Zhang's mother was silent for a moment, seeming hesitant. She probably didn't tell Zhang Guanghui many things in detail. She had kept them in her heart for so many years and never planned to tell others.
Now she is being asked in front of her daughter, and the person asking the question is the police. In fact, it doesn't matter if she asks her to speak, or if she doesn't speak.
"Mom, just say what you have to say. In the final analysis, Deng Qingrong did all the bad things alone. She dared to do it herself. There is nothing you dare not say."
Zhang Guanghui understood her mother's hesitation and gently hugged her shoulders: "I already knew from you and my dad that I was not your biological child when I was a child. It didn't affect the relationship between the three of us, let alone me. Character!
You don’t have to worry that I will feel uncomfortable after hearing this! "
Zhang's mother thought about it and thought that her daughter was right, so she said to Ning Shuyi and Huo Yan: "We and Deng Qingrong were from the same hometown and lived in the same village, but we didn't know each other very well. , I don’t usually have much contact with each other.
Our health was not particularly good, and we had not had children for many years after we got married. When we went to the hospital for a checkup, they told us that there was no hope for us to have a baby on our own.
At that time, it was not like now, where you could have a child through in vitro fertilization or other methods, so you had to accept your fate.
Later, I heard someone in the village say that something was not right with Chang Rong and Deng Qingrong from our same village. "
"What's wrong?" Zhang Guanghui asked her mother with some confusion.
Zhang’s mother said: “When Deng Qingrong was pregnant and pregnant, she heard that many old ladies in the village had checked her belly and they all said that the shape of her belly was that of a boy, which made her very happy.
Later, when I gave birth, it must have been thirty-three or four years ago. At that time, some women in the village were unwilling to go to the village health center to have children, so they preferred to find experienced barefoot doctors in their own villages or specialized doctors. The midwife who helps deliver the baby gives birth to the first child in her own home.
Later, I heard that Deng Qingrong had given birth to a daughter. After some time, the confinement period should have been completed, and I didn’t see their family holding the baby out. Someone was inquisitive and ran to ask if their baby was gone. Register.
As a result, Chang Rong told others that if the child was not registered, the child would be born with something wrong and die within a few days.
Their family had some taboos. They couldn't make any announcements about the death of such a young child, and they couldn't have a funeral, so they were taken away and buried quietly. "
"Is that me?" Zhang Guanghui listened a little confused. She knew that she was Deng Qingrong's daughter, but when her adoptive mother talked about this, she felt a little confused.
Zhang's mother shook her head: "That's not you. If we talk about it, she should be considered your eldest sister!
Anyway, the child was said to have died and was buried without food.
After confinement, Deng Qingrong should do whatever he wanted, just like a normal person, but there were also some rumors among the villagers.
They said there was nothing wrong with the first child at all, and he didn't really die soon after he was born.
It is said that Deng Qingrong and Chang Rong wanted to have a son with all their heart, but in those days the policies were stricter and the situation was more difficult. You cannot say that you gave birth to one child and had another.
The two of them were afraid that if they gave birth to a daughter, after registering for the household registration, it would be equivalent to taking up the quota, and they would not be allowed to have another child.
So the daughter born before was probably given away secretly or thrown away quietly.
Because no one knows how they did it, they can only guess. "What Zhang's mother said was very consistent with Ning Shuyi's previous guess, so neither Ning Shuyi nor Huo Yan were particularly surprised when they heard it.
On the contrary, Zhang Guanghui's face became even more ugly after hearing this. He probably couldn't help but make some associations with himself.
Zhang's mother took her daughter's hand, held it in both of her own hands, and sighed: "After we heard about this, we didn't take it too seriously at first. We just lamented that God is sometimes unfair. , we don’t care if it’s a boy or a girl, as long as we can have one.
As a result, we couldn’t have any children!
When Deng Qingrong and his family were able to give birth to a healthy child, they still felt dissatisfied because the child was a girl.
Then less than a year later, I heard someone say that Deng Qingrong seemed to be pregnant again, but this time she was different from before, not so showy, walking around with a bulging belly, but instead she looked like a thief. , Donghiding XZ.
At that time, my wife and I murmured, wondering if Deng Qingrong would be like the last time, afraid of having another daughter, so she was so quiet, as if she was pregnant to hide her pregnancy.
She is probably thinking that if it happens to be a girl again this time, she can do it again like before. Then the fewer people need to know, the better. Otherwise, if two children die in a row, who will be replaced? All are suspicious. "
"Is this child mine?" Zhang Guanghui asked her adoptive mother with a complicated expression.
Zhang's mother nodded: "Yes, it's you this time! The more your dad and I thought about it, the more we felt it was what we guessed.
So the two of us have been secretly keeping an eye on them, thinking that if they give birth to another girl, if they want to give it to someone or throw it away, we will take it!
Later, when the day of delivery was approaching, your father went directly to Chang Rong and told us what we were thinking. Chang Rong probably also saw that his wife was about to give birth, and in case it was a girl again, they really needed a place. Dealing with the born child..."
She paused and held her daughter's hand tighter, as if she was afraid that her daughter would be hurt by this fact: "Then when Deng Qingrong gave birth to the baby, she didn't even dare to give birth at home. She ran to their house in another place. At the home of a distant relative in the village.
My wife and I followed her there, and when she gave birth to the baby, it turned out to be a girl, so we took her home directly.
Deng Qingrong and the others didn't return home until a few days later. They didn't even admit that they were pregnant and had a second child. Anyway, they didn't admit it. People in the village guessed as much as they liked, but there was nothing they could do about it.
In order to prove that she did not run away secretly to have a baby, Deng Qingrong even went out to do farm work for everyone to see. In fact, others did not believe her in private, and they all said that she should not damage her body again after going through such trouble.
After all, giving birth to a child is physically damaging, and their family is willing to go out of their way just to have a son.
But that had nothing to do with us, so we didn’t talk too much. "
"Why are you considering leaving your place of origin and developing elsewhere?" Ning Shuyi asked.
"Mainly for the sake of the child." Zhang's mother looked at Zhang Guanghui, "We told people that the child came from somewhere else, but others were very kind and didn't ask whether Deng Qingrong secretly gave birth to us.
After all, it was such a coincidence that the timing was right there.
But people in the village also reminded me that this kind of thing has happened before. Some people were unkind. They gave away the child because they thought it was a waste of money and did not want to support it. Later, when they saw that the child had grown up and became promising, they started making noises about it again. Take the child back and provide for yourself in old age.
As a couple, we thought that Deng Qingrong and his family were not reliable people. In order to prevent them from regretting it in the future, we really had to leave. "
