"Your family only has this one child, so why didn't you send him to school earlier?" Jiang Xiaobai asked.
Chen Fang said, "His father broke his leg working at a construction site and can't go out to work anymore. Even in the fields, he can't help much. Our whole family, old and young, all depend on me alone. I really just can't afford it."
Jiang Xiaobai said, "All the more reason you should send him to school. He's the hope for your family's future, isn't he?"
"I understand all the big principles; I know I've wronged my kid. There was a time I even thought about giving him away to someone else, to a family in better circumstances, so they could send him to school and raise him."
"Mom, I'm not going anywhere." Yang Xiaoshui hugged Chen Fang tightly, forcing back his tears so he wouldn't cry.
Jiang Xiaobai said, "If someone wanted to take Shuiwa away, and his conditions were very good—he'd give you a large sum of money and would wholeheartedly bring Shuiwa up—would you agree?"
