After a Change of Heart
by Wang Lizhun
About This Novel
When my aunt was fifty-one years old, she found something abnormal in her stomach. She thought it was a tumor, so she went to the commune health center for a checkup. The doctor touched the cyst a few times, took a pulse, and then laughed and said, "This poor and lower-middle peasant aunt, you are not sick, but you are born with pearls from the mussel!" My aunt was uneducated and didn't understand the idiom, so she was a little unhappy. It was true that I was from the old gang, but how could I give birth to pigs? I didn't do that with the shameless egg (that is, the boar)! He slammed the door and walked away angrily. After thinking about it, he woke up again and went to ask his uncle for credit. My aunt struggled all her life to give birth to a child with a pot handle. Unfortunately, all eleven children were short of two ounces of flesh. She thought that there would be nothing left for her until the end of time, but she didn't want to end up with a baby.
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