Chapter 384 - 386: Throwing Cold Water_1
"Why didn’t you come to ask for the child yesterday? If you had asked, I would have definitely given her to you. Now the adoption procedure has been completed, and she has taken the Qin surname. The one before was also nice-looking; at the time, she had just been accepted to university, her future uncertain. With Jin frequently wandering back and forth, Old Mrs. Qin getting on in years, and no stable income at home, we really couldn’t afford to raise her." Li Qiao couldn’t bear to criticize children, especially infants.
However, even with the current conditions, she wouldn’t have taken her in.
After all, she was the one Yu Feng threw away, although that old woman still does not admit to it today.
Xu Maimiao: "How is the child doing?"
Li Qiao: "Don’t ask me, I wouldn’t know even if you did."
"..."
Xu Maimiao sat for a bit and then left. Li Qiao had also packed her luggage. She picked out the clothes she no longer wore and handed them to Old Mrs. Qin: "Give these to Chunhua next door; the children can wear these after a few alterations."
"All right." Old Mrs. Qin said, smiling cheerfully.
Peng Chunhua received the clothes and personally came over to give the child a red string, claiming that she had sought blessings from a shaman for it during her youngest child’s surgery, and that it could protect the child.
Li Qiao didn’t accept it, declining gracefully. "I appreciate the gesture, but such a meaningful red string isn’t something I should take. Besides, our family might give the child away. Jin has already placed an advertisement in the papers. If no one claims her, then we will have to raise her ourselves."
Children are better off with their birth parents, after all.