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Also I know this was the 80s, but 80s China was still catching up with a lot of modern technologies especially in rural areas

My guess is that since she can’t have children her brother sent his daughter to live with her aunt. If they are a patriarchal family they won’t care much about the daughter and their daughter can basically go to school, eat, and dress with no cost to them at the aunt’s house. Plus in general in agricultural societies people typically had many children and it wasn’t that uncommon to adopt a child to a relative who can’t have children because children were the only old age care plan for most of human history

Even if it’s too fast for the police to arrive most hospitals have security

Especially in such a highly patriarchal society where the person who will probably be blamed is the wife for not being “good enough to keep her man” 🤢🤮

Its only good because the 4th was earning money for them😤

How much you wanna bet she is currently pregnant and needs a scapegoat for the baby?

Plus FL wouldnt know the answer to any of these questions about society or legal affairs, the person she is inhabiting was an unfavored rural farm girl with an intellectual disability so she wouldn’t have been privy to any of this information

We also don’t know what kind of rights women have in this particular dynasty. Are they even allowed to do business or own property? If you get a divorce are you able to move to an independent household or do you move back to your parents household? Do women have rights to accept or refuse a marriage or can they basically be sold by their male family members at will? Is slavery legal? If her husband wanted to sale her as a slave would she have the right to refuse?

The names are swapped

Or he’s just taken so many beatings from his abusive parents that he learned to stay silent when in pain