Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Chapter 291: Giving birth to 4 babies in a row.

"Anything else? If not, we'll leave."

"Yes! Yes!"

A faint voice was heard, and a staggering figure squeezed out from the crowd.

It was a woman, her limbs were as skinny as firewood sticks, but her belly was still round, and the bones on her face were clearly visible, like a skull covered with skin.

The inner guard could not help but stand up and support the woman, then ordered someone to bring a chair to the woman and let her sit down, then asked: "What do you want to decide?"

The woman sat on the chair, breathing heavily, as if the few steps just now had cost her a lot of energy. Finally, she caught her breath and cried to the inner guard: "I, Xiaocao, am suing my mother-in-law."

The inner guard said seriously: "Think it over carefully. It's not a serious crime. A daughter-in-law will be punished if she sues her mother-in-law."

Although Emperor Xuan revised many laws to improve the status of women, Daqian still ruled the country with filial piety. If a daughter-in-law sued her mother-in-law, she would inevitably be blamed, even if there was a reason.

Xiao Cao nodded heavily: "I know. I asked the village scholar before I came here. The village scholar said that it is only natural for me to report such a thing to my mother-in-law."

Neiwei nodded and said, "Tell me, what did your mother-in-law do to make you so desperate to sue her?"

Xiao Cao stood up again, trembling, and wanted to kneel down. The round belly made Xu Jinyu dizzy: "Why are you kneeling with that body? Sit there and talk?"

"Thank you, sir." Xiao Cao thanked him and then sat on the chair and said slowly, "Your Excellency has also seen my belly. This is my fourteenth baby."

[This is crazy! I thought it was a disease like abdominal effusion, but it turned out to be pregnancy. Her body is already like this, and she is still pregnant. She is really going to die! She has 14 babies. She thinks she is a sow! ]

Princess Wuyang's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. With a body like that, getting pregnant was tantamount to seeking death.

The concubines in the palace would have to endure life and death after giving birth to one or two, but how could her body hold up fourteen?

Although he felt unhappy, Wuyang still ordered his men to bring some delicious pastries to Xiaocao.

When the little grass saw the pastries, he almost pounced on them, choking and rolling his eyes while stuffing them into his mouth.

Princess Wuyang sighed softly: "Don't be impatient, eat slowly, we have plenty of time, we will talk after you finish eating."

Suddenly, a voice came from the side: "Isn't this Zhang from Lu Village who gave birth to thirteen children, and all thirteen children died?"

"Oh!! It's her. She is so incompetent. Every time she gives birth, one dies. Look at her body, can she give birth to a healthy child?" An old lady said this in an extremely harsh way.

But there are countless people around me who agree with me.

"That's right. A daughter-in-law's duty is to give birth to a child. If no child survives, it means that Zhang is incompetent."

"What else does she want to tell her mother-in-law about?"

"It's better for such a daughter-in-law to die immediately, so that the family can quickly marry a new daughter-in-law."

"Otherwise his family will become extinct."

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Most of the people who said these words were women, and there was a bit of contempt in their eyes when they spoke, and they even had the leisure to spit out melon seed shells, as if this little grass was something worthless.

Not giving birth to a healthy child is the original sin, and all the blame is directed towards the weak little grass.

The inner guard looked at Xiaocao who was eating frantically. She gave birth to thirteen children, and all thirteen died. No wonder she kept giving birth. For poor families, children are their property. If they don't have children, they have to find a way to give birth.

But what did Xiao Cao want to sue? Her mother-in-law forced her to give birth to a child regardless of her health.

There are no detailed regulations in the law, and the judgment depends on the mood of the county magistrate.

Princess Wuyang felt Xu Jinyu beside her trembling, and quickly turned around to look. Xu Jinyu's eyes were full of anger.

[What are they as women? If the child cannot survive after birth, is it not entirely the mother's fault? It can't be because the family conditions are too poor, the child doesn't eat well, or there is a bacterial infection that has no cure in ancient times, or the child is sick and there is no money to treat it...]

[Thirteen were born and thirteen died. The most likely possibility is some genetic disease! ]

[There are so many reasons for a child's death, how can it be the mother's fault? They discuss women as if they were animals. Have they forgotten that they are also women?]

[This world is inherently unfair to women. As their own people, do they still want to give women the heaviest blow? ]

[What a broken world this is, or let Daqian be finished! ]

do not!

Ren Changfeng, who had been watching the show for a whole day, almost stood up.

It's better not to destroy the country or anything like that. Isn't it just about improving the status of women? Just find a way to improve it.

[Forget it. Daqian is gone, and the next dynasty will continue to be a feudal dynasty. The status of women will not change much. Unless there is a female emperor, the status of women can be completely changed.]

Xu Jinyu sighed somewhat frustratedly.

Ren Changfeng finally let go of the worry that had been weighing on his mind.

In just a moment, the little grass ate all the cakes on the table and finally had time to speak.

"I am accusing my mother-in-law of taking my child...child..."

Xiao Cao wiped away her tears and said, "Sold it!"

[They really sell children like pigs! ]

Neiwei asked in disbelief: "All thirteen children were sold?"

Xiaocao nodded silently.

"Those are all her grandchildren. She is willing to give them up."

Xiao Cao's face was numb: "Your Excellency is wrong, it's a granddaughter, not a grandson. The grandson is his flesh and blood. The granddaughter is not a person. A granddaughter is an object that can be exchanged for money. She is not the flesh and blood of my daughter-in-law's pregnancy, nor is she their flesh and blood, let alone the darling of the family..."

"coax!"

What Xiaocao said was so horrifying that the anger of the people around him was immediately ignited.

"She...she...how could she bear to do that? Even if a daughter is not as precious as a son, she is still her own child!"

"This old woman is such a scoundrel. What happened to my daughter? What happened?"

Another woman said in bewilderment, "I have a daughter too. I don't really love her and I beat and scold her on weekdays, but with so many granddaughters, how could she bear to sell them? They only sell their daughters when they can't make ends meet. It's not like their family really can't make ends meet. I've seen that family eat meat more than once."

As if she had thought of something horrible, the woman said in a hoarse voice: "The money to buy meat could not be the money from selling granddaughters, how can they eat it?"

Xiao Cao nodded: "It was the money from selling my granddaughter. When I gave birth to my first child, I clearly heard the baby crying, but my mother-in-law took the baby out for a while and then said the baby was gone, so I believed it."

"Then the next day, there was chicken, duck, fish and meat on the table at home. The reason my mother-in-law gave was that the child was gone and she had to keep having children, and my husband needed to nourish his body."

"It was the same with my second child, and the same with my third child. When it came to my fourth child, I was on the lookout. I found that as soon as I gave birth to the child, my mother-in-law took the child away and gave it to someone else. The child was still crying at that time."

"I made a big scene, but my mother-in-law was always pretending to be weak and pitiful. She said I had gone crazy because I had lost children one after another. Then I was locked up at home, giving birth and selling babies non-stop. Today I finally managed to escape."

"My parents' family was thousands of miles away and no one was there to make the decision for me. I could only watch helplessly as the children were sold one by one."

A tall and strong man rolled up his sleeves and shouted, "What the hell, how can a daughter not be a blood relative? My little sweetheart is so well behaved. I serve her tea and water every day after work. Hey, Xiaocao, who is your mother-in-law? I'll help you beat her up."