Chapter 244 The Nine-Year-Old Painter (Part 2)

After dinner, Shi Muhan and Xiaojia went home.

Lu Weiguo took Shenshen out to play, while Shi Tingyu went back to her room and began to paint based on the useful information provided by Xiaojia.

She kept revising until Lu Weiguo coaxed Shenshen to sleep and she stopped painting.

Lu Weiguo said, "You've been painting for a long time. Take a break first and organize your thoughts. You'll be able to do more with less tomorrow."

Shi Tingyu rubbed her sore wrists and finally gave up forcing herself.

The next day, Shi Muhan and Xiaojia came over to help take care of the children, while Shi Tingyu continued to paint.

She had finished no less than five portraits, but she was not satisfied.

She took out the drawing paper again and continued painting.

She placed the five portraits she had painted on the ground within her sight so that she could observe them at any time.

Finally, after lunch, Shi Tingyu finished the portrait that he was most confident in.

Looking at the man in the portrait who was thin and had eyes that were 80% similar to Xiaojia's, Shi Tingyu felt a sense of relief in his heart.

Xiaojia looked at the portrait, and his hands holding the drawing paper were shaking. Looking at the portrait, he felt a sense of familiarity and intimacy from the bottom of his heart.

"This, is this my elder brother?"

For some reason, Xiaojia felt that the person in the portrait in front of him must be his elder brother.

From his eyebrows and eyes, you can vaguely see the shadow of his elder brother when he was a child.

"Yes." Shi Tingyu was confident in his portrait this time.

Xiaojia's eyes were slightly red, and he trembled and said, "Thank you, Teacher Shi!"

No matter how many thanks he said, it could not express one ten-thousandth of his gratitude to Shi Tingyu.

Shi Tingyu said: "Although we have the portrait, it will take time to find someone. I hope your family can be reunited soon."

Xiaojia nodded heavily.

He believed that with the portrait, it would be a matter of time before he found his elder brother.

Shi Tingyu drew a few more for him to make it easier for different people to look for him.

The next day, Xiaojia took the portrait and returned to the camp with Shi Muhan.

After Xiaojia returned, he went directly to the newspaper. He paid the newspaper to help publish a missing person notice, and published the portrait and his elder brother's childhood photos in the newspaper.

Nowadays, newspapers have a very wide audience.

Even if not everyone subscribes, a production brigade generally has one. Even if

the members don't read it, the brigade cadres still have to read it.

But more than a month has passed, and there is no news at all.

On the day of Labor Day, May 1, the newspaper received a reply letter from a small village in the southwest.

The sender was Xiao Jia's brother.

However, Xiao Jia's brother's surname is not Jia now, but Song, and his name is Song Youde.

A photo was also sent with the letter.

The editor-in-chief of the newspaper looked at the black and white photo, and then looked at the portrait printed in the newspaper. It cannot be said that it is exactly the same, but he can definitely recognize that this is the person in the photo at a glance.

The portrait is at least 90% similar.

The editor-in-chief was amazed.

When Xiao Jia first came to the newspaper to take out the portrait, everyone thought it was a fantasy.

How can a person draw the appearance of the person in the photo when he grows up based on a childhood photo?

But the facts were in front of him, so he had to believe it.

Instantly, the editor-in-chief developed a strong interest in the portrait painter.

However, the first thing to do now is to notify the young warrior who published the missing person notice.

There had been no news from the newspaper for more than a month, and Xiao Jia had already become a little discouraged. Unexpectedly, he was summoned by the battalion commander during training that day, saying that there was a call from the newspaper.

Xiao Jia almost ran all the way there.

When the call came again, he felt his breathing lighten.

He was still a little unbelievable when he heard from the newspaper that his brother had been found. It was not

until the other party confirmed the time to go to the newspaper that he slowly came back to his senses and

returned to the training ground. Xiao Jia simply applied for a month's home leave from his leader, and went to the southwest to look for his brother according to the address and photos given by the newspaper.

It was a week later that Song Youde was found.

The village where Song Youde lived was Wadu Village, where many people from ethnic minorities lived.

Xiaojia's arrival attracted a lot of people's attention.

Fortunately, the military uniform could calm the situation.

When Xiaojia found Song Youde, Song Youde was working in the field.

Hearing from the team that someone was looking for him with a photo, he guessed it in his heart.

Ever since he knew about the missing person newspaper, Song Youde has been waiting for news.

When he heard that someone was looking for him, he put down the farm tools in his hand and ran to the intersection of the village.

Looking at the man in military uniform standing upright in front of him, Song Youde couldn't help but think of many childhood fragments.

He burst into tears for a moment.

The two brothers almost hugged their heads and cried.

When they both calmed down, Song Youde took Xiaojia home.

Xiao Jia originally thought that his brother should at least be married, but now he found that, apart from the two chickens they raised, he was the only one alive at home.

Song Youde poured water for his brother, and then told him about his own story.

He got lost on his own.

Later, he got lost and was abducted to the southwest.

He was one of the oldest children among the abducted children, and he was smart, so he finally escaped. However, before he could find anyone to help him, he fainted and had a high fever due to his physical depletion during the period of abduction. In

the end, he was rescued by a family named Song.

That was the home of his adoptive parents.

After he woke up, he didn't remember many things, and lived with his adoptive parents in this small village.

The conditions of his adoptive parents were not good, and they had no children, so they saved him when he fainted, hoping that someone would take care of them in their old age.

Two years ago, the old couple of the Song family passed away one after another, and he was the only one left at home.

After burying the two old people, he has lived alone until now.

It's not that no one has introduced him to a partner, but he is an adopted child and has no relatives here, so he is always bullied. No girl likes him, so he has always been single.

He learned about the missing person notice from a junior high school student in the village.

Because of this incident, he began to recall some childhood fragments one after another.

It was not until he sent a letter to the newspaper that he completely remembered who he was.

He is Jia Dajun, a member of the Red Flag Brigade under Anyang County.

He has parents and a younger brother.

When Xiao Jia heard about his elder brother's experience, he couldn't help but feel sad for him.

Finally, the two brothers discussed it, and Song Youde sold the house here to the brigade, sold the things in the house that could be sold, and donated the things that couldn't be sold to the brigade, and then returned to Anyang with Xiao Jia. When

the old couple of the Jia family saw their eldest son, they burst into tears again.

But this time, the two of them cried with joy.

At first, Jia Dajun was just lost, and his household registration was still there. The Jia family was a native of Anyang County. Jia Dajun was soon assigned to the brigade, and went to work with his family every day to earn work points.

He was very happy with such days.

As for the Song family who adopted him, the old couple were not in good health, and he took care of them until they were buried, which was considered to be a way of repaying their kindness in raising them.

Now it is not allowed to burn paper money for the two elders, even if Jia Dajun wanted to burn some paper money for them, he could not.