Rebirth: My Dear Little Wife Is So Scheming

Chapter 1001: Chapter 1001: Even a tiger will not eat its cubs.

Xiaoyu and the doctor picked up firewood and cooked, basically just boiling some water in a pot to make corn porridge to go with the dry food they brought.

Suddenly, they heard someone in the village cursing loudly.

The sound was loud, in the quiet darkness of the mountain village, it seemed like a thunderbolt alerting everyone.

Bai Xiao and the doctor came out to see what was happening.

In this pitch-black night, something that brought everyone out was indeed a big event.

Someone was holding a torch, things like flashlights are luxuries that ordinary families don’t have. Although electricity has been connected here, every household saves money by relying on the light from burning firewood inside the house at night. People tidy up after dinner and go to bed, with basically no entertainment activities, because entertainment would cost money.

The people here won’t spend money if they can avoid it, simply because they don’t have money to spend.

Xiaoyu seemed like a professional interpreter, watching the commotion while translating in Bai Xiao’s ear.

"Weng Jiefang, you can’t do this, Bai Na just gave birth to a child, and you want to throw the child away. That’s your own son, how can you be so cruel? If Bai Na finds out, aren’t you risking her life?" A scrawny, wrinkled old lady desperately hugged Weng Jiefang’s arm, protecting the swaddled child in Weng Jiefang’s arms.

That child was already wrapped up tightly, and the sound of a child’s sobbing, like a kitten, made Bai Xiao’s heart sink.

This child doesn’t seem well!

"Let go of me, this child is as weak as a chick, can’t even cry, clearly not in good condition. Instead of burdening the family, it’s better to leave him on the mountain, isn’t that what people in our village do? Bai Na can still have children after recovering." Weng Jiefang was clearly indifferent, numb, and cold-blooded. noveldrama

Many people, seeing the commotion and hearing the child wasn’t well, also nodded in agreement. This is their tradition here. If a child is born weak and sick, they leave it to fate. If placed on the mountain for a night without incident, then it’s heaven’s will for him to survive.

Otherwise, it’s just bad luck, a bad fate.

Of course, over the years, not many have survived.

This just proves the law of natural selection, survival of the fittest.

"No, no! If you don’t want him, then give him to me, we’ll raise him, this is a life!"

Bai Na’s mother said this, clearly making many people’s faces unpleasant.

Especially a white-haired elder smoking a pipe, who tapped the pipe harshly on a stone two times.

"The child’s mother, don’t talk nonsense, this child has Weng’s surname! Not our Bai’s. It’s unreasonable to let us raise him. That’s another mouth to feed, how will you support that? We can barely support ourselves, and there are also the second and third sons who haven’t married yet, you’ll make them bachelors."

It seems this is Bai Na’s father.

Two fifteen or sixteen-year-old boys stepped forward, their faces darkened by the sun with bright eyes, extending their hands, "Dad, we’ll raise him, this is sister’s flesh and blood. If Weng doesn’t raise him, we’ll eat less so he can have a share. No one will starve. We can’t leave sister’s child to heaven."

Bai Xiao chuckled softly, it seems these two brothers are good people, at least brave enough for their sister’s nephew.

Compared to Weng Jiefang, they’re much better off. It’s puzzling how Bai Na’s parents married her to such a jerk like Weng Jiefang.

It seems Bai Na’s parents are not bad, marrying a seventeen-year-old daughter to a forty-year-old man, one wonders why, maybe there are hidden reasons.

Regardless of hidden reasons, Weng Jiefang seems like a not only jerk but a triple-tiered scumbag.

Upon hearing this, Weng Jiefang suddenly felt relieved, "It’s the two brothers-in-law who said it, if they agree, take the child away."

If there’s even a bit of choice, he surely doesn’t want to throw his son on the mountain, where there are many beasts like tigers and wolves, leaving such a small baby on the mountain would surely feed those wild animals.

But thinking about his own family...

Just that bit of food in the field doesn’t even fill the couple, let alone such a little one.

Another child in the family means another mouth to feed.

Besides, if there’s another mouth, his wife needs to eat better, otherwise, where’s the milk to feed this child?

No kidding, men should eat better in this household.

He never planned to have children, if it wasn’t for marrying a wife by accident, he probably couldn’t marry in his life.

Now there’s a wife to serve, who can indulge him at night.

Originally, he did the farm work alone, exhausted to death. Now with a wife, all the work could be handed over to her.

How easy his life is now.

"Weng Jiefang, what do you want to do?"

A weak voice came, everyone looked, Bai Na was feebly leaning against the door frame.

Her gaze was cold, her face pale like a ghost.

Xiaoyu got anxious. They had saved Bai Na from the brink of death, and in less than half a day she’s up, risking her life?

Rushing over in two or three steps, Xiaoyu helped Bai Na, "What are you doing? This is dangerous."

Bai Na was unmoved, staring steadily at Weng Jiefang, "What did you say you want to do to my son?"

Only when hearts are cold do words like these emerge.

Weng Jiefang looked at Bai Na indifferently, saying nonchalantly, "You see for yourself, the child is sicker than a cat, can’t even nurse properly. Sooner or later, he’ll die, better let heaven take him."

Bai Na trembled with anger.

"Weng Jiefang, how can you be worse than animals? They say even tigers don’t eat their cubs, yet you don’t want your own son. Are you even human?"

"Yes! I’m worse than an animal. But what can I do? This child is yours to keep at all costs. Born, what will he eat, drink, how will you feed him? This family is so poor, if you have the ability, you raise him yourself. I can’t even care for myself, how could I care for him?"

His words made many people widen their eyes.

No one in the village has been so indifferent to their offspring, and many pointed their fingers at him.

"Weng Jiefang, how can you be like this? This child is your flesh and blood."

"If you don’t raise him, who will? Who do you expect to raise him?"

"You’re a grown man now. You used to be reckless, but we let it slide. Now that you have a wife and child, how can you continue with such actions?"

"You all save it, I can’t raise him, just can’t. If she has the ability, she can return with the child to her mother’s house."

Weng Jiefang wasn’t afraid at all, knowing villagers bulldoze the weak and fear the strong. For a vagabond like him, they can only talk behind his back, what else can they do?