Chapter 74 The hidden story behind...
"Well, then what? Do you want to confess to your aunt now?"
Goudan nodded and remained silent afterwards. Lin Xiuzhen waited patiently for her to organize her words.
Then I heard Goudan blurt out a sentence.
"Actually, I'm not my parents' biological child. I was adopted by them..."
Lin Xiuzhen was shocked.
Although I had guessed it to some extent before, I was still a little shocked to hear Goudan say this.
"You are the only child of your parents, right?"
Goudan nodded, "Yes, although I was adopted, my parents treated me very well. However, when I was ten years old, my parents died in an accident, and my uncle's family began to occupy my house and drove me out. Later, the villagers couldn't stand it anymore, so they kept me.
My parents raised me as a boy, and people outside didn’t know that I was actually a girl. After my parents passed away, I lived like this, but I heard privately that my aunt said she wanted to introduce me to a coal mine, so I ran away. ”
After hearing her say this, Lin Xiuzhen understood.
Most of the time, there is no male in the family, so they pick up a child and think of raising him as a boy.
You can set up your own household afterwards.
But I didn’t expect that the couple would be gone so soon.
Leaving such a child in the world.
In fact, Lin Xiuzhen could more or less guess the result.
"After that, my uncle's family couldn't stand me eating for free at home, so they found me a job as an illegal worker in the mines. But I didn't know what they wanted me to do. I just took a nap, and when I woke up, I was on the train. I took the opportunity to evade the ticket and ran away. Then I came back, but I didn't know where to go. I thought of the station where you got on the train before, so I got off here..."
If that's the case, Goudan really came here for Lin Xiuzhen.
Lin Xiuzhen didn't know what to say. This child was also suffering.
"So what are your plans for the future? It's not safe for you, a girl, to be outside..." Lin Xiuzhen asked directly.
Goudan lowered her head and dared not speak. In fact, she was a little embarrassed to speak.
After all, Aunt Lin has helped me so much. If I stay any longer, it might cause trouble to the family.
Moreover, there are other children in the family, and they may not necessarily be willing for her to stay.
But Goudan couldn't say that he was leaving now.
Maybe it's because it's so wonderful staying in this place for such a long time, even better than the many years I spent at home before, so wonderful that I don't want to leave.
So Goudan is attached to this place and this warmth.
Just as Goudan lowered his head to think, Lin Xiuzhen also made a decision.
"You can stay at home and help me with the work. If you want to go to school, let the fourth sister teach you first. You can study at home by yourself. After you have learned enough, you can go to school. After all, you are too old now to go back to the first grade!"
"ah?"
Goudan only realized what was going on after this sentence.
What did Lin Xiuzhen mean just now?
Can I stay?
"Aunt? Aunt, what did you say? Can I really stay?"
"Yes, it's our family's destiny anyway, so just stay. Besides, you've helped so much at home during this period, and I know you're a capable girl!"
Lin Xiuzhen didn't know why she felt so sad, so she just followed her inner thoughts and kept the person.
Goudan was so surprised that tears started falling before he could say anything.
I have a lot of things to say, including thank you, but I find that many words sound so pale at this moment.
The family didn't expect Lin Xiuzhen to keep the person, but it didn't seem to be a surprise. Moreover, after learning that Goudan was a girl, the sisters Gu Chunlan and Gu Xialin seemed to feel closer to Goudan.
I have even subconsciously accepted the fact that there is a new girl in the family.
Gu Jiabao was dissatisfied and immediately stood up to refute it.
"Mom, what's the situation at home? Please let me stay here. Our house is almost full..."
Gu Jiabao originally thought that by saying this he would be able to make Lin Xiuzhen change her mind, but unexpectedly, Lin Xiuzhen made the decision directly.
"That's settled. When the time comes, we'll have to rebuild our house and make more rooms so we can live there!"
The reason why Lin Xiuzhen had the confidence to say such words at this time was actually because she had made a lot of money from her business recently. Speaking of making money, Lin Xiuzhen had some other ideas. It seemed that she had to go to her parents' home tomorrow.
"Mom, does our family have money?" Gu Jiabao whispered beside her.
Lin Xiuzhen just glanced at him sideways.
"Rich or poor, stop worrying about me. Okay, it's settled. And you can't call Goudan by his name. I'll give you a name."
"Okay, auntie, I'll listen to you!" Goudan was smiling foolishly at this moment, his eye circles and nose were red, his face was full of tear marks, but his eyes were surprisingly bright.
Lin Xiuzhen thought for a while and came up with an idea, "Let's call it Chuxia. We just happened to meet in the early summer, and it also represents your new beginning!"
As for the surname, Lin Xiuzhen thought of Goudan’s previous surname.
But I didn't expect that Chu Xia would actually say, "Aunt, can I take your last name?"
Lin Xiuzhen was shocked.
"You want to take my last name?"
At this moment, Chuxia showed a rare bit of girlish shyness.
"Well, it was my aunt who brought me home, and I also wanted to have a new start."
It’s not that Goudan is heartless or anything, it’s just that his parents brought him back because they wanted someone to carry on the family line, so they let him be a boy for so many years.
But Goudan didn't want to be a boy. For so many years, as a girl, she had been hanging out with boys. If she wanted to play with girls, she would be looked down upon. If she wanted to play with boys, she would also feel out of tune with these people for various reasons.
From childhood to adulthood, it can be said that Goudan has no other friends. Even when he was with boys, the boys in the village wanted to pee while standing, and they would always compete to see who could pee farther. Goudan was taught since childhood not to expose his urine outside, so he was always isolated.
Things like that made Goudan's childhood unhappy.
In addition, after his adoptive parents left, Goudan, who learned the truth, had even less relationship with this family.
There was a determined look in her eyes.
Lin Xiuzhen herself probably didn't expect that this child would think so much, and it might be related to her childhood experiences, so this child is more sensitive...
Lin Xiuzhen thought of her children at home and felt a little helpless.
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