Chapter 44 Yuan Mingan's Story: Son preference over daughter
The evening breeze was blowing gently. After dinner, Gu Jinsheng and Ji An sat on the balcony and looked into the distance, watching the dim sky gradually darken and become pitch black. There was someone accompanying them, saying some insignificant words. Even in the end times, there seemed to be a different kind of warmth.
Gu Jinsheng stayed at home for three days. During these three days, he prepared delicious food for Ji An. Ji An felt that he seemed to have become fat in just three days.
On the morning of the fourth day, when Gu Jinsheng left, he cooked vegetable porridge for Ji An. The thick millet porridge contained perfectly cooked green leafy vegetables and ham mutant beast meat. Ji An filled a bowl with just the right amount of saltiness. A smile appeared on his lips unconsciously.
Ji An has been eating and sleeping at home these days, and his complexion has improved a lot. He feels full of energy.
But he was not in a hurry to go into the laboratory, and wanted to take a stroll around the orphanage.
The Jingshi base made a fortune from nutrient supplements. Ji An's only request was to build an orphanage. How could the base not satisfy him and took over directly?
After all, he was the one who brought the person back, so Ji An decided to go over and take a look at the situation.
The Salesian Home is located in a remote area, but it was funded by the Beijing base, so its safety is still guaranteed even though it is in Dongcheng.
It took Ji An four or five hours to drive from the bustling West City. On the way, he took a detour to a paper bookstore and bought some books suitable for young children.
In the end times, nothing is important except food. In the first few years, no one wanted many paper books, which led to many paper books being damaged and a large number of important related documents being lost, and the inheritance was once again broken.
Nowadays, life in the Beijing base is relatively stable, education is once again valued, and some people buy paper books, but the prices are very high, even more expensive than food.
But now Ji An is not short of money. He not only bought a dozen paper books, but also bought a lot of paper and pens. He also bought some pencils, fountain pens, watercolor pens, and crayons. Ji An bought quite a lot of things, and it cost Ji An more than a thousand credit points.
Ji An also went to a nearby toy store and picked out some small toys worth 200 credit points. Of course, these toys might not be good things. They were only the size of a palm and were sold on street stalls to fool children before the end of the world.
But these toys were already very rare for the little beggars in the orphanage who had never had enough to eat before.
In fact, in this end times, these toys are good things. Many ordinary families are reluctant to buy them for their children. Every year on their birthdays, they can buy one for their children to play with for the whole year. Some toys may be broken and unusable, but children will still hold them as treasures.
When Ji An arrived, these children were learning to write from Yuan Mingan. Yuan Mingan got some simple sand tables from the earth and wood ability users. These children put the sand tables on their legs, sat in a circle around Yuan Mingan, listened to her lectures carefully, and occasionally wrote and drew on the sand tables.
"Mr. Ji." Yuan Ming'an had just finished telling the children a short story about a crow adding water. When he looked up, he saw him and greeted him immediately.
Ji An put down the things he was holding in his left and right hands. The eyes of the children sitting around Yuan Mingan lit up and they stretched their necks to look. They vaguely guessed that these might be gifts for them, but they had never received any gifts since they grew up, so they did not dare to expect anything.
Perhaps the only time they received kindness was from Ji An, and then their lives were changed.
Ji An smiled at Yuan Mingan and said, "I wanted to come and see the children a long time ago, but I have been too busy these days and have not been able to spare the time. Thank you for your hard work during this period."
"It's not hard, this is what I should do, the base pays me a salary." Yuan Ming'an smiled and said, "If you want to talk about hard work, Mr. Ji, you are the ones who have been really hard-working recently. The auction was held, and the people from Country M and Country R refused to calm down and kept making trouble. As a result, they even made a superpower crystal core. Finally, Country M even tried to detonate the superpower crystal core to cause civil unrest in our base. Fortunately, a psychic superpower stepped forward and shot three consecutive arrows at the crystal core in the brain of the superpower from Country M, which alleviated the crisis.
Otherwise, who knows how many psychics would be killed or injured, and what other bases would do to take advantage of the situation? "
When Ji An released the arrows, there were only the top leaders of the Jing City Base around. It was because the three arrows Ji An shot were too powerful. As a level 3 peak psychic, he could shoot a level 6 psychic by skipping three levels. His strength was too terrifying. Secondly, he was afraid of retaliation from Country M, so Gu Jinsheng ordered to keep silent. There were many different opinions from the outside world, but no one knew which psychic shot Cruz. It was just a guess.
When Yuan Mingan mentioned the psychic who shot Cruz, her eyes lit up like the children in the orphanage when they saw the toys, except that there was more admiration in her eyes than in those children's eyes.
"I really want to know who the national hero is, but if it puts that hero in danger, I don't really want to know."
Yuan Mingan's eyes sparkled, "I hope the hero is safe. But I guess it's most likely Han Yaokun. He is the highest level researcher. To hit the target with three consecutive arrows and turn a level 6 psychic into an idiot, his accuracy and psychic level must be high. After all the calculations, the only people who fit the bill are Han Yaokun, Na Boyu, Zhou Fanxiu, and Bai Na, who are veteran brainpower psychics."
Yuan Mingan didn't take Ji An in front of her into account at all, even though she knew that Ji An was a researcher and had invented a space storage tool.
But Ji An's level was too low, how could he possibly fight against a higher level enemy and even jump three levels to shoot a level six psychic into an idiot?
Ji An did not respond to Yuan Mingan's words. He really couldn't answer this topic.
The base tried desperately to protect him and hide him. He couldn't just come out and say, "I did all this." Then where would the people who had hidden the secret for him be placed, where would the Jingshi base be placed, and where would Gu Jinsheng be placed?
After he is exposed, it is far from being just exposure. He may encounter endless assassinations. How many innocent people will be implicated by these assassinations?
Of course, he couldn't just push everything onto others. These things sounded glamorous, but in fact, they contained deadly dangers. Ji An couldn't use other people's lives to protect himself from disaster.
Ji An could only change the subject and said, "Sister Yuan, you seem to be in much better shape this time when I saw you?"
The last time Ji An saw Yuan Ming'an, her eyes had a sense of old age, as if she had no hope for tomorrow and was just numb towards this world. Anyway, she couldn't die, so she just lived one day at a time.
The whole person looked lifeless and extremely old, a person in her fifties looking like a woman in her seventies.
When I saw him again this time, Yuan Mingan had obviously changed a lot. He looked more energetic and spirited. Although his hair was still completely white and his face was full of wrinkles, he gave people a different feeling, as if there was light and hope in his eyes.
The woman who never smiled once from the time we met to the time we parted and always looked worried, has smiled countless times from the time we met this time.
At this moment, she smiled at Ji An again. It was not a fake smile that only appeared on the surface but a real smile that came from the heart.
"Mr. Ji, speaking of this, I have to thank you!" Yuan Ming'an bowed solemnly to Ji An, "It was you who changed me, and it was you who saved me!"
"I dare not say that." Ji An hurriedly helped Yuan Mingan up, "I just helped a few children at most."
Yuan Mingan refused Ji An's hand and bowed deeply to him. "No, you not only saved these children, but also me. If you are interested in sitting down and listening to my story, I would be happy to tell you."
"Of course I'd be happy to." Yuan Ming'an led Ji An to sit on the sofa and personally brewed a pot of cold tea for Ji An. She herself was a water-based mutant, so she was not short of water. She also gave a cup of tea to each of the children who gathered around to listen to the story.
Yuan Mingan looked at the children with loving eyes, without any disgust, and it can be seen that she truly wants to take care of these children from the bottom of her heart.
Yuan Ming'an had an unfortunate family before the end of the world. The family favored boys over girls. She was the youngest in the family and should have been the most favored. However, because she was a daughter, she became the least valued one in the family. Her parents also forced her to become a demon and even wanted to sell her to get a dowry for her brother to marry.
Yuan Mingan didn't want to, so she ran away.
Yuan Mingan was in a foreign land and had never been spoiled since she was a child. So when she saw a man who cared about her and greeted her three times a day, she thought he was very good to her. Then she plunged into the relationship and they got married not long after.
The following year, Yuan Mingan became pregnant and gave birth to their daughter.
What Yuan Ming'an didn't expect was that the family who had been hiding it very well and seemed not to care whether she gave birth to a boy or a girl completely revealed their true colors after she gave birth to a daughter. It turned out that this family was the kind of family that Yuan Ming'an hated the most, who favored boys over girls.
They knew that Yuan Ming'an hated this the most, so they kept their true colors hidden until Yuan Ming'an gave birth to a child.
As a result, after giving birth to a girl, Yuan Mingan expressed her unwillingness to have a second child. The man finally couldn't sit still anymore, and the whole family became anxious.
Seeing the expressions of the man and his family, as if she was committing a crime and not being worthy of being a woman if she didn't have a second child, Yuan Mingan understood everything. At the same time, in order to prevent her daughter from following in his footsteps, Yuan Mingan became more determined not to give birth to a son. Otherwise, her daughter would be the second her.
Then the man who had always been caring for her showed his ferocious fangs for the first time.
"He beat me because I didn't want to have another son. He dragged me out of bed and beat me severely when I was still very weak on the third day after giving birth." When saying this, there was no obvious emotional fluctuation in Yuan Mingan's eyes.
She seemed to be narrating a very ordinary event, calmly and without any excitement, as if it had nothing to do with her, and without any sadness or resentment.
"Then the man knelt down and begged me, saying that he would forgive him for the sake of our daughter. He was willing not to mention having a son again and vowed to be good to our daughter. I forgave him again."
It's not that Yuan Mingan is cheap as others think. People who have not experienced a neglected childhood like Yuan Mingan will never understand what that little bit of care and love means to Yuan Mingan.
It is no less than a drop of life-saving water in the desert.
Yuan Mingan was willing to give the man a chance and also give herself a chance, so she chose to forgive.
After that, the man behaved very well for a period of time. He no longer beat Yuan Mingan, nor did he treat his daughter badly. In fact, the first thing he did when he got home from get off work every day was to see his daughter, kiss her little face, and make her giggle.
When Yuan Mingan thought that the long-term relationship had changed the man and awakened the father-daughter nature deep in his heart, something happened to his daughter.
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