Yue Jiuyue didn't know what to say.
Logically speaking, as Lin Chaodong's biological mother, she should definitely side with her son, and Lin Chaodong was not wrong in this matter.
But as a native rural old woman, when she heard her son say he wanted a divorce, her first reaction should have been disagreement, and she should have been very agitated. She might have even cried, made a scene, or threatened suicide to try every possible way to get her son to change his mind.
After all, even in modern times, many people advocate "better to tear down a temple than to break up a marriage."
However, she wasn't the original owner of this body. Her mindset prevented her from doing such a thing. It wasn't that she couldn't bring herself to cry, make a scene, or threaten suicide; it was that she couldn't make decisions for someone else's marriage.
Whether to divorce or stay together is a matter for Lin Chaodong and Liu Shi to decide; they should make their own decision.
So, what exactly does she need to do to avoid ruining her public image?
"A death contract? Like the contracts for our servants?"
Yue Jiuyue asked a question first, trying to find the answer.
"Yes! Just like our servants, their children are also our servants. If I don't divorce Liu, then Xiaoman'er and Dazhuang..."
Lin Chaodong was reluctant to associate the word "servant" with his own child. He could go out to carry bags to earn money, or drive a horse-drawn carriage to deliver things for others. He didn't object to his wife working as a servant in other people's homes, but on the condition that his wife couldn't sign a life-or-death contract and couldn't harm their child.
He did discuss redeeming Liu with her, but Liu felt that the life she had now was what she wanted. She didn't want to go back to the village to farm, where she couldn't even earn half a tael of silver all year round, and sometimes she couldn't even fill her stomach.
She agreed to the divorce; in fact, it was Liu who first brought up the word "divorce."
“We’re rich. Go to town and ask how much that family wants to return Xiaoman’er’s mother’s indenture. We’ll pay whatever it takes!”
These words were sincere. Of course, Yue Jiuyue believed that since the couple had already proposed divorce, this topic must have been discussed before. It was probably because Liu Shi did not agree, otherwise they would not have reached the point of divorce.
“Mother, she doesn’t want to come back. You don’t need to persuade her anymore. We’ve already said what we should and shouldn’t have said back in the city. She’s only interested in being a wet nurse in that family. She was the one who brought up the divorce.”
Lin Chaodong sighed.
He didn't want his child to become a motherless child. He couldn't even understand Liu's thoughts. She was willing to abandon her own child to be someone else's wet nurse. What was Liu thinking?
These past few days, he sometimes regretted listening to Liu and staying in the city. Otherwise, they would have gone home after seeing the doctor, and none of this mess would have happened, and their home would be half-ruined.
"Sigh! How did things come to this? What will happen to the two children? Dazhuang is still young and doesn't understand anything, so he's easy to coax. But Xiaoman'er is not a little girl anymore; she's sensible now. What will happen if she misses her mother?"
Yue Jiuyue muttered to herself, this wasn't just for the sake of the character; she genuinely felt sorry for the two children. Wasn't it the movie "Only Mother is Good in the World"? She was just a grandmother from a different generation. No matter how good she was to the two children, it couldn't compare to even a fraction of the kindness of their biological mother!
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