Chapter 1939 Child Bride
Chapter 1939 Child Bride
Qini subconsciously questioned, "We don't even have meat to eat at home, but the orphanage has meat to eat? And we can even go to school?"
Liu Ni took her hand and whispered in her ear, "Teacher Zhang told me that we should trust the teachers. The teacher also said that the orphanage only accepts children without parents, and if we go, we have to say that we don't have a mom or dad. Are you going?"
The maternal love that Qi Ni had experienced since childhood was not as tempting as the prospect of eating meat every day. When she saw Liu Ni was going, she immediately nodded and said, "Then I want to go too."
"Then it's settled, pinky promise, never to change for a hundred years!" Liu Ni stretched out her finger and made a pinky promise with her two sisters.
"And Xiao Jiu!" Ba Ni suddenly shouted, reminding her two older sisters that they had forgotten about Jiu Ni.
The sisters squatted on the ground, grabbed Jiu Ni's little hand, and made a pinky promise to keep the secret together.
The door creaked open.
Wu Ni stood outside the door, watching the girls squatting on the ground, and asked hesitantly, "What are you doing?"
"Fifth Sister! I can't bear to part with you!" Liu Ni rushed over and hugged her. They went to the orphanage, and they might never see Fifth Sister again.
Seven and Eight ran over and hugged Five.
Wu Ni hugged them tightly, tears streaming down her face. She was still a child herself and couldn't stop them from being sent away. All she could do was promise, "When you have new parents, your fifth sister will definitely come to see you."
Only Jiu Ni was carefree, sitting on the ground playing with the mud.
The village chief searched for half a month and only found one family willing to adopt Jiu Ni.
He sat helplessly in the main room and sighed to his sister-in-law, "Let's send Xiao Jiu away first." Xiao Jiu is the youngest and doesn't remember anything, so if we adopt her, we can treat her like our own. Qi Ni and Ba Ni are old enough to remember things, so people immediately refuse to adopt them, afraid that they'll run back home after they grow up, and all the effort will be wasted.
Suddenly, Qi Ni and Ba Ni knelt on the ground and kowtowed to the village chief, "Uncle, we want to go to the orphanage, we don't want to be separated!"
The village chief abruptly stood up from his chair, looking embarrassed. "You all know?" He turned to his sister-in-law. "What do you mean? Send them away or to an orphanage?"
The woman looked at Qi Ni and Bani in silence.
The two children knelt down and stepped forward, each hugging one of her legs, pleading, "Mom, please, we don't want to be separated, please send us to the orphanage." Although they were young, they were not stupid. The carpenter's family originally had a son and a daughter. The daughter died of illness and was arranged for a ghost marriage. Later, the carpenter's family adopted a girl, saying that they would raise her as their daughter. She did a lot of work every day, but she was still beaten and scolded.
Shi Hu rode on the girl all day long, calling her a bitch and his wife.
The girl couldn't take it anymore and ran home, but her parents didn't want her and kicked her out, so she jumped into a well.
The villagers pulled the body out of the water and then nonchalantly continued drawing water from the well to go home and cook.
Later they learned that this was called child bride, and they didn't want to be child brides! They didn't want to be used like horses!
An orphanage? The woman didn't speak, but frowned. Giving them away to others for a small fee means they can be reunited with their parents when they grow up. But if they're sent to an orphanage, they might never be found again.
Seeing how pitiful the children were, the village chief explained, "The orphanage specifically takes in orphans. If someone is willing to adopt a child, they will go to the orphanage to choose one."
The woman questioned, "But they're not orphans, so I doubt the orphanage would take them in."
“Your family had more children than allowed, and none of them are registered. Let them pretend to be orphans; that should fool the orphanage.” Seeing that she didn’t speak, the village chief sighed and said, “There’s really no other way; no one around here is willing to adopt a girl.”
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