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As Yan Jinsu walked in, she saw her mother-in-law sighing twice, which made her raise her eyebrows:
"Mom, are you feeling unwell?"
Yan Jinsu asked casually, then continued her task, smoothing out the blankets that her three little nephews had messed up, dusting them off first.
"What? Oh, Mom’s fine. I’m just worried about your second sister. I mean, she has three kids now, and to go through a marital crisis, isn’t that tearing my heart out!"
"What’s there to worry about, Mom? Don’t stress over it. If the second sister really can’t stand it anymore, then divorce is the answer. She’s still young; surely we can’t let the second sister adopt Xiao Xianzai over to that family, right? I think if the second sister really did the adoption, there would soon be a second time!"
"What?" Zhou Xiuhua frowned, pausing as she patted her grandson, and turned her neck towards Yan Jinsu’s direction, a puzzled look on her face as she asked.
"Mom, think about it. Fan Xiaodi can’t have kids and wants to adopt a child from uncle’s family, totally ignoring the fact that he has a biological daughter. Don’t forget, their second daughter-in-law has been married for five or six years now and still hasn’t had a child! It’s said she hasn’t gotten pregnant at all! She’s almost twenty-four or twenty-five now, right?" ƒrēewebnoѵёl.cσm
Zhou Xiuhua’s expression darkened upon this reminder from Yan Jinsu, and she looked at Yan Jinsu speechlessly for a while, "..."
Not hearing any response, Yan Jinsu looked back to see her mother-in-law somewhat shocked, while she continued to prepare the baby bottles and said with a shrug:
"Mom, don’t worry unnecessarily. As I see it, the second sister wasn’t wrong. Better to divorce than to adopt out, right?"
Zhou Xiuhua, knowing that her daughter-in-law was modern in her thinking and largely in step with the current times, always tended to take her advice. Seeing her say this, even if there were qualms in her heart, she was willing to listen:
"Mom, think about it, if it were you having to give away one of your own children, would you choose not to go through with it or to continue on? If you really had to continue, you’d truly have to give away the child you carried for ten months, right?"
"..." Hearing this kind of question, Zhou Xiuhua’s heart tightened, seeing little girl seriously looking at her, she pondered and after covering her heart and truly thinking, lately she indeed chose like Da Niu:
"I’d rather not continue!"
Hearing this, Yan Jinsu’s eyes lit up, and she happily agreed:
"Exactly, Mom, you wouldn’t want to abandon your own child, right?!!
Why must women be helpless or footless, why must we always obey men? Just for a husband’s phrase ’keeping the peace at home’? For his brotherly love? Must we sever the mother-child bond?
Which mother would be so foolish? Right!"
Zhou Xiuhua nodded, relieved that she wasn’t foolish.
Seeing her mother-in-law didn’t object, Yan Jinsu briskly sat beside her, soothing her while instilling a new concept:
"Mom, honestly speaking, the person most worth my support is the second sister, because she understands this!
The second sister isn’t foolish at all, she’s a good mother! For her children, she’s neither timid nor retreating! That’s the quality we women should hold onto!
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