If the oath is fulfilled and the oath is broken, the retribution will fall on the child...
Although I promised Pinault not to ask, it is impossible for anyone to remain indifferent to the sudden appearance of a relative.
Moreover, using a jade pendant broken into two pieces to recognize relatives is a plot that only appears in scripts, but it happened right before our eyes, making it feel particularly unreal.
Wen Zichuan still felt that he had to ask his mother for confirmation. At most, he would keep the truth in his heart and tell Pinot when the time was right.
But just as he asked the question, he heard the sound of dishes falling from the receiver.
"You saw her...?" Lin Hanzhen's tone was flustered and nervous.
"I really have a sister?! After you gave birth to me, you gave birth to another daughter?!"
"Yes, I have a daughter and you have a sister." Soon, Lin Hanzhen regained her composure.
"When did you give birth to her? Also, she said she was adopted from Dengyuan Welfare Home. Did you abandon her?" Wen Zichuan asked.
Lin Hanzhen on the other end of the phone seemed to have been drained of her strength by his repeated questioning. She picked up her dishes and slowly walked to the side to sit down. "It's my fault. I'm sorry for her."
Her appearance and voice are no longer young. The old mistakes she has kept hidden for too long are like fermenting poison, eating away at her life and body.
At the end of 1994, Wen Zichuan was still an infant, and Wen Duo had already decided to leave.
Lin Hanzhen felt that he was becoming increasingly cold and indifferent, and she couldn't help but miss the last six months in Beiling Village. Her belly was bulging and her body was bloated, but Wen Duo had always taken care of her gently and meticulously.
She didn't think she was charming at that time, and Wen Duo treated her gently only because she was pregnant with his child.
So, with a gambling mentality and taking great risks, she decided to give birth to another child to tie Wen Duo down, hoping that he would not leave.
But until the Spring Festival of 1995, she still didn't get what she wanted, and Wen Duo was away from home more and more frequently. She didn't know where he went, what he was busy with, or when he would be able to come home.
Finally one day, she received a letter from Wen Duo. He had left and gone abroad, and would never come back in this life.
There was no address or phone number on the letter, proving that Wen Duo had made up his mind to say goodbye to her forever.
Lin Hanzhen was heartbroken. She couldn't eat or sleep well, and she had to take care of little Wen Zichuan. It was not until her parents came from Fengbo to comfort her that she slowly recovered.
But it was also at that time that the pregnancy symptoms came back to her. She had given birth to a child once, so she hurried to the hospital for a check-up. Sure enough, she was more than a month pregnant.
In the mid-1990s, slogans such as "It's better to have only one child" were posted everywhere on the streets. Not to mention that Wen Zichuan already had a child out of wedlock and the household registration issue had not been resolved, now she was pregnant with another one. No matter how she looked at it, she was facing tremendous pressure.
Not only that, when the Archaeological Institute learned that Wen Duo had left Dengyuan, they often sent people to her house, using threats and inducements in the name of concern to force Lin Hanzhen to reveal Wen Duo's whereabouts.
Fortunately, she has always been thin, so even when she was five or six months pregnant, her belly was not obvious when she wore loose clothes. As for Wen Duo, no matter what others said or did, she always insisted that she "didn't know."
By the late stage of pregnancy, Lin Hanzhen could no longer hide it, and the rumors were enough to drown her.
In desperation, she had to quit her job, live in a rented house, and gave birth to a daughter in secret, not letting anyone know except her parents.
Lin Hanzhen had just wiped away a line of tears when another line fell, soaking her face as if it would never stop flowing: "Your sister had a bad heart when she was born. I have no money and can't treat her..."
"Knowing that our family isn't well off, why do you insist on having another child?!" Wen Zichuan has always been sensible. He has never spoken to his mother in such a tone. "Besides, my dad is such a scumbag. How can he be worthy of you giving birth to children for him again and again?!"
"It's none of your father's business. It's my fault. I was too greedy. I dragged him down once, and I want to drag him down for the rest of his life..."
"You understand him and forgive him, but have you ever thought about us?! When I was little, I was bullied and called a bastard. She was sent to an orphanage and taken abroad. The doctor said she could only live to thirty...!"
When his daughter was born, Wen Zichuan was only one and a half years old. Lin Hanzhen quit her job and lost her source of income, so she had no choice but to return to Fengbo to ask her parents for help.
Although the Lin family's ancestors were landlords, they had fallen on hard times by then. They could barely make ends meet with two children, but if they wanted to treat their granddaughter's illness, the entire family would probably be bankrupt.
Previously, when Lin's grandfather learned that Lin Hanzhen was pregnant before marriage, he got very angry. If it weren't for the fact that Wen Zichuan was smart, cute, and the baby was a boy, he would have kicked him and his mother out of the house.
As for his granddaughter who was born later, he didn't want to raise her no matter how cute she was. Lin Hanzhen knew the family's plight, and before returning to Fengbo, she cruelly left her daughter at the door of Dengyuan Welfare Home.
There was no obvious birthmark on her daughter's body, so she held on to a glimmer of hope and broke the heart-shaped jade pendant given by Wu Heng into two pieces, giving one to her daughter and the other to Wen Zichuan.
"You've seen her, right?" Lin Hanzhen almost begged him, "Can, can I see her too?"
Wen Zichuan had long anticipated that once it was confirmed that Pinault was his sister, his mother would definitely ask to meet her.
"she……"
"She doesn't want to see me."
"...Don't force her."
"I see."
Lin Hanzhen's lost tone made Wen Zichuan feel heartbroken.
On one side is his mother, on the other side is his sister, both are his flesh and blood relatives, he should not be biased. But he sided with Pinault, firstly out of sympathy, and secondly out of his incomprehension of why his mother, who had received higher education, would be so foolish for a man.
"Give her some time," Wen Zichuan thought, at least until Pinot's body gets better. "I'll go back to Dengyuan and ask her what she thinks."
After hanging up the phone, Wen Zichuan let out a long sigh, his thoughts in a mess.
He and his sister are children of the same parents, but their destinies have taken completely different paths.
He had little food and clothing since he was a child, but he had his mother's care and love; Pinault had always lived a wealthy life, but he always felt lonely as a wanderer.
He couldn't tell for a moment who was good and who was bad, or perhaps they were all unfortunate, and the source of all the misfortune pointed to that selfish and irresponsible man.
Before going to sleep, Wen Zichuan recalled everything about Wen Duo again, and several fragments kept flashing back until he fell asleep.
Sometimes he was speaking gibberish English while quietly calling someone; sometimes he wrote a letter, asked someone to pass it on, and then left without looking back; sometimes he was on the corridor of the ancient town, giving me that ambiguous look...
“Ding-ling-ling—!”
Suddenly awakened by the alarm clock, Wen Zichuan sat up abruptly, his heart beating wildly.
It's 4:30 in the morning and he should get up to do his makeup. Even if he wants to stay in bed for a while, the dedicated Su Zhuo will come to urge him.
He forced himself to get dressed and wash up despite feeling tired. Before leaving, he took out his phone and saw that his mother, who had been suffering from neurasthenia for many years, had probably not slept a wink all night. He didn't know what kind of mood she was in when she typed the following words:
"Xiaochuan, Mom was wrong. I'm sorry for you. When we left Beiling Village, we swore an oath, promising never to tell anyone about what happened in the village. Otherwise, the witch clan's curse would bring disaster to our descendants. There's no history of congenital heart disease in our family, but your sister was born with it. Although the curse may not be true, I always worry in my dreams at night that it's your father who failed to keep the secret. Your sister doesn't want to see me, and I won't force her. But she's willing to recognize you, which means she doesn't completely ignore us. I hope you can take care of her for me. Mom will find a way to atone for her sins."
In the gray light of approaching dawn, Wen Zichuan's face was frosty.
Since my mother has always blamed herself for all the mistakes and has been obsessed with it for half her life, a few words of persuasion will definitely be useless.
The only way now is to find Wen Duo, find out the whole story, and then apologize and compensate him. Even if he has to spend the rest of his life in prison, that is the consequence he deserves.
Wen Duo was a guest of honor invited by Wei Jing. If you want to find Wen Duo, you have to start from Wei Jing.
Perhaps it was because the film and television city was more chaotic and noisy than any other filming location. At most times, there were more than ten crews filming at the same time. President Wei did not like such an environment, so he did not arrange a visit to the set.
It doesn't seem appropriate to call or send a message directly. President Wei will most likely lecture him with a stern face, telling him to focus on filming and not to think too much. This will only alert the enemy and make it more difficult to find out Wen Duo's whereabouts.
Finding a free moment, Wen Zichuan asked Wei Xiaoming, "Hasn't Mr. Wei come over recently?"
The weather was hot, and Wei Xiaoming had just finished filming a scene, sweat pouring down his face. The makeup artist hurried over to touch up his makeup: "I can't leave the capital. I heard there's a takeover and rights protection going on, and it happened to be the old man's birthday."
Wen Zichuan had heard Brother Ji gossip that Xingyu Feiyu was originally spun off from Xinghuan Pictures, and that the son had bravely taken on the responsibility and revitalized the piece that his father didn't want, and had run the business successfully over the past few years.
Seeing that his son has made progress, it is natural for a father to want to repair the father-son relationship.
"Won't the old man take you with him to celebrate his birthday?" Wen Zichuan asked casually.
"I'm not going. My godson isn't my biological son, and you really treat him like your real grandfather," Wei Xiaoming pouted unhappily. "The old man doesn't look down on me anyway."
Wei Jing's adoption of Wei Xiaoming was considered a heinous act in the eyes of the Wei family. It would be fine for a young CEO not to get married and have children, but what was the matter with raising a little boy?
No matter they are noble ladies or top actresses, there are many who covet the wealthy Wei family. But seeing that Mr. Wei is eager to be a father to the two boys, they always have doubts in their hearts. How could they be willing to get close to him?
What's more, this adopted son is so ordinary that even if the Wei family accepts him as their family member, he has no ability to help run the business and will just be a useless person who only eats and waits to die.
Su Zhuo stood aside, holding an umbrella and handing water to the two of them. "I heard that President Wei wants to move the company's headquarters to Dengyuan, and he may not come back to the capital often in the future."
"Ah?!" Wei Xiaoming's eyes lit up, "When?!"
Su Zhuo quickly hushed, "It hasn't been finalized yet. I listened to what Sister Lan said quietly."
Indeed, Wei Jing has been active in Dengyuan frequently in recent years. He is naturally good at networking and can get along well in any field. There must be a big plan behind this.
However, Wen Zichuan still couldn't guess whether President Wei contacted Cheng Sizhou and Wen Duo just because of his interest in antiques, or for some other reason.
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