Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Things have come to this point, and even if Qian Niandi cries to death, it won’t solve the problem.

Zhan Dayou consoled Qian Niandi on the phone and said, "Xiaoshu is fine, don't worry, he got lost while going to the toilet and was brought back by the conductor.

When we catch your trafficker, Xiaofei should be able to be found as well. I'll ask your uncle to buy a train ticket now. If he can't buy the fastest ticket, I'll have them drive to pick you up."

When Qian Niandi heard that Qian Xiaoshu had returned to the Zhan family and Qian Longfei was now the only one left alone, she felt a little more relaxed.

She thought that Xiaofei was smart and pretty, and even if she was trafficked, she should be popular and safe for the time being. As long as they found the two traffickers as soon as possible, they would be able to find Xiaofei's whereabouts.

Soon, Zhan Dayou told his family about the phone call and arranged for his two sons to rush to Wenxi City to pick up Qian Niandi and bring her home.

Zhan Baoku agreed readily, saying that he would drive away right away. However, Zhan Baoyu was frowning, showing no joy at all for his niece being found home.

Old Lady Zhan noticed that her second son was abnormal and asked, "Second son, what's wrong with you? Did something happen to you?"

Zhan Baoyu had a bitter face and did not answer Mrs. Zhan's question. Instead, he said, "Go pick up Nian Di first, and we can talk about other things after you come back."

He recently went to the hospital for a full body checkup, and as expected, he got the worst result. Yes, he was diagnosed with leukemia.

He didn't give up and went to another hospital for examination, but the result was the same.

A few years ago, my eldest brother died of leukemia. My parents cried their hearts out at that time. Even now, the old couple still can't help feeling sad when they see Tingting, the daughter of my eldest brother.

If they knew they also had this disease, would they still be able to bear it? Oh, let's talk about it later.

Because Tingting lost her father at a young age, the Zhan family had always treated her well and did not drive the mother and daughter away just because they lost their son.

Zhan Tingting is now twelve years old. Her father Zhan Baoliang was diagnosed with acute leukemia and died in just three months. Zhan Tingting was only five years old at that time.

Two years after Zhan Baoliang's death, his wife Wu Chunfang found a new husband and remarried, but she was still a member of the Zhan family's interest chain and relied on the Zhan family for her livelihood.

Zhan Dayou and his wife were worried that their eldest granddaughter Zhan Tingting would be wronged if she lived with her stepfather, so after their eldest son remarried, they let Zhan Tingting stay and live with them.

So, the Zhan family has quite a few children now. Granddaughter Zhan Tingting, granddaughter Qin Xin (also known as Zhang Ling), and grandson Sun Xiaohao all live in the Zhan family.

At the beginning of the year, Zhan Baoku and his wife welcomed their first child, who is now eight months old. They named her Zhan Yingying and are also taken care of by old lady Zhan.

Zhan Baoyu is 29 years old now. Among Zhan Dayou’s children, only Zhan Baoyu has no children yet.

It would be easy for them to bring back a son to raise. But Zhan Baoyu was unwilling to do so. First, he did not want to raise a child who was not his own blood. Second, he felt that he was still young and had no problem with fertility.

Seeing that his father, Zhan Dayou, had lived to be almost seventy years old and had no family hereditary disease, he had a certain sense of luck and thought that he should not be so unlucky. There must be exceptions. Why couldn't he be that exception?

In this way, although the matter of him and his wife having children was important, they did not seem to be too anxious.

But when he learned the diagnosis, he was really anxious. He was still so young, was he going to die like this? His elder brother at least left a descendant, but he was going to be childless like this?

He was really unwilling to accept that his short life came and went in a hurry, leaving nothing behind.

Perhaps, time is running out for him and it is too late to have a child of his own. So, he can only take another risk before he dies, so that at least there will be someone to carry on the family line.

These thoughts have been lingering in Zhan Baoyu's mind for the past few days. He thought that as soon as he brought his niece back to the Zhan family, he would immediately tell his family about his situation and start to implement his plan.

Trains in that era were slow and often delayed. In order to get Qian Niandi home as soon as possible, the two brothers Zhan Baoku and Zhan Baoyu decided to drive directly there. They took turns driving on the way and they reached their destination in about five hours.

After the two brothers had discussed it, they drove straight to Wenxi City.

They set off after breakfast and arrived at the police station where Qian Niandi was at two o'clock in the afternoon.

When Qian Niandi saw her two uncles, she burst into tears and ran over to throw herself into their arms and cried bitterly. Zhan Baoyu and Zhan Baoku coaxed her for a long time before they barely calmed Qian Niandi's excitement.

Since they were here, they had to understand the progress of the case. Fortunately, Wenxi City was not the key area for the trafficking case currently being supervised by the Provincial Public Security Department, so the two brothers did not have to remain highly vigilant.

According to the investigators, the two human traffickers have been arrested at home. The arrest went so smoothly because Qian Niandi came to report the case in the middle of the night.

The fool's parents were sleeping soundly in the middle of the night and had no idea that their stupid son had jumped over the wall and ran away with the bought wife, so they did not alert the enemy.

Two human traffickers kidnapped two children at once. Qian Niandi was sold for 15,000 yuan, and Qian Longfei was a boy who was young, had no memory, and was handsome. They sold him for a good price, 40,000 yuan.

This money was enough for them to splurge for a while, so after that they stayed at home for a while, eating and drinking every day, and lived a very comfortable life.

The police set out in the middle of the night to arrest the human traffickers while they were sleeping soundly at home.

After interrogation, they only admitted to abducting Qian Niandi, but flatly denied the incident involving Qian Longfei, insisting that they had only abducted a young girl and no other children.

They had already squandered a lot of the money from selling the child. The police found more than 10,000 yuan in cash, a new refrigerator, a color TV, and two time savings books, each with 50,000 yuan in it.

Such family economic conditions were relatively rare in rural areas in the 1990s.

Especially since these two people did not have a legitimate livelihood, and their family land was contracted out, they only earned a few hundred yuan in rent a year. If they did not have some shameful way to make money, it would be impossible for them to save up such a fortune.

During the interrogation, the two said they did not understand the source of the large amount of funds, but they also knew that the police could not convict them without evidence. Therefore, they were determined not to speak about Qian Longfei's matter.