Sun Aimin and Mr. Song also sat around the round table, chatting while helping to make dumplings.
Old Mrs. Song asked, "Xiao Sun, can you tell us how you and my little one, ah, Wang Zhicheng, met?"
She wanted to call Wang Zhicheng "Little Third", but she felt it was inappropriate, worried that the child was not the son she was looking for, so she called him by his full name a little awkwardly.
Sun Aimin replied: "To be honest, I wanted to rent a house to do a small business, and the house I rented happened to be Lao Wang's.
The elderly couple forced Wang Zhicheng to buy an apartment for each of their daughter and son. They also wanted to sell the two-story house Wang Zhicheng had built and give the proceeds to their youngest son. The house I rented was exactly the house they wanted to sell.
Wang Zhicheng's wife was on the verge of divorcing him because of this incident, so to prevent them from selling the house, she hurriedly put it up for rent through an agency.
When the Song family heard about this, they were filled with hatred. They were both educated people who had been teachers all their lives, but they couldn't help but call the Wang family bastards and worthless.
"The child is not our biological child. It's fine if we don't raise him well, but he has worked hard to succeed, and they are ruining him like this?" Old Mrs. Song said angrily.
Sun Aimin continued, "Who says it's not? When we signed the rental agreement that day, Wang Zhicheng's wife drafted the agreement, which stipulated that only when the rent was enough to cover the money they had invested in building the building would the Wang family have the right to dispose of the building independently."
Seeing how Old Wang and his youngest son reacted, they were very dissatisfied. Their youngest son's eyes were particularly scary. However, because they all depended on Wang Zhicheng for their livelihood, and because they heard that Wang Zhicheng's wife would have to get half of the family property in the divorce, they temporarily stopped making trouble.
But judging by their behavior, they definitely won't let it go. If pushed to the limit, who knows what wicked things they might do!
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Sun Aimin is not a gossipy person, but he still explained the situation of the Wang family to the old couple of the Song family in detail, in order to make them feel more urgent about the matter of recognizing their relatives.
The sooner they recognized Wang Zhicheng, the sooner Wang Zhicheng would wake up and take the initiative to make a complete break with the Wang family, thus preventing the tragedy from happening again.
Since it wasn't a festival, train tickets weren't hard to come by. The two Song brothers waited in line for about an hour at the train station and finally bought tickets to Mafang City the next morning.
However, trains nowadays run relatively slowly. Theoretically, it takes ten hours to travel between two cities by train, but if there is a delay, it will take even longer.
The two brothers bought five sleeper tickets and then hurried back to their parents' home.
At this time, the dumplings were already wrapped, and Mrs. Song was cooking in the kitchen. She originally wanted to cook some dumplings for Sun Aimin to eat first, but Sun Aimin insisted on waiting for the two eldest brothers of the Song family to come back before eating together.
So, while Mrs. Song was cooking, Sun Aimin continued to chat with Mr. Song.
After discussing Wang Zhicheng's story, Sun Aimin then told him about other abducted children. It was then that Mr. Song realized there were still so many abducted children and parents whose children had not been found.
In that era, the Internet was not yet popular, and people got news through radio, television, and newspapers. Information was relatively closed. In their circle, they were the only family that had lost a child, and they thought such things were rare.
The two were chatting when the brothers Song Hongwen and Song Hongwu came in. When Mrs. Song heard the door open, she quickly started to boil water and cook dumplings.
The two brothers had already said goodbye to their respective families and would go back home after dinner. They would go home to pack a few changes of clothes and toiletries, and then meet up at the train station early the next morning.
After dinner, the two brothers left their parents’ and Sun Aimin’s train tickets and each took their own ticket so that it would be more convenient to check in on the train the next day.
Then they left first.
The old couple of the Song family knew that Sun Aimin had taken such a long train ride to get here, and they didn't want to delay Sun Aimin's rest any longer, so they pushed Sun Aimin to wash up and go to bed while they were clearing the table.
After a long day of hard work, Sun Aimin was indeed a little tired, so he went to bed early. He slept very soundly.
As for the old couple of the Song family, they used to have a relatively regular schedule, but because of what happened today, they couldn't sleep at night and lay in bed chatting until late at night.
The train was at around ten in the morning. Although the old couple went to bed late, they woke up quite early and prepared breakfast around seven as usual.
After having breakfast with the old couple, Sun Aimin helped them carry their luggage and went to the train station together.
Finally, they found Song Hongwen and Song Hongwu near the ticket gate of the train station. They sat in the waiting room and listened carefully to the ticket information broadcast on the loudspeaker, and then boarded the train to Mafang City together.
Although several people were sitting in sleeper berths, the berths were very hard and not very comfortable to lie on, let alone those hard seats that they had to sit on for more than ten hours.
The food we ate on the road was all bought in advance, including bucket noodles, sausages, bread, boiled eggs, etc. We ate something together. When we were sleepy, we lay down on the seats for a while. When we were not sleepy, we chatted. We didn't feel bored at all.
Finally, after an eleven-hour journey, the train finally stopped at Mafang Railway Station.
When everyone got off the bus, it was already nine o'clock in the evening. Sun Aimin went home. The Song family didn't want to trouble Sun Aimin, so they found a hotel near the train station to stay in.
After Sun Aimin completed the accommodation registration with the Song family, he made an appointment with them to meet at nine o'clock the next morning and then set out together to find Wang Zhicheng.
Sun Aimin actually had his own reasons for making this arrangement. When he went to do this, he was unsure whether it would succeed, so he didn't inform Zhang Ying in advance.
He planned to call Zhang Ying at seven or eight o'clock tomorrow morning to explain the situation.
Judging from Zhang Ying's state that day, she wished that the Wang family would disappear from their lives immediately. Therefore, if this matter was made clear to Zhang Ying in advance, she would definitely be more willing to facilitate Wang Zhicheng's recognition of his relatives.
Wang Zhicheng was able to do such a good business, and he was not a rigid or unreasonable person. In addition, Zhang Ying's attitude and the greed of the Wang family pushed Wang Zhicheng's relationship with the Wang family further and further away.
Now, he just needs an opportunity to legitimately sever ties with the Wang family, and the arrival of the Song family is that most important opportunity.
By then, there must be a hidden secret about how Wang Zhicheng came to the Wang family. Wang Zhicheng will clearly realize that the family that raised him is not a benefactor, but an enemy.
No matter what decision he made, whether it was to sever ties with the Wang family directly or to hold the Wang family accountable, it was basically impossible for him to become a money-making tool for the Wang family again.
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