Chen Nan was a little puzzled, he and Aunt Wang were just one side, not a lot of friendship, and he was not a classroom teacher, so he couldn't take care of Aunt Wang's son, so it was reasonable that the other party didn't need to be so good to him.

But he still politely invited Aunt Wang in, not only because people had saved him, but also because he had an indescribable good impression of this middle-aged woman, familiar and unfamiliar, like a long-lost relative.

Aunt Wang walked into the house, a little cramped, because she saw Liu Ting, time flies, Liu Ting is not the young girl of the year, but the contour of her face is not much different from that year, and her bearing and dress show that she is Chen Nan's adoptive mother.

Chen Nan introduced: "Mom, this is the Aunt Wang I mentioned to you, a parent of a student, fortunately she reported the news in time, otherwise I would be finished." ”

Liu Ting hurriedly greeted: "Thank you, sit down, I'll pour you water." ”

Hongyu didn't expect Liu Ting to be there, the plan was disrupted, and the prepared rhetoric was also in vain, and she was flustered, but thinking that Chen Nan was her own flesh and blood, her courage came up again, and she sat down calmly and talked and laughed with Liu Ting.

Liu Ting said: "You are really, you still bring things, I'm really embarrassed, it should be that we go to thank you." ”

Hongyu said: "Your words are too polite, it's just a gesture, the child is innocent, how can he be wronged so much, I am also a mother, I can't see this the most." ”

Liu Ting got up and took an apple and began to peel it, and asked casually, "How old is your child?" ”

Hongyu said: "It's the third year of high school." ”

Liu Ting said: "I was born in 1938, and it was a great sin to have a child that year." At this moment, she is still thinking of Chen Jiao, who was born in the same year, and this child is also in the third year of high school this year.

Hongyu said: "No, the child was born in the air-raid shelter under the Beitai City Hall, so he was named Beitaili." ”

"Bang" The apple fell to the ground, and Liu Ting lost her temper, because she knew that the child born in the air-raid shelter was the son of Zheng Zeru, the current secretary of the provincial party committee, so the woman in front of her was Zheng Zeru's ex-wife, and the note left in Xiaonan's infancy clearly read: Father Zeru, mother Hongyu.

Liu Ting was the one who passed through the wind, quickly returned to normal, picked up the apple, and asked very calmly, "What is the name of the eldest sister?" ”

"My surname is Wang, Wang Hongyu."

Liu Ting felt that the world was spinning, her eyes were black, her throat was tight, Chen Nan noticed that something was wrong, and stepped forward to support her mother: "Mom, what's wrong with you." ”

"Child, you go out for a walk, I have something to say to Aunt Wang." Liu Ting leaned on the table and said.

Chen Nanhu was suspicious, but he still went out obediently.

Hearing her son's footsteps go away, Liu Ting said, "We haven't seen each other for twenty-seven years." ”

When Liu Ting bought a disabled baby from Hongyu on the streets of Nanjing, her attention was on the child, and she didn't pay attention to Hongyu's appearance, she only vaguely remembered that the woman was wearing an old green cheongsam, but Hongyu deeply imprinted Liu Ting's appearance in her mind, both of them were smart people, and they didn't need to say it explicitly, it was all in plain sight.

Ruby fell to her knees, unable to sob.

Liu Ting didn't help her, the thing she was most worried about in the past twenty-seven years still happened, she should have come or come, and Hongyu came to ask for her son.

Chen Nan is Zheng Zeru's biological son, Liu Ting has long known about this matter, but she hid this secret in her heart and didn't even tell Chen Zikun.

This child has been pitiful since he was a child, deaf and dumb with the soles of his feet turned out, and now his legs and feet are normal if he is not deaf or dumb, among which Liu Ting's energy and hard work are incalculable, and even for this child, she resolutely chose not to have her own child.

As a mother, Hongyu naturally understood Liu Ting's thoughts, and she couldn't cry: "I don't mean anything else, I just thank you for taking care of the child for so many years, you will always be the child's mother, I don't have any other thoughts, just be able to see him from time to time." ”

There was a bang outside, the pot of pickles on the windowsill fell, Liu Ting was startled, went out to look, there was no one in the yard, and when she went out of the gate, Chen Nan was running wildly.

"Xiao Nan!" Liu Ting shouted.

Chen Nantou didn't look back.

Hongyu chased it out, the two mothers looked at each other, the son already knew the truth, how should it end?

Chen Nan walked aimlessly on the street, unconsciously came to the bank of the Huai River, the vast river was surging eastward, he picked up a stone and threw it as hard as he could, only causing small ripples in the river.

He sat on the grass and looked at the river for a long time until dusk.

……

The Provincial Party Committee, a report letter was sent directly to the desk of the first secretary Zheng Zeru, reporting that the rightist Chen Nan was bullying people and playing hooligans in Beitai No. 1 Middle School, and gathered a group of gangsters who claimed to be the security cadres of the Chenguang Factory to frantically beat the tea stove workers of the school, and shouted to bring down the party committee.

The report letter was signed with his real name, Sun Yufeng, director of the teaching office of Beitai No. 1 Middle School.

Regarding the content of this letter, it is inevitably exaggerated, but the basic facts should not be much different, he is a little angry, why is Chen Nan, this child, so uncompromising, the organization has been lenient, and he has been lightly dismissed, and he has been assigned to the middle school work to cause trouble and arouse the dissatisfaction of the masses, this child has been spoiled since he was a child.

He picked up the pen and gave instructions at the end of the report letter: "Deal with it seriously to see the after-effects." Then he rang the bell to call the secretary in and instructed him to send the letter back to Jiangbei.

A day passed, Zheng Ze got off work and went home, only five minutes away from the provincial party committee and the family building of senior cadres on Fenglin Road, but he still chose to take a car, and he had to go around the city and go back, which is a habit developed after many years of underground work.

When I returned home, I saw my wife Pan Xin sitting quietly on the sofa with an unnatural expression.

"Xiao Pan, what's wrong?" Zheng Zeru was a little puzzled.

"This was picked up from your paper basket." Pan Xin looked at a letter on the coffee table.

This letter was sent by Liu Ting a few days ago, Zheng Zeru didn't even look at it and threw it into the paper basket, and out of secrecy, all his discarded documents will not be thrown away, but destroyed by his wife herself, it seems that Pan Xin has read the content of the letter.

Zheng Zeru is a little funny, Pan Xin has been having trouble with herself in the past two days, because her old classmate Liu Yuan's husband Zhang Guangyin has become a rightist, and she is unwilling to help, and today I am afraid that she will lose her temper with herself again through Liu Ting's matter.

"You, you, are still a child." Zheng Zeru sat down, opened the envelope and took out the letter paper, which was an old and yellowed piece of paper, with only one line of words written on it: "Father Zeru, mother Hongyu, was born on the eighth day of the fifth month of the twentieth year of the Republic of China." ”

Zheng Zeru's hands trembled a little, this is the first son's birthday.

"What's going on?" He subconsciously asked his wife.

"I want to ask you, what's going on?" Pan Xin asked rhetorically.

Zheng Zeru stood up suddenly, paced back and forth a few steps, and said, "This is impossible. ”

He knew that his first child was disabled, deaf and valgus, but Liu Ting's son was very healthy, and it could never be his long-lost son, and it was impossible for such a coincidence to happen in the world.

"What can't be? What secrets are you hiding from me? How many wives have you married and how many children have you had? Pan Xin suddenly became furious, grabbed the cushion on the sofa and threw it over.

Zheng Zeru smiled bitterly and said, "Xiao Pan, you listen to my explanation." ”

"I don't listen, I don't listen." Pan Xin went upstairs and came down with little Jeff in her arms, still carrying a bag of luggage, with tears on her face: "I went back to my parents' house." ”

Zheng Zeru said: "It's okay to go back and stay for a few days, I'll let Xiao Li drive you." ”

Pan Xin went back to his parents' house like this, the first secretary's house returned to peace, Zheng Zeru lit a cigarette and began to recall the second son of the Chen family, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that this child was still very similar to himself in some aspects, he picked up the phone, and a soft voice sounded on the other end: "Hello chief, where do you want?" ”

"Get me number ten." Zheng Zeru said, this is the code name of Chen Zikun's family, and the little girls in the telephone bureau are all familiar with it.

The phone was connected, but Liu Ting was not there, and the family told Secretary Zheng that Liu Ting had gone to Jiangbei.

……

It was getting late, Chen Nan dragged his tired steps back home, Aunt Wang had already gone back, his brother and sister-in-law had also come back from work, and they were playing with their little nephew, Liu Ting was sitting in the yard, looking as usual.

"Mom." Chen Nan's voice was a little dry, "The person who came today is actually my biological mother, right?" ”

Liu Ting nodded.

Chen Nan had already figured out this problem on the river beach, but when he was admitted by his mother, he still couldn't bear the blow, he wanted to cry but couldn't cry, and he wanted to shout but didn't have the strength to shout.

"Well, my dad isn't my biological father either, is he?" He continued.

Liu Ting nodded again: "Xiao Nan, you listen to me, back then......

Chen Nandao: "Don't say back then, I don't want to listen to those excuses, I only need to know one thing, who is my biological father?" ”

"Child, in fact, you have already seen your biological father, he is Zheng Zeru."

This answer greatly surprised Chen Nan's expectations, he originally estimated that his father should be a martyr, he had already passed away, and before he died, he entrusted the orphan to Liu Ting, who was his adoptive mother, but he didn't expect his biological father to be still there, and he was the first secretary of the provincial party committee, and what is even more ironic is that it was Secretary Zheng who personally instructed him to make himself a rightist!

"It's impossible, it's not scientific." Chen Nan muttered to himself and walked away, his eyes were a little dazed, obviously unable to accept the double stimulation.

Liu Ting didn't persuade him, this kind of thing must be digested slowly, she believes that time can heal all the scars, but this son will no longer be exclusive to himself in the future, he will have another mother, another father, and that father may not recognize each other......

The dormitory in Gaotupo is not big, Liu Ting went back to the regional guest house to live, and said that she would accompany her son to meet his mother tomorrow.

Early the next morning, Chen Bei got up to brush his teeth and wash his face, Ma Chunhua went to wake up his son, but he didn't see the little uncle, and asked his son: "Where is the uncle?" ”

"I'm going to work." Xiao Chen Guang replied.

Ma Chunhua shouted: "Chen Bei, my brother has returned to school." ”

Chen Beidao: "This kid, don't say hello when you go back." ”

……

Chen Nan came to school early, but when he saw that everyone was walking around when he saw him, he was still pointing and poking behind his back, whispering, and then looking at the big-character posters posted on the propaganda column, the words were sharp, and the words were pointed directly at him, and his mood became more and more heavy.

I went back to the library and took the kettle to the tea stove room to get hot water, only to see Nie Wenfu sitting at the door with gauze wrapped in gauze on his face and plaster on his arm, staring at him viciously.

This villain was unexpectedly released, Chen Nan was frightened, didn't care about getting hot water, and fled in a hurry.

Back in the library, a teacher came to pass the word: "Xiao Chen, the principal asked you to go." ”

When he came to the principal's office, the principal was kind and pleasant, making tea and handing cigarettes, and finally said: "Xiao Chen, I went to the province for a meeting a few days ago, but I didn't expect such a big thing to happen, this matter has a great impact, it is very bad, the main leaders of the provincial party committee have personally made instructions, and I can't protect you." ”

The six words of the main leader of the provincial party committee deeply stung Chen Nan, wasn't it his biological father Zheng Zeru who knocked him to the dust, he was the number one in Jiangdong, and it was not difficult to protect his son, but he did the opposite, why is this? Why is that?

The principal said: "You don't have any superfluous thoughts, going to the countryside to receive re-education from poor and middle peasants will be of great benefit to your transformation, and the regional education bureau has decided to send you to the central primary school of Chengguan Town, Nantai County." ”

Chen Nan said calmly: "I'll wait for the organization to deal with it." ”