Sending gifts of joy is a custom in the mountains. When a family has a newborn, they will give red eggs to relatives and friends. They will also use colorful ropes to hold the red eggs and weave them into beautiful shapes.

In the beginning, tying red eggs with colorful ropes was just for good luck, but as time went on, it became a way to show off skills and wealth. Some people tied pomegranates to pray for many children and grandchildren, while others tied two dragons chasing the sun to show off their one and two sons. In previous years, there were also wealthy businessmen competing with each other for wealth. Two families had children almost at the same time, and one family would hang a jade halberd on the colorful rope to mock the other family for having a daughter, while the other family would directly hang gold ingots on the rope, meaning that they would have a daughter!

Li Fengjuan told everyone all this after she saw the red eggs sent by Zhang Daxixi. After all, for a long time, the people in the mountains could not even get enough to eat, and children were born one after another. How could they have the money to care about these things?

It is only in recent years that life has gradually improved and these old customs have slowly been picked up again, but there are not many families as particular about it as the Sang family!

"Then Sang Dahe, are you planning to have another daughter?" Wang Xiaohua was very curious, holding the exquisite red eggs. They gave a pair of red eggs to each person in the health center. Not only were they big, but they were also tied with red and green colored ropes, with a dragon made of red rope and a phoenix made of green rope flying on the top, which was a good omen of dragon and phoenix.

Sang Dahe scratched his head and smiled innocently, "I already have a daughter!"

"My niece's husband is kind-hearted," Zhang Daxixi was a quick-witted man, and he explained the matter in just a few words. It turned out that Xia Dazhuang didn't want this girl, and Sang Dahe and Li Erya felt so sorry for her that they took her home to raise her themselves.

"Why is Xia Dazhuang like this?!" Wang Xiaohua pinched her waist and was so angry. Yu Xiuhong almost risked her life to give birth to this child. He didn't even show up during the delivery. Now he doesn't want the child. He is really not a man!

Li Fengjuan smiled bitterly. She also asked her family about Xia Dazhuang's family. Their family had been a single-son family for five generations, and having a son had become an obsession for them.

"Five generations of single-line inheritance? What to pass on? New China has been established for so long. His family has a throne or a top scholar. At worst, there is a gold ingot that can be passed down to the next generation!" Wang Xiaohua said with disdain. What she hated most was people who favored boys over girls. Everyone said that raising sons is a way to take care of yourself in your old age, but when she was working in the county hospital, it was basically daughters who were around the beds of the elderly!

Zhang Daxi waved her hand. She didn't like to speak ill of her fellow villagers, but she really looked down on Xia Dazhuang. "Why did Yu Xiuhong go to the market that day with such a big belly? She's not like Erya, a greedy girl. Her family was out of food, and her parents sent her a dozen eggs, so she had to come and exchange them for some rice."

Wang Xiaohua was shocked. She was trying so hard to give birth to a son. Even if she did, could she afford to raise him?

Mu Huaixi also frowned. She originally thought that Yu Xiuhong and her daughter looked pale and thin because they were treated harshly, but she didn't expect that Xia Dazhuang's family was in such a difficult situation. Jiang Wenyuan also said that if there were any difficulties, he could go to the regiment headquarters to negotiate and express condolences. After all, these were the first batch of babies delivered by the health center.

"What's so difficult about it!" Zhang Daxi rolled his eyes, "There are only four people in the Xia family, including the eldest daughter. They also have two plots of land. If they work hard until the end of the year, they can at least get a big piece of meat to have a good New Year. But Xia Dazhuang is a drunkard. He can't take good care of the land. All the food for the family is given to the wine god. How can this day be good?!"

There is not much flat land in the mountains, and usually the land is distributed in the form of one piece of nearby field and one piece of distant field. However, Xia Dazhuang's father was injured and died while digging a canal. The brigade took care of the Xia family and not only distributed two pieces of nearby field, but also subsidized them for more than ten years.

"Their family," Zhang Daxi waved his hand and said it was hard to describe. Xia Dazhuang's mother looked at her son like the ball of her eyes. She knew that it was wrong for him to drink, but she blamed everything on her daughter-in-law.

When she sent Yu Xiuhong and her daughter back, Xia Dazhuang was only half sober. When he heard that the baby was born, he came over with a smile on his face to hold the child. When he lifted the swaddling clothes and saw that the baby was without a handle, he was so angry that he glared at the child and threw him against the wall. If Dahe had not snatched the child away in time, the little girl would have died.

"Except for the eldest daughter, the Xia family said that they had given away several daughters before. I think..." Zhang Daxi shook his head, "Our second daughter is kind-hearted, and her in-laws also think that the daughter is destined to be together, so they took her in and raised her together."

"Will the Xia family agree?" Although Li Fengjuan felt that this was a great thing for the little girl, she was afraid that the Xia family would become entangled with her when she grew up.

Zhang Daxi waved his hand. "Don't worry. I brought two kilograms of meat and five kilograms of millet. I asked the village elders and the team leader to go to the Xia family. The matter is now clear. Otherwise, it would be difficult to send out the two eggs, right?"

Sang Dahe nodded, smiling happily, "My parents also agreed. They said it's a good omen to have both a son and a daughter. Erya has even thought of names. The brother will be named Yongjun, and the sister will be Aimin!"

When Sang Dahe's parents heard about the birth of their grandson, they rushed over immediately. They were not conservative people and agreed to let Li Erya stay at her parents' home for confinement. They also readily accepted this extra granddaughter. The Sang family was in the coffin business and also focused on doing good deeds. Their life was better than that of a family that only farmed.

Everyone in the clinic laughed when they heard the name. Wang Xiaohua was even more excited. "Is this name because we are the Military and Civilian Clinic?"

"Right!" Zhang Daxi also laughed, "I want them and their sister to remember the life-saving grace of our Military and Civilian Hospital!"

Although Sang Dahe and his family had been gone for a long time, the atmosphere in the clinic was still very warm.

Wang Xiaohua held the two red eggs and smiled foolishly for a long time. She placed them on her small table, then picked them up and moved them two or three times out of concern. Finally, she placed them properly in the cotton-padded jacket in her locker before she felt relieved.

"I really want to take it back to show my mother," Wang Xiaohua said with great joy. Her mother always told her to be more careful and serious in her work and try to be transferred back to the county hospital as soon as possible, but now she thinks it's not bad to stay in the mountains. The folks here are very humane.

Li Fengxia smiled at her, "Red eggs won't last long, so you'll have an extra meal tonight!"

Jiang Wenyuan's usually serious face finally showed a hint of smile. He walked over to Mu Huaixi's desk with a document in hand. "This is the second quarter medical device and drug application plan that needs to be submitted to the higher-ups after the new year. Do you have anything to add?"

The health center is a military-civilian cooperation. It can apply for medical supplies from both the military region and local medical institutions, and then purchase and distribute them on a monthly basis. The Chinese medicinal materials needed by Mu Huaixi are also purchased through the military region hospital channels. In addition, she has been given an independent purchase quota, which allows her to purchase medicinal materials from the brigade. This can be considered as living within one's means and making a contribution to the local area.

Mu Huaixi was a little confused. Jiang Wenyuan had discussed this document with her the day before yesterday. He felt that the health center would achieve great things after the new year, so the amount applied for was relatively bold. However, when she opened the application document again, she found that the share had increased by 20%, and at the end, an application for setting up an emergency operating room was attached.

"You are..."

Mu Huaixi looked up in surprise and saw Jiang Wenyuan smiling at her, "Don't worry, the application for the operating room will definitely not be approved. But if you don't apply, then nothing will be approved."