Yun'er looked at Shen Chengyao and Mrs. Liu, then at Xiao'er, bowed her head, and whispered, "Previously, because our family was poor, they could not afford to raise so many girls, so they had to send one of us to live with someone else, right? If I did not go with dad and mom... no, with Mr. Fang and Mrs. Fang, Xiao'er would have to go with them." When Yun'er thought about her real parents, she added the surname of her adoptive parents.
Hearing this, Mrs. Liu instantly stood up, approached Yun'er and asked, "Who said so? There were only you and Xiao'er as girls in our family, and we didn't feel extra, even when we had one more girl later. Girls are like warm cotton-padded coats to our hearts; we won't find them too many!"
"Aren't elder sister and second sister also girls? Doesn't grandma dislike girls? Aren't girls a financial burden?"
Mrs. Liu was silent. In the past before division of the family property, the two girls were indeed counted as girls in the family.
