Sun Xiaohao carried Zhan Jinhua's luggage and asked her, "Mom, where are we going now?"
Zhan Jinhua thought for a moment and replied, "Where do you usually stay? Go back and wait for me. I'll go do something first, and then I'll come find you..."
Sun Xiaohao, however, looked reluctant and a little embarrassed: "Mom, I don't have a fixed place to live. I just stay under the overpass, on the park bench, wherever there is a place to lie down.
I've been alone all these years, and now that I've finally found my family, I don't want to be separated from you anymore. Where are you going? I'll come with you. I promise not to interfere with your work, and if there's anything you need to run errands, I can help you out!
Zhan Jinhua thought about it and decided that keeping Sun Xiaohao around wasn't a bad idea. Perhaps she could use him for something. For example, if something dangerous happened, she could push him out and use someone else to get rid of this evil star so that he wouldn't be an eyesore in front of her.
She thought about this in her heart and asked Sun Xiaohao: "I haven't asked you how you got lost from your family yet..."
Sun Xiaohao replied: "I was too young at the time, and I can't remember some things clearly. I just remember that my sister had a quarrel with my grandmother and her family, and my grandmother kicked us out. My sister said she would take us back to my grandmother's house, but she was abducted by human traffickers on the train and was later found by my uncle.
Later, my grandmother's family treated my sister badly and wanted to marry her to an old man in the village. As a result, something happened at home on her wedding day, so my sister ran away with me and my brother.
My sister didn't have much money, and she had to take care of me and my brother, so she was a little overwhelmed. While she wasn't paying attention, I was knocked unconscious and taken away by the traffickers. The buyer saw that I could remember and didn't want me, so the traffickers just abandoned me along the way..."
Zhan Jinhua was quite familiar with the practices of her peers. It was not uncommon for them to abandon a kidnapped child who couldn't be sold. This child was lucky; a less fortunate child might have been thrown under a bridge or into a river by the traffickers to silence them.
After listening to Sun Xiaohao's story, she felt a little regretful, thinking that if her colleague had been more ruthless towards Sun Xiaohao, she could have saved her a lot of trouble. In this situation, she could only take it one step at a time.
Zhan Jinhua asked Sun Xiaohao, "How much money do you have on you right now? Mom is going to look for someone, and without money, we can't go anywhere!"
Sun Xiaohao pulled out a handful of crumpled change from his pocket and counted it carefully: "Mom, two hundred and sixty, that's all I have. How do you think I'm going to spend this money?"
Two hundred and sixty? Zhan Jinhua really looked down upon these few dollars and secretly cursed her son for being so useless. He looked quite smart, but how come he was twenty-two and ended up in such a mess?
When she learned about current wages and prices, she felt even more desperate. Remember, when she went in, those two hundred and sixty yuan were equivalent to some workers' monthly wages. And now she was told that this amount was only enough for a few meals?
No, she couldn't just sit there and wait for death. She had to find the girl she had sent away as soon as possible.
She remembered that the family treated the child very well and was well off. Although they later gave birth to a son, they never treated her daughter badly and believed that the couple's ability to have their own child was due to their adopted daughter.
There's a popular saying that some people are destined to be childless, but adoptive children are destined to have siblings. If a person has their own children, but treats their adopted children poorly or even abandons them, their own biological children will suffer as well.
The family thought that their son came into this world because of his connection with the daughter given up for adoption by Zhan Jinhua, so they regarded the girl as a lucky star.
In addition, she also had a rough idea of the family's financial situation, which was average, and they lived a good life.
If she went over now and cried and begged her daughter, she probably wouldn't ignore her.
The family that adopted Zhan Jinhua's youngest daughter was surnamed "Xing", and they named their adopted daughter "Xing Jiaqi".
They took the child home to raise before she was even a month old. It can be said that they raised her by themselves, and she is no different from their own daughter.
With the rapid development of the city, many old neighborhoods have been demolished. Zhan Jinhua wasn't sure if she could easily find the Xing family's address. However, she remembered where the man worked. Even if she couldn't find him, she should be able to contact some of his colleagues. There must be someone who knows about the family.
Zhan Jinhua and Sun Xiaohao took a taxi and kept thinking about this matter in the car.
She had been working in there for many years, and had been using the sewing machine a lot. After more than ten years in there, she actually took home 8,000 yuan in wages when she came out.
The Xing family lived in her hometown of Jiangyuan City, while she and Sun Xiaohao were currently in Mafang City. To find their adopted daughter, Xing Jiaqi, they had to take a train and find food and lodging. Sun Xiaohao's few dollars wouldn't go far, so she had to use her own money.
The two of them got on the bus and went straight to the train station, where they bought tickets to Jiangyuan City. In Zhan Jinhua's memory, there were only green-skinned trains.
Mafang City and Jiangyuan City are not far apart, and the green train only takes three or four hours to reach them. Now that the two cities are connected by high-speed rail, the travel time has been shortened to just over an hour.
The train station here has also been rebuilt. It is many times more magnificent than the old train station and is full of modern atmosphere.
Zhan Jinhua bought two high-speed rail tickets without hesitation. After being out of touch with society for so long, she wanted to experience something new. Besides, she had never experienced hardship, so she couldn't compromise within her means.
After boarding the high-speed train, Zhan Jinhua realized she had been out of touch with society for far too long. She had no idea society had become so developed!
After getting off the bus, the two took a taxi to the workplace of Xing Jiaqi's adoptive father, Xing Zhiqiang. Fortunately, the factory was still there. It was just that Xing Zhiqiang had just retired two years ago.
After a little inquiry, Zhan Jinhua found out the current address of the Xing family.
She took Sun Xiaohao to the residential area where the Xing family lived and asked people there about the Xing family's affairs in a roundabout way.
This community is a resettlement housing complex, and most of the residents are those who moved in after the old community was demolished. Many of them work in the same unit, and many of them know Xing Zhiqiang.
Zhan Jinhua learned from residents of the community that Xing Zhiqiang's son and daughter were both college graduates. His daughter studied at a junior college and worked in finance at a company, while his son graduated with a bachelor's degree and then studied for a master's degree, and is about to graduate this year.
Xing Jiaqi is now married in this city. She has a five-year-old son who attends kindergarten and is usually taken care of by the Xings.
Zhan Jinhua's head buzzed when she heard Xing Jiaqi had given birth to a son. In their Zhan family, except for her father, Zhan Dayou, no other man had lived past fifty. Living to forty was considered the limit. And her three younger brothers had all died of illness before they even reached thirty.
Fortunately, it was her daughter's son, not her own. Even if he died of illness early in the future, it would have nothing to do with her. After all, in her eyes, the children she gave birth to were all used by her.
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