Rebirth 90: The Long Road to Finding a Son

The young man with the afro slapped away the cigarette that Xia Daqiang handed over. He didn't plan to go into the store to eat. Instead, he grabbed Xia Daqiang, who was standing opposite him, by the collar and pulled him forward. He turned around, put one hand on Xia Daqiang's shoulder, and forcefully dragged him out of the store, shouting, "Old Xia, go out and talk to the brothers!"

The middle-aged woman who came with Xia Daqiang felt something was wrong when she saw Xia Daqiang being dragged away by several young men. She was mainly afraid that after Xia Daqiang left, the people at the other table would deny their payment and she would have to pay for the meal.

So the woman quickly shouted in a shrill voice: "Lao Xia! Where are you going?"

Then he took a few quick steps to catch up and pulled Xia Daqiang.

Xia Daqiang turned around and said to the woman impatiently: "It's none of your business, go do what you need to do!"

However, the interaction between the two aroused the interest of several young people.

The afro raised his chin towards the woman, but he said to Xia Daqiang: "Mistress?"

"Just, just, we just met, not familiar with each other!" Xia Daqiang answered stutteringly.

The afro looked at Xia Daqiang's useless look, sneered, and then said: "Don't be afraid, we brothers also have principles in doing things. There is a perpetrator for every wrong and a creditor for every debt. Let alone a mistress, even if she is really your wife, we brothers will not do anything to a woman!"

Then he said to the woman, "Sister-in-law, can I borrow your man for a while?"

Although the woman thought the young men were not easy to mess with, she still plucked up the courage to say to Xia Daqiang: "Old Xia, I don't have any money. Give me the money for the meal before you leave!"

Seeing that the woman didn't understand his expression, Xia Daqiang cursed angrily, "You dead woman, you scumbag, you don't understand what people say, right? I don't have the money to take care of you and those two encumbrances! Go away and don't bother me!"

The woman was insulted by Xia Daqiang in front of so many people. She instantly lost her mind and rushed forward to grab Xia Daqiang and refused to let him leave.

"Xia, please explain clearly, who do you say is a rag? Since I met you, how much money have you spent on me? I am following you to beg for a place to shelter the two children from the wind and rain, so that they won't end up on the streets.

I swear to God, I have never done anything to let you down, but I never expected that you would throw dirty water on me and ruin my reputation in front of so many people today. If you don't make this clear to me today, don't even think about leaving!"

The woman recounted her innocence and grievances while kicking and beating Xia Daqiang. The three young men were afraid of being accidentally injured by the woman, so they jumped aside and watched the fun.

These three young men usually do not work properly. They do some sneaky things and even set up gambling traps with their targets. They cheat and cheat whenever they can, and then try every means to find some evidence against the other party so that those people will think they are unlucky and dare not call the police.

Xia Daqiang, an old bachelor, was one of the targets of their gambling scam. A few days ago, Xia Daqiang owed three young men 20,000 yuan in gambling debts and couldn't pay it back. Now the interest has compounded to 30,000 yuan.

Xia Daqiang also realized belatedly that he had been plotted against, but the other party got in touch with the woman he used to visit often, took a video of him, and claimed that he would send the video to his parents and brothers.

Although Xia Daqiang is usually a bit shaky, he cares a lot about his reputation among his family members, so he dares not speak out.

Unexpectedly, a big pie fell from the sky and hit him on the head. The other party said that if the family of a person named Sun Xiaohao came to find him, he just had to act rogue. Especially when Sun Xiaohao's family asked to draw blood from him, he must not let them succeed.

Just for this, the other party generously paid me 50,000 yuan.

Xia Daqiang was very excited when he saw the 50,000 yuan neatly laid out in front of him. He immediately took the money and went out to buy a pack of good cigarettes, two bottles of good wine, and some cooked food to improve the meals for the mother and her friends who had just settled in his home.

Afterwards, he generously gave the woman two thousand yuan: "Take the children out and buy them two new sets of clothes when you have time. Don't wear tattered clothes all day long, just like I treated you mothers badly!"

The woman happily took the money and took her child to the night market to buy new clothes for herself and her child.

After all, she was a woman in her prime, and she wanted to dress herself up prettier from the bottom of her heart. However, the previous man was poor, lazy, and had a bad temper. Whenever he found that she was dressed nicely, he would accuse her of hooking up with other men and beat and scold her with such fabricated reasons.

Now, she secretly wandered all the way to Jiangjin City with her child, and met Xia Daqiang. He was willing to take her and her children in. The woman was grateful from the bottom of her heart, so during the more than half a month she lived in Xia Daqiang's house, she did the laundry, cooked, cleaned the room, and took care of Xia Daqiang's physiological needs, and served Xia Daqiang very comfortably.

Xia Daqiang also intended to live with this woman. Although he was a domestic violence man in the past, he always felt empty without a woman to take care of the family in these years. When he thought about his retirement, he was even more worried.

After all, I am getting older and older, and I am no longer able to do many tasks. Moreover, after I am over 60, it becomes very difficult to do odd jobs. No one dares to hire me at such an old age!

Moreover, the woman's son will soon become an adult, and she can then let him go out to earn money to support himself. Then, after raising the little girl for a few more years, she can find a husband and get married and receive some dowry money.

Since I have no children, these two women are my only hope for support in my old age.

Of course, the woman was only in her early forties this year, and if he wanted her to follow him all the time, he had to come up with something that could tie her down.

Xia Daqiang has been doing odd jobs here and there over the years. He has been able to feed his entire family, and apart from food and drink, he has some savings, including a fixed deposit of over 100,000 yuan, and a small two-bedroom apartment of 50 square meters in his name.

If he hadn't been tricked by those guys with afros, he would not only have lost all the wages he had just received for the past six months, but also owed another 20,000 yuan. His assets would have been even greater.

This unexpected windfall of 50,000 yuan did solve his urgent needs and made him feel a little more financially comfortable. However, he never expected that before he could even use the money, a few people with explosive hair styles showed up.

When the afro found Xia Daqiang, Sun Aimin and the other two thought that the meeting was over. Unexpectedly, the woman's interference allowed the three of them to understand the relationship between the woman, the child and Xia Daqiang, saving them some trouble.

When the staff of the barbecue restaurant saw the fight breaking out, they rushed forward to break it up. Yuan Siyi also took the opportunity to walk behind Xia Daqiang, and under the pretext of breaking up the fight, she quickly grabbed Xia Daqiang on the head.

Xia Daqiang suddenly felt a pain on his head, which then quickly disappeared, so he didn't take it seriously.

The situation was so confusing that he just thought it was the dead woman pulling out a clump of his hair.