Granny Zhao was also in bad spirits, spending the afternoon muttering about how despicable Wu Yun was, how foolish men are, and how pitiful male infants are.
Old Man sighed deeply after hearing about the hospital from Sisi, and smoked a whole pack of cigarettes in his gloom.
They were distressed because there was nothing they could do to stop these things from happening. It was the policy, and they had no choice but to support it.
"Oh, how nice it would be if things could be like they were before!" Granny Zhao lamented.
Could it be?
Sisi didn't know if things could go back to the way they were before, where you could have children whenever you wanted, but she knew that in her previous life when she came here, the policy still allowed only one child, although it was implemented much more humanely, not as brutally simple as now.
