Madam Liu-Zhao and the others nodded with red faces. What he said was true. Almost every family in the village had children who died prematurely. Only the Liu family was lucky enough to escape that fate. Firstly, Liu Daqian and the others didn't stinge when it came to feeding their pregnant daughter-in-law. Secondly, whenever the children fell sick, no matter how poor they were, they were willing to hire a doctor to buy medicine for them. That was how the Liu children survived.
The few daughters-in-law also knew that the four elders were so willing because many of their own children had died prematurely, so their hearts ached. Not to mention anything else, there was a six-year-old brother between Liu Ting and Liu Zhuang, which meant Liu Zhuang was considered the third child. However, there were actually two other children who had died before Liu Zhuang. But because they had died in their infancy, they were not given a ranking in the family.
