The Female Lead Decides to Act Wickedly
Chapter 230 - 122: The Mother Who Favors Sons Over Daughters (Part 9)

Chapter 230: Chapter 122: The Mother Who Favors Sons Over Daughters (Part 9)

"...Are you all willing to take this child home as your younger brother?"

He Tiantian hesitated pretentiously as she spoke.

Her expression showed she was clearly moved yet still held some reservations.

"We are, we are!" Zhao Dan and Zhao Xiaoya exchanged a glance, silently communicated, then nodded in unison.

They understood clearly that their home definitely needed a "younger brother."

Rather than letting their parents spend a lot of money to adopt one, it would be better to take in the child right before them.

All were boys, all were someone else’s children, but this one before them had shown them kindness.

Just now, Zhao Dan and Zhao Xiaoya clearly witnessed the gangsters who had been chasing them.

After frantically pursuing them along the main road for half an hour and failing to find them, they cursed and gave up.

Their search wasn’t limited to the road; they had also spread out to scour the surrounding fields and woods.

During the most critical moment, two gangsters with dyed yellow hair nearly passed by right next to them on the slope.

They didn’t discover the three women and the baby boy, who, while continuously crying, did not make a sound at the crucial moment.

This child really saved them!

Moreover, it was miraculous how understanding he was.

Zhao Dan had looked after her younger sister, Xiaoya had taken care of her elder uncle’s cousin, so they knew well that babies a few months old simply cannot understand.

Once they start crying, they are tough to soothe.

Even if an adult covers their mouth, they can still make sobbing sounds.

Yet the baby boy cradled by their real mother seemed to sense the imminent danger.

The gangsters had almost stepped over their heads and even lingered nearby for a while, searching around and cursing just beside their ears.

The Zhao sisters clutched their mouths, not daring to breathe.

Fearing the slightest noise might draw the gangsters over.

The baby was incredibly obedient; it was as if he were asleep, not crying or making a sound.

After the gangsters circled around and found nothing, they returned to the main road, met up with a few comrades, and retreated the way they had come.

Seeing the line of their figures disappearing into the night, He Tiantian and her daughters all let out a sigh of relief.

Only then did Zhao Dan and Zhao Xiaoya realize that their backs were soaked with sweat.

They had personally experienced the sensation of their hearts hanging in their throats.

With such an experience, even if not superstitious, the Zhao sisters couldn’t help but think: this younger brother must be a lucky star.

He saved the three of them!

At the critical moment, he didn’t ruin anything and successfully helped them escape danger.

Just for this "favor," Zhao Dan and Zhao Xiaoya both felt they should support their real mother in adopting this child, and in the future, they would treat him as their real brother.

"I, I and your dad are incapable people who know nothing but farming. Raising a son isn’t easy!"

He Tiantian intentionally made a pitiful scene in front of her two daughters, "Your elder uncle’s family had to borrow money all around the village to get Guochang a wife—you all saw that—"

"Your uncle is a capable man who can make furniture and earn money, yet he still can’t afford a house or find a daughter-in-law."

"Your dad and I are not even half as capable as your uncle; with a brother, in the future, his dowry, his house..."

He Tiantian continued, shaking her head as if troubled.

"I was wrong before, always wanting the two of you sisters to earn money for your brother. But, even if you are a financial loss, you still crawled out of my belly!"

"You are my own daughters; I can’t just sell you off for the sake of a son!"

With these words, He Tiantian directly moved Zhao Dan and Zhao Xiaoya to tears.

All this time, they had felt that their mother didn’t love them, always resenting them as financial burdens.

In truth, their real mother did resent them.

It was an unavoidable circumstance because, in the countryside, without a son, one would be bullied.

Why do old sayings describe someone wicked as "kicking a widow’s door, digging up a solitary grave"?

Because once a family line ends, it’s easy to be bullied, even unsettled in death.

Furthermore, for daughters who are married off, if there isn’t a brother in their parental home to support them, it’s easy for them to be bullied in their marital home.

In Zhaojiawa, there’s a woman as notorious as He Xiaotian, whom no one dares to provoke.

The only difference is He Xiaotian gains her notoriety by brazenly causing trouble, while the other woman is backed by her three brothers and several male cousins from her maternal family.