Chapter 032 (Part 2)
Lin Shuyang's words attracted everyone's attention, especially Lin Shuxing.
She was seven years older than Lin Shuyang. When Lin Shuyang was lost, she was only ten years old. When she heard that Lin Shuyang still remembered her, Lin Shuxing's hands were shaking: "Do you still remember my elder sister?"
"What about my second sister? Do you still remember her?" Lin Shuyue also stepped forward to join in the fun.
Lin Shuyang nodded and shook his head at Lin Shuyue, then smiled and said, "I can't really remember. I just remember that I had an older sister and a little girl who was older than me. We often played together. My older sister had a mole on her ear."
Lin Shuyang's words made Lin Shuxing subconsciously touch his left ear. She has a mole on her earlobe, the size of a grain of rice. Luo Zhengjun always says that her mole is beautiful and looks like an earring from a distance.
Lin Shuxing said: "In the past, when mom was busy, I took you with me. Your second sister couldn't carry you, so you let me carry you. Your favorite thing to do was to pinch my ears. The little girl who is older than you must be your second sister. When you were little, you loved to follow me. Wherever I went, you went. Sometimes I found you annoying."
Lin Shuxing still remembers that what she hated most was Ayang playing with her ears. She would warn him every time she carried him on her back. But the three-year-old child was ignorant and the more she talked, the more he played. When she was most angry, she would slap him a few times.
He cried and was scolded. I just felt angry at the time, but after Ayang was lost, when I recalled these things, I felt that they were very precious.
Lin Shuyue didn't find it strange. It is said that children under the age of three have no memories, but they actually do have them. It's just that compared to older children's, children's memories are too vague.
Lin Shuyue thought that Lin Shuyang always remembered the mole on Lin Shuxing's ear, it must be because he saw it so often and it was too deeply engraved in his mind.
"Do you remember anything?" Lin Shuyue asked softly.
Lin Shuyang said: "I remember there was a girl who was always crying. I had to comfort her."
Lin Shuxing burst into laughter and said, "That's your second sister. Among the three of us, your second sister is the only one who loves to cry the most. She cries when she's unhappy. She annoyed me when I was a kid."
The three siblings started chatting again, talking about Ayang's life over the years.
Lou Fengqin on the other side burst into tears again after hearing what Lin Shuyang said.
Aunt Zhou felt very sad to see her like this. She also had three children, so she especially understood Lou Fengqin's feelings. The year her eldest son started junior high school and went to live in the school dormitory, she missed her child so much.
Ayang left Lou Fengqin, but he had been gone for fourteen years. Aunt Zhou still remembers how Ayang looked when he was brought back home, and feels very emotional.
"When my brother brought Ah Yang home, he was white and chubby, and you could tell at a glance that he had plenty of food. He was also well-behaved and sensible, but he loved to cry and look for his mother, his eldest sister, and his second sister."
"I told my younger brother at that time that Ayang was definitely sent away without his mother's knowledge. If they really wanted to send a child away, they would not have raised him to such an age, nor would they have raised him so well." The Shancheng area has always favored boys over girls. From childhood to adulthood, Aunt Zhou has seen many children who were sent away to be raised by others.
Most of those children were girls, and they were either given away at birth or given away at birth. The oldest one was only raised until one year old. Because it is difficult to send a sensible child away.
After hearing this, Lou Fengqin, whose tears have been flowing like a faucet since she entered the Zhou family, said, "Each of my children is my sweetheart, my flesh and blood. Even if they get hurt, my heart aches as a mother. How can I bear to give them away! It's all the fault of his inhuman father."
Lou Fengqin told the story of what Lin Jianxin had done in the past in order to gain power and wealth, and everyone present was filled with indignation. Especially Aunt Zhou, who scolded Lin Jianxin over and over again in different ways.
After scolding her, she patted Lou Fengqin's hand and said to her, "My brother went to Pengcheng to look for you several times before he left. But the construction site he worked on with Ayang's father had been disbanded a long time ago. Pengcheng is so big, and there are so many construction sites. He worked on them one by one. He did meet a lot of people he knew back then, but no one had Ayang's father's contact information."
"He also wanted to look for you, but Ayang's father never told me where their home was, and my brother had never seen you. He could only ask around while working, but after so many years, there is still no trace. No one thought of going to the police. It would have been better if they had gone to the police earlier." Since ancient times, people have been afraid of seeing officials. At that time, it was not like it is now, when the police station and the public security bureau often went to the countryside to publicize policies.
Shantai Village is isolated and everyone would rather avoid calling the police if possible. After all, in their view at that time, the police were there to catch bad guys, and they never knew that the police could also help find homes for children.
Aunt Zhou could say this, but Lou Fengqin could not. She just cursed Lin Jianxin for being a good-for-nothing, and thanked Zhou Longxiang for raising her son Ayang. Finally, she said, "We have been looking for Ayang all over the country for so many years. We have also been to Shancheng, but we have never been to Gongliang Town. Tell me, how nice it would have been if we had come to Gongliang Town back then."
"It's never too late for family to reunite." A villager from Santai Village advised.
Lou Fengqin wiped her tears, affectionately called Aunt Zhou "sister", and suggested that the two families should be treated as relatives from now on. She had thought about this matter carefully, and had been thinking about it for more than ten years. She had thought before that if Ayang's adoptive family treated him well and were willing to let her take Ayang away, then she was not an ignorant person, and she was willing to let Ayang's two families go.
She didn't do this to show how kind she was. Because she knew that her Ayang had been away from her for too long. More than ten years is enough to turn a close mother and son into strangers.
But she thought so before in order to win the child's heart from the adoptive family. Although she was somewhat reluctant, Lou Fengqin was sincere towards the Zhou family.
Old Man Zhou's eyes lit up instantly, and Aunt Zhou was also very happy: "Thank you, sister. I thank you on behalf of my brother and my father."
Zhou Longxiang is disabled and has had uneven legs since childhood. He got married, but later his wife despised him for being incompetent and ran away with her. He went out to the construction site to fight
He originally wanted to earn money and marry another one, but ended up bringing Lin Shuyang back. He was afraid that marrying another woman would be bad for Lin Shuyang, so he never got married.
Aunt Zhou tried to persuade him for a long time, and even suggested that he take Lin Shuyang home to raise her after he got married, but he still did not agree.
Zhou Longxiang was working outside, and Lin Shuyang had been growing up in front of old man Zhou since he was brought home. Old man Zhou was a man, and it was good enough for him to take care of himself. How could he take care of a child who was over three years old? Aunt Zhou married in this village. As soon as she got married, she gave birth to two sons and established herself on her feet.
Her parents-in-law are not bad people, and no one says anything about her coming back all year round to take care of the grandfather and grandson. Because Lin Shuyang is good-looking, well-behaved and sensible, and will do well in study when he grows up, not only Aunt Zhou but also her husband likes this nephew Lin Shuyang very much.
Now that the biological mother has come, it is reasonable for them to take the child away. They are not the kind of people who would occupy someone else's child and not let the child go, because they had never thought of buying a child in the first place.
Zhou Longxiang raised Lin Shuyang because he was kind-hearted and was afraid that Lin Jianxin would give the child to those other people, who were not good people.
Aunt Zhou and Old Man Zhou had already prepared themselves mentally for Ayang's passing. Even on his deathbed, Zhou Longxiang told Lin Shuyang to go find his biological parents.
The Zhou family was certain that Lin Shuyang was not an ungrateful person. Even if he found his biological parents, they would never forget the Zhou family's kindness in raising him. But that still couldn't compare to Lou Fengqin personally getting the two families to recognize each other as relatives.
First, it is aboveboard, and second, Lin Shuyang does not have to act as a sandwich between the two families.
Although Pengcheng and Shancheng are far away, they are not very far away. The young people in the village all go out to work. The two sons of Aunt Zhou work in an electronics factory in Pengcheng. Now that Lin Shuyang has returned to Pengcheng, it is easier for them to meet than at home.
If Aunt Zhou and Old Man Zhou miss Ayang, there are buses from the county town to Pengcheng.
"I should be the one thanking you. If I hadn't met your family, we Ayang would have suffered so much." Lou Fengqin has been looking for her child for so many years, and her requirements for Lin Shuyang have become less and less. At the beginning, she hoped that he would live a good life and have someone to love him, but now she only hopes that he is alive.
Now Lin Shuyang is much better than she had hoped.
Lou Fengqin was satisfied.
Seeing that both parties had almost finished their conversation, Lin Shuyue suggested going to town to treat them to a meal.
Aunt Zhou didn't want to do that. Given how much it would cost to have a meal in town, she decided to just go home and kill two chickens and buy some meat to cook a meal.
Lou Fengqin disagreed: "Big sister, this is the first meal we have after we found Ayang. It is also a family reunion banquet for our two families, and also a thank you banquet for your family. You must agree!"
Uncle Zhou also came back and agreed, so everyone went to the town.
As soon as they went out, Lou Fengqin and Lin Shuxing held Lin Shuyang's hands tightly on the left and right, not daring and unwilling to let go.
The village party secretary drove out the village's tractor and swarmed over Zhou's relatives. Bai Wenhua, Lou Fengqin's future husband, got on the tractor with them.
The police were allowed to drive his car.
Lin Shuyue took Zhou Dagu, Lin Shuxing, Zeng Xiaoyi, Lin Shuyang and Lou Fengqin and walked at the front of the convoy.
The police drove behind them.
The group went to the restaurant where they had dinner last night. When the restaurant owner saw so many people coming, he was so happy that he couldn't stop smiling. He tried his best to cook the dishes, determined to make his restaurant famous for its delicious food.
Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing, under Lou Fengqin's instructions, went to the clothing store in the town and bought two sets of clothes for Old Man Zhou. They bought the most expensive and best ones as long as the sizes were suitable.
Aunt Zhou and Uncle Zhou also haven't forgotten them.
The same goes for shoes.
When we got back to the restaurant, the dishes had already been served. There were four tables of people in total, occupying all the large tables in the restaurant.
Everyone was chatting animatedly.
When Lin Shuyue and others came, everyone looked at her. Aunt Zhou even held her hand and kept praising her.
Everyone praised her for being excellent, for being able to get into university, and for being a journalist, a profession that sounded very impressive.
Aunt Zhou likes people who are good at studying, but unfortunately, she gave birth to three children, and none of them was good at studying. The second son, who had the highest education, only studied to the first year of high school and refused to go to school.
Only Lin Shuyang had a talent for studying, and his high school teachers said that he was a good candidate for college. Now it seems that he inherited it from his biological father and mother.
Halfway through the meal, Lou Fengqin led her daughter and son to kowtow three times to Old Man Zhou. Old Man Zhou accepted the kowtow and, trembling, gave the four people the red envelopes that Aunt Zhou had secretly prepared for him. Aunt Zhou's family is not rich, so there is not much money in the red envelope, it's just a token of my thought.
After bowing, he gave the clothes to Aunt Zhou and Uncle Zhou, and the two families acknowledged the relationship.
The group stayed in Gongliang Town for another night. The next day, they took Lin Shuyang back to Pengcheng. Old Man Zhou and Aunt Zhou, wearing the clothes that Lin Shuyue and her friends bought for them yesterday, also went over to greet the guests.
The moment Lin Shuyang stepped into the Lin family, the good and evil system issued a notification.
[Ding~ Limited-time mission: Finding the kidnapped brother has been completed. 】
[Ding~Task settlement in progress...]
[Settlement completed, reward system RMB 2000, points 500. Life span x 6 months. 】
When the task was issued, the time given for finding Ayang was 12 months, or one year. Now, in just three days, she found Ayang.
Lin Shuyue still felt a little unreal. Now that her life span had increased so much, plus the settlement time of several previous tasks, Lin Shuyue's life balance was already one year.
She breathed a sigh of relief. The shadow of sudden death at any time and place was finally away from her.
Apart from this, what surprised Lin Shuyue the most was the monetary reward given by the system.
When she captured Duan Taoyong, she was rewarded with 1,000 RMB, but the rewards for completing the next two tasks were less than 1,000 RMB. Now the reward for this task is 2,000 RMB again.
There is no pattern at all. Ask the good and evil discrimination system. It is just an AI that can issue tasks. It is not intelligent at all. Don't expect to chat with it. At most, it would execute some of the instructions she gave based on its existing functions.
But since she didn't know what happened, Lin Shuyue didn't pursue it too much. She was still happy that she could find Ayang back.
After Lou Fengqin took the three members of the Zhou family to play in Pengcheng for a few days, they returned. The two families exchanged phone numbers, and Lin Shuyue and others also met Aunt Zhou's two sons.
These two sons, like Aunt Zhou and the others, have low good and evil values. Like Lin Shuyang, they are also a little shy.
Bai Wenhua has not been back yet. These days, whether taking the Zhou family out to play or meeting Aunt Zhou's son, he has been running around.
Lin Shuyue and her sister just watched coldly. He was a good man and was also good to Lin Shuyang. He secretly took Lin Shuyang out for a trip, and when he came back, Lin Shuyang had a bunch of electronic products in his hands, including electronic game consoles and walkmans. He also didn't leave out Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing.
Lou Fengqin glared at Bai Wenhua fiercely.
Bai Wenhua smiled and said, "Ah Feng, look at how old Ah Xing and Ah Yue's phones are. They are almost broken. It won't be a waste if I buy them one."
Bai Wenhua has two supermarkets in Yangcheng, both of which are managed by hired people. The accounts are settled every six months, so he has a lot of money. He had noticed the mobile phones the two sisters were using before. They were old models from many years ago. Although they were still usable, they were not suitable for two young girls.
In the past, he wanted to change it but he didn't have the right position. Now his relationship with Lou Fengqin has taken a big step closer. Bai Wenhua felt that although Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing didn't call him dad, they were still his daughters. What's wrong for a father to buy his daughters a mobile phone? It's only natural.
Lou Fengqin also knew this. Now Ayang is back and she has some money saved. She originally wanted to take her three children to buy mobile phones in a few days, but Bai Wenhua has taken the lead, so she wants to give the money to Bai Wenhua. She doesn't like owing people things.
But after seeing Bai Wenhua's eyes, she sighed: "You can't buy something that expensive. How much would Ah Xing and Ah Yue's two flip phones cost? Why not just buy a Nokia? It's cheap and durable."
The uneasiness in Bai Wenhua's eyes disappeared and he smiled. "How can we compare? Girls should be prettier."
The two had a meaningless argument about this matter, and then Bai Wenhua returned to where he lived.
Lou Fengqin held a meeting at home. Everyone including Luo Zhengjun was present, and Zeng Xiaoyi also came to join in the fun.
Lou Fengqin hesitated for a long time in the meeting. Under the urging of Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing, she mustered up the courage to ask her three children:
"You all know about what happened between me and your Uncle Bai. What do you think?" Lou Fengqin asked, mainly looking at Lin Shuyang.
She knew her two daughters and they had no objection to her remarriage, as long as the man was decent and treated her well.
What Lou Fengqin was afraid of was that Lin Shuyang would have objections.
Because of Lin Shuyang's personal experience, Lou Fengqin could not completely ignore his wishes and be with Bai Wenhua. She had made up her mind that if Lin Shuyang did not agree with them, she would make things clear to Bai Wenhua.
Lin Shuyang smiled and said under Lou Fengqin's gaze: "Uncle Bai is a very nice person. He is also generous."
Lin Shuyang didn't mind his mother's remarriage. He was already seventeen years old. He was already satisfied that his mother found him and that he knew that he was not abandoned by her.
During the days since he was found, he also realized how much suffering and pain Lou Fengqin had endured in the search for him over the years, and he was deeply moved.
He has the fatherly love of Zhou Longxiang, and now he feels the motherly love of Lou Fengqin, and he feels very satisfied in his heart.
Today, Bai Wenhua took him out and talked to him for a long time. He also initially recognized Bai Wenhua as a person: "As long as you are willing, mom, I have no objection."
Lou Fengqin had tears in her eyes, but she smiled. She had lived a miserable life, but God had been kind to her after all. Her three children were smart, well-behaved, filial and sensible. They were all treasures given to her by God.
Lou Fengqin told her children about Bai Wenhua.
He has only one daughter, Bai Pingping. When she was two years old, she was kidnapped on the street by human traffickers. His wife died of illness a few years after the child was lost. In order to find his child, he formed a search team. Now, fifteen years have passed, and there is still no news of his daughter.
Lou Fengqin and he have been searching for children together for ten years, and they are very familiar with each other. Five years ago, Bai Wenhua mentioned to Lou Fengqin that they were together, but at that time Lin Shuyue was in high school and was about to take the college entrance examination, which was the most important time in her life, so Lou Fengqin did not agree.
Later, Bai Wenhua asked once a year, but Lou Fengqin refused on the grounds that she was afraid of affecting Lin Shuyue's schooling. Now the two have agreed to live together until the end of the year, and Bai Wenhua is already preparing to move his industries from Yangcheng to Pengcheng.
Now that their relationship was clear, Bai Wenhua had no more scruples about going in and out of the Lin family's house, but like Luo Zhengjun, he did not stay overnight at the Lin family's house.
After finding Lin Shuyang, things at home got back on track. Lin Shuxing and Luo Zhengjun continued to sell their boxed lunches. After not setting up their stall for a few days, their business was booming when they went out again.
Lou Fengqin and Bai Wenhua worked together to find a school for Lin Shuyang. They were looking for a school with one of the best teaching quality in Pinghu District. Bai Wenhua used the connections of his comrades-in-arms.
By the way, Zeng Xiaoyi’s schooling issue was also resolved.
When Zeng Xiaoyi knew that she could go to high school with Lin Shuyang, she burst into tears.
She didn't say she wouldn't go to school, because going to school was one of her dreams. She just promised the Lin family that she would write an IOU to Lin Shuyue and the others, and she would pay off the debt after she graduated from college.
Lin Shuyue and Lin Shuxing never thought of asking Zeng Xiaoyi to pay it back, especially Lin Shuxing. She is making money now and has money in her hands. It is not a problem for her to sponsor Zeng Xiaoyi to go to college.
But when Zeng Xiaoyi wanted to write an IOU, she didn't stop him. Instead, he put the IOU away carefully, and then quietly said to Lin Shuyue: "I used to watch those rich people doing charity on TV every day. Today they sponsored a few children in the mountainous areas, and tomorrow they built a few schools in the mountainous areas."
"I was very envious at that time. Now I can sponsor others to go to school. Rounding it off, I am also a rich man." Lin Shuxing narrowed his eyes when he said this.
Lin Shuyue smiled and congratulated her, then asked: "Sister, now that Ayang is back and you are not too old, are you interested in going to night school?"
When Lin Shuxing heard about going to night school, he was in a trance for a moment, then shook his head: "When I was seventeen or eighteen years old, I wanted to study.
I feel it is a pity that I didn’t finish reading it. Now I'm in my twenties, I've grown up, and have been struggling in society for a long time. I can read novels, but I can't read serious books anymore. ”
Luo Zhengjun mentioned the matter of going to night school to Lin Shuxing. Lin Shuxing also tried to go to the library to read books. She had some impressions of math and Chinese, but she was completely clueless about English and chemistry.
Don't make it difficult for yourself. She also secretly signed up for a class at a training school. After attending the class for an afternoon, she could still understand one or two questions at the beginning, but later on she was just sleepy.
I can’t concentrate anymore. I don’t have the same energy I had when I was a child studying. Don't make it hard on yourself. Let the next generation work hard to get into a good university.
"Your brother Zhengjun said that he would let our children study hard in the future." Lin Shuxing's eyes were full of longing when talking about the future.
"What are you two sisters talking about? You've been talking for so long. Come out quickly. We're waiting for you." Lou Fengqin called them from outside.
"Coming." Lin Shuyue responded, and the two sisters walked out together.
The weather is very good today, the sun is not too strong and the breeze is not dry. Their family of four, including Bai Wenhua, Luo Zhengjun, Zeng Xiaoyi, and Ahao and Zhou Bingrong who came to join in the fun, want to go to the beach to play for a day before Ayang and Zeng Xiaoyi start school.
Halfway through the game, Lin Shuyue received a call from Wang Guiquan.
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