Tan Xiyuan glanced at Lu Feng and saw that there was no expression on his face. He didn't know what the old lady wanted to say, and felt a little nervous.
After she sat down on the single sofa next to Lu Feng, she asked, "What's the matter, Mom?"
"It's like this. Your cousin's wife gave birth to another daughter. She has too many daughters, and this is already the fourth one. She doesn't want to raise her anymore and wants to give her away. I went to discuss it with her and asked her to give this daughter to you to raise, and your cousin's wife agreed."
"What?" Tan Xiyuan was unable to react for a moment, "Why do you want to give our cousin's daughter to us to raise?"
The old lady glared at her fiercely and said sarcastically, "Why? You can't give birth, and you still have the nerve to ask why!"
Hearing the old lady say this, Tan Xiyuan got angry and said, "Even if I can't have children, I won't help others raise children!"
When the old lady heard this, she was so angry that she trembled all over. She pointed at Tan Xiyuan and said, "You ungrateful guy, who am I doing this for? Isn't it for you two? Tell me, how old are you? How long are you going to keep doing this?"
The old lady softened her tone and said, "Xiao Yuan, just listen to me this time. We have a saying where you can adopt a child as a "primer" so that you can get pregnant. Most of those who don't have children get pregnant after adopting a child. I'm really doing this for your own good."
"Mom, you said that's the majority, but what if we are the minority? In short, I still say the same thing, I don't want to raise someone else's child!" Tan Xiyuan couldn't help but say.
"Puh, puh, puh..." 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 curse yourself? If you don't raise the baby, how do you know you can't have one? Or are you hiding something from me?"
Tan Xiyuan didn't want to argue with the old lady, so he turned his 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's her attitude? She can't give birth, and she still thinks she's right? There are three kinds of unfilial behavior, and having no offspring is the worst. If this happened in ancient times, a woman like her who couldn't give birth would have been divorced long ago. How can she be allowed to be so presumptuous here!"
Over the years, the old lady has urged Lu Feng to divorce her more than once, but Lu Feng was firm in his attitude and insisted that she give him up, so the old lady stopped.
Tan Xiyuan was about to argue with her when she heard Lu Feng say, "Mom, stop arguing. I don't want to raise that child either."
"Why?" The old lady's voice trembled with anger, "Are you trying to piss me off to death?"
As she spoke, the old lady's eyes turned red, and she beat her chest and cried, "What sin have I committed? My son is disobedient, and my wife can't give birth. This is going to make our Lu family extinct. How can I face the ancestors of the Lu family when I die?"
Seeing that his mother was getting more and more unreasonable, Lu Feng quickly comforted her: "Mom, what are you talking about? We are still young and we will definitely be able to have a baby."
"You are almost 40 years old and still young. Your cousin's children are already in high school, but you don't even have a child. I am too ashamed to stay at home, you know? People are laughing at us behind our backs, saying that we must have done too many immoral things, so we can't have children..."
"Mom, don't listen to their nonsense. I promise you that I will have a child."
Hearing Lu Feng's affirmative tone, Tan Xiyuan couldn't help but look up at him, and the woman in the photo suddenly flashed in his mind.
Is that woman pregnant?
As soon as this thought came to his mind, Tan Xiyuan panicked.
"What's the point of your promise? It's not like you can't have a child." The old lady said crying.
Lu Feng patiently coaxed her, "Okay, Mom, don't cry. If I say yes, then yes, so just put your mind at ease."
"Really?" The old lady looked at Lu Feng with doubt.
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