Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

One day in June 1997, Yuan Jie took her 6-year-old son to the Qingyang People's Hospital.

She came to the hospital not for medical treatment but for a prenatal check-up.

Given the strict family planning policy, how could she dare to have a second child?

It's just because she and her husband Sun Aimin both belong to ethnic minorities, which meets the requirements of the family planning policy to have a second child.

Currently, she has entered the second trimester of pregnancy. In another three months, she will welcome her second child and feel the joy of being a mother again.

Today, her lover Sun Aimin needs to personally prepare a luxurious banquet at Qingyang International Hotel.

As the hotel's chef, he is well-known, and the host of the banquet specifically asked Sun Aimin to prepare the meal personally.

So today, Sun Aimin was unable to take leave to accompany his wife to the hospital for a prenatal check-up.

Yuan Jie is not pretentious. In fact, when Sun Aimin asked for leave to accompany Yuan Jie to prenatal check-ups in the past, Yuan Jie refused.

She didn't want Sun Aimin to delay his work because of these trivial matters, but Sun Aimin was always worried about her and concerned about any accidents.

Both of them have good jobs and love children. They also happen to have policy benefits for ethnic minorities. So when Yuan Jie found out that she was pregnant again, Sun Aimin was extremely excited.

If Sun Aimin wasn't afraid of hurting the baby in Yuan Jie's belly, he would have picked up Yuan Jie and spun her around a few times.

Among the family of three, only their son Sun Xiaohao was unhappy.

He didn't think this was good news. He was just worried that his parents' love for him would be taken away by another child.

So when Yuan Jie happily told Sun Xiaohao that he was about to have a younger brother or sister, Sun Xiaohao frowned and asked Yuan Jie a series of questions.

"Mom, if I have a brother or sister, will you and Dad still love me?"

"Silly child, how could your parents not love you? You will always be your parents' baby!" Yuan Jie patiently comforted Sun Xiaohao.

"Then when I want a toy in the future, will you buy it for me right away?"

"If it's a healthy and safe toy, Mom and Dad will try their best to satisfy you. But you're going to elementary school soon, so don't just think about playing and ignore studying!"

As Yuan Jie spoke, she took the opportunity to affectionately scratch Sun Xiaohao's nose.

"Will you still accompany me to the amusement park and eat all kinds of delicious food in the future?"

"From now on, when we go to the amusement park or eat delicious food, we will no longer be a family of three, but a family of four!"

Yuan Jie gently stroked her belly which had not yet bulged, and began to imagine all kinds of warm scenes of the four-member family together in the future.

However, Sun Xiaohao's concerns did not seem to be dispelled by Yuan Jie's answer.

Although he is still very young, he has already developed many petty ideas that are not appropriate for his age.

In fact, friends and relatives who have come into contact with Sun Xiaohao have pointed out Sun Xiaohao’s quality problems more than once, both explicitly and implicitly.

Yuan Jie's elder sister Yuan Rui once told Yuan Jie clearly that if Sun Xiaohao was not well educated now, he would most likely go astray in the future.

She attributed the reason to Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin's doting on Sun Xiaohao.

Why is it that this couple, who are kind to others, emotionally stable, and trustworthy, would raise such a picky, stubborn, and destructive child?

For example, Yuan Sihan, the daughter of eldest brother Yuan Heng, is three years older than Sun Xiaohao.

Normally, cousins ​​should be able to play together. Even if they are not close, siblings who only see each other a few times a year at family gatherings during various holidays should not have various conflicts even if they cannot play together.

But just last year, Sun Xiaohao's action made Yuan Sihan, who had always had a mild temper, completely angry.

What is the cause?

That day was the Mid-Autumn Festival. As an aunt, Yuan Jie treated the only girl of the third generation of the Yuan family with great affection.

Taking advantage of the opportunity that the school organized teachers to study in Hangzhou during the summer vacation, she picked out a very beautiful dress and an exquisite bow hairpin with colored diamonds for her niece.

The beautiful girl received such a satisfying gift. After giving her aunt a big hug to express her gratitude, she couldn't wait to go into the bedroom and put on her new dress.

The adults were all gathered in the living room chatting, while the other boys were playing video games together. Only Sun Xiaohao slipped into Yuan Sihan's bedroom when no one was paying attention.

No one knew what happened in the bedroom, but the adults and children outside the bedroom suddenly heard Yuan Sihan's crazy screams.

"Ah~~~Sun Xiaohao, I will kill you!"

When the adults heard Yuan Sihan's screams, they immediately rushed over and opened the bedroom door. The scene they saw was Yuan Sihan with disheveled hair, trying to strangle Sun Xiaohao in a rage.

The hairpin that Yuan Jie gave to Yuan Sihan was lying quietly on the ground, but it had been broken into two pieces.

Yuan Sihan was just eight years old at that time, at the age when she loved beauty the most. When she saw the bow hairpin given by her aunt, she loved it so much that she even planned to show it off to her good friends when she got home.

She could already imagine the envious looks in her friends' eyes, just like the last time she envied Lingling's beautiful princess dress.

But this joy only lasted half an hour before it was completely destroyed by Sun Xiaohao who sneaked in.

What’s even more hateful is that Sun Xiaohao not only took advantage of Yuan Sihan’s unpreparedness to snatch the hairpin she had just put on her head, but his other hand was also not idle. He stuck a large piece of bubble gum that could be chewed into threads into Yuan Sihan’s long hair and rubbed it hard with his hand.

She has had long hair since she was a child and asks her mother to comb her hair beautifully every day.

But because of Sun Xiaohao's prank, everything was ruined by that disgusting piece of bubble gum.

Yuan Sihan cried for a long time and no one could comfort her. The whole process was restored in the intermittent description when she finally stopped crying, with chubby eyes and choked with sobs.

Before, other boys in the Yuan family had been bullied by Sun Xiaohao.

After Sun Xiaohao did something bad, he would either be the first to complain, or he would cry, lie, and act like a spoiled child, and eventually get away with it.

Although the adults discovered some problems with Sun Xiaohao, he was only three or four years old at the time and no one thought too badly of him.

At that time, he had not done anything as provocative as he did on the Mid-Autumn Festival, at least he had not really shown it all to the adults.

Because he was used to acting like a spoiled child and was good at speaking, his cousins ​​suffered a lot and the adults did not take the fights between children too seriously.

For example, when Sun Xiaohao was three years old, he framed Zhang Sen, the son of Yuan Jie's second sister.

At the beginning, Zhang Sen thought that this was his younger brother, and his aunt and uncle had always been very good to him, so he also loved this little cousin very much.

While the adults were busy cooking and socializing, he took the initiative to coax his little cousin to play.

Without paying attention, Sun Xiaohao tore up the Three Good Students Award certificate of his cousin Zhao Ming from his aunt's family.