Countdown to Awakening

Mengdi still didn't say a word, so Chen Jiade's mother pinched her quietly.

"Ah..." Mengdi cried out in pain.

"You dead girl, you still feel pain?! I thought you were mute! Turns out you can talk? Huh? I asked you to save some money for your brother's betrothal gift, but you ignored me. You and that dead girl are not earning money for your brother's betrothal gift, but you are eating for free at home?"

Mengdi still didn't say anything.

"Oh my... you're so stubborn that you're going to ignore me, right?! Do you still want to eat lunch today?" She raised her hand to hit someone, but Mengdi started begging for mercy: "Grandma... don't hit me... I'll be obedient, I'll be obedient."

There weren't many people here, and even if they did, they wouldn't bother with the grandmother beating her granddaughter. Plus, Chen Jiade's mother was unreasonable, so it would be even harder for Mengdi to attract attention.

Chen Jiade's mother looked very proud. She thought, "What kind of girl is this? Isn't she disciplined and obedient?"

"I'm telling you, all the money in the house is going to be left to Tianci. You two girls can forget about it."

After returning to the Chen family, Chen Jiade excitedly slaughtered the chicken that Li Weiming had sent him.

This meal has chicken... It's been a while since I've had meat. That bitch took advantage of her pregnancy to eat up everything in the house, so he wanted to try what this old hen tasted like.

"Son...who sent this chicken?"

"Teacher Li from the village also brought a basket of eggs. I put it under your bed."

The mother nodded. Now that the bitch was gone, there would be fewer people eating at home, and her son would be able to eat more.

She turned and went into the house.

Mengdi stared at the old hen, her mind constantly imagining its taste. It must be delicious. It's been a long time since I had chicken. If only my mother were here, we could eat it together.

Chen Jiade noticed Mengdi's look and instantly became ferocious. He scolded her, "What are you looking at? Do you think this chicken is yours? I'm telling you, don't even think about eating this chicken! You haven't done any work at all, and all you do all day is think about this and that! You're a waste of money!"

Mengdi blinked her eyes, put away her greed, and followed him into the house.

Grandma was coaxing her younger brother inside the house.

"Oh... don't cry, don't cry, my eldest grandson... drink some milk first, okay? My eldest grandson..." She coaxed him, while taking a sip of the freshly heated milk herself, tested the temperature, and felt it was ok, so she stuffed it into her eldest grandson's mouth.

But the newborn baby only drinks breast milk. He drank cow's milk last night, but it didn't work when I changed it today. But goat's milk is much better than cow's milk, so why doesn't he drink it?

"What are you looking at? You want to drink too? Get out of here! You jinx!"

She yelled at Mengdi for no reason.

Mengdi went out and saw that the child still refused to drink the goat milk. She felt something was wrong. She touched the child's forehead and found it was burning hot! It had been like this for a while, and she only realized it now?

Chen Jiade's mother was so anxious that she quickly got up and went out with the child in her arms.

"Jia De, come quickly, stop looking at the chicken. Tian Ci has a fever... I don't know how he got so hot. We need to go to the hospital right away... Otherwise, we'll be in trouble..."

The Chen family only has this one child...what if there is any problem?

Chen Jiade became anxious when he heard this. As soon as he put the chicken into the pot and covered it, he touched his son's forehead.

"Oh! This is trouble! Let's go to the hospital! Mom, I'm going to borrow a car. Please wait at home."

"I can't wait any longer. I'll go first with the child, and you can catch up on your bike. I can't wait even a little bit. This is your only son. Without further ado, I'm leaving now."

Before she left, she did not forget to ask Mengdi and Zhaodi to take good care of the house.

The two went to the more reliable town health center

The nurse took the child's temperature and felt something was wrong, so she quickly took the child and carried him away.

"Come with me." She did not forget to say to Chen Jiade and his mother.

The two followed eagerly.

After treating the baby, the doctor said to the two, "This baby was born not long ago, right? It looks like the fever is caused by a viral infection. Did you give the baby anything to eat? Should we also check on the mother?"

"Doctor... To be honest, my son was born last night. His mother is no longer with us. We fed him some cow's milk last night. We wanted to give him some goat's milk today, but he had a fever and refused to drink... I brought him here to see you."

"You are simply playing around! This child was born prematurely and has weaker resistance than other children. How can you just feed him cow's or goat's milk? Even if the mother is gone, don't you have milk powder prepared? How can you... just feed the child cow's or goat's milk? Do you know that coming a little later almost caused a big mistake? Look, I'll prescribe some medicine for you. Grind it into powder, mix it in the milk powder and let the child drink it. He should be fine in a few days. Don't feed the child with random things in the future..."

Chen Jiade and his mother were almost scared to death. If they hadn't arrived in time, who knows what would have happened.

"Then... Doctor, what kind of milk powder should the baby drink? We don't know... We didn't think the baby would be born so prematurely, so we didn't prepare any milk powder..." Chen Jiade said with a frown.

"No preparation? Just buy a can in town. It's not expensive. Your child needs better milk powder. Otherwise, his resistance will be even weaker in the future..."

After hearing the doctor's advice, the two of them breathed a sigh of relief and left. Chen Jiade's mother held her eldest grandson in her arms, fearing he might catch a cold.

A fever-reducing patch was put on Chen Tianci's forehead. The doctor said that he was too young to get an injection, so he just fed him some medicine powder.

"Mom, where can I buy milk powder? How can a grown man like me handle this? Even those two girls have never encountered such a situation before."

Chen Jiade's mother was furious and cursed, "Isn't it all your fault that dead wife? How selfish! She left without even giving the child a single drop of milk? Now that she's gone, you're torturing our Tianci? Is that what a mother should do? How would it benefit her if our Tianci was sick?"

The two came to a maternity and baby store. Chen Jiade looked at it for a long time and compared several different milk powders before carefully picking up the cheapest one.

He also wanted to buy the best for his son, but he had no money... He could only let the child drink cheaper drinks.

"Son, don't blame me. I can't bear it. I'll buy you something better when I make more money."

Chen Jiade's mother shook her head. Didn't she spend a lot of money marrying Liu Yingdi? Now she has to support those two damn girls. How could she possibly have any money left?

After hastily paying the bill, Chen Jiade sighed, his heart bleeding...