Rebirth: 1977

Wen Juan was startled by her own smacking sound. She hurried to the bathroom, her heart beating fiercely.

She is pregnant now, something that cannot be discovered by others under any circumstances. As a national policy, the publicity work of family planning is something that no one can resist.

The workplace even distributes "small umbrellas" to married women with children.

Wen Juan rinsed her mouth with ice-cold tap water. Without the irritating smell of toilet water, the discomfort in her stomach slowly disappeared.

She was a little surprised. She had never had morning sickness before, so she didn't expect to have a reaction in public.

She cautiously walked out of the bathroom. Several neighbors had already walked up the stairs arm in arm and disappeared around the corner. She felt relieved.

Wen Juan didn't see that the middle-aged woman who had sprayed toilet water on her body was stunned for a while after hearing Wen Juan's voice, and her eyes were immediately filled with indescribable joy, and she sat down to drink wine as if nothing had happened. on the table.

After this little episode, when Wen Juan sat down at the banquet table, looking at the delicious food on the table and holding chopsticks, she suddenly lost her appetite.

Wen Juan was a little worried. Could it be that she was pregnant so early? It would be big trouble if someone discovered it!

"Xiaojuan, come on, come on, I'll lend you flowers and offer a toast to you. Now that you're a national cadre, you won't look down on us rural people, right?"

The middle-aged woman with a strong scent of toilet water came to toast with a smile while holding a wine glass.

This woman is the women's director of their brigade and a neighbor of Wenjuan's family.

Today, the Wen family invited all the neighbors and elders in the village, as well as the leading cadres of the brigade.

Such a 'double happiness' event is rare in rural areas.

Wen Juan stood up hurriedly, holding a glass of boiled water in her hand:

"Sister-in-law Fang, I'm sorry, I don't know how to drink, so I can only offer you tea instead of wine."

"Oh, what kind words can you say? I heard that when you were a bridesmaid for your little sisters before you got married, you often blocked the drinks for others.

It seems that you are unwilling to accept my favor, right? Now that you are a cadre in the provincial capital, you don’t take us old neighbors seriously?

Today is your brother's wedding banquet. No matter how much you refute my reputation, you still have to drink a glass of wine, right? "

Fang Jiao held the wine glass a little reluctantly.

She was married from another village and was known to be fierce. After becoming the women's director of the brigade, she regarded herself as a 'cadre'.

She kept saying that Wen Juan was a 'cadre', just to raise her own status at the same time.

Fang Jiao's eyes were hidden with prying eyes, and she carefully observed the changes in Wen Juan's expression.

"Sister-in-law Fang, I'm sorry, but where did you hear the rumor? Everyone in the village knows that I don't know how to drink.

You must have been fooled by someone. "

Now Wen Juan, who has been training in the big city for so long, is no longer the temperament she was a few years ago. Fang Jiao's words did not make her feel embarrassed because of her rejection.

"Director Fang, you are really mistaken. Wen Juan doesn't know how to drink. You should know that too, right?"

The person at the same table was Wen Juan’s classmate, who carefully helped Wen Juan clarify.

"Oh······"

After Fang Jiao said a long 'oh', she smiled and said, "Did I really make a mistake? I'm sorry, I'm sorry, hehehe, I drank too much."

Looking at classmate Wen Juan who was clinking glasses and drinking with others again, she asked curiously:

"Xiaojuan, Director Fang married you many years before you got married. She should know that you don't know how to drink?"

Wen Juan shook her head slightly and said with a smile:

"Maybe she was so happy that she forgot about it."

Director Fang didn't drink too much at all. After the banquet, she hurriedly found a post office and called the director of the commune's family planning committee:

"Director Qian, a married woman in our village seems to be secretly pregnant. What do you think we should do?"

There was uncontrollable excitement in her tone.

Director Qian received the call and immediately asked cautiously:

"What's going on with the other party? Are you sure she has given birth? Did you alert her?"

"She is a neighbor of mine in the village, and her son is already four years old. However, the man she married works in the provincial capital and helped her move her household registration to the provincial capital.

I suspect that she wanted to return to her natal family in the countryside to secretly give birth to the child. "

Fang Jiao reported seriously.

Director Qian immediately felt like he was facing a formidable enemy and reminded Fang Jiao vigilantly:

"You must keep an eye on her every move and never let her leave your sight.

After I reported it to the county leaders, I immediately took her to the hospital. "

Fang Jiao agreed excitedly. This task was assigned by her superiors. As long as a pregnant woman is found, if she has given birth, she must not slip through the net within her jurisdiction.

If you catch one, you will be rewarded; if you catch one, you will be fined or even dismissed.

Wen Juan's pregnancy came unexpectedly, and she and Xiao Zhan agreed to go to the hospital for surgery after returning to the provincial capital after the vacation.

They all have jobs and know the serious consequences of resisting the family planning policy.

But they didn't expect that they had been severely targeted.

The Wen family built three two-story buildings. Wen Feng's wedding ended very late. According to rural custom, guests were invited for dinner, so Wen Juan and Xiao Zhan stayed there and did not go back.

In the middle of the night, the happy newlyweds had just fallen asleep. The family members were also exhausted from organizing the wedding and were immersed in their sleep.

They were awakened one by one by intense knocks on the door.

Xiao Zhan was a light sleeper and was the first to wake up. He jumped up from the bed as usual, turned on the light and looked around the room, only to realize that he was on vacation now.

"What's going on? What time is it? It's not dawn yet, right?

Who is knocking on the door at this time? "

Wen Juan asked Xiao Zhan sleepily, patting her son who was awakened.

'Bang bang bang. Bang bang bang', the knock on the door was still ringing relentlessly.

Wenjuan's parents, who were sleeping downstairs, were already asking:

"Who is it? What's wrong?"

Xiao Zhan had also put on his clothes and comforted Wen Juan and the child:

"Just sleep, I'll go down and take a look."

When he went down with his cotton coat on, Wen Feng's room also opened. When he saw Xiao Zhan, he asked dissatisfiedly:

"Brother Xiao, go and see who it is? Why are you knocking on the door so rudely? It almost scares the soul out of people."

"Just sleep, I'm here."

Xiao Zhan was also annoyed for Wen Feng. Today was the wedding night for him and Ye Ying. The newlyweds finally fell asleep. Such an alarming knock on the door would really scare the dreamer.

Xiao Zhan walked downstairs and saw his parents-in-law wrapped in cotton-padded clothes and walking out of the room shivering from the cold. He quickly persuaded them to go back to the room:

"Dad, Mom, you guys go to sleep. I'll see who's knocking on the door. Maybe I'm knocking at the wrong house."

He looked at his watch. It was two o'clock in the morning. He was also very annoyed. Why was he so anxious in the middle of winter? Can't we wait until dawn?

"Who?"

As Xiao Zhan opened the door and asked, several people rushed in.

Xiao Zhan was stunned for a moment, then scolded:

"Who is it? Breaking in in the middle of the night?"

Fang Jiao was originally hiding behind. When she saw the person who opened the door was Xiao Zhan, who knew that Wen Juan's man was a cadre and worked in the Public Security Bureau, she immediately stepped forward with a very polite attitude:

"Captain Xiao, I'm sorry. We know that Wen Juan is pregnant and we are here to take her to the hospital for surgery. Please cooperate with us."