Lin Jianguo and his wife repeatedly expressed their gratitude, while Lianshan simply smiled lightly. He didn’t tell them in the slightest that making friends was just a minor detail. What he cared more about was spreading his wife’s good name far and wide!
Other men were striving to improve themselves, fearing that the glow of their wife’s success would overshadow them, worried that being called a hen-pecked fool or a laughingstock would harm their reputation. Only Lianshan pitied Shuzhen for having bad encounters in the past, turning a beautiful pearl into a fish eye pearl, subjecting her to various humiliations and frame-ups. This led to her becoming a maligned woman, criticized everywhere she went.
In the past, for those malicious ridicule from the Dai family’s relatives, Lianshan fought many battles.
Although now his wife had emerged from her cocoon as a butterfly, her reputation had already been thoroughly cleared and her fragrance was widespread. Lianshan thrived on the compliments his wife received, the more praise his wife got, the more cheerful he became, and this habit had become ingrained.
Offering to share vegetable seeds, teaching people how to grow good cotton in the northeastern region, was also motivated by seeing Er Niu, who looked at his wife with such admiration and respect. Well, as his wife would say: she’s every bit the fangirl.
Already full of gratitude, with this generous offer, this couple would surely go back and vigorously promote and speak positively about his wife’s image.
Facts proved that Lianshan’s thinking was right.
When the little fangirl Er Niu went back, she vigorously publicized the wisdom, dexterity, generosity, and kindness of her role model, even exaggerating several times the feat of giving birth to and raising a pair of twins of both sexes.
This not only made Shuzhen, the female seed research expert, expand her name outward from their high-quality seed farm, but also sparked a trend among members planting cotton, cabbage, and radishes in their private plots, turning the previously scarce cotton tickets into a situation where supply exceeded demand.
Of course, that’s a later matter, for now, the little fangirl Er Niu was looking with surprise and awe at the just-awoken dragon-phoenix twins of the role model family.
It wasn’t that she was inexperienced, but the contrast between this pair of dragon-phoenix twins from the role model family was seriously noticeable!
Clearly a pair of twin siblings, yet they looked...
The brother was chubby and fair-skinned, appearing to surpass even a two-day-old in her own family. With sufficient nutrition and good development, he didn’t look like a newborn at all.
But the sister was thin, with sparse fetal hair, and her face was wrinkled and dark.
When the two little babies were placed side by side on the hospital bed, they looked so different that no one would suspect they were born two months apart.
What puzzled people more was that the role model couple obviously favored the skinny little monkey-like girl!
Look at their role model hugging and kissing the little girl like she was a rare gem. Er Niu’s heart, well, she truly couldn’t understand it at all!
Even though the great leader had talked about how times were different, saying men and women were equal, and proudly proclaiming that women could hold up half the sky. But slogans were just that, slogans. In rural living, it was the sons who carried on the family name, right?
There were indeed families who cherished daughters, but none to the extent of this couple, who set aside the chubby son, focusing solely on the skinny little girl!
Especially when Lianshan furrowed his brows, looking at his son with disdain: "This brat must be greedy, taking more than his share of the nutrients meant for his sister. Selfish, unaware of how to love his sister. We’ll have to let Lian En teach him properly! Otherwise, if he’s so domineering from a young age, what will he become when he grows up?"
Listen to that, is this something a father should say?
Others might not speak up, but if her own useless husband dared to behave , Er Niu would surely teach him a lesson: risking life and limb to give you a big healthy son, only to be despised ? What kind of talk is that!
The role model couple were just good-tempered, knowing to save face for their husband in front of others.
Shuzhen shrugged, wanting to say she hadn’t even noticed these minor details. Otherwise, well, after working so hard to give birth to a son only to have him scorned , she wouldn’t have the best temper either!
But now, all her attention was captured by the big girl in her arms. No matter how long she looked, it wasn’t enough, the more she looked, the more she felt that her scrawny little self with sparse fetal hair, like a little red-skinned monkey, exactly resembled her eldest daughter when she was born in the past. Even that small reddish mole in her light eyebrows was the same.
It’s her, her eldest daughter has returned!
Since the day she learned she was having twins, her anxious heart, always sad, finally settled down completely. All regrets and disappointments vanished upon seeing this familiar little face of her daughter.
Though she couldn’t quite understand what had happened, Shuzhen just knew that this was her eldest daughter in her arms. The frail eldest daughter from a previous life, who had gone ahead of her.
Holding the cherished daughter she thought she’d lost, Shuzhen, with tears in her eyes, silently vowed in her heart: in this life, she would protect her, raise her, let her grow up happily and safely. Never again would she let her daughter, who was already born with deficiencies and later poorly taken care of, end up suffering from accumulated ailments, forcing this mother to witness her child’s funeral.
Originally worried that his wife, just after giving birth, would insist on holding their eldest daughter and end up with arm and shoulder pains later, thinking he’d let her hold the baby for a little indulgence, then take the child. But seeing her shed tears while holding, made Lianshan anxious and pained.
Quickly, he took the child and placed her on the other side of the bed, pulled out a handkerchief to wipe Shuzhen’s tears, while softly comforting her: "It’s alright, don’t worry, the nurse said before, though our daughter is small, she’s quite healthy, not weak at all, and there’s nothing wrong with her. As long as we have a seed, we’re not worried about her growing well. We’ll take care of her, and she’ll change every day, catching up to her brother in no time after her confinement."
Alright, he directly attributed her crying to distress and guilt over the child.
Shuzhen didn’t explain, and frankly, there’s no way to explain it. She just nodded vaguely, owning the distress and guilt towards her daughter. After all, in her previous life, hadn’t she been muddled, neglecting her good child and caring for the ungrateful one? There was more than just a little guilt in her heart!
Fortunate to have a second chance in life, she couldn’t help but want to give birth to the few children who were mistreated in her past life, one by one, and love them like the treasures they are, providing them a happy and harmonious family, a joyous and relaxed growing environment!