At this time, on the other side, in Tianjiazhuang, Tian Xuefeng was getting extremely anxious because he had not received a reply from Tian Cai.
"Mom, you said Tian Caishou didn't receive the telegram I sent, why is there no movement?" Tian Xuefeng has been running to the post office all day long since he sent the telegram. If his wife didn't know what was going on, she would probably suspect that he had a lover outside.
"I guess she was so busy that she didn't even notice," Yang Shuqin said with a worried look on her face. "It's been so long, how could Chen Guihua still remember it? We can't let them find her. That family is no good. They've ruined Cai Cai's future for nothing!"
Tian Xuefeng pulled his hair in annoyance.
To talk about this matter, we have to start from the last time Tian Cai came to He Province. At that time, she taught a lesson to the two aunts who came to cause trouble for the grandmother in the Tian family yard. One of them wanted to pull Tian Cai down, but she outwitted her. Later, she fell and pretended to be fainted, but was seen through by Tian Cai, so she had to return home in shame.
This person is Chen Guihua.
Unfortunately, Shen Guihua was a petty and vindictive person. This incident made her lose face so much that she didn't dare to go out for several days.
At that time, her philtrum was pinched by that damn girl. Normally, the scar would heal quickly, but she didn't treat the wound properly, which caused inflammation and scarring. Every time she looked in the mirror, Shen Guihua would curse Tian Cai.
She wanted to make amends, but by the time she got over her embarrassment and went out, Tian Cai had already returned to Liao Province.
So Chen Guihua could only make Yang Shuqin and her son feel a little disgusted every day, but they were just minor fights and could not really do anything to them.
She remembered Tian Cai's appearance deeply in her mind, and was waiting for the day when she would meet him again to avenge the fall.
One day, Huang Chunmiao accidentally heard that there was a new female teacher in the town primary school who was single, and she became interested in him. Zhixue from their family had been in the army for so many years and had never found a partner, so the two of them, a soldier and a teacher, seemed to be a good match.
It just so happened that Tian Zhixue was about to come back to visit his relatives, so Huang Chunmiao wanted to arrange a blind date for him before he left.
She specifically asked people about the teacher's qualifications and personality, and felt that she was quite satisfactory in all aspects. Moreover, she was related to the village's fifth aunt, Shen Guihua, in some way.
Huang Chunmiao thought about it and decided to ask Chen Guihua to act as a matchmaker and introduce the female teacher to Tian Zhixue.
But she went there twice and Chen Guihua was not at home. She had no choice but to leave a message with her second uncle next door, asking Chen Guihua to come back and visit her house.
As soon as Chen Guihua arrived, Huang Chunmiao showed enough sincerity. She turned around and took out a cloth bag from the kang cabinet and placed it on the table. She smiled and patted the cloth bag and said meaningfully, "Aunt Wu, if this thing between them really works out, I have to thank you very much."
Seeing this, Chen Guihua was completely confused. She tore open the bundle and took a look. Seeing the dark blue corduroy fabric inside, her eyes lit up immediately. She patted her chest and promised, "I'll take care of this!"
"Do you have a photo of Zhixue at home? Please give me one. Just look at our Zhixue's appearance. As soon as that girl sees him, wow, the matter is almost half done!" Chen Guihua said without exaggeration. She meant it. Just looking at Tian Zhixue's appearance, she couldn't help but be moved even at her age. That face and that body are so energetic!
Huang Chunmiao thought about it and realized that this was indeed the case. Her son had sent photos home almost every two or three years, and she had put them in a box. She hurriedly found a tin box of biscuits from the inner room.
"I have several photos of Zhixue here, take your pick."
Chen Guihua immediately fell in love with the one in the middle wearing a military uniform. Even though it was a black and white photo, it couldn't hide Tian Zhixue's handsomeness. Moreover, against the backdrop of the military uniform, the already handsome young man looked even more energetic and reliable. If this photo was released, the girl would definitely fall in love with it as long as she was not blind.
When she reached out to take it, she accidentally brought out the one below it.
"This is--"
Chen Guihua took the photo in her hand and the more she looked at the person in it, the more familiar she felt. Suddenly, her eyes widened, "It's that damn girl!"
"What a stupid girl," Huang Chunmiao stretched his head to take a look, and reached out to take it back, "This is a photo of me from my early years."
She was still young at that time, and none of those things happened later, so she was still innocent and beautiful, and her whole spirit was different.
This photo was taken in a photo studio run by foreigners when she went to Beijing with her family. It is also the only photo of her.
"Is this you?" Chen Guihua looked at the photo in her hand suspiciously, then turned her gaze to Huang Chunmiao's face. Although one was young and beautiful and the other already had wrinkles of time, the two faces were indeed similar.
"How could someone in the world look so much like you?" she murmured. "If I hadn't known you didn't have a daughter, I would have thought that damn girl was your daughter."
Huang Chunmiao was stunned. What dead girl?
Seeing that she didn't know, Chen Guihua exaggerated the story and told her the story again. After she finished speaking, she suddenly realized, "That's not right. You have a daughter! Where is your daughter?"
"It's long gone," Huang Chunmiao's eyes flashed, "Many people in our village know about it!"
"How come it's gone?"
"It was lost on the road during the drought—"
Chen Guihua narrowed her eyes, "Are you sure he died at that time?"
"Are you sure?" Huang Chunmiao was a little uncertain when she asked this. Erya's breathing was intermittent at that time, sometimes there was breath and sometimes not. She should be dead, right?
Even if he was still alive, he had no chance of survival on that mountain road with no village or shop nearby.
Chen Guihua didn't believe it was a coincidence. She calculated the ages and they matched. What was even more strange was that the girl appeared in Tianjiazhuang. "Go ask Zhixue to help ask about this matter later. I think that girl might be your Erya! You haven't seen her, but she looks like she was cast in the same mold as this photo of you. No one would believe that you two are not related."
After seeing Chen Guihua off, Huang Chunmiao felt uneasy for some reason. She held the photo of herself when she was young in her hand and looked at it over and over again.
I don’t know if it was influenced by Shen Guihua’s words, but she seemed to see the shadow of Erya in this photo.
"Bang!"
The tin box containing the photos fell to the ground.
Huang Chunmiao developed a high fever that night. Tian Zhongwen thought she had caught a cold, so he asked the old doctor to prescribe two prescriptions for her. However, her condition did not improve. Huang Chunmiao even started talking nonsense due to the high fever.
After the old doctor came and examined her, he said that she was worried too much and became ill due to fear. To put it bluntly, she was thinking too much and was scared.
But Tian Zhongwen couldn't understand what his wife was afraid of. He was only away from home for one day, so why was she so scared that she fell ill?
Huang Chunmiao's illness recurred and she was not fully recovered until Tian Zhixue came back. When Tian Zhongwen went to cook, she pulled her son to the bedside.
"Your sister may still be alive."
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