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Light rain fell on a spring day and it was blown diagonally by the breeze, and the raindrops fell on the window gla.s.s, gradually converging into bits and pieces, sliding down the gla.s.s.

Nine-year-old Xiao Fan stood by the window, looking at the drops of water on the gla.s.s. His eyes were indifferent and his expression was numb.

Xiao Fan was a secondary latent trauma patient.

A month ago, Su Yutan brought him out of his native family and brought him to the Xinhai Children"s Welfare Center.

Xiao Fan"s real name was Jin Renjie.

In the third week after coming to the Child Welfare Center, he gave himself a new name, “Duguofan.” He said that he was an ordinary person and could not be a “human hero”. He also said to call him Xiao Fan in the future.

Xiao Fan"s father was Jin Shihao, and his mother was Wu Ziyan.

They originally operated a gym, but three months ago, the gym closed down.

Now Jin Shihao and Wu Ziyan were in a divorce lawsuit.

They had no property left to fight. The reason for not being able to get together well was that neither of them wanted to raise their son after the divorce.

They quarreled from the house to the Social Affairs Bureau and to the court. They all said that having a child was the other"s idea. After the divorce, they forced each other to raise the child.

They accused each other of not wanting to raise children because they were afraid of delaying their search for their second spring. But when it came to themself, they could find many reasons to shirk from the responsibility of raising the child.

The judge will not grind with such people, and imposed a verdict on them. At the same time, he deprived them of the custody of their child, punished them with punitive high maintenance tax and transferred Xiao Fan"s custody to the government.

The punitive high maintenance tax and the punitive high maintenance fee were the same.

The only difference was that the “Maintenance tax” was the tax paid to the finances, while the “Maintenance fee” was what the actual guardian paid to the child.

The maintenance period of the “Maintenance Tax” was the same as the period of the maintenance fee payment. It starts from the deprivation of custody and ends when the child reaches the age of 18. The specific tax payment amount had a more complicated algorithm.

The existence of the “upbringing tax” was to deal with people who only care about themselves and don"t support their children, such as Jin Shihao and Wu Ziyan.

After the guardianship was taken over by the government, Xiao Fan could choose to live in a child welfare center or choose to enter the adoption process.

If he chooses to enter the adoption process, the Social Affairs Bureau would screen out suitable registered volunteers to meet with him. If both parties were willing, they could sign an adoption agreement.

If Xiao Fan gets adopted, his adoptive parents could get a government subsidy.

The amount of subsidy would not be too high or too low, so as not to make people rich, but it could dispel the financial concerns of some people and increase their willingness to adopt.

So now, Su Yutan needed to ask Xiaofan. “Do you want to stay in a child welfare center or do you want to be adopted?”

Xiao Fan seemed to not hear her, and continued to look at the drops of water on the window gla.s.s.

Su Yutan did not urge him to answer, she stood beside him and patiently watched the raindrops with him.

After a while, Xiao Fan suddenly said, “Do you know why I like to watch the rain on the gla.s.s window?”

Su Yutan looked sideways and smiled slightly, “Because the rain on the gla.s.s window is like the tears in your heart?”

Xiao Fan turned his head and looked at her in surprise, “How do you know?”

“I guessed it. Was I right?”

“Yes!” Xiao Fan turned his head and looked out the window again, his expression returned to an indifferent manner, “In the past six months, I often wanted to cry but I couldn"t do so. Every time I saw these raindrops flowing down the gla.s.s, I felt like it was the tears flowing down my throat. The feeling of tears in my heart is really uncomfortable.”

Su Yutan stretched out her hand, rubbed his shoulder, and said softly, “It will be fine. When the sun shines in your heart, those tears will slowly evaporate.”

Xiao Fan was silent for a while, and then asked, “Aunt Su, why do people have children?”

Su Yutan contemplated as this question was difficult to answer.

She thought for a while and then replied cautiously, “The reproduction of offspring is a biological instinct engraved in our genes, and is the fundamental guarantee of the endless nature. The most primitive motivation for having children is to pa.s.s on our genes.”

Survival and reproduction were the two main themes of life.

“But my parents had me for not the reasons you said.” Xiao Fan said indifferently, “They had me to compare with others.”

“Who said this?”

“They said it when they quarreled. Because other people have children, they also wanted to have a child; because others were showing off their baby, they wanted to have a cuter baby and show off. Unfortunately, I was not smart and cute, and couldn"t satisfy their heart which wanted to show off. I let them down…”

These thoughts were lingering in his mind for a long time. Xiao Fan faced the gla.s.s window full of water droplets, and finally poured his heart out.

He said, his mother always thought that he looked ugly and his father always thought that he was not clever enough.

He added that his spiritual level is only 7%, and his master talent is only Grade B, far from the standard of a genius, which has disappointed his parents.

He continued that his parents got him admitted to various cla.s.ses and made him learn this and that. He worked hard and was not the worst, but his parents always compared him to the best children. If he couldn"t get better than them, they were disappointed.

His father often said, “Just a dumb child like you, what can you do in the future?”

His mother always said, “Can"t you learn from x.x.x? Look at him, then look at yourself, do you know how much the gap is?”

They often poke his head and said, “You are stupid! You are not smart. If you don"t work hard, you can only ask others for food in the future.”

From time to time, they pulled his ears in his ears and said, “Do you know how much I paid for you? Why are you so dumb? Why do you make me so angry? How can you deserve us?”

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