Chapter 17 Chapter 17 Save her, save her…………
Although both have the surname Wang and live in Chahe Village, Wang Qin and Wang Suihua have completely different fates.
In fact, Wang Qin's mother-in-law Li Guihua was not like this in her early years. Wang Qin was capable and good at housework. She became pregnant in the first year after she got married, so she treated Wang Qin like her own daughter.
It was not until she gave birth to her eldest daughter, Zhaodi, that her life gradually began to change.
Family planning is not so strict in the village. It doesn’t matter if the first child is a girl, as long as the second child is a son, the two together will form the Chinese character “good”.
A few years later, Wang Qin became pregnant again.
In order to confirm that the baby in her belly was a boy, Li Guihua was determined and spent a lot of money to take her to the city for a B-ultrasound. The doctor also clearly told her that it was a boy. As a result, nine months later, Pan Di was born as Li Guihua hoped...
Now not only Li Guihua, but also Wang Qin's father-in-law Zhou Min began to get anxious.
The two birth quotas have been used up, but the Zhou family still has no child to carry on the family line. What should they do?
So after some discussion, the couple decided to take a chance and save the money for building a new house to pay the fine for their son's extra birth. As long as Wang Qin's third child can be a boy, then the money paid will be worth it!
Finally, Wang Qin's belly grew bigger again.
This time, everyone who saw her belly said it would be a son. She also liked sour food more than the previous two times. But when Lai Di was born, she was still a baby girl.
Since the child was not a boy, Li Guihua and Zhou Min naturally refused to pay the fine. As a result, Lai Di, who was unable to register her household registration, became an illegal resident. When she reached a certain age, she could not go to school and could only help her mother and sister with housework at home.
The Zhou family has been a single-line line for several generations, and they can't let the line die out in this generation.
In order to make Wang Qin give birth to a boy, Li Guihua almost went crazy. When a Feng Shui expert said that the layout of the house was not good, she immediately asked someone to demolish it; when someone said that the ancestral tomb of the family would not bring good fortune to the descendants, Zhou Min burned incense to the ancestors the next day and asked them to move the tomb...
Even the locust tree that had been planted in the yard for decades was dug up because its name contained the word "flower", which represents a daughter and was unlucky for Wang Qin to give birth to a son.
Unfortunately, their blind superstition did not work, and Yingdi and Youdi, who were born later, were still two girls.
Until this time, Li Guihua was introduced to a miracle doctor in Liulihe Village. The miracle doctor said that if Wang Qin could give birth after the ninth day of the first lunar month, it would be a son. Unexpectedly, when he took her to another clinic to check her pulse, she gave birth directly...
Every time Wang Qin gave birth to a daughter, Li Guihua's face became a little colder. Although her father-in-law Zhou Min didn't say anything, he was not in a good mood either. At home, he just treated the mother and daughter as invisible.
In the early years, when Wang Qin's husband Zhou Qiang was still at home, he could help them to shield themselves from their parents' cold words. But now that Zhou Qiang has gone to work in the city to make more money, they have to live their lives in slavery and servility.
So, it’s not that Zhaodi and Pandi are born obedient and sensible, but that they grew up watching their grandparents’ expressions, which forced them to learn to live by observing their words and expressions.
Wang Qin was crying as she spoke. Youdi, the youngest girl, was sitting next to her. Although her eyes were red, she did not cry. Instead, she kept wiping away the tears that were about to fall with her sleeves. Yingdi did not say anything either. She just collected the peeled eggshells and kept them to fertilize the vegetables at home.
Wang Qin had held these words in her heart for many years, and she had no chance to say them out loud. But now that they were all poured out at once, she felt a lot better.
"I'm sorry, sister," Wang Qin forced out an ugly smile, "I'm sorry for making you listen to my complaints for so long."
Shen Miao shook her head, “It’s okay, there’s nothing to be sorry about.”
Since Shen Miao couldn't help her in any way, it was good to listen to her complaining and make her feel more relaxed.
It was getting late, and after Zhaodi and Pandi had packed up, Shen Miao and her daughters helped Wang Qin onto the tricycle, then rode them back home.
A few minutes ago, Shen Wanshan came home first and said that Wang Qin and several children would stay at home today, so Wang Dongmei and Shen Shansheng cleaned up the room on the second floor early.
The Shen family's new courtyard has been built for several years. It is a two-story self-built concrete house: the first floor is the kitchen, living room and the bedrooms of Shen Miao and Shen Wanshan; the second floor is the bedrooms of Wang Dongmei and Shen Shansheng, as well as several empty rooms for storing sundries and medicinal materials.
There were many such cases in the countryside in the early years, and Shen Wanshan had treated some homeless patients, so there were several simple bed boards in the room on the second floor, and people could sleep on them as long as they put down mattresses.
"Sister, let your brother carry you upstairs later. You are still in confinement, so don't get cold when you go downstairs."
When Shen Miao pulled the tricycle in, Wang Dongmei, who was picking vegetables to cook two more dishes, hurried out of the kitchen and asked Shen Shansheng to carry her off the tricycle.
"Here I come."
Chen Shansheng had just tidied up the room, walked quickly downstairs, rolled up his sleeves, and carried Wang Qin from the tricycle into the house.
Although Shen Shansheng and Wang Dongmei did not study medicine, they, like Shen Wanshan, have a kind heart.
They took good care of every patient of Shen Wanshan. Not only did they seal the windows of the house tightly, but they also specially steamed a pot of rice, thinking that Wang Qin's daughters might not have eaten.
After helping Wang Qin settle down, Shen Miao came to the kitchen to help Wang Dongmei pick vegetables.
"Call her husband tomorrow morning. He should be able to pick them up and take them home in the evening."
"It's okay. It's okay to stay for two more days." Wang Dongmei looked up at the lighted window on the second floor and couldn't help but sighed, "Alas, I am also a miserable person."
Wang Dongmei didn't know what was going on in her family, but she could guess a general idea from her mother-in-law's attitude and her five daughters.
Continuing the family line has always been a woman’s biggest mission in rural areas.
If you can't give birth, you will have to live on your knees. If you give birth to a girl instead of a boy, you can't straighten your back. Only if you give birth to a son with a penis will you be treated as a "human being" by your in-laws.
As the director of the Women's Department, Wang Dongmei is well aware of the difficulties women face and naturally understands her suffering.
“Oh right,” Shen Miao suddenly thought of something and asked again, “When you gave birth to me, was my grandfather unhappy about anything?”
Rural areas have always favored boys over girls. If we apply this to our own family, our mother, Wang Dongmei, must have had a hard time having to please other people when she was a child.
However, in her memory, her grandfather has always loved her since she could remember, and he is completely different from Wang Qin's mother-in-law who favors boys over girls.
Wang Dongmei smiled, "Not happy? Your grandfather almost went crazy with joy the night I gave birth to you!"
Shen Shan is the only descendant of the Shen family. It would be a lie to say that Shen Wanshan doesn't want to have a grandson. After all, the medical skills that have been passed down for hundreds of years cannot be lost.
But ever since they got married, Wang Dongmei's belly has been still, and seeing that the two are getting older, Shen Wanshan is so anxious that he is like a headless fly, but there is nothing he can do.
My son and daughter-in-law are both healthy. There is nothing more we can do but leave it to fate.
Fortunately, after many years of hard work by the couple, Wang Dongmei finally became pregnant at the age of 28.
The Shen family had an offspring, so how could Shen Wanshan care about whether it was a boy or a girl? He kowtowed to the ancestors of the family overnight. After Shen Miao was born, he cried with joy and could not sleep for two nights.
If he had to talk about regrets, Shen Wanshan still had some in his heart. After all, if his son Shen Shansheng didn't study medicine, it would be difficult for him to have a granddaughter who inherited the ancestral medical skills.
But when Shen Miao grabbed a medicine hammer during the one-month-old grasping ceremony, and when she was one year old and could distinguish several medicinal herbs by smell, Shen Wanshan realized that his granddaughter might be a natural saint for learning medicine blessed by her ancestors.
Who says women are inferior to men? Shen Wanshan has a deep understanding of this sentence.
Even if Shen Shansheng and Wang Dongmei gave birth to another fat boy now, Shen Wanshan would never love him as much as he loves Shen Miao.
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The next morning, Shen Shansheng went to the store at the entrance of the village and called the city using the number given by Wang Qin.
That afternoon, her husband Zhou Qiang hurried back from the city to pick her and the child up.
Zhou Qiang looked like an honest man. When he heard that it was Shen Miao and Shen Wanshan who helped deliver the baby yesterday and took in his children, he knelt on the ground to express his gratitude to them.
He came back in a hurry and didn't have much money on him, but he still resolutely stuffed all the ten or so yuan in his pocket into Shen Wanshan's hand as a token of his appreciation.
"Don't worry, I will explain it clearly to my parents when I go back. I will never let us girls live a hard life again!" Zhou Qiang promised them solemnly while holding his newborn daughter in his cradle.
Zhou Qiang looked good, and he was probably unaware of the hardships they were suffering at home. With his support for Wang Qin, he should be able to secure a place for them in this family.
Seeing that the sky was a little gloomy, Shen Wanshan did not try to keep them any longer, "Well, go back quickly and talk to your parents."
"good."
An hour after Zhou Qiang left, it really started raining heavily.
Autumn is almost here, and the temperature dropped quickly after the heavy rain.
People tend to feel sleepy when the weather gets cold, and she was busy delivering Wang Qin's baby yesterday, and didn't sleep well at night, so Shen Miao went to bed before 10 o'clock in the evening.
"Ding-dang, ding-dang..."
Shen Miao was having a sweet dream of going to the city for fun, but she heard a series of knocks on the door in her dream.
"Ding-dang, ding-dang..."
Wait, this isn't a dream?
She opened her eyes dazedly, and in addition to the knock on the door, she also heard an anxious female voice: "Grandpa Shen, Sister Miaomiao, help! Save my sister!"
I looked at the time on the watch: 3:18.
After calming down, Shen Miao quickly put on some clothes, got up and went to open the door.
When she opened the door, Shen Miao saw a girl covered in mud, her tears were as big as walnuts, and there were several wounds on her body that were bleeding profusely.
“Zhao Di?” Shen Miao quickly put her clothes on her, “What’s wrong with you at this late hour?”
"Sister Miaomiao!"
Zhou Zhaodi suddenly knelt on the ground, grabbed her trouser legs and begged: "Save my sister, my sister, my sister..."
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