Chapter 1165: No More Trouble 9
Secretary Zheng called Guan Cheng and Guan Yu over and asked, "Tell me, is this person your mother?"
"Comrade Secretary Zheng, I wandered with my brother when I was very young, begging for food everywhere for a living, until I was adopted by my aunt and finally had a place to stay. I really have no memory of my parents' hometown, or my previous life." Guan Cheng insisted on his previous statement, "She insisted that she was our mother, and when she came, she asked me to raise her and the group of children she brought with her, and they made endless trouble in our brigade."
Guan Yu pulled Secretary Zheng's sleeve and said pitifully, "I don't even know her. She's so fierce. She keeps threatening us that we won't be able to live well if we don't support them. But my brother and I don't have a home. We are now living in my aunt's house. My uncle and aunt pay for our living expenses. Only the food rations we earn through our labor. We can't even support ourselves. My brother can't marry a sister-in-law now. My tuition is paid by Grandpa Lu. How can we support them? She has to make our team restless."
Guan Yu is only fourteen or fifteen years old this year. He has fair skin, handsome looks, a pair of big watery eyes and long, thick, black eyelashes that are like small fans. His tearful look is really pitiful.
Secretary Zheng patted his arm and said, "I understand. Don't worry. I will handle this matter fairly and impartially."
Chen Xingguo secretly admired the calmness of Lu's father and the kindness of the folks in Wanglou Brigade.
None of them said that Guan Cheng and Guan Yu were descendants of the Guan family, and no one said they were not, leaving a lot of room for the future. A verbal battle ensued over whether Wang Xiangmei was the biological mother of the two children. It is estimated that Wang Xiangmei has not yet realized that she was confused and at a loss as to what to say by the young and old people from the Wanglou Brigade.
The villagers probably saw that it was getting dark and didn't want to continue to entangle with Wang Xiangmei, so they drove her away. When they couldn't drive her away, they had a reason to send her to the commune. What reason did Wang Zhengguo use?
Oh, I suspected that he wanted to destroy the internal unity of Wanglou Brigade, and I was worried that she would get angry and set fire to Wanglou Brigade and injure people.
After working all day and getting nothing, Wang Xiangmei didn't even have a sip of water. She was so hungry that her eyes were blazing with anger. She said to Secretary Zheng, "You are a commune cadre. You should give us justice. My own son doesn't recognize me and doesn't want to raise me. What do you think we should do?"
The topic returned to the starting point. Guan Cheng held his forehead and thought that he should really just leave with his brother.
Wang Xiangmei repeated the same topic over and over again. Not only did everyone get annoyed, he also felt very disgusted. It seemed that all his time tonight was wasted on this one thing.
Secretary Zheng cleared his throat and said seriously: "No matter what the identities and origins of Guan Cheng and Guan Yu were in the past, or whether they are your biological sons or not, since they have long forgotten their past and were adopted by Comrade Feng Qingxue during their wandering, they have no relationship with you and have no responsibility to support you!"
"What did you say? You are shielding them?" Wang Xiangmei yelled, looking dissatisfied.
"What do you mean by shielding?" Secretary Zheng was immediately unhappy. "I have a law to follow and a precedent to follow when I make this judgment! Orphans adopted by other families have finally been raised by them with great effort, and their biological parents come to their house and ask them to recognize their ancestors or ask them to abandon their adoptive parents and support themselves instead. How can such a good thing happen?"
(End of this chapter)