The little one joined in the complaints too.
"Dad, the food today isn't very good."
After putting the baby to sleep, Qin Qinghuai leaned weakly against the quilt.
"Honey, how exactly are those charitable projects you mentioned carried out?"
Jian Dan was about to talk to him about building the power station, but upon hearing this, she was taken aback.
"Why did you suddenly think of charity? Were you provoked by this?"
There are many things that can be done in charity, but what seems suitable for this area, I think, are mainly the elderly, children, military dependents, orphans, and descendants of martyrs. Besides, you've been doing this regularly, like bringing these veterans back to start a second career – isn't that a form of charity? It gives them job opportunities, improves their quality of life, and prevents the years of training they received from the military from going to waste. At the same time, it provides our military region with a stable source of logistical supplies. Isn't that a win-win situation?
"I used to think this was a good thing, a great thing, but after talking with the team leader today, I realized that there are still many shortcomings."
Like the poor child who was taken away today, the parents who lost their son, the descendants of those two martyrs you brought over a few days ago, and the family situation of Li Erqiang, or like the previous regimental commander, a family where one person is raising a child alone—it all sounds easy, but in reality, their lives are still full of difficulties.
I've been traveling back and forth a lot lately, and because of the human trafficking issue, I've spent more time in the county town. I haven't really paid attention to the situation here. After hearing what the regimental commander said, I walked around the camp and compound this afternoon. There are quite a few families with only one parent and a child, especially like Li Erqiang's. The adults have to go to work, and the household chores are almost entirely left to the ten-year-old child. The adults can only do a little bit before leaving in the morning and after returning in the evening, such as shoveling snow and starting a fire. Most of the housework falls on the child.
Although we say we should let children do chores and not spoil them, seeing a ten-year-old girl in this weather fetching water and gathering firewood, her hands covered in chilblains, and even wearing an old cotton coat that looks like it's been there for years, the older sister leading her younger brother, carrying water, washing clothes, and then going up the mountain to gather firewood, makes my face burn with embarrassment.
Simply lie down quietly.
"Actually, the jobs you mentioned are things that children with both parents can do in rural areas. However, they also have their parents' love and care when they do these jobs, or rather, their parents are only helping. What you care about more is that these children are forced to take on the responsibilities of the family and become the main force of the family. Moreover, the absence of one parent, their busyness, or their lack of attention and care for the child can lead to their inability to grow up healthily. Is that what you mean?"
"...A little bit, I always thought we should all live in harmony and happiness, but now I realize that I'm asking for too much. Let alone harmony and happiness, even the most basic thing like a complete family is difficult to achieve. The most pitiful ones are the children. Our family is a special case, after all. Whether it was Xiao An and Xiao Rui a few years ago, or these boys, or even Xin Xin whom you adopted before, although their parents are not around, they have received a lot of love. It may also be related to the fact that we have fewer concerns about material things. But them, sigh!"
I can roughly understand his feelings. He has a child of his own, and especially after experiencing the human trafficking incident, he is at the peak of his concern and care for his child. He will unconsciously associate anything with his child, and unfortunately, something happens that involves his child, who is always the victim and the vulnerable party.
This made Political Commissar Qin's mind somewhat unsettled.
What are your thoughts?
Indeed, these children, Xin Xin, Xiao An, and Xiao Rui, are supposedly raised by me, but in reality, Sheng Zhiyuan handed over his enormous fortune to me on our first meeting. Not to mention my second uncle and his family, even without that relationship, my second uncle and aunt have given me plenty of good things, and my uncle and Chao Ge also send me things from time to time. You could say that even if I don't work, I'm never lacking anything on the surface.
In that case, we have far fewer concerns. Regardless of whether I use these things or not, I have the confidence to do so, and that makes all the difference.
But the situation here is different. Here, everyone is just trying to make a living. You could say they have no savings, and they might not even have received their monthly salary yet, but they've already made all the necessary arrangements. In this situation, I think the child will also feel some kind of invisible psychological pressure. Apart from these few oddball families, in normal families, the child will probably always be thinking about helping their parents with more chores.
You need to understand that charity, besides what we've already done—re-employment, factory construction, and generally improving people's living standards—or dealing with disasters like earthquakes, droughts, and floods, which occur in large numbers, is more specifically aimed at representative individuals, such as the elderly living alone, orphans, the poor, families of martyrs and soldiers, and the disabled. Most of these are individuals without support, like those who have lost their parents. They have been neglected quite a bit, so shouldn't we pay more attention to their psychological well-being, or their spiritual well-being, and provide them with care and attention?
The situation we're in right now, well, psychological counseling, isn't that a bit of an overreaction?
What about resolving the adults' personal issues? It seems that this can't be forced. We don't expect them to have a deep emotional bond, but at the very least, they need to be compatible, especially in blended families. The head of the family is very cautious; one wrong move could cause even deeper harm to the child.
That's all I can think of. Even if the parents' committee wants to help, can they really stick their hands in other people's homes every day? That's unrealistic.
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