Rebirth: The Comeback of the Girl
Chapter 231 - 230: Educating Children

Chapter 231: Chapter 230: Educating Children

The outcome was, of course, that everyone left unhappily. Mr. Zhen picked up his little daughter and all the friends silently made their way back to the Zhen Family house. After Zhen Yan had returned the tricycle to the Fu Family, everyone entered the Zhen Family courtyard together. There was no need for Zhen Yu to speak; Han Jiaoyang promptly locked the courtyard door.

Everyone was not in the mood to study and, after taking off their coats, they gathered around the table and started chatting.

Bai Xue had held it in all the way, feeling as if she would burst if she didn’t speak out soon. So as soon as she sat down, she said indignantly, "Is that old lady insane? What right does she have to dump that child here? She’s not even Aunt Cheng’s child! If you ask me, she should have been thrown out directly!"

Fu Yu joined in, "Exactly! Exactly! If we had known earlier that the child was born by that woman, we would never have bothered bringing her here!"

The second they saw Mr. Zhen, everyone understood who the little person was, and of course, they understood what kind of person the old lady was.

Han Jiaoyang spoke with lingering fear, "In the future, your house really needs to be locked up tight! Who knows if that old lady will come and dump another child here!"

Feeling everyone’s protective stance towards his own family, Zhen Yan felt healed in an instant.

He spoke with shared anger, "Right! You all come over early, and I’ll keep the doors locked from morning until night! Let’s see how they can get in then! If she has the gall, she can just leave the child at the door! If the child freezes to death, it serves her right!"

Surrounded by naive yet earnest words and caring gazes, Zhen Yu took a deep breath and smiled, "I’m fine," and just as she was about to say more, the hand under the table was suddenly held by someone.

"..." Zhen Yu didn’t turn her head; she knew it was Han Mingyue.

Her smile stiffened slightly, but she quickly regained her composure and continued, "I’m sorry to have troubled everyone today, I hope there won’t be a next time. If there is, just pretend you don’t recognize them and take them straight to the police station!"

As soon as she finished speaking, Han Mingyue said, "I’ll talk to my dad tonight and ask him to give Uncle Zhen a call."

"Yes, yes! Let our dad have a word! Next time we definitely won’t indulge her whims!" Han Jiaoyang agreed with his brother.

"Alright." Zhen Yu nodded her agreement, then looked at Fu Yu and Bai Xue and warned, "You two, don’t mention this when you get home! We wouldn’t want it to reach my mom’s ears and needlessly upset her."

"Okay!"

"Got it."

——

It’s unclear whether it was because Han Youliang said something to Mr. Zhen or because the Zhen Family were constantly locking their doors and keeping vigilant, but the Zhen Family courtyard remained peaceful for the following week.

This peace was like the darkness before dawn or the false recovery before death. The longer the calm lasted, the more Zhen Yuxin sensed an impending storm.

Although Mrs. Zhen didn’t know about the ’child being dumped’ at her house, she had learned of Mr. Zhen’s infidelity the day she returned from Qi City to the town.

She came home that evening and talked incessantly. Strangely enough, her focus was not on schadenfreude towards the mistress or relief from getting rid of a scumbag.

Instead, she used her own experiences with Mr. Zhen as a cautionary tale to educate their two children.

"Xiao Yan, oh! When you grow up, never be like your father! Or mom will disown you as her son! Such mistakes, once there’s a first time, there will be a second! And if there’s a second, there will be a third! So from the very beginning, you absolutely cannot make them! Do you hear me?!"

"I heard you!" Zhen Yan’s response was full of vigor; clearly, in his heart, everything his mother said was right!

"My dear daughter, in the future when you look for a partner, you absolutely cannot marry someone like your dad! He puts on airs when he’s broke; and when he has money, he’s still blindly arrogant! Claiming it’s all for the sake of having a son! Isn’t Zhen Yan his son too? He’s just using wanting a son as an excuse! Not to mention favoring sons over daughters, his character is also lacking! There’s an old saying, isn’t there? One breach of trust means no further reliance! What we need to look for is someone who truly cares for you! Do you understand?"

"I understand, don’t worry about it," Zhen Yu replied nonchalantly, as if she didn’t take it to heart at all.

This provoked Mrs. Zhen to grab her ear and nag several more times until she was too tired to continue speaking.

——

Zhen Yu’s premonition was confirmed on the eve of the Lunar New Year; the moment Mrs. Zhen returned home, she started rattling on nonstop.

"Your dad is getting divorced again! Huh!" Mrs. Zhen’s snorted with a sarcastic laugh, "I heard he went to the court today, to divide the assets with that woman! People say part amicably, but look at these two! They’re getting all red-eyed over a bit of money! I also heard that neither of them wants the child, they’re both just fixated on getting more money!"

Zhen Yan and Zhen Yu exchanged glances, both feeling immense relief.

However, what Zhen Yan thought was, "It’s a good thing my mom wants me!"

And Zhen Yu’s thought was, "My mom is truly great! Not every ’child with a mom’ is considered a treasure!!"

With these thoughts in mind, for the first time, the siblings clung to their mother’s side. Each took one of Mrs. Zhen’s arms, and rested their heads in her embrace.

Zhen Yu called out softly, "Mom."

Zhen Yan twisted his body, acting coquettishly, "Mom~~~"

As the long sound finished, both Mrs. Zhen and Zhen Yu instinctively shuddered!

Mrs. Zhen scolded with a laugh, "You little rascal! Speak properly!"

Zhen Yan made a face and quieted down, while Mrs. Zhen enjoyed the rare closeness of her children and wasn’t in any hurry to cook dinner, starting a casual chat with them.

——

"We three are usually too busy, and mom doesn’t have time to educate you properly. Today, I’ll take this opportunity to properly talk to you both about the ways of the world."

"You both know your mom isn’t well-educated, just a junior high graduate! But what I’ve experienced and seen in half my lifetime is certainly plenty!"

Mrs. Zhen said this and suddenly let out a deep sigh, "Before, no matter how hard I worked or how much money I made, I knew none of it would end up in my pocket! It was like that before I got married, and it stayed the same after. Back then, I just sincerely believed your grandma was right; I couldn’t just stop caring for her because I got married."

"Because of sending things and money to my parental home, your dad, he cursed and he beat me. But it became a habit, whenever I got something nice, I wanted to take it to your grandma!"

"It wasn’t until your dad brought that woman home, and Xiao Yu called for divorce! That’s when I suddenly realized that married life shouldn’t be like mine! But I can live without a man, I can’t live without you two! You both are flesh of my flesh!" Mrs. Zhen’s voice choked up, tears coming down, "At that moment, I thought, I don’t care what I have to give up, but not my children to Zhen Hailong! If I have one bite to eat, it has to be enough for the both of you siblings!""

Zhen Yu quietly lifted her hand to wipe away her mother’s tears, and Mrs. Zhen, with a smile through her tears, continued, "Then your grandma came to ask me for money again! It hadn’t been long since the divorce! How could she be so indifferent, not considerate of me at all? I just couldn’t understand it then! Are her six sons treasures while her only daughter is a wild weed growing in the field?"

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