Before Mrs. Zhou could finish listening, she immediately stood up, looked at him in shock, her eyes were incredible, she pointed at him with her finger, and asked tremblingly, "How do you know about Liu Xizhi?" She's coming for you? You know it all? Then you are still back to Zhou's house? ”

Zhang Guoqing stopped his mother-in-law from coming forward and motioned for her to silence. Lin Lishan looked at them suspiciously, and she saw the old lady's appearance when she came out of the back room.

"I knew when the old patriarch was still alive." Zhou Xiaozheng didn't say that he still hadn't found it. He joined the army to find Liu Xizhi, and he intuitively felt that this person was very important to him. But decades have passed, and not even a shadow has been found.

"Mother, you sit down, let's talk slowly, I was still young at that time, I only remember that the old patriarch touched my head and whispered that it's a pity, pitiful, I still remember that look.

When I know the name Liu Xizhi, the old patriarch has also passed away, and I can't ask anyone. Who is the genealogy of our Zhou family? Jiaojiao was born and I let my father go to the family tree, did my Zhou Jiao enter the family tree? ”

Mrs. Zhou breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, looked at him and said, "You have long suspected that you are not our biological one?" But you never gave me an advance. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng looked at her with a wry smile, "How can I say it?" What do you do to me, I won't count? What is the difference between biological and raised? If it weren't for Jiaojiao being so wronged and you being so embarrassed, I wouldn't want to mention it now. But I'm also old, and I want to know who my parents are.

Why is it that when I go back to my hometown, every time I mention ancestor worship and genealogy, my father will change his face and will do everything possible to stop it? For example, when I came back this time, I didn't even say anything about worshipping my ancestors. It stands to reason that I will not die, Jiaojiao gave birth to a son, and I have to go to incense, but who am I? Which incense do I wear? ”

"No, you should be incensed. I've incense for you, you are not the flesh and blood of the Zhou family, you are not a descendant of the Zhou family, who is qualified to say that you are the Zhou family? ”

Zhou Xiaozheng stepped forward and squatted in front of her, looking at her levelly, "Mother, since I am the blood of the Zhou family, whose child am I?" Why doesn't anyone in the clan know? Liu Xizhi is not the one who gave birth to me? Did she give me my amulet? So you told me not to lose it, saying that I might use it in the future? I checked, I went out at the age of fifteen, checked, but I didn't find a figure, the amulet is Jiangnan Lingyin Temple asked, the outside of the bag is not the temple general, the material is very precious, with Su embroidery, this technique is not your rust. ”

Mrs. Zhou touched his head, looked at his expectant eyes, and nodded, "Decades have passed, if you want to know, you should tell you, we owe you a lot, and we are sorry for you."

It's a long story, at first I had to hide it, and then slowly I couldn't bear you, and I couldn't wait for someone to pick you up. After a long time, I forgot that you were not born to me. It was only later that Jiaojiao grew bigger and bigger, and became more and more like, and I woke up, but you are no longer there. If you don't say it today, I still don't plan to say it, it's been more than 40 years, and I think she's long gone, the years were too chaotic, and it's not easy to live, let alone her as a wonderful woman. The people are gone, what's the use of telling you, why make you sad.

It has to start with your great-grandfather, and when you get up and sit down and listen slowly, you will understand that we have selfish intentions, and there is a great reason why we don't want to tell you. You will also understand why your father loves and hates you, he is angry.

The Zhou family is a family, and the ancestors have always been in the officialdom since the Ming Dynasty, and the clansmen have been separated, but the eldest son of the main house has been staying in the capital. After your great-grandfather gave birth to the original eldest son of your grandfather, he then gave birth to two concubines, he had three sons in his life, and he paid special attention to the upbringing of children, the three of them were half-brothers, but the relationship was very good, there was no filth of a big family, and this is the case, after your great-grandfather died, your grandfather did not agree with the two younger brothers to return to their ancestral land, and their three brothers only had five sons who seemed thin, so the Zhou family in Beijing except for the eldest son of the main house, the rest were left.

The best children of the Zhou family over the years are the sons and grandsons of the main house, and it is not surprising that in this generation, your grandfather only has two sons, but one is better than the other, the eldest son Zhou Jiayi has a unique vision, sees that the situation is unstable, and refuses several invitations from the authorities, and is highly respected by the literati at that time.

The youngest son, Zhou Jiaheng, is even more excellent, born to never forget, the little boy is a good exporter, talented, famous, plus he looks good, at the age of fifteen, everyone jokingly calls him the jade son. Zhou Jinyu, he is the pride of the Zhou family and a well-known jade gentleman.

The Zhou family has been a scholarly family for generations, living a comfortable life but not much wealth, and Zhou Jinyu has a fiancée Gu Mingzhu who is in love. The Gu family is a big family in the south of the Yangtze River, and Gu Mingzhu is the only seedling of the Gu family's main house. She is very talented, she is a real talented woman, and she is a rich girl with terrifying wealth.

Zhou Jinyu and Gu Mingzhu went abroad very early, and when they returned to China, the world was becoming more and more chaotic. The Zhou family was bloodbathed by the little devils in the coalition army in the name of harboring members of the Boxer**. In addition to Zhou Jiaren, Zhou Jinyu is still alive. At that time, Zhou Jinyu was already one of those people with lofty ideals, and after returning to China, he secretly did not do much activity. It also happened that on the day of the incident, we happened to have a happy event at home, and his personal entourage pretended to cover him to cover him when he went out, and Zhou Jinyu escaped. Afterwards, for the sake of ambition in his heart and revenge, he hid his name.

At that time, because the Gu family was too wealthy, and Gu Mingzhu was the only one, in addition to the clansmen, there were also bandits and bullies outside who were staring, and Zhou Jinyu's death news, to make matters worse, Gu Mingzhu's parents died within a year. The crisis everywhere forced the two to discuss for safety, and Gu Mingzhu cheated to death.

After escaping from Jiangnan, the two got married, and Gu Mingzhu also joined the organization. At that time, the situation was very tense, and Zhou Jinyu sacrificed her life in an accident, leaving Gu Mingzhu, who was pregnant. Gu Mingzhu endured her grief and secretly gave birth to a boy, for the safety of this child, and also to leave a foundation for the two families, she tried her best, and finally thought of the hometown of the ancestral land in the northeast that Zhou Jinyu said, she was worried that once her identity was exposed, whether it was the comrades around her or the enemy, she would also do it to the child for the huge wealth of the Gu family. The only thing she could find was the old patriarch that her husband said. When I arrived in Zhoujia Village, I just learned that Zhou Jinyu's cousin was in the army and already had two children, and discussed with the old patriarch, and the two of them secretly went to the capital with the child. Before leaving, Gu Mingzhu took off a bag as a token, worried that he would not live to see the child grow up, and made an appointment that if he didn't come back to find the child, a woman named Liu Xizhi would come to the door to get the token, say the characteristics of the token, and hand the child to her.

At that time, I had just given birth to my youngest son, who was more than five months old, and died prematurely, so I held you as our little son. Your father's untimely death, so that your father is a little disheartened, he decided to retire from the army and take the family back to his hometown, but at that time it was not you who wanted to retire from the army, and then I took your three brothers and sisters back to the northeast first, and slowly your father also returned from the army, and since then he has not left Zhoujia Village, and your mother has not come back to see you, nor has I seen a person named Liu Xizhi come to the door. ”

Zhou Xiaozheng knew that his parents should be absent from the old lady's account, but he didn't expect that there were so many things inside, he leaned on the back of the chair and raised his head to close his eyes, and covered it tightly with his hands.