Chapter 2: Poor Family
Isn't that what happened to Wang Liang? In the ten years after he disappeared, he didn't send her a penny. She had to save up the children's tuition bit by bit by selling eels.

After Hua Xiali sued Wang Liang, he was afraid that Wang Liang would kill someone out of desperation, so in order to protect his family, he called the police. After a long time, he successfully made Wang Liang sever ties with his two sons and got 5,000 yuan in compensation. After the divorce, Wang Liang took his girlfriend away.

Maybe they were afraid that people would point fingers at them, or maybe the woman simply didn't want to provide for her parents-in-law in their old age. After the two of them left, they never came back.

When her two sons were in junior high school and high school, Hua Xiali looked for jobs near the school in order to take care of them. She had worked as a shampooer, dishwasher, sanitation worker, receptionist, nanny... She had also looked after farms and orchards. She had done many jobs.

The two sons are quite promising. Although the universities they got into were not particularly good, they were admitted anyway.

The cost of going to college is relatively high, so Hua Xiali chose a live-in nanny who earns more so that she doesn’t have to spend money on renting a house.

While their two sons were in college, their hometown was demolished to build a university town. Hua Xiali returned to her parents' home with her two children after her divorce. She did not live with her eldest sister and brother-in-law, but reapplied for a homestead and built a house. So when the house was demolished, Hua Xiali's family paid a total of nearly 2.6 million yuan for population fees, housing fees, and land fees.

After receiving the demolition compensation, many people suddenly appeared around her and wanted to take her to do business investment. She was nervous and afraid that others would take away her money.

Moreover, some people in the village lost all their money and could not bear the blow, so they chose to jump off the building. At that time, Hua Xiali was sure that these people who suddenly appeared were not good people. They joined forces to set up a trap just to cheat people out of their money.

So Hua Xiali returned to the city and worked as a nanny in a low-key manner, not wanting others to know that she had a huge sum of more than two million yuan.

The housing prices in her hometown county are relatively low, so she bought a 150-square-meter house for each of her two sons as a guarantee for their future lives. Regardless of whether they can find a good job after graduation, with a house, they don't have to worry about housing issues and can look for jobs slowly.

It doesn’t matter if the salary is low, as long as they can support themselves.

After his two sons graduated, Hua Xiali bought each of them a car worth about 100,000 yuan, and gave each of them a savings book with 100,000 yuan in it.

When Hua Xiali was 50 years old, her ex-husband Wang Liang finally decided to return to his hometown. He had cancer and his wife had abandoned him. However, the demolition compensation for his house and land was seized by his sister and brother-in-law. He was penniless and had to get involved with Hua Xiali's two sons.

The two sons sent Wang Liang directly to Hua Xiali and asked Hua Xiali to take care of him. Hua Xiali was disappointed and angry, but he felt sorry for his child. He was afraid that Wang Liang would sue them, which would affect their careers and families, as well as their descendants' chances of taking the civil service exams.

Hua Xiali only let Wang Liang live at home and did not take care of him personally. Instead, she spent very little money to hire a male villager to take care of Wang Liang. She hated him for ruining her life, so how could she possibly take care of him?
She also "kindly" went to the Public Security Bureau to help Wang Liang report the case, put an ad in the newspaper, and look for his wife and children. Anyway, she would not let that woman and her child have an easy time.

Why should they steal someone else's husband, causing her to suffer for a lifetime and unable to have a peaceful old age, while they can live a good life out there?
Later, Wang Liang died, and the woman brought her child to Hua Xiali's house to snatch it. Hua Xiali then realized that Wang Liang, that bastard, had actually written a will before he died.

In his will, he left Hua Xiali's resettlement house to his child with his mistress.

It was during the fight for the house that Hua Xiali was pushed down the stairs by them... "Mom." Hua Xiali came back to his senses, reached out and held Hua's mother's hand, and said, "Mom, I don't like Wang Liang and Ding Yong. Can you help me reject both of them?"

"I'm only nineteen years old this year. I'm still young, so there's no need to rush. I want to improve my family's conditions first before considering marriage. Is that okay?"

"Mom, I want to stay with you for a few more years. I want to eat the meals I cook for a few more years." Hua Xiali leaned into her mother's arms. His eyes quickly turned red and tears formed. "Mom, I can't bear to leave you. I don't want to go to someone else's house. I want to make money for our own family. I don't want to make money for someone else's family..."

No matter it was a dream or a flash of light, she didn't want to see Wang Liang's disgusting face again. She was afraid of dirtying her own reincarnation path. No matter how many words she said, she could not express all the suffering in her life.

Mother Hua raised her hand and placed it on Hua Xiali's shoulder, patting him gently. Finally, she nodded helplessly, "Okay, when Wang Liang and Ding Yong come again, Mom will help you get back to them."

If my daughter doesn’t want to get married, then she doesn’t have to. Let her stay for another two years. Maybe she can meet someone better!
Seeing that Hua's mother agreed, Hua Xiali was very happy. She was afraid that the warmth would be fleeting, so she leaned greedily in Hua's mother's arms and hugged her tightly.

After a long time, there was no movement from Hua Xiali in her arms. Her mother looked down and saw that she had fallen asleep. Her eyes and nose were red, and she looked like a little pig.

Hua's mother smiled helplessly, carefully put her down, gently covered her with a quilt, and tiptoed out of Hua Xiali's room.

Hua Chunli, who was sitting at the dining table in the kitchen, saw Hua's mother coming out alone and asked curiously, "Where is Xia Li?"

"I guess she had a nightmare, she said some nonsense, cried for a while and fell asleep again." Hua's mother walked over to the opposite side and sat down, picked up the bowl and chopsticks and started eating, "Xia Li said that she doesn't choose either Wang Liang or Ding Yong. When Wang Liang and Ding Yong come to her again, she should drive them away! Otherwise, after a long time, everyone will mistakenly think that Xia Li is two-timing and ruin her reputation."

"Mom, you should say it. They are both my elementary school classmates. I can't say anything." Hua Chunli said helplessly.

She didn't expect it either. She just happened to meet them at the supermarket entrance before the New Year. She didn't expect that these two people would pursue her sister at the same time.

After graduating from elementary school, they hadn't seen each other for more than ten years. Hua Chunli didn't know much about them, so she had nothing to say about their pursuit of Hua Xiali.

Now that Hua Xiali wants to reject these two people, then let him go. She will not help outsiders to persuade Hua Xiali. If he stays at home for two more years, she and Zhang Yongfeng will be more relaxed.

Her father was a miner with a good income, but the family had no savings as he had to raise three sisters. Three years ago, the coal mine collapsed and her father was buried inside. Although he was rescued later, he was paralyzed. She, who was in her third year of high school, and Hua Xiali, who was in her first year, chose to drop out of school without any hesitation, leaving her younger sister to continue her studies.

(End of this chapter)