"Maybe they had too many children, so losing a few disliked ones while keeping the favored ones by their side didn't matter to them," Hu Zhile blinked to evaporate her tears and changed the topic, "Mister, do you have any siblings?"
Jiang Yuan shook his head; he was a rare true only child from the countryside.
His parents were honest, and policies were strict back then. While other families hid to have more children, his father had already proactively undergone surgery in response to the call.
There were no sisters who were dead or abandoned, nor brothers sent to live with relatives. Until Jiang Yuan attended middle school, he was one of only two true only children in the village.
The main reason for the other family was poverty; shortly after having a child, the woman passed away due to illness. The man had a bachelor brother who simply couldn't afford to marry, so the two brothers teamed up to raise the child.
