Stepmother Reborn: Dad, my mom hasn't hit me for three days

After Zhang Xiuhua discussed with Li Jianguo, she took Jidong to the police station to report the case the next day.

The police asked the two to register their statements and asked about the situation on the day Jidong was taken away, what the traffickers looked like, and the situation of his adoptive parents. After registering everything, they asked them to come back and wait for news.

Seeing the other party's nonchalant attitude, Zhang Xiuhua guessed that they would not conduct a serious investigation.

She sighed, holding Jidong's hand and walking back, "I'll take you to find your mother. Your mother is in the village ahead."

After walking a few steps, Jidong pulled her hand and Zhang Xiuhua turned around, "What's wrong?"

Jidong pursed his lips, looking a little timid, but finally mustered up the courage to ask, "Aunt, you are going to hand me over to my mother, right?"

Zhang Xiuhua was slightly startled, she squatted down and looked at him, "Do you want to live with your mother?"

Of course, children love their mothers the most. Although she wants to raise Jidong, if he wants to be with his mother more or Liu Xiaoxing wants her son back, she really can't force him.

Jidong could no longer remember what his mother looked like. He tentatively snuggled into Zhang Xiuhua's arms, hugged her neck, and rubbed her face affectionately, "I want to live with my aunt."

Baolin and Jilin are younger than Jidong, but those two kids don’t know how to do such endearing actions.

Zhang Xiuhua's heart was as soft as a pile of cotton. She touched her nephew's head and said, "Of course, Auntie is happy to raise Jidong. But she is your mother. She gave birth to you. Now that you are back, we have to let her know so that she can relax."

With her husband dead and her son lost, it was natural for Liu Xiaoxing to remarry. Zhang Xiuhua and Liu Xiaoxing had always had a good relationship. In her previous life, Liu Xiaoxing had a hard life. After the reform and opening up, her family saved some money and her son got married. Just when she saw that life was getting better, she got seriously ill and passed away in a hurry. She didn't enjoy any blessings until she was old.

Jidong nodded like a little adult.

Zhang Xiuhua held Jidong's hand and followed him to the village. She didn't remember which family Liu Xiaoxing married into. At the entrance of the village, she saw an old lady carrying a basket and asked her for directions.

The lady pointed to the front and said, "Just keep going forward. It's the sixth house in the third row."

Zhang Xiuhua thanked the old lady and followed the direction she pointed to a farmer's house.

The conditions of this family were much worse than those of the Zhang family. Zhang Shengli was a very capable man who earned 10 work points and had no bad habits. He gave all the food and money the team distributed to Liu Xiaoxing for management. It was this optimistic young man who went to dig the river with the villagers and was hit and killed by a truck on the way back.

Sometimes fate really plays tricks on us.

Zhang Xiuhua knocked on the door. At this time, the team was organizing people to work in the fields, and only a few people stayed at home.

Liu Xiaoxing had to take care of her paralyzed mother-in-law and her less than one-month-old baby, so she could only work half a day. She had to come back in the afternoon to cook and clean the bedding.

When she heard someone knocking on the door, she was holding the baby in one hand and washing diapers with the other, so she couldn't free her hands to open the door. She just shouted, "Come in."

The footsteps slowly approached. Liu Xiaoxing threw the kneaded diaper into another basin, then she took the time to look up.

When she saw Zhang Xiuhua and the child beside her, she was stunned. She shook off the water droplets on her hands, put the baby into the basket beside her, and ran to Jidong in two or three steps.

After all, he is my own child. How could I not recognize him even if he has lost weight?

Liu Xiaoxing hugged Jidong and burst into tears, "Jidong? Jidong? You're back?"

Jidong was held in her arms. To be honest, she didn't smell good, because she had to take care of her mother-in-law's excrement and urine for many years and also take care of the baby, so it was inevitable that she had some smell on her body.

But Jidong still felt the warmth of maternal love from her eager actions. That was something his adoptive mother had never given him, and he was also moved.

But this feeling of being touched didn't last for a few seconds, and suddenly a shrill cry came, "I pooped!"

Liu Xiaoxing came back to her senses, glanced at her son apologetically, and said to Zhang Xiuhua, "Wait for me for a while."

She crouched down and went into the house to tidy up the bedding.

Zhang Xiuhua and Jidong were looking at the baby in the basket. The baby was less than a month old, and due to insufficient milk, his hair was sparse and his skin was a little dark. He was not very pretty, and he did not inherit any of Liu Xiaoxing's advantages.

I don’t know if the baby was shy or hungry, but he suddenly started crying with his mouth wide open.

This scared Zhang Xiuhua and Jidong. Zhang Xiuhua subconsciously picked up the child, but it didn't work. The child was still crying.

Jidong looked around and didn't see anything to feed the child. He got anxious and shouted, "Mom! The child is hungry."

At this moment, Liu Xiaoxing came out of the room, holding the dirty clothes she had just changed. The smell was ten times stronger than that on Liu Xiaoxing's body.

Zhang Xiuhua and Jidong covered their noses subconsciously.

Liu Xiaoxing hurriedly washed the dirty clothes and hung them on the line before she had time to come over and hold the baby.

She unbuttoned her clothes, and the baby drank milk in big gulps and then stopped crying.

Zhang Xiuhua looked at her face that looked ten years older and sighed, "Jidong, I will support him. I will remarry soon. If you miss him in the future, you can write to him."

Liu Xiaoxing raised her head suddenly, looking at Jidong with reluctance in her eyes, but she smiled bitterly, "Thank you very much. I have a new home now, and I can't take care of Jidong. In the future..."

She couldn't continue speaking, her eyes were full of tears. She looked at Jidong and stammered for a long time before telling him to be filial to his aunt in the future.

Jidong nodded and looked at the child in her arms again.

The sound of villagers leaving work could be heard outside, and Liu Xiaoxing's face showed a bit of panic.

Zhang Xiuhua guessed her concerns and offered to leave.

Liu Xiaoxing didn't keep her, but touched Jidong's face reluctantly. She didn't ask how Jidong had been doing in the past three years. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that. She stood at the door, watching the two figures, one big and one small, leave side by side, with her face buried in the baby. Her Jidong, the Jidong she had carried for ten months, she would never see again.

"Aunt?" Jidong, who had been busy on the road, finally looked up as they got farther and farther away from the village. "My mother can't afford to support me, right?"

Zhang Xiuhua nodded. "The family your mother married into is poor. She has no money to support herself. Don't blame her. It's not easy for her either."

If Jidong lives in this family, even if Liu Xiaoxing is his biological mother, she will not be able to protect Jidong.

Jidong held Zhang Xiuhua's hand tightly, his eyes shining, "Aunt, are you going to marry Uncle Li?"

Zhang Xiuhua was a little surprised, "How did you know?"

Jidong was not present when she was talking to the village chief's wife. How could he think of these things?

Jidong talked about an incident, "On the train, when you were asleep, I woke up once and saw the buns Uncle Li bought from someone."

Zhang Xiuhua was stunned. It turned out that the buns were not saved by him, but bought on the bus?

Although Zhang Xiuhua doesn't care about love, she will feel more confident if the other party treats her well.

"Uncle Li's family is from the Northeast. They have plenty of food there. We won't have to worry about going hungry when we get there." Zhang Xiuhua touched Jidong's little head.

People who are often hungry will have sequelae. Jidong always likes to eat. He nodded, "As long as I am with my aunt, I am not afraid."

This child is so heartwarming. Zhang Xiuhua's smile became especially gentle, "Don't worry. Auntie will always be with you."

Two figures, one big and one small, slowly walked away, and from time to time the childish chatter of a child and the hearty laughter of a woman could be heard.