Reborn in the 1980s: Recapture My Devoted Husband-Chapter 614 - 595: Dad’s Struggles
The family who took Guozhi away, they investigated, those two elderly people moved to Z City with their son. The Lin elders had the police visit them once and asked questions, but they refused to admit they took a child away back then. They only said they found him.
They even said they worked hard to put the child through college, but the child was ungrateful and left without a word.
The Lin Family would not listen to their nonsense and also sent people to C City to find a lot of evidence.
In those years, in their C City home, they often mistreated his brother by making him do laundry and cook meals for the entire family at a young age. He only went to school because a kind-hearted old professor taught his brother to read, allowing him to go to college. Finally, the professor also helped pay the tuition.
His brother finally got into college and was assigned a job, but that heartless family actually took away his brother’s job position for their son, relegating his brother to work as a youth in the countryside.
If it weren’t for them, his brother’s job transfer to here might have allowed the family to reunite.
Now that family has been punished, and at this moment, the elderly couple has been taken in for reeducation.
Initially, he wanted to mess with the job of their eldest son, but in the end, his brother stopped him. After all, at that time, after having a child, they didn’t abandon him nor sell him off, which was already quite good.
If they were more ruthless and sold Lin Guozhi to some remote village for money to subsidize household expenses, who knows what his fate would have been.
Ever since Lin Guozhi remembered, he has been trying to find information about the old professor’s family, planning to repay them well. If it hadn’t been for the old professor back then, he would be illiterate now. His accomplishments now might have been nonexistent.
With a large family and many children, Liang Hongmei opened the box of White Rabbit candies she brought and let them take and eat it themselves.
With a few older brothers around, Little Star became the cherished member of the family, not needing adults to carry her, as several children were competing to hold the little sister.
Lin Wan observed for a moment; the second uncle and second aunt were decent people, the young aunt lively, while the young uncle appeared to be honest.
The whole family was very kind and welcoming to them.
Today, except for Lin Yuan’s husband Wang Yuan who was absent, everyone else was present. 𝗳𝚛𝚎𝚎𝘄𝕖𝕓𝕟𝕠𝚟𝚎𝕝.𝗰𝕠𝐦
The big family, with Mom, the second aunt, and the young aunt all in the kitchen. At home, there was only her and Lin Yuan, the two granddaughters, and the granddaughter Peng Le, who was eighteen and still had a student air. She heard that she studied something related to chemical engineering, and she would enter a research institute after graduation.
Peng Le expressed an intention to pursue graduate and doctoral studies, and Lin Wan had to admire her. Wouldn’t she become a chemistry PhD in the future?
"The matter with Ah Hui and Qingqing, the family already knows. The two from the Mu Family are sycophants, climbing high and stepping low, everyone in the compound knows," Grandma Lin said at the dinner table. "Qingqing, don’t take these to heart, you’re good, it’s just that your parents are unreliable, but our Lin Family are people who value feelings. It’s good that you and Ah Hui love each other, don’t worry about family matters. Your grandpa and I will talk to them someday, so they won’t bother you two. It’s too harsh to cut ties with biological parents, it’s bad for you and easily gossiped about."
"Thank you, Grandma," Mu Qing was truly touched by the Lin Family.
When the incident happened, her parents-in-law didn’t say a harsh word to her, and Grandpa Lin and Grandma Lin didn’t despise her either.
If it were another family, even if not allowing divorce, life at the husband’s home wouldn’t be easy; she’d face discrimination everywhere.
"Let’s hold the wedding on our side. As for Ah Hui’s job, your second uncle is working on it, and it should be transferred back before the eleventh. Now it’s just Xiao Wan’s family still outside."
"Haha, Dad, both grandsons are civil servants. You regretted An Liang not joining the military, and knowing Ah Hui is in politics, you sighed. But it’s not a loss, the granddaughters married soldiers. The two grandsons-in-law are commendable, they’re good prospects," the young aunt joked.
Grandpa laughed, "It’s complementary. We promoted Xiao Yuan’s marriage. I always liked that boy since he was little. Now Xiao Wan retrieved a great son-in-law. Han Yi is well-known both in the North and Central Plains District. Everyone knows his shooting is precise. I mentioned it last time. This young man, with one gun and over a hundred bullets, made his way behind enemy lines alone, engaging in guerrilla warfare, hitting every shot, taking down 160 enemies, setting the record across several districts. This story is popular among my old pals. When I bragged about Han Yi as my grandson-in-law, they didn’t believe me, thought I was boasting," Grandpa Lin said proudly, finally telling Han Yi, "Xiao Yi, after dinner, I’ll take you to meet those old pals to show them it’s true."
Han Yi smiled and nodded, "Listening to Grandpa."
Lin Wan knew about this matter; Han Yi mentioned it previously, though not so widely reported. Yet, many knew privately.
The family happily finished dinner, and Grandpa Lin didn’t care about the big family, taking some kids and Han Yi out to boast to his old partners.
Lin Wan and Lin Yuan stayed to chat with Grandma, Mom, and a few others, eating fruit while conversing.
They got familiar with cousins and relatives.
"Sister Xiao Wan, Aunt said the clothes she’s wearing were made by you," Peng Le asked while eating an apple, leaning on a chair.
"Yes."
"Lele, you don’t know, Xiao Wan has a clothing factory in S City," Lin Yuan smiled.
"Really?" Peng Le immediately sat upright, curious.
"It’s not a clothing factory, just a small workshop at home," Lin Wan explained and laughed, "don’t exaggerate."
"I’m not exaggerating. In a couple of years, you’ll definitely have your own clothing factory."
"Sister Xiao Wan, when will your clothes be sold in Z City? Sister Xiao Yuan said your designs are nice for our age group."
"There’s distance between S City and Z City, transportation isn’t convenient, mainly because we haven’t made much stock yet. S Province is large; we can’t cover it. But maybe, in the future, I’ll consider opening here when I come."
"Oh, Sister Xiao Wan, hurry and come here, hurry!" Lele, eager to wear clothes made by Lin Wan, kept pestering.
Lin Wan realized she needed to expedite her clothing factory, as opportunities now were precious and increasing capacity was necessary to quickly open the market.
"Lele, don’t bother Sister Xiao Wan, why act like a kid here too," Peng Fei’s wife, Li Meili, lightly slapped her little sister-in-law.
Peng Le instead exposed her sister-in-law’s secret, "Sister-in-law, didn’t you say you wanted clothes made by Xiao Wan because they’re pretty, and wanted Xiao Wan to make clothes for you? Now that she’s here, why so reserved?"
Wang Xi teased, "Your sister-in-law is impatient. She’s in the art troupe, easy to please with nice clothes. You heard your brother complaining earlier, ’my sister-in-law’s clothes fill the wardrobe, and he only has four outfits, all military-issued.’"
Li Meili glanced sideways with a smile, "Don’t listen to his nonsense. He can’t wear the clothes I buy because military attire is uniform, the same couple of outfits. I bought him quite a few clothes, but he won’t wear them."
"Big cousin, wait for me, if I come here, all your clothes are on me," Lin Wan rejoiced at such a warm family atmosphere. It was wonderful.
"Sure, sure, that’s your promise, no backing out," Li Meili laughed.
"Definitely."
"Me too, me too," Peng Le raised her hand, afraid of being left out.
"Xiao Wan, how long are you staying here? Let’s go around Z City tomorrow," Lin Yuan asked, holding Xiao Wan.
"Probably a week, I plan to go to Shanghai with Han Yi in a few days."
"Then there’s enough time. I have two days off. Let’s go out tomorrow."
"Sure."
Grandpa Lin returned, smiling, with kids and Han Yi after showing off outside. Clearly, he earned a lot of face.
Little Star in Han Yi’s arms was already asleep.
"This child must have played exhaustively today," Lin Wan intended to take the child, but Han Yi worried they’d wake the child fumbling around.
