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"You," as soon as Li Xiaochun saw Zhou Xiuhua coming out, with more of the Xie Family following behind, she paused mid-sentence and simply blurted out, not even using the polite term for in-laws, raising her voice and shouting:
"Old Lady Xie, what you’re doing isn’t right, even if my Fan Family’s grandson was born to your daughter, he is still my Fan Family’s grandson, they all have the surname Fan, and that’s how it should be wherever they go! I want to take my grandson away, why can’t I?"
"Aunt Fan, don’t think you can bully my mother because she doesn’t understand the law. Even if my nephews currently have the surname Fan, that can be changed!" Yan Jinsu gently patted her mother-in-law’s back to comfort her and then stepped forward, confronting Li Xiaochun.
A pair of large almond eyes held no threat in Li Xiaochun’s view.
As soon as Zhou Xiuhua saw the little girl, she felt reassured and immediately thought of her grandsons, glancing around and signaling her husband to go back to the west wing to check on the children.
Xie Tiesheng saw that Tie Dan was there, along with the Third Son’s Wife standing by, and sighed inwardly. He looked at his eldest daughter and came quietly, then left just as quietly.
As far as Zhou Xiuhua was concerned, this matter involved Da Niu’s marriage and it was her own business; no matter who else could leave, she couldn’t.
"What do you mean?" Li Xiaochun was intimidated by Yan Jinsu’s assertiveness and asked somewhat horrified:
"Who are you? Does your whole Xie Family plan to gang up and confront a poor old woman like me?"
"I am Xie Jingchen’s wife, Yan Jinsu.
Aunt Fan, we of the Xie Family, are civilized people, we won’t behave like shrews.
Let me kindly remind you, Fan Jiefang already came over the day before yesterday, our eldest aunt has said it too, the idea of adopting out the children, it’s absolutely not happening.
If you really want to adopt the grandson, well, our eldest aunt will not be your Fan Family’s daughter-in-law anymore, you have your eldest son come over, the two families can discuss divorce matters!"
Li Xiaochun, hearing Yan Jinsu’s self-introduction and realizing who she was, staggered back a step, dumbfounded for quite a while, and then, unsettled, turned to look at Xie Jinghong with a face full of bewilderment:
"You’re divorcing Jiefang?"
The tone was one of disbelief.
Not just Li Xiaochun who couldn’t believe it, but if any village woman or aunt came over, they wouldn’t believe it either!
Why?
Because Xie Jinghong had already borne three children for Fan Jiefang! With the old-fashioned views of the time, how could divorce even be brought up!
Moreover, in that era, there wasn’t a notion of settling divorces through lawsuits; usually, if the father was present, the male children followed their biological father, there was no second option.
There’s a separate discussion for widows.
"I said it, there’s no way for adoption. If I, Xie Jinghong, have to exchange a child, I’d rather not be a daughter-in-law to your Fan Family!"
"You!" Li Xiaochun was infuriated, pointing at the unafraid and resolute Xie Jinghong, and mockingly cursed:
"Xie Jinghong, don’t think that just by saying this, I’d be afraid of you! If you want to leave, do you think my home’s Jiefang would still keep you? Do you think that by divorcing, you could take away my Fan Family’s children? Dream on!"
"Aunt Fan, the biological mother has the right to exercise ’guardianship’ before the child reaches the age of five! Most importantly, the child has the right to choose whom they wish to live with!
And you, though you are Xiao Xianzi’s biological grandmother, don’t have the right to take over their guardianship when both of the child’s parents are alive and well!"
Yan Jinsu waved her hand dismissively, and with a smile on her face, she enlightened Li Xiaochun with some legal knowledge, seeing Li Xiaochun’s face of ignorant confusion, she continued to drop another bombshell:
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