Marriage is a major event in life and the foundation for the continuation of a family. However, in ancient times when there were sparse population and wars, how to reproduce was the biggest problem for people. In order to ensure the purity of bloodline and consolidate the family power, members of the aristocratic families and royal family usually marry powerful children of equal status, but there are also cases of close relatives getting married, such as cousin and cousin getting married, etc. After getting married to a close relative, the descendants who master the aristocratic families still have the same bloodline, but these practices can also lead to the birth of deformed children.
The ancients had a very weak concept of marriage in close relatives. After modern society, people paid great attention to ethics and morality. The law also clearly stipulated that if there are blood relationships within three generations and within the three generations, they would not be allowed to get married, otherwise they would have serious consequences. However, there is an old man from Dashan who ignores law and ethics. When she was young, she and her cousin intermarried and gave birth to three deformed children. These children were born with intelligence and mobility, and were able to survive for more than 60 years with the care of her mother. So how is this family living now?
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This old man is named Chen Xiuying . He was born in Huomiao Village, Zhongxiang City, Hubei Province at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China. Her parents were honest farmers in Huomiao Village. They had never studied or saved. The family had been living a poor life. Chen Xiuying also failed to receive cultural education because of her poor family. As long as she can remember, she would farm and work with her parents at home, or weave cloth to make money. When she was married at the age of marriage, she would get married like other girls. Soon Chen Xiuying reached the age of marriage, but her family situation discouraged many young people, and almost no one came to propose marriage, which made Chen Xiuying's parents very anxious, for fear that their daughter would miss the best age to get married.
Wait after waiting around, Chen Xiuying still couldn't find a suitable husband, so the mother thought of the son of a relative. She had not received cultural education and did not know the consequences of marriage between her intimate relatives, so she quickly arranged to engage Chen Xiuying and her relative's son. Chen Xiuying was also very obedient to her mother's decision, so she married her cousin in a daze. However, with the help of her cousin's family, the Chen family's life became prosperous day by day, and the relationship between the couple was very sweet. Chen Xiuying does not expect her husband to bring her a wealthy life. She only hopes to have children with her husband and spend her life safely.
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Unfortunately, Chen Xiuying's family did not understand. From the first day of their close relatives' marriage, they brought the rest of their lives into hell. Shortly after the marriage, Chen Xiuying gave birth to the eldest and second child. The eldest son was in good health, but the second son was weak and sick for some reason and died soon after. Regarding the death of the second child, Chen Xiuying and her husband simply thought that they were not caring for the care of the baby, so they continued to have children in the next few years and actually gave birth to six children in one breath. However, as Chen Xiuying grew older, she gradually discovered that three of the children were abnormal. Their heads were much smaller than ordinary people, their ears were very big, their eyes were empty, and they could not speak, so the villagers called them "monkey babies".
Chen Xiuying also gradually realized something was wrong. She took her three children to a large hospital for examination. After the doctor was diagnosed, he asked about Chen Xiuying's life status. He was extremely shocked when he heard that Chen Xiuying was a close relative. The doctor told Chen Xiuying that this was a genetic disease caused by the marriage of close relatives. There is currently no cure in the world, which means that the three monkey babies may look so stupid until they are old. After returning home, others couldn't bear to watch Chen Xiuying suffer and advised her to abandon her three children and fend for themselves. But the three children are all flesh and blood born to Chen Xiuying for ten months. How could she bear to abandon the child and ignore it? In the end, Chen Xiuying insisted on leaving the three monkey babies and taking care of their daily life alone.
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Because the three monkey babies are born with low intelligence and mobility, Chen Xiuying gets up early and goes to bed late every day to change clothes and feed them, while her husband works outside to make money. Because of the language barrier, Chen Xiuying sometimes had emotional changes, and there were many conflicts between the mother and son, which brought great psychological burden to Chen Xiuying.However, Chen Xiuying still insists on tolerating her children. She patiently teaches them how to speak and take care of themselves, and this care has been taken for decades. During this period, Chen Xiuying's husband unfortunately passed away, and the other children moved out of their hometown to live, leaving her alone with three children.
Because Chen Xiuying is too old, she seems powerless when taking care of her three children. The other children suggested taking Chen Xiuying to the city to live, but she refused. Fortunately, the deeds of Chen Xiuying's family were reported by media reporters. The local government decided to provide subsidies for Chen Xiuying to overcome difficulties. Many caring people also drove to the village to do something for Chen Xiuying within their ability, or donate charity funds.
Conclusion
Now Chen Xiuying's family has moved into a resettlement house built by the government. At the age of 105, she can't let go of the second half of her three children's life. She always wants to do more for the children to make up for her debts. However, we believe that with the help of caring people and the government, Chen Xiuying and her children will definitely live a happy life.
