After the meal, Grandpa Xu called Xu Xialian and her husband to his room.
Grandpa Xu: "I know about your situation. If I had known about this marriage earlier, I definitely would have stopped it. But things have already turned out this way, so just live your lives well. You haven't visited each other for so many years, and it's really inconvenient living in the mountains. I talked to your father this morning, and he said he didn't know anything about this back then. Your mother is just a bit clueless. Today she insisted on severing ties with you. I guess she knows it's not a very respectable thing to do, and she feels guilty. What are you thinking?"
The two remained silent for a long time before the man spoke first: "Uncle, I'm really sorry. It's really difficult to get married in the mountains. It took a lot of determination for us to raise so much money when we were in debt. It's also because we are isolated in the mountains. Otherwise, the dowry would have been enough for the two of us brothers to get married normally. It was Xia Lian's mother who asked the matchmaker for so much money and also asked for ten catties of meat."
Grandpa Xu: "She's selling her daughter! No wonder she hasn't contacted you all these years. We always thought you didn't want to come out of retirement. Yaozu and Mingyang found it strange that year and went to find you. That's when we learned about Xia Lian's situation. What a tragedy!"
Xu Xialian sat there silently shedding tears.
The man continued, "On our wedding day, I came to pick up my wife. When we left, Xia Lian's mother told me not to come back after I took her. I didn't understand what she meant that day. My brother has suffered so much this time, and we had no other choice but to come to them for help. I didn't expect them to have this attitude. It's only today that I realized what she meant when she said not to come back after I took her. It turns out she felt that Xia Lian had disgraced her by becoming our wife. But wasn't it her who made it happen?"
Grandpa Xu: "Xia Lian! What do you think about this matter of severing ties? If you also want to sever ties, then I will arrange for your sister-in-law to witness and stamp it. If you don't want to sever ties, then I will also help you and do some ideological work with your parents. However, you should know very well what kind of people they are."
Xia Lian: "Uncle, I want to break off this relationship. Actually, Mingyang and I should have given up on that family a long time ago. It's understandable that they have prejudices against Mingyang, after all, he's your family's child. But what about me? I'm their biological daughter!"
Grandpa Xu was startled by Xu Xialian's statement that Mingyang was his uncle's child and stood up, asking, "What did you say?"
Grandpa Xu's reaction startled Xu Xialian, who even forgot to cry.
Grandpa Xu: "Xia Lian, tell me, whose child is Mingyang?"
Xu Xialian asked in surprise, "Mingyang is my uncle's child!"
Grandpa Xu felt like he couldn't breathe properly, so he leaned against the wall for a while to catch his breath.
Xu Xialian's husband noticed that Old Master Xu was not feeling well, so he went to Old Master Xu's side, patted his back, and helped him catch his breath.
It took Grandpa Xu a while to recover. "Xia Lian, tell your uncle what happened in detail."
Xu Xialian didn't understand why her uncle's reaction was so strong, but she still said, "Back then, my mother drank a lot of random medicines to give birth to a son, which caused the child to die at birth. At that time, my aunt had just given birth to Mingyang. My mother and Ada begged Grandma, saying that they were afraid their lineage would end, and hoped that Mingyang, born to my aunt, could be adopted by them and raised from a young age without telling him the truth, so that he could become a real child of the second wife. Grandma felt that the first wife already had three sons, so she agreed to their request. Mingyang was adopted by Grandma."
Grandpa Xu: "How did you know?"
Xu Xialian: "I was sleeping in my room at the time, so I heard everything."
Unexpectedly, things turned out this way. Back then, because Grandma Xu lost her child and fell seriously ill, Grandpa Xu really didn't know whether he should hate his mother or not. How could she do such a thing?
No wonder Mingyang and the eldest son's family reacted so strongly, and no wonder their attitudes towards Mingyang and Yaoyang were so different.
My son! It's all Ada's fault. Ada failed to protect you, making your journey these past thirty years so difficult!
Old Master Xu beat his chest and stamped his feet, "Break them all! What use are brothers like that?"
He will raise his son himself and take him back to the main house.
Xu Xialian now understood that her uncle's family knew nothing about Mingyang's affairs. No wonder, otherwise how could they let Mingyang suffer so much in the second branch of the family without intervening?
After carefully recalling the situation of the eldest son's family after Mingyang's birth, I realized that there were many illogical things that happened back then. My aunt was sick and bedridden for several months, my uncle was also very depressed, and then the family was divided.
Xu Xialian felt that her parents were really inhuman. They stole someone else's son and didn't treat him well. When he grew up, they even took his job and gave it to their own son. Everything they did was really inhuman.
Xu Xinning stood outside the door, never expecting that she would hear such a big piece of gossip just by passing by.
I never imagined that Xu Mingyang would be that child. Now we don't need to do a paternity test.
It looks like some plans need to be brought forward.
Xu Mingyang should return to his place.
Xu Xialian: "Uncle, I'm sorry, I really didn't know you were kept in the dark. I carried Mingyang on my back when he was little. I taught him to follow his uncle and aunt."
Grandpa Xu: "Mingyang himself knew that?"
Xu Xialian: "He doesn't know, no one has told him."
Grandpa Xu: "Xia Lian, thank you, otherwise your aunt and I would never have known that our child was still alive. You should break off your relationship with them; they are not worth it."
Xu Xialian glanced at her husband and, unusually, stood firm, saying, "I want to break it off too. Since they kicked me out back then, why should I bother trying to win them over? So what if I'm a wife of a gay man? Aren't they the ones who made me a wife of a gay man? I think we should just live our own lives and not have to put up with their attitudes. I despise their character even more."
Grandpa Xu: "Alright, I'll have the brigade leaders help you with that. Also, don't make a fuss about Mingyang's matter yet. I need to think about how to resolve it. I'll talk to your aunt myself, so she won't be overwhelmed again."
Xu Xialian: "I understand."
That day, Xu Xialian's husband and his cousins all went home, while Xu Xialian stayed behind to take care of her other husband.
Grandpa Xu stayed in his room for a long time. When he came out, he looked much older, and his once proud back was now hunched over.
After leaving the room, he went to the brigade headquarters.
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