Chapter 1133
Zachary said, “I hope you can get Nana’s reward of five hundred million.”
Serenity pondered the question and said after a while, “Your family hasn’t had a daughter for generations. Perhaps it just runs in the family. Your family might just be fated to have sons only.”
Zachary fell silent for a while before he said, “It’s possible. Our ancestor had a daughter but failed to raise her. Ever since that child passed, no one in the family has given birth to a girl. I remember my little aunt watched her diet closely before she gave birth to Rowan. She ate a lot of acidic food, saying that it’ll promote the conception of a daughter.
“Her pregnancy with Rowan was also different from her first two pregnancies. Everyone thought she would give birth to a daughter. When the fetus took shape, we sought advice from an acquaintance. When that person said that it was a girl, everyone went crazy with joy.”
Zachary recounted what happened that year. “I was a teenager at that time, so I had a particularly deep impression of when my aunt was pregnant with Rowan. After hearing that she was going to give birth to a girl, I was also looking forward to her arrival.
“I even secretly prepared a lot of toys for her. The adults in our family bought a lot of pink clothes and shoes, and I also secretly bought her a pink dress. Callum and Kevin were about my age, so they did the same too.
“It happened to be a Saturday the day my aunt gave birth to Rowan. Everyone in the family -old and young, as well as our collateral relatives–was there. The hospital corridors were filled with our people.
“Everyone was overjoyed and happier than when Christmas was here. Nana smiled so brightly that her cheeks were sore, thinking that she was finally going to hold a granddaughter. In the end, the nurse came out with a big fat kid in her arms. Nana immediately grabbed the nurse’s collar and questioned if she carried the wrong baby.
“She even said that my aunt was pregnant with a daughter, so why was a plump boy carried out instead? Everyone suspected that the nurse took the wrong baby. The nurse was between laughter and tears. She repeatedly explained that my aunt was the only person in the delivery room and that she gave birth to a boy.”
Serenity wanted to laugh when she heard the story. She could imagine what happened at that time.
Zachary continued, “Everyone could only accept the reality. The nurse also muttered that every other family would be thrilled if it was a son. Our family was the only one who asked for a daughter after knowing that it was a son, as if the hospital owed us a little girl.
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