Chapter 305 - 0305: Choose One From Two 1_1
Feng Qingxue took a deep breath, then slowly exhaled.
She felt a bitter-sweet sorrow.
Sorrow over an orphaned child of a martyr and the hilarity of the same child, whom a production brigade could not afford, seeking her out for care.
"Uncle Song, it’s not that I don’t want to help, but that I can’t, and there’s no way around it," Feng Qingxue uttered helplessly. "Even with the money and grain tickets that my spouse and I send, your entire production brigade cannot support a single child of a martyr. How can I alone presume to support him? In my home, there is an elderly and five little ones, and by next year it will be six little ones. I believe you are aware of how life is in the rural areas."
Old man Song was not a fool; he certainly heard the sarcasm in Feng Qingxue’s words. "I...I just don’t know what else to do anymore."
He mumbled to himself, repeating over and over again.
Feng Qingxue raised an eyebrow. "Indeed, you have no choice but to bring the child here, and the entire production brigade abandons its duty. But I too am unable to adopt him! Do you know? The ten dollars and ten kilos of grain tickets we’ve sent to the child were squeezed out of our own scarce resources. We just felt that without Comrade Song Dazhu’s salary, life at home wouldn’t be easy, so we did our part. Our benevolence has now brought you and the child to us, far beyond our expectations."
She gritted her teeth and steeled her heart, but only her mouth could not openly refuse.
Once committed, it would lead to endless complications.
Old man Song looked down at the child named Gangzi in his arms, his old eyes filled with tears. "I know it is difficult for you, but I really have no other options! If something were to happen to this child, no one in our production brigade could bear the responsibility."