At that time, Gu Chunhai was still on a long-distance trip and not at home. At noon, my second sister-in-law had a bit of food and cakes, and started having reactions soon after.
Gu Chunmei could never forget the scene from that day.
The heart-wrenching screams of my second sister-in-law, and the basin after basin of icy water scared a young girl like me, who hadn't even married yet, to death.
If it weren't for the experienced Wang from the neighboring village, I'm afraid my second sister-in-law and her pair of nieces and nephews would have been gone.
A mother and three lives, gone just like that.
Even thinking about it now makes her tremble all over, feeling unbearably cold.
At the time, Wang asked whether to save the mother or the baby.
"Of course, save the baby," Old Mrs. Gu said very confidently.
The expression and tone of that declaration are still vivid in her memory, and it was from that moment that Gu Chunmei felt an estrangement towards her own mother.
