After hearing Zheng Lanzhi's words, Xu Jingyan just smiled. She was just doing it for the sake of peace of mind. The evil she did back then was to give up the lives of her two daughters in exchange for the life of her family. What was she doing at that time? I don't know about their psychology, but after the incident, they must have regretted it. If they want to get their mother's forgiveness, it can at least make them feel better mentally.

Of course, this is just Xu Jingyan's own guess. During the Chinese New Year, Xu Jingyan went to her father to secretly ask her mother what happened back then, and her father also told her, although he didn't know much.

It turns out that back in 1948, it was the time of the civil war. At that time, the Zhou family was considered a small wealthy family. Although it was not a wealthy family in this county, it still had some wealth. During the war, When the war came, Zheng Lanzhi's father, Zhou Bingyan, decided to take his family south to escape the war.

When they were about to leave the city, they met people who were fleeing and fled to the south together. They walked southward and prepared to enter Baishan Mountain, then climbed over the mountain and headed south. Who knew that not long after entering Baishan Mountain, they were pursued by the GMD army? In order to escape, Zhou Bingyan abandoned Zheng Lanzhi and her sister Zhou Lansu, two burdens, on the roadside, and fled with his real wife and eldest sons. (The mother of Zheng Lanzhi and Zhou Lansu was Zhou Bingyan’s concubine and had died at that time.)

At that time, Zheng Lanzhi was already eight years old and should have understood everything. When they were abandoned, she and her sister cried and asked their father to take them away, but in the end they could not get their father to turn around and look at them.

In the days that followed, Zheng Lanzhi took her sister to wander at the foot of Baishan Mountain, picking up some wild vegetables to wrap her belly. But what could an eight-year-old child or a six-year-old child find in the war-torn times and in the mountains where they had never lived before? In just a few days, little sister Zhou Lansu starved to death. Zheng Lanzhi also survived after fainting from hunger and being rescued by kindhearted people.

The family name of the person who rescued her was Zheng, so Zheng Lanzhi changed her surname to Zheng. Zheng Lanzhi's adoptive parents died in 1959, so Xu Jingyan could not find the memory of her grandfather and grandmother.

That's what happened, because Zheng Lanzhi rarely mentioned the past with Xu Yuanshan, and Xu Yuanshan only knew this, and didn't know more detailed matters.

After Xu Jingyan learned about her mother's past, she no longer had any favorable impressions of the old man she met today, so she did not talk to him. As a father, when he was in danger, and besides, it was not real at that time, In times of danger, the person who abandoned his daughter just to get rid of two burdens would not be a kind person.

After the eggs are cooked, dinner begins. Xu Yuanshan also came back from outside, pushing a Feige brand bicycle. Xu Jingyan immediately laughed.

"Dad, why did you think of buying a bicycle? This requires a ticket."

Xu Yuanshan smiled and said, "I went to your Uncle Qiang today, and he happened to have a ticket. I thought that Xujiacun is about ten miles away from the city, how slow it is to walk. Anyway, our family is not short of money, so I just followed. Your uncle Qiang went to buy a bicycle."

Zheng Lanzhi walked out of the kitchen and looked at the bicycle.

"Well, it's also good to buy a bicycle. It will be easier for you to run back and forth between the city and the countryside."

Early the next morning, Xu Yuanshan rode his bicycle back to Xujia Village. As soon as he reached the entrance of the village, he saw the villagers standing in groups chatting. He was still very surprised. What are you doing!

Xu Yuanqun, the captain of the village team, just saw Xu Yuanshan coming back on a brand-new bicycle and waved to him. Xu Yuanshan got off the bicycle and pushed it towards the crowd.

"Brother Qun, what are you doing? Why are you standing here at the entrance of the village?"

Xu Yuanqun smiled.

"Did you know? My fifth uncle, your uncle, has returned from overseas. You haven't been at home these days. I was thinking of going to the county to find you, but I don't know where you live, so I didn’t call you. I didn’t expect you to come back today. I happened to be waiting here, and Uncle Wu and the others are almost here.”

"What?"

Xu Yuanshan was extremely surprised for a moment. The fifth uncle mentioned by the brothers was his biological uncle? But didn't my father say that my uncle went to Treasure Island with the GMD army, but why is he back now?

Seeing Xu Yuanshan's surprised look, Xu Yuanqun, who was secretly jealous, felt better. Alas, he heard that the fifth uncle was extraordinary. He followed the GMD army to Treasure Island, but this time the county Li told himself that this fifth uncle had returned from the United States.

Seeing Xu Yuanshan's return, everyone in the village came forward to congratulate him.

"Oh, Brother Yuanshan, I heard that your uncle came back from the United States and is rich. Can you spend the money by then?"

"Tch, what you said is wrong. Then Uncle Wu can still have children? It is possible to give Brother Yuanshan some money, but I think it is unlikely to let him spend it."

Everyone was talking about it, but Xu Yuanshan had no intention of paying attention to them at this time. He was still thinking about how his uncle had come back and how he had been in these years. His father had said back then, "It's lucky that your uncle left. If he had stayed, , the ending is really hard to tell!”

Xu Yuanshan came back to his senses, looked at the Xu clan members around him, and sneered in his heart. In the past few years, because of his uncle's affairs, these clan members had dug holes for his family, saying that his family was related to Baodao. Relationship, my father had been criticized a lot in those years, but now they actually have the nerve to come out to see their uncle?

Thinking about it, Xu Yuanshan did not show it on his face, but asked Xu Yuanqun about this matter about his uncle, but Xu Yuanqun only knew a rough idea.

The day before yesterday, the county government informed him that he had gone to the county. The leader told him that an overseas Chinese in the United States was coming back to visit relatives, and he was from Xujia Village. He told him his name at that time, and only then did he know that this overseas Chinese was coming back from the United States. Man is the fifth uncle in the clan.

Xu Yuanshan didn't find out anything. He ignored what the tribesmen said just now that his uncle would give him a lot of money when he came back. Here in Xu Yuanshan, he had never thought about these things. His family was not bad at making money, and they had a pair of children. Good job, you can earn a lot of money one day.

When Xu Yuanshan returned to Xujia Village, it was just after eight o'clock in the morning. He waited at the entrance of the village for more than an hour. At about ten o'clock, a car came from the road. Xu Yuanshan and the others did not recognize the car. The sedan, anyway, looks beautiful.

When the car stopped, the first person who came out was a middle-aged man in his thirties. After he got out of the car, he quickly turned around and went to the back seat. He opened the door and saw an old man with white hair walking out. The car.

The old man looked in good spirits, with his white hair combed meticulously. He was wearing a black woolen coat, a sweetheart-neck sweater, a red tie, and a civilized stick in his hand. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses looks noble and fashionable.

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