Xu Yingjie shook his head. "Selling children is illegal, but buying them isn't. The buyer is only guilty if they resist when the child is being rescued." (Note: This was an old law from the 1990s. The new Criminal Law now criminalizes the sale of children!)
Seeing Wang Qingqi's relief, Xu Yingjie asked, "Why? Have you ever bought a child?"
Wang Qing quickly shook his head: "No, no, no, it's not me, it's my cousin Wang Chunhua."
"Wang Chunhua?" Xu Yingjie's eyes narrowed, and his gaze suddenly became sharp. "So, what do you mean?"
Wang Qing closed his eyes and said resolutely, "That's right, it's just as you thought. My cousin Wang Chunhua didn't get pregnant that year."
Once you have said the first sentence, the rest will be easier to say.
Wang Qing said, "Chunhua and Su Kang were engaged when they were thirteen, and they agreed to get married three years later. But after the liberation in 1949, the Su family found a way to get Su Kang into the city to work as a worker, and the Su family showed signs of regretting the engagement."
"Of course Chunhua didn't want to. Su Kang was good-looking, and he was lucky enough to move to the city and become a city dweller who ate commercial grain. If Chunhua didn't marry him, she would never find anyone better than him in her life. So that year during the Dragon Boat Festival, while Su Kang was back in the countryside for the festival, Chunhua hooked Su Kang up and got into bed with him."
"But Su Kang wasn't a good guy either. He took advantage of Chunhua without a word, then just walked back to the city. Since then, Chunhua has been looking forward to seeing Su Kang again, from summer to autumn, but he never came back to the countryside."
"Chunhua was at her wit's end, so she came up with the idea of faking a pregnancy and sent someone to deliver a message to Su Kang. However, after the message was delivered, no one came back. This went on until the next year."
"Chunhua couldn't get over this, so she decided to buy a child and pretend it was hers. Then she could take the child to Su Kang's workplace and make a scene. Even if the Su family didn't like the marriage, they would still have to marry her."
"She really did succeed."
"She just knelt down at the door of the boss's office, holding the child in her arms, without saying a word. Her mother-in-law rushed over and took her to get a marriage certificate with Su Kang that same day."
At this point, Wang Qing shrugged and said, "That's why I said Chunhua didn't need to steal someone else's child. Buying a child isn't illegal, so why would she do that?"
Xu Yingjie didn't shy away from Wang Qing's question and continued, "Where did Wang Chunhua buy the child from?"
Wang Qing's eyelids twitched and he subconsciously pursed his dry lips.
This is a very guilty expression.
Xu Yingjie noticed something was wrong, his eyes sharpened, and he shouted, "Hurry up and tell me!"
"North, north, Pingqian Province." Wang Qing's face turned pale and she looked at her mother-in-law in panic.
Grandma Wang Qing was immediately confused. She was afraid of herself. She stood up with a smile, as if she had just remembered something, and said, "Oh, look at my brain. I was still stewing soup in the kitchen, and I forgot about it while listening. I have to go check it quickly before it dries up."
When her mother-in-law walked into the kitchen, Wang Qing lowered her head and spoke with difficulty, "I, I was once kidnapped by a man named Gouzi and served as his concubine for several years. After liberation, that man went up the mountain to become a bandit. Except for the first wife, he abandoned all the other concubines in the mansion. The government rescued me and the other concubines and sent them back home."
"Chunhua... Chunhua knew about my experience and said he must have some connections in this area, so I wanted to buy the child from him."
Xu Yingjie asked, "So, you were the one who acted as a go-between and helped Wang Chunhua buy the child?"
"No, no, no, no, I didn't. How could I dare?" Wang Qing whispered, "Chunhua is very brave. She just asked me for an address, and the next day she took a train to Pingqian Province alone. Ten days later, she came back with a child."
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