"Never mind her, there's no way we can recognize him."

"Grandma Liu and the others told her that our family had moved away several years ago and they couldn't find us."

"That's good."

"But they said they would stay in the old house and wait for us to return."

"Then let her wait. We will move to Haicheng in a few months."

Sure enough, he thought so too.

Ye Xiaozhen was relieved. "Okay, let's arrange it this way. But what about Lin Li and the others, and what about my eldest sister?"

"I'll go and talk to you."

After hanging up the phone, Xie Linan looked at his grandfather's haggard face.

"Grandpa, you heard it, that woman is back."

Lin Xinghua lowered his head and remained silent.

It is impossible not to hate.

In fact, he could understand why she felt that the burden of the family was too much for her to bear alone and wanted to leave, even to abandon her children.

His son died, so he had no right to ask his daughter-in-law to stay and suffer.

But we have to speak out and discuss it properly.

He hated the woman for being so cruel that she left suddenly and took away all the money and bills in the house.

The two little grandchildren were still breastfeeding, and there was not even any time to buffer.

This is not only to abandon them, but also to kill them.

If it wasn't for God's blessing that year and it was a bumper harvest, he really couldn't guarantee that he would be able to raise his two grandsons.

"Grandpa, what do you say we should do?"

Lin Xinghua shook his head and sighed, "Whether she leaves or not has nothing to do with me. It's mainly up to you. Lin An, you brothers and sisters should not ask me about this matter. Make the decision by yourselves."

"Then you don't hate her?"

It's impossible to say that he doesn't hate his son, but he feels that as a father-in-law, it makes no sense for him to keep the other person to live with him after his son died.

Lin Xinghua shook his head and said, "It doesn't matter what I do. She is the mother of you and your siblings."

"Grandpa worked so hard to raise us all those years, I hate her for you."

Lin Xinghua said, "You kid, didn't you say that I don't matter? No matter if she left or not, I would never have ignored you. She didn't let me down, she let you down."

Xie Linan understood what he meant, took a deep breath and said, "Since you said so, you are not allowed to interfere in how we deal with this matter."

He was afraid that he would be soft-hearted again. After all, the woman had been married for more than ten years and had always lived with her in-laws.

My grandfather often says that you will develop feelings for cats and dogs that you have raised for a few years, let alone humans.

"I don't care about your business." Lin Xinghua made his attitude clear.

He is not in good health now, and at his age, he really doesn't want to get involved in these disputes anymore.

He knew in his heart that he only had a few years left to live.

After dinner, Xie Linan’s rented car also arrived.

"Grandpa, it's a little far. I'm afraid it will take two to three hours to drive to the village. If you're tired, take a nap."

"Okay, I know."

More than three hours later.

"Grandpa, do you think it's around here?"

Lin Xinghua looked at the familiar yet unfamiliar pulses outside the car window, his cloudy eyes filled with mist.

Finally he saw a very familiar slope and determined the location of his hometown.

"That's right, that's right, it's right here."

"Where?"

"There is a village at the foot of this hill. It is where I lived when I was a child. Lin An, please park the car in front and we will walk over."

"become."

We originally expected it to arrive in two or three hours, but it took more than three hours to get there.

The bumpy path was more difficult to navigate than he had expected.

Occasionally, when he encountered a cow passing by, he had to stop and let others lead the cow over first. Otherwise, if he drove past and frightened the cow, it would be a big trouble.

Fortunately, after shaking for more than three hours, we finally arrived.

Xie Linan found a spacious place, parked the car on the side of the road, and then helped the old man out of the car.

He gave him the crutches, and the two of them walked together towards the village at the foot of the slope.

The village is still in the same place, but the houses in the village are very different from what they used to be. Except for a few low mud-walled houses that still look familiar, all the other houses have been renovated in recent years.

Some have been renovated into large tiled houses, but more have been built into brick and tile houses.

There are also two beautiful two-story buildings.

It seems that the villagers live a good life.

Two strangers came over, attracting the villagers to stop and watch.

A moment later, a half-grown child ran towards them.

"Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

In order to see his hometown clearly, Lin Xinghua went to get a pair of reading glasses.

He held his eye sockets, looked at the half-grown child, and the houses in the distance, then pointed to a place and said, "I used to live there, little friend, can you take me over there to have a look?"

The half-grown child looked in the direction of his finger and said, "That's my fourth uncle's house. How come your house is at my fourth uncle's house?"

Lin Xinghua smiled and said, "I mean a long time ago. It's not my home anymore. Can I go take a look?"

"Come on, please."

Xie Linan helped him catch up with the child.

The child ran very fast back to the village and whispered a few words to the two adults.

The villagers across from him looked at him even more strangely.

"Grandpa, Xiao Shen said your family used to live here?"

"Yeah, about... about ten years ago. I was only a teenager when I left home. Now I'm almost eighty years old, and you don't remember me."

Everyone was confused and thought that if what he said was true, then no one knew him.

"Then you wait a moment, I'll go get the village chief."

"Hey, thank you guys." said Xie Linan.

He helped the old man to a tree in the village, where he put down his crutches and sat down to rest.

After a while, the village chief came.

After hearing about Lin Xinghua's situation, he invited them to his home to sit for a while.

"It sounds like he left his hometown during the Anti-Japanese War. Sorry, I'm only fifty years old and I don't know much about what happened during those years. Come with me to my house and sit for a while. I'll find some older people and you can chat with them. Maybe you know him."

Upon hearing that there might be someone he knew, Lin Xinghua seemed a little excited, and his hands holding the crutches were shaking a little.

Xie Linan supported him and thanked the village chief, "Thank you very much. My grandfather left his hometown when he was a teenager because of the war. He has worked hard all his life. Now that he is old, he wants to come back to visit his hometown."

As soon as the other party saw the old man's appearance, they knew that he would not live for many more years.

It is human nature that people want to visit their birthplace in the end.

"Hey, we understand. You're welcome. Come on."

The village chief invited Xie Linan and Lin Xinghua to wait at their home, and then he went to invite the oldest people in the village to come.

While waiting, Lin Xinghua explained the reason why he left home.