History of Noble Raising

No, the secret was discovered.

It was also indeed found.

Sissy is getting older, and she no longer takes her reputation as seriously as she did back then, "I never thought that you would be the first to discover this secret." Eric remembers what she said at the time, "Since things have already If it happened, I knew it would be discovered sooner or later."

"I remember that child," her eyes were dark, "it was 7.5 pounds when it was born, it was a red ball, and the eyes were not even opened." She tried to gesture the size of the seven-pound newborn with her hand, "this It's that big."

"That was my first grandchild."

"I didn't have the heart to hug him, so I sent him away."

"Your mother, Lily, was 19 years old, she was a child herself, but she was already a mother." Sissy continued, "She didn't even look at the child. We agreed to take him away as soon as he was born." , don’t tell her anything, just treat it as an appendicitis operation, and pretend nothing happened.”

"And then 19 years passed."

"Grandma, I'm going to find him." Eric said firmly, holding his hand, "If I never knew about it, I could live my life. But now I know I have a brother, and I I'm going to meet him and see if he's doing well."

"Grandma, I need your help."

Sissy promised to keep it a secret for him. She also found out the birth records of that year. It has been 19 years, and even the paper has started to turn yellow.It wrote the baby boy's body length, weight, and even a small blue footprint.There is also a placement record showing the family circumstances of the adopter.

As long as he has these, Eric is sure that he will be able to find the relative with the same blood.

He couldn't wait to set off.

It has to be said that Boston is a very developed city, regardless of political, economic and cultural aspects, it shows that Boston is very livable.Eric used the list provided by the credit agency, combined with the documents he got from Sissy, and quickly circled the only family that met all the conditions-the Duke family, the Duke couple adopted 19 years ago A baby boy, named Scott, then gave birth to a boy three years later, but they always treated the two children equally, and the children got along well, and Scott never knew he was adopted.Eric was relieved that Scott was doing well.

His current feelings are very complicated. He wants to find relatives who are related by blood, but the other party has a completely independent life from them. His appearance will obviously disturb the other party.What would that boy who was not a few years older than him think of his biological parents?Would he not want a strange younger brother?

Eric stood in front of the house, but lost the courage to go up and ring the doorbell.

He decided to notify the most necessary person of this matter first, maybe after the phone call, his courage will return.Eric took out his cell phone from his pocket and dialed Lily's number.

There was a "beep-beep-" sound from the mobile phone, and the call was connected. He stood under the door number of Duke's house, let out a deep breath, and turned into a thick cloud in the cold December wind. white mist.

"Hello," Lily's voice said, "honey, where are you now?"

"Mom," Eric said calmly, "I'm in Boston..."

"How did you get there?"

"Please listen to me. I'll just say the next thing. Please don't interrupt." He held the phone, but looked straight across the yard of Duke's house. He saw that the door frame hadn't been removed. Christmas decorations, which have been dimmed by the rain and snow of recent days.There is light inside the house, a warm yellow light.He and his older brother are just a yard away. “I’m in Boston right now, in front of a family named Duke. They adopted a 19-pound baby boy 7.5 years ago. Born, straight out of the nursing home."

Eric clearly heard the sound of gasping on the phone.

"You must know who this is better than me," Eric said, "I'm going to find him next."

"Eric, you can't do this!" Lily's voice almost turned into a scream.

"No, I can." Eric spit out the last sentence, "I am not calling this call to ask for your permission, but to inform you that I am going to do this, goodbye." Eric pressed the doorbell and pressed Button to hang up the call.

The sound of footsteps soon came from inside the house. He stood quietly, and saw the door slowly opened, and a thin, brown-haired young man stepped out of it.

hello, the relatives i have never met

Scott Duke, 19 years old, was born in Boston, USA. He has two parents and a younger brother who is close to him. However, a drowning accident caused the family to lose the youngest member.He grew up step by step, his personality is not lively, but he is not introverted and shy, he has a wide range of hobbies, likes music, is a loyal reader of "The New Yorker", once served as the editor-in-chief of the middle school newspaper, and the photos he takes are not bad. Gold Medal in the National Youth Photography Competition.He passed Brown's admissions application and is now on winter break.

Before today, he never thought that his life would have a soap opera-like turning point—he heard the doorbell and ran to open the door, but after opening the door, he met this boy who claimed to be his younger brother.Isn't the door of his house suddenly connected to some other dimension?

"...my mother, she can't raise an illegitimate child, so she gave you to someone else to raise you," Eric sat on the sofa, holding a cup of warm coffee, he couldn't maintain his usual calmness, " I accidentally found out about your existence, so I ran here to see you without authorization."

The young man on the opposite side sat in a place not exposed to the sun, not saying a word.

"I've always wanted an older brother," Eric continued to force himself to finish what he had thought up beforehand, "I hope I won't disturb your life." Although he said this with a guilty conscience, there was no turning back , now that you have entered this door, there is no way out.

"Actually, you also know that your appearance is to destroy my current life." Scott said with difficulty, "And why did you appear here? What are my biological parents doing? "

"Uh..." Although he felt that the reality was cruel, Eric still told his current situation to the old lovers, "Our mother, her name is Lily, just married in June, and her husband Bart, I also live with my sister Serena, and Bart's son; as for your father, Rufus Humphrey, he also has a son and a daughter, is just divorced, and he probably doesn't know you exist." Yes, no one would have informed Rufus that Lily had borne him a child.

"Then what's the point of you telling me this now?" Scott looked very painful, "My biological parents, one abandoned me from birth, and the other didn't know that I existed from the beginning to the end, if I don't Knowing this, maybe you will be happier.”

"I'm sorry..." Eric felt very frustrated, "I just wanted to see you, a relative I've never met."

"Forget it," Scott covered his face with his hands, "It won't change anything when we meet. You go, I don't want to see you for the time being."

"Sorry..." Eric stood up from the sofa, picked up the scarf and gloves on the coffee table, he could see Scott's entanglement and pain, and walked towards the door wisely.Maybe he really shouldn't have come this trip, he was too conceited, thinking that he could handle everything on his own.But family affection is never something that can be cut quickly. He seems to have done nothing but add chaos.

He stood in the doorway, twisted his neck and looked back, and found Scott still sitting stiff on the sofa, his back seemed to be shaking, his head buried deep between his knees.Eric forced himself to respect Scott's opinion, he closed the door cruelly, took a deep breath and left the street without looking back.

Back at the hotel, Eric couldn't help calling Lauren.

"Hey, Lauren, I think I made a big mess today." He told the whole story from beginning to end, now that his mother's reputation and secrets were beyond his consideration.

"So you asked me to introduce the credit agency to investigate your long-lost brother?" Lauren replied a little carelessly on the other end of the phone.

"It's not my long-lost brother, but a relative I've never met!" Eric couldn't help retorting, "I just wanted to say hello to him."

"Then let me change the expression," Lauren couldn't help but put down the pen in his hand, and began to preach to the child, "In order to tell a person you have never met—of course, he is related to you by blood, without telling your parents, Find a credit agency, first investigate his privacy through a private detective, and then come to tell him a secret about his life experience, and hope he can say 'hi' to you in a pleasant manner?"

"I'm not..." Eric retorted subconsciously, but found that Lauren was right at all, "...well, I admit that I made a mistake at the beginning. How do I make it up now? I don't want Scott to hate me."

"Eric," Lauren picked up the signature pen again, and at the same time began to persuade the phone, "This is not something you should do. Let them solve their own problems."

"Then I can only call my mother to come and clean up the mess?" Eric's eyes widened. Has the matter really developed to this point?

"That's right, at the same time your brother's biological parents, let them solve this historical issue," Lauren said, "As for you..."

"Sure enough, there are still things that must be done by me!"

"...Prepare a whole non-repetitive apology, and when everyone is here, you can come to my door to apologize sincerely!"

"Okay..." Eric murmured, "Thank you, Lauren! What would I do without you?"

Lauren heard the child acting like a baby unconsciously, and couldn't help but curl her lips. The table of documents in front of her didn't look so nasty anymore, "I'll keep these favors in mind." One day I'll save enough , asking you back in one breath.

When Eric stood in front of Duke's house again, it was more than 30 hours since the last time.It was an afternoon, the weather was still gloomy and cold, and the decorations on the door looked more haggard.

He didn't come alone, there were several people standing behind him, Lily rushed over as soon as she received the call, Serena accompanied her, and Rufus, as another party involved, also appeared it's here.

"Sorry, Mom, I got into trouble," Eric said softly.

"Don't blame yourself," Lily comforted her reluctantly, she herself was also very flustered now, "This is an adult's mistake, and now it just exploded by accident."

"If it wasn't the so-called accident, didn't you intend to tell me that I have a 19-year-old son?! This is my child, and I have the right to know. How could you decide to put him up for adoption alone!" Rufu S Humphrey looked very irritable, and his mood is understandable.

"Now is not the time to quarrel!" Serena came out as a peacemaker, "Aren't we here to solve the problem?"

Yes, they are here to fix things.Solve a difficult problem that has been going on for 19 years.

It was still Eric who rang the doorbell, and it was opened soon, but it was no longer the tall young man who walked out, but Mr. Duke, Scott's adoptive father.

He was very polite and invited them all into the house.Scott's adoptive mother brought several cups of hot tea.

"We're expecting a few visitors soon," said Mr. Duke, seated in his chair. "Scott has told us the whole thing."

"It was my sudden visit that caused trouble to everyone." Eric first apologized.

"Yes, son, you have brought us a lot of trouble." Mr. Duke took back the initiative to speak unceremoniously, "We have raised Scott as our own child for nearly 20 years, and now suddenly Someone came out claiming to be his brother and told him about his biological parents. You disrupted our entire lives."

"I'm sorry." Eric had nothing else to say.

Rufus was impatient to listen to their greetings, and couldn't help but interrupt Mr. Duke's long speech, "Hi, I'm Scott's biological father, can I meet him?"

Eric didn't let Mrs. Duke roll her eyes, even in his opinion, Rufus was acting too eagerly.

"Of course, we've been ready to talk to you for a long time. Scott is in the study, let's go there together."

Scott wasn't very cooperative today, but no one would be overjoyed to hear that their biological parents who abandoned them came to their door.Lily and Rufus first closed the door and had a thorough talk with him, telling how they fell in love and couldn't stay together.Lily admits that she was cowardly back then, that the whole thing was her fault from beginning to end, she gave birth to the child but didn't have the courage to raise him herself, she concealed the fact, did not tell the child's father, she deceived herself and turned a blind eye to this secret for 19 years.But she loves her children, if not for love, she would not insist on giving birth to Scott back then.

Scott reluctantly forgave them, but still asked a pointed question, "Eric told me, you have your own families now, so what are your plans?"

"We have to be responsible for our own family." Lily said first, "We used to love each other, but after so many things, now we each have a life that suits us." Yes, she is married now.She has a husband, children, and a decent family.She had no reason to ruin it all.

"Me too," Rufus said. "I have two kids. You're welcome to come to Brooklyn, honey."

The two adults looked at each other, and the old love in their eyes was cut off.Humans are normative social animals who can effectively manage their primitive emotions for the sake of reputation and ethics.The Scott incident happened at an inappropriate time this time. If he appeared after Bart's death, it might become an introduction to the resurgence of the old relationship between the two parties, but now, it can only become a sharp knife for the two to cut off their wish.

buckle!buckle!There was a knock on the door, and Eric poked his head in through the crack of the door, "Are you done talking? Do you have time for me to apologize?"

The three people in the study laughed at the same time, "Of course!"