The three Li sisters didn't rush into Li Jia's arms as she had imagined. Instead, tears streamed down Li Jia's face again. Li Yan walked up to Li Jia, suddenly bit her arm hard, and then his anger radiated outwards. He stared at Li Jia for a full two minutes before his nose stung and tears fell. He turned and ran into his bedroom.

Li Xiaotong burst into tears the moment Li Jia entered. Seeing Li Jia standing there with a face full of apology, she walked up to Li Jia, clenched her fist and pounded it hard on her chest, then turned and slowly walked back to her bedroom.

Now only Li Xiaoqing and Li Jia remained in the living room. Hai Mingyue had left sometime earlier and closed the door behind her. Now, the only people left in the house were truly a family.

"Are you going to bite your big brother or chop him up? Go ahead, big brother will take it all!" As soon as Li Jia said this, Li Xiaoqing, who had been crying uncontrollably, burst into laughter. She slowly walked up to Li Jia, then reached out and hugged him tightly. After so many years of waiting, there was finally a result.

Feeling the dampness on her chest, Li Jia hugged Li Xiaoqing tightly, remaining close for a long time…

"How have you been all these years?" Li Jia didn't speak, but Li Xiaoqing asked first. Hearing Li Xiaoqing's question, Li Jia naturally wouldn't tell her about her own affairs, but just smiled and brushed it off. Li Xiaoqing didn't ask too much, because Li Jia brought up what happened after he left.

"Back then, I left alone to find my father. What happened to my family after I left? What caused my mother's death?" After letting go of Li Xiaoqing, Li Jia pulled over a stool, and the two of them sat down in front of the black and white TV in the living room and started chatting.

“Mom was already pregnant before you left, but it was less than two months along, so we didn’t know. Later, Mom’s belly grew bigger every day, and we were so happy because we were going to have another little brother or sister. But when Mom gave birth to my little sister, she died from severe bleeding. My little sister was taken away. With Mom gone, we had no way to raise her, so…” Li Xiaoqing stopped there, looking at Li Jia with a guilty expression.

"Little sister? You mean there's another little sister besides Xiaotong?" After hearing Li Xiaoqing's words, Li Jia suddenly remembered that Cao Dali had once told her about having three or four sisters. At the time, she thought he was drunk and didn't pay attention. Now that Li Xiaoqing was saying it, Li Jia realized that Cao Dali must have been referring to four siblings.

"Well, at the time, I only came here and gave my little sister a name..." Li Xiaoqing said.

"What's your name? Do you know who took you away?" Li Jia asked quickly, patting Li Xiaoqing's head.

“I don’t know, but my mother’s only keepsake, a jade gourd-shaped pendant, is on my little sister. Not many people know about it, maybe my uncle knows something,” Li Xiaoqing said. She got up to pour Li Feng a cup of hot water, then returned to sit down next to Li Jiadi.

"I'll look into my little sister's situation, and I'll definitely find her." Li Jia smiled after saying that, and gestured for Li Xiaoqing to call Li Xiaotong and the other two out to chat.

Li Xiaoqing nodded, got up, and called Li Xiaotong and Li Yan out. The four of them simply sat on the floor, huddled together. "Wait a minute!" Li Jia suddenly remembered something, stood up, pushed open the door, went to Jiang Ling'er's door, knocked, and then walked into the house under the strange gazes of Jiang Ling'er and Hai Mingyue. She hugged all the potato chips on the sofa, nodded to the two of them, and said, "Thank you!" She then returned to Li Xiaoqing's house with the potato chips in her arms.

"Sister Jiang is treating you to potato chips. Come on, let's eat and chat." Li Jia distributed the potato chips in her arms to the three siblings, and then picked up a bag of potato chips, tore open the packaging, and started eating.

The four of them chatted for the entire afternoon, even spending their lunch break chatting. Seeing that Li Jia, their eldest brother, was no longer moved to tears, they all recounted their experiences over the years to him. Before dinner, Li Jia finally understood how his three younger siblings had managed to survive all these years.

Since Li Jia left and their mother passed away, Li Xiaoqing and her two siblings have been living a hard life. Fortunately, they had a small courtyard of 200 square meters and four bungalows. At first, they relied on their uncle to help them rent out the house and make a living. After a few years, they could no longer make ends meet and had to sell the bungalows with their uncle's help. Then, the three siblings lived with their uncle.

At that time, Li Xiaoqing was fourteen years old, Li Xiaotong was eleven, and Li Yan was just nine.

A few years later, the three Li sisters began to run out of money. They had already spent most of the money from selling their house. At this time, their eldest uncle's family was moving to F City because their uncle's hometown was in F City, and there was an old man in his eighties who needed someone to take care of him.

Six months before her uncle proposed moving, Li Xiaoqing received her first remittance from Li Jia. For the next six months, the money continued to arrive on time, with a sum of money arriving every month. Finally, when her uncle proposed moving, the three of them decided to stay in City B because Li Xiaoqing believed that one day, her older brother would come back to find them.

They rented a small bungalow and stayed in City B. Their uncle would come to visit them every few days, bringing money with him each time. Although Li Xiaoqing and the others tried their best to refuse his kindness, their uncle, who had watched them grow up, would always stuff money into their hands before leaving.

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