Chapter 1249: Chapter 1254: Mischievous Child
In the United States, the governnt can decide to revoke parental custody over a child and send the child to a welfare institution.
Now, what Yang Yi and the others have to do is to pick up Chris and Sandra’s child from the welfare institution.
Picking up a child late at night is typically impossible, but with Yang Yi, not being able to do such things is what’s truly unbelievable.
Sandra and Chris couldn’t wait any longer, and they appeared very nervous. When a staff mber led out a sleepy-eyed boy, Sandra imdiately rushed forward and tightly hugged her son.
As for Chris, he simply stood there, watching Sandra and his son embrace, while he dumbly didn’t know what he should do.
Anton lightly coughed, pushed Chris two steps forward, and then said to the seemingly ten-year-old boy, “Hi, hello Rick, this is your mother, and this is your father. Now, congratulations on your family reunion, father and son reuniting, congratulations!”
Anton started applauding. In their sowhat silly way, Yang Yi and the others imdiately began following suit.
The reunion of father and son after a long separation is not sothing Yang Yi and the others were familiar with, so they really didn’t know what to do. But when Anton said to applaud, although it felt a bit crazy, they just followed suit and applauded.
“Are you my dad?”
Chris squatted down, tears starting to flow down his face, and he tremulously said, “Yes, child, I am your dad!”
“I thought my dad was dead?”
After Rick asked his mom, the atmosphere was sowhat awkward, but it’s understandable, right?
Chris’s smile stiffened a bit, and then he said very warmly, “I’m not dead, I’ve co to find you. Sorry…”
“Hey, jerk, stay away from and my mom, you’re all…”
This brat.
Well, a boy around ten years old could be very well-behaved and very cute, but unfortunately, the odds are really low.
A boy around ten years old is more likely to be a brat, and Sandra doesn’t seem like she could teach a child well, so, very unfortunately, Chris’s son is an ill-mannered and annoying brat.
Chris was sowhat shocked, while Sandra imdiately covered her son’s mouth, saying awkwardly, “Sorry, I’ve spoiled him a bit too much…”
Rick forcefully broke free from Sandra’s hand and loudly said, “Stop covering my mouth hard! Doing this is child abuse! This is a welfare institution, do you want to lose custody because of abusing ?”
Another bout of awkwardness ensued, and the staff mber discreetly turned his head away.
Anton lightly coughed twice, then said to Yang Yi, “I’m suddenly thinking, um, this…”
Yang Yi nodded, “I know what you want to say, maybe we’re thinking wrong. Soone hitting this child might not necessarily be trying to abuse him, but just attempting to educate him a bit, so our revenge… could maybe be reconsidered.”
Chris compressed his lips tightly, and Sandra took her son’s hand, saying in a low voice, “Alright, let’s leave here.”
Rick impatiently shrugged off his mother’s hand and loudly said, “Let go of , every man you choose is a jerk. If he is my father, why didn’t he take care of ?”
The question stung a bit, although Chris was very dissatisfied with his son’s bratty behavior, he really couldn’t explode over it.
Sandra patiently said, “It’s all in the past, it’s all past. Let’s go, let’s leave here first.”
“You just don’t want to believe ! That jerk hit several tis! I told you but you just wouldn’t believe , why wouldn’t I have scars on , because he held my head down in the bathtub instead of hitting hard leaving scars on my body, how foolish must you be to believe a jerk and not your son’s words?”
Rick still felt aggrieved as they were leaving, and at that mont, Yang Yi nodded, “Hmm, it sounds like this child isn’t hopeless, he seems to indeed have been abused.”
Rick continued, “We can rely on welfare, I can also accept free education, why must you choose to follow a jerk instead of finding a job yourself? Even if we just rely on welfare, it’s still acceptable.”
Sandra glanced at Chris and then awkwardly said in a low voice, “I just wanted to give you a better family environnt, initially, he didn’t seem bad.”
Finally, they walked out of the welfare institution, Yang Yi signaled Rick to wait in the car first, then he very seriously said to Chris and Sandra, “It sounds like it’s not that simple, now I want to make it clear, um, is your current boyfriend a jerk? Or does he just act impulsively because he can’t stand a child?”
Chris stared at Sandra, Sandra exhaled a breath, remained silent for a mont, then said in a low voice, “He is a jerk, um, he tricked with sweet words at first, making think he was soone I could rely on for a lifeti, so we lived together. He has a house but no job, while I don’t even have a house.”
Yang Yi said, “Do you need him to support your child and yourself?”
Sandra hesitated for a while, then still said in a low voice, “No, I work to support the child and also give him so money. He’s just temporarily unemployed, but the night before last I ca ho early from work and found him pressing Rick’s head into the toilet in the bathroom, with his other hand flushing it, I was furious, so I picked up the gun and pointed it at him to let Rick go.”
This ti Chris was truly angry, but he still couldn’t help but ask, “What kind of work do you do?”
Yang Yi knows, Anton knows, everyone knows Sandra’s job—except Chris.
Sandra said in a low voice, “Dancing, um, just dancing in the nightclub, that’s all…”
Yang Yi lightly coughed twice, “Okay, so this guy has no job and relies on you to support him?”
“We t at the nightclub, at first, I thought he had a good job, then I thought he was unemployed, but now I find out he seems to be dealing drugs… just small amounts, just to make so money to get by, and then he spends on won, oh God, how could I fall for such a man.”
After Sandra finished speaking, Chris’s face turned green.
Yang Yi was relieved, “Great, then we can get rid of him, right? Okay, get rid of that jerk.”
Chris also grit his teeth and said, “Get rid of him! Get rid of him! Get rid of him!”
But Sandra suddenly said, “Let’s not do that, although I hate him very much now, let’s not kill him, okay? He sheltered in my most difficult ti and even though now I hate him, I still am grateful to him before, hmm, at least he shouldn’t be beaten to death.”
Chris’s face turned even greener.
Yang Yi thought for a mont, “Okay, I know what to do, leave it to .”
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