Later, Xu Minghua returned home, holding a three-year-old girl. She wouldn't say whose she was when asked, and she seemed like a completely different person.
She went from a chattering little girl when she left home to a quiet woman.
We all knew that Xiao Wuxin had just announced his marriage, so no one said anything more.
Later she left again, still only sending a letter every two weeks. The child stayed with the Xu family, and I raised him from infancy, so she had to call me Second Uncle.
Xu Minghua has been single for many years, and we still don't know whose child this is, because she looks neither like Xiao Wuxin nor Xu Minghua.
Many people pursued her, but she politely declined them all. We all know that once you've been moved by someone in your youth, you'll never be moved by anyone else again.
My dad was a womanizer, but all his kids were romantics.
Xu Minghua didn't enjoy any of the benefits of being Xiao Wuxin's ex-girlfriend, but was instead targeted for revenge by Xiao Wuxin's rivals.
We took Xu Minghua's body home and kept it there for seven days.
Logically speaking, unmarried women cannot be buried in the ancestral graveyard, but my parents did not want to see her become a wandering ghost, so they broke this ancestral rule.
My father, this old-fashioned and conservative man, said to the clan elders of Dongzhou: "Of all the Xu family members, only my branch is the most successful. If you won't let my daughter enter the ancestral grave today, I will find another place for her tomorrow. You can forget about receiving any more help from our family."
See? It's not that rules can't be broken, but rather whether someone is willing to break them for you.
After all that talk, you haven't mentioned me yet.
I'm probably the most useless member of the Xu family. I've been shuttling between Dongzhou and Xinhai City all my life, and I've hardly ever left home. I'm the only one of the five children in the family who was always by my side.
I have always been a beacon for my brothers and sisters. When they were forced or left home one by one, I was their only link to this family.
After my parents pass away, they will still have a reason to return to Xinhai City, because as long as I am here, home is here.
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