My scumbag sister stole my husband? I'm a scumbag and married my cowardly brother-in-law

After hearing this, only one question popped up in Wen Wan's mind: this elder brother was willing to pay a sky-high price for the bride price. Was it because of his sister's child, or because he was not capable enough, or maybe both.

"That... you..."

Wen Wan thought about it and decided to give up. This kind of question was quite embarrassing. If he was capable, he would not have stayed away from Wen Ya for ten years after marriage in his previous life.

Although Wen Ya is annoying, she is pretty, with big breasts, a slim waist and long legs. No man can resist her.

He has been able to endure for ten years, so what else could it be?

"What?" Xie Changqing looked at her.

"Nothing," Wen Wan laughed it off.

There was silence for a while.

"I don't agree with your proposal to break off the engagement yesterday."

“Do I have to raise a child?”

The two spoke in unison, then looked at each other and fell silent.

This era is really unfriendly to women. Wen Wan's situation should be considered a divorce. This era is even more unfriendly to divorced women.

In her previous life, Wen Ya also wanted to divorce, and was beaten by Wen's father and Wen Shengli every time she mentioned it. Wen's father even said that he would cut off all ties with her if she divorced, as the family could not afford to lose face with this person.

It's not that he can't afford to lose face, it's that he can't afford to pay the bride price, and he doesn't want to raise his daughter anymore. After all, there's no point in raising a daughter if she can't carry on the family line.

If she gets divorced, things won't be any better.

It’s not that Wen Wan can’t survive without a man, it’s just that in this era, it’s difficult for a woman to survive independently because the environment doesn’t allow it.

In her previous life, Wen Ya divorced Xie Changqing in the late 1980s, and Xie Changqing never remarried after that.

Thinking about it this way, she wasn't occupying the position of Xie Changqing's wife and affecting the position of newcomers. It was an empty seat anyway, so it might as well be left to her.

Besides, it wasn't a bargain for her, after all, she served as a decoration to Xie Changqing.

It's a win-win cooperation.

Win-win does not mean that she has to sacrifice too much of her own interests.

"The current policy does not allow people to have a third child, but as long as they are willing to pay the fine, they can get a hukou for having a third child."

In the 1970s, the policy was relatively loose, and it was not a big problem to have three or four children by paying the fine.

Xie Changqing lowered his eyes and thought for a moment, "I asked about the fine, it's at least 1,300 yuan, and rural people can't raise that much money.

Even if they help to collect the money, they still won’t raise Niu Niu.”

There was another hidden meaning, which he didn't say, but Wen Wan guessed it.

In this age of poverty, money is as important as life. Even if Xie Changqing gave them money, they would not use it to pay the fine or to raise Niu Niu. They would leave it for their third son to inherit, and Niu Niu would still be strangled to death.

Legally, infanticide is punishable by law, but there are many ways to let a baby die, negligence, carelessness... and even more ways to get away with it.

This is human nature.

Wen Wan said with some emotion: "If you can't afford it, then don't have any! There's nothing wrong with having two daughters. If you are poor, not having children is a virtue.

You are so poor that you can't even afford to eat, yet you keep giving birth to children. What's the point of giving birth to them? Are you giving birth to them to enjoy the sufferings of the world?"

Xie Changqing heard this kind of talk for the first time, and after a moment of confusion, she felt that what she said was wrong, "Only when you are poor do you have children, and when the children grow up they will become the labor force.

More people working at home means more income, and more people at home can help to maintain the family image so that people won’t bully you.”

When he said this, Wen Wan could really understand it.

In the agricultural society of the 1970s, population was productivity, and the cost of raising children was very low. When they were young, they drank breast milk, and if there was no breast milk, they drank rice soup. It was just a matter of putting an extra bowl of water in the pot. Children could help with work when they were in their teens.

Low investment, high returns.

Unlike raising children, you realize that there is endless money to spend, such as milk powder, diapers, tuition fees, tutoring fees, cars, houses, and dowries. Once they grow up, they will fly away. It is no different from throwing money into the stock market, with zero return on large investments.

Furthermore, she can also understand the feelings of rural people who want to have sons. Sons are not only productive forces, but also the main force in earning resources.

Part of the reason is that boys can get land while girls cannot, and another reason is that boys can use force to gain water and land and protect their property from being violated, but girls cannot do that.

I can understand it, but I cannot accept it.

It was difficult to ask Xie Changqing, who lived in the 1970s, to accept her views. After all, he had not experienced the more liberated era of later generations.

It's unacceptable, but there is a way to solve it.

"Even so, if we adopt this child, it will temporarily alleviate the problem. Their purpose in strangling Niu Niu is to have another baby.

Does having another baby guarantee that it will be a son? What if it is a daughter? Should we adopt again?"

"..."

“Even if she could adopt another child, Xie Yumei would still give birth to another one. She is a person, a living person.

Just because she is a woman, we cannot treat her as a reproductive machine. Childbirth is harmful to women.

Xie Yumei gave birth to and raised the child all by herself, but in the end she had to share half of the profits from the child with Li Baozhu who only worked hard for a dozen minutes. Doesn't she feel it's a loss?"

"..."

"I understand. You are a man, and the resources in your family will favor you. As a vested interest, you feel that your family is unfair to Xie Yumei, and the Li family doesn't treat Xie Yumei well. You feel sorry for her and want to find ways to make her life better.

The Li family took advantage of your mood towards Xie Yumei and used Xie Yumei as a hostage to force you to solve the problem for them.

And you think you are solving the problem for Xie Yumei, but in essence you are trying to please the Li family so that they can be a little nicer to Xie Yumei while they are enslaving her."

Xie Changqing half-closed his eyes and looked at her, his face cold and exuding a dangerous aura, which made Wen Wan shiver physiologically.

From his point of view, there is nothing wrong with this. It was agreed upon when the marriage was proposed: a dowry of one thousand yuan and the condition was to adopt Niu Niu.

Now that she has received the money and the wedding has taken place, she is starting to become unwilling again. This is no different from Xie Hu asking her to pay 500 yuan as a betrothal gift after the wedding.

I was thinking about taking a step back, but before I could open my mouth, I heard him ask from a strange angle:

"Were these unorthodox words of yours taught by the educated youth surnamed Lu?"

"?"

Wen Wan sighed slightly and said, "How about this, the household registration can be under my name, but I must sign an agreement to give up the inheritance of the property.

Also, send the children back to let them raise them themselves.”

The relationship between husband and wife can be dissolved through divorce, but the relationship between mother and daughter, even if they are adoptive mother and daughter, cannot be dissolved through divorce. She doesn't want Niu Niu's parents to use her name to cause trouble in the future.

Anyway, everything he did was to give Niu Niu a legal household registration. Once she had the household registration, nothing else would matter.

She doesn't plan to have any more children in her life. Wasting one fertility target is like a fish without a bicycle. It doesn't matter.

Isn't doing business just about exchanging things that are unimportant to you for what you need? She now needs a safe and stable environment for the transition.

"Why?" Xie Changqing asked with a frown.

Wen Wan pulled her lips weakly and smiled bitterly, "Because I'm not good at raising children, I will spoil them."

Just like her children in her previous life, she loved them very much and tried her best to give them the best, but she didn't expect the ending to be like that.

I read a study on genes in my previous life. It said that many shortcomings of parents will be passed on to the next generation through genes, and sometimes the offspring of bad people are also bad people.

A more understandable explanation is that if the original is wrong, then the copy will naturally be wrong as well.

Although she didn't want to admit it, she couldn't distort the fact that her children looked very much like Lu Yiming.

Li Baozhu is like a puddle of mud, and his daughter...

Of course, nothing is absolute in the world, and it is unfair to Niu Niu for her to think so, but there is no need for her to take the risk.

Seeing Xie Changqing was silent as if he was considering something, Wen Wan continued, "Besides, the child is too young and needs to be with his mother to drink breast milk. Rice soup and brown sugar don't have much nutrition, and the child will get sick easily."

There were many children around him who were raised with rice soup, and little sister Xie Yuting was one of them. Moreover, brown sugar was added to the soup, but Xie Changqing didn't think it was a big deal.

After she reminded him, Xie Changqing finally realized that breast milk was definitely more nutritious than brown sugar, and that feeding the baby for a few more months would only bring benefits and no harm.

When I brought her back, she still didn't want to take care of her, so I let Yuting take care of her.

When he is older and can go to school, he doesn’t need to be taken care of anymore and just needs to eat with adults.

"Okay, I'll send it over after dinner."