Chapter 109 Bai Yueguang 3
Chapter 109 Bai Yueguang 3
An took the sheets out of the washing machine with great effort, then stepped on a small stool and hung the sheets on the clothesline with great effort.
Clara came out of the kitchen with a scarf tied around her neck. Seeing Ann staggering, she frowned and scolded, "Damn little mouse, if you drop the sheets on the floor, you won't have dinner tonight!"
Washing sheets wastes water and electricity, and stingy Clara would never allow such rework to happen.
Ann hunched her shoulders and tried to keep her balance.
After finally drying the sheets, An shook his sore shoulders, carried the bucket into the bathroom, then took out a rag and began to wipe the floor on his knees.
Clara looked through the kitchen glass and saw the little girl kneeling on the floor working diligently. She nodded with satisfaction and praised her own cleverness again.
God knows how long she has been troubled by all kinds of tedious housework. Her husband Edric and two children are not considerate at all and never think of helping her with any work.
It wasn't until she went to visit her neighbor Mrs. Smith and saw the girl she adopted preparing snacks for the guests like a little bee that Clara suddenly had an idea: could she also adopt a girl to help her with housework?
All you need to do is provide shelter and a little food and you can get a free laborer.
Children in Country A can go to school for free before they turn 18, and they only need to pay for school lunch.
In addition, the state provides adoption subsidies to families that adopt orphans every month, and after deducting some necessary expenses, there is still a lot of surplus left.
When the child is eighteen years old, she can earn money to supplement the family income.
A good deal!
Clara browsed for information about orphanages online, and after convincing her husband Edric, the couple went to the Spring Orphanage in the neighboring state.
And just like that, An was adopted by them.
Ann knew that she had been abandoned at the door of the orphanage, and Mrs. Amelia never hid such facts from the children. So when Clara used her fake kindness to persuade Ann to go with her, Ann agreed.
She longed so much for a mother.
The little girl who was full of hope for the future didn't expect that when she returned to her home in State J, Clara had changed.
From then on, washing clothes, mopping the floor, washing dishes and cleaning the toilet became the work of this five-year-old girl.
In State J, the government does not require parents to send their children to kindergarten. The only requirement is that they must go to school at the age of six.
As for whether the six-year-old child should go to the last year of kindergarten or the first grade, it is up to the parents to decide.
Ann told herself that when she turned six, she could go to school and no longer have to do housework all day.
Ann had just finished mopping the floor when Edric came back with the two children.
Clara's son Nick is 13 years old and is in junior high school, and her daughter Laura is 10 years old and is in elementary school.
Nick saw Ann, sweating all over, holding a rag, and yelled to her, "Oh my God, there's a little mouse here!"
Laura was amused by Nick's strange appearance and joined in the fun: "Nick, aren't you a hero? Why don't you kill this little mouse?"
Nick laughed out loud when he heard this, jumped and kicked An. An quickly dodged to the side, and Nick's kick missed and he fell to the ground.
"what!"
Nick lay on the ground screaming in pain, while Laura stood beside him and laughed.
Clara came over angrily and twisted Ann's arm fiercely: "Damn it, who told you to hide?"
An was startled by the pain. She trembled and dared not hide, her big eyes filled with tears.
Edric had already sat down at the dining table and started eating, ignoring the noise over there.
Nick got up unhappily, pushed Ann to the ground, and limped to the dining table.
Laura threw her schoolbag on Ann and said, "Little mouse, put my schoolbag away!" Then she sat down on the chair.
Clara rolled her eyes at Ann and headed towards the kitchen.
Ann wiped her tears, got up from the ground, put Laura's schoolbag in her room, then walked to the chair in the corner with her head down and sat down, watching her adoptive parents and their family eat dinner.
After they had eaten and drunk their fill, An took a bit of a sandwich from the table and started eating it in the corner.
At night, the little girl lay on the small bed in the storage room and fell asleep with tears in her eyes.
The next day was the weekend, there was no school, and Edric didn't have to go to work.
The whole family was sleeping in, but Ann had already gotten up and started doing housework.
Just because her adoptive parents didn't get up, the little girl had no breakfast and could only mop the floor on an empty stomach.
Clara made it a rule to mop the floor twice a day.
"Ding dong!"
The doorbell at Clara's house rang, and Ann saw a woman through the video doorbell.
She opened the door and asked cautiously, "Excuse me, who are you looking for?"
As soon as Bai Lian saw the little girl's face, she realized that it was her daughter.
She suppressed her excitement, squatted down and looked at the other person at eye level, and said softly, "Hello, I'm here to visit Mrs. Black."
Clara Black was the name of Ann's adoptive mother, and her adoptive father was Edric Black.
An looked at the woman's Asian face, which was similar to hers, and her heart suddenly started beating faster.
This woman...
Before Ann could answer, Clara's voice came from behind: "Who is it?"
Bai Lian looked at Clara and smiled: "Hello Mrs. Black, I am..."
She looked at An: "The mother of this little girl."
In the living room, Clara sat on the sofa with a grim look on her face. Edric had just been woken up by his wife and was in a daze with a confused look on his face.
Nick and Laura sat on a stool nearby, secretly observing the Asian woman sitting opposite her mother.
"Please have some water." An carefully placed the cup of water on the coffee table in front of Bai Lian.
Bai Lian said to An gently, "Thank you."
An stared blankly at Bai Lian, his fingers unconsciously clicking the corners of his clothes.
She likes this woman.
Clara frowned: "Ann, come here!"
Ann shrank back, came to her senses, and slowly walked to Clara. Clara raised her hand to pick up the teacup on the table, and Ann subconsciously dodged.
Bai Lian narrowed her eyes. She stopped beating around the bush and said directly, "Mrs. Black, I'm here to take my daughter away. I hope you can help me."
When An heard this, his eyes lit up and he looked at Bai Lian expectantly.
Clara was very unhappy. She had spent a lot of time and energy to find Ann, a qualified "little servant". Now that she had trained her, how could she let her go so easily?
Clara smirked and said, "Mrs...., Ann is the child I adopted from the orphanage. Mrs. Amelia said the child has no parents. How can you prove that you are her mother?"
Bai Lian smiled: "So, I will take this child to the hospital for a paternity test later. After the results come out, I will have someone send you the report."
"You mean to take Ann away today?" Clara was furious. "Impossible! You can't take her away!"
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