In the next month, Lin Siya followed the convoy to more remote villages.

Some villages are really poor, so poor that Lin Siya can't even imagine it. What makes her angry is that the villagers in these villages are very ignorant, and the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls is very serious in the village.

In some villages, villagers will even throw baby girls directly into the river or into the mountains after they are born. In their eyes, this is a very common thing.

This was the first time Lin Siya encountered this, so she was very shocked, but the village cadres seemed to be accustomed to this matter.

Lin Siya was very angry. Why? This is a life. Why should they be deprived of their right to live by their own biological parents just after they came into this world?

This was the first time that the city government staff had come to this village, so they were all very shocked, especially the women present, who were all very angry. Many of them were already mothers, and they had no idea why someone would do such a thing to their own children.

In fact, it all comes down to the fact that the village is too poor. In the eyes of many villagers, boys will become the labor force of the family when they grow up and can earn work points.

When girls grow up, they can only get married and cannot contribute to the family at all.

Thousands of years of thinking have imprisoned them. The people in the village turned a blind eye to their behavior, allowing those who secretly did these things to act with impunity.

This can be said to be the sorrow of an era, and it can also be said to be the sorrow of a country.

To this end, everyone held a meeting to solve this problem, and decided to criticize this matter and promote the idea of ​​gender equality.

But Lin Siya knew that a one-time publicity campaign would not have any effect at all. She believed that once they left, the situation would return to normal.

Ultimately, money is needed to completely solve this problem, and it must also attract the attention of higher authorities.

She believed that what happened in this village was definitely not a special case. In China at this time, it should be a very normal phenomenon, but it was not so obvious in some places, while it was more serious in some places.

Although it is said that women's energy holds up half the sky, the phenomenon of favoring boys over girls still exists even after decades of development.

However, Lin Siya still wants to try her best to change the fate of more girls.

After work every day, Lin Siya began to investigate in the village, mainly to investigate the birth rate of baby girls in each village. To be incorrect, it should be said that the survival rate. You don’t know until you investigate, and you will be shocked when you investigate.

In some villages where the thinking is not so conservative, the survival rate of baby girls is very low, not to mention those villages where there is a serious preference for boys over girls. Even fewer girls can reach adulthood, and some are even deprived of the right to live when they are just born.

Seeing the shocking numbers on the notebook, Lin Siya felt very sad.

She didn't know whether handing this notebook directly to the municipal government would attract the attention of the city leaders. In the end, she decided to go back and discuss it with Fu Sinian to see if he had any better ideas.

It was more than a month later when Lin Siya returned with the main force, and the Chinese New Year was just 10 days away.

After saying goodbye to her colleagues, Lin Siya rode her bicycle to go home.

This more than one month of going to the countryside has exhausted me both physically and mentally. I am tired, really exhausted.

Fortunately, the leaders understood their hard work and gave them a day off.

Lin Siya didn't rush home. When she was almost there, she turned her bicycle and went to the machinery factory.

This was an agreement she and Fu Sinian had made. Since neither of them knew when the event would end, Fu Sinian asked him to come to see her when he returned from the countryside.

It's not time to get off work yet, so Lin Siya is waiting in the guard room.

The old man in the guard room didn't know Lin Siya, but seeing that the girl was pretty and sweet-spoken, he asked her to wait in the guard room, after all, the weather outside was too cold.

"Girl, come, I'll give you some hot water. Drink some hot water to warm yourself up."

The old man must have injured his leg. He walked with a limp and was holding a thermos in his hand.

Lin Siya quickly stood up and thanked him.

"Thank you, sir. I can do it myself."

I poured some hot water into my military canteen and took two sips. I really felt much warmer.

City X is located at the junction of the north and the south, and it is still very cold in winter.

While drinking hot water, Lin Siya started chatting with the gatekeeper. If she hadn't known it, she would have known that this seemingly inconspicuous old man had been on the battlefield in his early years, and the injury on his leg was caused by him on the battlefield.

"Girl, are you here to find your partner?"

"Yes, Uncle Pan, I was on a business trip for a month some time ago and just got back. We agreed that I would come to the machinery factory to see him when I got back."

"Oh, so that's how it is. You have good taste, girl. The young men in our machinery factory are all very capable."

Really?

"Why would an old man lie to you? Let me tell you, although our machinery factory is located in this small town, it's no worse than the machinery factories in the city or the province. In the final analysis, it's because our factory director has good vision. This year, we recruited several college students, all of whom are mechanical engineers. They are really amazing. They can figure out some machines that the factory can't figure out as soon as they start working. Especially there is an Engineer Fu who came from Beijing. He is even more amazing. He has solved many problems for our factory. All the unmarried girls in our factory want to marry him. The most important thing is that this guy is not only capable, but also good-looking. He is very popular in our machinery factory."

Uncle Pan looked very proud and spoke about things in the factory in great detail.

Lin Siya secretly complained in her heart, thinking that this couldn't be referring to Fu Sinian. She knew that her boyfriend was handsome and capable, and must be very popular among girls, but when she heard it from someone else, she still felt a little sour in her heart.

"Uncle, what's the engineer's name? Is he dating? He's really that popular."

"Hey girl, let me tell you, young girls nowadays have high standards when it comes to finding a partner. Some people don't even look down on those who are not good-looking but talented, not to mention someone who is both good-looking and talented, how can he not be popular? But I heard that he seems to have a partner, I don't know if it's true. If I had a granddaughter, I would also want to find a partner as talented as her. What a pity..."

Hearing what Uncle Pan said, Lin Siya shook her head with amusement.

"What's your boyfriend's name, girl?"

"Uncle, my partner's surname is Fu."

"Oh, that's the same last name as Engineer Fu. But girl, you're so pretty, sir, I believe the man you find should be pretty good too."

"Yes, sir, my partner is also very good."

…

Just when the two were chatting enthusiastically, the bell for the end of get off work rang, and then a group of people walked out of the gate of the machinery factory with laughter.