Ning Meng finally emerged into the light after a long and difficult journey through the narrow passage, and the first thing she heard was—
"You jinx! How did you give birth to another money-losing brat? Nine of them! This is the ninth one! You might as well just strangle him!"
His sharp, sarcastic voice was full of energy, and the hand gripping her body tightened its hold.
She felt a surge of suppressed emotion in her chest, and with the old woman's continued straining, it turned into a baby's cry.
Just as she was completely bewildered and unaware of what was happening, her vision was practically impaired, she couldn't find her way, and her ears were filled with a buzzing noise, making it difficult to hear clearly, someone forcefully snatched the item back from the old woman's hands.
"Grandma, what are you doing? Do you want to be a murderer? What's wrong with my daughter? She's my mother's child, and my father's flesh and blood too. I won't allow you to kill her!"
"Big sister, quickly find some clothes to wrap Xiao Jiu up. Grandma, please stop wailing. My mother just gave birth and wants some peace and quiet. You should go outside and rest for a while. Big sister and I will take care of Xiao Jiu."
The old lady went on and on, but the two sisters firmly shut her down.
After a moment, the room finally quieted down.
She then heard the two sisters say, "Big sister, you hold Xiao Jiu while I clean up Mom."
"Oh, Mom, don't cry. Who cares if it's a boy or a girl? As long as we're healthy and have all our limbs intact, isn't that enough?"
A weak, feeble female voice came: "What do you girls know? If we can't give birth to a son, we'll be childless!"
"Don't you understand the concept of 'no descendants'? When your father and I get old, who will take care of us in our old age and see us off in our final days?"
The voice was weak and trembling, accompanied by painful sobs and despair for the future.
It took Ning Meng a while to calm down before she realized what was happening.
Rebirth?? She was stunned when the explosion shattered her skull.
Ning Meng, 26 years old this year, is a 2019 doctoral student in Traditional Chinese Medicine at a prestigious medical university (a 985 university). She is a true prodigy and a top student.
She was the class monitor from a young age, a rich and beautiful only child, and she didn't even take the college entrance examination back then, but was directly admitted to university.
My parents were civil servants in their early years, and later went into business. Through years of hard work, they built several business areas in Wanbang International Agricultural Products Wholesale Market, Asia's largest logistics park, specializing in logistics and wholesale, including fruit, seafood, frozen food, and vegetables.
Their family fortune had long exceeded 100 million yuan, making them the undisputed heiresses of a powerful city in the Central Plains.
However, her family has always been low-key, without mansions or luxury cars, and they live an ordinary life. So, even though she completed her bachelor's, master's, and doctoral studies for eight years, no one knew about her family background.
Although she was a girl, she was pampered by her parents since she was a child.
I didn't want to just go to my parents' park to help out, but then a sudden downpour struck me with lightning, and I ended up in this godforsaken place!
Nine daughters in a row! This is serious! A family that clearly favors sons over daughters!
At this moment, Ning Meng felt like her world was collapsing, and she silently repeated this countless times.
"This isn't real, it's fake. I'll be fine after a good night's sleep. Yes, I need to sleep right now. This is a dream within a dream. I need to sleep, sleep!"
But the more she tried to sleep, the less she could. She could still hear the two girls nagging and trying to persuade the woman in labor. After listening carefully, she realized that the woman wanted to starve her to death.
"Don't feed her. Throw her out. Keeping her will only make her suffer. We've already sent five away, so one more won't make a difference."
If you don't want her to be killed by your grandma, send her away as soon as possible, so she'll at least have a chance to survive!
She wouldn't survive in our house.
These words sound heartless, but it's not hard to hear that they leave room for maneuver.
Upon hearing this, the older girl burst into tears.
"But Mother, I can't bear to part with them. I held all five of my younger sisters when they were born. They were all such tiny little bundles, soft and floppy, with almost no weight. Why can't you, Grandpa, Grandma, Father, and Mother, accept them?"
Even if the children who are sent away survive, how many of them are truly cared for?
They were either raised as child brides or treated like livestock, worse than pigs and dogs.
Mother, are you really doing this for their own good?
The woman had been silently weeping and sobbing, but upon hearing these words, she couldn't help but burst into tears.
"What am I supposed to do? I can't even feed myself, how am I supposed to feed her?"
And you two, you have to take care of me and my sister, serve this whole family, and feed the pigs and chickens. Aren't you tired?
I'm tired of just looking at her. Alright, stop talking. Let's send her away; it'll save me the trouble of seeing her!"
The woman insisted on sending her away, but the baby's older sister couldn't bear to part with her.
Just as the stalemate was at hand, the door was pushed open forcefully, and a man of average height walked in.
The rough, hoarse voice startled her.
"Cuihua, your mother-in-law has already been found. Listen to your mother and send her away."
If you don't get her out of there, your grandma might throw her in the potty and drown her at any moment!
These words were not meant to be a threat. The woman named Cuihua was so frightened by the man's words that she fell silent, wiped away her tears, and wrapped herself up in a tattered blanket.
"Mom, at least let her have a bite! Look how good she is, not crying or making a fuss! Just one bite, please?"
The woman's weak voice was full of exhaustion: "Cuihua, give her some water. It's not that I'm heartless, it's just that I'm so hungry that I'm vomiting bile. Where would I get any milk to give her? The family your mother-in-law found beforehand has sheep, so they can feed her goat milk, right?"
Having given birth to eight daughters in a row, he had long been known throughout the surrounding area as a childless family.
From the moment she became pregnant with her ninth child, everyone kept saying it was a girl.
So, just in case, the mother sent her family members out to find a suitable husband early on.
If the baby is a girl, she will be given away so that the old lady will not have the chance to sell her or drown her.
Even if it's heartless, it's to give her a way to survive, because their family can't afford to raise so many children.
Lao Jiu was the sixth child their family had sent away.
They only kept the eldest, second, and third sons.
The reason they were allowed to stay was because they couldn't bear to part with them once they were grown up, and they were old enough to work; they couldn't afford to raise any more than one.
Ning Meng heard it intermittently, but she knew that she was just a kid and couldn't make decisions for herself.
Moreover, she was so tired and hungry that she fell asleep without having the energy to control her own life.
***
When she woke up, she had to howl because of hunger.
I thought I would have to give her water, but when I picked her up and fed her with a small spoon, what I got was warm goat milk with a goaty smell.
Moreover, her movements were very gentle, and she kept comforting her.
"Slow down, girl, no one's going to take it from you."
She wanted to see the face of the person holding her, but the baby's vision was like being covered by frosted glass; she could only see the general outline of the person, and what they looked like would only become clearer over time.
She's probably already been sent away. She doesn't know what's going on at this place. And her older sister, why didn't she explain things to her clearly?
Suddenly, a gentle female voice rang out—
"Xiao Jiu, you're Xiao Jiu, right? It just so happens that our family makes wine, so my nickname will be Xiao Jiu (Little Bar), and your formal name will be..."
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