Chapter 639: Chapter 640: Xiao’ai Wants You

Li Xiaoxia finished speaking, glanced at Su Shu’s expression, and found her looking perplexedly.

She sighed in her heart. Looking at her, it seemed like taking care of three children all by herself hadn’t really seemed troublesome to her.

In that case, it looked like the family who wanted to adopt Xiaopang would indeed need to put in some effort to make it happen.

Su Shu looked at Xiaopang, who was squatting on the ground playing, his head covered in sweat, and suddenly turned her head, “It’s already winter now, the weather is so cold, I can hardly take care of myself, how could I think about adopting another family’s child?”

Li Xiaoxia replied, “Loneliness.”

“Huh?”

“You’re still young, and you have Xiao’ai constantly buzzing around you. Now when you close the door, you have three children chattering at home, naturally you can’t empathize. When people reach middle age without children of their own, the couple might have looked at each other for over a decade, already getting tired of that, so naturally their longing for a child deepens.”

“But there are other families with children on this mountain, not just mine. Why has it been so odd recently, everyone’s eyeing my children?” Su Shu couldn’t understand this.

Talking about this, Li Xiaoxia also found it quite strange.

She hadn’t talked much about the matter, just simply shared the other party’s thoughts with Su Shu, as for what Su Shu thought about it, she could take her time to consider.

After all, such matters relied on mutual consent.

If Su Shu didn’t find raising children too burdensome, then continuing this way seemed just fine to her.

More children always meant more company.

After leaving the Luo Family and returning to her own home, Su Shu sorted out the things she had brought back.

She didn’t notice that Xiaopang had become much quieter since coming back from the Luo Family.

Xiao’ai, holding the Dinosaur King, stood at the door of the bedroom, watching Xiaopang droop his head as he climbed up the bunk bed and fiddled with the wooden dragonfly in his hands, his head bowed.

Lu Tong came over from the kitchen and seeing Xiao’ai standing at the door, couldn’t help but ruffle her hair.

“Why are you standing here and not entering the room?”

Xiao’ai pointed at Xiaopang, “He’s sad.”

Lu Tong took Xiao’ai by the hand into the room and closed the door behind him. From outside in the living room, the sounds of Su Shu busily cooking echoed.

Lu Tong picked up Xiao’ai and she obediently found a spot to sit down, her watery large eyes, however, remained fixed on Xiaopang.

Lu Tong sat beside her, “Xiaopang, what’s the matter?”

Ever since coming back from the Luo Family, he had been out of sorts.

Xiaopang rubbed his eyes, not uttering a word until Lu Tong asked a second time. Then he mumbled, “Lu Tong, Aunt Su doesn’t want me anymore.”

After he spoke, his eyes turned red-rimmed, and a shine of tears wobbled within them.

At these words, Lu Tong furrowed his brow, “Who said that?”

“… Xiaozhi and Xiaofu said it while they were playing.”

“They are just kids, you can’t trust their words.”

Though Lu Tong said this, Xiaopang’s words still involuntarily tightened his heart.

Since living here, Lu Tong slowly came to understand how difficult it is to raise a child in this day and age, let alone three.

Xiaopang clutched Lu Tong’s hand, “Is it because I eat too much, so Aunt Su doesn’t want me anymore?”

“Of course not,” Lu Tong said.

Whether it was or wasn’t the case, Lu Tong himself didn’t know.

Just like that, the three children fell silent in the room for a while.

Outside, Su Shu cleaned her hands, and laid out the meal.

“Time to eat!”

In the room, Xiao’ai stood up, walked over to Xiaopang, squatting down with the Dinosaur King in her arms, and said in her sweet, childlike voice, “Don’t cry, Xiaopang brother, Xiao’ai wants you.”