her sixties, with a smooth bun, wearing a navy blue slanted-collar jacket, and a heavy silver bracelet on her wrist - she was the second wife of the Wu family's branch.

She rocked the child while adjusting her holding position with apparent skill. After slightly cheering herself up, she squinted at Li Xiangnan, then ignored him completely, still tossing the child around in her arms: "Oh my, little darling, are you shy? Hold me and you won't cry."

But Li Xiangnan keenly noticed that her hand, hidden under the swaddling clothes, was pinching the child's leg with an unnatural force.

The child's crying became more and more shrill, and his little face turned purple.

"Brother Yuejin, who is this?" Li Xiangnan didn't recognize her. He hadn't seen this person in the past two days, so he quickly stepped forward.

"It's...it's the second wife of the Wu family!" Zhou Yuejin felt that his tone was not right, put down the knife for peeling apples, and stood up.

"Second Madam, let me see the child." Li Xiangnan took another step forward, his voice gentle but with unquestionable strength.

Second Grandma raised her eyelids and hugged the child tighter in her arms. Her silver bracelet clanged against the bed rails. "What? Don't you trust me? I've raised more children than you've ever eaten rice! When Yuejin's father was a child, I was the one who comforted him every time he cried."

As she spoke, her eyes swept across the room with deep displeasure. This was a respected elder of the Wu family. Zhou Yuejin felt uneasy under her gaze and hurriedly tried to smooth things over: "Xiangnan, Second Grandma is the elder, she has experience..."

"Experience?" Li Xiangnan's voice dropped. "Experience is making a child cry until they pass out?"

He reached out to take the child, "Give it to me!"

At this time, several relatives of the Wu family nearby were shocked.

A middle-aged man in work clothes suddenly stood up and said, "Comrade Li! You're going too far, aren't you? Do you know how to respect others?"

A stranger on the side shouted, "Second Grandma is well-known in our clan for her longevity and good fortune. All the children she has blessed are healthy and blessed."

Another woman with permed hair chimed in shrilly, "That's right! Yuejin didn't say anything, so why are you, an outsider, putting on so much airs? Are you looking down on us Wu family members?"

Li Xiangnan turned around and looked around. Of the Wu relatives who had thanked him yesterday, only a few familiar faces were left. He didn't recognize most of these people today.

Second Grandma curled her lips in satisfaction and pinched the baby in the swaddling clothes with her skinny fingers.

The child cried so hard that he almost suffocated, and his legs kicked desperately in the swaddling clothes, as if trying to escape from some torture.

A cold light flashed in Li Xiangnan's eyes. He said no more and walked forward.

He just made a feint with his right hand, and while Second Grandma was distracted, his left hand reached in like a dragon, and with a light and skillful move, he took the child into his arms.

The whole set of movements was smooth and flowing, and it turned out to be the technique of a trained practitioner.

"Rebellion! Rebellion!" The second grandma was caught off guard and stumbled into the bedside table, causing the enamel pot on it to fall to the ground with a bang.

She slapped her thigh and howled, "You Zhou family relatives are beating people up! Outsiders are bullying our Wu family!"

Li Xiangnan ignored him completely and quickly put the child on the bed and undid the swaddling clothes.

The child's two tender lotus root-like legs were bent at a strange angle, especially the purple pinch marks on the right leg, which were shocking.

"Oh my God!" Qin Ruobai covered her mouth and tears fell.

Zhou Yuejin's face turned pale, and his fists clenched so tightly that they made a clattering sound. "Second Madam! What...what's going on?!"

Second Grandma's eyes flickered, but she stiffened her neck and yelled, "Children's bones are soft, so what if they're a little bent? All the children I raised were like this. They'll naturally straighten when they grow up!"

Li Xiangnan frowned, and gently held the baby's calf with his warm big hands, massaging and combing it very gently with a special technique.

His movements were skillful and steady, with a strange rhythm - those were the blood-activating and bone-setting techniques he learned from his grandfather and father, the old Chinese medicine practitioners in his hometown.

Strangely enough, after just a moment, the child's crying weakened and turned into sobs of grievance, and his legs gradually returned to their normal position.

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Li Xiangnan's brows furrowed even more tightly.

"what happened?"

Zhou Feng entered the ward carrying food from the cafeteria and saw Li Xiangnan tidying up the child on the bed. Everyone standing around him looked unhappy.

"Dad!" Zhou Yuejin shouted angrily and aggrievedly, holding him back, his eyes repeatedly looking at the face of the second grandmother of the Wu family.

Zhou Feng was suspicious and quietly put the thermos on the ground. He said softly, "Xiao Li, this..."

"Uncle Zhou! Wait!"

Li Xiangnan shook his head, his fingers gently stroked the child's delicate soles, and suddenly stopped - there was an almost invisible tiny needle hole there, with slight redness and swelling around it.

"Doctor Ming, go get the tweezers! Alcohol!" Li Xiangnan said in a cold voice, turning his head and shouting at Ming Zhangju who was standing at the door.

"Hey!" Ming Zhangju ran away quickly.

Zhou Yuejin also hurried over to get equipment from the nurses' station.

Under everyone's astonished gaze, Li Xiangnan carefully disinfected the area with alcohol cotton and then accurately inserted the tip of the tweezers into the tiny needle hole.

An embroidery needle about an inch long, flashing with a cold light, was taken out intact!

There was still half a piece of red thread on the end of the needle, the kind commonly used by old ladies in the countryside.

Everyone was shocked!

What's happening here?