"Those documents have to go back to Yu State, nothing we can do about them here."
"Alright then, I'll go with you. I was actually planning a trip to Yu State today anyway. I've already ordered a bunch of ingredients—I need to show off some skills for the kids at the welfare institute."
"Virtue City doesn't have a welfare institute?"
"It does, but not a children's welfare institute. The local welfare homes are all for elderly folks with no family or disabled people who have trouble getting by. The clans here have an unwritten rule: even if a kid becomes an orphan, their clan raises them. If someone sends an orphan child to a welfare institute, it's a huge disgrace to the whole extended family, like their entire lineage has fallen apart. Even if they're not related by blood or surname, someone will still take them in."
Cai Qidong hadn't spent much time in Nanwu County, so there was a lot he didn't get about the local ways.
