The Grandmother in the Siheyuan

Chapter 128 Both sons and daughters
Yi Zhonghai seemed to be thinking about something. In his opinion, the Liang family was extremely poor, even worse than the Jia family. So why did they live in such harmony and without so many troubles?

Just when he was expecting Liu Hua to give him an answer, Liu Hua suddenly changed the subject and asked, "Why don't you adopt a child?"

Yi Zhonghai fell silent. How could he dare to adopt a child as he had too many concerns.

After a long while, Yi Zhonghai shook his head and said, "It's not safe. There was a man in the next street who adopted a child. Later, the child grew up to be useless. After he died, he was found to be smelly."

Liu Hua smiled and said, "There is an idiom to describe your mentality, which is "a person who chokes and then stops eating". Because you choked once, you simply won't eat again in the future."

"afraid."

These two words are enough to show Yi Zhonghai's mentality. He only has one chance to take care of his old age, and there is no possibility of trial and error. If he really adopts an ungrateful person, the rest of his life will be in trouble.

"Why can't you compare yourself with good people?" Liu Hua asked back, "What you saw was an unsuccessful adopted son. Aren't there any successful and filial ones?"

"You've heard of the storytelling, the heroes of the Ming Dynasty." Liu Hua asked with a smile, "Mu Ying, was posthumously named the King of Qianning. He was Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son. He fought for Zhu Yuanzhang and guarded Yunnan. When Empress Ma died, he vomited three liters of blood. And Ping Baoer, Ping An, was also Zhu Yuanzhang's adopted son. He was loyal to Zhu Yuanzhang's grandson."

Yi Zhonghai stopped talking, and Liu Hua continued, "That's far away. There are also near ones. Our organization has been established for so many years, and many martyrs have sacrificed their lives heroically. Many of their children have been adopted by their comrades-in-arms. Now they have become successful people, and they are filial to their parents and serve the country."

"So you mean we must educate them well?"

Liu Hua clapped his hands and said, "You hit the nail on the head. Because none of the people you meet know how to educate their children, you assume that if you adopt a child, he will definitely be an ungrateful person. Whether he is an ungrateful person or not depends on how you educate him in the future."

Yi Zhonghai asked: "How was it educated?"

Liu Hua is still a child. He doesn't have his own children, so how can he know how to educate? Yi Zhonghai was speechless. After thinking for a long time, he finally said, "I don't know how to educate him either, but you have negative examples around you. You can't make the same mistakes as the Liu and Yan families. This is at least half the battle. If you learn from the Liang or other families, it shouldn't be difficult."

"So according to what you said, the only option left for me now is to adopt a child."

Liu Hua shook his head: "In fact, you have come to this point today. You don't blame anyone but yourself. You get along with everyone with a purpose, and your purpose is not pure."

"I have no choice." Yi Zhonghai complained: "Who is willing to support an old man who has no blood relationship with him for no reason?"

"Wrong, it should be said that who is willing to support an elderly person who has no relationship with him for no reason, not blood relationship."

Liu Hua shook his head: "If you can really live up to the high moral standards that Liu Haizhong talked about, there is an old saying that goes "Respect the old as your own, and the old of others as your own; respect the young as your own, and the young of others as your own." Then you won't have to worry about your old age."

"I have little education, so don't lie to me."

Liu Hua laughed: "There is no benefit in lying to you. What this means is that while respecting and being filial to your own elders, you should also respect and care for other elders. While caring for and nurturing your own children, you should also care for and nurture other people's children."

"When you can do this, everyone around you will regard you as a person who deserves respect and filial piety. Your kindness will infect the people around you, and they will also respect the elderly and children of others." "Wasn't I like this before?"

Liu Hua shook his head: "Think about it yourself, is this true? Apart from saying a few nice words, what else have you done? You scheme against everyone. Everyone says Yan Fugui is good at scheming, but he can never outsmart you."

Yi Zhonghai thought for a moment and said, "Since all of you say I should adopt a child, then I will adopt one. There is no other way to go anyway."

Yi Zhonghai stood up somewhat dejectedly. This was absolutely different from what he had imagined. In his opinion, this was definitely a very bad idea.

Liu Hua walked him to the door, and when he was about to close it, he suddenly said, "Let me remind you one last thing. Since you are ready to adopt a child, then don't treat the child with calculations. Treat him as your own child, love him, educate him, and train him, instead of treating him as a tool for your old age."

Yi Zhonghai thought about it and nodded: "I understand."

"You can adopt two. You can raise them anyway." Liu Hua smiled and said, "If you have more children, even if one is not filial, at least there is another one. If both fail to succeed, then that's your problem."

After Yi Zhonghai returned home, Aunt Yi stared at her husband, eager to get some useful information from him.

Who knew that Yi Zhonghai was still sitting at the table smoking, his face changing from gloomy to bright. After a while, he said, "My dear, please prepare yourself. I will ask around in the next two days to see if I can adopt two children."

Aunt Yi was extremely excited. After waiting for so many years, she finally got what she wanted. Although Jia Dongxu used to call her "master's wife", it was not as nice as someone calling her "real mother".

"Old Yi, can you adopt a boy and a girl?" Aunt Yi asked tentatively, "People say that daughters are like little cotton-padded jackets that stick out to your body. Since you're adopting a child, why not have both a son and a daughter?"

Yi Zhonghai was quite tempted, but he still said worriedly: "We have to find out. It has to be a good kid."

"No rush." Aunt Yi said happily, "Don't rush, it won't be a problem if you choose one in a year or two."

Looking at his wife's smiling face, Yi Zhonghai felt a sense of guilt. It's not that his inability to have children was his fault. He once secretly went to Tong Ren Tang to ask the doctor on duty to take his pulse, and the doctor didn't say that there was anything wrong with him.

But he had a lot of affairs when he was young, for example, he and He Daqing were like-minded, but no woman gave him a child, so this is a confusing debt.

What he felt guilty about was that his wife had asked him to adopt a child countless times, but he had stubbornly refused. His wife had smiled less and less in the past two years, and this might be the reason.

It is the 30th day of the twelfth lunar month, which is a holiday. In the past two years, it has been advocated not to celebrate the Spring Festival and to contribute more to the construction of the motherland.

So this year's Spring Festival means getting off work early on December 30th, taking a rest on the first day, and going back to work on the fourth day.

Although the workers had some complaints, everyone was the same, so there was nothing to complain about. After all, even the factory leaders insisted on working until this day, and everyone had a day off, but the leaders had to be on duty on the first day of the new year. Thinking of this, they felt much more balanced.

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