"More and more families are choosing this method for selecting their children. Compared to the other local methods, this one has the least loss; and as long as they persist, they'll eventually have a boy, an heir to carry on the family name," Wang Pan spoke till here, and then took out the photo from his pocket again, running his right hand over it, his expression desolate.
"Nobody knows why. Some people, out of curiosity, would dive into the Fengxia River to find the bodies of the discarded babies. Even if they had been eaten by fish, some traces should remain. Yet, nothing was found. It was like these children just suddenly vanished, as if they had never existed."