Chapter 535
Fu Xiuchen looked at her with a light gaze: "That was during the SARS outbreak in 2003, when we adopted the tenth child."
After the outbreak of SARS, Lao Shi's parents fled the epidemic area with their two children. Sadly, his parents contracted SARS during this process due to their poor immunity.
To prevent their two children from getting infected, they had to abandon their two sons and daughters and give all their savings to their ten-year-old son.
His younger sister, a year younger than him, traveled a long way and eventually contracted SARS along with him. She died in the hospital before she could even see the beauty of the world, leaving him an orphan.
Every day was filled with the pain of losing loved ones and the illness of SARS. It wasn't until Fu Jiang and his wife donated money to the hospital and visited the children that they met Lao Shi.
He held his sister's photo, looking very downcast.
His illness wasn't serious and there was a possibility of recovery. Qiao Yanzhi approached him and asked softly, "Child, are you afraid of being isolated?"
He shook his head, looking at her with a somewhat blank expression.
"Don't be afraid, this disease can be cured, and you will get better."
The tenth brother's eyes reddened, but he held back his tears: "Can my grape be saved? She's only nine years old..."
She is the same age as her long-lost daughter, and not only that, they even share the same nickname.
She was somewhat moved and paid close attention to the child's every move in the following days, touched by his longing for his sister and parents.
After SARS was completely eradicated, she went to the orphanage, found him, and adopted him.
Tang Yaoyao was taken aback when she heard her brother recount what had happened before: "My nickname is Grape?"
"right."
Tang Yaoyao smiled gently, revealing two shallow dimples: "Such a cute name! But Mom, you chose a good name because I really love eating grapes."
It was because when she was a little fox, her reddish-brown fur made her disliked by her tribe, who considered her an anomaly. At that time, she heard from the elders of her tribe that she should eat more grapes during the cultivation process to become human, so that when she became human, her eyes would be big and round, and her pupils would be dark and shiny.
At first, she ate grapes just to enhance her beauty as an adult, but later, she ate them entirely because of their wonderful sweet and sour taste.
Looking at her smile, Fu Xiuchen subconsciously remembered her words.
Tang Yaoyao snapped out of her thoughts and asked again, "Brother, can you tell me if Tenth Brother later got over the trauma of losing his loved ones?"
“This kind of pain isn’t something you can just walk away from,” Fu Xiuchen said.
Tang Yaoyao roughly understood that her mother was somewhat emotional; the loss of a loved one was hard to accept, so she must have been going through a lot of hardship all these years...
"This is your eleventh brother's study."
Tang Yaoyao snapped out of her thoughts, blinked her beautiful eyes, and asked softly, "How did Eleventh Brother end up being adopted by our parents by such a coincidence?"
“During the SARS outbreak, his parents contracted SARS and were quarantined. After that, he never saw them again. When they went to the hospital for a check-up, neither of them made it. He and Lao Shi were both sent to an orphanage. The two of them became good friends. His mother was worried that Lao Shi would be lonely when he came back and left his good brother, so they went through the adoption procedures together.”
Sure enough, this is something only the wealthy do.
"How are your tenth and eleventh brothers' relationships with Mom and Dad?"
Fu Xiuchen replied, "Very good."
Tang Yaoyao smiled and said, "Then let's talk about Twelfth Brother."
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