Qiao Guilan nodded, "Caixing, your older sister is right. Hurry up and send the child back; the adults at home are worried."
She would go crazy if her son Baogen got lost when he was three years old.
Song Caixing also felt that her mother and eldest sister made sense, so she asked the child where their home was and what their parents' names were.
But a three-year-old child can't express it.
All it can do is call out "Mommy".
When his father brought him here, he told him that he was bringing him to see his mother, and that he should greet his mother and not make her angry, because if she got angry, she would abandon him again.
"What should we do? We can't get anything out of them," Song Caixing said anxiously.
“Let’s go to the village chief’s house and ask him to make an announcement to help him find his parents,” Song Yinhua suggested. “This child doesn’t seem to live nearby. It’s so late, and it would be a waste of time for us to ask house to house. It would be better to just ask the village chief to make an announcement. The child’s parents will hear the announcement and come to the village chief’s house to pick him up.”
The whole family agreed with Song Yinhua's suggestion.
Song Erzhuang and Qiao Guilan were about to take their child to the village chief's house when Song Yinhua persuaded them to stop.
“Dad has to go to work early tomorrow morning, so Cai Xing and I can take him there. The village chief isn’t far from our house; it’s only a seven or eight-minute walk.”
On the way to the village chief's house, some villagers were drying corn, which they had forgotten to collect that night.
Song Caixing, holding a child, stepped on some corn. Song Yinhua quickly helped her up, and all three of them fell down together.
Song Yinhua instinctively shielded Song Caixing and the child in her arms, acting as a human cushion herself.
"Big sister, are you alright?"
"It's nothing." Song Yinhua's knee hit a corn kernel, and it hurt.
She lifted her trouser leg; it was quite dark, and she couldn't see what her knee looked like.
It should be fine.
A pair of small hands then rubbed her calves, saying, "Rubbing them will make it stop hurting."
He looked at Song Yinhua and asked innocently, "Mom, does it still hurt?"
Song Yinhua was stunned.
It felt like I had returned to my past life.
She has to manage a large family and is busy with all sorts of things every day.
She single-handedly takes care of the family, the land, the elderly, and the children.
It's perfectly normal to bump and bruise yourself while working sometimes, and her three children would always come over with concern, rubbing the bumps and asking, "Mommy, does it still hurt?"
Back then, the three of them were so caring and concerned for her, but why did they later treat her like an enemy?
"Big sister?"
"Big sister!!!"
Song Caixing called out twice.
Song Yinhua snapped out of her daze, pulled down her trouser leg, and said, "Let's go."
The village chief hadn't even had a chance to rest when he learned that a child had gone missing in the village, so he immediately went to the village committee's broadcasting room to broadcast a message to find the missing person.
The three-year-old child clung to Song Caixing, hiding in her arms.
After waiting for more than an hour, someone finally came to claim it.
The village chief looked at the two men and asked, "Are you sure this child is yours?"
The two are a middle-aged couple living on the westernmost side of the village. They are over forty years old and have never had children.
When I was young, I thought the woman couldn't have children, so I tried many folk remedies and was even fed horse urine.
The mother-in-law later spent money to find a woman who had given birth to several sons to help her family carry on the family line. More than a year later, she did indeed have a grandson, but before she could even be happy, the man's biological father came to her door to make trouble.
Only then did the family realize that the child was not their offspring.
After this incident, rumors spread in the village that the man was useless and couldn't have children.
The couple has lived like this, without children, until now.
"We just adopted it from outside today," the village woman said, sounding somewhat guilty.
Her husband, being a bit more shameless, patted his chest and said, "This child really is ours. Look, it's been so long, and no one has come to claim the child, so it must be ours."
"Caixing, quickly return Dabao to him," Song Yinhua said.
Since Han Zhiyuan doesn't want his son anymore, she might as well help him find new parents.
She hadn't expected that someone from the village would come to claim the child.
She originally planned to leave the child at the village chief's house and wait until dawn the next day, thinking that the village chief and the others would take care of it themselves, and that it was none of her business.
The town is only so big. If Han Zhiyuan finds the child at the village chief's house, he will take the child back and will not use the child to scheme against her again.
It's better this way now.
If Han Zhiyuan knew that his eldest son had become someone else's son, I wonder whether he would cry or laugh!
At this moment, Han Zhiyuan and Chen Wanping are arguing.
Han Zhiyuan was disgusted that Chen Wanping had been touched by an old scoundrel and wanted to break up with her.
He coaxed Chen Wanping for a long time, hoping to get back the money she had run off with and then break off all ties with her.
Chen Wanping thought that he came to see her late at night because he cared about her, but when she tried to be intimate with him, he refused and made various excuses to ask her for money.
“Wanping, you know my family’s situation. My father’s monthly medical expenses have almost wiped out my entire salary. We have three children who need money for food, drink, and basic necessities. I really had no other choice but to come to you late at night. If you don’t want your three children to hate you in the future, then you should take out the money you stole from my house.”
After hearing that Chen Wanping had slept with the old scoundrel, Han Zhiyuan never wanted to have anything to do with her again.
Now all he wants is to get the money back.
In their past life, the two maintained a romantic relationship, and he allowed her to speak ill of Song Yinhua behind the backs of their three children, causing the three children to drift away from Song Yinhua.
He thought that his family of five was what made them a family.
Song Yinhua was ultimately an outsider.
His willingness to marry Song Yinhua, this jinx, and give her a home, is already an immense favor.
For the sake of the three children, for the sake of the mother of the three children, and for the sake of the family of five, Song Yinhua had no choice but to be sacrificed.
As a responsible, dependable, and family-oriented good man, one must endure hardship and make sacrifices.
But now he only feels that she is disgusting and dirty.
“We’re a couple, what’s yours is mine, isn’t it? I’m just keeping that money safe for you and the three kids. I don’t want it to go down the drain because of your dad. Don’t you understand my good intentions?”
Chen Wanping's tears fell in grievance.
"I was tricked by my maternal grandfather's family, and you don't even care about me. You come here and ask me for money!"
Do you still have me in your heart as your wife?
Don't you love me anymore?
"You've fallen in love with Song Yinhua, haven't you? Are you disgusted with me now? Is it...?"
As Chen Wanping questioned him, she punched Han Zhiyuan, which made Han Zhiyuan irritable. He then pushed her away.
This push stunned Chen Wanping.
The two used to be very close, and no matter how much she acted up, he would always pamper her. He never pushed her or even gave her the cold shoulder.
"Han Zhiyuan, what do you mean?"
“You have three children waiting to be fed. Take some of the money you took from my house and let the three children have something to eat first.” Han Zhiyuan avoided Chen Wanping’s question. “You are their biological mother. Don’t push the three children to their deaths.”
"Zhiyuan, I also feel sorry for the three children. What mother in this world doesn't love her own children..." Chen Wanping threw herself into Han Zhiyuan's arms, feeling wronged, but Han Zhiyuan dodged her. "Don't you love me anymore?"
Han Zhiyuan downplayed the issue, saying, "It's getting late, give me some money first."
"My maternal grandfather's family got me drunk and sent me to Wang Pizi's bed in place of Yunyun. Do you think I'm dirty?"
Chen Wanping had actually guessed it from the beginning.
His attitude changed suddenly; what else could it be but this!
"If I said I'm willing to run away with you and our three children, would you still want me?"
Han Zhiyuan stammered, "I can't abandon my parents."
"Then I'll go home with you!"
“I can’t bear to see you working so hard taking care of my father, who is a patient, and also looking after three children. Let Song Yinhua suffer all this. Give me the money; we’re barely making ends meet at home…”
"Han Zhiyuan!" Chen Wanping cried out in grievance, "You just look down on me, don't you?"
"I didn't. If you insist on thinking that way, there's nothing I can do."
Han Zhiyuan now finds even listening to her talk annoying, let alone coaxing her.
The two parted on bad terms.
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