Chapter 111 Cause and Effect
Regardless of the mood of the family locked outside, Lin Qiu walked into the room eagerly.
Wang Xiuren's condition didn't look very good just now.
Who would have thought that when I walked into the room, I found Wang Xiuren standing in front of the dressing mirror, clumsily braiding his daughter's hair.
Wang Shan, who was sitting on the bench, was not cooperating and kept twisting and turning to look in the mirror.
"This job is really not easy!" Wang Xiuren sighed, his face calm, as if nothing had happened.
Lin Qiu deliberately smiled, "Braiding is no easier than those tenons and mortises you have, right? Look at me, I've been doing this for so many years, and I can only braid a ponytail!"
"Ponytails look pretty good too!" Wang Xiuren laughed.
Lin Qiu didn't know why, but when he saw Wang Xiuren's smile, tears fell from his eyes one by one, hitting the concrete floor and splashing a drop of water.
After a long while, she raised her head and looked at him eagerly, "How about we have another child?"
Wang Xiuren gently wiped away the tears on his wife's face and stroked her hair. "We just need to live our own lives!"
"But, they are right. We have to give birth to a son." Lin Qiu lowered his head. "If we have a son, she won't dare to scold you for being..."
Lin Qiu couldn't say those three words, but Wang Xiuren knew them.
He lowered his head to look at his daughter in front of him, then glanced sideways at his wife who had entered a dead end beside him, and said calmly: "I am a son, but so what? I am still the same, with no love from my father and mother."
Lin Qiu felt a little sorry for Wang Xiuren and clung to his shoulders tightly.
"Besides, you are so powerful that you dare to slap someone. Who will dare to scold me again in the future?" Wang Xiuren joked, "I have a fierce tiger at home!"
"Dad, we don't have tigers at home!" Wang Shan corrected seriously, "There are only tigers in the zoo!"
"Then you don't know. We have one at home too, and it's very fierce!" Wang Xiuren looked at Lin Qiu.
"You are the tigress!" Lin Qiu smiled and hit his arm.
"Shanshan, don't move. Daddy will try again to see if he can tie it up!" Wang Xiuren combed his daughter's soft hair slowly.
"Besides, I won't be called the last one to die. Isn't Shanshan my descendant?"
That’s right, Lin Qiu realized that he had been led astray. He and Wang Xiuren had a daughter, so it couldn’t be said that their family was extinct!
"We are following the policy, having fewer and better children, and bringing up Shanshan. Isn't that better than those scoundrels?"
"My Shanshan is now so good at what they can do!" Wang Xiuren pointed at the luggage bag proudly.
The luggage bag contained the completed migration certificate.
"That's right!"
Lin Qiu agreed very much. The environment and education in Pengcheng could not be compared with that in Dongjiang, a small town.
In a sense, Wang Shan is no longer on the same track as them.
"And have you forgotten that if I want to have another child, I will have to undergo another operation?" Wang Xiuren reminded.
Lin Qiu then remembered: "Yes, you can't have children!"
What does it mean to be unable to have children?
Men are very sensitive to such words!
Wang Xiuren stared at her, "Who can't have children?"
"Sorry, I said the wrong thing. You can have a baby but you just don't want to!" Lin Qiu quickly apologized.
Then she pointed at her daughter who was admiring herself in front of the mirror and said, "Look how fertile you are! You gave birth to such a wonderful daughter. No one else can compare to her!"
Only then did Wang Xiuren withdrew his gaze with satisfaction.
No one could have imagined that in the early 1990s, Wang Xiuren went to get a sterilization when Wang Shan was less than half a month old.
Even if this were pushed back thirty years, it would not be possible for most people to do it.
Most of the time, it is women who are forced to get IUDs, so how can men get sterilized?
If you say this to others, everyone will talk about it, especially in this era.
"Hey, let me ask you, why did you think of getting a sterilization at that time?" Lin Qiu pushed Wang Xiuren with his right elbow.
"I was scared!" Wang Xiuren recalled the day when Lin Qiu gave birth to his daughter.
"You don't know, when you gave birth to Shanshan, a woman in the delivery room next door died of amniotic fluid embolism. The doctors and nurses were all covered in blood. I heard that woman had given birth to four children, but she died on the operating table just to give birth to a son!"
Looking back, Wang Xiuren still feels a little scared.
"At the time, I thought giving birth was too dangerous. I couldn't just ignore your life and death for the sake of having a child, right? Anyway, I had already given birth to one, so I thought I would never have another one. So I went to ask the doctor, and the doctor gave me surgery."
After hearing this, Lin Qiu was so touched that he grabbed Wang Xiuren's arm, which made him feel a little embarrassed.
"Also, it's hard to get a birth permit! We couldn't afford the fine back then!"
This is true. In rural areas, you cannot have a child just because you meet the policy requirements. Those in charge of family planning often do not care whether you meet the policy requirements or not and often hold on to your birth permit.
And once someone is reported, no one cares about anything else. They will just drag the person to the hospital and dismiss the matter with just one sentence: "This is national policy."
"Now that our conditions are good, do you still want to have a baby? If you do, let's go to the hospital." Lin Qiu asked tentatively.
Wang Xiuren waved his hands, "No more children, no more children! Don't be so nosy, we still have a mortgage to pay off!"
Lin Qiu thought of the more than 200,000 yuan mortgage, frowned, and said to Wang Xiuren seriously: "If I mention having children again in the future, remember to hit me on the head twice!"
"Another thing is, I don't want Shanshan or the one after her to think that we are biased. I can bear this kind of suffering, but my child should not suffer from it!" Wang Xiuren said word by word.
After listening to this, Lin Qiu said nothing.
No one in this world can guarantee that they can treat everyone equally. It is said that "the palms and backs of the hands are all made of flesh", but it is also thick and thin.
The key is that you cannot resist, because once you resist, the hat of being unfilial will be put on your head.
"Okay, hurry up and pack your things! We're going to stay at my father-in-law's house tonight, and then we'll go back to Pengcheng tomorrow!"
Wang Xiuren knew that Lin Qiu felt sorry for him, but he was no longer at the age where he could only covet his parents' charity. He now had a wife and a daughter, a happy family, a career he loved, and other in-laws and friends who cared about him.
When he has enough, he will no longer care about the little bit that slips through his fingers.
That afternoon, the family of three left with their luggage.
Wang Zongsheng and Li Xiuying stood at the intersection. The anger in their hearts about being kicked out by their son and daughter-in-law was temporarily suppressed. They watched their son and his family leave their lives again.
Wang Xiuren could see the gray hair on his parents’ temples. After thinking for a while, he waved his hand.
The so-called blood ties are now just a facade.
We only had occasional phone calls after that, but those few words didn't bridge the gap and didn't affect our lives.
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