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Chapter 885 Sweet pastry

As he spoke, Li Dongling couldn't help but look at Yao Luoying's abdomen. It was said that during these days in Quancheng, Han Liuping had been preparing nourishing meals for Li Dongling and Yao Luoying every day.

Seeing Li Dongling's gaze, Yao Luoying knew what Li Dongling was thinking. She spat at Li Dongling lightly, and then looked at the security guards and Zhixing Foundation personnel waiting on the side.

Yao Luoying tied her hair up and put it behind her head. She didn't want these people to follow her around.

"Maybe the road is bumpy, let's go to Zhuti first, wait until we see the little tangju, then go back to Hanxi and go to the hospital!"

Seeing that Yao Luoying insisted on doing so, Li Dongling had no choice but to get in the car and rush towards Zhuti.

……

When Li Dongling and Yao Luoying were rushing towards Zhuti, quarrels broke out in a house in a village in the town below Zhuti.

"We certainly want to raise our daughter, Pepe, but our family conditions don't allow it!"

"You are Pepe's mother, so this girl is the most suitable match for your aunt!"

“I raise him, you don’t know what my family situation is like!

Besides, the fields and oxen left by her grandparents were all taken away by your family. You took all the benefits, but Peipei doesn’t want to keep them. Do you want to eat them and wipe out the whole family?”

"Who are you talking about? Her grandpa went to the hospital, who paid for it? It was my family, so those things belong to my family!"

Hearing the sounds of arguing coming from outside, a little girl of three or four years old was heard wearing old clothes that obviously didn't fit her well, and the cuffs were much longer than her arms.

The little girl tightly held the hand of the old woman who was lying on the bed, with gray hair and a frail look.

"Don't be afraid, grandma is here!"

The old woman on the bed spoke to the little girl in a hoarse voice with some difficulty in her throat.

"Grandma, Pepe is not afraid!"

The little girl spoke in a crisp voice, but the old woman could feel from the palm of her hand that the little girl was trembling a little at this time.

"Grandma is sorry to your father and mother for not being able to raise you and watch you get married in a bridal sedan..."

The old woman stroked Pepe's little cheek with her rough palm, and tears flowed from her eyes.

Those outside are all relatives of the Yang family. Yang Peipei's parents had a car accident while traveling a few years ago, and Yang Peipei has been raised by the old couple, that is, Peipei's grandparents.

But this year, the old woman and her husband, who had worked hard all their lives, finally couldn't hold on any longer. Grandpa Pepe passed away first, and now the old woman is bedridden, at the end of her life.

Today, the old woman called all the relatives of the Yang family to come and arrange the funeral. She is now becoming more and more unable to do it. She doesn’t know when she will not wake up. What worries her most is the girl Pepe.

But the old woman also heard the quarrel outside. These relatives of the Yang family wanted the few acres of land, the old house and the oxen that they left behind, but they didn't want to raise Pepe.

On the one hand, the relatives of the Yang family did not live a well-off life, and those with many children in their families also lived a tight life.

On the other hand, Pepe is a little girl, and the current customs are different from those in later generations. If it were a boy, then after a few years, when he has enough strength, he would be a strong labor force and could share the pressure.

But Peipei is a girl and cannot be relied upon in the short term. She will get married in the future, which makes the relatives of the Yang family unwilling to adopt Peipei.

"Grandma, don't cry!"

Pepe used her little hands to wipe away the old woman's tears. The old woman looked at Pepe and said, "Let them go back first!"

"Auntie, aunt, grandma asked them to go back first!"

Pepe opened the door and walked out, saying to the people outside that the ones who had the fiercest quarrel just now were Pepe's aunt and cousin.

Seeing Pepe, Yang Hongmei and Deng Suzhen both changed their expressions. Yang Hongmei glanced at Deng Suzhen and said to Pepe, "Pepe is such a sensible girl, yet there are still people who despise her!"

"Yang Hongmei, stop slandering me. Who dislikes Pepe? Our family is just poor and we're afraid we can't raise Pepe well!" Deng Suzhen jumped up and cursed.

"enough!"

"Why are you arguing in front of our daughter?"

An elder from the Yang family who was called over today to act as the decision maker, seeing that no result could be reached today, let all the relatives of the Yang family leave first.

Taking one last look at Yang Peipei, the elder of the Yang family sighed helplessly and rubbed Peipei's hair, which was a little dry and yellow due to malnutrition. "Nannan, go take care of grandma first!"

……

Just an hour after the Yang family's relatives left, several dusty off-road vehicles stopped at the door of Pepe's house. After Li Dongling got off the car, he could tell from the outside that the Yang family's situation was not very good. In fact, not only the Yang family, but also the village where the Yang family lived, had a not very good economy.

The roads we just came from were quite bumpy, and there were no factories to be seen. In addition, the roads had not been repaired, so the crops grown in the fields could not be produced in time. This meant that local farming was basically based on subsistence, and naturally they could not make much money.

Hearing the noise, Pei Pei came out of the house. Seeing that the person coming was Yao Luoying, her eyes suddenly turned red and she ran towards Yao Luoying, "Sister!"

Looking at Pepe falling into her arms with her little face covered with tears, Yao Luoying couldn't help feeling distressed and gently stroked Pepe's hair.

Li Dongling looked at the little girl Pepe. She was not well dressed but very clean. Her face was a little thin, which made her eyes look very big. Looking at this girl, Li Dongling couldn't help but think of the Li family's eldest princess Li Dongyue when she was a child. At that time, Li Dongyue was also like a little follower, following Li Dongling every day.

"Sister, Grandpa is gone and Grandma is sick!" Pepe sobbed and said to Yao Luoying.

Although Peipei didn't spend a long time with Yao Luoying, for her, the days she spent with Yao Luoying were the happiest days she had ever had since she was a child and could remember.

Yao Luoying didn't expect that so many changes would happen to the Yang family in less than half a year.

"Be good, Pepe, don't cry..."

As she spoke, Yao Luoying looked at Pepe's clothes and her face, which was obviously thinner than after she left, and her brows couldn't help but frown.

Turning to look at the head of the charity department of the Zhixing Foundation in southern Yunnan, Yao Luoying asked, "Didn't Pepe distribute daily necessities before?"

Yao Luoying did not leave any money to Pepei. Given the current situation of Pepei and her grandparents, they would definitely not be able to keep the money, and it might even bring them trouble.

So before leaving, Yao Luoying asked the Zhixing Foundation to leave a lot of clothes, food, daily necessities and other supplies for Pepe.

After hearing what Yao Luoying said, the staff of the charity department of Zhixing Foundation looked at Pepe's clothes, which were obviously ill-fitting, and were also a little surprised. "We did leave a lot of supplies, and it was the relatives of the Yang family who picked them up on behalf of Pepe's family..."

At this point, the charity staff member immediately shut his mouth. Doing charity is like working in a hospital, both of them involve facing human nature directly, and human nature is something that cannot stand the test.

How much of the supplies that the Zhixing Foundation gave to the Yang family ended up in the hands of Pepe and her grandparents? I guess only the relatives of the Yang family who handled them know.

"Let's take your grandma to the hospital first!"

Yao Luoying rubbed Pepe's little face and said, but Pepe shook his head, "Grandma doesn't want to go to the hospital, saying it's a waste of money."

Yao Luoying and Li Dongling looked at each other and walked into the house. They saw the old woman lying on the bed. When they heard that she was going to be sent to the hospital, the old woman waved her skinny hand and said, "No need. I know what I've gotten myself into!"

"I just can't help but worry about this girl Pepe!" The old woman said with concern as she looked at Pepe.

"We will take good care of Pepe, you take care of yourself first!" Yao Luoying said softly to the old woman.

After leaving the house, Li Dongling looked at the road outside and said to Yao Luoying, "Please ask the town to send a doctor over. Otherwise, with her current health and the road conditions, she may not be able to make it to the hospital!"

"It's mainly Pepe, who will take care of him in the future!"

The staff of the charity department of Zhixing Foundation looked at Pepe and said with some concern that her grandmother's health was obviously poor and she was not going to last long.

When the old woman passes away, the question becomes who will raise Yang Peipei until she grows up.

If Yang's relatives are unwilling to raise Pepei, then he may be raised by some charitable welfare organizations. However, those social organizations can only keep the people in there alive to the minimum extent possible. How they live in there, their future development, etc., all depends on luck.

"The best way is for the Zhixing Foundation to pay a monthly maintenance fee and let the Yang family's relatives take care of the child..."

"I don't want to live with them. They don't like Pepe, and Pepe doesn't want to be with them!"

Pepe, who was being fed tangerines by Li Dongling, never stopped talking, but his little ears were also erect. At this time, he stood up, grabbed the corner of Yao Luoying's clothes, and his little face showed an attitude of sunny turning into rainy.

Looking at Pepe's expression, Yao Luoying tapped Pepe's forehead helplessly, "Then who do you want to live with in the future..."

"I want……"

Before Pepe could finish her words, the gate was suddenly pushed open, and she saw the relatives of the Yang family who had left, but then came back again.

"I heard that a distinguished guest has arrived. Miss Yao and the Zhixing Foundation have come to our town!"

"Miss Yao, please come to our house. My husband is an expert at stewing chicken. We just happened to have some mushrooms that we picked today, so we will stew an old hen to entertain Miss Yao!"

"Go to our house. The mushrooms they pick are not authentic at all. We have wild game from southern Yunnan. I guarantee you will be satisfied!"

Yang Hongmei, Deng Suzhen and all the relatives of the Yang family were trying hard to invite Yao Luoying to their homes as guests.

The last time Yao Luoying came, she brought a lot of supplies, and these Yang family relatives all got some. Given their living conditions, those supplies were a considerable income.
This is also the reason why Yang Hongmei, Deng Suzhen and others rushed over immediately after hearing that Yao Luoying was coming. They also felt that the issue of raising this girl Pepe might be changing!

(End of this chapter)