"The baby was very thin when she was born. She cried like a kitten and almost died. She had difficulty drinking milk. When she was two months old, she suddenly had a high fever. I walked with her for five days and five nights on the mountain road to the county hospital. It was the first time I walked out of the mountains. I don't know where I got the courage from. It was the first time I saw the hustle and bustle of traffic, high-rise buildings, fashionable women on the street, and all kinds of shops. It was lively and prosperous. At that moment, a thought suddenly flashed through my mind: he would never come back."

"I didn't dare to think too much. The weak breathing of the baby in my arms reminded me that the most important thing now was to send her to the hospital for treatment. But I had no money. My mother sold her wedding dowry to raise money but couldn't even pay for the emergency room fee. Even if I stayed in the cheapest hotel and only had one meal a day."

"I gave all the money I had to the hospital, but no matter how much I begged, the hospital stopped giving me the medicine. I knew if I took the child out of the hospital she would die, so I held her and squatted in a corner of the hospital. There were always some kind people coming and going in the hospital. They gave me a piece of bread or a bottle of water, and some gave me some money. I remember a kind aunt saw that the child had a very high fever, so she gave me a forehead patch and ice cubes to reduce the fever."

No one can empathize with the suffering of others, including the children themselves. Su Xian tried hard to imagine in his mind what kind of tragedy it was for a sixteen-year-old girl to curl up in a corner of the hospital holding a newborn baby girl, quietly waiting for the death of her child.

Perhaps she was born cold-hearted, perhaps she had experienced too many deaths in her childhood, perhaps she was not this woman's child, or perhaps He Hua's mother was not good at telling stories. She had no other feeling in her heart except envy that the kitten had a mother who loved her very much.

In Su Xian's opinion, it is such an enviable blessing that the kitten has come to the world and has a mother who loves her very much and tries hard to keep her alive.

"This incident has attracted a lot of public attention. Two days later, the hospital opened a green rescue channel for the child. After treatment, the child's condition stabilized. However, the doctor told me that she suffered from a serious congenital heart disease. If she didn't have surgery as soon as possible, she might not live more than six months. The county hospital's medical equipment and medical technology did not meet the requirements for heart surgery, so she needed to be transferred to a large hospital in the state capital for further examination."

"Later, the county hospital invited an expert from the state hospital to do a detailed examination of the child. After the examination, he told me that the child was too young and weak, and the operation would be very difficult. Even he did not dare to operate on such a small baby."

"And if you want to fully recover, you need a heart transplant. Not to mention the cost of the operation and the availability of suitable transplant sources, there are no more than five doctors in the country who can perform heart transplants on newborn babies. Even so, the success rate of the operation is less than 30%."

"I was only 16 years old at the time and had never been to school. I didn't understand what he said at all, but I knew that if I didn't have the operation, the child would die."

"Not to mention the heart transplant, even the huge cost of the initial surgery is beyond my means, and the subsequent rehabilitation costs are like a bottomless pit. As a mother, I have no way to protect my child, which makes me collapse and despair. I know she can't survive with me, but I really want her to live."

"I carried her out of the hospital. People were coming and going on the street, but none of them were the person I was looking for. I only had one wish, to find a rich man so that my child could be adopted. Maybe she could get medical treatment and survive. I put her in front of a family's gate and watched her being picked up by a couple. I watched them happily send the child to the hospital, and finally watched her being put in front of the orphanage. Finally, I secretly took her away from the orphanage."

"The news that I took my child to seek medical treatment eventually spread to our village through the medicine dealers. The elders rushed to my house and asked my father to take me back to open an ancestral hall. My father and aunt found me at the garbage dump in the county. I had been hungry for two days. At that time, I thought that if the child died, I would go to accompany her. After arriving at my aunt's house, I fainted for a day due to hunger. When I woke up, there was no trace of the child. My aunt told me that the child was taken away by my father. If I returned to the village, I would be drowned in the lake and would not survive. She found a marriage for me. The man had some physical disabilities and had not been able to find a wife. He said that he didn't mind my affairs and would marry me directly when I was better."

"I was worried about my child and didn't want to marry a stranger, so I wanted to go back to the village. My aunt locked me up and persuaded my parents to reconsider. My mother dragged her sick body for dozens of miles along the mountain road. When we arrived at the town, she cried and persuaded me to get married, saying that the child had been thrown into the mountains. A child brought up in the mountains should return to the mountains and the mountain gods would bless her. I went crazy. At that moment, it seemed as if the faith that had supported me all along collapsed."

"Later, I was sick for many days, drifting back and forth. I dreamed that he walked into the mountains without looking back. I dreamed that the child was lying alone in the weeds, with a pair of dark eyes open, surrounded by jackals..."

"My father and aunt were afraid that things would get complicated if the marriage went on for too long, so they asked the man for his opinion. My father accepted a few dozen yuan as a gift, and I got married in a hurry while I was still sick."

He Hua's mother's tone was very calm, even indifferent. Only when she mentioned the word "child" could one hear a trace of emotion.

She looked at the empty bowl in front of Su Xian, a little bit of joy on her face, and asked, "Is that enough? If not, I'll go cook some more."

Su Xian suddenly realized that he had eaten a large bowl of noodles without realizing it.

"That's enough. I'm full. Thank you, Auntie."

He Hua's mother put away the bowl, sighed, and said, "How I wish she was still alive... She was just born and hasn't had time to see the world properly."

"Auntie, excuse me, what's your name?" Although he was sure in his heart, Su Xian still asked.

"My name is Pan Caiyun."

Huo Li once told her that the kitten's biological mother was Pan Caiyun.

There are such coincidences in the world. She was just doing homework for her next TV series, but by chance she met the kitten's biological mother and even lived in her house.

"I am so happy to see you, as if my child is still alive."

Su Xian really wanted to tell her that your child is still alive and not only alive but also living well.

But how could she say it out loud? The kitten was dead. It died on the first day she came into this world. Even though Ji Xuanyue and Huo Li had told her that the kitten's death had nothing to do with her, this was not a reason for her to occupy the kitten's body.

The words came to his lips, but he swallowed them back in the end. He lowered his eyebrows, unable to tell his emotions. In the end, he only asked one question, "How does the man you married treat you?"

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