Just as I arrived home, I saw my mother carrying a bowl of sticky black substance into my sister-in-law's room.

I leaned against the wooden door and watched.

My sister-in-law's eyes were filled with hatred, refusing to drink what my mother held in her hand.

"Did you burn my child to death?"

My sister-in-law's eyes were swollen from crying, but she still stubbornly questioned my mother.

My mother's face looked unpleasant, but she forced a smile and spoke kindly to my sister-in-law, saying, "Xiu Lan, that child was a cursed fetus. It's not good at all. As long as we burn the cursed fetus to death, the next child will be a boy!"

I don't know where my mother heard these words, that a girl child is a cursed fetus.

Clearly, she just doesn't like girl children.

My sister-in-law couldn't bear it anymore. Her eyes turned red, and her thin body couldn't help but tremble. She yelled at my mother,

"Give me back my child! Why did you kill her?"

"She didn't do anything and was burned to death by you ignorant people!"

My mother also became angry. No one in the house dared to speak to her like this. She grabbed my sister-in-law by the hair and slammed her head against the wall.

While banging her head, she cursed.

"You despicable thing, who do you think you are? We paid you so much money, isn't that enough for you? If you can't give birth to a boy again, just wait and see!"

My sister-in-law was bought from Old Zhang's house in the neighboring village for a thousand yuan. It was said that she had studied for a few years before, but her family stopped her from continuing.

My mother said, "With a thousand yuan, we could have bought two piglets."

They should have waited. Old Zhang's family could have lowered the price a bit.

However, my mother had been waiting for my sister-in-law for several years since she took a liking to her.

From an initial price of three thousand yuan, it dropped to a final price of one thousand yuan.

My sister-in-law also transformed from a chubby woman into a skinny one.

The room was filled with my sister-in-law's painful wails.

Her forehead turned bruised and swollen, and her cries became choked with pain. I leaned against the door, wanting to help my sister-in-law, but I didn't dare.

Because every time my mother kicked me in the stomach, I would be in pain for days.

In the end, my mother forced open my sister-in-law's mouth.

She forcefully poured the sticky black substance into my sister-in-law's mouth.

My sister-in-law felt nauseous and wanted to vomit, but my mother made her swallow it back.

My mother said, "This thing is nourishing. Once you drink it, you'll be able to give birth to a boy. You're my daughter-in-law, how could I harm you?"

My sister-in-law naturally didn't know what that thing was, but she felt a strong fishy odor!

I knew what was in that bowl of sticky black substance.

It was the heart of a female infant!

Last time, at Aunt Wang's house, they used the heart of a female infant to make a soup for her daughter-in-law, and she quickly conceived a male child.

When burying my sister-in-law's child, as I looked at her empty chest cavity, I felt so uncomfortable that I stuffed a wad of straw inside.

Otherwise, it would have been so empty. How painful she must have felt!