Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

Speaking of buying a house, Sun Aijun saw that his brothers and sisters had already bought one, so he also started to get excited.

But he plans to buy his first house in Qingyang City. When his son is admitted to university, no matter which city he is in, he has to take the train at Qingyang Railway Station to go out.

His daughter was admitted to the No. 1 Middle School. He heard from his sister-in-law Yuan Jie that the No. 1 Middle School only gave half a day off on Sunday afternoons and a weekend off at the end of every month.

In order to let his daughter study with peace of mind, he plans to let his wife go with him to study, help with the child's laundry and cooking, so that the child can have an easier time.

My parents are old and they don’t want to leave their hometown. It’s nice to live in the city. It’s only an hour’s drive from their rural hometown to Qingyang City, so it’s convenient to travel back and forth.

With this plan in mind, he asked Yuan Rui to help him keep an eye on the residential areas and housing prices near the No. 1 Middle School in the city. When he had the weekend off, he would go directly to the corresponding residential areas to look for suitable housing.

At the end of July, Sun Aijun found a suitable house, which was the staff quarters of Qingyang No. 1 Middle School.

This residential community was built with funds raised by the school. The buyers are all school teachers. Since they buy houses internally, the housing prices are a little cheaper than in other communities.

However, Sun Aijun is not a faculty member of the school, and the landlord sells the property at the local market price.

The house he bought was priced at 1,600 yuan per square meter, with a construction area of ​​60 square meters, two bedrooms and a living room. The total cost, including the house price, transfer fee and agency fee, was almost 100,000 yuan.

Sun Aijun chose this house for two main reasons. First, it is located in the school staff quarters, with a simple and safe environment, and is right next to the school.

Another thing is that this house is well decorated in the currently popular yellow wood style, and you can move in directly with your luggage.

The two college entrance examination candidates in my family had similar estimated scores to their actual scores. They both applied for key undergraduate schools. However, the admission letters will probably be received in early August.

They planned to wait until they received the admission letter before setting off to Mafang City to take a look. It can be said that Mafang City is the place where the family's dream sets sail. When school is about to start, they will directly send the college students to school.

They also went to Mafang City with Zhao Ming. Yuan Rui and Zhao Baoguo were busy with work and went to and from work every day. On weekends, they could take their son out to wander around the area.

But the urban area of ​​Qingyang is so small, and Zhao Ming is already familiar with the surrounding environment, so nothing new has happened to him.

Besides, his grandparents had gone to Mafang City with his aunt's family, and he hadn't seen them for a while since the Chinese New Year.

I heard that my uncle-in-law's family was going to Mafang City, so I suggested to my parents that we go and take a look at that unfamiliar city.

Yuan Rui had no objection. If the departure date happened to be a weekend, she could go with them, visit her parents, leave the child there for a few days, and pick him up when she had a break.

If you don’t have time, just go with the Sun family and ask the sisters-in-law of the Sun family to help take care of it.

Since Yuan Jie's incident last year, the two families have had more and more contact and their relationship has become closer. They discuss all kinds of issues together.

Yuan Jie and Sun Aimin are no longer the bond between the two families. Beyond the two of them, there is also interaction between other brothers and sisters of the two families.

The journey finally took place in mid-August. Yuan Rui, her son, and the Sun family boarded the train to Mafang City.

After a six-hour drive, we finally got off at Mafang Railway Station.

They arrived at the station around six in the evening, and it was still bright in the summer. But the weather was hot and stuffy, the train was crowded, and there was no air conditioning, so the six-hour ride was not easy.

Sun Aimin estimated the time when the train would arrive and went to wait for someone outside the station in advance. After picking up the person, he took two taxis outside the train station and went to Huimin Hotel.

The restaurant had already prepared two tables of food. Yuan Jie, her two children, and the old couple of the Yuan family had already arrived. Sun Aiguo, Sun Aijun, and their two apprentices also came over after simply packing up after school.

When relatives meet, they are particularly warm and soon start greeting each other.

Speaking of which, among the Sun family's several children, except Sun Qi and Sun Yao, the other ones have never seen Sun Mian.

After Sun Mian returned last year, although he lived in Sun Aimin's hometown for a while, Sun Min had just left for university, and Sun Ming and Sun Lu were still in school, so they could only go home once a month.

During the Chinese New Year, Sun Aimin's family did not return to their hometown, considering that their children were too young and the journey would be too tiring, and they were unable to see their children.

During this meeting, Sun Mian and Sun Nanxing, as the two youngest children in the family, suddenly became the focus of attention from their older brothers and sisters.

Including Zhao Ming, as the only child in the family, he was originally a little lonely and liked to play with his younger brothers and sisters. Unfortunately, he was the youngest at his grandmother's house, and his brothers and sisters were much older than him. They either went to school or went to work, so they could not play together at all.

He got along very well with his second aunt's younger brother Zhang Sen, but unfortunately his second aunt's home was not in Qingyang City, and it took three or four hours to travel between the two cities by train. Except during the Chinese New Year and other holidays, they rarely met.

In the past, he lived not far from his aunt's house, but he really couldn't like his former younger brother Sun Xiaohao. He even felt a little disgusted with Sun Xiaohao because Sun Xiaohao always coveted his "treasure", caused trouble, and made trouble.

The aunt's family finally brought Sun Xiaohao and Xiaomian back, but now they have moved to another city so far away. Even for this meeting, he had to beg his parents for several days before his mother agreed to bring him here.

Mom only has two days on the weekend, and she sent him here today. My uncle-in-law Sun Aimin has already bought her a train ticket back to the city in advance, and she has to go back tomorrow, so he can stay here with his grandparents for a few more days.

For twelve-year-old Zhao Ming, this was the first time he left his parents to live in another city, but such trips became the norm every year thereafter.

Even Mrs. Sun Dasao and Mrs. Sun Ersao, who had never traveled far, went from not knowing how to buy tickets to enter the station to being familiar with taking the train soon after.

All these changes made them very happy. Sun Aiguo and Sun Aijun, who have been doing village banquets in the countryside, had the idea of ​​going out to explore the world when they were young, but later they were worn down by life and ended up repeating the same life day after day.

Like most wives in the village, Mrs. Sun Dasao and Mrs. Sun Ersao believed that their home was wherever their husbands were. They never dared to imagine that one day they would be able to gain a foothold in the city.

In their village, being able to buy a house in the county town and move out of the village is already considered a great achievement.

They also have the ability to buy a house in the county town, but their children have not yet started their own families, so they still need to stay in the village and make a living to feed their family.

Now that the children have grown up, the family no longer has to stick to guarding the one-third acre of land at home.

Just like Sun Ersao, her eldest daughter Sun Lu is about to go to college, so she doesn't have to worry about her anymore. Even if she wants to worry about her, the school is far away from home, so she is powerless.

Their youngest daughter Sun Yao was about to go to school in the city, so in order to provide her with a better learning environment, the couple decided to have her go to the city to accompany her. This way, the child could only return to the village for one day during her monthly vacation.

The three children of the eldest son, Sun Aiguo, no longer need adults to take care of them. Sun Qi has his own job, and Sun Min and Sun Ming are both in college, so Sun Dasao has more time.

The couple discussed that Sun's wife would stay in their hometown temporarily to take care of their parents. In addition, Sun Aihua was at her parents' home to take care of her pregnancy, so Sun's wife could also help out by staying at home.

The family arranges everything properly and everyone has their own division of labor, so it is hard for them to live a bad life.