Tie Dan's hometown is located in a mountainous area and is relatively underdeveloped. Many people in the village are ignorant, not to mention the elderly. Even some young people are sexist and rush to have children, just to have a son.
Many families in the village have had four or five children. The first few are definitely daughters. They won't give up until they have a son. The more children they have, the poorer the family becomes. In the end, even the family planning office can't do anything about it. The family is so poor that they can't afford to pay the fines.
They couldn't catch them, so the whole village united to resist, just like in the war years. There were people on guard at the village entrance. When they saw the family planning officials from afar, they would run back to the village to report. Even if the pregnant women were seven or eight months pregnant, they were still as light as swallows and nimbly climbed up the back mountain to hide. Some even spent the night on the mountain until the family planning officials left before they would come back.
The guerrilla tactics employed by their predecessors were put to full use by these villagers, resulting in a continuous stream of offspring. The village was teeming with young children, several times more numerous than in other villages.
The neighboring villages were extremely envious of Tie Dan's hometown village's advantageous location. Backed by a mountain, it was so hidden that even a searchlight couldn't find it. During the war years, this mountain saved many villagers, and now it has saved many young lives. It is truly a treasure mountain.
Like Tie Dan's two older brothers, although her in-laws did not favor boys over girls, they each had three children. The first child was a girl, and the second child was allowed by policy. The two sisters-in-law were quite successful, both having sons. One son and one daughter is so good. Tang Yuanyuan thought she would not have any more children.
But less than two years later, both sisters-in-law became pregnant again. Instead of going to the mountains to play hide-and-seek, they dutifully paid the fine. After all, the Niu family was now a wealthy household in the village, and it wasn't worth going to the mountains to starve for such a small fine.
The third child was also a son, a year or two older than her daughter Roubao. Tang Yuanyuan thought it was a natural birth, but she later learned that it was actually conceived with human intervention.
These two children are actually not the third, but the fourth. Both of their sisters-in-law got pregnant around the same time, went to a private clinic for an ultrasound, found out it was a girl, and then promptly had an abortion and continued to conceive, like emotionless birthing machines.
Tang Yuanyuan was shocked when she found out. She never expected that such a thing could happen. What chilled her to the bone was that Tie Dan's brother, sister-in-law, sister, and parents all thought that this kind of thing was very normal, as normal as eating and sleeping, and that there was nothing to make a fuss about.
Moreover, the two sisters-in-law, who were considered victims, were unaware of this; they were even smug because they had given birth to sons.
Tang Yuanyuan wanted to have a heart-to-heart talk with her two sisters-in-law, hoping they would stop having children just for the sake of having children, because surgery not only harms the children, but the women themselves are the biggest victims, but she ultimately didn't say anything.
The person involved wasn't even aware of this, and if she spoke up, people might think she was trying to sow discord, so it's better not to say anything.
Because there were too many ignorant things in that small mountain village, including her parents-in-law, Tang Yuanyuan didn't like going back to her hometown. Later, she had disagreements about raising her child, so she rarely went back anymore, at most staying for a few days during the Chinese New Year.
"That's great! I'll call my mom right now, she'll be so happy!" Ya Dan was overjoyed and looked at Tang Yuan Yuan with gratitude.
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