"Li Yang, are you out of your mind? Eight points! You got eight points on a 100-point test! Would you get eight points if you stomped on your grandma's chickens?! You said you were studying with your aunt to get into university? You're a piece of cake! You'd need your dad to bribe the principal to graduate from elementary school!"

Bai Shiqing had just returned from a parent-teacher meeting, and her hands were trembling as she held Li Yang's test paper.

She got 50 in Chinese and 8 in math; she must have given birth to a mentally challenged child.

"Mom, the teacher marked this question wrong."

Li Yang tried to use his exam paper to argue his case, but Bai Shiqing grabbed him and used whatever was at hand, including a broom on the kang (a heated brick bed), to hit him on the buttocks.

"I'll let you get eight points! I'll let you get eight points!"

"Waaaaah—Dad—my mom's going to kill me!"

Li Yang burst into tears, and Li Shuxian, who was standing to the side, didn't dare to say anything. He led Li Yun to her room and said, "You do your homework and close the door."

"Dad, please go and save my brother."

Li Yun looks like Bai Shiqing, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and is very beautiful. She is also very quiet and sensible. Although she is not very smart and her grades are average, everyone praises Li Yun as a good child. Even her father, Li Shuxian, cannot help but be biased and especially likes his youngest daughter.

Li Shuxian squatted down and spoke to Li Yun: "If I go over there now, your mother will probably make me hand her the belt, and your brother will get beaten even harder."

Hearing Li Shuxian say that, Li Yun pouted and felt like crying too.

"Don't cry, don't cry. Do you think your mom would really hurt your brother?"

Li Yang and Li Yun are twins. They have been close since childhood, and although their personalities are completely different, they have a very good relationship.

But Li Shuxian couldn't possibly pretend to be a good person when Bai Shiqing was disciplining the children, otherwise Bai Shiqing would definitely be even angrier.

"Li Shuxian! Give me your belt! Hurry up!"

As soon as Li Shuxian finished speaking, he heard Bai Shiqing calling from outside.

"Dad, don't go."

Li Yun's eyes were brimming with tears, afraid that her brother would be beaten in a mixed doubles match.

"It's okay, it's okay, your mom just can't bear to part with you."

This was Bai Shiqing's secret signal to him; it was time for him to go out and stop the people.

Li Shuxian went out first, then pulled Bai Shiqing into his arms and said, "Alright, Shiqing, alright, look how much the child is crying! This is our own child!"

Bai Shiqing was forced to release Li Yang, and pointed at him, saying, "I don't believe I could give birth to such a thing! Eight points! Li Shuxian, back in my day in the production team, I could get eight points a day, and this kid only studied for half a year and brought me back eight points! Is this my child?"

Bai Shiqing admitted that she didn't have Bai Jiaojiao's good genes, and that her son was outstanding in every way.

But it can't be that bad, can it? She and Li Shuxian both finished junior high school back then.

"Oh dear, they're still so young. We were so old when we started school. Yangyang just hasn't figured it out yet. Li Yang, you should talk to your mom and ask if you can study properly next semester?"

"Mom, I was wrong. I'll definitely study hard next semester!"

Li Yang cried with tears streaming down his face, shouting these words. It was unclear whether he had made up his mind or was dissatisfied with Bai Shiqing.

Bai Shiqing said, "It'll be too late next semester! Don't you dare play a single day this winter break. If you don't catch up on what you've learned this semester, you won't be attending next semester! You'll just be going to the warehouse with your dad and moving things!"

Upon hearing that he wouldn't be allowed to play during winter break, Li Yang burst into even louder sobs.

But he didn't dare say "no."

"Alright, alright," Li Shuxian led Bai Shiqing back to the bedroom. "Don't be angry."

"Why is he so useless? Given our circumstances and connections, if those two kids were even a little more ambitious and got a high school diploma, they'd be guaranteed to become high-ranking officials someday. Look at how much our uncle helps us, yet that's all we can achieve, all because of our lack of education."

Bai Shiqing was also disappointed in her. When she was in junior high school, she had to finish her work in the morning before going to school, and she didn't even have time to do her homework at night. As soon as she got home, she had to cut pig feed for the brigade, and then go home to wash clothes and cook. She never failed a test.

If she had the same conditions back then, she definitely could have gotten into high school!

Li Shuxian said, "Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. As long as he is of good character, even if he goes back to Shili Village to farm, he won't starve to death. Why should we worry about so much?"

Bai Shiqing was speechless at Li Shuxian's words: "Fine, then you two can go back to farming. Xiaoyun and I will live a good life from now on."

Li Shuxian said, "That won't do, I have to stay with you."

"Alright, alright, stop being so clingy. I can't handle this kid. You, as the father, can decide what to do. I have to go to work."

Bai Shiqing took half a day off, grabbed her bag, smoothed her hair, and went out.

She's constantly dealing with problems at home, and even more so at work.

Now that the policy only allows one child, no one took it seriously at first. Everyone just assumed that they could have children openly and legitimately.

Later, when they realized they weren't joking, they started having children secretly.

Generally, it's all for the sake of having a son. The bolder ones will go around asking around to find out the gender of the baby in their womb. After getting pregnant, they will hide everywhere and wait until the baby is born before buying a ticket.

Those who were too timid to oppose them, and who were unwilling to give up on having a daughter, would abandon her. Or, if they were ruthless, they would leave their daughters in the yard to starve for a night, and they would die the next day.

Bai Shiqing felt that doing this was immoral.

But she couldn't help but recall what Bai Jiaojiao had said before, telling her to hurry up and have a child if she still wanted one. She hadn't expected her sister to be right.

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