"I won't hide this from you. You will know it sooner or later anyway."
Zhao Youde picked up the wine, took a sip, and continued: "When you were divorced, there were a lot of people talking about it. After all, everyone has heard of divorcing your wife, but divorcing your wife also divorces your children, at least in our Huai'an County This is unheard of. The secretary of our county government happens to be from the same clan as Lin Wenxiao, and he can be regarded as Lin Wenxiao's uncle. He once approached the Lin family because of this matter, hoping that the Lin family would recognize the child so as not to ruin the Lin family's reputation."
Mingxi was speechless after hearing this.
She almost forgot that in ancient times, the concept of clan was very strong and bloodline was highly valued. If someone in the same clan abandoned a child, the elders of the clan might indeed intervene.
Zhao Youde said: "Secretary Lin is old and very stubborn. He has always wanted Lin Wenxiao to claim his child back. Today you came here to inquire about the procedures for registering a female household. Secretary Lin also knew about it, and he even went out of his way to call me." He said hello and said that he was holding off the children in advance and that he would go to the Lin family to discuss it. He must not let the children change their surnames, otherwise the Lin family blood would be left out, and outsiders would definitely think that the Lin family was mean, ungrateful, and ruthless. "
Zhao Youde sighed as he spoke, put down the wine glass in his hand, and said to Mingxi: "He is the secretary, and I am the clerk. He is overpowering me. As long as he doesn't let go, I can't help you." ah."
Ming Xi thought for a while and said calmly: "In such a big county government, how can he cover the sky with just one hand as a clerk? Uncle De, you have been here for so many years, I believe you must have a way, give me a trick Bar."
She looked at her three daughters and whispered: "Lin Wenxiao is unkind and unjust. In order to please his new love, he kicked us out of the house, regardless of the life and death of our mother and daughter. With such a cold-blooded and ruthless father, how can I do that?" Don't worry about letting my daughter go back? Don't blame me for being a villain. I'm really afraid that his new love will think my daughter is a hindrance and throw my daughter away, sell her, or beat her to death. I'm afraid I won't know anything about it."
Ye'er and Manjing were so frightened that they couldn't eat even if the table was full of food, and looked at Mingxi eagerly.
"Mom, we don't want to go back..."
Ming Xi comforted her: "Don't worry, my mother will definitely not let you go back if she is here."
Zhao Youde considered it carefully and said slowly: "Uncle Zhao has told me about your difficulties. We also had a rough discussion at the county government just now. Changing the surname... can be done, but we can't do it now."
Ming Xi felt happy, but still had a worried look on her face, like a helpless little widow, and asked: "Why? If we can't do it now, when can we do it?"
Zhao Lizheng coughed twice and said in a deep voice: "As long as Shuban Lin deliberately suppresses it, this matter will not be done, so... we need to wait for a turn of events."
"A turning point?" Ming Xi asked puzzledly, "Are we going to wait for the clerk named Lin to change his mind?"
Zhao Youde said: "The real person in charge of the county government is the county magistrate. Not long after our county magistrate took office, he had to take care of his family and his child fell ill, so he was very busy for several days and had no time to come to the county government. After the county magistrate and the magistrate's family have settled down, I will report your case to him. The magistrate loves the people like a son and will definitely uphold justice for you."
Mingxi thought this was too unreliable. By the time they settled down, the day lilies were already cold.
Besides, to what extent is a good settlement? What if the county magistrate's child died of illness?
Ming Xi didn't mean to curse her. In fact, the child mortality rate in this era is surprisingly high. An average family has five children, and it is considered good to be able to support three.
"Uncle Youde, what should I do if Lin Wenxiao is persuaded by the clerk during this period and really wants to take my child back?" Mingxi couldn't help but ask.
Zhao Youde and Zhao Lizheng looked at each other and remained silent for a while.
In their view, even if Lin Wenxiao made many mistakes, as long as he repented and reformed, the children of the Lin family should naturally return to the Lin family.
Mingxi doesn't expect to change their minds.
She didn't think that Lin Wenxiao would suddenly recognize his daughter with a burst of fatherly love. Even if he did recognize his daughter, it would definitely be for the sake of face and reputation.
Such a profit-seeking person will not really treat children well.
Mingxi put down her chopsticks and touched Xiaoxue's little head next to her, feeling a lot of emotion in her heart.
This is her youngest daughter, only five years old. She is as small as a three-year-old child. Manjing and Ye'er are also much smaller than their peers.
The old lady of the Lin family thought her granddaughter was a loser. Ever since Xiaoxue was born, she had not allowed her three children to have enough to eat. Every time there was a little more rice in the bowl, the old lady would bang her chopsticks and curse, so the three children learned early. Look at people's faces.
Especially Ye'er, who is obviously only ten years old and should be at the age of innocence, but she is taciturn and full of worries, and she started worrying about her livelihood early on.
Although Mingxi has only raised them for two days, she already has feelings for these three children.
Ask her to give the child back? Absolutely impossible.
There was silence at the dinner table for a long time, with only Zhao Chuanbao and Xiaoxue cooking without any distractions.
Mingxi watched them eat. After a while, she asked, "What disease does the magistrate's child have?"
"I don't know, it's a high fever that won't go away." Zhao Youde replied, "The doctor prescribed medicine. Every time I pour the medicine in, it will have some effect. But the child is small after all, and the medicine is so bitter that even adults have to squeeze it when drinking it. Nose, if I give it to a child, he will spit out more than half of the bowl after drinking it. It has been repeated for two or three days."
Zhao Youde also has a child, so he was very sad when talking about this matter, "I heard that our newly arrived county magistrate has already lost a child, also due to illness. After the second child was born, he loved it like a baby. When I think of it again...well, I can only say that it is fate."
Ming Xi had an idea in his mind, turned it around in his stomach a few times, turned it to his mouth, and said after careful consideration: "I have a medicine here that is specially designed to treat high fever in children. It has an excellent antipyretic effect, and it is not bitter, like As sweet as sugar water.”
Zhao Youde's eyes widened after hearing this, "Can there be such a magical medicine?"
Mingxi smiled, "Didn't I just say that I have a way to make money? It's selling medicine. The details are still being discussed with my family, so I didn't publicize it. However, I heard Uncle Youde talking about the county magistrate's child. I have a high fever, and this disease is exactly what the medicine is doing to me."
Zhao Youde couldn't restrain his excitement. If he could really cure the illness of the county magistrate's young master, not only would Mingxi's affairs be accomplished, but he would also be able to claim credit in front of the new county magistrate!
"What's the name of this medicine? Is it really effective? How confident is Madam Ming?" Zhao Youde asked three times in quick succession.
Mingxi replied: "If it only reduces the fever, I'm 100% sure, but I'm not a doctor after all. If this child's high fever is caused by other diseases, even if my medicine can stop the high fever, it can only stop it for a while, well, How about this..."
Ming Xi stood up and said, "No matter how much you say, it's useless. You guys eat first and wait for me for a while. I'll get the medicine."
Zhao Youde got what he asked for, "Okay, okay, go quickly, as long as you can get the magic medicine! I will take care of everything for you!"
Ming Xi smiled when he heard this, bowed, walked out of the private room, then found a deserted corner at the back door of Fuxing Restaurant, and called out the super artificial intelligence butler Youyou.
"Youyou, order me a bottle of children's ibuprofen suspension."
