As soon as Meng Zhehan returned to the room, he collapsed on the bed and pulled the quilt over his head.

He never imagined that his second uncle, who was a handsome, upright and elegant man and whom he had always respected and loved, would be such a person!

At first, Liu Yongsheng listened to his story as a story, because he knew it was related to Taohua's life experience, so he listened very carefully. But later, he felt something was wrong. The Red Pine Forest Farm, the Seventh Logging Team... why were they all familiar place names? They were stories that his second uncle had told them many times when he was young. His experience in the logging team was very interesting to them, so they remembered it very clearly.

Meng Zhehan was curious. In addition, the man in the story was also named Meng. Thinking of Liu Yongsheng's strange behavior when he first saw him, he felt uneasy. He couldn't help but reach into the wooden box and picked up a photo...

It was like a bolt from the blue. The young man with the bright smile above was indeed his second uncle!

God knows how much effort he used to control himself and pretend to be as calm and composed as usual, without losing his composure and fleeing the room in panic!

When I first met Taohua, I just felt that her smile was inexplicably familiar, as if I had known her a long time ago. Later I remembered that Taohua's facial features were 70% similar to the portrait of my grandmother hanging in the old house of the Meng family.

There are several portraits of my grandmother from her girlhood to her youth. One of them is a side profile of a girl with short hair, who is now Taohua. Her face has gained some flesh, and her hair has grown back and been trimmed into a student-like hairstyle. She looks and acts like the same person. If I were to say that the person in the portrait is Taohua, I guess anyone who has seen it would believe it.

If they were a family, this kind of similarity wouldn't be surprising, but it is rare if they have no blood relationship and are so far away from each other.

Meng Zhehan also secretly suspected that Taohua might be a child raised outside by one of his fathers. He also wanted to discuss this matter with Shen Yu, but Shen Yu refused to cooperate and was unwilling to accept the speculation that Taohua was his daughter from the Meng family. This was all caused by the two daughters of his second uncle's family. Shen Yu was so annoyed by the daughter of the Meng family.

The truth came unexpectedly. Tonight he learned that Taohua was indeed his cousin! But he was not allowed to be happy at all. The foolish things and romantic debts that his second uncle had committed when he was young had caused a series of tragic consequences, like a heavy mountain, which almost suffocated him!

Taohua was crying, and his heart was broken, but he could only sit there like a clay figurine or a wooden sculpture. His mind was like a storm, a mess. He tried to think of something, but he couldn't think of anything! Until now, he was still confused, as if there was a hole in his heart. His respected and beloved second uncle had fallen from there, fell from there...

Shen Yu hung up the towel, walked to Meng Zhehan's bed and said, "Get up, stop arguing with me about how great your second uncle is! Am I right? Your second uncle is really not a good guy. To use my Taohua's words, he is a scum!"

Meng Zhehan poked half of his head out from under the quilt: "Keep your voice down!"

Shen Yu looked at him: "Do you still want to hide it?"

Meng Zhehan: “…”

"I'll give you a chance."

"You want me to be kicked out?"

"So what? It's not like you can't leave."

"No! At least not now."

Meng Zhehan sat up and said, "First of all, Taohua is not yours; secondly, I am a real brother, not a fraud!"

Shen Yu: "No wonder Mr. Liu became suspicious when he saw you. You are indeed a bit like Meng Shaoan, just as shameless."

"Get lost! From now on, don't compare me to him! Don't get involved in this matter. I will wait for the right time and talk to Taohua myself."

"I promised you that I would treat you as a friend and separate you from Meng Shaoan. You also know my temper. If you go against Taohua's wishes and talk nonsense like your Meng family, I will break off my friendship with you."

"..."Meng Zhehan: "Thank you, no."

The next day, the snow and wind stopped and there was a ray of sunshine in the sky. It was a sunny and nice day.

With a room full of diligent young men, the snow in the yard was quickly swept and shoveled and piled in the vegetable garden in the backyard. Meng Tao also prepared breakfast. Aunt Yang steamed a lot of steamed buns yesterday and kept them, so they just had to be steamed again today. She also fried some meat and vegetable side dishes, boiled an egg for each person, and made a pot of fragrant and glutinous pumpkin porridge with glutinous rice. Xu Yuting liked it very much, and Liu Yongsheng praised it even more.

After breakfast, Shen Yu wanted to take Meng Tao to the commune. He wanted to call his home in the provincial capital to formally discuss the marriage with Director Shen. He also wanted Director Shen to fulfill his promise to treat his future daughter-in-law as his own daughter and to be prepared to receive Mr. Liu and his party.

Liu Jianye, Xu Yulin and Xu Yuting had been locked up in the village for two days, so they decided to go to the commune to get some fresh air. They drove two cars and treated it as an outing.

Liu Jianxin also wanted to go, but he was in charge of his father's medicine box, so he had to follow his father and give him medicine on time.

Liu Yongsheng also wanted to look around the village, the places where his old friend Meng Shengli had lived. He felt at home everywhere. If the snow wasn't too thick, he would have liked to take a walk up the Daqing Mountain behind.

Captain Bao and two brigade cadres accompanied him as they walked around, acting as tour guides and talking about some of Meng Shengli's life.

Meng Zhehan did not follow the young people to the commune, saying that he did not want to go out and that there would definitely be nothing fun in the commune. So he mingled with Liu Yongsheng, Liu Jianxin and his group, wandering around the village. He also wanted to see more and understand the place where Taohua lived.

When I heard Captain Bao pointing to a peach forest at the entrance of the village and saying: This peach forest was planted by Uncle Meng. If you come here in spring, you can see the peach blossoms in full bloom. They are so beautiful. The scientific name of the small flowers is Meng peach blossom, and it comes from here!

Liu Yongsheng and Liu Jianxin both laughed. Liu Jianxin said, "Meng Taohua is a nice name, and it has a very good meaning."

Meng Zhehan just raised the corners of his lips, he couldn't laugh: Naming a child in the Meng family is a big deal. It is proposed by respected elders and then calculated by experts... These are not known to outsiders, but they do exist.

The name Peach Blossom is so simple and casual.

He didn't dislike the name. On the contrary, he thought it sounded nice and cute. But... it was hard to accept that Taohua, as a descendant of the Meng family, was not valued and did not enjoy everything she should have! (End of this chapter)