"Don't understand?" Little Taotie tilted his head and pointed to the old lady's head, "There's a little baby on top of your head, all wet. It must have been drowned."
The old lady thought of the child she had thrown into the river, her body shaking uncontrollably.
It shouldn't be known by anyone, impossible!
In the countryside, how could a woman possibly have only one son? The reason she had only one son was that she had given birth to five daughters consecutively, which had damaged her health. It was only when she was much older that she finally conceived this latecomer son.
The old lady believed that daughters were a financial loss. In those times of scarcity, she had no desire to nourish another loss, so she "dealt with" every daughter.
