Chapter 1563 Mission Accomplished 1
The adults in the main room were also talking. Cheng Baoguo added a bit more about Erya’s family situation.
Her name is Erya because she had a twin sister before her named Daya. Daya was born with health problems, so the sisters were only given childhood nicknames. In the end, Daya passed away when she was three. Her father still has parents and brothers, but unfortunately, none of them are willing to raise her.
With a lack of food and clothes, life is hard. There aren’t many people willing to raise someone else’s child.
Cheng Baoguo took out a very old tin box from his army-green shoulder bag and handed it over to Lu Jiang. "Old Liu said that when Liu Zhenguo left Yuanyuan in his care years ago, he gave them thirty silver dollars and a pair of small silver bracelets. These thirty dollars—Old Liu and his wife, who passed away a few years ago—never had the heart to spend. They kept it along with the bracelets, and now that Yuanyuan is gone, they’re being left for Erya. Consider it as proof for Comrade Liu Zhenguo. You just take this and the photos and give them to Liu Zhenguo."
Having children but not raising them, and then not even looking for them afterward, made Cheng Baoguo indignant. So many people want children but can’t have them. And yet, there are people who get to have children but don’t even care. During the war years, sure, that’s one thing. But after the founding of the country, when they climbed the ranks, why didn’t they go looking? Old Liu had never moved houses. Could it be that they really stopped caring just because they already had so many kids?
Lu Jiang put the photos Cheng Baoguo had given him earlier into the box. "Alright, I’ll give it to him when I find him."
"Forget about them. Let’s talk about our own family matters. Ajiang and Xiaoxue aren’t back home, so they don’t know anything about what’s going on there. When you came, didn’t Second Brother give you any messages for us?"
Prompted by his wife, Cheng Baoguo remembered. "There’s good news and bad news. Which do you want to hear first?"
"Start with the bad news," Lu Jiang said.
Feng Qingxue interjected, "Let’s hear the good news first."