"Dad, it's me, Honglin, your own son, Xu Honglin!"
The middle-aged man pointed to his face and said, "You can't even recognize your own son?"
Shen Jingyan, Gu Zhiyun, and Yang Zinuo were still in shock.
Judging from the middle-aged man's appearance, he does indeed resemble Old Man Xu by about five or six points.
He wore square-framed glasses, and his hair was slightly disheveled from running so fast, but his refined, scholarly air was exactly the same as Old Man Xu's.
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"So Professor Xu's surname really is Xu. I thought he just made up a surname."
Yang Zinuo whispered something in Gu Zhiyun's ear.
Old Man Xu took a step back, looking at Xu Honglin with suspicion.
“My son doesn’t look like you.”
Xu Honglin said, both amused and exasperated, "Dad, your forgetfulness has struck again!"
Old Xu frowned, seemingly trying hard to recall what his son looked like.
"My son is much cuter than you."
Xu Honglin: "..."
She's over forty years old; using "cute" to describe her isn't quite appropriate, is it?
Old Xu pulled a worn photograph from the inside pocket of his shirt and pointed to the fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy in the picture, saying:
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"Look, this is my son!"
Xu Honglin glanced at the photo and laughed, "Dad, isn't that me? This is what I looked like thirty years ago!"
Old Xu's memory of his son was clearly still stuck thirty years ago.
He looked at the photo, then at Xu Honglin, still unable to believe that the person in front of him was his son.
"You've grown so much?"
Xu Honglin pinched his brow speechlessly: "Dad, I'm not a child anymore."
Old Xu sighed regretfully, "You suddenly aged thirty years without even telling me."
Xu Honglin: "..."
It's okay, he's already been rendered speechless by his own father many times over.
"Dad, come back to the capital with me. Do you know how many times we've searched the entire Northeast for you?!"
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Old Xu waved his hand absentmindedly and said, "We'll talk about it later. I need to wait for my students to come out."
Xu Honglin knew Old Man Xu too well; he valued his students above all else. So he said nothing more and stood respectfully beside Old Man Xu.
His gaze fell on Shen Jingyan, and he was startled.
How come this little girl looks so much like his wife?
He glanced at her profile and almost thought he was seeing what his wife looked like when she was young!
Shen Jingyan turned her head and smiled politely, "Hello, Uncle!"
Old Xu quickly grabbed Shen Jingyan's arm and introduced her affectionately, "Honglin, look who I found! Your daughter, my granddaughter!"
Xu Honglin quickly waved his hand and said, "Dad, you can eat whatever you want, but you can't just claim to be someone's relative!"
Old Xu got a little angry: "What, you don't even recognize your own daughter anymore?"
Yang Zinuo, standing to the side, widened her eyes in shock: "Old Gu, you know what, Jingya and this uncle really do look a bit alike!"
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Gu Zhiyun had already seen the photos, so he didn't show any particular surprise.
But a host of questions resurfaced in his mind.
Although Xu Honglin was surprised by Shen Jingyan's appearance, he also knew that Shen Jingyan could not possibly be related to him by blood.
“Dad, you have your own granddaughter, and I have my own daughter, Feifei. She’s waiting for you at home.”
"Feifei, what Feifei?" Old Xu asked, looking completely bewildered.
Xu Honglin patiently explained, "Your dear granddaughter, Feifei, used to cling to you when she was little. Whenever you had free time, you would take her to the park. When she heard that you were coming home, she was overjoyed! But when she found out that you were lost, she cried her eyes out."
Old Xu knew Xu Honglin wasn't lying, but he just couldn't remember having a granddaughter named Feifei.
Do I have that many granddaughters?
Shen Jingyan grabbed Old Man Xu's hand and shook it: "Grandpa, what's wrong with having more granddaughters? It'll be more people to take care of you!"
Xu Honglin was very fond of Shen Jingyan because she was pretty, clever, and eloquent.
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"Girl, tell me quickly, why did my dad come to this small county town to become a teacher?"
Shen Jingyan smiled and said, "Uncle, you misunderstood. Grandpa is not a teacher in the county town, and we are not students from the county town. I am from Dalin Village. The students that Grandpa is waiting for are all educated youth from Dalin Village who came to the county town to take the college entrance examination in the next two days."
The students who had finished the exam came out one after another. Old Xu was busy counting the number of students, so Xu Honglin didn't ask any more questions.
Once all the students had arrived, Lao Xu arrived on time in his truck to pick them up.
When the educated youth saw that there was a middle-aged man in the group, they all looked at him with curiosity.
On the way back to the forest farm, Xu Honglin deliberately sat next to Shen Jingyan, and Shen Jingyan told Xu Honglin in detail about her chance encounter with the injured old man Xu in town and how she brought him back to the forest farm.
After hearing this, Xu Honglin was extremely grateful and deeply moved.
For the past few months, he and his companions have traveled to major cities in Northeast China, searching for the whereabouts of Old Man Xu. He lived in fear for months, worried that the old man might be mentally unstable, suffering from hunger and cold, and enduring all kinds of hardships.
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