Cui Di was reborn. She suffered for half her life and died in her hospital bed, not from illness, but from a difficult childbirth. Cui Di was a little better off than the original owner, but not by much. She gave birth to a boy as her first child, but he accidentally fell into the water and died when he was three years old. Cui Di never recovered from that.

Her husband's family insisted that Cui Di have another child, and she tried many strange folk remedies. Finally, more than ten years later, Cui Di became pregnant again. She went to the clinic, gave them money, and the doctor revealed that it was a boy. Unfortunately, the baby was breech, and Cui Di died in the hospital bed.

Beneath her was a large pool of blood. Cui Di looked at the peeling ceiling and listened to her mother-in-law's vow to refuse to sign the consent form for the cesarean section. She slowly closed her eyes. If there is a next life, she hopes to be reborn as a boy. Even if she remains a bachelor for life, that would be good.

When Cui Di opened his eyes again, he saw his mother, who had been dead for nearly ten years, beating Cui Daqiang and even kicking him unconscious. His mother also lectured his grandmother, who liked to sow discord.

Then came his mother taking on the entire village single-handedly, and going to the village chief's house for a free meal.

This is different from the mother I remember. The mother I remember was weak and obedient to my father. She was definitely not the woman lying on the chair sleeping soundly. But this is good. I will definitely protect her this time and not let her suffer a miserable life.

The sun was shining comfortably, and Xiong Bufan lay on the chair. Cui Di took a blanket from the house and covered Xiong Bufan with it.

Kongkong sighed, "What a wonderful child."

Cui Daqiang and Liu Jianping both went to the hospital, and another hole broke in the wall of their house. Since the village chief wouldn't make a decision, they decided to make their own.

Cui Tai's wife, Gao Ying, sneaked into the courtyard with her child. She had seen that Liu Jianping, the old widow, had bought some good cloth, which she was going to use to make clothes for Bao'er as compensation for the medical expenses.

Daqiang's wife was sleeping on the recliner. She was such a lazy woman. Gao Ying spat and then slipped into the house, rummaging through drawers and cabinets.

Cui Di was still washing rice when he thought Xiong Bufan had woken up. He turned around and saw Gao Ying and her son rummaging through things. So he stood in front of Gao Ying and shouted, "Those are my things, you're not allowed to touch them."

Gao Ying pulled Cui Di aside with her hand, saying, "Mind your own business. This is my family's property. Your grandma promised to give it to me."

Bao'er was a year older than Cui Di and much taller. She walked over and pushed Cui Di down, saying, "Get out of the way."

Cui Di scraped his hand on the ground, but he didn't bother to argue and prepared to wake Xiong Bufan.

If Xiong Bufan wakes up, who knows what might happen? Gao Ying whispered, "Stop her and cover her mouth."

Bao'er couldn't catch up with Cui Di, who ran while shouting, "Mom, Mom, someone's stealing things!"

Gao Ying saw that her son's flesh was trembling and he couldn't keep up with Cui Di, so she didn't bother to rummage through her things and hurriedly went out to chase after Cui Di.

They ran this distance of less than ten meters with the spirit of a marathon. "Mom, wake up! Someone's trying to steal something."

Just as Cui Di was about to run out of the house, Gao Ying grabbed her, covered her mouth with one hand, and raised the other hand high to slap Cui Di's buttocks. The slap was about to land on her buttocks when Cui Di even closed her eyes. Suddenly, she heard a scream and fell into a warm embrace. Gao Ying was thrown out of the house.

Bao'er opened her eyes and ran outside, calling out, "Mom, Mom!"

Xiong Bufan stood at the doorway, holding Cui Di in his arms. "You came to her house to take her things and then bullied her child? Do you think she's dead?" Bao'er helped Gao Ying leave the yard quickly.

At the hospital, Cui Tai encountered Cui Daqiang, who was busy getting medicine. He stopped him and asked him to pay the medical bills, since Xiong Bufan's kick yesterday had directly ended Cui Tai's manhood, and the hospital couldn't restore him.

"Your wife hit me. Either pay for her medical expenses, or let me stomp on you too."

Cui Daqiang, his head wrapped in bandages, said in an unfriendly tone, "Go find whoever hit you, I don't care."

Only a fool would go to Daqiang's wife. With his lower body still throbbing, Cui Tai also became agitated, "Pay up! Anyway, I have a son and you don't."

The lack of a son was a source of pain for Cui Daqiang. He felt he had let down his father who had died young and his hardworking mother, so he retorted sarcastically, "You're impotent, you're no good."

"You have no son."

Knowing each other's most painful spots, they didn't hesitate to stab each other in the heart, arguing until they started fighting. Finally, doctors and nurses rushed over, separated them, and expelled them from the hospital.

Cui Tai and Cui Daqiang couldn't stand each other, and returned to their respective homes with cold snorts.

When Xiong Bufan went to the village chief's house for dinner that night, the village chief's family put away all the food, didn't even light a fire, and the village chief's grandson wasn't home either. The village chief and his wife really went to great lengths to prevent Xiong Bufan from getting a free meal.

"Uncle, don't you eat at home?"

The village chief, puffing on his pipe, said, "We're not hungry. Daqiang's wife, you should go home and cook too."

Even though Cui Di had always been proud, he felt a little ashamed at this moment. "Mother, why don't we go home first? I'll cook for you."

Zhao Shuxian: "What a good boy Cui is! Daqiang's wife, you should go home quickly. The child is still young and at the age where he is growing. He can't go hungry."

Kongkong felt a little embarrassed and covered her face, unwilling to admit that she knew Xiong Bufan.

Seeing that they hadn't eaten for a long time, Xiong Bufan reluctantly left the village chief's house, wondering where he should eat next. However, the village chief's house was the best place in the whole village to eat.

Every household had their doors closed. Xiong Bufan carried Cui Di from one end of the village to the other. He even saw an oxcart carrying a load of people returning, but none of this mattered to Xiong Bufan for the time being.

Xiong Bufan was a civilized bear; he couldn't bring himself to commit burglary, and in the end, he could only slink home in disgrace.

"Mom, I can cook."

Cui Di wasn't even as tall as Xiong Bufan's legs. He was thin and small, and his cotton-padded coat was too small and thin. He was so cold that his nose was running, and he secretly wiped it on the back of his hand.

Xiong Bufan pulled Cui Di into his arms to warm her up, saying, "I can cook too, let's go home." He then slowly walked back.

All the lights in the house were on. Xiong Bufan remembered that he had turned off the lights to save lamp oil. Could it be that a thief had broken in? Xiong Bufan tucked Cui Di closer to his chest and told him, "Hold me tight in a bit."

Cui Di hugged Xiong Bufan's neck tightly and rubbed against him, indicating that he understood.

Xiong Bufan quietly crept into the house, intending to throw the intruder out, but he saw Liu Jianping and Cui Daqiang eating pancakes they had bought from outside. Unable to use their hands, they were eating them while lying on the table.

I was just worried about going hungry, and now this has been delivered right to my doorstep.

Xiong Bufan picked up Liu Jianping and Cui Daqiang and threw them aside. He picked up a pancake and gave it to Cui's brother, then took another pancake and ate it in big bites. "You guys are really good people. You knew I was hungry and still brought us food."

“An Qingnuan! I am your mother-in-law, and the man next to you is your husband. How can you be so disrespectful!”

Don't you know that women aren't allowed to sit at the table during meals?

Xiong Bufan was only focused on eating his pancakes and ignored what they were saying. He thought that eating his fill was the most important thing, and that they were just sour grapes.

Cui Daqiang didn't dare to make a move at all. He could only huddle behind Liu Jianping, glaring resentfully at Xiong Bufan, and didn't even dare to snatch the pancakes.

After finishing the pancakes, Xiong Bufan confidently patted his stomach and said, "Sixty percent." Then he added, "You guys are going too far! You don't even let me eat my fill of pancakes!!"

Cui Di held the half-eaten pancake to Xiong Bufan's mouth, "Mom, eat."

"Keep it for yourself."

Seeing that there was nothing else to eat at home, Xiong Bufan could only lie back on the kang (a heated brick bed) feeling aggrieved, hoping that he would fall asleep and stop feeling hungry.

Cui Daqiang and Liu Jianping looked at each other, wondering why their lives had turned out this way. As Liu Jianping thought about it, she began to cry softly. She didn't cry when her husband died, leaving her and her child as orphans. She didn't cry when her daughter-in-law didn't give birth to a son. Her crying now only proved that she had suffered a great injustice.

"Stop howling, or we'll go outside."

It's minus twenty degrees Celsius outside now; you'd freeze to death if you stayed outside for just one night. Liu Jianping could only shed tears in silence to vent his grievances.

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