Chronicle of the 70s

Everyone suddenly became noisy, discussing that Li Huai Ren was adopting another child. It seems daughters are still not enough; at the end of the day, a son is needed. But is it okay to adopt someone from a different surname?

For a moment, the din rose, and Qin Xi coughed, signaling everyone to quiet down. He looked coldly at the couple as if looking at two dead bodies: "Heh, where did you hear that Grandpa Li is adopting Xu Wu?"

Xu Wu’s eldest cousin was stunned. A man had sent word saying that in Li Family Village, there was a man named Li Huai Ren who last year adopted a girl from the same clan, spending six hundred yuan just on milk money, and three hundred jin of white flour. Now Xu Wu was living at his house, and if they didn’t hurry to ask for some money, what if he refused to give?

So he and his wife discussed it briefly and rushed over, but upon arriving, the situation wasn’t as they had expected.

At this moment, Li Dafu also hurried back from under the beams. He waved his hands to disperse the crowd, but the curiosity of the onlookers outweighed the captain’s authority, and no one left.

Li Dafu didn’t say much and directly asked them for the food money and five yuan for medical expenses. Xu Wu’s medical and medicine expenses amounted to five yuan, which the team had paid out of concern that it wouldn’t be good to explain if the person died; he would never have paid otherwise.

Hearing this, Xu Family’s couple got anxious; they came to demand money, yet now they had to pay instead.

Xu Wu’s couple talked with Li Dafu for a while, unaware of what was discussed. The couples’ faces turned particularly ugly. Xu Wu’s eldest cousin-in-law came over, grabbed Xu Wu, and tried to leave, but Xu Wu ducked and then stubbornly stared at her.

Li Xianglu, seeing the stubborn child, had tears flash in her eyes, and from a distance, those people all left.