Family Test

When I got the news of successful matching, I had just found out that I was pregnant. My mentor called me aside with a serious face and said that if I wanted to donate bone marrow to my sister Wen Shuyi, I would probably have to get rid of the baby first. He advised me to think it over and discuss it with my husband. I did hesitate about this. In order to have this child, I drank a lot of Chinese medicine and prepared for pregnancy for a long time. And when my husband knew I was pregnant, he was so excited that he wanted to tell the world that he was going to be a father. How could I bear to get rid of the baby. However, Wen Shuyi was only 29 years old, and she was different from me. She was the apple of her parents' eyes. If she had any problems, her parents would not be able to live. So after struggling for an afternoon, I decided to go home after get off work in the evening. When I got back, the family was having a happy dinner. In addition to Wen Shuyi's family, there were also his younger brother Wen Shuheng and his girlfriend. They were toasting each other, obviously there was something to celebrate. But the warm scene was broken by my arrival. The restaurant became quiet, and everyone put away their smiles and put down their cups awkwardly. Only my mother laughed twice and pretended to be intimate to pull me to the table. "I thought you were busy so I didn't call you. Who knew you were lucky? Come and sit down and eat together." However, she didn't know that no matter how intimate she said it, she couldn't hide the politeness and alienation in her actions. Suddenly, I wanted to tease her. I turned around and gently held the hand that was holding my arm. "Mom, I'm sick." Mom's hand froze, and she gritted her teeth and let me hold it. "..Uh, if you are sick, just eat more. If you are full, all diseases will be cured." She perfunctorily said, without even asking what was wrong with me, and pulled her hand away by moving the chair. Wen Shuheng frowned. "Wen Sinan, you came back here on purpose to cause trouble, you always spoil the fun every time there is something happy at home." "Today, my sister got a place to go on an overseas tour. Don't tell me you didn't mean it." I turned a deaf ear to his words and sat directly on the chair that my mother pulled out. "...I have leukemia." Wen Shuheng shut up. My mother's hand that handed me the chopsticks trembled and the chopsticks fell to the ground. You could hear a pin drop in the restaurant. My mother's eyes were red and she stood beside me and began to wipe her tears. At the first table, my father, who had been silent all the time, finally spoke. He said, "You have to let your parents-in-law know about this. They can still afford this amount of money for treatment." He glanced at me disapprovingly. "You should be calm when things happen. Don't be so reckless. Don't scare your mother with high blood pressure after you cure your own disease." Mom wiped her face and started to pick up food for me. "Your dad is right. No matter how big the problem is, we should eat first." Wen Shuyi also picked up food for me, smiling like a cheerful little girl. "Yes, you are prone to illness because you worry too much. Eat more and smile more, and everything will be fine." I didn't move my chopsticks. My eyes swept over each of them. "I didn't come back to borrow money for medical treatment." "I just want to ask if my sister can donate bone marrow to me." The restaurant fell silent again. After a long while, my father slammed his chopsticks on the table. "Nonsense!" He frowned. "Don't you know that donating bone marrow is risky?" I smiled bitterly. "Isn't it worth taking a small risk to save my life?" My father turned his face away stubbornly. "We can't let your sister take this risk, 100 percent." I was not surprised by my father's answer. As the second child in the family who was fostered away from home since childhood, my father did not welcome my birth, nor did he welcome my second return. But fortunately, my mother and sister were quite friendly to me. I turned my eyes to my mother. My mother was already crying. I looked at her hopefully, thinking that we might break the estrangement in the past. She would come and hug me like she usually hugged her sister because of my illness. But she shed tears and said something even more ruthless. She said, "Child, life and death are always determined by fate. No matter how unwilling you are, you have to accept your fate!" She covered her chest with a sad tone. "You are sick alone, and you are dragging your sister down with you. If you make me lose two daughters at the same time, how can I live?" At that moment, I was completely awake. Mom was not afraid of losing two daughters at the same time. She was just afraid of losing her sister. I lost interest and turned my eyes to Wen Shuyi, the person involved. Since I was taken home, Wen Shuyi has been kind to me. Although she always said some high-sounding words, it should be because she was raised in a greenhouse. At least she would scold Wen Shuheng when he bullied me. So I still held the last glimmer of hope. However, Wen Shuyi changed her gentle attitude at this time and stared at me with anger. "Wen Sinan, you did it on purpose!" She stood up emotionally, as if she had been enduring me for a long time. "There are some things I have wanted to say for a long time. You have always felt that your parents sent you away to be raised and treated you unfairly, so you have been putting on a gloomy face since you came back, and you are keen to make everyone unhappy." "You pretend to be timid all day long, as if you have suffered a lot outside. Don't think we don't know. Don't you just want to make your parents feel guilty?" She was so angry that her chest rose and fell violently, as if she had suffered a great injustice. After a moment of pause, she suppressed her crying and continued. "But, there must be a limit to everything we do. We tolerated small things in normal times, but now you are talking about such a big thing as donating bone marrow so lightly. Don't you just want to put your parents in a dilemma?" "If they don't agree to donate, you bite back and make them bear the crime of being heartless and ungrateful. If they agree, they will face the risk of losing their two daughters." "How can you be so vicious? Why can't you see us doing well?" Wen Shuyi said as she stretched out her hands to hug her mother. After hearing her words, her mother finally cried out in grievance. "Shuyi, don't say it. It's all your father's fault. He insisted on having both sons and daughters. Otherwise, he wouldn't have..." She didn't finish her words, but everyone knew. She wanted to say that otherwise, she wouldn't have given birth to me. Wen Shuheng also stood up. They stood on the left and right of my mother, and when they looked at me, they had the same resentment in their eyes. Wen Shuyi raised his head, looking righteous. "Wen Sinan, I won't give you a chance to hurt my parents. I'm saying this today, I won't donate bone marrow to you." She proudly protected her mother. "This matter has nothing to do with my parents. Don't say that my parents are heartless and ungrateful. It's my selfishness. I'm afraid that my mother will be sad after losing two daughters." "I made my own decision and refused to donate. I will bear the blame!" Wen Shuyi's expression was as firm as if she was going to die heroically. I twisted the test report in my pocket and couldn't help laughing. After a while, I stared at Wen Shuyi and asked word by word. "Are you sure you won't donate no matter what?" Wen Shuyi gently wiped her mother's tears, and her eyes looked more like she was going to die. "I will never donate!" she said. "If you want to scold me, just scold me. Don't take your anger out on my parents. I am the one who wants to get pregnant. I can't give up my child's life for your life." I laughed until tears came out and looked at her with pity. Then she whispered, "Yes, that's a good point. You can't kill your own child to save others." Wen Shuyi didn't understand and lowered her head to comfort her mother. On the other side, her mother was already crying and out of breath. She nestled in the arms of her two children, as if she was the one who had leukemia and no one cared about her. She weakly massaged her chest.