When Lao Zhao and the other two saw the dog barking at the door, they were so scared that they hid in the car and didn't dare to get out. Just as Master Yang was about to call for help, he saw a very handsome little boy running out from the yard.
"Laifu, Wangwang, come back!" Xiao Jiuer stopped the dog and looked at Master Yang who was looking around. "Uncle, who are you looking for?"
Old Zhao didn't expect that the person who came out was a handsome little boy. He looked at Xiao Jiuer in a daze for a moment. Just as he was about to speak, he heard Master Yang speak.
"Little boy, please help call Zhao Meina and her brother. Their old man is here to look for them!"
"Fuck~" Xiao Jiuer glanced at Lao Zhao, turned around and ran to the yard, "Brother Xiaochuan, Sister Xiu Na, Sister Mina, your dead old man is here to see you!"
"Dead old man?" Old Zhao was almost choked to death by Xiao Jiuer after hearing this.
"Haha!" Master Yang glanced at the dark-faced Old Zhao, "This kid's words are quite funny! The dead old man is here to find you! So your three kids thought you were dead?"
Sister Chen also looked at him with a playful expression, "Your children have quite the personalities!"
Old Zhao stepped off the motorcycle and just as he reached the door, he saw a dozen children of all ages running out of the yard. When he saw the tall girl with a ponytail and a bookish look among them, he recognized her as Zhao Meina.
Thinking back to those years when life was difficult, she was his first child after all, and he loved her sincerely. The little girl used to be very attached to him and would follow him wherever he went...
Then he felt something was wrong. The way the child looked at him clearly showed that she recognized him, but why did her eyes look so indifferent, as if she was looking at a passerby?
She has seen the bustling metropolis, and now that she sees her biological father coming, shouldn't she happily recognize him, take her siblings and escape from the nouveau riche, and leave this mountain?
Looking closely at the two girls' faces, I felt that it was not what I thought. Could it be that there are really such kind people in this world who do not ask for anything in return?
Zhao Xiaochuan and Zhao Xiuna stared blankly at Old Zhao standing at the door for a moment, then grabbed Zhao Meina's hand and looked at her in silence.
My sister said she didn't want to recognize them. Now she came, but only one person came. The woman called mother didn't come.
Zhou Jiakang looked at Old Zhao for a moment, then pushed Zhao Xiaochuan, "They are your mother and her husband, right? Don't they look like they can't afford to eat?"
"I can't recognize them!" Zhao Xiaochuan turned around and looked at Zhao Meina and Zhao Xiuna standing behind him with a confused look on his face, "Big sister, second sister, is it them?"
Zhao Meina looked at Lao Zhao indifferently and nodded slightly at him, "He is!"
"Where is she?" Zhao Xiu Na held her sister's hand tightly, and she didn't even notice that she was hurt.
"Maybe they're divorced?" Zhao Meina patted her hands, calmly as if she was talking about someone else's business.
Old Zhao looked at Zhao Xiaochuan and Zhao Xiuna with mixed feelings. He never dreamed that three children who looked like weeds on the roadside would grow up so well.
But the Po whom he took good care of became sick. Is there really such a thing as retribution?
"Sister, I hate him, let him go!" Zhao Xiaochuan shouted, turned around and ran back.
Seeing Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan being driven out of the house, she rushed over to hug him and burst into tears, "Uncle Zhou, drive him away, I hate him and don't want to see him! Woo... Woo..."
During the years that the children were studying in the county town, they had been living with Yang Chunyan and her family.
Zhou Huaian touched his head and said gently, "You will be a junior high school student when school starts. You are a real man. Why are you crying so hard?"
"I won't cry..." Zhao Xiaochuan sobbed and wiped his tears, but the more he wiped, the more tears came.
Yang Chunyan squatted down, took out a handkerchief and wiped his tears, "Don't cry! Xiaochuan is the man of the Zhao family. You can't abandon your sister when something happens. You have to face it together!"
"I understand!" Zhao Xiaochuan wiped away the tears that were flowing out, took Yang Chunyan's hand and followed the two of them out.
At the gate, Lao Zhao looked at the two silent sisters, forced a smile and walked forward, "Meina, Xiu Na, you have all grown up, Dad can't recognize you anymore."
The Zhao sisters took two steps back at the same time. Zhao Xiuna looked at him and said, "I don't recognize you either! Go away. Our parents died a long time ago."
"Xiuna, I am your biological father!" Old Zhao didn't expect the two younger ones to say this. He looked at Zhao Meina and said, "Meina, take your younger brother and sister-in-law with you. Let's go back to Guanyin first. I will explain everything to you."
Zhao Meina said calmly: "No need, you have seen us now, we are still alive and well, you can go."
"Big sister, second sister, let him go." Zhao Xiaochuan walked over and held the sisters' hands. "Uncle Zhou said that I am the man of the Zhao family and I shouldn't cry so much."
"Uncle Zhou is right. A man shouldn't cry easily because crying can't solve any problems!" Zhao Meina said and looked at Yang Chunyan and Zhou Huaian, "Aunt, Uncle Zhou, he's here."
Yang Chunyan nodded, "Do you want to go inside and talk?"
"No need!" Zhao Meina felt that he was not worthy of entering Uncle Zhou and Aunt Yang's home.
When Lao Zhao saw Zhou Huaian and Yang Chunyan, he was stunned. He thought he would see a middle-aged man with a bulging belly and a greasy face and a country bumpkin-like woman.
Unexpectedly, they turned out to be a handsome young man and a beautiful woman, both of whom looked not much older than Mina.
At this time, Zhou's father, mother and old man also came from Zhao Huifang's house. They already knew that Zhao Meina and her brother did not want to recognize their parents, and they all looked at Old Zhao and Sister Chen with contempt.
Li Qiuyue looked at the two of them, "Mina, they are the ones who left you behind, right?"
"No, aunt." Zhao Meina pointed at Lao Zhao, "He is. I don't know her."
Sister Chen said hurriedly, "I have nothing to do with him. I was previously sent to the neighboring Yun Province, and he and I came here together to pick up the child."
Zhou's mother curled her lips and said, "No wonder they got together, it turns out they are the same kind of people!"
"I..." Sister Chen blushed and turned to stand aside.
Old Zhao felt a little uncomfortable when he saw Zhao Meina and her brother getting close to the Zhou family, and said anxiously, "Meina, you are studying in Shanghai now, so you should know that the living conditions there are different from those in the countryside.
After I returned, I lived with my parents. I still had some money at first, and I sent it to you. I thought I would find a job soon and get my own house.
But there are too many educated youth returning to the city, and they have not found a job and have no source of income. You don’t have a household registration there, and even eating is a problem. We really have no way to take you over.
Later, when I got a job, I wanted to come back to pick you up, but your uncle was getting married, and there was no place for me to live at home, so I had to live in the factory dormitory.
After the reform and opening up, I left the factory and opened a small shop. In the past two years, I have made some money and have my own house. I came here this time to take you back. "
Zhao Xiuna pulled Zhao Meina's hand, looked at her and said, "Sister, ask him, what about her?"
Zhao Meina sighed in her heart, looked up and asked Lao Zhao, "Are you remarried?"
"..." Lao Zhao thought that if they agreed to go, they would still know the truth, so he hesitated for a moment and said, "No, after we returned, we each started a new family."
Zhao Meina curled her lips and looked at him sarcastically, "How old is your child? Is it a boy or a girl?"
"Boy, Abao is almost seven years old." Old Zhao said embarrassedly.
"Did you hear that? His Abao is almost seven years old." Zhao Meina sneered, "No place to live, no job, you can come up with such a lame excuse?
Seven years ago, do you know what kind of life we lived? When you found a new wife and had a son, the three of us siblings didn't even have a full meal, and we didn't even have a piece of warm clothing to wear in the winter.
The old bachelor in the village wandered outside the yard every day and forced me to marry him. He helped me raise my younger siblings. I was less than twelve years old that year. If it weren't for Aunt Su and others helping me, we siblings might have jumped into Xinhe together that year.
Fortunately, God had a way to make a living for us. Aunt Yang's family collected truffles, and we had a way to make money. The three of us, wearing tattered cotton clothes and worn-out cotton shoes with toes exposed, went to the mountains to dig truffles.
Thinking that he could earn money, he no longer had to endure any hardship. He followed Aunt Su and carried truffles to Aunt Yang's house. He fainted from hunger and cold.
Zhao Meina stepped forward and held Yang Chunyan's hand, "Some aunts gave us warm cotton clothes and trousers, saying that they were for our younger brothers and sisters who couldn't wear them anymore, but in fact, they all looked new.
That year at my aunt's house, we had the first full meal since you left.
After Uncle Zhou and Aunt Zhou knew about our situation, they arranged for us to follow Grandpa Daqing to the forest farm to dig truffles. The three siblings all had meals at the forest farm. I was only as tall as Xiaoru at that time, but they treated me as an adult as a laborer.
After selling the truffles I dug, I split the money with a few uncles. They were afraid that I would feel embarrassed to take it, so they helped me make excuses, saying that Xiu Na was helping with the cooking, and they would have a hot meal to eat after they finished their work.
That winter, we all grew taller and fatter, and we no longer had to worry about food and clothing, and we could earn money. When we went down the mountain, the clothes that the aunts gave us were no longer too big for us, and they were no longer too long for us..."
Zhao Meina thought of the hardships she had experienced in the past and choked up, unable to speak any more. Yang Chunyan hugged her and patted her shoulders gently, "It's all in the past. Everything is fine now."
"Aunt is right, everything is getting better. I'm already in college, Xiu Na will be taking the high school entrance exam soon, and Xiao Chuan is also in junior high school."
Zhao Meina sneered, "You have time to find a wife and have children, so don't tell me that you didn't come to pick us up because you had no source of income and no place to live.
Your son is already seven years old. Could it be that your wife and children have been living in the wilderness for the past seven years?"
The villagers who came to watch after hearing the news began to whisper, "That's right, the baby born to the concubine is already seven years old, and she still says she has no place to live. Could she be a live-in son-in-law?"
"If he is a live-in son-in-law, he belongs to someone else's family. Why should he take Mina and her siblings to the family he lives in?"
Old Zhao listened to the discussion, his face turned green and red, like a dyeing factory, and he said in a deep voice: "You really don't want to come back with me?" (End of this chapter)
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