Chapter 304: To Raise or Not to Raise 2

However, Feng Qingxue did not want to set this precedent.

Once Gangzi is adopted, your home will really become a shelter and an orphanage.

If she has a spirit of dedication and emulates those great female leaders, which she seems to be supposed to do, as Lu Jiang's career develops step by step, in a decade or two, she will become a heroic mother and gain both fame and fortune.

Taking in these children during the famine was no less of a favor to them than treating them as reborn parents.

But she is not that great, she is just an ordinary woman.

She has elderly and young people at home, and she also has to take care of Lu Jiang's comrades outside. It would be fine if the space supplies were inexhaustible, but they are limited. There is only outflow and no inflow, and they will be consumed one day.

The most important thing is, who in the surrounding area doesn't know about her family's affairs? She took in so many children, who wouldn't be suspicious?

Other families can’t even support their own children, so why should she support so many children?

At the beginning, when the names of the two brothers Guancheng and Guanyu were registered in their own household registration, instead of being settled separately like Jianghe and the others, many people gossiped about them behind their backs. During the busy farming season, when rubbing corn, many people asked Feng Qingxue if she would still take in the child, saying that their relatives had children they couldn't raise or had children they planned to abandon or give away right after they were born.

It was said to be a joke, but actually it was a test.

Feng Qingxue said to them righteously at the time: "Don't send them to my house. I have enough children. I will have my own child next year. I can't afford to raise one more. No one can say that I won't have a second or third child in the future, right? Who doesn't know how difficult it is to raise a child in this era? Even if someone sends a child to my doorstep, I will not be soft-hearted and take them in. You have to give birth to a child and raise it yourself. This is the so-called grace of giving birth and raising. If you raise a child when he is young, the child will take care of you when you are old. I took in the Guancheng brothers for a reason. First, the younger one looks like Tianzhi and looks friendly. Tianzhi likes him. Second, Guancheng is old and can help me with work. My family is old and young, and a half-grown child is half of the labor force. I didn't raise them in vain."

She was also afraid that others would say that marrying into the Lu family would continue the Lu family's style of exploiting the blood and sweat of tenant farmers and long-term and short-term workers, squeezing Guan Cheng, an immature laborer, and then added: "The most important thing is that I took Guan Cheng as my apprentice. He was willing to learn medicine from me, and I wanted our production team to have another doctor who could save lives and heal the wounded, in order to repay our production team for taking him in."

Because both Guancheng and Guanyu have food rations and can take care of themselves, the neighbors and villagers all know that it is not difficult for Feng Qingxue to feed them.

The matter of adopting the two brothers Guancheng and Guanyu was thus covered up.

Later, someone really was going to secretly place his newborn child, whom he couldn't afford to raise, at the doorstep of someone's home. But just as he arrived at his own doorstep and had not yet had time to put the child down, he was bumped into by Wang Jiao who came to play with him.

Wang Jiao was sharp-tongued and didn't give in. She started to curse at him, and the other party left in shame, holding the child.

Looking back, Wang Jiao scolded her, saying that she was being too kind-hearted and that this had brought her trouble.

From then on, Feng Qingxue took it as a warning.

Feng Qingxue told this to Song Laoshuan, "Uncle Song, please forgive my difficulties."

Song Laoshuan blinked his old eyes and said sadly: "Even you don't want to take in Gangzi?"

(End of this chapter)