Chapter 429 Calling for Help
At night, before going to bed, Xu Ruoxue suddenly felt a little thirsty. She walked out of the room in the dark. When she came back, she heard her name coming from her parents' room. Curiosity prompted her to carefully stick to the door and listen to the movement inside with her ear tilted.
"My dear, do we really want to take the child back?" Xu's mother expressed her reluctance.
"If you don't take him back, are you really going to find a place to throw him away? Things are different now than before. It's illegal to do that now. I don't want to be a government employee when I'm old." Father Xu knew this; he was not ignorant of the law.
"But what should we say when people ask about the child? Xiaoshuang is not married yet?" Xu's mother was worried. It couldn't be that they were kind-hearted and picked up the child on the street! If so, what if the police came to our house? And what if we threw the child to the police? What if the little daughter came back and asked us for the child?
Father Xu sighed and replied, "If it doesn't work, let's take the baby back first! Just say it's a distant relative and see if anyone wants to adopt it. Then we can find someone closer."
Mother Xu was unhappy when she heard this. "If we give the child to someone else for adoption, what if Xiaoshuang wants the child back in the future? Some families even move away as soon as they get the child. Where can we find the child?"
"This won't work, that won't work, what do you say I should do? I have no other choice. Anyway, I can't say that Xiao Shuang gave birth to me. I can't afford to lose face."
Father Xu was really at a loss. Alas, raising a child would be very expensive, just like his second daughter had said. They might not be able to afford it.
Mother Xu gritted her teeth and whispered, "How about we talk to Jiadong? He is too shy to face us, so if we pretend to be miserable, he won't be able to bear it, and maybe he will agree?"
Mother Xu thought that her second son-in-law was shy and polite to them. If she started with him, she might get a pleasant surprise.
Father Xu thought for a moment and said, "Okay, tomorrow you can talk to Jiadong sometime. We will still give them the money and won't treat them unfairly."
"Well, okay, let's go to sleep! Oops, I have to go to the bathroom first..."
Hearing this, Xu Ruoxue quickly ran back to her room and gently closed the door. As soon as she turned around, she met her husband's puzzled eyes. She hushed and climbed onto the bed gently, whispering, "I just listened at the door of my parents' room for a while. They still haven't given up! I'm thinking of doing some ideological work on you tomorrow. Yang Jiadong, I've made an agreement with you. You can't be soft-hearted. You can't raise other people's children well."
The main reason was that she was annoyed by what her younger sister Xu Ruoshuang did, otherwise she would really agree, after all, she is her niece.
When Yang Jiadong heard this, he quickly waved his hands and said, "I can't do it, don't worry."
Xu Ruoxue glanced at her husband, still feeling a little worried, and thought about calling her mother-in-law tomorrow to invite her to come over and visit for a few days.
The next morning, Xu Ruoxue called her mother-in-law Jiang Xinbai who was far away in Shenzhen, "Hey, Mom, if you don't have anything to do recently, you and Dad can go to Shanghai to play for a few days! My parents are here too!"
"Huh? Oh, my in-laws are here too! It's nothing serious, but your dad is lazy and may not want to go out. I'll ask him..." Jiang Xinbai thought that if her husband didn't want to go, she would go herself. It was a rare occasion for her in-laws to come, and it would be unreasonable not to go and see them.
"Well, Mom," Xu Ruoxue thought about it and finally confessed the truth, then whispered: "Mom, I'm afraid Jiadong can't resist, so I want to borrow your name. You see, I have no other choice..."
Jiang Xinbai was very surprised when he heard this, "Oh, your younger sister hasn't even gotten married yet... Well, it's actually okay, young people nowadays are more open-minded, haha, it's different..."
Xu Ruoxue's face turned red on the other end of the phone. She didn't care about the family shame and whispered, "Mom, please don't make it up to her. Alas, I have no choice. My parents are like that. They value face more than anything else. If people back home knew that this was my little sister's child, they would want to jump into the river."
"Ah, is it that serious?" Jiang Xinbai thought for a moment and asked in confusion, "Xiaoxue, why don't you want to raise this child? You and Jiadong only have one child, Xiaoheng, and it happens to be a girl. Why don't you raise the child? Your father and I won't say anything."
Jiang Xinbai thought that since his family was well off, it would be fine to have one more child.
"Mom," Xu Ruoxue was helpless. She didn't expect her mother-in-law to have such an idea. She thought to herself that it was a good thing that she communicated with her in advance, otherwise she would have made things worse.
"Hey, Xiaoxue, I'm speaking from the heart, you..."
"Mom, I know you are speaking from the heart, but I don't want to!" Xu Ruoxue said directly.
"Ah, why?" Jiang Xinbai thought, she is my own niece, and as a mother-in-law, I have no objection, so why does my daughter-in-law not want to adopt her?
Xu Ruoxue was a little embarrassed. "Mom, please don't ask me for details. Also, I told my parents that I was pregnant with my second child. I lied to them. Please don't let it slip."
Jiang Xinbai was delighted when he heard this, "Why lie to them? Why don't you and Jiadong just have a second child? During the Chinese New Year, Xiaoheng even said he wanted a brother or sister! You guys should just fulfill his wish!"
Xu Ruoxue pursed her lips and smiled, "Well, let it be, just let it be when it comes."
Jiang Xinbai understood what she meant and quickly said, "Okay, I'll see if there are any tickets for the morning train. If there are, I can arrive in the afternoon." She wanted to help her daughter-in-law get rid of the trouble as soon as possible, so that they could give her another granddaughter.
At four o'clock in the afternoon, Xu Ruoxue picked up her mother-in-law and drove home.
As soon as I entered the door, my mother complained without even looking up: "Xiaoxue, I said a few words to you yesterday and you were not happy. You didn't go to work today and I didn't see you all day. Are you deliberately avoiding us?"
Jiang Xinbai heard Xu's mother complaining as soon as she entered the room. She glanced at her daughter-in-law, then smiled and responded, "Oh, my dear, don't blame Xiaoxue. She went to the station to pick me up. Look, you've been here for several days. I should have come to see you a long time ago."
When Xu's mother heard the unfamiliar female voice, she quickly looked up. After a closer look, her heart tightened. She stood up nervously and said, "Oh, it's you, my relative. Look, I didn't know you were coming. Xiaoxue didn't tell me either..."
Jiang Xinbai waved his hand and said with a smile, "It's okay, it's okay. I was just planning to come and see Xiaoheng, and Xiaoxue happened to say that you guys were here too, so I said that's perfect, let's get together too."
"Waah, wahah," At this moment, the sound of a baby crying interrupted their conversation.
Jiang Xinbai raised his eyebrows and pretended not to know and asked curiously: "Hey, whose child is this? Why does it sound like it came from the room?"
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