Chapter 25 Wen Jiao
"Shut up, aren't you ashamed enough?" Old Mrs. Ji put the fish soup down with a gloomy face.
"I didn't say anything wrong."
Wang said unconvincedly, "The woman in the bed next to her just gave birth to a baby girl this morning, and even her husband couldn't see her. If it wasn't because she only gave birth to a baby girl, would she be lying there alone?"
"No matter what, it's other people's business. How can you rub salt into other people's wounds like this? If you keep talking, you can't drink this fish soup." Old Mrs. Ji scolded.
Old Lady Ji took two apples and said, "Comrade, this is what my wife is like. Now men and women are equal, and it doesn't matter whether you have a son or a daughter. Don't listen to her nonsense."
The woman stopped crying, but she was still sobbing softly: "It's okay, Auntie."
Old Mrs. Ji chatted with the woman for a few words and only knew that the woman's name was Wen Jiao.
As they were chatting, Wen Jiao's family came over.
"Jiaojiao, how are you? The Sheng family is going too far!" The people who came were obviously Wen Jiao's family members. They were a middle-aged couple and a man in his 30s. They were well-dressed and seemed to be from a wealthy family.
When Old Mrs. Ji saw Wen Jiao's family coming, she tactfully walked away.
"Brother, stop talking. I just want to live a good life with my baby." Wen Jiao looked at her daughter lovingly.
"Didn't the Sheng family come to take a look?" Wen Jiao's father said with a sullen face.
"If you don't want to come, then don't come. This child is my child and also the Wen family's child. She is definitely not the Sheng family's child." Wen Jiao also figured it out. From now on, she will just take care of her daughter.
"So she was abandoned by her man. No wonder no one came to see her..." Wang muttered softly.
"What are you talking about?" Old Mrs. Ji glared at her sharply. Wang shrank her head and stopped talking.
Although Wang had a miscarriage during childbirth, it was a normal birth at least and she would be discharged from the hospital in the evening.
In the afternoon, Shen Xiangnan went back to the production team and borrowed a bullock cart to take Shen Ruqing and his group back.
After arriving home, Shen Xiangnan went to the brigade to return the ox cart, and Shen Xiangbei followed Old Lady Ji into the inner room. Shen Ruoqing knew that this was her mother giving money to her fourth brother.
After a while, Shen Xiangbei left happily without even leaving any food.
For dinner, they had cornmeal pancakes, and egg custard was made separately for Wang and Shen Ruoqing.
Shen Ruoqing discovered that after Wang came back, something seemed to be wrong with Du, and she was absent-minded even when eating.
"Third sister-in-law, mom is calling you."
"Oh, I'll come." Mrs. Du woke up as if from a dream and walked over in a daze.
"Your third sister-in-law is envious of your second sister-in-law." Han sighed. They were all women, so how could she not know what Du was thinking? Shen Ruoqing understood instantly. Although there were slogans of gender equality and women could hold up half the sky in this era, the concept of favoring boys over girls was still deeply rooted in rural areas.
Fortunately, although Mrs. Ji was an old lady in the countryside, she was not so biased towards boys. Instead, she loved her very much and thought that four sons were not as good as herself.
Two days later, Wang's family came to visit.
However, unlike other relatives of Wang's mother who came to visit, Wang's mother Cui Zhaodi did not even bring a red egg and came empty-handed.
"My girl, this is my grandson, right? Just look at his appearance, you can tell at a glance that he is blessed!" Cui Zhaodi looked at Shen Hanxi, "Let me tell you, are you sure you were born at noon? The master said that only those born at that time are destined to be rich and powerful!"
"Even if it was born at noon, you don't know how much suffering I've endured! I'm counting on this child now!"
"That's good, that's good! My daughter, if you become rich in the future, don't forget me. Your mother-in-law hasn't treated you badly, has she?"
"She hasn't been treated unfairly, but my sister-in-law always gets a portion of my egg and chicken soup. It's obvious that I'm the great contributor to the Shen family." Wang said.
"This damn old woman is really something. She is just a little girl, but she still dotes on her. My daughter has given her three golden grandchildren!"
Fortunately, Old Mrs. Ji didn't hear this, otherwise she would have kicked Cui Zhaodi out.
When Cui Zhaodi left, she also took away the malted milk that Su Jieru had given to Wang.
"How can your mother be a mother like this? Not only did she not bring any gifts when her daughter gave birth, but she also took the gifts away! I tell you, it's fine if you secretly give money to your parents' home, but if I find out that you take things from the Shen family to your parents' home again, I will punish you severely!" Old Mrs. Ji warned Wang.
Wang felt aggrieved about Cui Zhaodi's behavior, but there was nothing she could do because that person was her mother.
"My mother said that my second brother's Lai Fu had not been able to eat recently and had become very thin, so I gave her a can of malted milk to give to Lai Fu to replenish his body. The malted milk is all given to me, so I can give it to whoever I want."
"My sweetheart is still skinny, why don't you take out that can of malted milk to nourish your little sister?"
Wang stopped talking.
"It was the same when Hanwen and Hanwu were born. If you dare to give your mother the things to nourish your body again, you can go back to your parents' home!" said Old Mrs. Ji, scaring Wang.
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"Mom, I just gave birth to a son!"
"It's no use even if you give birth to five sons!"
Wang held a grudge against Old Lady Ji. Her own mother was right. Old Lady Ji only had her little daughter in her eyes and could not see her contributions at all.
Although she scolded Wang, considering that Wang was still in confinement after giving birth, Mrs. Ji did not make things difficult for her and still asked Han to make egg noodles for Wang.
Since Shen Ruoqing had a lot of supplies, Old Lady Ji was not stingy and let Wang take good care of herself during the confinement period.
In the blink of an eye, it was already the end of August.
A meeting was held to discuss whether the younger children in the family should go to school.
"Mom, if you ask me, it's enough for all the boys in the family to go to school. Why should girls go to school? No matter how well they study, they will belong to someone else's family in the future. Of course, I'm not talking about my sister-in-law." Wang was making a small calculation. The family had only so much money, and since she gave birth to sons anyway, she wouldn't suffer any loss.
Han frowned: "If you want to go to school, go together, Mom, I thought before that the family didn't have enough money... Since the family has money, why don't you let the children go to school?"
"That's my coffin book! Why, are you still thinking about my coffin book?"
"Mom, my wife didn't mean that. What she meant was that we three will take care of you in your old age, and right now the most important thing is for the children to study." Shen Xiangdong said quickly.
Mrs. Du just shrank there and didn't say a word.
"Doesn't the family still have income from selling dandelions? If the three of us brothers work harder and earn more work points, we can always make up for it." Shen Xiangxi said.
"If it were you, I would just let the boys in the family go to school to save money. The eldest, second, and third girls can still earn some extra money. How great is that." Wang was only thinking about taking advantage of the situation.
"Yueyue has good grades, why doesn't she continue to go to school? Hanwen and Hanwu have average grades, which is a waste of money." Han was not to be outdone.
(End of this chapter)