Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 1162: Eliminating Future Troubles 4

Chapter 1162: Chapter 1162: Eliminating Future Troubles 4

"Raising children to support you in your old age is like storing grain to prevent hunger. We foster children expecting that when they grow up, they will support us in return. Why should our grown children, who haven’t yet fulfilled their duties to us, be required to support you?" Lu Family’s father spoke with righteous indignation, his tone sharp and unyielding. "We’ve nurtured these two saplings, watered and fertilized them, taken care of them with great attention, and now you come to steal the fruits? Where is the sense in that? Let’s not even mention that Guan Cheng and Guan Yu have no memory of you; even if it were as you say, you would still need to repay your debt before taking them away!"

"Yes, yes, pay off the debt! Foster care fees, living expenses, pay back everything!"

"The two children were in a dire situation when they first arrived at our Wanglou Brigade. You need no reminder of how precious food was back then, do you? A single grain of rice could save a life! In such hardship, Qingxue was willing to foster these two children. Qingxue is their real mother! Guan Yu wasn’t wrong to call her ’aunty’ at all!"

"These kids don’t even recognize you, yet you insist they are your sons, and you want to take away the young men we’ve painstakingly raised to slave away for you. What wishful thinking!"

"You say you are their birth mother, right? Great, start by paying the foster care and living expenses then, ah, and don’t forget the tuition!"

Fury swept through the crowd, and Wang Xiangmei, with her chest heaving with anger, bellowed at them, "What business is it of yours? Mind your own!"

Wang Chenglong spoke coldly, "Can’t cough up the money and so you resort to anger? If you’re capable, don’t come pilfering other people’s fruits! If you want the fruit, pay for it; if you want the whole tree, roots and all, then pay for the watering and fertilizing. Not our business? Who says it isn’t our business? The children belong to our Wanglou Brigade, it’s definitely our business!"

As he spoke, Wang Chenglong cast a glance at Guan Cheng. What a fine child he was; why did he have such rotten luck? He had never seen these messes before, but now that he was grown and capable, troubles came seeking him one after another.

Not just Wang Chenglong thought this way, so did everyone else.

The Lu Family had struggled to raise these children to adulthood. Now that they were grown, she couldn’t have them, not even their birth mother.

They all understood that the Lu Family didn’t foster Guan Cheng and Guan Yu for the reasons the father stated—to have the children support them in old age. The Lu Family didn’t lack grandchildren; those who fostered children back then did so without expecting anything in return. It was just that Wang Xiangmei was too despicable.

When her in-laws were in trouble, even if she didn’t share their hardships, the children were still her own, right? Instead of properly caring for them, she abandoned them, and now that others had raised them well, she came back demanding they support not just her but also the brood from her remarriage. This was utterly preposterous, the most shameless thing imaginable!

Though people often gossiped about trivial matters, they were clear about right and wrong on major issues.

Wang Xiangmei spat toward Wang Chenglong and roared at Lu Family’s father, "I have no money. If I had money, would I be asking them to support me? I have neither money nor life to give. I must have them support me. If not, fine, I’ll head straight to the Revolutionary Committee to report that all of you, the same bad lot, harbor children of spies and saboteurs, undermining the revolution and causing great damage to the country!"

Everybody was immediately enraged.

She had been proclaiming herself their birth mother, but what kind of mother was this? She was clearly determined to ruin her sons!