Chapter 272 Familiar Photos
Lu Bailing brought all the information about the old man's search to Lu Mingfeng.
The old man's name is Xiang Chuan, he is from Hai City, and he has always lived with his daughter.
The granddaughter is Xiang Lingyun, who lives with her parents in Jing City.
Lu Mingfeng asked: "Don't most old people live with their sons? Why does Mr. Xiang live with his daughter? I think his granddaughter cares about him very much."
Lu Bailing said: "Lingyun's father and her eldest aunt are half-sisters, and Lingyun's grandmother is Mr. Xiang's second wife.
The Xiang family also has a certain status in Hai City. After Mr. Xiang's original wife passed away, she left behind a daughter, who is Lingyun's eldest aunt.
After Lingyun's grandmother married, she gave birth to a son and a daughter for the Xiang family, and loved Lingyun's eldest aunt as much as her own children.
Once, Mrs. Xiang took her two daughters out to buy things. , was kidnapped. Mrs. Xiang tried her best to protect her two daughters, but she was stabbed by the criminals.
When the Xiang family called the police and found the people, Mrs. Xiang had bled to death. Only one eldest daughter was by her side, and the youngest daughter was missing.
According to Ling Yun's aunt, her sister was kidnapped by the criminals.
The Xiang family thought that the criminals wanted to ransom money, but after waiting for a few days, they did not receive any information from the criminals.
In the following years, Mr. Xiang kept sending people to look for his youngest daughter, so he could not take care of his business, so he handed it over to his eldest daughter. "
Lu Mingfeng asked: "So, when Ling Yun was kidnapped, his aunt was not a child?"
"The eldest aunt is 15 years old, and the youngest aunt is only 7 years old. After Mrs. Xiang passed away, Mr. Xiang never remarried, so Lingyun's eldest aunt took on the responsibility of taking care of Lingyun's father."
Shen Jiale asked: "The Xiang family siblings should have a good relationship, so why are they separated?"
"Ling Yun said that her eldest aunt was very good to her father, and she delayed her own marriage in order to take care of him.
Aunt Xiang wanted to wait until her younger brother got married, and then pass on the family business to him before considering marriage. However, her younger brother did not marry the wife of equal status arranged by her sister, and turned around and got together with Ling Yun's mother.
Because of this, Aunt Xiang had a quarrel with her younger brother, and Ling Yun's father ran away from home.
It was only in recent years that Ling Yun's father contacted them."
Liang Qiaoli said: "I heard that wealthy families all fight for family property, but the Xiang family is like this, the stepmother treats the first child "It's a good thing for a sister from a different mother to take care of her brother. It's already very rare."
Lu Bailing said: "Yes, Ling Yun's eldest aunt has not married yet, just to protect the Xiang family's property and hand it over to Ling Yun's father.
However, Ling Yun's father was never willing to go back, so Ling Yun's eldest aunt sent Mr. Xiang to Beijing.
After sending him, she left."
Liang Qiaoli felt that Ling Yun's father was too wrong. The sister had done so much. Now that the old father is critically ill, the two siblings should take care of the old man together."
Lu Mingfeng said: "Maybe there is a hidden story that we don't know. "
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Lu Mingfeng looked at the thick materials, which were all traces of Mr. Xiang's search over the years based on clues provided by others.
There was also a photo album.
Mr. Xiang knew that if he couldn't find his little daughter this time, he would never have another chance. So, he gave all the materials to Lu Mingfeng.
Because his children said that they had been looking for her for so many years without any results, and she must be dead.
But he just had a strong feeling that his little daughter was still alive, living well in some corner.
Lu Mingfeng flipped through the photo album and saw a photo of a little boy. He looked very familiar, so he quickly called Liang Qiaoli and Shen Jiale.
Pointing to the photo, he asked, "Mom, daughter-in-law, does this photo look familiar to you?"
Liang Qiaoli said, "Isn't this the widow Hua's son, Hua Xiaofei? Why is his photo here? "
Shen Jiale came over and took a closer look and said, "It shouldn't be Xiaofei. Look, the photo is very old, and the people in it are wearing clothes of children from wealthy families in the early years. Was Widow Hua's family rich before?"
Liang Qiaoli said, "They only made some money later by growing garlic sprouts and raising chickens with the villagers. They were an orphan and a widow before, and they could hardly eat enough."
Shen Jiale asked about the situation of Widow Hua's family.
Liang Qiaoli said that Widow Hua was an adopted child.
Mr. Xiang and himself had a connection, so Lu Mingfeng decided to go to the hospital to find out.
When he heard that there was someone who looked very similar to the one in the photo, Mr. Xiang was very excited.
But when Lu Mingfeng pointed to the photo of the little boy, Mr. Xiang was disappointed again: "That was a photo of me when I was a child. "
Pointing to a photo of a little girl next to her, she asked, "This is the little girl I'm looking for. Have you seen her?"
Lu Mingfeng shook his head. The photo of the little girl was very different from the widow Hua.
Seeing Mr. Xiang lying back on the bed in disappointment, Shen Jiale, who came with him, said, "Old man, have you heard of inter-generational inheritance? Some children don't look like their parents, but look very much like their grandparents.
The mother of the child who looks very much like the one in the photo was adopted, and her age matches."
After hearing that the age matched, Xiang Lingyun said, "Grandpa, you have found so many people who look alike over the years, and none of them is my aunt. Maybe it's because girls change a lot when they grow up, and my aunt has changed. "
After hearing what his granddaughter said, Mr. Xiang hesitated for a moment and said to Xiang Lingyun, "Let your father bring the person over."
Xiang Lingyun asked for the address, and Lu Mingfeng remembered that Lu Bailing said that Mr. Xiang's body would not last for a few days.
He said, "It will take time to go back and forth. I will call my hometown and ask her opinion. If possible, let her come over."
Xiang Lingyun was very grateful and bowed to Lu Mingfeng, "Then thank you for your help."
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The couple returned home and called Yaoshui Village. Ten minutes later, Widow Hua answered the phone.
When Widow Hua heard that it was related to her own life experience, she was silent for a while and said, "So many years have passed. Even if I find my relatives, I don't want to recognize them again. "
Lu Mingfeng said: "It is still uncertain whether you are the old gentleman's daughter. He has never given up looking for her over the years. Now he is dying and does not want to leave the world with regrets.
" "Is he in Beijing?"
"Yes, his son took him in for treatment."
"Is there anyone else here?"
"Only his son and his family of three are accompanying him."
Widow Hua was silent for a while, and finally said, "Then I will go to meet him, to fulfill the old man's last wish."
"Take Xiaofei with you, so that he can take care of you on the way."
"Xiaofei didn't pass the exam this year, and he is looking for a job now."
Lu Mingfeng felt a little guilty about asking Widow Hua to come over when he was not sure whether she was Mr. Xiang's daughter.
So he said, "If Xiaofei is willing, I can arrange a job for him in Beijing."
Of course, it would be good to be able to work in Beijing. Widow Hua no longer hesitated and immediately agreed to bring her son to Beijing tomorrow.