Peaceful Farm Life

Chapter 328: Chapter 328: At This Rank, Still Dare to Compete with Her?_1

An Jing saw that Hehua still had no intention of selling the field and only wanted to let them adopt her child. She was again at a loss for words and felt that Hehua was hateful.

When she thought about her great-grandfather’s generation, the family was so poor that they even had to eat tree roots, yet they never gave her grandfather away.

Her grandfather, when he was a child, ate tree roots and wild vegetables with her great-grandfather for several years, foods that were hard to swallow, but her grandfather never bore any resentment against her great-grandfather. In fact, he always praised him to the younger generations, saying that a family should stay together no matter how hard life gets, and that suffering together was not a problem.

But now, looking at Hehua, who wasn’t in desperate straits, she thought about giving her child away...

An Jing truly looked down on Hehua.

An Jing watched coldly as the young woman knelt on the ground, continuously crying, ”Just give up that thought. We won’t keep your son. If you really want to adopt him out to someone else, I am sure there are many people in your village who would want him. There are many people in your village who have lost their children and are lacking a son to carry on their family line, they should be able to support your son.”

”No, no, no...” Hehua immediately shook her head, ”I don’t want to adopt Douzi out to them. I just want to adopt Douzi out to you.”

”What, you think my family is richer, so you want to send your Douzi here to enjoy the good life?”

Hehua was instantly at a loss for words.

Seeing Hehua like this, An Jing knew she had guessed correctly. They really thought she and her husband were easy marks.

”If you don’t want me to chase you out with a broom, then get lost!” An Jing didn’t want to waste any more words.

She couldn’t reason with someone who valued fields more than her own son!

Hehua jumped at An Jing’s sudden loud voice, but even after being startled, she still did not leave with Xiao Douzi.

Seeing this, An Jing had no more patience, picked up a broom, and started chasing her. Hehua, afraid of being hit, quickly took Xiao Douzi and left.

An Jing was utterly speechless. How could she still dare to challenge her with such status?

Only after she had closed the courtyard door and put the broom back in its place did An Jing embrace Xiao Changyi’s waist and say, ”Husband, if we ever have children in the future, even if our family falls on hard times, we will never give our children away.”

Xiao Changyi hugged her back, not mentioning that their family would never be so poor as to be unable to support their children, but instead nodded in agreement, ”Mm.”

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Six days later, An Jing and Xiao Changyi heard that Hehua had given Xiao Douzi up for adoption to Xiao Shengcai.

Xiao Shengcai and Niu Dahua’s son had died after drinking poisoned well water, and Niu Dahua, who was getting on in years, was afraid she wouldn’t be able to have any more sons, so she took Xiao Douzi as her son.

Since Xiao Shengcai was also a member of the Xiao clan, no one in the Xiao clan objected to Hehua adopting Xiao Douzi out to Xiao Shengcai to be his son.

Knowing this, An Jing just felt that Hehua was not fit to be Xiao Douzi’s mother, preferring to live a lifetime guarding those two acres of land rather than wanting Xiao Douzi, her own flesh and blood.

”Husband, let’s go check out our rice shop in the county. Since purchasing it, we haven’t been back to see what Meng Lanqing has done with it,” An Jing suggested.

”Mm.”

So An Jing and Xiao Changyi rode Zhuri to the county town.

Meng Lanqing did not do a major renovation of the rice shop but only made some simple repairs, so the rice shop looked a little newer than before but was otherwise unchanged.

However, seeing that Shi Xiaolan’s complexion was better than when she was at home and that she had become much more cheerful and less oppressed, An Jing felt much relieved.

She had always been worried that Shi Xiaolan would develop depression during pregnancy, but now it seemed unlikely.