Chapter 0 Extra 3: Ye Xiaojie & Sun Qing
"Zhao Mingzhu! Get down here!" Sun Qing quickly ran to the bow and pulled little Zhao Mingzhu, who was standing on the railing, down.
"You are so brave that you dare to climb up the railing and you are not afraid of falling down!"
Zhao Mingzhu struggled and begged for mercy: "Aunt Qing, I know I was wrong, put me down, put me down quickly!"
Sun Qing threw Zhao Mingzhu onto the deck. Zhao Mingzhu rolled twice in the air and landed steadily on the ground. "Aunt Qing, that was so much fun just now! Can you throw me again?"
Zhao Mingzhu ran to Sun Qing happily, hugged Sun Qing's legs, and wrapped her limbs around Sun Qing's long legs.
Sun Qing tried to shake her off twice but failed, so she dragged Zhao Mingzhu towards the cabin.
Ye Xiaojie walked out of the cabin and saw Zhao Mingzhu's disfigured appearance. She said, "Zhao Mingzhu, you are already a six-year-old adult. Can you please stop hanging on to your Aunt Qing like a koala?"
When Zhao Mingzhu heard her mother speak, she reluctantly got off Sun Qing.
Ye Xiaojie raised her foot and kicked her butt, "Why are you standing here? Did you run the 10km jog today?"
Zhao Mingzhu's lips were pouting, "How can we run on the boat?"
Ye Xiaojie said coldly: "Run around the cabin, two laps is one kilometer, run twenty laps."
Zhao Mingzhu looked at Sun Qing eagerly, hoping that Sun Qing could speak for her. Sun Qing spread her hands, indicating that she was powerless.
"Hmph, let me run!" Zhao Mingzhu angrily did some pre-running exercises, then stretched out her short legs and ran around the cabin.
Sun Qing watched her small figure getting farther and farther away and said, "Mingzhu is still so young, isn't running 20 laps too much?"
Ye Xiaojie was indifferent. "She has taken meteorite liquid, and her physical fitness is stronger than that of ordinary people. 20 laps is just a warm-up for her."
Ye Xiaojie retracted her gaze from Zhao Mingzhu, "Before we set off, Lu Lanshan told me that after we return from this trip, we will be given five days off, and two of them will be used to arrange for everyone in our fleet to go on blind dates."
Sun Qing frowned when she heard that. "Another blind date? Are the officials so idle that they keep staring at this kind of thing between men and women all day long?"
Ye Xiaojie sighed, "Water World has expanded three times in the past two years. More and more houses have been built, but the population has not increased."
"The future of Xia Country and Blue Star will depend on the next generation for development. If no one is willing to get married and have children, Xia Country will have no next generation. How can we talk about the future and development? The authorities have no choice but to arrange so many blind dates."
Sun Qing rolled her eyes. "To put it bluntly, they just want us women to become reproductive machines. I won't go on blind dates, and it's impossible for me to get married and have children."
Marriage is fine, but having a child is absolutely impossible. She has seen Ye Xiaojie giving birth and knows how much damage a child can cause to the mother.
Ye Xiaojie was relatively young when she got pregnant and gave birth, so her body recovered quickly and the damage was not that great. Those who are older will suffer a lot of illnesses after giving birth, which will cause great damage to their bodies.
Although there have been few major natural disasters in the past two days, if a devastating natural disaster occurs again, how can she survive the disaster with her sick body?
In order to save her life, she resolutely refused to marry and have children. As for the future of the country, she didn't have such a big vision and couldn't sacrifice herself for the country.
Seeing that she was so resistant to getting married and having children, Ye Xiaojie smiled and said, "If you don't want to have a blind date, then don't have one. At worst, I can let Zhao Mingzhu support you when we get old."
Sun Qing nodded and said, "Of course I will. I am Mingzhu's godmother! How dare she not support me?"
Sun Qing, who said she didn't want to have children, never expected that two years later, she would have a son.
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After another blind date plan failed, Yu Jie asked Lu Lanshan to send out a questionnaire to find out why young people nowadays are unwilling to get married and have children.
The survey results are varied, but without exception, they all show that people are unwilling to get close to strangers.
Yu Jie and Lu Lanshan realized that young people today have experienced natural disasters and man-made disasters, and are too wary of strangers. It is basically impossible for them to trust anyone other than their relatives. In other words, it is basically impossible for two strangers to become a family.
Yu Jie reported this phenomenon to the capital. After many discussions, the capital decided not to force young people to go on blind dates and instead develop artificial wombs.
The technology of artificial wombs had been developed before the natural disaster and had been successfully tested on animals. The reason why it had not been tested on humans was that the technology was very expensive. Ordinary people could not afford it, and the rich could not use it.
Now that the experiment has been reopened, in just one year, the capital has already used artificial wombs to give birth to three lovely and healthy babies.
When the technology was declared a success, the Xia Kingdom issued a policy. Anyone who wanted to have offspring could go to the hospital to donate their own reproductive cells. Those who donated reproductive cells could choose to use the reproductive cells of strangers to bear offspring.
For example, if a woman wants a blood-related offspring, she can donate her own germ cells and then randomly select a male's germ cells.
If you don’t want to endure the pain of having a child, you can choose artificial uterus surrogacy. If you want to experience the experience of having a child, you can also complete artificial insemination with the help of a doctor.
The same is true for men. If they want a blood-related offspring, they can choose to have an artificial uterus surrogate. In this way, young people can have their own children even if they don't get married.
In order to prevent blood confusion, the government will strictly control the number of reproductive cells. The reproductive cells of the same person will only be used three times, and the children will be marked after birth.
Babies of the same bloodline will have the same mark on their wrists. When a child grows up and meets someone with the same mark on their wrist, it proves that the other person is either from the same father or from the same mother.
Even if the cells are marked, the authorities are still worried about blood confusion, so when someone donates reproductive cells, the hospital will divide the cells into three parts and send them to different cities.
When Lv Lanshan saw this policy, he thought that not many people would donate reproductive cells. Young people today are not even willing to get married, so how could they be willing to raise children?
But unexpectedly, after the policy was announced, the hospitals were overcrowded with people who donated reproductive cells and those who chose to use reproductive cells to conceive children.
In times of natural disasters and chaos, many people have lost their families and are left alone to live. They long for their joy to be shared and hope that someone will be waiting for them to return home.
It is difficult for them to accept a stranger into their family, but they are very happy to accept a blood relative into their family.
Sun Qing also went to the hospital to donate reproductive cells. She didn't want to have a child to accompany her, but wanted to have a child to play with Zhao Mingzhu, otherwise Zhao Mingzhu would be alone.
Anyway, now artificial uteruses can conceive children. She doesn't have to do anything except donating reproductive cells. In ten months, she will be able to give birth to a big white baby.
When her son was born from the artificial womb, Sun Qing had no idea of being a mother. But perhaps because she had often taken care of Zhao Mingzhu before, she was able to take care of her adopted son quickly.
"What name do you plan to give him?" Ye Xiaojie asked.
Sun Qing looked at her son who was drinking from a bottle. "Of course my son has my last name. His full name is Sun Youan. I hope he will live a peaceful and smooth life. When Anan grows up, I will let him be Mingzhu's child husband."
Ye Xiaojie laughed and said, "He is eight years younger than Mingzhu. The difference is too big. Mingzhu probably won't like someone younger than her."
Sun Qing waved her hand nonchalantly, "Oh, it doesn't matter. If Mingzhu likes him, he is Mingzhu's adopted husband. If Mingzhu doesn't like him, he is Mingzhu's younger brother. Either way, Mingzhu will not suffer any loss."
Little Sun Youan seemed to know that he would be exploited by Zhao Mingzhu in the future, and suddenly burst into loud tears to express his dissatisfaction.
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