At that moment, a bittersweet thought welled up in her heart: how wonderful it would be if she were also her second uncle and aunt's daughter.
On the day my cousin turned one month old, my second uncle solemnly gave her a name: Tian Huanyan.
Then I thought of my own name—Tian Daxiu.
They were all daughters of the Tian family, so why were her and her two younger sisters named so casually by their father as Da Xiu, Er Xiu, and San Xiu respectively?
Later, the more she thought about it, the less she liked her name. After much persuasion, she finally got her father's approval and begged her second uncle to give her a new name.
Her current name, "Wenxiu," was given to her by her second uncle.
As her cousin Tian Huanyan grew up, her second aunt always dressed her up meticulously like a delicate porcelain doll, and the clothes she wore were all beautiful styles that Tian Huanyan had never seen before.
Seeing her cousin's radiant appearance, she felt a surge of jealousy and wished she could wear that beautiful dress herself.
By the time Tian Huanyan was almost five years old, her second aunt still hadn't given birth to another cousin.
Her father then had the idea of having his second brother adopted by his second uncle.
Upon hearing this news, a hint of schadenfreude flashed in her eyes. She thought to herself that once her second brother was adopted, Tian Huanyan would no longer have delicate hair clips and beautiful clothes to wear.
They even had to do the same things as her, washing clothes and cooking every day. If they didn't do it well, they would be scolded, and if they were scolded, they wouldn't get any food.
Thinking this, a smug smile unconsciously crept onto her lips.
Because that's how her parents always treated her, in her opinion, her second uncle didn't have a son before, but once he had one, daughters would definitely have to take a backseat.
To everyone's surprise, my second uncle firmly disagreed with the suggestion, which strained the relationship between the brothers.
A few years later, the second uncle secretly sold all the factories, shops, and houses he owned, and then quietly left the country with his family and Tian Huanyan's maternal grandmother.
When her father found out, he was so angry that his face turned ashen and he flew into a rage.
As the older brother, he didn't know anything beforehand that his younger brother had made such a big decision.
They left without even leaving them anything.
Unexpectedly, their next meeting was to witness Tian Huanyan giving birth in the hospital.
When Tian Wenxiu's mother brought over the steaming chicken soup, she quietly mentioned it to her mother.
After hearing this, her mother hurriedly went back home.
According to custom, she cannot return to her parents' home to recuperate after childbirth; she can only rest at the hospital for one night and plans to return to the military base the next day.
In the middle of the night, I could faintly hear someone in the corridor shouting in panic, "The child is missing!"
Startled, Tian Wenxiu turned pale and quickly reached out to wake her mother beside her.
After her mother woke up, she hurriedly opened the door to go out and check, but returned a short while later.
She didn't say a word when she came back, but you could tell from the undisguised smile on her mother's face that she was very happy.
Later she learned that the one who abandoned the child was Tian Huanyan, and that it was her father who secretly stole and threw the child away.
Tian Huanyan's child is missing. I heard that she has become mentally confused and delirious, grabbing everyone she meets every day and asking if they have seen her child.
My second uncle and aunt searched for several years in China without success, and were forced to leave just before the outbreak of the movement.
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