Shao Shengan's words made Qiao Qingqing feel sad and her eyes sore.
"You don't ask me anything. Are you really going to listen to me and not have a child?"
Shao Shengan looked at her seriously: "Because you are my Qingqing, I love you the most, even if we have a child, I still love you the most. If you don't want a child, I don't want one either." He touched her head, just like when he coaxed her to memorize two more English words when they were teenagers, "Don't feel burdened. We are husband and wife, husband and wife are one, your choice is my decision."
"..."Qiao Qingqing couldn't say anything and just hugged him.
Holding his wife, Shao Shengan said with a smile: "Why do you become so tearful? Qingqing, don't cry. Your eyes will be swollen tomorrow. My parents will think I'm dying when they see your eyes. That's why you cry your eyes like this."
Qiao Qingqing knocked him and choked up, "I just lied to my parents and said you were sick, but you lied to them and said you might have cancer. How dare you say that? It's unlucky."
"It's okay! I'm immune to all poisons. You know my parents' personalities. I have to say this. Later... later, as long as our family is together." Shao Shengan kissed her face, "Go to bed, it's almost twelve o'clock."
"Let me do it."
Shao Shengan didn't expect Qiao Qingqing to insist, so he advised her: "I've consulted you, you'll need surgery if you do it, it'll be better and more convenient for me to do it, and the effect will be the same."
Qiao Qingqing hesitated.
"Okay, don't think about it, just do it, go to sleep."
"I can't sleep." Qiao Qingqing said in a muffled voice, lying on the bed covered with a quilt.
"Then let's chat. You haven't told me what your space is. I heard from mom that it's a treasure passed down from our ancestors. What does that mean?"
Qiao Qingqing lay on her side facing Shao Shengan and whispered, "Because when the space first appeared, it was on my grandmother's mother, then it was passed on to my grandmother, then to my mother, and now it is in my hands."
Qiao Qingqing's space was passed down from her maternal line to her great-grandmother. When it first appeared, it was said to be only the size of a small box. Her great-grandmother was very surprised when she got it, but she didn't dare to tell anyone else. She thought it was a gift from God, so she treated it as her own private dressing box and only put some precious treasures in it, such as a pair of silver earrings, a favorite wooden hairpin, a hair flower, etc.
For my great-grandmother, who came from a poor family, this was her most precious thing. After she got married, she put a pair of silver bracelets given by her husband into the dressing box. Her husband asked her to manage the household, so all the property in the house was also in the dressing box. In that chaotic era, there were often thieves in the slums, and other people's homes always lost their property, but only their family never lost a penny. My great-grandfather praised his wife for her good housekeeping and said that marrying her would bring prosperity to our ancestors.
Because her family was poor, my great-grandmother never put any truly valuable things, such as jade or gold, in her dressing box.
Everything changed until my grandmother was born.
When my great-grandmother was pregnant with Qiao Qingqing's grandmother, her dressing box suddenly disappeared and everything inside fell out. My great-grandmother thought that God had taken back the gift and was sad but could do nothing. It was not until her daughter grew up and suddenly got the "dressing box" at the age of fifteen that my grandmother, who had heard the story of the dressing box from her mother, immediately told it to her mother. Then my great-grandmother realized that the box had not disappeared, but had been transferred to her daughter's hands.
When the dressing box came into my grandmother's hands, she felt like she had found a treasure.
At that time, my grandmother actually secretly joined the underground party and was fighting for her ideals and beliefs with great enthusiasm. Isn't this mysterious and unknown space the safest and most reliable place to hide things and pass on intelligence? With this "ancestral" treasure, Qiao Qingqing's grandmother's underground work went very smoothly. Later, she got the news that the enemy smuggled a batch of gold on board and brought it back to the country to seek credit. Qiao Qingqing's grandmother and her comrades took a fancy to this batch of gold and wanted to rob it for military supplies. After a thrilling and difficult operation, they came to the warehouse. The gold was too heavy. A gold brick weighed two kilograms. They could only take it away in batches. Qiao Qingqing's grandmother hid ten gold bricks on her body and was about to leave. Suddenly, an idea flashed. Although her treasure was not big, it could still hold two gold bricks. Then take two more! As a result, the gold brick disappeared as soon as it entered the dressing box. The dressing box suddenly became larger, and in the blink of an eye it changed from the size of a box to a large box!
At that moment, Qiao Qingqing's grandmother was shocked to the extreme. Later, when she talked about the past with Qiao Qingqing, her eyes were still full of amazement.
"I was really scared at that time. But I was smart! I knew that gold could make treasures bigger, and there was gold all in front of me. Anyway, we couldn't take it all away at that time, and keeping it would give it to the Japanese. How could this be possible? So I threw all the gold in. Oh, you didn't see the scene at that time. When a box of gold was put into the treasure, the treasure grew bigger and bigger. I didn't have time to see how big it was. I took away all the gold and left quickly. After it was safe, I went to measure it. I couldn't measure it at all without tools. I was smart, so I calculated it myself."
It turned out that the two gold bricks that were put in at the beginning weighed about four pounds. At that time, the dressing box became bigger, and Qiao Qingqing's grandmother estimated that the small box was about four cubic meters in size. She said that it was two meters long and wide, and about one meter high. It looked flat and square.
"I guessed that four kilograms of gold would turn a palm-sized dressing box into a four-cubic-meter big box. That night, my comrades and I handed in eighty kilograms of spoils. It should have been one hundred kilograms, but a comrade died. There were fifteen boxes on the cabin, and each box held fifty gold bricks, which means one box weighed one hundred kilograms. I put fourteen boxes of gold in the treasure, which means 1,400 kilograms. Qingqing, 1,400 kilograms, the treasure is probably 1,400 cubic meters. Later, I finally found a suitable ruler to measure it, and guess what, it was almost right with my guess, 1,322.33 cubic meters. I guessed again, maybe it has something to do with the purity of the gold. If the gold is 100% pure, the space would probably be 1,400 square meters!"
After hearing this, the young Qiao Qingqing was filled with longing. She was fifteen years old that year and had just obtained the space. She couldn't let it go. After listening to her grandmother's stories about the past, she felt that the space was even more extraordinary.
A space that can become bigger by swallowing gold, how magical!
When Qiao Qingqing was fifteen years old, the space was already more than 1322.23 cubic meters, but 1441 cubic meters. Her grandmother later tried many things to make it bigger, and found that in addition to gold, jade could also make it bigger, and the ratio was about 1 jin:1 cubic meter. One jin of good jade could be exchanged for one cubic meter, and ten jin of poor quality jade could not be exchanged for one cubic meter. By her mother's generation, the space was not expanded any more. Her mother said: "This is enough. We don't need to bring a suitcase when we go out to travel. Why do we need such a big space?"
Grandma said: "It seems to have life. After swallowing gold and jade, it gives a suitable price. The exchange ratio is determined by it. It hides in the blood of women in our family. When I was pregnant with your eldest uncle, it disappeared. Later, I gave birth to your second uncle, and then your mother. I was looking forward to it appearing in your mother again, and it really appeared!
This is a gift from God, a gift from women of our lineage. Qingqing, we are all ordinary people. Just use it to do something convenient for yourself. Remember not to use it to do evil things, and never tell anyone, not even your future husband. Your mother did it, so she didn't suffer any more losses in that marriage. You must be able to do the same."
Hearing this, Shao Shengan asked: "Did grandma encounter something bad?" Loss? Did grandma encounter any "loss"?
"Well, in his later years, my grandfather was lured into gambling. He was so obsessed with gambling that the family owed a huge debt. The family sold the house and land to pay off the debt, but my grandfather was already obsessed and wanted to borrow money to continue gambling. He even wanted to sell the secret of the space to loan sharks, saying that it was useless for my grandmother, an old woman, to hold the space. It would be better for her to follow those people to do some business. The space is very convenient. No matter what you bring to the security check, it will not be detected. You will definitely make a lot of money. He only knew a little bit and didn't know that the space had been passed to me at that time. My grandmother has been upright all her life. How could she accept it? My grandfather's idea was enough to make us doomed... In the end, she killed my grandfather and committed suicide."
Shao Shengan's heart was shaken, and he murmured, "No wonder you didn't tell me about the space."
"Yes, after we fell in love and got married, my mother told me the truth about how my grandparents died one after the other. Then I understood why my grandmother suddenly said those words to me. It turned out that she was ready to end everything at that time." Qiao Qingqing looked sad.
"I don't want to have children. Besides not wanting our children to be born in a turbulent and displaced era, it's also because the space will disappear after pregnancy. My grandmother and my mother both gave birth to daughters, and the space reappeared in their daughters. They are not sure whether the space will disappear if daughters are not born. I dare not take the risk."
She actually asked the spatial will, but it only repeated what she heard on the day of her rebirth.
It sent her back to ten years ago, to settle the cause and effect and fate of her lineage, and after she died, it would leave completely.
It turned out that there was a deeper meaning in it. Qiao Qingqing thought about it for a long time and guessed the meaning of space.
She will be the last generation of space holder in her maternal bloodline. Even if she becomes pregnant and gives birth to a daughter, the space will not appear on her daughter.
It will disappear completely.
Qiao Qingqing vaguely understood something. Maybe her great-grandmother had obtained this treasure because of some opportunity, or maybe their ancestors had such an opportunity, but it only appeared in her great-grandmother's generation.
That is a gift, cherish it, but this blessing is limited and they will not be able to ask for it indefinitely.
So Qiao Qingqing decided to get a vasectomy and definitely not have children.
Shao Shengan said that he would be the one to do the sterilization. Qiao Qingqing was of course very touched, but at the same time she felt a little uneasy, and this uneasiness made her ashamed!
She was sure that she would not have another man. Shao Shengan was the only one in her life. Her husband had a sterilization, and she would definitely not have a child with another man.
But years of surviving alone have made her accustomed to not relying on anyone, and the person she trusts most is actually herself.
If she didn't want to have a child, she would have to make sure she couldn't have one. Her thinking had long been extreme and radical, and the fact that she could have children made her feel like she was carrying a time bomb!
She couldn't tell Shao Shengan about this conflict, let alone confide it to her mother.
She was afraid of separation, and even more afraid that one day the person closest to her would look at her with strange eyes.
That would make her wish she died immediately.
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