Mrs. Qi was also accompanied by a middle-aged woman, but Mrs. Qi didn't want her to come in with her, so she sent her to wait outside, and after a while, there were only three of them left in the tea room.

"Old Madam Qi, hello!" Father Xia said hello first, helped her to the side and sat down, Mrs. Qi did not refuse, looked at him with a smile, very kind.

Xia Xueqing found that the old lady's eyes were indeed very suspicious, no wonder her eldest brother would make such a conjecture.

"Old Madam Qi, hello! My name is Xia Xueqing, and I specially asked you to take this trip, I'm very sorry! ”

"It's okay, it's okay!" Mrs. Qi waved her hand, which was as thin as a withered vine, moved her position slightly, and carefully looked at Xia Xueqing in front of her.

"You're brother and sister?"

"Yes." Xia Xueqing's attitude was very respectful.

"It's not like it, it's not like it at all." Mrs. Qi's words directly made the two juniors look at each other.

"Does Old Madam Qi know some inside information about our brother and sister?" Xia Xueqing tried to ask boldly.

"Hehe, I don't know the inside story, but you asked me out today, I must have questions, didn't Lingtang Lingzun leave any special words before he died?"

Father Xia shook his head regretfully and said, "My father died prematurely, and when my mother died, I was only 12 years old, and my sister was not yet sensible. ”

Mrs. Qi was very sad, she was only 12 years old, her parents died, and she left her young sister to take care of, how did he bear all this?

"Before I do that, I'd like to show you something." Mrs. Qi didn't move very neatly to open the bag she was carrying, and slowly took it out with trembling hands.

It was a black-and-white photograph of the old lady pushing it in front of them.

The two siblings lowered their heads to take a closer look, and after a while, they all showed incredible expressions, especially Xia Xueqing, who compared the photos with her brother and looked at them several times.

"Old Madam Qi, who is the person in this photo?" Xia Xueqing asked anxiously.

Mrs. Qi took the photo back into her hand and smiled slightly, with helplessness and memories in her smile, "Do you think it looks like it?" The face shape and eyebrows are very similar, especially this nose! The person in the photo... It's my deceased husband..."

"Ahh Xia Xueqing and Xia Zhuoyu were stunned at the same time.

Mrs. Qi's eyes moved from the photo to the faces of the two people opposite, and said with a wry smile: "My deceased husband doesn't like to take pictures, he doesn't leave many things, and there are not a few photos, this is the only photo he left, I'm getting old, my memory is getting worse and worse, and sometimes I can't even remember what he looks like." After meeting you that night, I will find this picture when I go back, and the more I look at the secret in my heart, the more I can't hide it. ”

As she spoke, she coughed, and Father Xia hurriedly handed her a cup of hot tea and gently patted her back.

"Slow down, slow down, no hurry."

"Well, thank you." After relieving her breath, Old Madam Qi continued, "This secret has been hidden in my heart for more than 50 years, and this is the first time I have told someone. ”

Xia Xueqing and the two sat upright, the expression on their faces was very serious and serious.

"In the autumn of that year, my husband suddenly became seriously ill, and he was helpless to find a doctor, and the family was surrounded by walls, plus three young children, and the house leak happened to rain overnight, and at that time, I encountered the great disaster of the Cultural Revolution, and my husband was branded as a leftist/leaning element, and he was arrested and criticized when he was sick in Chuang, and I washed my face with tears all day long, and it just so happened that a fellow villager helped me find a fortune teller, and he calculated that my newborn son and his father had a life to restrain him, and he had to pass it on to others. And I will never be able to recognize him again for eternity, otherwise not only my husband, but also my youngest son will be in danger. ”

Mrs. Qi's broken voice after years of baptism continued: "At that time, I still didn't believe this kind of, I blasted my old father out, but the next day, my youngest son developed a high fever and cried incessantly, probably his never-ending crying, the hungry cries of the two eldest children, coupled with the death of my husband, I collapsed!" I hid from everyone, secretly wrapped him in a red cloth, and walked aimlessly until his crying stopped, and I put him down under a persimmon tree, hoping that the good Samaritan would soon find him and raise him smoothly. In that red cloth scarf I left a red note with his birthday, 1957, and my youngest son's birthday was the second day of August. ”

Xia Xueqing and Xia Zhuoyu all held their breath, as if they were deeply shocked by this story, and they couldn't say anything for a while.

"I didn't sleep that night, it was not dawn, I regretted it, and ran all night to look for him under the persimmon tree, but he was no longer there, and my heart was desolate and desolate, and I could only comfort myself and say: He should have been picked up by a good Samaritan, and he would live better than by my side..."

Old Madam Qi was crying, like an old tree making a miserable breaking sound, her crying voice was full of great regret and sadness, and she couldn't help but make people cry.

"Ironically, it didn't take long for my husband to be rehabilitated, and after he came back, his illness gradually improved, and I guessed that my father's words were effective after all, and later, we deliberately downplayed this matter, and when my husband got better, we moved our family, and by all kinds of coincidences, we went to the sea to do business, and gradually, it was as if it had never happened."

"So, old lady, you think my eldest brother is yours... Youngest son? Xia Xueqing drank a large cup of tea and slowly recovered from the huge shock.

"Well, my eldest son and daughter both look more like me, when I first met Mr. Xia, I had such an assumption, and the birthday is in line with it."

"I understand, although the deceased parents did not leave any explanations related to this, but things are always coincidental, and we also hope that this matter can be clarified, if you don't mind, Mrs. Qi, can we do a paternity test?"

This time it was Father Xia's turn to look at his sister in shock, he didn't seem to have taken out his soul from Mrs. Qi's story.

Xia Xueqing patted his hand and comforted him, "Big brother, don't you also want to know the answer?" You have a faint feeling in your heart, right? The bonds between relatives are endless. ”

Mrs. Qi did not object, she was happy to cooperate, for her, to be able to find her little son who she missed every day in her lifetime, this is the greatest gift from God to her.

Old Mrs. Qi looked at Dad Xia kindly, that look seemed to directly identify him as the youngest son she was looking for, Dad Xia was a little surprised, this age, suddenly said that his biological mother appeared, although it was not yet confirmed, but his heart could not be calm, he didn't know what attitude to use to face this old lady.

"Old Madam Qi, don't expect too much for now, in a normal heart, some things let it take its course, if not, I hope you can accept it calmly."

"Mm-hmm" Old Madam Qi nodded understandingly, although she said this, she already had the answer in her heart.

In the afternoon, several people went to the hospital together.