Chapter 1063 The Heroine’s Vicious Adoptive Mother (2)
"Boss, you're back? Do you have a child you like?" Wang Fang, the only employee in the store, saw Xiao Shichu coming back and immediately asked excitedly. She knew that her boss wanted to adopt a child.
Xiao Shichu shook his head: "I thought about it and decided not to adopt the child. If I adopt a child, I will be responsible for everything about her. This responsibility is too great. I am afraid I can't do it well."
Wang Fang nodded and said, "Yes, it's not easy to raise a child. It takes a lot of energy and money. If you ask me, boss, if you feel your home is too quiet, you might as well raise a pet. A pet can keep you company, and the burden is not as heavy as raising a child, but the fun is no less."
Xiao Shichu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he said, "You're right. Adopting a child is not as good as raising a pet."
The original owner's parents died early, and she had a boyfriend with whom she was about to get married. However, during the marriage examination, the original owner was found to be infertile, so her boyfriend immediately dumped her and married someone else.
The original owner was greatly shocked, and for this reason, she never looked for a boyfriend again. After she turned 30, she gradually felt lonely, and came up with the idea of adopting a child, so she went to the orphanage today.
"Boss, do you want to keep a cat or a dog?" Wang Fang asked excitedly, "I think it's better to keep a dog. Dogs are clingy and can guard the house. Cats are very proud and will ignore you if they say they won't."
Xiao Shichu thought about it and said, "I haven't thought about this clearly yet, but I think cats have their advantages, and dogs have their advantages. It's good to raise either one."
"It depends on what you like." As Wang Fang was speaking, a customer came to the door and she hurried to greet the customer.
Xiao Shichu saw that there were not many customers at the moment and Wang Fang could take care of the business alone, so he left work early and went home.
However, before she went back, she saw a newborn baby wrapped in tattered clothes in a trash can in an alley near her home. The baby was still alive, but his crying was weak and intermittent, making people think that he would be silent the next moment.
Xiao Shichu didn't expect that she would actually see an abandoned baby. She couldn't just stand by and watch the baby die, so she could only pick the baby out of the trash can, walk out of the alley, and ask passers-by to help call the police.
Nowadays, mobile phones are still a luxury item and ordinary people simply cannot afford them. Although the original owner was a clothing store owner, he had just bought a house and could not afford an expensive mobile phone, so he could not use his mobile phone to call the police.
When passers-by heard Xiao Shichu say that he had picked up the child, they went to the nearest police station to report the case without saying a word.
More than ten minutes later, the police arrived, learned about the situation at the scene, asked Xiao Shichu some questions, and called an ambulance to take the child to the hospital for examination.
Surveillance was not yet popular in those days, so it was very difficult to find the person who abandoned the baby. In fact, if Xiao Shichu had not said that she had just returned from the store and had the clerk to testify, the police might have suspected that the baby was hers and that she wanted to abandon it, but might have regretted it later and gave up.
Xiao Shichu had no idea that she almost became an unscrupulous mother who abandoned her baby. Of course, if she knew that she was suspected, she could easily get rid of the suspicion by showing the police the evidence that the original owner was infertile during the marriage examination.
The abandoned baby was a boy who suffered from a serious heart disease. This was probably the reason why he was abandoned. After all, many baby girls are abandoned these days, but baby boys are very rare. They will only be abandoned if they have serious health problems and their families have no money to treat them.
Xiao Shichu sent the baby to the hospital, told the police, and left. Anyway, she fulfilled her obligations to call the police and provide rescue, but she had no obligation to stay and take care of the baby boy.
Unexpectedly, a few days later, a policeman called the clothing store to find Xiao Shichu and asked her if she was willing to adopt the abandoned baby boy.
Xiao Shichu quickly refused: "No, I have no intention of adopting him, and with my current income level, I can't cure his heart disease. Police comrade, you should find a more affluent family to adopt him."
The policeman sighed and said, "His heart disease is not very serious now. As long as he is well taken care of and takes some medicine and conservative treatment, he can live a long time. And we know that you, Miss Xiao, went to an orphanage some time ago and expressed your intention to adopt a child. We thought that instead of adopting those children who are several years old and have memories, you might as well adopt an ignorant baby, so that he can regard you as his biological mother in the future... As for his heart disease, the current medical technology is not advanced enough, but in a few years or more than ten years, his heart disease may be easily cured, so you don't have to worry too much."
Xiao Shichu refused firmly: "Comrade police officer, I have actually given up on adopting the child, not just because he has a heart disease. I am alone now, my parents have passed away, and I have a clothing store to run. I simply don't have time to take care of a baby, let alone a sick child who needs careful care. If I adopt him but cannot take good care of him, wouldn't that harm him? So comrade police officer, you should find someone else."
The police had no choice but to find other adoptive parents for the child as Xiao Shichu refused so firmly.
Wang Fang was listening to Xiao Shichu's conversation with the police. Her eyes sparkled with curiosity. She asked Xiao Shichu, "Boss, it sounds like the police want you to adopt a child? What kind of child is it?"
"I picked up an abandoned baby from a trash can in an alley near my home a few days ago. The police couldn't find his parents, but they didn't have the heart to send him to an orphanage, so they wanted to ask me if I wanted to adopt the baby." Xiao Shichu said. The conditions for adopting a child were not very perfect back then, and the law did not give very detailed regulations, so it was much easier to adopt a child now than in the future.
"Oh my God, it was thrown into the trash can! What kind of parents are so cruel? If you don't want the child, it's okay to put the child on the street. At least people will find him. Putting him in the trash can means you really don't want the child to survive." Wang Fang said in shock.
"Yes, if I hadn't happened to pass by that day and had sharp ears and heard the baby's weak cry, he would have died." Xiao Shichu said with a cold expression, "The child had a heart disease, and maybe his parents thought he would definitely not survive."
"How cruel! Even if your own child is sick, you should find ways to save him. Why just throw him away?" Wang Fang said angrily, "If we knew who threw him away, we would arrest them and put them in jail!"
(End of this chapter)
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