"Dad, can I come in?" Li Zhenzhen asked, standing at the door of the study.

"Come in."

Li Zhenzhen pushed open the door of the study and walked in, and saw that the sobering soup on the desk was untouched.

"Dad, Aunt Guofang just left with red eyes, did something happen?" she asked in a low voice.

Li Boyan pinched his brows and said, "Nothing happened. I just explained some things to her."

Li Zhenzhen's eyes slowly turned in her eye sockets, "Dad, do you reject Aunt Guofang?"

Li Boyan didn't say anything, but he didn't deny it either. Li Zhenzhen understood.

"Dad, have you ever thought about finding another one?" she asked.

Li Boyan looked at his daughter and asked, "Why do you like Zheng Guofang and want to be her lobbyist?"

Li Zhenzhen waved her hands repeatedly, "No, I just want to say, Dad, if you meet an aunt you like and want to remarry, I have no objection."

"I'm grown up now, and dad doesn't have to take care of my feelings anymore. I choose to be alone. I also hope that you can be happy, Dad."

Li Boyan looked at his daughter deeply and said with relief: "Zhenzhen, you have really grown up. Dad is very relieved that you can think this way, but Dad has no plans to remarry."

"Besides, I am not alone. I still have you, your grandparents, and so many relatives. How could I be alone?"

He is so busy all day that he has no time to be alone.

Li Zhenzhen pursed her lips and raised them slightly. She knew that her father still loved her mother the most and would not want to marry another woman.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Qiu Jinyu was outside Li's Dumpling Shop.

She looked at the sign above her head and walked in.

There were two children in their teens and 18s, sitting at a long table under a fan, doing their homework.

"Excuse me, is Li Shuping here?" she asked in a low voice.

Lin Xiaoyu raised her head, looked at the auntie who was wearing a white shirt and black pants with a canvas bag on her shoulder, and asked, "Excuse me, who are you? What do you want to see my mother for?"

"My name is Qiu Jinyu, I have something to ask her."

Lin Xiaoyu's eyes lit up. "It's Aunt Qiu. I've heard about you from my mother. Please sit down. I'll scoop you some sour plum soup."

"No need to bother."

Before Qiu Jinyu finished speaking, Lin Xiaoyu got up and went into the kitchen.

Qiu Jinyu walked to the table where Lin Xiaoyu and Qin Ye were sitting and sat down.

Looking at Qin Ye sitting opposite him, he asked, "Are you Shu Ping's son?"

Qin Ye shook his head. "I'm the person who works in Aunt Li's store."

He wanted to be Aunt Li's son, but he was born into a bad family.

Qiu Jinyu nodded and looked at the dumpling shop. It seemed that Shuping's business was doing well and had even hired some employees.

"Aunt Qiu, would you like ice in your sour plum soup?" Lin Xiaoyu asked at the kitchen door.

Qiu Jinyu was stunned for a moment, then nodded and said, "Add."

Her throat was so dry that it was smoking, and she wanted to drink something cold.

"Aunt Qiu, have some sour plum soup." Lin Xiaoyu handed Qiu Jinyu a cup of iced sour plum soup.

"Thanks."

The iced sour plum soup was indeed refreshing and thirst-quenching. Qiu Jinyu drank half a bowl in one breath.

"This sour plum soup is really delicious. I haven't had such delicious sour plum soup in many years."

She remembered that when she was a child, there was a dumpling shop near her home that sold sour plum soup in the summer, and it tasted the same. Later, the dumpling shop closed down and she never drank it again.

"Where is your mother?" Qiu Jinyu asked Lin Xiaoyu.

"My mother and Aunt Qin went to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy vinegar. They will be back soon. Aunt Qiu, please wait a moment."

Qiu Jinyu nodded, and within a few minutes, Li Shuping and Qin Rong came back.

Seeing Qiu Jinyu, Li Shuping was startled for a moment, then handed the oil bottle in her hand to Qin Rong and asked her to take it to the kitchen together.

"Sister Jinyu, why are you here?"

"Shuping." Qiu Jinyu stood up.

Li Shuping: "Sister Jinyu, please sit down."

Qiu Jinyu sat back down, looked at Li Shuping and said, "Shuping, my mother is leaving."

Li Shuping was stunned for a moment, then gently patted Qiu Jinyu on the shoulder and said, "Sister Jinyu, please accept my condolences."

Qiu Jinyu blinked away the mist in her eyes, shook her head and said, "It's okay, I came here to give you something."

As she spoke, she took out half a sheet of old newspaper from her bag and folded it into two fingers' width.

"What is this?" Li Shuping reached out to take it.

"Half a piece of old newspaper from 1900. Before my mother died, she told me to give her something."

"After she died, I was sorting out her belongings and found this half piece of old newspaper." Qiu Jinyu didn't dare to look at Li Shuping when she spoke.

Considering Shuping's life experience, what her mother said when she saw Shuping and before she died, and what was written in the newspaper, what is there to not understand?

Her family is sorry for Shuping. It can be said that her parents are selfish and have ruined Shuping's life.

As their daughter, she really had no face to face Shuping.

When I went to see Aunt Jin that day, she mentioned some newspaper and even looked for it.

What kind of newspaper would Aunt Jin keep for more than 30 years and ask Sister Jin Yu to give it to her before she died?

Li Shuping opened the newspaper with doubts and saw the big words "깊꾉" at a glance.

Looking for daughter Li Yunshu!

Li Shuping's pupils trembled and her face changed drastically.

"What's in the newspaper?"

When Lin Xiaoyu saw her mother's face change drastically after reading the contents of the newspaper, she leaned over to take a look.

Li Shuping closed the newspaper and looked at Qiu Jinyu excitedly.

"What does this mean? Tell me, what does this mean?"

Qiu Jinyu lowered her head in guilt, "Shu Ping, I'm sorry, it's our family that's sorry for you. Before my mother died, she kept saying that she was the one who harmed you, and she never closed her eyes until she died."

"The missing child in the newspaper should be you. The butterfly birthmark on your back should have been burned away by Jinbao before."

Although Lin Xiaoyu and Qin Ye were a little confused, they could probably guess what was going on.

Lin Xiaoyu looked at her mother in shock. Her mother was a family member. More than 30 years ago, she even put an advertisement in the newspaper looking for her!

Qiu's family, who took in my mother, not only saw the newspaper looking for my mother, but also chose to conceal it and hid the newspaper.

Just to let mom stay at home and be the wife of their stupid son!

"Go away, go away..."

Lin Xiaoyu grabbed Qiu Jinyu and pushed her out.

Her mother should have been reunited with her family when she was a child, with the love of her parents, the warmth of her family, and a good life.

In the early days of the People's Republic of China, those who could place an ad in the newspaper to look for someone were certainly not ordinary people.

The fact that they placed an ad in the newspaper to look for their lost mother also proves that they love their mother very much and want to find her.

But all of this was destroyed by the Qiu family. They made my mother lonely and helpless, suffered so much hardship, and was separated from her relatives for so many years that she didn't even know if she could see them again.

Why do they treat their mother like this?

Even though Qiu Jinyu was not aware of this matter, Lin Xiaoyu couldn't help but vent her anger on him.

"Shu Ping, I'm sorry. I'm really sorry."

As Qiu Jinyu was pushed out by Lin Xiaoyu, she turned around and cried and apologized to Li Shuping.

Li Shuping clenched the newspaper in her hand, afraid of damaging it, and quickly let go and held the newspaper against her chest.

Her eyes were red and her voice was choked with sobs, "Why did she do this to me?"

"Even though I know that your family took me in just to make me Qiu Jinbao's wife, and that you forced me to marry Qiu Jinbao, locked me up, and beat me half to death, I still feel grateful for your family's kindness in taking me in."

"When you ask me to see her for the last time, I will go too."

"When she said sorry to me, I also told myself in my heart that it was all in the past, all in the past."

"But it turns out that she is sorry to me, not about this matter!"

"Ever since I was taken in by your family, I was afraid of causing trouble to you and being disliked by you. I eat the least and work the most. I dare not be idle for a moment!"

"After being beaten by Qiu Jinbao, he still smiled foolishly and said it didn't hurt."

"She knows how much I want to have my own parents. I'm not an unwanted orphan. My parents are looking for me!"

"She saw it, she knows everything! Why did she do this to me? What right does she have to do this to me?!"

Li Shuping pounded her chest, which was stuffy and painful, and asked with tears streaming down her face.

(Today's update is complete. Thank you for the gifts, ✿✿ヽ(°▽°)ノ✿.)