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"Little Treasure, will she see me? Will she hate me for not taking good care of her? I shouldn't have handed her over to your mother; I should have taken care of her myself. She's so small, just learning to walk. Is she scared? Will she hate me for letting your mother take her back to the hometown?" I kept questioning myself, the heart-wrenching feeling never ceased since I learned my child was gone.
"Mom said the child took the wrong fever medicine; the clinic's doctor prescribed adult fever medication, which caused an overdose," Lu Ningyuan said.
"Overdose? Which clinic? I want to sue him; I want him to pay for my Little Treasure's life!" I clung to this thought like a lifeline. My child was gone, and I needed justice for her.
"What justice? She's just a girl; she's gone now. The clinic offered us six hundred thousand. With that money, your brother can buy a house; he can get married with that money. As for Little Treasure, she’s dead—just have another one quickly. By the way, aren't you pregnant again? This time, make sure to give us a grandson; what's the use of another girl? Just a burden," Mother Lu said.
"Exactly, now with this money, your brother's marriage is settled. A girl is worth six hundred thousand? Your Little Treasure was just a girl; what use is that? All she did was cry or eat; when you switched her from formula to porridge, she wouldn’t drink anymore. In our generation, we didn’t even have porridge; we survived on wild vegetables," Father Lu chimed in.
Seeing the expressions on my and Lu Ningyuan's faces growing darker, Mother Lu quickly pulled Father Lu back. "What nonsense are you saying? I fed Little Treasure with formula that costs over five hundred a can—what porridge?"
"A girl? What's wrong with a girl? Six hundred thousand, and you would sell my Little Treasure? How could you call yourselves grandparents? Get out! Get out! This isn't over between us!" I screamed. How could they say such cold words as the child's grandparents? Did they really skimp on her formula?
Watching my pain, Lu Ningyuan expelled his parents from the hospital room. He never expected his parents would act this way. He had heard rumors in the village about a mother who drowned her daughter in an outdoor toilet. He thought it was jealousy over how well his parents treated him and his brother. Now, hearing their words felt like his heart was being brutally shattered. So this was how they truly thought.
Such a small child; her ashes fit in just a small box. As I held my daughter's ashes and prepared to leave, I ran into Uncle Zhang, who was picking up his grandson from school.
"Ningyuan's wife, don't be too sad. Your dad is getting old and confused; why would he give alcohol to a child? Look what happened!"
"Uncle Zhang, what are you saying? Alcohol? He gave Little Treasure alcohol?" Confusion filled my mind as Uncle Zhang's words contradicted what my in-laws had said.
"Your dad drinks at every meal. After your mom brought Little Treasure back, she often went to work in the fields and left Little Treasure with your dad. A grown man—when Little Treasure cried, he would give her a little alcohol so she'd fall asleep quietly; it made things easier for him," Uncle Zhang continued.
Alcohol... So that's it. After giving Little Treasure alcohol and then overdosing her on fever medicine, that's why she couldn't be saved. So that’s how it happened...
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