Yu Rujia: "I believe I will find a like-minded person in the future."
Having lived for hundreds of thousands of years, she had long since become indifferent to marriage. If she found someone compatible, she would marry; if not, she would still live a good life. Not to mention four children, she could raise forty, if not forty.
With Yu Rujia's insistence, Gan Xiao readily resolved the issue of where the four children would end up. After all, Yu Rujia's influence was undeniable, and keeping the children with her was better than sending them to an orphanage.
Gan Xiao: "Thank you, Comrade Yu, for helping us solve our difficulties. I will report this to the bureau when I get back and see if we can apply for some subsidies for Yu, the educated youth."
Yu Rujia had no interest in the subsidy Gan Xiao mentioned. She had originally used human traffickers to send Duofu and the others to her, and now she had gotten what she wanted.
Yu Rujia: "I don't care about subsidies or anything like that. I want to ask the police station to help me pull some strings so that I can register my four children under my name. That way, I can send them to school when they are older."
Only by registering the child under her name could Yu Rujia feel at ease. Without a household registration, the police might find someone more suitable and send the child away.
Gan Xiao: "This is not a big problem. Have you decided on a name for the child? If you have, I will arrange it for you when I get back, and I will send the new household registration book over in a few days."
Yu Rujia: "The names of the four children were chosen according to the principles of fortune, prosperity, longevity, and happiness: Yu Duofu, Yu Duolu, Yu Duoshou, and Yu Duoxi."
Gan Xiao: "The meaning is very good. I hope that their future lives will be as blessed as their names suggest. In recognition of your merits, the bureau has awarded you a banner for 'Heroic Act'."
"Other rewards include 300 yuan in cash, 200 jin of rice, 20 jin of oil, 20 jin of meat, two bolts of cloth, 200 national grain coupons, 50 meat coupons, and a bicycle ticket. You don't need to refuse; these are what you deserve."
Although Yu Rujia used the police station to help Duofu and the others get on the right track, it was also because of the clues she provided that the police station was able to save hundreds of families. Yu Rujia accepted these rewards without feeling guilty.
Yu Rujia's smile deepened: "It seems that our family of five's food supply for the next year has been secured."
Gan Xiao thought about it and laughed out loud: "That's right, those guys are really enjoying themselves by following you."
Gan Xiao knew in her heart that even without considering the things they brought, based on the treatment of the team doctors that Yu Rujia mentioned, the children wouldn't go hungry if they stayed with her.
Just as the three of them reached an agreement, Captain Huang, who had received word of the situation, walked in: "Comrade Gan, Comrade Tan, has there been any progress on the human traffickers?"
Gan Xiao explained the matter to him again in detail: "...In short, that's how it is. From now on, the children will stay under Comrade Yu's name. Please ask Captain Huang to help take care of them."
Captain Huang had discussed this issue with Yu Rujia before, but it was just his guess at the time. He never expected it to become a reality. He cursed the police station for being inhumane, leaving four children to be raised by a sixteen-year-old unmarried girl.
Then, remembering that Yu Rujia had agreed to support them, he didn't try to dissuade her.
Team Leader Huang: "When Yu, a young woman from the village, came to our team to work in the countryside, she became one of our team members. If something happens to her, we will naturally not stand idly by."
With Captain Huang as a witness, everyone in the brigade knew that Yu Rujia would be raising four children from now on.
Only the Xia family knew about Duofu and the others' relationship with Yu Rujia. Others, including those from the police station and the brigade, were unaware of it and assumed that Yu Rujia had adopted Duofu and the others because she couldn't bear to see the children suffer after they had lost their families.
Several families who were close to Yu Rujia came to persuade her to give up the idea.
Huang Guihua said seriously, "Yu Zhiqing, we know you mean well, but you can't disregard yourself. Raising children is not easy, let alone four children. The daily expenses alone are a lot of money."
Yu Rujia: "I have excellent medical skills. Every time I finish treating someone, they give me something. Look at these pieces of furniture I have, they were given to me by Comrade Huang Dazhuang. I didn't spend a penny of my money."
Xu Huiniang: "Dazhuang's wife has been bedridden for more than a year. If it weren't for you, it would have happened in just a few months. You saved her life, so it's perfectly normal to use some wooden furniture to offset the medical and medication costs."
"Life isn't just about having furniture; you also need food and clothing. You don't realize it now, but you'll see in a few years. 'A half-grown boy can eat his father out of house and home' is no exaggeration."
Despite their best efforts to persuade Yu Rujia and the others, they could not dissuade them from their idea of raising Duofu, and in the end, they could only sigh and leave.
When people came, Yu Rujia would send the children to the backyard, where they would sit and talk in the courtyard.
With a distance of twenty or thirty meters between them, she could see the children in the backyard while preventing them from overhearing her conversations, thus avoiding leaving any psychological scars on them.
After breakfast, Yu Rujia pulled the mat to the shaded area against the wall in the backyard. She usually put Duoxi on the mat and then had Duofu and the others watch over her. In August, she didn't have to worry about the child getting cold lying on the ground.
Duo Xi jumped onto the mat as soon as he saw his territory, and Yu Rujia almost couldn't catch him.
Yu Rujia put him on the mat and patted his little back: "You can't be so reckless next time, okay? If your auntie doesn't hold you properly and you fall, you'll know how painful it is."
Duo Xi finally arrived at his own territory, propped his little head up and grinned foolishly at Yu Rujia, it was unclear whether the little guy understood or not.
Yu Rujia pointed her finger at his nose, annoyed, and said, "All you do is pretend to be cute and innocent."
Duoxi chuckled and reached out her chubby little hand to pull down her fingers, then played with them in her own hand.
Yu Rujia said to Duofu, who was pulling the twins over, "Duofu, I'm asking you to take care of my little brother again today. Auntie is going to dig the ground to plant vegetables today, so we won't lack vegetables to eat in the future."
After arriving at Shangfen Brigade, the vegetables they ate were either provided by the brigade or grown in their space. This was not a long-term solution, so Yu Rujia planned to dig a plot of land in the backyard to grow vegetables.
Duofu let go of the twins' hands, letting them roll around with Duoxi, and walked over to Yu Rujia, reaching out her little hand to take hers, saying, "Where is Auntie going to plant vegetables? Duofu can help."
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