Zhao Hui told Sang Feiyu about her granddaughter-in-law's situation and sighed, "I've met her mother-in-law. She was urging you to have another child right outside our house, hoping you'd try for a son."
“I told her she was sexist, and she mocked me for not having a son to support me in my old age, saying that when I died I wouldn’t even have anyone to break a pot for me.”
"Anyone who encounters such a pedantic person is doomed."
Sang Feiyu frowned slightly. "That's a human life. She's so old-fashioned. Isn't she afraid that the child will come back to haunt her in the future?"
Zhao Hui shook her head. "Many old-fashioned people don't value a girl's life."
"To save a single morsel of food, newborn girls might die in a chamber pot."
"In order for the brothers to save enough dowry to get married, young girls would be married off by their parents to old men, cripples, etc."
It is said that if a family has a daughter, a hundred families will seek her.
"But little did they know that among a hundred families, one daughter would remain in the household."
Looking back on the people around her since childhood, Sang Feiyu realized that very few of them were only children.
They will almost always have several children, and there will almost always be boys.
If it's like this in the city, it goes without saying that it's even more so in the countryside.
"If the granddaughter-in-law doesn't report it to the military, can her mother-in-law get away with it?"
Zhao Hui nodded, "Yes."
"They can coordinate their statements and give a consistent explanation to the outside world that it was an accident."
"Or perhaps the child died due to malnutrition."
"In this day and age, countless girls die young."
Sang Feiyu sighed softly and said nothing more.
After a while, He Meiling and Gao Jinfeng came to see Sang Feiyu.
The group naturally started talking about their granddaughter-in-law. They thought Sang Feiyu must be bored staying at home all day during her postpartum confinement, so they took the initiative to tell her all the recent gossip.
"That mother-in-law of my granddaughter-in-law is a real scoundrel."
"I think she deliberately wanted to starve her granddaughter to death."
“I heard my granddaughter-in-law say that her mother-in-law refused to spend money to buy milk powder for the child. She was in charge of all the money in the house, so she had no choice but to give the child rice water every day.”
"My granddaughter-in-law suddenly fainted that day; she was knocked unconscious by her mother-in-law."
“Her mother-in-law has always been like this; whenever she has something on her mind, she takes it out on her.”
"Later, she fainted and was taken to the hospital. It was her mother-in-law who deliberately locked the door."
"The neighbors heard the child crying and wanted to go in to check on him, but they couldn't get in because the door was locked. Otherwise, a child wouldn't have starved to death."
"If word gets out that our soldiers' children are starving to death, who would dare to join the army?"
After listening to their words, Sang Feiyu replied, "As long as the granddaughter-in-law doesn't give in, her mother-in-law will definitely not be released easily this time, unless her husband puts pressure on her."
He Meiling said excitedly, "If his husband pressures his granddaughter-in-law to forgive his mother, then I think it's better to be rid of that kind of man."
"The child who died was his daughter."
Sang Youde suddenly interjected, "Some men think that if a child is lost, another one can be born, but a mother is only one, so it's hard to say."
He also felt that his granddaughter-in-law was more likely to be pressured by her husband.
A few days later, they heard the news that their granddaughter-in-law and mother-in-law had been released.
While picking vegetables, Zhao Hui said, "It must be because my granddaughter-in-law's husband put pressure on her."
"That granddaughter-in-law is so pitiful; she doesn't even have the courage to seek justice for her daughter."
Sang Youde replied, "Everyone has their own choices, and perhaps she herself has no choice."
If she had her maternal family backing her up, perhaps the granddaughter-in-law would be able to persist in reporting her mother-in-law.
But many girls don't have a maternal family from a young age.
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