"This isn't the first time something like this happened here. This has been happening every day these days. Families cannot raise their children, so they want to throw their child to someone who doesn't seem to be poor.
"You found the child in your basket. That's not the worst. Some would stuff their child into another person's arms and run away. This happened a few times yesterday. There was even a child who fell and hit his head. His parents didn't even turn their heads."
An Jiuyue was silent.
Is the world in chaos? How can such a thing happen?
"But this is a boy," she said.
Aren't boys more important than girls in this day and age? It may be normal to abandon girls, but that's not normal for boys. Aren't boys supposed to carry on the family line?