Chapter 196 Returning to China
After waking up from a good sleep, Xia Wanyang was completely recovered. She no longer mentioned the child, nor did she talk about wanting to go home. Zhang Shiye knew that she was hiding all her longings and was holding on with gritted teeth.
After the new semester began, the workload became heavier and more difficult. The two had no time to think about anything else and put all their energy into studying.
Half a year later, Zhang Shiye bought a Ford car through Will's relationship. Will's brother helped pay for it, and Zhang Shiye gave Will's brother a small box of jewelry.
Afterwards, Brother Will admired Zhang Shiye even more. He never asked where the box of jewelry came from, but he could feel that he was different from other international students.
Now that the two of them had a car, Zhang Shiye often took Xia Wanyang on road trips to relieve her stress and mood. During the summer vacation, they also visited several neighboring countries and took a lot of photos as souvenirs, filling up three photo albums.
In the remaining six months, Xia Wanyang was like a chicken with its blood pumped up. She read and reviewed with all her might every day, and during this period she even passed Zhang Shiye's exam.
Finally, before leaving, the two submitted a satisfactory answer sheet and received a graduation certificate from Columbia University with excellent results.
The Will brothers agreed with Zhang Shiye that they would visit them in China within a year. Zhang Shiye was very happy. Although he knew the Will brothers' motives, he also understood that this cooperation would benefit both parties.
In the 1980s, introducing foreign investment was crucial to the country's economic development. China was in the early stages of reform and opening up, and actively attracting foreign investment to promote economic growth became a top priority. Therefore, the Will brothers' visit to China could bring potential business cooperation and investment opportunities, which was undoubtedly an opportunity for Zhang Shiye.
A week before leaving, Xia Wanyang went on a shopping spree as if she was purchasing goods, and asked Will's brother to ship the cars and machine tools back to China. The two brothers looked at so many machine tools and agreed readily without asking any questions.
When they were returning, even the embassy sent representatives to the airport to see them off, and China even sent a special plane to bring these two hundred international students home. None of these two hundred people volunteered to stay, and all of them were brought back to China.
After two years of missing him, Xia Wanyang felt calm now. She leaned on Zhang Shiye's shoulder and asked, "Husband, why am I not excited at all now? Before, I was thinking about going home every minute and every second, why am I not excited now?"
Zhang Shiye put his face against the top of her head and replied gently, "Because it's coming true soon. It's not a dream anymore. In the last six months, you either cried out for the stars or the moon every night when you went to sleep. It almost became a disease for you!"
After more than 20 hours, the plane slowly landed at Beijing Airport. The two were eager to return home and couldn't wait to buy the nearest train tickets. They didn't even want to wait for a minute. They hurriedly said goodbye to several companions who came with them and set out on the journey home in a hurry.
The moment the train stopped at the Shanghai Railway Station, Xia Wanyang became excited and yelled at Zhang Shiye, "Can you hurry up? I told you to put these big boxes away, but you insisted on carrying them with you. It really wasted time."
Zhang Shiye pursed his lips and didn't dare to say a word. He wanted to tell her to slow down, but he was afraid that his wife would get angry, so he could only follow behind, pushing a few large boxes.
The family had no idea that the two of them were coming back on this day. When the children were at home on winter vacation, it was their eldest sister-in-law Su Man who took care of them, and Aunt Qiao was in charge of the small shop in the video hall.
"Zhang Jinyue, Zhang Xingcan, look who's back, my dear son, my dear daughter, mom and dad are home!"
Xia Wanyang screamed so hard that her legs split apart. She threw all her things on the ground, rushed into the house like a gust of wind, and hugged the two children who were eating.
"Mother?"
Xia Wanyang burst into tears and sobbed, "Yes, Dad and Mom have graduated, and we will never leave you again!"
Xiao Xingxing and Xiao Yueyue burst into tears together. They hugged Xia Wanyang's neck tightly, crying loudly as if they wanted to vent all their grievances.
This was the scene Zhang Shiye saw when he moved all his things into the house. The mother and her two children hugged each other tightly and cried bitterly. The third, fourth, fifth and Su Man's daughter Zhang Jinyang were also frightened by the sudden crying.
Their eyes widened, their mouths slightly opened, and they even forgot to swallow the food they were chewing, and it fell out.
Su Man leaned against the kitchen door and her eyes also turned red. Although the two children didn't say it in the past two years, they couldn't suppress the envy in their eyes when they saw the other uncles and their families together.
Zhang Shiye walked over, touched Xiao Xingxing's head, wiped the tears from Xiao Yueyue's face, and asked, "Do you miss your parents?"
The two children nodded quickly, "I miss you so much, Mom and Dad. If you don't come back, we have agreed to go look for you this New Year!"
Zhang Shiye picked up Xiao Xingxing and said through gritted teeth: "Zhang Xingcan, why are you so fat? Starting tomorrow, get up in the morning and run with Dad!"
Zhang Xingcan sniffed his nose and said angrily, "Dad, you should go back to school, but don't take Mom with you, go by yourself!"
Zhang Shiye: “…”
Xia Wanyang burst out laughing, picked up little Yueyue, and kissed her cheek hard, "My Yueyue is getting more and more beautiful, and has grown into a big girl. Mommy is sorry for you, and I didn't accompany you to grow up!"
After saying that, she started crying again.
Looking at Xia Wanyang who was crying and laughing, Zhang Shiye held his forehead helplessly. He had thought about this scene countless times, but he didn't expect it to be exactly the same as he imagined.
"Okay, honey, stop crying. We're back now. We're never leaving again!"
The family of four kissed each other for a long time before Xia Wanyang let go of the two children and greeted her sister-in-law. "I'm sorry, sister-in-law. I missed the children so much that I couldn't help myself. I didn't mean not to greet you!"
Su Man stepped forward and hugged her, "What are you talking about? How could my sister-in-law blame you? We are both mothers, and of course I understand your feelings. If it were me, I would definitely be more exaggerated than you if I had to leave Yangyang for two years."
Zhang Shiye put Little Star down and walked over, bowing to Su Man, "Thank you, sister-in-law, for taking care of the children for us. You have worked hard over the past two years!"
Su Man quickly stepped back, waved her hands and said, "What are you doing? Why are you being so polite after two years of absence? Isn't it my duty as your sister-in-law to take care of your children?"
In the afternoon, Xia Wanyang drove Zhang Shiye to another room, and she hugged the two children, closed the door and took a nap. Zhang Shiye had no choice but to resign himself to his fate and began to clean the house and organize the things he brought back.
In the past two years, except for the fact that the house was filled with clothes when they left, after they sold them, several families would come to clean it every three days, so apart from the lack of popularity, there was nothing much to clean.
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