The beginning is a liar (1)
“…It’s a girl, and both mother and daughter are safe!”
The nurse came from the delivery room, bearing a baby, and addressed the man standing outside.
People’s opinions appear to have altered in this modern period, but there are still a huge number of patriarchal families in their little county.
Today is a very bad day. The two or three women that came in one after the other had daughters.
The husbands of the first two mothers, one of them had a black face and took over the baby girl in disgust, and the other who took an elderly lady and fled, even leaving the mother in the delivery room.
There was an unfavorable precedent. The nurse was carrying the third newborn girl, but she didn’t dare to say “congratulations,” worrying that the child’s family would get angry and then heap their complaints on her head.
The nurse’s little infant seemed to sense the nurse’s emotions and burst into sobs.
He Tiantian wants to cry, ah, ah, once she puts it on, why is she…she is a female again?
He Tiantian was abandoned by her patriarchal parents in her former life just because she was a girl.
They didn’t just throw He Tiantian out on the street. The pair are both public servants, and there is still some conscience and bottom line left in them.
But they wanted a son, so they simply sent the newborn He Tiantian back to their hometown.
Parents favor sons over daughters and their grandparents are also not too generous. They simply don’t want to raise a money-losing man.
Due to her inability to have children, He Tiantian’s aunt He Shengnan was pushed to get a divorce by her in-laws. Grandma He Tiantian simply handed He Tiantian over to He Shengnan.
The older people and family members in my hometown did not purposefully hide it because it is a pro-aunt.
He Tiantian was aware that her parents had abandoned her when she was a little child. Her aunt, not her mother, was the one who reared her.
He Tiantian had an inferiority complex and a sensitive personality as a result of the experience of being abandoned, which left him feeling extremely uneasy.
The three aunts and six wives who live there refer to her aunt as the “little fox spirit” since she is a “celebrity” in the small community.
The gossip of people around makes He Tiantian more and more introverted.
She always lowered head as she did not dare to take the initiative to talk to people. All day long wearing an oversized school uniform with thick bangs, wearing heavy black-rimmed glasses, with a cowardly personality, low academic performance… She seems to be the best bully girl in her class.
In fact, He Tiantian has indeed suffered cold violence.
Since elementary school, no one has wanted to play with He Tiantian.
He Tiantian wants to take the initiative to talk to others but the children seem to have not heard her voice and deliberately ignores her.
He Tiantian took the initiative to stretch out her hand but was directly ignored.
The embarrassment and shame of being directly ignored made
He Tiantian more and more inferior.
Even till high school, He Tiantian was alone. She doesn’t even have a little friend who went to the bathroom together or went home from school together!
Every time she is bullied and laughed at, He Tiantian misses her biological parents extraordinarily but they don’t want her.
“If I were a boy, would my parents like me?”
“If there is real travel and rebirth, then let me be a boy.”
He Tiantian, who has been poisoned by patriarchal thinking since childhood, feels that “girls are the original sin”. She doesn’t believe that there are many parents who will not treat their own flesh and blood differently just because of gender.
She can only humbly fantasize about being reborn as a boy whom everyone likes in her next life.
As a result, she was really reborn, but unfortunately she was still a girl.
“Wife, you gave birth to a girl, listen to how loud our girl is. Hey, she is just like me!”
He Hongtu didn’t know that He Tiantian was in grief and indignation. He held the swaddle and waited at the door of the delivery room with joy. When his wife, who had just had a cesarean section was pushed out of the delivery room, he held the swaddle and showed it to his wife like a treasure.
“I know it’s a girl! Hmph, I gave birth to my own child, don’t you know whether it is a boy or a girl?”
Tian Zhenzhen’s anesthetic strength has not passed and her mind is a little confused and she scolds her husband with a smile.
“Hey, I’m very happy.”
He Hongtu looked at his own daughters and then at other daughters, the little guy was not as red and wrinkled like many newborn children but white and pure.
Oh, that little face is white, it can almost shine.
“As expected of my daughter, she looks like me!”
Hongtu became happier as he watched, holding the baby in one hand and the cart in the other, escorting his wife back to the ward together.
He Tiantian just kept crying but didn’t hear He Hongtu’s whisper.
Back to the ward, He Tiantian was tired from crying and hungry, so she tried her best to chuck her mouth.
He Hongtu, who became a father for the first time, was naturally inexperienced and he kept complimenting his girl’s face for being good-looking.
The old lady who accompanied the bed next door couldn’t stand it anymore and quickly ran minded: “The child should be hungry, let your wife feed it!”
“Ah? Is she hungry like this?” He Hongtu reacted. However, he did not rush to hand the child to his wife but thanked the old lady with a silly smile: “Oh, auntie, thank you so much!”
“An old person like you has a lot of experience, or the old saying goes, ‘An old person is like a treasure to a family’. You, in your house, are definitely the treasure of the town house!”
He Hongtu is not very young, he is only in his twenties. He is not that handsome but he looks very comfortable.
Chinese characteristic face, thick eyebrows, big eyes, a grin with a kind of honesty, what he says makes the elderly very happy.
The old lady was amused and laughed, “Auntie? Young man, I’m almost 70 and my grandson is about the same age as you. You should call me grandma”
Although she said so, the old lady was still very happy.
After all, for a woman, even if she is eighty years old, she hopes that she is young.
“Almost seventy years old? You look fifty years old at most!”
He Hongtu desperately slapped the old lady’s flattery while sending the child to his wife, still not forgetting to mutter with his wife: “True, come and see, does this auntie look like a seventy-year-old man?”
Tian Zhenzhen lay for a while, her brain awake and she followed He Hongtu’s words very cooperatively, pretending to be surprised, and said: “Seventy? It’s really not like it, Auntie, I see you are younger than my mother .”
“Let me just say, Auntie, you take care of yourself very well. Your children and grandchildren must also be very filial!”
“Husband, you are right. Auntie, you look like you live a comfortable life and you also look younger . Auntie, I really envy you. You must be a blessed and long-lived person!”
Little husband and wife, you said a word to me and within a few clicks, the old lady’s face burst into laughter.
The old lady simply left her grandson and grand daughter-in-law, and ran to Tian Zhenzhen’s bed, patiently instructed her on how to breastfeed, how to belch the baby and taught He Hongtu how to change and wash diapers.
“Hey, let me tell you, in these kinds of diapers , first put a layer of soap on them and then scald them with boiling water. You can wash all the urine and poop, just like new ones!”
The old lady quietly shared her experience with He Hongtu.
“Oh, Aunt Xu, you still know a lot. I’ll try it later when my girl pulls it.”
After a short exchange, He Hongtu already knew the old lady’s name, age, work before retirement and so on.
In addition, how many children the old lady has, how many grandchildren and grandchildren, how her husband died just two years ago and how several of her sons are coming to pick her up but she does not leave, she lives in the old house alone. In these circumstances, He Hongtu also finds it out in the shortest time.
And Tian Zhenzhen, singing and making peace with her husband and cooperating with him is called perfection.
By the time Tian Zhenzhen lived in the hospital for seven days and was about to leave the hospital with the baby, the couple had obtained the contact information and home address of the old lady and promised: “Auntie, when we have time, we will visit your house”.
(End of this chapter)
