Chapter 300 Note
Grandma Gangzi nodded and said, "Like you, a girl in her twenties, came here to inquire about the Great Immortal Temple and ask if there are any children found?"
Su Tong stood up, grasped Gangzi's grandmother's hand, and said:
"Auntie, could you please be more specific?"
Grandma Gangzi nodded, boiled water in the pot and covered it with a lid.
Then he pulled Su Tong to sit aside and said:
"The first time was probably about 20 years ago. I was alone at home at that time. Maybe because our house was closest to the village entrance, a girl in her twenties came to ask about the Daxian Temple. She said her child was lost and left in the temple, and asked if anyone had found him..."
"The girl didn't look like a local at all, and I didn't know how her child ended up here. Later, I took her to the village and then to the commune. She stayed here for more than a week but still couldn't find her child. In the end, she donated 200 yuan to the village, asking people to contact her if they had any news about the child."
Grandma Gangzi shook her head and recalled: "She was a pretty girl, but when she left, her face was sallow and she looked disappointed."
Su Tong asked: "You mean...she came a second time?"
Grandma Gangzi nodded. "About two or three years later, the girl came back! She came to me first. She said she had been looking for the child all these years and couldn't let it go. She wanted to come back here to look for him again. After all these years, looking for him was just a psychological comfort. But this time, she didn't go back empty-handed. She brought a child back with her."
"What's the meaning?"
Grandma Gangzi said, "Two miles up from here is Zhang Debiao's family. He was the village militia captain that year. When the girl came to the village, it was Zhang Debiao who took her everywhere. Maybe because she went to Zhang's house so often, the five-year-old girl in his family always hugged her and wouldn't let go."
"Lao Zhang's wife gave birth to six girls before she finally had a boy. The boy was still young and was still in her arms. When she saw the little girl holding the girl tightly, she became interested and said that she had been looking for her own daughter for several times, but now it seemed that there was little hope of finding her. It would be a relief to adopt one and take it home!"
"Mr. Zhang has many children of her own and doesn't value girls. She is about to fail to raise them, so she is thinking of giving them away! But her little girl is a little old, and she is afraid that no one will want her if she adopts her. Unexpectedly, after the girl understood what she meant, she asked about her little girl's date of birth and said it was the same as her lost daughter. After considering it, she agreed!
"The next day, she took the girl to the village to write a document, left 500 yuan to the Zhang family, and took the child away. This matter was known to everyone in the surrounding area at the time, and it caused a sensation! In those days, 500 yuan was a sky-high price! Everyone said that the Zhang family had been hoping for a boy every day, but in the end they became rich thanks to a girl."
Su Tong did not speak for a long time... Twenty years ago, the child lost in the Daxian Temple in Shuanggouzi Village was a daughter...
Apart from the "Wu Tong" picked up by Old Lady Wu in the Daxian Temple, it is unlikely that there will be another such a thing by such a coincidence.
She originally thought that it would not be easy to find out information from 20 years ago, and was prepared for a protracted war. She also thought about going to the commune or village committee to get close to them and check the foreign population in this area 20 years ago...
Unexpectedly, I heard the news as soon as I entered the village, and it was news known to everyone in the surrounding area.
Her mother in this world never gave up looking for her.
And it was precisely because of the many efforts this mother had made before that she got news as soon as she arrived.
As long as she came and asked, she could get news from her mother.
Su Tong felt his eyes getting hot and his heart beating fast.
Her parents passed away when she was young in that world, and she only has memories of her brother and grandfather. Her feelings about family affection all come from her brother and grandfather.
This was the first time she felt the love from her mother.
Although I still don't know where she is, and I don't know what she looks like...
But she felt it - her mother's love, warm and overwhelming.
"Girl! Girl! Are you okay?"
Gangzi's grandmother called out repeatedly.
"Oh! It's okay! Thank you, Auntie! Did she come again later?"
"No more!" Gangzi's grandmother shook her head. "I guess after adopting a daughter, I've given up on this idea! That girl must be over 40 now!"
Su Tong suddenly stood up and said, "Auntie, I want to go to the village committee first. Can you point it to me?"
Grandma Gangzi rubbed her hands on her apron. "What a rush! Eat first!"
"I'm a little anxious. Is the village committee far away?"
"It's not far. Just follow this ditch to the end."
"Okay! I'll go first then!"
The village committee was indeed not far away, the terrain was very high, and it was easy to find.
A row of elegant cave dwellings are lined up in a row.
Su Tong explained his purpose and said that he wanted to see the document left by the girl.
The person who received her at the village committee was a young official, and he indeed knew about this matter.
However, he scratched his head and said, "I know about this, but I don't know the details of the document. I have to ask the old village chief."
Su Tong asked him to take him to see the old village chief.
Fortunately, the old village chief happened to be at home.
The old village chief has been retired for many years and looks to be over 70 years old.
He squinted his eyes and looked at Su Tong, and then seemed to recall something before saying, "
Back then, the girl took the initiative to write an adoption certificate, asked the Zhang family to put their fingerprints on it, and asked the village to stamp it with a seal, to prove that the Zhang family voluntarily gave the child away, and to prove that she adopted the child legally and that the child's origin was innocent, that's it."
"Old village chief, can you still find that certificate? I want to see it!" Su Tong tried to make his voice calmer.
The old village chief squinted his eyes and looked at her again before he spoke:
"You kid, people wrote this certificate just to give her some protection, so of course they took it away! Why would they keep a copy? If they leave a copy here, they won't be afraid that the Zhang family will come and find them later!"
As expected, there was no record left. This was in the 1970s, and the adoption procedures were not perfect. It was great that her mother thought of writing a certificate.
"What about before that? Didn't you say you donated 200 yuan and left your contact information?"
The old village chief shook his head and said, "The girl had already changed her address when she came the second time, so the address she left the first time is useless. Besides, how could a piece of paper from 20 years ago be preserved until now? The cave house has been soaked in water several times, and the village committee has moved several times! It's impossible to find it!"
"Well, does anyone remember what was on the note?"
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