If you want a husband, you have to fight for it.

"People are anxious when boys are lost, girls, you just wait."

Wan Chuncao said: "The old police officer told my parents clearly that if it was people of my grandmother's generation, they would have taken the baby home and raised it directly, and there would be no need to report it to the police."

The implication is that the child is a girl, and most likely they don't want her. If they want to raise her, they can just take her home and raise her until someone comes looking for her. But whether they can find someone to look for her is not certain, since it's a girl.

Xu Muyu couldn't imagine that scene. Could such a thing happen? He even felt a little torn. Were they really living in the same world?

In the process of growing up, let alone encountering such a thing, Xu Muyu had only heard of it in the examples of "anti-feudalism" in education books.

He looked at Wan Chuncao and found it difficult to say anything useful.

Wan Chuncao continued, "Later, my parents followed the instructions of the old police officer and took me back home, waiting for news from the police."

"The truth is similar to what the old policeman said. I've been waiting for three months and there's no news."

Wan Chuncao calculated that the waiting time was quite long: "It was five months later that my parents went to the police station for the second time in their lives. If they went again, my household registration would be completed."

She said: "My full name was also decided at that time, which was 'Guanting'. My last name was the same as my father's, and my first name was still the name on the note."

Why is it called Chuncao?

Wan Chuncao explained: "At that time, my parents also called me Guai Ting, Ting Bao, and other names according to the name written on the note, but they couldn't raise me well."

"My mother said that I was very difficult to raise. They borrowed money from others to buy milk powder from the hospital, but I refused to eat it. I also refused to drink the goat's milk and cow's milk I bought at the market. My face was pale every day. There was no way they could keep me alive."

"The elders said this name is not good, it sounds too cultured, and we can't give names that are so strong, we have to give them something humble, humble names are easier to support."

Wan Chuncao praised her mother and said: "My mother is a genius at naming. She said, let's call it 'Spring Grass'. It's just like the weeds in spring. They are barren in winter but grow again in the spring of the next year. You can't burn them all or dig them out with a hoe. They are very tough."

She looked up at Xu Muyu and said with a smile: "Guess what, people still have to listen to old sayings. After I was called Chuncao, I really raised her."

"My mother said that he is willing to drink milk and eat rice porridge. When he grows up, he will be able to crawl and walk, just like a calf. He will be easy to raise."

This is the origin of her two names, so plain.

Wan Chuncao grinned and said, "That's it. From then on, I was always called 'Chuncao' and my real name was rarely called."

But this does not mean that Wan Chuncao can agree with Xu Muyu to forget her name: "I am your wife, if you don't remember my name, what else can you remember? If I am on the operating table in the future, and the doctor asks you to sign and asks you what the patient's name is, and you can't answer, what will I do if I die on the operating table!"

Xu Muyu listened to Wan Chuncao's explanation quietly, feeling something strange in his heart. He was silent for a while, then asked, "Since your parents raised you, why didn't they just change your real name and use the new name they gave you?"

That's what most people think.

Since you have decided to adopt this child, wouldn't it be more reasonable to start by changing the name?

"Because what if my biological parents want me back?"

Wan Chuncao said: "My parents always remember my biological parents."

Xu Muyu was very surprised.

Her parents adopted her, and now they want to return the child?

"In fact, my parents have never given up on finding my biological parents. They always think that if my biological parents come one day, at least they can return their daughter to them. If my name is changed and it is difficult to recognize me, they will keep my real name for me."

Wan Chuncao shrugged and said, "That's how it was. My parents asked people to find out about my biological parents, but they didn't tell me anything and just raised me like this."

Xu Muyu was surprised: "They didn't tell you?"

Didn’t you tell Wan Chuncao that she is not your biological daughter?

Wan Chuncao wondered why she had to say that: "Why would I say that? I'll live the same way whether I say it or not. Let's talk about it when we find it."

Xu Muyu looked at her steadily. How did she know about it later?

Guan Chuncao recalled the time: "Nothing special, one day I went to my aunt's house at the village head to play with her son. It was not the busy farming season, so a few uncles and aunts sat together in groups of three or four to chat. We were there, and they had nothing to talk about, so they talked about us."

"They just like to tease children, they don't have any bad intentions, they just asked me whether I like my dad or my mom. I said I like my dad because he doesn't hit me."

"Then they asked again, this mother beat you, so do you like the current mother or the original mother?"

"I don't understand what 'this mother now, or the original mother' means. I think the original mother might be the mother who didn't beat me, so I said I like the original mother."

Wan Chuncao remembered: "At that time they all laughed and said that they could never tame the child. Even after raising him this big, he still missed his biological parents. His parents had brought him back in vain."

"I was young at that time, only five years old, and I didn't understand what 'picked up for free' meant. After playing enough, I went home and asked my mother, "What does 'picked up for free' mean?"

Wan Chuncao still remembers her mother's expression at that time: "My mother was cooking and putting firewood into the stove. I asked her if I was picked up for nothing. As soon as I asked, it's no exaggeration to say that I saw her back stand up! She was as stiff as a door panel, her hair stood up, and her face was darker than the bottom of the pot!"

Xu Muyu could imagine that scene and how an adoptive mother would feel when facing that day.

"My mother didn't turn around and kept her back to me for a while. Then her shoulders sank again and she continued to put another piece of firewood into the stove and said, 'Oh, I just picked it up from outside.'"

"I didn't understand what "picked up" meant, so I asked my mom again, and she said, 'It means someone didn't want you anymore and threw you out, so I picked you up.'"

Xu Muyu looked at her and fell silent again.

If her mother's feelings are indescribable, how should Wan Chuncao face the fact that the mother who raised her turned out to be her adoptive mother?

"I still don't understand,"

Wan Chuncao continued, "My mother said, 'Your biological parents didn't want you anymore and left you on the hillside behind our house. Your father and I saw you and picked you up. You became our daughter, we became your parents, and your biological parents became someone else.'"

"After explaining it to me, my mother continued to light the fire. She also asked me who told me that."

At that time, Wan Chuncao finally understood: "So this is how it was picked up for free. I know. When my mother asked me questions, I just sat down and continued to play with my pebbles and said that it was the aunties at the village head who said that."

"After hearing this, my mother quietly took all the firewood out of the pot and stood up to go out."

Wan Chuncao said: "I didn't know why she left at the time, so I asked, are you really not my mother?"

"My mother stopped, stepped back, pulled out a hatchet from the firewood pile, and continued to walk out. Before she left, she said, 'I'm really not your biological mother.'"

"After that, she left. Maybe she went out with my dad. Because when she was going out with the knife, she met my dad at the door. She said something to my dad, and my dad picked up the newly bought shovel and they went out together."

"It was then that I realized that I was not my biological child."

"It turns out that I wasn't born to them at all."

Xu Muyu was silent for a long time, and there was always something weighing on his heart.

She had been kept secret, and kept it hidden so well, but because of a joke from others, her life experience and her wounds were exposed nakedly.

Xu Muyu believed that if it weren't for those villagers, Wan Chuncao's parents might have been able to keep the secret and love her forever.

The things they sent from the countryside that day, and the concern and love they expressed for Wan Chuncao on the phone, showed real love, even he could hear it.

And Wanchuncao should have always accepted their love without any reservations.

"It turns out that I am not their child, that's how it is."

Wan Chuncao took out her hands from under her head, folded them and clapped them excitedly:

"It turns out that because I'm not their biological child, my mother has never allowed me to drink my father's male enhancement wine!"