Chapter Forty-Eight: The Origins
Zhang's mother was silent for a while, she seemed to be a little hesitant, it is estimated that she may not have said many things to Zhang Guanghui in such detail, she has been stuffy in her heart for so many years, and she has never planned to say it and tell others.
Now that she is being asked in front of her daughter, the person who asked the question is still the police, and she is really not asked to speak, nor is she not open.
"Mom, you can say whatever you want, anyway, in the final analysis, it is Deng Qingrong who has done something immoral alone, she dares to do it herself, what do you dare not say."
Zhang Guanghui understood her mother's hesitation, and gently hugged her mother's shoulder: "When I was a child, I already knew from you and my father that I was not born to you, didn't that affect the relationship between the three of us, let alone my character!"
You don't have to worry that I'll feel bad when I hear it!"
Zhang's mother thought about it, and probably felt that her daughter was reasonable, so she said to Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan: "The two of us were fellow villagers with Deng Qingrong back then, and we both lived in the same village, but the two families didn't know each other very well, and they didn't usually have much contact.
The two of us were not in particularly good health, and we had no children for many years after we got married, and when we went to the hospital for examination, they said that there was no hope for us to live on our own.
At that time, it was not like now, what else could you do to have a child, you can only accept your fate.
Later, I heard from the people in the village that Chang Rong and Deng Qingrong, who were in the same village, were a little wrong."
"What do you mean something is wrong?" Zhang Guanghui asked her mother with some confusion.
Zhang's mother said: "It's that Deng Qingrong is pregnant, and when she had a big belly, I heard that many old ladies in the village helped her see it, and they all said that looking at the shape of her belly was a boy, which made her very happy.
Later, when the day came, it was 334 years ago, when some women in the village gave birth to children, and they were not willing to go to the township health center, so they liked to find an experienced barefoot doctor in their own village or a midwife who specialized in helping people deliver children, and gave birth in their own homes.
Later, I heard that Deng Qingrong gave birth to a daughter, and after a while, the confinement should have been completed, and I didn't see their family come out with the child, so someone inquired and ran to ask if their child had gone to the household registration.
As a result, Chang Rong told others that he had no household registration, and the child was born with a problem, and he died within a few days.
What is the taboo in their family, such a young child died and could not make a noise, nor could he do funerals, so he was quietly taken away and buried."
"Is that me?" Zhang Guanghui was a little puzzled when she heard it on the side, she knew that she was Deng Qingrong's daughter, but when she heard her adoptive mother talk about this paragraph, she felt a little unreasonable.
Zhang Mu shook her head: "That's not you, if you talk about it, it should be your eldest sister!"
Anyway, the child said that he was not fed, died, and buried.
What should Deng Qingrong do after the confinement, just like someone who has nothing to do, but there are also some rumors in the village in private.
They said that there was nothing wrong with the child in front of him, and he didn't really die soon after he came out.
said that Deng Qingrong and Chang Rong wanted to have a son with all their hearts, but that year was not a strict policy, and the card was relatively dead, so it can't be said that you gave birth to one and gave birth to another.
The two of them were afraid of giving birth to a daughter, and after they got the hukou, it was equivalent to occupying the quota, and then they would not be allowed to have another child.
So the former firstborn daughter is estimated to have either secretly given it away, or she threw it away quietly.
Because no one knows how they got it, they can only guess everything." Zhang's mother's words were very consistent with Ning Shuyi's previous guess, so Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan were not particularly surprised when they heard it.
On the contrary, it was Zhang Guanghui, whose face became more and more ugly when he heard it, and he probably couldn't help but make some associations with himself.
Zhang's mother took her daughter's hand, held it in her own two hands, and sighed: "After we heard about this, we didn't take it too seriously at first, but we just felt that God is sometimes not fair, we don't care if it's a boy or a girl, as long as we can give birth to one.
As a result, none of us were born!
When Deng Qingrong and their family were able to give birth to healthy children, they were disgusted because they were girls.
Later, less than a year later, I heard that Deng Qingrong seemed to be pregnant again, but this time she was different from before, she was not so flamboyant, she walked around with a stomach, but she was like a thief, hiding XZ.
At that time, my wife and I muttered, I don't know if Deng Qingrong will be like last time, afraid of having another daughter, so I am so quiet, as if I am pregnant.
I guess she was thinking that if it was another girl this time, she would be able to do it again like before, and then the fewer people who needed to know the better, otherwise two children would die in a row, and everyone would be suspicious."
"This kid is me, isn't it?" Zhang Guanghui asked his adoptive mother with a complicated expression.
Zhang Mu nodded: "Yes, this time it's you!" The more your dad and I pondered, the more it seemed like we guessed.
So the two of us kept a sneaky eye on the two of them, and we thought that if another girl was born, if they wanted to give it to someone, if they wanted to throw it, we would want it!
Later, when it was almost the day of childbirth, your father went directly to Chang Rong and told us what the two of us thought, Chang Rong probably also saw that his wife was about to give birth, and if it was a girl again, they really needed to have a place to deal with the child that was born......
She paused and clasped her daughter's hand a little tighter, as if she was afraid that her daughter would be hurt by such a fact: "Later, on the day Deng Qingrong gave birth, she didn't dare to give birth at home, and ran to the house of a distant relative whose family was in another village.
My wife and I followed, and when she gave birth, it was a girl again, so I took her home.
Deng Qingrong They didn't go home until a few days later, and they didn't admit that they were pregnant and gave birth to a second child before, anyway, people don't recognize it, and the people in the village love to guess how they want, and they can't do anything about it.
In order to prove that she didn't secretly run out to give birth, Deng Qingrong deliberately did farm work outside to show everyone, but in fact, others didn't believe her in private, saying that she was so tossed and didn't turn around and toss her body again.
After all, giving birth to a child is a matter of injury, and their family is just to have a son, which is also open-minded.
But that has nothing to do with us, and we don't talk much."
"How did you think about leaving your country and going abroad?" Ning Shuyi asked.
"Mainly for the children." Zhang's mother looked at Zhang Guanghui, "We told people that the child was from somewhere else, but others were quite kind, and didn't ask if Deng Qingrong secretly gave birth to us.
After all, it was a coincidence that the time was there.
But the people in the village also reminded me, saying that there had been that kind of thing before, and some of the people were not kind, and they thought that the child was expensive and didn't want to feed, so they gave it away, and then they saw that the child had grown up and had a chance, and they wanted to recognize the child back for their own support.
When we thought about it, Deng Qingrong's family was not a reliable and stable person, and in order to prevent them from regretting it in the future, we really had to leave."