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"Well. We wrote a relationship diagram before. From what you said, it needs to be modified."

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"Yes, that's it. After we recognized each other, we held a wedding and got married. Shen Changshou lived a long time. He and his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter. After the son was born, my grandfather's great-grandfather became very ill. After the old man died, the two families split the land equally. They didn't live together in the same house, but they often visited each other during the Chinese New Year. This was the case even after my grandfather was born. In our family, after Shen Mingxiu died, the relationship between the two families was not that close. "

"Well. Let's talk about the next generation. Shen Changshou has a son and a daughter. What's going on with their two siblings?"

"It's all like that. It's just like that. He doesn't have much potential, and he can't be said to be a loser. Just one thing, the son of Shen Changshou, my grandfather and they called him A Gou, has a dog nose, and his nose is very smart, so he is called A Gou. He got married several times, three or four times. They were married very early at that time, and he got married for the first time at the age of fourteen. Shen Changshou was worried about that. Agou's wife didn't seem to be very well, either because she had a bad temper or something. She later got divorced. She ran away and went back to her parents' home, and later she married somewhere else. Later, when there was a war, Agou married a few more wives. They were like aunts. It was not like they got married and then divorced and found someone to marry... When there was a war, Shen Changshou was anxious to ask Agou to have a son... …It took a lot of trouble. My grandfather was so poor that he sold all the land he had been allocated to his wife. My grandfather and my great-grandfather all helped.”

"Yeah. Have you ever done anything special?"

"What?"

"During the process of seeking a child, did you kill the baby girl or seek help from gods or witchcraft?"

"No, no. He can't even enlarge a woman's belly. When he married a third wife, others thought there was something wrong with him. My grandfather said that Shen Changshou lost his temper when he heard people say this. . It makes everyone look bad."

"OK, all right."

"I have been struggling for several years. I have also thought about raising children. His sister got married and had a child, a daughter. She seems to have a son... I am not very clear about this. Basically what I heard was Agou Things over there.”

"Um."

"His sister couldn't support the child. Maybe she didn't have a son, maybe her brother-in-law didn't agree. His sister was sold by Shen Changshou. He was not willing to sell the land, so he married his sister off and the bride price was paid. He went out to find another wife and see a doctor. That’s probably why the relationship between the two families is not good.”

"Um."

"He just waited until his granddaughter was getting married. When his granddaughter was born, the land on Shen Changshou's side was almost sold, and there was no money left. But Shen Changshou's godfather still had money. His godfather's My son is very old, younger than him, but older than his granddaughter. His first wife died, and he wanted to find another one. My grandfather didn’t know how the two families negotiated, so they settled on it. , the godfather's son came into their family. It seemed that the man was eating his granddaughter to death, and it was like she was the one who wanted to be friends with him. There must be something going on between the two of them getting married and giving birth. His first son, Xiao Wuzi, was adopted by Agou when he was born. "

"So, you don't know what happened?"

"I don't know. My grandfather didn't tell me, and my father didn't figure it out either. They used to meet for business, and speaking of it, none of the relatives could explain it clearly... there must be something in it."

"Um."

"When the fifth son was twenty years old, maybe even less than twenty years old, Agou died. Shen Changshou had also died long ago by that time. The closest blood relationship between us is Agou's sister. Agou's sister didn't know what was going on, and she wanted Xiao Wuzi to recognize her ancestors and return to their family. Didn't Xiao Wuzi's biological father marry into his wife? I had to ask the fifth son to recognize his ancestors again and recognize them in their home. At that time, several of my elders were still alive, and they were often called to dinner and visit to talk about this matter. The house is noisy.”

"You don't know which family Xiao Ying went to to recognize his ancestor?"

"I do not know."

"What's his last name? The postcard he sent was signed Xiao Ying. Don't you know which family this is?"

"Uh... I really don't know about this. I don't remember whether Shen Changshou's daughter married a man named Xiao, or the godfather Shen Changshou recognized as Xiao. I don't know. My dad doesn't know either."

"In that case, how do you determine that Xiao Ying is the fifth son?"

"I asked about this. My dad was still alive at that time. The relatives of their generation are still in contact. It's not just our family that received New Year's cards, but many families received them. I didn't think about it at first. My dad also I thought it was my colleague, his old colleague, my mother, my wife or something. There was no recipient’s name on the greeting card. We talked about it during the Chinese New Year dinner, maybe two or three years ago. It can only be Xiao Wuzi."

"That said, you can't 100 percent guarantee it's the same person."

"Well……"

"Your son said before that some of your relatives have basically passed away. In their generation, there is no contact with them."

"That's right."

"There is no one on your side that we can contact so that we can follow up the investigation and confirm Xiao Ying's identity?"

"No more. I am an only child. My father also had a brother and a sister, but they both passed away. Among my peers, one immigrated, one came to the capital, and one died in a car accident very early. The child remarried with his mother. , disconnected from us.”

"Yeah. Do you all receive the same postcards?"

"This... the address to which it was sent should be the same. We didn't see the specifics, so we just talked about a person named Xiao Ying who sent the postcard from somewhere. As we talked, we talked about Xiao Wuzi."

"I understand. Regarding the deposit slip, there is no way to confirm whether others have received it?"

"I had several phone calls with the immigration officer and the one in the capital. After they moved away, I didn't receive the postcard. There was no notification of the change of address. I guess they didn't continue to send it..."

"We need the contact information of your relatives."

"I can't remember this either."

"Can you provide us with the names? When we conducted the investigation, we could only find the immediate family members with file records, your father's brothers and sisters. We found no connection from the files."

"Oh, this should be fine... I can call some of the names, but I don't know how to write them specifically."

"Just write as detailed and correct as possible."

"OK."

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"Well, you still want to use this method to check? Can't the kind of soul-calling or something like that work?"

"We now have a more suitable spiritual medium. But after listening to your father's account, we have some doubts about Xiao Ying's identity."

"I just said, it's not that person from your family. Your dad told you before that they were almost torn apart over the matter of recognizing their ancestors, so why would they send postcards to our family? He doesn't necessarily know that in our family Know."

"You must know if you know."

"Mr. Shen, when did you buy the house you live in now? Is your family the first owner?"

Goodnight everybody.

P.S. I made a mistake before. The third paragraph should say that after Shen Xiu died, the two families had less contact. Shen Mingyi died a long time ago_(:3‖∠)_.