In a ward in the inpatient building of the provincial hospital, Li Feng was sitting on the edge of the bed and giving a simple massage to his grandfather Li Jianzhong, who was lying on the bed, with his hands and feet. Her father, Li Zhengguo, sat on the other side of the bed and fed her grandfather hot chicken soup, who looked satisfied and smiling.

Aunt Yang, a full-time maid named Yang Jieli, is helping to clean up the clutter in the ward. She entered the life circle of this family many years ago, from the beginning of the company as an ordinary cleaner, to later be able to enter the family as a full-time maid, everything she does every day is carefully and responsibly recognized by everyone......

"Yang Jieli, you are tired, you temporarily stop the cleaning up work at hand, go to the open space outside the hospital to rest and relax, I have some family private matters to talk about here now, please avoid it." The old man said to the busy Yang Jieli.

"Okay. Yang Jieli responded, put down the work at hand, walked out of the ward and closed the door.

"Grandpa, Aunt Yang has been following us for so many years, she is not an outsider, what do you want to say, do you need to tell her to avoid leaving?"

"Li Feng, you kid, grandpa knows what he wants to do, and I have my own way of doing things. ”

"Dad, you don't need to worry about your illness anymore, you don't need to worry about things at home, you are all at this age, just enjoy your Qingfu and spend your old age well. Li Zhengguo comforted.

The old man looked at Li Zhengguo kindly, sighed lightly, and said seriously: "I don't worry about my illness." But things at home have never put me at ease. Jeongguk, you're getting older every year, and I guess your mentality feels the same way as me. There is a saying that 'filial piety comes first', I believe you all understand this sentence, and you have all done it, and now grandpa I am enjoying your filial piety to me...... However, 'there are three unfilial pieties, and no queen is great', do you have a deep understanding of this estimate?"

When the old man said this, he raised his hand and softened his eyes, and then said: "Grandpa, why should I use a large amount of money from the government's land requisition compensation with the old man Lu Rengui to stimulate these older grandchildren to find a partner to get married as soon as possible, I believe you all know in your hearts what this is for! Grandpa, I am getting older and older year by year, and I don't have much time left, but when will I be able to meet and hold my great-grandchildren?"

Li Feng heard it, and her grandfather was telling her again, and he was turning a corner urging her to find a partner to marry and have children! Li Feng seemed to be tired of hearing such words...... But there was no choice but to listen patiently, so he said to his grandfather: "Grandpa, why do you have such deep feelings every day." Okay, I'll find a boyfriend to marry another day, and then give birth to a lot of great-grandchildren for you to hug. ”

"Li Feng, don't always comfort me like this and perfunctory me, grandpa, I say it so seriously every time, but you don't do it properly every time!" Grandpa paused for a moment, looked at Li Feng, and then said with emotion: "Li Feng, you and Xiaoling and Li Hu were all brought up by me personally, and your appearance when you were a child is still deeply in my mind, and I remember all your crying and fighting back then." I don't know if you remember?"

"Of course I remember, grandpa, you are the person in our family who has given the most credit. ”

The old man looked at Li Feng for a while, then sighed lightly and said, "Li Feng, do you remember that you once had a brother?"

"Dad, stop it, don't talk about it! If you want to say something, say something else!" As soon as he heard the old man mention the past, Li Zhengguo was startled and quickly interrupted him. In the deepest part of his heart, this is the most taboo thing!

The old man was interrupted by Li Zhengguo, turned his head to look at him, raised his hand and motioned for him to put down the bowl of chicken soup in his hand, and then said seriously: "Our family is here today, anyway, Li Feng has grown up, I must talk about this matter today." Jeongkook, don't you think our Lee Yong'er is still alive in this world?"

"Dad, are your brains really burned out? How can you bring up such an old thing again?" Li Zhengguo was very unhappy and interrupted the old man's speech again. How could this most painful past not make his heart ache incomparably? It was also the greatest pain for the whole family! He had always hoped that he could use time to erase this pain and seek peace for his family with a lifetime of repentance......

"Jeongguk, why do you always interrupt me so rudely?" the old man began to get angry and excited, "I know what I'm talking about, can you listen to me first?"

"Dad, don't interrupt Grandpa, let him speak out. Seeing this, Li Feng hurriedly persuaded his father.

"Look, you're not as sensible as Li Feng! Then I won't talk around the bush, I'll just say it now. The old man said, still stopping to look at Li Zhengguo, "Why did I say the previous words, it's because I seemed to have seen this child in the hospital yesterday!"

Listening to the old man's serious and affirmative words, Li Zhengguo was stunned for a moment, but he still couldn't help but not get angry, and smiled sarcastically: "Dad, are you dreaming? Don't you think this is ridiculous?"

"Jeongguk, don't think that your father and I are old and confused, my eyes are still bright now, and my heart is clearer than you! Do you remember the birthmark on our Li Long? I always remember it clearly, and I saw a person with this birthmark yesterday, I am very sure that that person must be our dragon!"

The old man's words made Li Zhengguo speechless! His mind began to churn with memories of those years......

In the deepest part of Li Feng's memory, she always remembered that she had an older brother named Li Long who was born a few minutes earlier than her, who slept together every night when she was a child and played together all day long, inseparable. If other friends bully her, he always stands up bravely to protect her......

It's just that one day in a small county town in a remote area, I got lost in a storm...... From then on, during that time, she often cried and asked her parents to find her brother back...... Later, she was beaten by her parents many times, and after that, she no longer dared to cry and ask for her brother. After that, it slowly became the most painful memory in her heart......

"Dad, I know you have never forgotten this in your heart. But that's been all over the years, so let it pass. I really don't want this to make everyone's heart ache when they think about it, and I don't want you to always be obsessed with this matter. I know you may have a good idea, maybe this child is still alive...... But things are always impermanent, and people are always changing. Even if one day he really grows up and can return to us, but 'he' is no longer the 'he' of Li Long back then!" Li Zhengguo comforted the old man with emotion.

"Jeongguk, in fact, I have always suspected that when you went to find the child and deal with the body of the child, you did not seriously examine and figure it out, I suspect that you did not pay attention to many details...... The first is the birthmark on the child's body, followed by the clothes worn by the child, as well as the relics on the body, especially the 'dragon jade pendant' hanging around the neck...... Tell me more about what you saw at the time?"

“...... At that time, they were all highly rotten...... Dad, don't force me to think about this past again, I won't talk about it!"

Li Zhengguo's face turned pale all of a sudden, and he was so uncomfortable that he got up and walked quickly into the bathroom in the ward, and vomited heavily! It was so painful, that's why he didn't dare to think about that past again! He couldn't face it!

Seeing this, Li Feng hurriedly got up and followed him to the bathroom, and patted him on the back: "Dad, are you okay? Why did you suddenly vomit, are you also sick? Do you want to check it too?"

"I'm fine, you don't have to worry about me. Li Zhengguo replied to her, turned on the faucet and washed his hands and face, and then said to Li Feng, "You are here with grandpa, I want to go out for a walk and breathe new air." ”

"Okay, then you go. ”

Walking out of the bathroom, Li Fengmu escorted his father out of the ward, and then closed the door again and returned to his grandfather's bedside.

"Li Feng, you see, your father's resistance is much worse than me and you! Come, grandpa and you will reminisce about the past together...... I ask you, do you remember what your brother looked like?"

"Of course I remember, his face was as round as mine, and he always had a runny nose when it was cold......"

"You two were born to the same cousin in your mother, and of course you look alike. Hehe, let me assume that if you meet him now, do you think you would still recognize him?" Grandpa asked her jokingly.

"Grandpa, you're so funny, if he really lived in this world and grew up to now, then he should be as tall as me. No, he should be taller than me, because he's a man. But he probably doesn't look like me, and if he looks like me, I'll recognize him at a glance. ”

Hehe, what a beautiful hypothesis and fantasy this is, knowing that it is impossible, but I can't stop it!

"Li Feng, do you remember the birthmark on your brother's body?"

"Of course I remember, on his right back waist, there are three black birthmarks in the shape of a zigzag!"

"Yes, three black birthworms, zigzag! Yesterday afternoon, I was in the bathroom of this hospital, and I saw a person with three black fetal moles on his right back and waist, the zigzag, exactly the same as your brother's childhood! At that time, he was facing away from me in the toilet to change clothes, let me see the three black moles, I really can't believe that there is such a coincidence in the world, I am afraid that it is fake, so I can't help but poke a few times with my fingers, and the result is a real fetus, there is no fake!"

"When I was a child, I remember asking him what the three black birthplaces meant, and my brother was very naïve and told me that it meant that there were three siblings in our family...... Then I teased him and said I wanted four, so one day I took advantage of his inattention and slashed a knife between the three moles. At that time, the blood immediately flowed out, and he cried in pain, and raised his hand to hit me, but in the end he couldn't bear to hit me......"

"I remember you guys, and I noticed this detail yesterday, and there is indeed a scar in the center of the three moles...... That's why I firmly believe that your brother is still alive, and I believe that person must be your brother!"

"Then grandpa, why didn't you see his face clearly yesterday?"

"So I regret dying now! Yesterday, when you and Aunt Yang accompanied me from the emergency department, I went to the bathroom halfway, and then it was your Aunt Yang who was outside and shouted at me...... And after I poked the house a few times, he immediately reached out and quickly closed the door, so I didn't see it!"

The memories with his grandfather made the long-sealed memory in the deepest part of Li Feng's heart roll in his mind again. It's been so many years, but now that I think about it, it feels like it happened yesterday. Now that grandpa has said such an affirmation, the best wish in her heart has been ignited......

When Li Fengzheng and his grandfather were reminiscing about their childhood, the door was suddenly pushed open. Li Xiaoling barged in with a bag of supplements, frightened the grandparents and granddaughters to look at each other, and quickly shut up and stopped talking.

Li Xiaoling was like a child, as soon as she came in, she greeted her grandfather loudly, put down her belongings and sat on the side of the bed, and used her innocent and humorous skills to coax her grandfather to laugh and laugh......

In the evening, leaving Aunt Yang to take care of the old man, Li Feng and her sister Xiaoling planned to drive their father Li Zhengguo back in person.

After walking out of the ward not far away, Li Xiaoling approached her sister and asked her in a mysterious whisper: "Sister, were you talking to your grandfather about something important and special just now, why didn't you talk about it as soon as I went in together?"

"Nothing, just a casual conversation. Why are you so curious?"

"It's not that I'm curious, it's someone who is more curious than me! You know, when I was about to get to the ward, I saw Aunt Yang standing at the door and eavesdropping on the door. I watched her from a distance for more than a minute, and she stood motionless outside the door eavesdropping...... It wasn't until she found me later that she panicked and walked away......"

Sister Xiaoling's words made Li Feng inexplicable, but she quickly interrupted her:

"Xiaoling, what are you talking nonsense, why does Aunt Yang eavesdrop on us? She is not an outsider in our family anymore, and besides, we don't talk about anything secret......

"Forget it, believe it or not, just assume that I didn't say anything!"

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