CHAPTER 300: 300. THIS FAMILY WITH EXCESS BIRTHS, SHE IS LIKELY TO BE CONFIRMED AS SUCH.

Where there are people, conflicts are inevitable.

In this large village, more than a hundred university students came for internships. Competition, naturally, became unavoidable.

After all, it’s about building one’s hometown, with no job being superior or inferior.

But if there’s a choice, who wouldn’t want to treat themselves a bit better?

For instance, those looking to climb the ladder and achieve something would obviously go to the well-developed factories producing down products, wine, dried fruits, and the like.

Even in teaching, there’s a difference between teaching kindergarten, elementary, middle, and high school, isn’t there?

In order to ensure a better future, everyone was pulling out all the stops.

After all, there were more monks than porridge!

Yet even in this clear state of supply exceeding demand, Liu Shouren regrettably found that the position he most wanted to fill, the women’s director, was thoroughly vacant, without a single applicant.

Even though the village committee had already offered a super high salary of two hundred yuan, the same treatment as him, the team leader.

With a face full of helplessness, Liu Shouren began to mobilize the team leaders, factory managers, and deputy factory managers to enthusiastically lobby their family members.

The requirements were lowered time and again, while the salary was raised repeatedly.

Just hoping that maybe someone would be drawn by the prospect of money?

It could be a red carrot or a white carrot, as long as someone comes to fill the position, it’ll do.

Overall, just quickly send someone to save him from this dire situation, otherwise, he’d really have to take on the role of women’s director himself...

Just thinking about it makes one’s scalp tingle, doesn’t it?

"Doing a job well is bound to offend people, but not doing it well won’t satisfy those above. It’s a dilemma either way; nobody wants to step in, which is the normal reaction, my dear brother!" Shuzhen shrugged, feeling helpless. In the past six months, four women’s directors had been replaced, a speed that could compete with harvesting leeks.

With such high unemployment, no matter how high the salary and treatment, you have to think carefully, right?

Liu Shouren scratched his head, "Ah, the high rate of extra births in our Liu family village, what do you say we should do about it, little sister? Nowadays, the penalty for extra births in our village has tripled, yet people just knowingly and willingly keep making the same mistake. Two years ago, your big brother was leading in every aspect, except in strengthening family planning where I fell short.

The honorable title of Excellent Village Cadre went to someone else, and I was used as a negative example. At the county, town, and village-level meetings across the city, I was criticized over and over in front of the city’s leaders!"

The lesson of being a negative example was too profound, making Liu Shouren still hold a bit of a grudge whenever he recalls it.

Shuzhen shrugged and gave her older brother a look that showed she couldn’t help.

Not wanting to tell him now that the current situation was nothing compared to the ’Great Sweep’ that would come in a few years.

After all, for now, it’s still mainly about fines and education, the worst being forcibly taken to be aborted when the pregnancy is still early.

But come the ’Great Sweep’, any child not born within the plan, no matter if it’s eight or nine months, even if the due date is just a day away! As long as the child hasn’t been born, if they’re caught, it’s a forced induced labor by injection.

Shuzhen remembers she had just given birth to her youngest son a few days when the ’Great Sweep’ started in full swing.

In the small Liu family village alone, close to ten families narrowly missed the chance to see their babies born, and it was less than ten families.

And of course, as a family with too many births, even if they were lucky enough to have the child, the subsequent huge fines plunged their already poor families further into hardship.

Wheat, corn, and such were taken as punishment, while their clever second son clung onto their oldest daughter on the corn stack.

Crying and pleading with the officials not to take everything, saying that if everything was taken, the family would starve for the year. His tears stirred the officials’ compassion, allowing the family to keep their rations.

They ate cornbread and corn mush for the entire year.

Because of this, at first, the children didn’t quite warm up to the youngest son who they blamed as the ’culprit’ for their hunger. They often said Xiao Liu, the unregistered child, really caused them a lot of trouble.

"My brother wouldn’t want you to take on that women’s director role, would he?" Lianshan was skeptical. After all, in terms of influence in the Liu family village’s production team, Shuzhen was not much less significant than her eldest brother, the team leader.

Considering his habit of liking to discuss and get advice from Shuzhen when something comes up,

Lianshan thought: could it possibly happen?

"How could it be possible? You know our older brother is notoriously protective. Even if he greedily took on this irksome task himself, he would never let me offend others everywhere." Shuzhen glared at Lianshan, not understanding how he came up with such a wacky conclusion.

Forcibly making someone abort or induce labor, it’s just too damaging to one’s virtue!

My brother would rather give up being the team leader, withdraw all investments from the Number One Scholar Village series, sooner than think of such a thing to harm his sister.

After all, my brother is a bit superstitious; he is the most upright, kind, and responsible person you could find.

He always stood by the idea of ’elder brother as father’, trying his best to stand in front of her and their second brother. It’s not something an affectionate older brother would ever do to push his sister out to take the fall!

"Moreover, even if he wanted to, it’s useless! After all, I haven’t even gathered all seven small diamonds yet and am eagerly planning to knowingly commit the ’crime.’ How could I take on the women’s director role, unless to teach everyone how to give birth more and better?" Shuzhen raised an eyebrow, speaking full of mischief.

One statement nearly caused Lianshan to stumble, almost tripping on flat ground: "This, after two years of effort, has gotten nowhere. Wife, haven’t you given up yet?"

Our three sons and three daughters have already made Hai Zi and Xiao Yue insanely jealous. Can’t you just take it easy for a bit!

And after two years of enjoying without any contraceptives and still having no good news,

the chance of another son doesn’t seem likely, right?

The wishful thinking was clearly written on his face, making it hard for Shuzhen to ignore.

Not wanting to dwell on this issue any further, and just waiting for reality to prove him wrong, Shuzhen said no more.

Giving up would never include the youngest son whom she felt she owed the most, felt the most guilty about, missed the most, and relied on the most. This was Shuzhen’s strongest commitment since being reborn.

Unless she sees the child born smoothly, enjoying the love of parents and siblings, getting into a desired university, and marrying a good wife,

Shuzhen feels her reborn life could never be truly complete, and deep regrets would remain in her heart.

And in order to prevent such a thing from happening, someone has to take on the label of having too many children!