Chapter 235 - 231: Reason Fourfold
Li Xianglu looked around, her gaze cold and clear, her tone devoid of any emotion, "At the beginning of ’75, I had parents. My mother wanted to find a good job with a food supply for her beloved second son, and schemed to marry me off to the idiot brother of the director who had promised to help, even though I later escaped, you can imagine how hard it was."
As soon as Li Xianglu finished speaking, everyone started talking. Li Jianhong swallowed nervously, tugging on Mom, who was standing in front of her.
After she finished speaking, Li Xianglu turned around and said to Ge Sanmei, "Auntie, what, have you forgotten about this?"
Ge Sanmei’s face was tight as she stared back, "What, you still hold a grudge against your second brother? Director Wang’s family is in such a good condition, why couldn’t you marry there?"
Li Xianglu shook her head and said to everyone, "Look, this is what a biological mother is like. At the beginning of spring ’75, my kin decided to adopt me out to my current grandfather. At that time, this auntie took US$ 600 and three hundred kilograms of fine grain."
Six hundred yuan! Even today, the subsidy given to college students is only 8 yuan a month, not to mention six hundred yuan, leave alone the money, what about three hundred kilograms of fine grain? Where could that even come from?
Li Xianglu looked around once more, speaking indifferently, "This is what happened. I will only say it this one time. It was not my will to be adopted out, but since I’m no longer a child of this family, why should I still care about them? I really want to ask, what are you doing here? Didn’t you just go to Zhengzhou in November to ask your third son for fifty yuan? What, you’re in the capital now? What is it this time? Asking for money, wasn’t the six hundred yuan enough for you to spend?"
Having said this, Li Xianglu shook her head and walked out to the side, while Qin Xi looked coldly at everyone and left as well.
Everyone was in disbelief; it turned out Li Xianglu had such a background. It’s no wonder she didn’t even recognize her own mother. This wasn’t a mother at all, worse than a beast, not even a tiger would devour its own offspring. To let her daughter marry an idiot for the sake of her son and to think it’s justified—that was unimaginable.
There were many biased mothers in the world, but such extreme partiality was indeed rare!