Countdown to Awakening

What a jinx! If she hadn't come in, how could that bitch Yingdi have died? She caused her eldest grandson to have no milk to drink the moment he was born...

Mengdi looked at her mother, who would never wake up, in bed, feeling wronged. Then she looked at her grandmother. She knew that her grandmother would dislike her even more after her brother was born. If only her mother were here... She was the only one in the family who loved her and her sister.

Chen Jiade's mother's attention soon shifted to her eldest grandson.

"Oh my, my eldest grandson is so adorable... Look at those big eyes, he takes after his dad! They're practically cut from the same cloth... And that nose is so ugly, it's obvious he got it from that stinky bitch..."

After a while, Chen Jiade came back.

"Mom, let me see my son... He's so cute... He's so handsome... I'm so lucky to have a big fat boy."

As soon as Chen Jiade came back, he rushed to his mother to see his son.

"Son, give him a name. This precious grandson must have a nice name, right? What name would you like to give him? I'll listen to you, as long as it's nice."

Chen Jiade thought for a moment. Since this was his chubby son, he definitely needed a grand name. How could he have a son with an ugly name?

"How about calling him Tianci? Mom, what do you think of calling him Tianci? It sounds nice and grand. My son, Chen Jiade, is a gift from God, so let's call him Tianci."

"Tianci? Tianci is good... It's a good name, let's decide on it, call him Tianci. Tianci... Our eldest grandson will be named Tianci... The incense of our Chen family can finally continue..." Chen Jiade's mother hugged her eldest grandson and smiled from ear to ear.

Chen Jiade turned around and saw Mengdi hiding at the bedroom door.

"What are you doing squatting there, you money-loser? You're so unlucky!"

Chen Jiade then remembered Yingdi. "Where's that bitch? What's wrong? Why isn't she talking?"

At her mention, Chen Jiade's mother's face suddenly darkened. "What are you talking about? She's been gone for a while. It's all your eldest daughter's fault! If she hadn't gone in, would your wife have died? It's all because of that jinx!"

As Chen Jiade's mother spoke, she looked at Mengdi with a vicious expression.

Chen Jiade couldn't contain his fury upon hearing this. "Mengdi?! You money-loser! Who told you to kill your mother? Did you know your brother had no milk to drink from birth? No one will take care of him in the future? I still have to take care of him? It's all your fault, you money-loser!"

Mengdi remained huddled there, not daring to speak. She was still silently crying. She missed her recently deceased mother dearly. But she knew her mother would never come back.

Seeing that she didn't answer, Chen Jiade rushed over, picked her up and slapped her.

"You jinx!! Who told you to kill your mother?! You're a money-loser! You eat and use things from home, and now you've killed your mother!!"

Mengdi's tears flowed even harder, repeating what she had said before: "It wasn't me who killed Mom, it was my brother! Mom died when he was born, so why are you blaming me?!"

Chen Jiade was about to raise his hand to continue beating Mengdi when his mother stopped him: "Stop it! It's not good to beat and scold our Tianci right after he was born. Stop it... Our Tianci is the most important. It's useless for you to beat this damn girl."

Because of this sentence, Mengdi was not beaten again.

Chen Jiade asked, "Mom, what do you think we should do with that woman? Taking her to the crematorium would cost money, and there's no place to bury her directly... It's not a good idea either way."

"If she dies, she dies. Anyway, our son has been born, and the incense of our Chen family has been passed on. This way, there will be one less person to eat at home... She was greedy when she was pregnant. She ate so much, but the son she gave birth to is still so small... Didn't she absorb all the nutrients?" After saying this, she looked at her eldest grandson in her arms with heartache.

It was so tiny, it must not have eaten anything good in the womb.

"So what are you going to do, Mom? I'll listen to whatever you say."

"Just throw it anywhere. Isn't there a pagoda in the back of our village? Just throw it there. What are our financial resources? Cremation is expensive, and burial requires money and effort. Holding a funeral would cost even more... We have to leave our family savings for Tianci to study and get married."

Chen Jiade didn't hesitate at all. He readily agreed. As the saying goes, a husband and wife are bound by love for a hundred days. He ignored the years of love they had shared.

"It's a good thing to have one less person to eat at home, but don't we have to go out to work during the day? Who will take care of Tianci? It's impossible to rely on those two money-losing guys. I can't stay at home to take care of the child, can I? How can a grown man like me understand these things? I can't feed the baby or change diapers... You can't let me do all this, can you?"

Chen Jiade looked embarrassed.

The mother patted Tianci, shook her head, and said, "Let me do it. I'll take care of Tianci at home. I can't let my eldest grandson starve. Doesn't someone in the village raise sheep? Although Tianci was born without a mother, he can grow up well drinking goat's milk. It's just that this child is too pitiful. You, a grown man, can't raise a child. It's not easy for you to remarry with two children and two burdens. It's really hard for you."

"Mom...I'll have to trouble you to take care of Tianci again in the future..."

The mother smiled. This was her eldest grandson. If not her, who would take care of him? Was she just going to give him to someone else? Or was she counting on a grown man like Chen Jiade? He couldn't do anything, couldn't even wash his own clothes. How could he possibly take care of a child?

"We have such a miserable life... That woman, Liu Yingdi, is so selfish. She gave birth to a child and then passed away without caring about it. She didn't even think about how the child would live in the future..."

Chen Jiade didn't say anything. If his mother wasn't there, there would probably be no one to take care of his son...

But he also thought of someone—Teacher Qin Zixin. If Qin Zixin was still teaching at the school, and he had just lost his wife, and Qin Zixin was an unwanted old maid, wouldn't that be a perfect match? A woman in the city could follow him without even a dowry...

And Teacher Qin can definitely give birth to a son, you can see she has a great figure.

It's a pity that she no longer teaches in the village. What a selfish woman! Did she ever think about the children in the village who have no education? What will happen to those uneducated children?

What should I do? I like her so much, and now my wife is dead and I can remarry her, but she is no longer in the village.

Alas... everything is destined. If only I had met Teacher Qin earlier, I wouldn't have to face Liu Yingdi, that yellow-faced woman, every day...