The wronged aunt tries to rewrite her life, part 5. Second update, muah...

While Chen Xia and her family of three enjoyed a peaceful life, Chen Huai'an and his sister Chen Xueying were having a much harder time.

When Chen Shan and his wife were alive, they took great care of them. They owned a restaurant and could order whatever they wanted to eat.

Now that it's my maternal grandparents who have taken over, the treatment has plummeted. Forget about ordering dishes, it's not easy to even get a little meat.

The elderly couple were getting on in years and had no source of income. Before Zhao Qing was alive, she would visit them every week, bringing large bags of gifts.

If you want to eat something, just make a phone call and your son-in-law will deliver the cooked dish to you on his motorcycle.

She stayed at her three sons' homes in rotation, and didn't need to help with anything; she just waited for meals.

After dinner, the old man carried his little stool to play chess with his old friends. The old woman carried her little stool to the village entrance to chat with her close friends about this and that. They were living a very comfortable retirement.

Now that I'm living with my son-in-law, I have to cook, do laundry, and take care of the two children myself.

The old man has always been a hands-off manager since he was young, just waiting to be fed and never helping out in any way.

The two children were quite difficult to take care of; they wanted to eat this and drink that all the time, and they were always complaining. After a while, the old lady fell ill.

Seeing their condition, the three sons had no choice but to take the elderly couple and their two children back home. They would stay together for ten days at a time, just like before.

Chen Huai'an and his sister were lazy, greedy, and cunning. After living there for less than half a year, their three aunts quit.

Especially the third brother's family, whose son is younger than Chen Huai'an and his sister, and the two of them secretly bullied the child behind her back.

She could tolerate other things, but when it comes to bullying her own child, no one could stand it.

She confronted Chen Huai'an's third uncle, Zhao Zhiyong, directly: "Either get a divorce, or send the two children away."

What choice does Zhao Zhiyong have? He can't possibly divorce his wife for his nephew and niece, can he?

So he discussed with his eldest and second eldest brothers whether to give the two children to a childless couple near Chenjiazhuang.

After searching around, I couldn't find a suitable one. Things are different now than before; fewer people are adopting children.

Even if someone were to adopt them, they would only adopt younger children. Children like them are already old enough to understand things and can't be raised to be docile.

After much deliberation, the three uncles decided to send them to the town's public boarding school, paying a small living fee each semester and leaving it to the teachers to manage.

The public boarding schools in rural towns have low fees, but the conditions are correspondingly poor. Students sleep on large communal beds.

Dormitories were separated for boys and girls, with more than a dozen people sleeping in one room. For meals, the cafeteria cooked whatever dishes were cheapest.

Wanting to have meat at every meal like before is just a pipe dream, considering how little you actually pay for meals each semester. This kind of boarding school isn't for you to enjoy yourself; if you want good food and comfortable accommodations, you'll have to go to a private school.

These public boarding schools in towns are actually semi-public welfare institutions, established to ensure that left-behind children who work away from home have someone to take care of them.

Because it is located in a rural area, if the fees are too high, parents will be reluctant to pay, so the fees are low, but the corresponding conditions are also relatively poor.

Chen Huai'an and his sister are both in the third grade. Children of this age in the countryside are already helping their parents with chores.

If they had been more perceptive and obedient, and had played with their little cousin instead of deliberately bullying him, their aunt wouldn't have found a reason to kick them out.

At school, no one will coax or indulge them. When it's time to eat, they have to carry their own trays to the food serving window, where the dormitory supervisor will serve them their meals.

They'll serve you whatever dishes are available; there's no choice or option. If you don't like it or don't want to eat it, you'll just have to go hungry.

To keep these students from running around, fighting, or making a ruckus, they are sent to the classroom after meals to watch cartoons for a while and then do their homework.

After dinner, we continue doing our homework in the classroom. The teacher will circulate and provide guidance. We can go back to the dormitory to rest at 7:30.

School ends at 5 p.m., and we eat dinner at 6 p.m. If we don't eat enough at dinner, we'll be hungry before going to bed at night.

Other children have parents who bring them things, but these two are left unattended and unsupervised.

Every two weeks, a big week would be celebrated, and the three uncles would take turns picking them up and bringing them back to Chenjiazhuang.

Their maternal grandparents will take care of them in Chenjiazhuang for two days, and then they will continue to be sent to school.

Although there are dormitory supervisors at school, there are so many students that they can't possibly look after everyone. If students don't know how to change their clothes, they just have to leave them dirty until they go home for the long weekend to change.

To reiterate, you've already paid so much money; expecting the school to take care of your child like a private school, with someone washing their clothes and cleaning their shoes, is impossible.

In places where the dormitory supervisors can't see, it's a dog-eat-dog world where everything is decided by fists.

Chen Huai'an and Chen Xueying are siblings who stick together for warmth, so not many people actively bully them. However, the two of them are too cunning, and the other children aren't much better. After being taken advantage of a few times, they keep their distance from them.

Thus, during their several years of primary school, the brother and sister had almost no friends who were willing to associate with them.

Chen Huai'an was no longer the humble and polite young boy he once was; instead, he had become a gloomy, silent bookworm.

Chen Xueying, on the other hand, learned from a young age to use her good looks to her advantage.

In the meantime, they tried to contact Chen Xia and her two sisters, especially Chen Xia. Compared to her two older sisters who had fallen out with Chen Shan, Chen Xia had a pretty good relationship with her brother, Chen Shan.

Especially after Chen Xia married Song Yuan, traffic police are also police officers, and Song Yuan has a wide circle of friends. Chen Shan's restaurant often sought Song Yuan's help with issues such as fire safety and food safety.

Chen Huai'an didn't know how he told his maternal grandparents, but the old man even had his third son and his wife drive to the city to look for Chen Xia.

The implication was that the child missed her aunt and wanted to stay at her aunt's house for a few days.

Chen Xia refused outright: "I'm sorry, it's not that I don't want the two children to stay at my house, it's just that our house is too small, only two bedrooms and one living room."

My husband and I share a room, and my daughter, Tian Tian, ​​sleeps in a separate room. We really have nowhere else to stay.

My husband and I are both busy with work, and my in-laws have passed away, so we have no one to help us. Fortunately, our daughter is in kindergarten now, otherwise we wouldn't be able to take care of our own child.

Also, it's not that I, as the aunt, am saying anything bad about the two children, but they really have too many faults.

They stayed at my house for a few days before, and even then, they secretly bullied my daughter, Tian Tian, ​​behind my back.

That's their own cousin. Just because I dressed Tian Tian in a new dress that day, Xue Ying was unhappy, and Huai An, who dotes on his sister, pushed Tian Tian away.

This isn't the first or second time this has happened. How could I dare to take them in and raise them? No matter how close my nephews and nieces are, can they be closer than my own children?

My husband and I are so concerned about our daughter not being mistreated that we won't have a second child. We would never let our own child suffer for the sake of someone else's child.

Zhao Zhiyong's wife, Yang Jiao, seemed to have found someone to confide in, and directly grasped Chen Xia's hand: "Oh, sister, what you said is so true."

Let me tell you, those two kids are rotten to the core. They stayed at my house several times, and each time they bullied my son and threatened him not to tell me anything.

You wouldn't believe how heartbroken I was when I heard from my son that he and his sister had beaten me so many times!

I really wanted to beat those two little bastards to death. Why did you pull me aside? I was going to say that this wasn't child's play.

That's bullying. Although I haven't read as many books as Chen Xia, I've seen many cases online.

Children who have been bullied in their childhood will suffer psychological trauma that can never be erased. Every time I think about it now, I regret it so much that I want to kill myself.

Zhao Zhiyong, let me tell you, your two nephews and nieces are rotten to the core.

Whoever gets to raise her is being taken advantage of. I don't care if you take advantage of others, but I won't agree to you taking advantage of Chen Xia.

You're a grown man, so careless. Haven't you noticed? Ever since your two dear nephews and nieces came to visit, our son has become noticeably quiet and withdrawn.

Zhao Zhiyong looked helpless: "What can I do? They are Qingqing's children after all, and I am their uncle. I can't just abandon them, can I?"

Yang Jiao snorted coldly: "Who said you can't interfere? Didn't I tell you long ago? Once we're divorced, you can interfere however you want."

Anyway, you don't care about either me or our son. While our son is still young, I'll find him a responsible stepfather. As for you, his biological father, it doesn't matter whether you exist or not.

Zhao Zhiyong didn't care about Chen Xia anymore. He made a lot of promises and oaths, and finally obediently followed Yang Jiao.

Yang Jiao later called Chen Xia and said that she and her two sisters-in-law had the same dream.

In her dream, she (or they) adopted Chen Huai'an and his sister, but they ended up ruining their family and causing their deaths.

Chen Xia sighed, "I won't lie to you, I've had dreams like that too."

In my dream, my mother-in-law told me that if I adopted them, they would eventually ruin my family.

Yang Jiao was silent for a while: "I dreamed of my mother. She was holding my hand and crying very sadly. She told me that I must stay far away from those two siblings."

"It's better to believe it than not, sister. As someone who's been there, let me tell you, there are some things we have to believe."

The so-called dream was naturally the work of Chen Xia and the little system. Some time ago, Yang Jiao complained to Chen Xia that her mother-in-law was sick, and during this illness, she dreamed of her daughter Zhao Qing.

In her dream, Zhao Qing questioned her, asking why she was so heartless and why she didn't care about her child.

When the old lady woke up, she cried and said she wanted to bring her grandson and granddaughter back, saying that the children had suffered terribly at the boarding school.

No amount of persuasion could change her mind; the old lady said she wouldn't live if the two children weren't brought back.

The old man played the emotional card, saying things like how your sister was when she was alive, and so on.

The three Zhao brothers were somewhat skeptical. In their view, having two more children in the family would simply mean having two more pairs of chopsticks at mealtimes.

Deep down, they felt that taking the children home to raise them wouldn't be a big problem. Although the three families weren't exactly wealthy, they were doing alright and could afford to raise two children.

Even if we disregard the two children, we should still bring the old man and woman back. We can't let their mother really die, can we?

Upon hearing this, Chen Xia thought, "Take them back? Fine, if you're not afraid of losing your family, then take them back." So he gave each of them a dream-creating talisman.

After the three brothers discussed picking up their children, they realized it was getting late and decided to go to the school early the next morning to transfer the two children to another school. Since they were going to take the children home to raise them, there was no need for them to live at school.

Unexpectedly, the three sisters-in-law, who neither agreed nor disagreed yesterday, changed their tune as soon as they woke up this morning. Their words were incredibly harsh.

“If you dare to bring them back, just get a divorce. They can take the children and go back to their parents’ home. Let whoever wants to live that life live it, they’re not planning to continue anyway.”

And it wasn't just talk; they actually dragged them to the Civil Affairs Bureau and found their marriage certificate and household registration book.

When the old lady saw her daughters-in-law's attitude, she burst into tears.

Who would have thought that the three daughters-in-law, who were once quite filial, would simply say, "If you don't want to live, then go die, so as not to drag the whole family down with you."

The old man and woman were dumbfounded. But that wasn't the most amazing thing. The most amazing thing was that the three daughters-in-law went on strike and refused to serve them anymore.

They'd rather split the cost and send the two elderly people to a nursing home. This terrified the couple. With three sons, no one to care for them, and they being sent to a nursing home, wouldn't they be ridiculed to death?

At this point, grandchildren become less important, as nothing is as important as the dignity of the elderly couple.

That day, Chen Xia had just finished lunch when she received a call from an unfamiliar number: "Hello, I am Huaian and Xueying's homeroom teacher. Are you the two children's aunt?"

"Well, the two children haven't been doing well lately. I was thinking, as their aunt, could you come over so we can sit down and talk about their education?"

Chen Xia immediately recited a number: "Hello teacher, this is the mobile phone number of Huai'an and Xueying's third uncle. The thing is, although I am the child's aunt, the child's guardians are their maternal grandparents."

Because the two elderly people are quite old, their affairs are actually managed by their three uncles.

They say a mother's brother is the most powerful, but many things aren't as simple as you think, teacher. Some matters involve many parties, and I think you understand what I mean, teacher?"

The homeroom teacher in Huai'an was very understanding and simply said she would call Huai'an's uncle. After hanging up, Chen Xia asked the little system, "System, what happened to Chen Huai'an and Chen Xueying?"

The system checked and came back to tell her: "Because Chen Xueying cried to Chen Huai'an that someone was bullying her, Chen Huai'an beat up the person."

The child was beaten black and blue, and his parents, seeing how badly he was beaten, certainly couldn't let it go.

They caused a huge scene at the school, insisting that Chen Huai'an and Chen Xueying be expelled. During compulsory education, schools do not have the right to expel students; they can only advise them to transfer to another school.

Even if he transfers schools, he still needs to pay the medical expenses first. When the homeroom teacher asked for his parents' phone number, he explained his family situation.

He portrayed himself and Chen Xueying as pitiful children unloved by their aunts and uncles. Their homeroom teacher was a very caring and good teacher.

After getting your phone number from Chen Huai'an, I volunteered to have a serious talk with you.

Chen Xia was completely bewildered: "What are you talking to me about? I'm not the one who takes the child to school, so I shouldn't be the contact person on the registration form, right?"

"Of course, the contact person was his third uncle, Zhao Zhiyong, but Chen Huai'an told the teacher in tears that none of his three uncles wanted to take care of him."

They wouldn't come even if you called, so they gave your phone number to the teacher.

Have his teacher contact you. Once you get there, let him cry a few more times; maybe he'll come back with you.

After hearing what the little system said, Chen Xia really wanted to go and see how the two children were doing.

It just so happens that she doesn't have class tomorrow, so she simply asked Tian Tian for a day off, drove back to her hometown, and went to see a good show.

When Tian Tian heard that she would be going back to her hometown with her mother tomorrow and wouldn't have to go to kindergarten, she happily said to Chen Xia, "That's great, Mom! Actually, we can stay in our hometown for a few more days."

Chen Xia pinched her little nose: "Stay a few more days? No, Tian Tian still has to go to kindergarten."

Actually, Mom thinks that if you take leave, you'll miss a whole day of class, which is such a waste.

Or should Mom drive back by herself? Dad can pick Tian Tian up from school, and Mom can drive back in the afternoon.

Upon hearing this, Tian Tian immediately hugged Chen Xia and pleaded, "Mommy, Mommy, I want to go back to our hometown with you. Please take me with you. I promise I'll catch up on my homework when we get back, okay?"

Chen Xia was almost dizzy from being shaken by her, so she quickly agreed: "Okay, okay, Mom will take you back with her, alright?"

It's getting late, Tian Tian, ​​hurry up and go to sleep. You have to get up early tomorrow. Mommy is going to text Ms. Guo, Tian Tian's homeroom teacher, to ask for leave.

The response was very quick, almost instantaneous.

The next morning, Chen Xia picked Tian Tian up from the bed: "Tian Tian, ​​get up and eat breakfast quickly. After we finish eating, we'll set off!"