Reborn as a Weak Beauty Pampered by All

Chapter 172: Chapter 172: Army of Bloodsucking Worms

The speaker was a woman in her thirties named Liu Hong.

”I understand, Liu, you go ahead and get busy.”

As Director Nie spoke, he began walking toward the main gate.

Outside the gates of the Langcheng Welfare Institute, Wang Guilan was sitting cross-legged on the ground, flanked by two young men in their twenties. They were both sons from her remarriage and just two of the children she had borne.

In other words, Wang Guilan had six sons with her second husband.

If one considered Yanqing, a son from her previous husband, she had seven sons in her life, a fact that was quite enviable in those times, especially in a rural setting.

After all, having many sons in a family meant a strong labor force, and by extension, more work points could be earned at the end of the year.

However, none of the sons born to Wang Guilan and her second husband were inclined to endure hardships.

In the city, this wouldn’t matter much; however, not long after remarrying, Wang Guilan’s husband made a severe mistake at the factory, which resulted in the loss of his job.

Wang Guilan had a temporary job initially, but she had to return to farming in her husband’s rural hometown after he lost his employment.

As the saying goes, follow your husband like a hen follows a rooster or a dog. When her husband had to leave the city for his countryside home, Wang Guilan naturally had to follow.

At that time, they had already had one son together.

However, the couple had more than this one child at the time. Why? Because Wang Guilan was remarried, and her husband was a widower who already had a son and a daughter.

Thus, the family of five returned to the countryside.

Having lived in the city for many years, Wang Guilan couldn’t adapt to rural life and chose to have more sons to avoid laboring in the fields.

However, she focused solely on childbirth and not on raising them; as her husband settled the marriage of his children from his previous wife and saw them have children of their own, he collapsed in the fields and never woke up again.

Wang Guilan was left to care for her six sons alone, living a life of extreme hardship.

Initially, her family provided some help, but as time passed, her sister-in-law’s objections grew strong, and to maintain family harmony, Wang Guilan’s parents and brothers had no choice but to cut off relations with their daughter (sister).

She thought she could just endure and life would go on, but as each son grew up and needed to find a wife, Wang Guilan became desperate.

The family was extremely poor, and the sons were not accustomed to hard work; they earned very few work points a day.

Under these circumstances, Wang Guilan thought of Yanqing, the son she had with her former husband.

However, she was concerned about maintaining face, knowing that she had acted too drastically in her younger years; she dared not venture into Luo Family’s home in the city and instead cobbled together enough resources to get a wife for her eldest son by bending over backward.

Nowadays, Wang Guilan’s second and third sons, ages nineteen and seventeen respectively, were at an age for discussing marriage in the countryside, but she could not afford the bride price for two daughters-in-law, even if she sold herself.

Based on this, she reluctantly approached Luo Family’s door, hoping to ask Yanqing for money, but was told by Yanqing’s uncle and aunt that they had sent him to be raised by the government when he was eight years old.

Remembering the address given by Yanqing’s uncle and aunt, Wang Guilan inquired here and there and eventually found the Langcheng Welfare Institute. In less than ten days, she had visited the Langcheng Welfare Institute no fewer than five times.

”Mom, if they still won’t tell us where our big brother is, what should we do?”

The speaker was Wang Guilan’s second son from her second marriage.

Wang Guilan replied, ”If they don’t tell us, I’ll just keep causing a disturbance until they have to.”