Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

With more than 200,000 yuan in his pocket, Sun Xiaohao immediately felt confident. After taking medicine in the hospital and resting for two days, he followed Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin back to Qingyang City. He was well fed and well served at home and spent two weeks comfortably. After that, he felt too bored at home and left home again on the pretext of looking for business opportunities in other places.

He and Shi Xuejiao met after this trip.

After graduating from junior high school, Shi Xuejiao worked as a factory girl for several years. Her parents did not have a stable job and relied on odd jobs to make a living. After Shi Xuejiao was able to earn money, her parents asked her to send most of her salary back home every month.

Once, Shi Xuejiao got appendicitis and needed surgery, but her meager savings were not enough to pay for the operation, so she had to ask her parents for money.

But she was ruthlessly rejected and Shi Xuejiao was humiliated and scolded with the most vicious words.

[Where do we get the money? You are such a grown-up, but you can't even come up with this little money. You might as well just die! ]

[Look at the girl from the Wang family next door. She is not as good looking as you, but she can become someone's concubine. Look at what her parents eat, wear and use. Which one is not provided by their daughter?]

[If you don't have money, go out and sell yourself. Don't come back and cry to us. We have done our best to raise you! ]

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Shi Xuejiao grew up under her parents' repressive education, and she longed for their recognition.

This time, she was truly disappointed with her parents and determined to break off all ties with them.

She borrowed money from her friends to get through this difficult time. After she recovered, she went back to the factory to work and earn 7,000 to 8,000 yuan a month on a piecework basis. She only kept 1,000 yuan for living expenses and gave the rest to her parents, hoping that they would see her efforts. Now, she doesn't plan to live for others anymore, and no longer expects to get her parents' approval. She keeps all her wages for herself, and her life is much more comfortable.

She could also go shopping on her day off like the other girls in the factory, buy beautiful clothes she liked, eat delicious food, and have a cup of milk tea that she rarely bought before.

She couldn't help but sigh: Ah, so this is life!

With some savings, Shi Xuejiao has higher and higher expectations for her future life and knows how to enjoy life better.

During a short holiday, she accepted the invitation of a friend and went on a trip to Dian City.

Sun Xiaohao got a windfall from his parents during this period, but he did not look for business opportunities as he promised to Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin. Instead, he immediately made an appointment with two friends who often played together, booked a flight to Dian City, and went on a high-quality trip. Rather than saying that the two people were Sun Xiaohao's friends, in fact, they were more often following Sun Xiaohao to eat and drink.

One of them was acquainted with a female friend of Shi Xuejiao, and the two took this opportunity to get together for a drinking party.

Sun Xiaohao and Shi Xuejiao met unexpectedly in a bar in Dian City. Sun Xiaohao was attracted by Shi Xuejiao's beautiful face, took the initiative to talk to Shi Xuejiao, and rushed to pay the bill for Shi Xuejiao and her friends.

Through chatting, the two found out that they were from the same hometown, both from Qingyang City, but Sun Xiaohao's home was in the urban area, while Shi Xuejiao's home was in a rural area dozens of kilometers away from the urban area.

The identity of being a fellow villager quickly brought the two closer together. Sun Xiaohao successfully added Shi Xuejiao's WeChat. His acquired conversation and temperament were very confusing to a girl like Shi Xuejiao.

In addition, Sun Xiaohao was willing to spend a lot of money to pursue Shi Xuejiao, taking her to various high-end restaurants, buying her all kinds of clothes, bags, and cosmetics that she was reluctant to buy, and taking the initiative to drive her every time she went out. All these greatly satisfied Shi Xuejiao's vanity.

Soon, the two broke through the boundaries and their relationship made substantial progress.

When Sun Xiaohao brought Shi Xuejiao home to introduce her to his parents and said he wanted to marry her, Yuan Jie, Sun Aimin and other family members were opposed. Shi Xuejiao's rural identity, junior high school education and factory girl experience were secondary. The main reason was that Shi Xuejiao's appearance, dress and daily conversation did not look like someone who could live a peaceful life. In addition, she had two younger brothers in her family. That place was famous for favoring boys over girls. None of her parents had a formal job or a way to make money. The family's economic situation was not optimistic. In the future, the two younger brothers would most likely rely on their sister.

Marrying a daughter-in-law like this is equivalent to being responsible for the birth, aging, sickness and death of the entire family, which will cause a lot of trouble.

After meeting Shi Xuejiao's parents, the family's opposition to their marriage became even stronger.

But in the end, he could not resist Sun Xiaohao's persistence and suicidal behavior. In addition, he and Shi Xuejiao were already husband and wife, which ruined the girl's innocence. During the time when he was arguing with his family about getting married, he deliberately did not take any measures, allowing Shi Xuejiao to get pregnant before marriage, forcing his family to give in.

In the end, Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin had no choice but to compromise.

The wedding room was ready, and holding the wedding in their own hotel saved a lot of trouble.

This marriage was exactly as the Sun and Yuan families had expected. After marriage, Shi Xuejiao took great care of her parents' home. It could be said that she had forgotten the pain after the wound healed.

She wanted to show her parents and two younger brothers, who had always been mean to her, how prosperous and wealthy she was now. Shi Xuejiao was very pleased with the big change in her family's attitude after she got married. Especially every time she went back to her parents' home, the family members' fawning attitude towards her made her feel proud, as if she had inadvertently healed all the psychological trauma left over from her childhood.

But she also knew that she was not well-liked by her in-laws and her position was not stable, so she was quite sensible in her actions and had already warned her family: "If any of you dare to go to my in-laws without my knowledge, I will either break up with you or become a helpless pauper like you. Don't even think about it!"

Soon after the marriage, Shi Xuejiao gave birth to twins, a boy and a girl, which made Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin very happy. They gave the two children and Shi Xuejiao a big red envelope of 100,000 yuan each, and gave the family of four 20,000 to 30,000 yuan a month for living expenses. This does not include the various food, clothes, toys and daily necessities they usually buy for the children.

During Shi Xuejiao's confinement period, Yuan Jie had to go to work and did not have much time to take care of her, so she gave Sun Xiaohao 50,000 yuan to let him go to a confinement center. Shi Xuejiao was very satisfied with Yuan Jie's decision, but Sun Xiaohao's true nature was revealed during that time.

The 18.8 yuan dowry given to Shi Xuejiao by her family when they got married and the 30 yuan red envelope given after she gave birth to her child were all in Shi Xuejiao's hands. Yuan Jie gave Sun Xiaohao 2 to 3 yuan of family living expenses every month, and Shi Xuejiao also took most of it, saying that raising children was expensive. Because the two children needed to be taken care of, Sun Xiaohao was also asked by Yuan Jie to stay at home and raise the children with Shi Xuejiao at ease, and not go out to work or start a business for the time being.

Although Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin did not say it explicitly, they were actually very disappointed with Sun Xiaohao. This was because he had been out for two or three years after graduation and had never done any decent work. He did not know what he had done in his so-called business, but he lost all his capital and owed a lot of credit card debts. Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin had to clean up his mess for everything.

Relatively speaking, letting him stay at home is the most worry-free and cost-effective way.

Sun Xiaohao took the 50,000 yuan that Yuan Jie gave him to subscribe to the confinement center, and went to Shi Xuejiao's mother, offering her 10,000 yuan to take care of Shi Xuejiao and the child. After some bargaining, the final price was set at 15,000 yuan.

Shi Xuejiao was very dissatisfied with this incident and she held a serious account with Sun Xiaohao in her heart. Sun Xiaohao's lack of knowledge and skills after marriage, his humble life in front of his parents, and his dependence on his parents to support his wife and children also made Shi Xuejiao feel a little ashamed.

As the two of them spent more and more time together, Shi Xuejiao's disappointment with Sun Xiaohao accumulated more and more. When Sun Xiaohao was diagnosed with leukemia, Shi Xuejiao simply took her children back to her hometown, where she had a house bought with the money she had saved over the years.