Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1617: The Fox Explploits the Tiger’s Might 1

Chapter 1617: Chapter 1617: The Fox Explploits the Tiger’s Might 1

Sitting in the car on the way home, Feng Qingxue appeared quite unhappy.

"What’s wrong?" Lu Jiang asked.

Feng Qingxue sighed, "From the incident of Nian’en being abandoned, you can see how unfairly girls are treated in so many places under the sun. There are so many girls who have lost their lives without ever seeing the light of day because of this. How can people’s hearts be so cruel? After ten months of pregnancy and one day of childbirth, especially during delivery, some hover between life and death. Even a tiger does not eat its cubs, yet a mother can actually kill the child she painstakingly gave birth to or let family members do it. Aren’t they afraid of having nightmares in the midnight when they dream?"

Lu Jiang’s large hand covered the back of hers, "The preference for boys over girls has a long history and can’t be changed overnight. What we can do is try to arrange jobs for the women comrades so that they don’t have to depend on the men comrades for life, and at the same time, we must properly promote the progressive idea of gender equality."

Upon saying this, he fell into contemplation.

"Doesn’t the army have a propaganda team? I’ll write a few articles later, and let the propaganda team go up the mountains and down to the countryside to spread the message everywhere, and also enter schools to change their backward thinking from the root." Feng Qingxue felt she should write a few brainwashing articles well, considering she’s living in the 21st century and exposed to a lot of information, she had the writing skills.

Lu Jiang thought about it and found it very feasible, agreeing in one go.

"After today’s events, I suddenly feel a bit grateful to my parents." After a moment of silence in the car, Feng Qingxue suddenly said.

"Hmm?" Lu Jiang didn’t quite understand why she was grateful to Feng’s father and Feng’s mother, who preferred boys over girls.

Feng Qingxue withdrew her hand, propping her cheek, "Grateful for their mercy of not killing me and Xiaoyun back then, sparing our little lives. Although both of us lived a hard life when we were young, at least we didn’t return to the underworld, and partly because we lived in a chaotic era."

Lu Jiang chuckled and sighed, "That’s because you had brothers above you, so your gender didn’t matter."

He had chatted with Director Liu for quite some time and found out from Han Ping’s investigation that girls born with elder brothers had a much higher chance of surviving, whereas the opposite was true if there were no elder brothers. Most of the girls who were killed did not have elder brothers; some families even killed three or four girls in succession until they had a son.

There were, of course, families who didn’t kill their children when they had a first-born daughter or only daughters, but such cases were fewer in number.

Upon hearing this, Feng Qingxue furrowed her delicate brows slightly, "Oh, so I should thank those two brothers? Thank them for being born earlier, which increased the survival chances for Xiaoyun and me quite a bit."

"No need to thank them; they almost got you and your little sister into trouble, which cancels out their merit," Lu Jiang said.

Feng Qingxue and her brothers Feng Lei and Feng Yu had no interaction. In Lu Jiang’s view, they were even less than strangers, as at least strangers occasionally showed some goodwill towards them.

Feng Qingxue had no feelings for them and nodded quickly.

However, as Lu Jiang’s status rose, Feng Qingxue was no longer comparable to the village girl she used to be. The family’s reputation had already spread far and wide, with Feng Lei and Feng Yu’s families bolstering it, especially Feng Qingxue’s eldest sister-in-law Zhao Guihua. When her two sons reached a marriageable age, in order to marry daughters-in-law with good conditions, she boasted everywhere that her sister-in-law was the wife of a military commander.

Indeed, by leveraging that the sister-in-law was the wife of a military commander, some educated youths who didn’t know the inside story were willing to marry their Dabao. Being referred to as the niece-in-law from the family of a military commander’s wife could make people envious beyond measure.