CHAPTER 301: 301. LAW AND HUMAN SENTIMENT

As fate would have it, the position of the Women’s Director remained vacant. Having searched repeatedly without results, the hapless Liu Shouren had no choice but to temporarily take on this role.

Just thinking about spending every day following a bunch of women around, promoting the idea that times have changed and that men and women are equal, and actively urging them to get IUDs or sterilizations, filled Liu Shouren with hopeless rejection.

He had a thousand and one curse words to say to the mayor who made this absurd decision.

"What do you mean, ’since we can’t temporarily find a suitable Women’s Director, Comrade Shouren, you can handle a bit more work. After all, outstanding as you are, having developed the Liu family village into its current state, we believe this little family planning issue should be a piece of cake for you’?"

This, he really can’t handle!

A male Women’s Director? Just hearing it sounds incredibly distasteful, right?

Moreover, the affluent people of the Liu family village don’t care about fines; they only think about having more children bringing more blessings!

Liu Shouren was infinitely frustrated, yet he had no solution at all.

All he could do was accelerate the search for a candidate for the Women’s Director role while handling the part-time duties.

Seeing her husband so troubled and sorrowful, Wu Yinghong felt so sorry for him that she wanted to sacrifice herself.

But Liu Shouren firmly shook his head, "No, don’t. Teaching and nurturing students as a teacher is quite respectable. Don’t give up the lofty profession of shaping human souls to take on this thankless job just to help me. If I get hit with a rotten egg while walking, I can laugh it off, staying the course regardless.

If someone throws a rotten egg at you, wouldn’t I have to fight them to the death?"

"No, it can’t be that bad, right?" Wu Yinghong swallowed nervously, incredulous.

Her husband was the leader of the village, the one guiding everyone to prosperity!

Even if he took on the unpopular role of Women’s Director, it wouldn’t get to the point of being pelted with rotten eggs, would it?

Liu Shouren chuckled lightly and told her a family planning story that happened nearby, "Not to that extent? Hey, my dear, you should really take out the ’not’. After all, bloodline inheritance has always been a significant issue throughout history.

A while ago, in a neighboring town, a Women’s Director from a village called Liangzhongchang got beaten up, with two ribs broken.

She reported her sister-in-law who was pregnant with a third child, all in the name of her impartial duties.

The family planning officials came and forced her sister-in-law to have an abortion and sterilization.

Her mother-in-law was so angry she fainted on the spot, and her brother-in-law slapped her twice and gave her a severe beating without a word. They even resorted to using a carrying pole.

And her husband just stood by watching, showing no intention of helping her. Instead, he thought she was unbelievably cruel for stopping her brother’s bloodline over this damned job, and he didn’t even take her to the hospital, only giving her a divorce with two words!"

This impartial Women’s Director and her cold-hearted husband left Wu Yinghong stunned, "Then... what happened afterward?"

"The authorities said that this Jiang-named Women’s Director was selfless for the nation’s family planning policy, without fault, rather than commendable. If the Republic had more diligent and responsible leaders like Director Jiang, family planning wouldn’t be an issue anymore! Now she has become a positive propaganda example, and divorce was, of course, out of the question.

After the relevant authorities mediated, Director Jiang’s family came to understand and support her actions.

Her mother-in-law, husband, and brother-in-law sincerely apologized to her. Now this rising star in family planning is striving hard in her career.

Of course, that’s publicly. Privately, this family likely can never go back to how it was.

After all, her sister-in-law was already four months pregnant, and the ultrasound showed it was a boy.

It’s said that the child’s parents had prepared the fine, clothes, and name for the baby. The selfless model director just ruined everything.

And for her husband, who stood by watching her get beaten up, regardless of his reasons, as a wife, her heart must have turned cold, right?

Okay, hearing this, Wu Yinghong didn’t know whether to admire the iron-fisted impartiality of the Jiang-named Women’s Director or sympathize with her irreparably fractured family relationship.

They say that during the planned birth era, rural family planning was directly tied to village officials’ performance, and violence in law enforcement became the norm.

In her past life in Beijing, and in this life, the Liu family village mainly used economic penalties.

Forced executions, Wu Yinghong had only heard about.

Thinking about her sister-in-law, who already had three ’good’ characters but still dreamed of having a younger son.

Wu Yinghong couldn’t help but shudder, "Fortunately, my husband stopped me. Otherwise, if I foolishly became the Women’s Director in a moment of enthusiasm, what would I do when faced with an overbearing sister-in-law? Bend the rules for personal gain, or bend the rules for personal gain?"

Anyway, she couldn’t bring herself to betray her loved ones.

Both she and her husband could afford not to be village cadres, but they couldn’t just abandon their blood relatives!

Apart from her husband’s obsessive love for his younger sister, even though she’s an only child, she’s long considered Shuzhen and Hong Ying to be her sisters.

Liu Shouren smiled with difficulty, "Well, my little sister is nearly forty, even if she wants to, it’s a bit of a challenge, right? In the past couple of years, there hasn’t been any news, maybe..."

There won’t be any news anymore!

She gave birth to her eldest nephew at twenty-five, and now Lian En is already a fifteen-year-old young man.

Her three nephews and three nieces are all extremely cute, adorable, and smart.

Her sister already has a deep bond with her children as it is.

Frankly, Liu Shouren doesn’t wish for her, at such a mature age, to suffer hardships, or face fines, and possibly even lose her job.

Unfortunately, his wife Wu Yinghong didn’t share his sentiments at all.

After discovering that her sister-in-law, like herself, had been reincarnated, Wu Yinghong understood her insistent desire to have a younger son.

It must be that in a past life she didn’t know about, her sister-in-law indeed had such a later-born son.

Having failed to find a single willing person in the village, after another village committee meeting, Liu Shouren finally decided: to expand the recruitment scope, offering high-paying positions citywide for the Women’s Director role.

As the saying goes, high rewards bring brave people!

With a monthly salary of two hundred yuan, within a day, they received more than thirty letters of intent.

Delegating a few team leaders to conduct the first two rounds of preliminary selection, Liu Shouren only planned to look at the final three candidates chosen in the last round and then make the ultimate decision, putting the matter aside for now.

During the final round of the re-evaluation, Liu Shouren met a candidate who completely shattered his expectations, if he had any to begin with.