Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse-Chapter 463 - 458 Xie Jinghong’s Troubles 13

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"Wife, how is Baozhen? Could it be..."

"It’s all your fault, all your fault! These past few days, our daughter has gone to school only to be mocked to her face by her classmates and teachers, and when she goes to practice singing, people stare and laugh at her with disdainful eyes!

And that’s not all. When she comes back, she still has to listen to your mother talking about adopting out for a son, as if she hasn’t been driven crazy by your Fan Family. If you, Fan Fengshou, were to burn incense, you’d be lucky!"

I accepted that they say I can’t bear children. Now, Fan Fengshou himself has caused himself to lose half his fertility, reducing the chance of having children by half; this can’t be blamed on me.

But why must we adopt out? I still have a daughter!

"Wife, wife, calm down. About this matter, I will have a good talk with mother. If you don’t want to adopt out, then we won’t, alright? In the future, in the future, we can have Baozhen find a husband who will marry into our family."

"Fan Fengshou, what are you saying?" Li Xiaoxia was tightly hugged by Fan Fengshou, and her flailing motions ceased because of his words. She finally paused and looked up at his face which had become even more handsome over the past ten years, asking in disbelief—

"Xiaoxia, I mean it. Since you don’t want to adopt out, if we really can’t have more children, then, we’ll let Baozhen bring in a husband to marry into the family, alright?" Fan Fengshou was only willing to compromise repeatedly when it came to his biological daughter.

Even if he was reluctant deep down, he was still willing to discuss it.

My wife had a miscarriage unexpectedly within a year of giving birth to our daughter, and after that, there was no more news. I know that. Back then, neither of us knew she was pregnant. It happened after we were together, and she had painful stomach cramps, so we called someone to take her pulse only to find out that she was pregnant, but due to her fragile body, the pregnancy didn’t last, and she miscarried.

Therefore, over the years, Fan Fengshou never doubted his wife’s ability to conceive, nor the lies she told him.

"Don’t just talk the talk! Go and make it clear to your mother, tell her you don’t want to adopt out! Don’t end up blaming me in the end!" Li Xiaoxia was still young, and couldn’t detect the reluctance in Fan Fengshou’s tone.

Perhaps she did detect the insincerity in Fan Fengshou’s words, but she chose to go along with it nonetheless.

"...Okay." Fan Fengshou nodded, helped his wife to sit down properly, then rubbed his face and forced a placating smile at her.

He had just stepped out of their room when he saw his mother hurriedly approaching. Seeing that the room was open, she spoke quickly with a shocked and flustered expression:

"Fengshou, quick, come and look at Baozhen, is she feverish? I called her twice, and she didn’t respond, so I opened the door, and who knew, when I pushed the door open, I saw her red-faced, lying on the bed—" ƒrēenovelkiss.com

Li Xiaochun hadn’t finished speaking when Li Xiaoxia heard her, panicked and pushed past her husband’s figure, rushing into the room across from her mother-in-law’s.

Indeed, as she entered her daughter’s room, she saw her daughter’s face flushed red. With alarm on her face and tears streaming down, she screamed, "Fengshou, hurry, go call for a car, our daughter has fainted from a fever!"

Fan Fengshou had wanted to go in and check on his daughter first, but hearing his wife’s words, he was startled into clarity, pushed his mother aside, and dashed into the living room to grab the telephone to call his elder uncle.

His elder uncle’s house wasn’t far from their new house, and most importantly, his elder uncle had a car!

The distance to the town hospital wasn’t close, but it would take too long if he had to carry her himself.

In all the chaos, Li Xiaochun even forgot to tell her son that his eldest sister-in-law’s family had come back, and even his mother had taken the children back to her home.

Clearly, to completely resist what that old woman said.

Since there was still Xie Jingchen in the Xie Family, most importantly, in this area, adopting out a child was no joke; it involved opening the ancestral hall to worship the ancestors, and couldn’t just be settled with mere words.

So, if there was an adoption, not only did the child’s maternal family need to send someone over, but the adoptive new mother’s maternal family had to send someone as well!

Like a handover ceremony, all the members of the mother’s family would come, and after the adoption, the child would no longer owe their birth parents gratitude; they would only owe the adoptive parents who raised them.

Yan Jinsu and the Xie Family didn’t know that the Fan Fengshou family had already descended into chaos without having yet contacted them.

After dinner, Yan Jinsu sent the uncle’s family home. She only kept her father and her second sister’s husband and directly questioned the former in private about what was going on with Uncle Fan.

"Brother Jiefang, we are all one family, and don’t blame me for being nosy. If your Fan Family wants my second sister to adopt out a child, you have to let our maternal family know what exactly is happening with your brother Fengshou, right?" Yan Jinsu spoke about serious matters; if there really was an adoption, her maternal family would have to agree.

Otherwise, the adoption wouldn’t be considered complete, and even if the names were changed in the family register, if the children’s maternal grandparents didn’t recognize it, there would be many disputes to argue about later.

Fan Jiefang was asked such a question by his sister-in-law from his wife’s family, and he looked like he had swallowed a bitter gourd, unable to respond with a word, as he turned a difficult look towards his father-in-law: "..."

Xie Tiesheng thought that his eldest daughter’s husband was waiting for his endorsement, so he replied as if it were expected: "Your aunt’s words just represent what I want to ask you too. Speak straightforwardly."

Hearing this, Fan Jiefang started to treat Yan Jinsu differently.

His father-in-law wasn’t just any ordinary rural old man; the fact that he could be a village accountant for so many years without a single villager speaking ill of him evidenced his successful conduct.

At the very least, the villagers all trusted him, which was no simple matter.

"Dad, and you second aunt, this matter... to bring it up, it really is a family disgrace." Fan Jiefang hesitated for a good while, his face turning red from holding back, before he managed to get out a sentence.

Outside, Xie Jinghong had been listening for a long time, and seeing that her husband was still silent, she burst in, letting out everything she knew in a flurry:

Then she turned her head away woodenly, no longer looking at the embarrassed and speechless Fan Jiefang, instead watching her second sister hysterically crying and scolding:

"Dad, if I have to adopt Xiao Xian out, then, then I’d rather not stay with him!" After speaking, Xie Jinghong glared at Fan Jiefang with a face full of grief and anger, and "plop", she knelt before her biological father, crying out:

"Dad, this time, I cannot compromise! Do you remember why I gave birth prematurely to Er Qiang and Xiao Xian? The Fan Family may have forgotten, but I, Xie Jinghong, will never forget it in this lifetime!

Dad——"