After the New Year, the Zhao family.
"You absolutely have to go?"
Han's mother asked Han Bailan.
"Um."
Han Bailan nodded.
"You can earn money anywhere, so why do you have to go to such a faraway place? How can your father and I feel at ease?!"
Han's mother couldn't understand why Han Bailan wanted to go to a southern city to find work. She frowned slightly and said, "Can't you find a job in our town or the county seat?"
"I don't want to run into acquaintances."
Han Bailan said, "It won't be long before news of my divorce spreads throughout the town. When I step out of my house, I'll definitely be pointed at and gossiped about... As for finding a job in the county town, the Zhao family will definitely not let me have any peace."
After divorcing Zhao Jing, Han Bailan received approximately eight thousand yuan from the Zhao family and signed an agreement with them. The agreement stipulated that Han Bailan would sever her parent-child relationship with her son.
Furthermore, one must not go to the Zhao family to find someone, nor can one meet them secretly; otherwise, one must pay child support monthly or quarterly until the child reaches adulthood.
Han Bailan had no intention of paying child support. The moment she decided to divorce, she was determined to sever her mother-son relationship with the ungrateful child she had given birth to. Therefore, as a condition for negotiating with the Zhao family, Han Bailan made a resolute statement in front of Zhao's parents and Zhao Jing, revealing her true thoughts.
The Zhao family was only briefly taken aback by this, but quickly returned to normal, giving the impression that they had already anticipated Han Bailan's intention to sever all ties with the Zhao family before she even spoke.
If the relationship is completely severed, then naturally the son will not be acknowledged again!
Han's parents couldn't understand Han Bailan's actions. They even called their daughter outside to persuade her, but Han Bailan was determined and wouldn't listen to a word. However, she did give her reasons.
The so-called reason was undoubtedly fabricated by Han Bailan. Even though Han's parents didn't quite believe it, they could see that Han Bailan was determined not to have the child and to completely sever the bond between mother and son.
Han's parents felt somewhat uncomfortable, but the thought that Han Bailan would remarry and have another child made them feel a little better.
"You go to your job. Do you think the Zhao family would go to your workplace and cause trouble?"
The South is so far away. If something happens to you there, you won't have any relatives by your side. What will you do then?
Han's father was genuinely worried about Han Bailan going to a southern city to find a job.
"With the law in place, they certainly won't lay a hand on me, but they have mouths. Once they find out I work in the county town, they might find a place to spread rumors about how bad I am."
For example, I could be ruthless and get a divorce, severing my relationship with my son completely.
After all this commotion, do you think I can still keep my job?
Han Bailan stared intently at her parents. Seeing their silence, she continued without much emotion, "It's been several years since the reforms started, and many people from our area have gone to work in the south."
I've heard that factories in the south pay their workers very high wages. I want to earn as much as I can while I'm young, so I'll have more confidence no matter what I do in the future.
Go work in a factory?
Han Bailan had no idea; she was merely using this as an excuse to appease her parents and make it easier for her to go south to purchase goods.
That's right, Han Bailan plans to import goods from the south and sell them in the provincial capital here, mainly women's and children's clothing.
In the dream she had before, many people in China took advantage of the reform and opening up to start businesses. Not to mention far away, in their town and county alone, some people opened all kinds of shops and became the first batch of wealthy families.
Since she was fortunate enough to have that dream, she naturally couldn't miss the opportunity to make money. Besides, even without that dream, private shops were starting to appear in towns and counties one after another.
Like breakfast stalls, small restaurants, clothing stores...
Although it's not as respectable as working in a state-owned enterprise, being self-employed has its advantages—you can make money quickly and earn more!
The purpose of life is simply to survive. Earning more money will improve the quality of life. Based on this, why should she work for someone else and earn only thirty or forty yuan a month?
Han's mother: "Then you don't need to travel so far to find a job! You can try looking in the city or the provincial capital!"
Han Bailan: "Mom, I won't change my mind. You and Dad can rest assured. I'll call you as soon as I get to the city in the south to let you know I'm safe."
"Have your older brother go with you!"
Han's father spoke up, and upon hearing this, Han Bailan shook her head: "My older brother has a job in town. If he goes south with me, what will happen to his job?"
"That is indeed a matter..."
There hasn't been a wave of layoffs yet, and everyone is proud to have a secure job, believing it's a guarantee of income regardless of circumstances. Therefore, it's unlikely that anyone would easily give up a secure job to risk starting their own business or working for a privately owned workshop.
“Dad, I’m not a three-year-old. I’ll be careful when I’m out. I’ll let you and Mom know I’m safe as soon as I arrive in the southern city. I’ll also call you every now and then. If I can’t wait, I’ll come back to visit you during the holidays.”
Seeing that Han Bailan was determined to go south to find work, Han's parents finally stopped objecting. However, Han's mother did specify a date: "When are you leaving?"
"We'll be leaving the day after tomorrow."
Tomorrow is the Lantern Festival, so leaving a day or two later won't cause any major problems.
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Han Bailan went to the south to purchase goods as she wished. From then on, she started her own business and went from setting up a street stall to renting a shop and then buying a shop. It only took her ten years.
Over the past decade, she has dated more than one boyfriend until last year, when she got together with a business partner.
The marriage registration process went smoothly without any mistakes, but Han Bailan was unaware that in the fifth year of their marriage, the man had started a family outside the marriage. By the time Han Bailan discovered this, he and the other woman had already had one son, two daughters, and one son.
Han Bailan made a huge scene and asked the man for a divorce, but he didn't say a word and just told her that they had no money left in their names.
In addition, he used the house he lived in and the several clothing stores he ran as collateral for bank loans. Unfortunately, he was tricked and lost everything.
In other words, there will be no property disputes between Han Bailan and him after their divorce.
What is the reality?
The man had secretly sold the house where the two lived and several shops that Han Bailan had purchased behind her back, and after the sale, he secretly transferred all the money and his own property.
Perhaps because she trusted men too much, Han Bailan didn't notice anything at all.
Crying and making a scene is useless. If you don't get a divorce, the man isn't in a hurry either, since he has somewhere else to go anyway.
Driven to the brink of madness by the man's shamelessness, Han Bailan, unable to bear it any longer, secretly abducted and sold the two children the man had with another woman. In a struggle with the other woman, she accidentally pushed her down the stairs, causing her to become paralyzed from the spine.
The court tried the case and sentenced her to three years in prison. Unexpectedly, on the very day the court handed down the sentence, Han Bailan's husband found evidence proving that his two children had been abducted and trafficked by Han Bailan.
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