Chapter 72 I Don't Want to Raise Someone Else's Child
Tan Xiyuan glanced at Lu Feng, noticing his expressionless face and wondering what the old lady wanted to say, and felt a little uneasy.
After she sat down on the single sofa next to Lu Feng, she asked, "What's wrong, Mom?"
"It's like this, your cousin's wife had another daughter. She has too many daughters, this is her fourth one. She doesn't want to raise her anymore and wants to give her away. So I went to talk to her and asked her to let you raise this daughter. Your cousin's wife agreed."
"What?" Tan Xiyuan was momentarily stunned. "Why are you letting us raise my cousin's daughter?"
The old woman glared at her and said sarcastically, "Why? You can't give birth, and you still have the nerve to ask why!"
Hearing the old lady say that, Tan Xiyuan got angry and retorted, "Even if I can't have children, I won't raise other people's children!"
Upon hearing this, the old lady trembled with anger and pointed at Tan Xiyuan, saying, "You ungrateful wretch! Who am I doing this for? Isn't it for the two of you? Tell me, how old are you? When are you going to stop causing trouble?"
As she spoke, the old lady softened her tone, "Xiao Yuan, just listen to your mother this once. There's a saying in our area that you should adopt a child as a 'prelude' so that you can get pregnant. Most of the people who don't have children who adopt children get pregnant. I'm doing this really for your own good."
"Mom, you said that's the majority, but what if we're the minority? Anyway, I still stand by what I said, I don't want to raise someone else's child!" Tan Xiyuan couldn't help but say.
"Pah, pah, pah..." The old lady quickly spat a few times and said angrily, "You can eat whatever you want, but you can't say whatever you want. How can you even curse yourself? How do you know you can't have children if you don't raise them? Or are you hiding something from me?"
Tan Xiyuan didn't want to argue with the old lady, so she turned her face away.
Seeing that Tan Xiyuan ignored her, the old lady became even angrier and scolded Lu Feng, "Lu Feng, look at your wife, what kind of attitude is this? She can't have children and she still thinks she's right? Of the three unfilial acts, the greatest is to have no offspring. If this were ancient times, a woman like her who can't have children would have been divorced long ago. How can she be allowed to act so presumptuously here!"
Over the years, the old lady had urged Lu Feng to divorce her more than once, but Lu Feng was adamant and insisted on having her, which finally made the old lady give up.
Just as Tan Xiyuan was about to argue with her, Lu Feng said, "Mom, stop arguing. I don't want to raise that child either."
"Why?" The old woman's voice trembled with anger. "Are you trying to drive me to my death?"
As she spoke, the old lady's eyes reddened, and she pounded her chest, crying, "What sins have I committed? My son is disobedient, and my daughter-in-law can't bear children. This is going to wipe out the Lu family line! How can I face the ancestors of the Lu family when I die!"
Seeing that his mother's words were becoming increasingly absurd, Lu Feng quickly comforted her, "Mom, what are you saying? We're still young, we can definitely have more children."
“You’re almost 40, still young? Your cousin’s child is already in high school, and you don’t even have a child. I’m ashamed to stay at home, you know? People are laughing at us behind our backs, saying we must have done too many bad things to be able to have children…”
"Mom, don't listen to their nonsense. I promise you, I will definitely have a child."
Hearing Lu Feng's confident tone, Tan Xiyuan couldn't help but look up at him, and the image of the woman in the photo suddenly flashed into her mind.
Is that woman pregnant?
The moment the thought crossed Tan Xiyuan's mind, she panicked.
"What's the use of you agreeing? It's not like you can't have children," the old woman said, crying.
Lu Feng patiently coaxed, "Okay, Mom, don't cry. I said it would happen, and it will happen. Just relax."
"Really?" The old lady looked up at Lu Feng with a skeptical expression.
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