Chapter 697: There Has Never Been Such a Thing
Since there were no outsiders at home, Chen Guifen didn't beat around the bush and said bluntly:
"You've witnessed how dangerous pregnancy and childbirth can be for women. She's worked hard to give birth to three children for you, so she's definitely made an indelible contribution. But the children..."
Chen Guifen patted Fu Jingyou, her eyes deep and her tone even heavier:
"We can't just think about our own happiness, we should also consider the situation and feelings of your father-in-law and mother-in-law."
Fu Jingyou put down his bowl and chopsticks and sat upright.
He listened very carefully, but the more he listened, the more confused he became.
Chen Guifen simply didn't want to keep the secret and directly said:
"Miao girl has no sisters, she is the only one in the family, and your father-in-law is a well-known person..."
"It's not good to talk about these things openly, but if there's no one to inherit after you, the family will be cut off midway. Your father-in-law will feel good about it, and the gossip outside may not be pleasant either..."
Even though we have reformed and opened up, and now live in a new China and a new society, the continuation of the incense is still considered of utmost importance.
No matter how capable a person is, if he has no children or descendants, he will always be looked down upon and despised by the public.
A man lives by his face, a tree lives by its bark.
In most cases, ordinary families find it difficult to bear the strange looks from the outside world.
What’s more, they are a respectable family like the Lu family?
When Chen Guifen said this, Fu Jingyou and He Hongjin both knew what she meant.
Fu Jingyou frowned and thought seriously, but He Hongjin became anxious and waved his hands repeatedly:
"What you mean by that is that you want to give one of the children to someone else?"
"No, no, this is the Fu family's seed, how can we give it away? Besides, what if our in-laws think too much? They think we are giving away a child and asking for something extra from them..."
Chen Guifen frowned and said:
"Why are you saying such harsh things? A child isn't a thing, how can it be given away? The young couple has always lived with their in-laws in Beijing. Aside from the fact that their household registration is not in the same book, everything else is the same."
"That won't work either. If we don't register our own child with our own family, but register him with someone else's family? Then, should the child call them mom and dad, or aunt and uncle? It's a complete mess!"
"Aren't we discussing this? You always talk about incense. Without the Lu family's daughter, how can there be incense for the Fu family? You can't just fulfill your own wish while letting your in-laws be ridiculed and stabbed in the back."
The old couple was arguing fiercely. Fu Jingyou drank the noodle soup silently, put down his bowl and chopsticks and said:
"Don't worry about it. I'll discuss it with Miaomiao and we'll make our own decision."
He Hongjin frowned and glared at him without saying a word.
Chen Guifen patted him back and said:
"Don't worry about your uncle. He's just a stone in the toilet, a fool, smelly and stubborn!"
The Lu family's in-laws spared no effort to take care of the two children.
Putting herself in their shoes, Chen Guifen is also willing to consider things from their perspective.
"You should discuss this matter with Miao girl and see what she means first. The youngest child is still young and still has several years to go before going to school. There is no need to rush to register the household registration right now."
"Um."
Fu Jingyou nodded.
He Hongjin rubbed the back of his head and sighed, "How could something like this happen in the village? If this gets out, won't people laugh at us?"
Marrying a wife does not mean marrying into the family.
If the child doesn't take your surname, wouldn't that give people something to gossip about and talk about?
He Hongjin had many concerns and felt that this matter was inappropriate from any perspective.
But Chen Guifen didn't listen to him, and Fu Jingyou also told him not to care.
He Hongjin was full of worry and anxiety.
In the end, he could only sit down at the big table anxiously and annoyed, sighing and sucking on his pipe in silence.
Lu Miao is ahead of the times, and Fu Jingyou is always close to her day and night.
After a few years, my personal ideological awareness has surpassed that of my contemporaries by more than ten streets.
Fu Jingyou has an open and active mind, and pursues happiness and perfection.
I am not stubborn about the fact that my child can only take my surname.
He had never thought about the matter Chen Guifen mentioned in this way before.
Now that I have come to this, if I think about it carefully, it actually makes a lot of sense.
I just don’t know what my wife and father-in-law are thinking exactly?
It was not easy to jump to conclusions, so Fu Jingyou thought that when he went out to do some errands in the next two days, he would call back and ask on his way to the county.
It doesn't matter what happens.
After all, children are still fed and educated in front of them.
It doesn't mean that if a son changes his name or surname, he is no longer his son.
Feeling sorry for him sitting in the car for so long, after he finished his noodles, Chen Guifen said that she would clean up the side room in the yard for him to rest.
Fu Jingyou didn't give in.
Chen Guifen said, "You came back alone. Do you really need to go back and pack up? Just listen to me and stay here!"
Fu Jingyou nodded, "I'll live here, but I don't have to bother cleaning up."
He pointed to the bamboo bed against the wall in the main room and said:
"I sleep here at night. The draft blows through here, so it's cool."
"If you don't sleep properly when you have one, what's the point of sleeping?"
Chen Guifen still wanted to clean up the place, but Fu Jingyou stubbornly pulled her and shook his head.
He Hongjin, who had been sighing for a long time, tapped his pipe and said:
"Let him do whatever he wants. If you don't follow his will, he might actually run over there."
Chen Guifen paused, remembering the housing dispute a few years ago and Fu Jingyou's temper, and could only give in.
This time when he came back, Fu Jingyou did not bring his family with him.
There was nothing to worry about along the way, and he slept soundly in the sleeper car and came back feeling full of energy.
Chen Guifen thought he was tired from the ride and wanted him to take a break and lie down for a nap.
He doesn't.
He and He Hongjin took the keys and ran to the East Threshing Ground to see the old house.
It is the time when the busy farming season is switching to the double harvest season. After the early season rice is harvested, the mid-season rice and late season rice are harvested.
After harvesting the millet, you have to thresh it.
While the millet is being threshed, at the same time, we are also busy planting the double-season millet seedlings for the second season of this year.
Rice is the staple food in the south, and the crops grown are mainly rice.
Fu Jingyou walked along the shore of the pond, looking around along the way.
The sun is scorching and the temperature is still high at this time.
The heat wave was getting higher and higher, and there were few people in the farmland that was shining with colorful harvest colors.
There were still people busy working in the threshing ground next to the house, near the bamboo forest.
From a distance, it seemed as if they were trying to take advantage of the slight breeze at this moment to blow away the dust and gravel in the grain pile.
Several figures, young and old, were busy interweaving.
Fu Jingyou went back to his home. The people on the threshing ground recognized him and stopped what they were doing.
I curiously went to the shade of the jujube tree in front of the door and chatted with him:
"Xiaoliu is back?!"
"I heard your wife just gave birth to another boy for you. Are you coming back to hold a full-month banquet this time?"
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