Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

The children were playing happily while the adults quickly prepared three tables of food. Fortunately, the house Sun Aimin rented was big enough, otherwise these tables would not have been able to accommodate everyone.

The children gathered at one table, the men drank and chatted at another, and the women gathered at another. Thinking about it, it had been a long time since the adults from the two families had gathered together like this.

The two families knew each other thirty years ago. At that time, it was a special period. Yuan Heng, the eldest son of the Yuan family, was only 14 years old and had just graduated from junior high school. According to the saying of that era, he belonged to the "old third class".

It was during this period that he went to the countryside, in Liuwangzhuang, where the Sun family lived. At that time, the Sun family took good care of him because he was young and frail.

Yuan Heng is of similar age to Sun Aiguo and Sun Aijun, and they are all honest people without any ulterior motives, so they got along well with each other at that time.

After the old couple of the Yuan family used their connections to transfer Yuan Heng back to the city, the whole family took the time to visit the Sun family to express their gratitude.

Later, although the two families lived in different places, they kept in touch through letters. The Yuan family also often bought some things that were hard to find in the countryside and mailed them to the Sun family.

The Sun family would also send some local specialties to the Yuan family, and the two families exchanged gifts and always maintained a good relationship.

The Sun family is said to be a family of craftsmen, and they will never starve anywhere, because they have things passed down in the family, and if they work hard, they can do it well.

But the Sun family seemed to be possessed by an evil spirit during that period of time. No matter what they did, nothing went well. In other words, as long as they wanted to achieve something outside the county, they would encounter some force majeure that shattered their beautiful dreams in an instant.

In the end, the Sun family simply lived in peace for a long time and no longer took those seemingly simple but thorny paths.

But living in the countryside like this means that life is hopeless. Originally, the two brothers Sun Aiguo and Sun Aijun had a strong desire to leave the countryside, but due to financial constraints, they could only make a living by running small restaurants and village banquets.

Although their lives have improved and the money they earn is relatively considerable in the countryside, it is actually far from their original vision.

When his younger brother Sun Aimin grew up, his family wanted to find a different way out for him, letting him see more of the outside world and strive to make a difference.

So, they contacted the Yuan family in Jiangjin City, hoping that they could help find a job or livelihood that would be suitable for Sun Aimin so that he could transition there temporarily.

The Sun family had their own considerations as to why they did not send Sun Aimin to Qingyang City but to Jiangjin City, several hundred kilometers away.

They suspected that the family's previous failures in going to Qingyang City were due to someone secretly obstructing them. Although they had no evidence and had attributed it to the possibility of being "possessed by evil spirits", the speculation that it was artificially set up was more realistic.

The Sun family racked their brains but had no clue about the dark hand hiding in the dark.

It is not that they have never had any grudges against anyone. For example, when they were still surnamed Qin, they had a feud with Mr. Sun's second uncle and his wife. The cause was that Mr. Qin wanted to sell the ancestral medicinal recipes to pay off his gambling debts.

Sun Aimin's grandfather refused his brother's request. Not long after, the family restaurant caught fire. Old Master Sun's hard work was destroyed, and he died soon after due to anger.

Later, natural disasters struck again, so Sun Aimin's grandmother took her two sons and left the village to come to Liuwangzhuang. In order to avoid being remembered for her medicinal recipes, she changed her name and lived there ever since.

Ever since their family left their hometown, there has been no news of the second master of the Qin family.

No one knew about this matter except the Sun family, including Yuan Jie, who had never heard of it.

None of the recent generations of the Sun family had learned Chinese medicine, so the book of medicinal diet recipes was facing the embarrassing situation of being lost.

Thirty years later, Mr. Sun was nearly a hundred years old. Knowing that he would soon die, he called his three sons and one daughter to his side and expressed his desire to donate the medicinal recipes to the country free of charge.

Not to mention that the recipe book has very high research value in traditional Chinese medicine after being copied many times, the original recipe book preserved by special methods has long become an antique of inestimable value.

However, the Sun family's children had no intention of making a profit by selling herbal recipes, and they all agreed with Grandpa Sun's idea. It was not until they completed the donation, it was reported in the news, and they were awarded a national honorary certificate that other people knew that the Sun family had such a good thing.

It would be a lie to say that it was not a pity. But if they did not donate, the medicinal diet would not be able to play its due value, and they were also worried that their descendants would suffer because of it.

The Sun family had analyzed more than once that the family's troubles might be related to this incident. Therefore, only by donating it in a big way could the people who once coveted it give up their bad intentions.

Yuan Jie only knew that the cooking skills of Sun Aimin's family were inherited from their ancestors. It was not until the Sun family donated an entire book of medicinal recipes that she learned that the Sun family had such a "treasure". However, as for the fact that the Sun family's ancestral surname was Qin, not only Yuan Jie, but even the younger generations of the Sun family such as Sun Qi did not know about it.

Although Sun Nanxing's full-moon banquet was not grand, the family still had a lively time behind closed doors.

After eating and drinking, everyone worked together to quickly clean up the mess and arranged everyone's accommodation.

Although the three-bedroom, one-living-room house is not small, it can't accommodate so many people. With so many people, there is not enough room no matter how we arrange them.

Except for the old couple, the rest of the Yuan family stayed at Sun Aimin's house until about eight o'clock in the evening, and then followed Yuan Rui back home. The rest of the family also occupied the bedroom and living room of Sun Aimin's house, and sleeping on the floor was a common practice.

Yuan Jie looked at the full house and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion. Because of that long dream, she seemed too far away from such a scene.

At night, Yuan Jie's family of four lived in one bedroom. After coaxing the two children to sleep, Yuan Jie mysteriously took out a stack of manuscript paper from the bedside table.

Sun Aimin's curiosity was aroused, and he leaned over and asked, "What did you take?"

Yuan Jie shook the manuscript in her hand and said, "Good stuff! This is the result of my hard work during my confinement. You must read it carefully and try to engrave everything on it in your mind!"

Sun Aimin was puzzled. He took the manuscript and started flipping through it one by one. He saw portraits of people one after another, with basic information such as name, gender, and approximate age marked on them.

When he first started looking, all Sun Aimin saw were unfamiliar faces, but after flipping through seven or eight of them, he saw “familiar faces”.