Back in the day, when times were tough, even a single piece of candy had to be split into several portions. But with so many children, the focus was always on letting the little ones have some, asking the older ones to yield, to the point where the older children rarely even got a taste.
Guangcai was right. Why couldn't he be considered a child? Who said candy was only for the little ones?
Blindly insisting that the older children give way to the younger ones—just like what was being done to Hu Guangcai now—was simply wrong.
Chapter 134