Before Yang Liying could convince Zhao Dehai, the village women's director learned of her pregnancy from the hospital. The director came over every day to pressure her, urging her to go to the city hospital for an abortion and not wait for the work team to drag her away for a forced procedure.
Zhao Dehai also begged her to have the surgery. He was afraid that if Yang Liying went to Shilian to hide and give birth, something would happen to her. Then he would lose his wife, and his two daughters would be left without a mother.
Yang Liying had no other choice but to agree to the abortion. Before she left, however, she ran over to the women's director's house and gave her a vicious tongue-lashing, stopping just short of dumping manure on her doorstep.
After Wu Shufen arrived, Qiaohui began setting up her stall in the Eucalyptus Forest every afternoon.
