Qiao Xiang didn't say anything, so Ye Linlang had to respond outside the door.
"Sister Xia Zhi, it's me."
Xia Zhi opened the gate only after hearing Linlang's voice.
As soon as she opened the gate, the first person she saw was not Ye Linlang, but Qiao Xiang standing in front of her.
In an instant, Xia Zhi's eyes turned red.
She didn't know whether the girl standing in front of her was Qiao Xiang or Qiao Yu.
But she knew that this was the daughter she had brought into this world with all her efforts.
Someone who is connected to you by blood.
Xia Zhi knew very well why Xia Jing and her mother could no longer tolerate her and even used their connections to send her to the countryside as educated youth.
That’s because Qiao Yu and Qiao Xiang started calling their mother.
Compared to Xia Jing, these two children prefer to call her mom.
They prefer to be closer to her as their biological mother than to Xia Jing as their nominal mother.
Originally, Xia Jing and the others hoped that she would give birth to another son with Qiao Shu to consolidate Xia Jing's position in the Qiao family.
But... just because the two children were more affectionate towards her than Xia Jing, she was sent away.
Qiao Xiang looked at Xia Zhi's face, which looked like the same face that Xia Jing trusted, and felt mixed emotions.
She is different from Qiao Yu.
Qiao Yu has always been carefree and not very emotional.
Ever since she could remember, she felt that Xia Jing didn't love her as much as other mothers.
She thought Xia Jing didn't know how to love, or perhaps didn't know how to express it.
It was not until today when Qiao Yu suddenly learned the truth that Qiao Xiang suddenly realized that it was not that Xia Jing did not know how to love, but that Xia Jing was not their biological mother at all.
She has no instinctive "maternal love" at all.
"Sister Xia Zhi, this is Qiao Xiang."
Xia Zhi's eyes were red and she choked up, "Qiao Xiang, you've grown up now. Come in and sit down with me."
Qiao Xiang was a little timid on her own, so she instinctively held Ye Linlang's hand.
As soon as he stepped into the yard, Qiao Xiang saw a clean and tidy yard full of life.
In the water tank in the courtyard, a pink lotus flower quietly blooms.
Under the grape trellis, purple grapes hang heavily on the branches.
On the bamboo clothesline, clothes of little boys and girls were drying.
Ye Linlang and Qiao Xiang sat on the chairs under the grape trellis. Xia Zhi brought some snacks and fruits from the kitchen and placed them on the wooden table in front of them.
"Qiao Xiang, try it."
Meeting his daughter again after so many years, Xia Zhi was really at a loss.
Qiao Xiang looked at Xia Zhi's bright and beautiful face and asked, "Am I really your daughter?"
"Yes." Xia Zhi said with red eyes: "I was drunk by your grandparents back then, and that's when you and Qiao Yu were born."
Qiao Xiang asked again, "Then why have you never come back to see us in all these years?"
Xia Zhi murmured, "I'm sorry."
"Qiao Xiang, it's not that Sister Xia Zhi doesn't want to come back to see you. It's that your grandparents and Xia Jing were afraid that Xia Zhi would ruin Xia Jing and Qiao Shu's lives, so they deliberately sent Xia Jing to the countryside. You may not understand those years, but the educated youth who went up and down the mountain had a very difficult life..."
Xia Zhi wiped the tears from her face with the back of her hand and said softly, "Qiao Xiang, it's not that I won't come back to see you, but I simply can't come back. At that time, we needed a letter of introduction to go anywhere. Without a letter of introduction, it would be impossible to go a single step. Moreover, due to some unavoidable reasons, I had no choice but to marry a local man..."
Ye Linlang instantly understood what Xia Zhi meant by being forced to do so!
"Sister Xia Zhi, it's because Xia Zhao is your uncle's son, right?"
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