Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Sun Aimin and Mr. Song also sat around the round table, chatting while helping to make dumplings.

Old Mrs. Song asked, "Little Sun, can you tell us how you and my little ~, ah, Wang Zhicheng met?"

She wanted to call Wang Zhicheng "Little Third", but she felt it was inappropriate and was worried that the child was not the son she was looking for, so she called him by his full name somewhat awkwardly.

Sun Aimin replied: "To be honest, I wanted to rent a house to do a small business, and the house I rented happened to be Lao Wang's.

The old couple forced Wang Zhicheng to buy a house for each of their biological daughter and son, and they also wanted to sell the two-story building that Wang Zhicheng had built and give the money to their youngest son. The house I rented was exactly the building they wanted to sell.

Wang Zhicheng’s wife was about to divorce him because of this incident, so in order to prevent them from selling the house, she hurriedly put the house up for rent through an agency.”

When the old couple of the Song family heard about this, they were so angry that their teeth itched. They were both educated people who had been teachers all their lives, and they couldn't help but call the Wang family bastards and good-for-nothings.

"The child is not our biological child, and it's fine if we don't raise him well, but he has worked hard to succeed on his own, and they are going to ruin him like this?" Old Mrs. Song said angrily.

Sun Aimin continued, "Who said it wasn't? When they signed the rental contract that day, the contract drawn up by Wang Zhicheng's wife stated that only when the rent was enough to cover the money they paid for building the building, would the Wang family have the right to dispose of the building on their own.

Seeing how Wang and his youngest son behaved at that time, they were very unconvinced, and their youngest son's eyes were particularly scary. However, because they all depended on Wang Zhicheng for their livelihood, and they heard that Wang Zhicheng's wife would have to take half of the family property in the divorce, they stopped making trouble for the time being.

But looking at them like that, they will definitely not let it go. If they are pushed into a corner, who knows what wicked things they will do!"

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Sun Aimin was not a gossipy person, but he still explained the situation of the Wang family in detail to the old couple of the Song family, in order to make them feel more urgent about the matter of recognizing their relatives.

The sooner they recognized Wang Zhicheng, the sooner he could wake up and take the initiative to make a complete break with the Wang family, thus preventing the tragedy from happening again.

It was not difficult to buy train tickets during the holidays. The two Song brothers queued for an hour at the train station and bought train tickets to Mafang City the next morning.

However, trains now run relatively slowly. Theoretically, it takes ten hours to travel between two cities by train, but if there are delays, it will take even longer.

The two brothers bought five sleeper tickets and then hurried back to their parents' home.

At this time, the dumplings were already wrapped, and Mrs. Song was cooking in the kitchen. She originally wanted to cook some dumplings for Sun Aimin to eat first, but Sun Aimin insisted on waiting for the two eldest brothers of the Song family to come back before eating together.

So, while Mrs. Song was cooking, Sun Aimin continued to chat with Mr. Song.

After talking about Wang Zhicheng, Sun Aimin talked about some other fellow refugees. Mr. Song then realized that there are still so many abducted children and parents who have not found their children.

In that era, the Internet was not yet popular, and people got news from radio, television, and newspapers. Information was relatively closed. In their circle, they were the only family who had lost a child, and they thought such things were rare.

The two were chatting when the two brothers Song Hongwen and Song Hongwu came in. When Mrs. Song heard the door open, she quickly started to boil water and cook dumplings.

The two brothers had already said goodbye to their respective families and would go back home after dinner. They would go home to pack a few changes of clothes and toiletries, and meet up at the train station tomorrow morning.

After dinner, the two brothers left their parents’ and Sun Aimin’s train tickets and each took their own ticket so that it would be more convenient to check in on the train the next day.

Then they left first.

The old couple of the Song family knew that Sun Aimin had taken such a long train ride to get here, and they didn't want to delay Sun Aimin's rest any longer, so they pushed Sun Aimin to wash up and go to bed while they were cleaning the table.

After a whole day of hard work, Sun Aimin was indeed a little tired, so he went to bed early. He slept soundly.

As for the old couple of the Song family, they used to have a relatively regular schedule, but because of what happened today, they couldn’t sleep at night and lay in bed chatting until late at night.

The train was at around ten in the morning. Although the old couple went to bed late, they woke up quite early and prepared breakfast around seven as usual.

After having breakfast with the old couple, Sun Aimin helped them carry their luggage and went to the train station together.

Finally, they found Song Hongwen and Song Hongwu near the ticket gate of the railway station. They sat in the waiting room and listened carefully to the ticket information broadcast on the loudspeaker, and then boarded the train to Mafang City together.

Although several people were sitting in sleeper berths, the berths were very hard and not very comfortable to lie on, let alone those hard seats that they would have to sit on for more than ten hours.

The food we ate on the road was all bought in advance, including bucket noodles, sausages, bread, boiled eggs, etc. We ate something together. When we were sleepy, we lay down on the seats for a while. When we were not sleepy, we chatted. We didn't feel bored at all.

Finally, after an eleven-hour journey, the train finally stopped at Mafang Railway Station.

When everyone got off the bus, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Sun Aimin went home. The Song family didn't want to trouble Sun Aimin, so they found a hotel near the train station to stay in.

After Sun Aimin completed the accommodation registration with the Song family, he made an appointment with them to meet at nine o'clock the next morning and then set out together to find Wang Zhicheng.

In fact, Sun Aimin had his own considerations for making this arrangement. When he went to do this, he didn't know whether it would work, so he didn't inform Zhang Ying in advance.

He planned to call Zhang Ying at around seven or eight o'clock tomorrow morning to explain the situation.

Judging from Zhang Ying's state that day, she wished that the Wang family would disappear from their lives immediately. Therefore, if this matter was made clear to Zhang Ying in advance, she would definitely be more willing to facilitate Wang Zhicheng's recognition of his relatives.

Wang Zhicheng was able to do such a good business, and he was not a rigid and unreasonable person. In addition, Zhang Ying's attitude and the greed of the Wang family pushed Wang Zhicheng's relationship with the Wang family further and further away.

Now, he just needed an opportunity to legitimately sever ties with the Wang family, and the arrival of the Song family was the most important opportunity.

By then, there must be some unspeakable secret about how Wang Zhicheng came to the Wang family. Wang Zhicheng will clearly realize that the family that raised him was not his benefactor, but his enemy.

No matter what decision he made, whether to sever ties with the Wang family directly or to hold the Wang family accountable, there was basically no possibility that he would become a money-making tool for the Wang family again.