Everyone was completely bewildered, but they all quickly ran out to find out what was going on.
Under the banyan tree in the courtyard stood Liu Dasheng and a young man.
The man looked to be under twenty years old, somewhat immature, but his round face looked remarkably similar to Wu Tiao's.
The Shen family members who came out were all stunned.
Liu Dasheng said excitedly, "Wanli, Guifen, this child says he's a stone, and he looks exactly the same as when he was a child!"
It hasn't changed at all!
That's really strange.
Tian Guifen was stunned, staring blankly at the man under the banyan tree, and a name slipped out:
"……Stone."
If the man's face were shrunk two sizes, it would look like her fourth son when he was a child.
It's also a shape frozen in time with the stone.
Stone died at the age of five, and he looked exactly like the man in front of him.
That's why Liu Dasheng was so surprised.
"...Stone, my son has returned?"
Tian Guifen stood there, stunned, as if possessed, and reached out her hand to walk forward.
She wanted to touch her son's face.
For so many years, even when her fourth son appeared in her dreams, she could not see his face clearly.
This was the first time she had seen what her son looked like as an adult.
"mother."
Shen Liuliu suddenly grabbed Tian Guifen, then looked up at the man in a crisp voice and asked:
"May I have your name?"
She remembered her parents saying that her fourth brother had died more than ten years ago.
How could it suddenly appear?
Shen Sishi smiled shyly, his eyes filled with pure gentleness.
"You must be Liu Liu. I am your fourth brother. My name is Shen Sishi."
Then he smiled and looked at everyone.
"Father, Mother, it's me, Shitou, your fourth son. I'm back."
Shen Sishi said this.
Tian Guifen broke free from Shen Liuliu in an instant, rushed over, hugged Shen Sishi tightly, and started sobbing.
Although in the countryside, it is quite normal for children to die young.
But for a mother, the pain of losing her son is something that cannot be healed.
Shen Wanli stepped forward, tears streaming down his face, and asked, "Stone, where have you been all these years?"
Shen Erming tilted his head curiously and whispered to Shen Yishan, "Big brother, if I remember correctly, it was Dad who personally went up the mountain to dig the pit and bury the stones back then, right?"
The suspicion in his eyes was blatant.
They've all been buried.
How could it still be alive?
Moreover, if the person hadn't died, how could the parents have buried them?
Shen Yishan pursed his lips: "Yes. Let's ask him later. For now... let Mother cry for a while."
It seems that no one can interrupt these two now.
Liu Dasheng exchanged a few words with Shen Wanli and then left, not wanting to disturb the family's time together.
After Tian Guifen finished crying, she wanted to take people inside to have a good talk about what had happened over the years.
She was eager to know how her fourth son had been doing all these years.
Shen Sishi knew that if he didn't explain things clearly, his family might not believe him.
So Shen Sishi took the initiative to recount what had happened over the years.
"...I wasn't quite dead back then; my godfather saved me. Oh, my godfather was an itinerant doctor."
My father buried me, but he buried me very shallowly. I didn't die, so I crawled out on my own.
However, I was seriously ill at the time and very weak. It took all my strength to crawl out of there.
So I fainted on the mountain. My adoptive father went up the mountain to dig for medicinal herbs and accidentally found me, so he took me back to treat me.
Although my adoptive father saved me, I lost my memory. So all these years I've been traveling all over the world with my adoptive father.
My memories began to gradually return three years ago, until six months ago when my godfather passed away. In the midst of great grief, I miraculously regained all my memories.
After burying my godfather, I started my journey home…
This is everything that has happened to Shen Sishi over the past eleven years.
Shen Liuli blinked, watching Shen Sishi the whole time.
Wow.
This story is far inferior to a storyteller's.
His tone showed absolutely no emotional fluctuation.
poor.
"My son, you have suffered so much..."
Tian Guifen sobbed.
At the same time, he couldn't help but complain about Chen Wanli.
"You buried your son alive when he wasn't dead! You almost buried him alive!"
The reason why her fourth son died after a long illness was because Old Mrs. Shen stood by and did nothing.
It's because of Chen Wanli!
I never expected this...
Shen Wanli's face instantly turned ashen, and his chapped lips trembled as he stammered, "I... I didn't expect that either..."
He even took his son to the mountain, dug a pit, and touched him to make sure his son was dead and not breathing before burying him...
Who would have thought...
"Mother, please don't say such things. It's good that Fourth Brother is back safe and sound now."
Shen Yishan couldn't bear to see his father suffer, so he offered a word of comfort.
Everyone else nodded in agreement.
Only Shen Erming asked uncertainly, "Fourth brother, don't blame me for being blunt. What I want to ask is... can you prove that you are Shen Sishi?"
No one knows whether this story is true or false.
Therefore, no one can prove whether he is true or false.
"...I...I have no evidence." Shen Sishi gave a bitter smile, his eyes filled with embarrassment.
Aside from his recovered memories, he had absolutely no evidence to prove any of this.
"You can tell me about your childhood," Shen Erming said forcefully, suppressing his unhappy parents.
It's best to clarify and confirm these things from the beginning.
If they develop feelings for each other, and then it turns out later that he's not his biological brother...
"I...I can't remember..."
Shen Sishi was very distressed.
He stood up and said, "I... I didn't mean anything by it. Actually, it's really hard to believe such a thing. It's understandable that you don't believe it. I've disturbed you, I'll leave now."
After saying that, he turned around and left decisively.
"Hey, Stone, don't go! Mother believes in you."
Tian Guifen hurriedly caught up and grabbed Shen Sishi's arm. Her gray hair fluttered as she looked extremely anxious.
Shen Wanli also said to Shen Erming, "Shen Erming, are you crazy? Look at his face, isn't it just a rock? What other evidence do you need?"
A face exactly the same as when I was a child!
Is it possible for anyone in the world to look this similar?
Shen Erming remained silent.
He simply couldn't refute that.
But he felt it was best to be cautious about such matters, so he remained silent.
Shen Sishi, however, was quite understanding and helped Shen Erming out of the predicament:
"No, it's okay. It's normal to have doubts, I understand."
Tian Guifen and her husband glared at Shen Erming, then pulled Shen Sishi aside and kept talking to him.
The brothers exchanged glances and quietly withdrew, leaving their parents and Shen Sishi a peaceful space.
However, after they went outside, Shen Erming said the same thing again: "...It was too sudden. Let's be careful. I don't think Father would really be so clueless as to not even know whether his own son is dead or not, right?"
Shen Yishan, however, had a different opinion. He said, "Perhaps when Dad checked his breathing, he really hadn't stopped breathing?"
The two brothers were locked in a stalemate.
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