Chapter 416: Zhan Jinhua Looking for Her Daughter
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 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 room for someone to lie down.
I've been alone all these years, and now I've finally found my family, and I don't want to be separated from you anymore. Where are you going? Can I go with you? I promise not to interfere with your work, and if there's anything you need to run errands for, I can help you out!"
Zhan Jinhua thought about it and decided that it was not a bad idea to keep Sun Xiaohao by her side. Perhaps she could make use of him. For example, if something dangerous happened, she could push him out and use someone else to get rid of this disaster star so that he would not be an eyesore in front of her.
She thought about this in her mind 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 that time, and I can't remember some things clearly. I just remember that my sister had a quarrel with my grandmother and she 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 my brother and me.
My sister didn’t have much money, and she had to take care of me and my brother, so she was a little overwhelmed. She wasn’t paying attention, and I was knocked unconscious by the traffickers. The buyer saw that I could remember things, so he didn’t want me, and the traffickers just abandoned me on the way…”
Zhan Jinhua was quite familiar with the practices of her peers. It was not uncommon to abandon a kidnapped child that could not be sold. The child was lucky. If he was unlucky, he might have been thrown under a bridge or into a river by the traffickers to silence him.
After listening to Sun Xiaohao's story, she felt a little regretful, thinking that if her colleague had been more ruthless to Sun Xiaohao at that time, she could have saved her a lot of trouble. In this situation now, she can only take one step at a time.
Zhan Jinhua asked Sun Xiaohao: "How much money do you have on you now? Mom is going to look for someone now, and she can't go anywhere without money!"
Sun Xiaohao took 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 six? 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 so messed up at the age of twenty-two?
When she learned about the current wages and prices, she became even more desperate. You know, when she entered, the two hundred and sixty yuan was equivalent to the monthly salary of some workers. But now she was told that this money 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 their family conditions were good. Although they later gave birth to a son, they never treated her daughter badly and thought that the couple was able to have their own child because of this adopted daughter.
Because there is always a saying among the people that some people are destined to be childless, but the adopted children are destined to have siblings. If after having your own children, if you treat the adopted children badly or even abandon them directly, then your own children will also suffer.
The family thought that their son came into this world because of his fate with the daughter given up by Zhan Jinhua, so they regarded this girl as a lucky star.
In addition, she also found out about the family's financial situation, which was average and they lived a good life.
If she went over now and cried poor and pitiful to her daughter, she would probably not 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 biological daughter.
Nowadays, the city is developing rapidly and many old communities have been demolished. Zhan Jinhua is not sure whether she can easily find the address of the Xing family. However, she still remembers where the man works. Even if she can't find him, she should be able to contact some of his colleagues. There must be someone who knows the news about this 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 operated the sewing machine a lot. After being in there for more than ten years, she actually took home 8,000 yuan in wages when she came out.
The Xing family was in her hometown, Jiangyuan City, while she and Sun Xiaohao were now in Mafang City. To find their adopted daughter Xing Jiaqi, they had to take a train first, and also solve the problem of food and accommodation. Sun Xiaohao's few dollars were not enough, so she could only use her own money.
The two of them got on the bus and went directly to the train station and bought train tickets to Jiangyuan City. In Zhan Jinhua's memory, there were only green trains.
Mafang City is not far from Jiangyuan City, and the green train only takes three or four hours to get there. Now that the two cities are connected by high-speed rail, the travel time has been shortened to more than an hour.
The train station here was also rebuilt. It is many times more magnificent than the old one and is full of modern atmosphere.
Zhan Jinhua bought two high-speed rail tickets without hesitation. After being out of society for so long, she wanted to experience something new. Besides, she had never suffered from hardship since she was a child, so she would not compromise herself within her ability.
After getting on the high-speed train, Zhan Jinhua felt that she had been out of touch with society for too long. She never thought that society has developed to this level!
After getting off the car, 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 in the past two years.
After a little inquiry, Zhan Jinhua found out the Xing family's current address.
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 residents who moved here after the old community was demolished. Many people 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 are all college graduates. His daughter has a junior college degree and works in finance at a company, while his son graduated from college and went on to study for a master's degree, and will graduate this year.
Now Xing Jiaqi is married in this city. She has a son who is now five years old and in kindergarten. She usually asks the old couple of Xing's family to help take care of him.
When Zhan Jinhua heard that Xing Jiaqi gave birth to a son, her head started buzzing. In their Zhan family, except for her father Zhan Dayou, no other man lived past fifty, and living to forty was already the limit. Her three younger brothers all died of illness before they even reached thirty.
But fortunately, it was her daughter's son, not her son. 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.