FSC [QT] Chapter 142.1

“Your father and I didn’t know anything at the time. We were so busy that we wanted to break each other in half. I didn’t have my period for three months, but I didn’t take it seriously. It wasn’t until I ate the crucian carp and tofu soup your father made that I vomited at the smell. Your father then rushed me to the hospital.”

Recalling that past, Ah Wu couldn’t help but show a tender smile on her face.

“Your father was still a young man at that time. The doctor said that your father was dizzy when I was pregnant.”

“When he went out to get medicine for me, he didn’t notice that the door was still closed. He bumped his head on the glass door and got a big bruise on his forehead. I was both angry and amused.”

“Does Dad have that kind of time?”

Mu Wanwan couldn’t help but raise the corners of her mouth.

Ever since she could remember, her father had always been a very calm person. Although he loved her very much, he was also very concerned about the majestic status of his father in his child’s hearts.

Therefore, in Mu Wanwan’s memories of her father, there was rarely such an irritable image of her father.

“Well, he was really happy to know that I had you.”

Talking about the topic that the mother and daughter liked, the atmosphere between the two of them dissipated. Both of their expressions became exceptionally gentle, and they were immersed in memories of the past.

Especially Mu Wanwan, after hearing what her mother said, she even had the urge to cry.

She seemed to see that scene: a young couple in the hospital corridor, cheering for her arrival, hugging each other tightly, and crying with emotion for her upcoming arrival.

She also came to this world with great expectations.

“The first time I knew you were a girl was when you were six months old.”

As soon as Ah Wu finished speaking, the smile on Mu Wanwan’s face froze instantly.

Her mother’s words instantly reminded her of some not-so-good memories.

Since the introduction of the family planning policy, it has become illegal to identify the gender of the fetus during pregnancy.

However, in some areas, the practice of identifying the gender of the fetus was still rampant, especially in Mu Feng and Zhuo Wu’s hometown, where every household had four, five, or six children, and one son was not enough.

Even doctors did not seem to have this awareness and would implicitly inform the mother and her family of the child’s gender without them asking.

When Mu Wanwan was very young, she knew that she was a child who was not loved by her grandparents.

Even though her parents gave her more New Year’s money every time, she was always the child who received the least New Year’s money among her brothers and sisters.

In the final analysis, it was because her parents were ‘disobedient’ and did not give birth to another son according to their wishes, which made their line of descendants cut off.

As the culprit of all this, Mu Wanwan naturally could not expect to get a good look from the two stubborn old people.

At this moment, when she heard her mother mention the story of identifying her gender during pregnancy, her mood suddenly became a little unswerving.

Ah Wu had been secretly watching Mu Wanwan’s expression.

In the previous life, the mother and daughter had gotten to that point. In addition to the cold war and lack of communication during that period, there was another very important point.

That was that as parents, neither of them really paid attention to the obstacles that the shadow of their childhood had caused to their daughter’s personality formation.

In fact, it was not just the Mu Feng couple. Many parents in China have ignored the impact of some unpleasant childhood memories on their children.

For example, when a child was young, parents would casually give the child’s favorite toys to relatives or neighbors’ children. When the child cried, parents would scold the child for being too stingy.

When the child grew up and talked about this past event in a joking tone, parents would show a surprised expression and blame the child for keeping such a ‘small thing’ in their mind and feeling brooding over it for so many years.

Another example was Mu Wanwan.

Since she was very young, she had heard her grandparents call her a money-loser behind her parents’ backs.

Because she was a girl, her relatives showed their covetousness for her family’s property on their faces.

In daily conversations, they even told jokes like once her parents had a second child, they would throw her away after having a son.

For Mu Wanwan, the one in Ah Wu’s belly was not a brother or sister, but an enemy who came to rob everything she had now, a nightmare that had been lurking in her life since childhood.

When Mu Feng and Zhuo Wu promised to have only one child with her in order to comfort her, Mu Wanwan believed it.

Perhaps at that time, none of the three had expected that the accident would come so soon.

If Ah Wu wants Mu Wanwan to accept this brother/sister without any hesitation, the first thing she needs to do is to make Mu Wanwan sure that she is not a superfluous or undesirable existence as her relatives said in her childhood.

She is her parents’ treasure, and this has never changed from the beginning to the end.

So, she had to poke the abscess of that year and face this reality.

 

 

 

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