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Chapter 165: The Nanny in Troubled Times 31

Ye Zhiqiu couldn't bear to see Dabao crying like this, even though he knew that he would most likely fail. Instead, Zhang Da was furious and wanted to scold Dabao.

"Fifty is fifty, but you have to cooperate with me to get your household registration done. Also, you can't look for Dabao in the future. You have to sign an agreement to sever the father-son relationship."

Zhang Da said yes to everything as long as there was money to be made. Dabao didn't care anymore and was pushed to Ye Zhiqiu. He said he was no longer his son and he should not come to him when he cried or was hungry.

Ye Zhiqiu glanced at him, reminding him that the formalities had not been completed yet, so why rush? If the child could not be registered, she would not want the child, nor would she give any money. The more she said this, the more worried Zhang Da became. When he arrived at the household registration department, he took the initiative to ask the staff to register Dabao.

The child was still young and had not been registered in his hometown. Both his parents agreed, and there was a marriage certificate as proof, so the staff did not make it too difficult. After the registration, Ye Zhiqiu and Zhang Da settled the bigamy account.

Zhang Dake refused to admit that he was wrong. He thought that if anyone should be blamed, it should be the Ye family. It was the Ye family who first acquiesced that she was not around, which was why he decided to marry another wife.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't care what his reasons were for marrying another woman. She only cared about the result. He had already married another woman, but he still dared to ask her for money with the child. She was right at the police station. Should she let the police listen to whether selling the child was right or not?

Zhang Da was dumbfounded. He didn't expect Ye Zhiqiu to turn around and sue him. How could he dare to argue with the police? Selling children was wrong. This was not the old society. In the new society, one's own son could not be sold.

Zhang Da saw that the situation was not good, so he ran away. He didn't want the money, so he just took it as bad luck to buy medicine. It wasn't for him to take the medicine, but to buy medicine for Ye Zhiqiu.

When Dabao saw Zhang Da abandoning him, he didn't dare to cry. His little face was wrinkled and tears were welling up in his eyes.

"Stop crying and come with me." Ye Zhiqiu took him to buy two meat buns. It was almost time for dinner, so they might as well eat first.

Dabao stopped crying when he ate the meat buns. At home, he couldn't eat meat buns during the Chinese New Year. He could only watch others eat them on the street. If he could eat meat buns every day, there would be nothing wrong with staying in the city.

While eating the buns, Dabao was already imagining that he would have delicious food and spicy drinks in the future. When he met Ye Yuan, he realized that if he wanted to eat well, he not only had to go to school but also take care of some housework.

You can also not work, but then you will be hungry every day.

Ye Zhiqiu didn't care about the three siblings, and left the two younger ones to Ye Yuan, she was very relieved. She only had to cook after work, and sometimes she was too busy to go to the cafeteria to get two dishes to make a meal.

Dabao was not used to it at first, but he was still young after all, and after being beaten by Ye Yuan with a stick every day, he gradually became obedient. Going to school and working were not tiring, and he could often have delicious food, which was better than in the village.

In order to maintain his current good life, Dabao tries very hard to please Ye Yuan.

He lived well in the city, but Zhang Da had a hard time in the countryside. Not only did he not get any benefits from going to the city, but he also wasted money on transportation. When he returned home without Dabao, his family members were not sad at all, but they blamed him for not taking good care of the child. They had raised him for so many years in vain, and it would be difficult for him to benefit from the Ye family in the future.

In the whole family, only Zhang's wife spoke nicely and advised him not to be angry or upset. It didn't matter if Dabao was lost. They still had a son and could have more children in the future, so they would not lack children to support them in their old age.

"Then how do we calculate the food we have eaten in the past few years? Otherwise, I will go to the Ye family to ask for it back." Zhang Da did not tell the truth to his wife. He did not dare to provoke Ye Zhiqiu, but there was no problem if he went to the Ye family.

Zhang's wife cursed in her heart, but she still smiled and advised him not to make trouble. If the Ye brothers started fighting again, he would not get any good results, and no one in the family would help him fight.

“Then I’m not going to fight.” Muttering this, Zhang Da didn’t dare to go to the Ye family to ask for benefits again.

Zhang's wife finally felt relieved when she saw that he was no longer making a fuss. She said that the benefits of work were not worth the Dabao. The son she gave birth to in the future would be the eldest son, and she would live with him when she was old, so she didn't have to worry about retirement.

Why should she worry about her own son? If she can't live well, she still has her own daughter. She is just waiting to enjoy her life when she is old.

Dabao left the Zhang family, and Ye Zhiqiu was too lazy to let the system monitor the Zhang family. As for the ending of the Zhang family, it would be strange if Zhang Wangshi could live a good life with Zhang Da's wife around.

In the following years, Zhang Da's wife really found excuses to persuade Zhang Da to build another house, even if she had to borrow money from the village. Although it was unfilial to tell others about it, everyone in the village knew that Zhang Wang wanted to strangle her granddaughter to death. It was good that she was not locked up, but no one dared to speak up for her in the limelight.

The eldest son wanted to separate from the family and move out, and Zhang Er followed suit, unwilling to live with his parents. The old couple had no choice but to live alone.

A few years later, the old couple's health was getting worse day by day. They had to fetch water for themselves on rainy days. Old man Zhang accidentally fell into a pond and drowned.

It was his destiny to die. The water in the pond was not deep, but he fell headfirst and choked on the water. No one saw him at that time, so he was already dead when he was found.

After her husband died, Zhang Wang was too scared to live alone anymore, so she invited the village chief to her home and insisted that her son take care of her in her old age. This was a normal request, just asking her son to give her a bowl of rice to eat was not too much.

Before the village chief could say anything, the villagers began to persuade Zhang Da and his family. Finally, with the mediation of the village, Zhang Wangshi lived with her sons, with each son taking care of her for one month, and they took turns.

From then on, Zhang Wangshi moved around with her quilt and luggage every month, which became a common sight in the village, and even her sons did not get any good treatment. Zhang Dacai did not care whether it was good or not, he was willing to suffer the loss.

In the past, the eldest son would be given more family property to support him in his old age. Now, land is distributed per person, and it is not given by parents. It is impossible for him to support himself in his old age, and he is not stupid.

Finally, Zhang Wang accidentally fell while moving on a snowy day and broke her leg, making her unable to walk. No one in the family wanted to spend money to treat her illness, so they just picked a few handfuls of free Chinese medicine and applied it on her.

Eventually she became paralyzed in bed and unable to move, and no one cared for her. At first, someone brought her meals, but later her daughter-in-law didn't care anymore. Her son and grandson also disliked her because she couldn't take care of herself, so they only brought her one meal a day. She died soon after.

After her death, the villagers said behind the Zhang family's back that Zhang Wangshi died of starvation. However, Zhang Dahe and his brothers held a very lively funeral. In the mourning hall, each of them cried more sadly than the other. Everyone who saw them would praise them as filial sons and daughters.

Ye Zhiqiu learned about the Zhang family's affairs from the system, but did not let the three children show up. They no longer have the surname Zhang, so why should they get involved in the Zhang family's affairs?

She used the same education method for her three children, but her daughter was admitted to college, while her eldest daughter could not even get into high school. Fortunately, she did not learn bad habits and went to work as an apprentice in a restaurant. With her good cooking skills, she lived no worse than her two sisters.

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