Chapter 41 Chapter 41 Exclusive
Lin Yimu listened to 001's explanation and became more confused. Even if it was as the system said, it was impossible for his mother to not even mention it, right? But he really had no memories related to his uncle's family.
Lin Yimu told 001 about his doubts. 001 was also a little confused after listening. After a while, he suggested: "It's useless for us to guess here. Why don't we wait until your uncle and his family leave and then ask your parents."
Lin Yimu knew that he couldn't guess the answer on his own, so he could only agree helplessly. However, he did not forget what the system had done to him.
"You just said that in my previous life you followed me and persuaded me to study? You also helped me block the news of my parents' death? Can you help me recover my memory now? I still want to know what happened, even if it's a painful memory." Lin Yimu looked at the three-headed baby and said with a firm expression.
001, who was still hesitating whether to help Lin Yimu recover his memory, heard his words and sighed softly in his heart: "I found that since I met you, my whole system has human melancholy." After sighing, 001 continued: "I will help you recover your memory in the evening. It's not convenient for you to have guests at home in broad daylight."
001 As soon as he finished speaking, Jiang Mingxuan, who was sitting aside playing with his toys, suddenly walked over to Lin Yimu and poked his arm.
Lin Yimu felt his arm being poked, and immediately withdrew his thoughts from his mind, turned his head to look at the cute mixed-race boy beside him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Mingxuan pointed outside and said, "Cousin, auntie asked us to go downstairs to eat."
Lin Yimu put down the book in his hand without even turning a page, and heard his mother's voice outside calling them to go out for dinner, as well as the sound of footsteps approaching.
Lin Yimu stood up with a smile, and pulled his cheap cousin towards the door while saying, "Come on, I'll take you to wash your hands first. Washing your hands before meals should form a good habit."
Lin Yimu pulled Jiang Mingxuan out of the room and met Jiang Wanqiu who had just come over to ask them to go out for dinner. Seeing the two of them walking out hand in hand in a friendly manner, Jiang Wanqiu said with a smile on her face: "What are you two kids playing in the room that are so addictive? You didn't come out until I called you a few times. Hurry up and take your cousin to wash his hands and eat."
Lin Yimu agreed and followed Jiang Wanqiu to take the child to wash their hands.
When the two families sat down at the dinner table, it was the time for the parents to eat and chat at the same time. The two children, Lin Yimu and Jiang Mingxuan, could only sit aside and listen silently.
But in the end, they somehow got to talking about Lin Yimu, and Jiang Wanlin suddenly said, "I heard that Xiaomu's grades are pretty good. Didn't he participate in a math competition this morning? With Xiaomu's grades, he will definitely be able to study abroad in the future. I just don't know where Xiaomu will go. If he goes to Country M, I can find someone there to take care of him."
Hearing these words, Lin Yimu felt nothing. After all, he had not thought about going abroad. Moreover, considering the situation of the system he carried with him, the country might not be willing to let him go abroad, right?
Lin Yimu was lost in thought as he thought about all these things, but at the dinner table, there was a moment of stiffness because of Jiang Wanlin's topic.
Jiang Wanqiu's expression, in particular, suddenly changed from the warm spring breeze to the falling snow in December, and her whole body revealed a hint of unhappiness.
After Jiang Wanlin finished talking about going abroad, he immediately realized that he had said the wrong thing. He looked up and saw his sister's ugly face, and he came back to his senses from his happiness. He looked at Jiang Wanqiu who was sitting opposite him with some pity, not caring at all. It was so embarrassing for a grown man to act like a spoiled child to his sister in front of his wife and son.
The silence at the dinner table for a long time brought Lin Yimu back to his senses. He looked around in confusion, and finally fixed his gaze on his mother's dark face and his uncle's pitiful expression.
The others who knew the inside story pretended not to notice what the two did and ate their meal in silence.
It was not until Lin Bohan could no longer bear the silence that he spoke up to smooth things over, "Don't do that, you two. You'll scare the child." Then he turned to Jiang Wanlin and said, "Okay, don't mention going abroad. With Xiaomu's grades, it's not easy for him to study abroad. The child has only started studying recently, and his grades before were only in the middle and lower reaches of the class."
When Jiang Wanlin saw his brother-in-law coming to his rescue, he immediately changed the subject and the dinner table became lively again. Jiang Wanqiu's expression gradually softened and she continued to chat with his aunt. Except for Lin Yimu and Jiang Mingxuan who were confused, the dinner table was once again in a happy mood.
Lin Yimu watched everyone's expressions the whole time and became even more curious about what was going on between his mother and his uncle. It seemed that the two of them had a bad relationship because of the issue of going abroad. Whenever this topic was brought up, his mother would turn unhappy.
This made Lin Yimu feel as curious as a cat scratching him. It couldn't be that just because of this, his mother hadn't contacted her brother for more than ten years, and she didn't even mention him at home, right?
Thinking of this, Lin Yi Mu couldn't help but distract himself to observe the attitudes of everyone at the table again, but he couldn't tell anything from their expressions at this moment, which made Lin Yi Mu extremely frustrated. He could only eat in silence and listen to his father and uncle chatting.
However, as the two of them were chatting, the topic turned to Jiang Wanlin's life abroad for so many years. This time, Jiang Wanqiu was not as unhappy as before, and just pretended not to hear and chatted with her aunt.
However, Lin Yimu probably heard something from their conversation.
His uncle went abroad very early and didn't even attend his sister's wedding. At that time, it was not easy for people to go abroad, and even if they did, it was difficult for them to live well abroad.
So in the first few years after he went abroad to study, Jiang Wanlin spent all his time studying and working. He worked three or four jobs every day until late at night, and fell asleep as soon as he returned to the dormitory. In addition, the discrimination against yellow-skinned people in the United States at that time made Jiang Wanlin looked down upon all the time. He even had arguments and even physical fights with others several times.
Whenever a conflict occurred, no matter what the reason, no one else would get hurt, but he would be arrested and detained in the police station for a few days, and sometimes he even had to pay bail to get out.
When talking about this, Jiang Wanlin smiled and said: "Alyssa and I met when I was arrested and taken to the police station and couldn't even pay the bail. It was she who helped me pay the bail so that I could get out of there." When Jiang Wanlin mentioned his wife, the expression on his face was particularly gentle.
From these descriptions, Lin Yimu could probably imagine how chaotic Country M was at that time, and his uncle probably suffered a lot.
What Lin Yimu could think of, Jiang Wanqiu, as his sister, certainly also thought of.
Although she felt sorry for her brother's experience, she did not show it on her face. She was just trying to hold it together. But when she was chatting with her aunt, she began to care about Jiang Wanlin's life.
The two men sitting on the other side who were chatting occasionally glanced at their mothers while talking, and Lin Yimu, who was always paying attention to everyone and wanted to get useful information, saw it all.
Looking at the expressions of the people at the dinner table, Lin Yimu couldn't help but sigh to 001 in his mind: "This is really the various aspects of life at the dinner table."
But 001 rolled his eyes and ignored him.
After everyone finished their meal and left, it was already past one o'clock in the afternoon. After Lin Yimu helped his mother clean up the table, he immediately ran to his father to ask about his uncle's family.
"Dad, why didn't I know I had an uncle? My mom never mentioned it."
When Lin Bohan heard Lin Yimu's question, he sighed and put down the teacup in his hand and said, "I can't tell you about this matter. You should ask your mother yourself. I don't know if she has calmed down after hearing what Wan Lin said."
After hearing his father's last words, Lin Yimu nodded and agreed, "He should have calmed down. I heard him asking about his aunt and uncle's situation in Country M, right after you two finished talking about his uncle's hardships in Country M."
When Lin Bohan heard his son's answer and thought of how quiet the boy had been at the table today, he laughed and scolded, "Stinky boy, now that you know about this, don't mention it to your mother!"
"Hey, don't worry, I definitely won't tell you." After making that promise, he continued to ask, "But can you tell me about my mom and this uncle first? How angry must they be to not mention it for more than ten years? But it seems like they were on good terms this afternoon?"
Seeing his son's reluctance to give up until he got an answer, Lin Bohan tapped his forehead helplessly and said, "Why are you so curious? You didn't dare to ask your mother, so you came to me instead?"
"No, it's just that my mother is busy right now. You are free anyway, so just tell me about it." Lin Yimu said seriously, pretending to listen attentively.
Lin Bohan couldn't do anything with his son. After all, he had never beaten him since he was a child, and this playful and smiling face was spoiled by them. He could only slowly tell him what he knew.
It turned out that his uncle wanted to study abroad, but his grandparents were worried that he might get into an accident and refused to agree. Even his sister, who had always been very close to him, did not support his decision, which made Jiang Wanlin very angry and sad.
Jiang Wanlin, who did not get support from his family, finally got angry and took his ID to secretly apply for a visa. During this period, he pretended to be a good boy and said that he no longer wanted to go abroad. Until the visa was approved, Jiang Wanlin took the New Year's money he had saved for many years and ran away with his suitcase in the middle of the night.
By the time his family found out, it was already the next morning. At that time, they had not thought that he had secretly run away from the country. They just thought he had gone out. However, when they did not see him until the evening, they went to his room and found that his clothes, ID photos and the piggy bank where he had saved money over the years were all gone. Only then did they realize that something was wrong.
But it was too late. The old couple cried and cursed a few times at home, and then let the matter go. They could only find a way to use their connections to contact someone to ensure their safety.
At this point, Lin Bohan said, "Actually, these are not the reasons why your mother has been angry with him for so many years. Another reason is that when your grandparents passed away, their health was not good to begin with, and because they couldn't contact your uncle, they were worried, and their health got worse."
"In those days, it was so difficult to keep in touch after going abroad. Your grandparents' family only had influence in a few places in China. If you wanted to go abroad to look for them, let alone find them, even the round-trip travel expenses were a huge expense." Having said this, Lin Bohan paused before continuing to talk about the rest of the story.
In fact, the things that followed were very simple. Although communications had developed in the 1990s, it was still very difficult to find someone if the other party did not leave contact information, let alone in a foreign country where you were unfamiliar with the place.
It was not until more than a year later, when the two elderly people were almost unable to hold on, that their family learned that the school Jiang Wanlin attended had sent him a letter, hoping that he would come back to see them off. However, the two elderly people died of illness the following year without waiting for Jiang Wanlin to return, and he didn't even send them a letter.
Therefore, it would be more accurate to say that Jiang Wanqiu hated her brother rather than being angry with him. In the end, the funerals of the two old people were held by Jiang Wanqiu and Lin Bohan, who were already married. At that time, Jiang Wanqiu was actually still hoping that her brother would come back. Even if she couldn't see him for the last time, it would be nice for him to come back to attend the funeral.
However, in the end, nothing came of it.
"It wasn't until the second year after you were born that your uncle wrote back a letter explaining the whole story. It turned out that he didn't receive the letter at that time. His letter was thrown into the water by a student from the same school who disliked him. By the time he found out, it had been a long time. But you also know your mother's temper. No matter what she said, she couldn't get over it. Even though they got in touch later, she never opened the letter sent by your uncle." Lin Bohan said with a sigh.
After listening to his father's narration of the past, Lin Yimu didn't know what to say. He was just filled with emotion. At the same time, he was very curious about why his uncle had to study abroad at that time. What major are you studying?
Thinking of this, Lin Yimu asked curiously.
Lin Bohan thought about today's conversation and said, "Your uncle seemed to have said that he studied computer science at MIT in the United States."
When Lin Yimu heard about this major, he roughly understood why his uncle went abroad. After all, the development of the Internet in the 1990s was really faster in the United States. However, for his uncle to be admitted to a prestigious university, his grades must have been very good, otherwise he would not have received an offer from MIT.
Thinking of this, Lin Yimu suddenly became a little interested in this uncle. After all, he was able to boldly go abroad in that era, and it seemed that he must have achieved great success and returned to China now.
Thinking of this, Lin Yimu looked at his father and suggested: "Dad, since he has his reasons, why don't we invite uncle to our house more often? This will also ease the relationship between uncle and mom."
As soon as Lin Bohan saw Lin Yimu's expression, he knew that he definitely didn't think so, but he didn't say it explicitly. Anyway, he was planning to invite Jiang Wanlin to his home more often in the near future to resolve the knot between his wife and brother.
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