After arriving at Xujia Village, Luo Chen went to negotiate with the village chief. Qi Yihan went to Xu Zhan's old residence according to the coordinates given by Xu Zhan. Li Zhen opened the map She Qian drew for her and took Zhu Xiaochun straight to the most remote location in Xujia Village. A deserted house.

The fence wall enclosed by wooden boards has long been tilted here and there after the wind and rain. The withered grass lies on the ground in the not-so-large yard, with three tile-roofed houses standing in the middle.

Only half of the tiles on the roof of the tile-roofed house fell to the ground in front of the house. The moth-eaten beams fell into the house and propped up on the roof, making a terrible creaking sound in the wind. All the glass windows were removed, leaving only The frame is dark, the walls of the room are covered with frost, and the kang is collapsed and the stove is ruined. It looks eerie even during the day.

There used to be laughter and laughter here, and the parents were loving and the children were innocent, but now all that is left is desolation.

Seeing the place where Qi Yihan lived when he was a child for the first time, Li Zhen looked at the ruins and sighed quietly.

Zhu Xiaochun was not interested in the broken bricks and tiles, but he saw a civet cat jumping into the courtyard and rushed in to chase the cat around.

Li Zhen's eyes followed Zhu Xiaochun who was running around the courtyard, and suddenly she heard someone calling her from behind.

"Li Zhen..." Xu Xiangyu was surprised to meet Li Zhen in Xujiacun.

"Mom?" Li Zhen turned around and was equally surprised to see Xu Xiangyu.

"Why are you here?"

When mother and daughter asked this question at the same time, they couldn't help but look at each other and smile, Li Zhen said.

"I came here with Qi Yihan and Luo Chen...Mom, what are you doing here?"

Li Zhen didn't say why he came, Xu Xiangyu didn't ask, and said.

"Your great-grandma, that is, my grandma, has passed away. I came to see her off."

Li Zhen had always had an indifferent personality and was not very close to his relatives and elders. He had almost no impression of his great-grandmother, so he nodded and didn't ask any more questions.

Xu Xiangyu walked into the courtyard gate with half of the door panel missing, and walked around with a nostalgic light in her eyes.

Li Zhen saw this and asked curiously, "Mom, have you been here before?"

"Not only have I been here, but so have you."

"What?" Li Zhen recalled and recalled, but he never remembered that he had been there.

"You were still in my belly at that time."

in stomach? Li Zhen pulled Xu Xiangyu and urged, "Mom, tell me what's going on?"

Maybe it’s because the natural scenery in the countryside makes people particularly relaxed, or maybe it’s because the rarely tense mother-daughter relationship has become closer. Xu Xiangyu talks about the past with a soft smile.

"At first, because I ate too little nutrition during pregnancy, your eldest and second brothers were not in good health. When I got pregnant with you, your father gave me some money to go back to the countryside to raise the baby."

"At that time, the old Xu family had completely collapsed and your grandfather was gone. Your great-grandmother felt sorry for her daughter and arranged for your grandmother to remarry to Xujiacun."

"The old bachelor is too poor to get a wife, but he is still kind to your uncle and the others, so your grandma accepts him."

"I know your grandma's family is having a hard time. After I came here, in order not to embarrass your grandma, I proposed to rent a yard to live by myself. Your grandma didn't agree. It was your great-grandma who brought me here."

Fate is such a wonderful thing. It turned out that she had met Qi Yihan when she was still in her mother's womb. Li Zhen was quite moved and asked Xu Xiangyu.

"Does this family agree?" After all, the old tile-roofed houses were not big enough to keep warm. It would be very inconvenient for a stranger to live in a two-bedroom house, especially for young couples who may not be willing to make do with it for money.

Xu Xiangyu sighed after hearing this, "The same rice feeds all kinds of people. This couple is cruel to each other. They split their work and left their three-year-old child to live alone. Your great-grandmother meant that I would live here first and help take care of the child." It’s not like living in vain, the village chief also agreed, so I stayed.”

"When I came, the child had been left alone for three days. On weekdays, he would pick some vegetables in the yard and take them to the nice people's houses to exchange for food. He was hungry and full, and his parents were away. I was frightened and had a high fever. Fortunately, the parents hadn't done anything yet and left some money for the child, so I took the money and sent the child to the hospital."

"It's really dangerous. The doctor said that if he was sent here any later, he would be burned to death. However, the child had some problems when he woke up. He couldn't remember who his parents were and he only called me aunt."

Li Zhen remembered hearing Qi Yihan call aunt in his dream a few days ago, and suddenly understood why he called these two words.

"Then do you know what this child's name is?" Li Zhen asked.

"I don't know. I heard from people in the village that his parents didn't give him a big name. He's nicknamed Baby."

"Then how do you get the household registration...?" Li Zhen felt incredible.

Xu Xiangyu sipped and said, "I heard that his father's identity is fake, so there is no way to register him."

Qi Zheng actually did such a heartless thing. No wonder Qi Yihan refused to recognize him. If Qi Zheng wasn't an elder, Li Zhen would have wanted to beat him up.

"Then what do people in the village usually call him?"

Hearing this, Xu Xiangyu smiled uncontrollably.

"Let's use a pseudonym, and what's more, coincidentally, it's just one character different from Liang Fengkai, who sent the thank-you letter to your father. His name is Liang Feng."

Xu Xiangyu said apologetically when she mentioned that Li Zhen helped find Wu Yijuan, but she asked the leader to send a letter of thanks to Li Xin.

"Mom knows you are unhappy...but when she saw the miserable state of this child, she swore that she would never let my child suffer like this."

"At that time, my mother's family had no one to rely on, and I could only rely on your father. After all these years, I thought about your father and this family. Life will never get better with time, but our family needs us. Building it up brick by brick, no one can be left out."

"It's wrong of me to force you to get married in exchange for a betrothal gift, but I know Qi Yihan really cares about you, so I agreed to him. You blame your mother for not blaming you, but can you take the time to go home and see, that's all. You don't want to see me in the place where you have lived for more than 20 years. Don't you even want to miss your brothers and sisters? If your father and I are gone in the future, you brothers and sisters will have to support each other and take care of each other. "

Xu Xiangyu burst into tears, and Li Zhen lowered his head in disgust.

In Li Zhen's life, her natal family never gave her any warmth. Although she knew that her parents had difficulties, it was impossible for her not to mind at all.

"Cat Cat..."

Zhu Xiaochun, who caught the cat, ran over with the cat in his arms to show it to Li Zhen. Xu Xiangyu turned away and wiped away her tears, then turned around and asked Li Zhen, who was being pulled by Zhu Xiaochun to pet the cat.

"When will you go back?"

Li Zhen's eyelashes were wet and he said, "Go back tomorrow."

"Then I won't wait for you. I'll take the last bus."

Li Zhen wanted to ask Luo Chen to send him off, but when he thought it was too far back and forth and what had just happened, he might as well let Xu Xiangyu take the car back by himself, so he changed his words.

"okay……"

Li Zhen took out fifty yuan from his satchel and gave it to Xu Xiangyu.

"Collect some eggs from the village and keep them at home. You can also buy some food on the way so you don't go hungry."

Xu Xiangyu didn't want Li Zhen to force money into his pocket.

"Take it, I will go back to see you and dad when I have time."

Since her daughter promised that she would go back to her parents' home, Xu Xiangyu did not refuse.

"I'm going back, are you going?"

Li Zhen didn't like the wife his grandma had found, so he shook his head and said, "No..."

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