Chapter 1162: Eliminating Future Troubles 4
"Raising children to support you in your old age is like storing grain to prevent hunger. We foster children expecting that when they grow up, they will support us in return. Why should our grown children, who haven’t yet fulfilled their duties to us, be required to support you?" Lu Family’s father spoke with righteous indignation, his tone sharp and unyielding. "We’ve nurtured these two saplings, watered and fertilized them, taken care of them with great attention, and now you come to steal the fruits? Where is the sense in that? Let’s not even mention that Guan Cheng and Guan Yu have no memory of you; even if it were as you say, you would still need to repay your debt before taking them away!"
"Yes, yes, pay off the debt! Foster care fees, living expenses, pay back everything!"
"The two children were in a dire situation when they first arrived at our Wanglou Brigade. You need no reminder of how precious food was back then, do you? A single grain of rice could save a life! In such hardship, Qingxue was willing to foster these two children. Qingxue is their real mother! Guan Yu wasn’t wrong to call her ’aunty’ at all!"
"These kids don’t even recognize you, yet you insist they are your sons, and you want to take away the young men we’ve painstakingly raised to slave away for you. What wishful thinking!"
"You say you are their birth mother, right? Great, start by paying the foster care and living expenses then, ah, and don’t forget the tuition!"
Fury swept through the crowd, and Wang Xiangmei, with her chest heaving with anger, bellowed at them, "What business is it of yours? Mind your own!"
Wang Chenglong spoke coldly, "Can’t cough up the money and so you resort to anger? If you’re capable, don’t come pilfering other people’s fruits! If you want the fruit, pay for it; if you want the whole tree, roots and all, then pay for the watering and fertilizing. Not our business? Who says it isn’t our business? The children belong to our Wanglou Brigade, it’s definitely our business!"