Chapter 266 Finding My Sister
Lin Xiaoxia noticed that her elder brother was nervous. She also knew that he wanted everyone to not get too excited, but she felt that nothing she said would be right. She wanted to bring good luck and comfort everyone.
So she looked at Lin Xiao with a smile: "Brother, let's just keep a normal attitude and work hard to find Xiaoya. I believe God will help us."
Lin Xiao also smiled: "You are right, I will definitely do it."
After entering the county town, I stopped at the roundabout where I had agreed to meet Zhou Yunchao.
Although Qingyan County is a county town, it has a developed economy because of the jade mines. It is much larger than ordinary county towns, and people dress well.
At this time, Zhou Yunchao was already waiting for them here. After getting out of the car, Lu Jingshen introduced them to each other without saying too much extra words. Then they all got into the car driven by Lu Jingshen and talked about what was going on as they drove.
Lin Xiaoxia and her elder brother sat in the back seat, and let Zhou Yunchao sit in the passenger seat.
On the way, Zhou Yunchao told them the information he had received: "I heard this morning that there's a place called Sandagouzi Village near our mine. There's a carpenter named Qin Zhigang. He has a daughter. The village rumor is that she's not their biological child. They say the couple was married for several years without having children. They left home over ten years ago and brought back a daughter. She doesn't look like them, and her age is strange, too. She looks two or three years older than she actually is. I find it very suspicious."
After hearing this information, Lin Xiaoxia felt that the possibility was really high: "I guess they changed the age in order to disguise Xiaoya as their own child. This is indeed more suspicious."
After saying that, she quickly said to Zhou Yunchao, "Thank you so much, Yunchao, you have helped us a lot." Because Lu Jingshen and Zhou Yunchao were the same age, there was no need to call them brother or sister, they were just good friends who called each other by their names, so Lin Xiaoxia followed suit.
Zhou Yunchao said: "Don't be polite to me, Jing Shen and I are good friends. Although I am half a year older than him, he took care of me a lot when we were in school."
Lu Jingshen looked at Zhou Yunchao with a smile: "It's not as exaggerated as you say."
"If you hadn't been willing to be my friend and walk with me every day, I don't know how badly I would have been bullied by those hooligans. This is no small matter." Zhou Yunchao said.
After hearing Lu Jingshen talk about their past, Lin Xiaoxia also smiled: "Student days are the purest time. The friendship back then was so good."
Zhou Yunchao said: "Yes, Depth of Field is my benefactor. Every time I encounter difficulties, as long as he is there, I can resolve them."
Lu Jingshen jokingly said, "How about I give you my photo and you carry it with you as a talisman?"
This made everyone laugh and the atmosphere in the car eased.
They soon arrived at Sandaogou Village. Lin Xiaoxia got off the car and asked an aunt about the address of Qin Zhigang, the carpenter Qin.
The aunt looked at Lin Xiaoxia and smiled and said, "Are you related to Carpenter Qin's family?"
Lin Xiaoxia didn't say much, just nodded: "Yeah, I guess so."
At this time, the villagers were very welcoming and knew each other, so whenever a guest came to someone's house, they could talk to each other. However, Lin Xiaoxia didn't want to say much to them. It was true that she and Lin Mei were relatives.
The aunt pointed ahead and said, "In front, the house with the big willow tree at the door is Carpenter Qin's house."
Lin Xiaoxia remembered that there was a clue before, that is, Qin the Carpenter's wife was called Da Lanzi, so she asked the aunt again: "Aunt, Qin the Carpenter's wife's name is Lan, I suddenly can't remember it."
The aunt said casually, "My name is Li Xiulan, Dalanzi. Are you a relative from Lao Qin's maternal side? I didn't know that they had such rich relatives on their side."
This aunt is quite talkative. She was curious about seeing them driving the car, and she revealed a lot of information.
Lin Xiaoxia was even more certain in her heart. She did not answer the question, but just thanked her politely: "Thank you, auntie. I have something else to do, so I won't bother you anymore."
Then he nodded slightly to the aunt and said goodbye, hurried back to the car, and told the three people in the car the questions he had just asked.
Lu Jingshen and the others also heard it in the car, and they were even more certain that this old Qin family was the one they were looking for.
They also hurriedly followed the direction that the aunt had pointed.
When they arrived at the door, four people got out of the car and entered the yard.
There are a lot of wood in the yard, as well as electric saws and other things, so it is easy to tell that it is a carpenter's house.
The yard is quite large, with three tiled houses in the front and a wing room on the side, which is quite clean.
Qin Zhigang heard someone coming and walked out of the house: "Are you guys here to make furniture?" After saying that, he felt that it didn't seem like that. These people looked like rich people from the city. There was no need for them to come to the countryside to find someone to make furniture.
But when he saw Lin Xiaoxia, he suddenly became alert. Why did this person look a bit like his daughter? What he feared most in recent years was someone coming to look for his child.
At that time, he and his wife had been unable to conceive. Later, his wife went to Lingyuan City to seek a prescription. When she came back, she picked up her current daughter, Qin Zhaodi, on a long-distance bus. Both of them believed that this was a gift from God.
In fact, there were many doubts at the time, and the couple also had some speculations, but they missed the child madly at that time, and always felt that picking up this child was fate, so they selfishly brought the child back, and then moved, lived outside for several years, and then changed the child's age before coming back.
In fact, they had thought about it at the beginning. If they could have their own children, they would send this child away to avoid trouble. However, they never had children, so they later treated this child as their own.
Lin Xiaoxia noticed that Qin Zhigang was looking at her with scrutiny, so to dispel his suspicions, she quickly said, "Hello, my cousin lives in the neighboring village, at Old Wang's house. He's getting married this autumn, and we're here to help him order furniture. Would it be convenient for us to come into the house and talk?"
She knew that she had to get Qin Zhigang into the house first. It would be best if she could see Lin Mei, or find actual evidence, so as not to alert the enemy and cause more trouble.
After hearing Lin Xiaoxia's detailed account, Carpenter Qin lowered his guard and said, "Come in."
Lin Xiaoxia and the others followed Carpenter Qin into the house. When they got inside, Lu Jingshen sat down and told Qin Zhigang what kind of furniture he wanted to order. He spoke very honestly and said he had no shortage of money.
When Qin Zhigang was attracted by Lu Jingshen's words that his family was not short of money and he chose the best things, Lin Xiaoxia quickly looked around the room.
There are some photos on the wall, but there are no photos of the children when they were very young. The youngest should be six or seven years old. However, that child looks very similar to Lin Mei's childhood photo.
At this time, a photo caught Lin Xiaoxia's attention. It showed a little girl about ten years old, wearing a suspender skirt. There was a very obvious red birthmark on her right shoulder. The position and size were exactly the same as the one Lin Xiao said. Below the photo was written Qin Zhaodi's seventh birthday, May 1985.
Lin Mei was lost in May. The birthmark and appearance are the same, but the age doesn't match. But looking at the child in the photo, he doesn't look like he is seven years old at all, so it is more certain that they changed the age.
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