Qu Quansheng's novel "The Sky is Firmament" No. 87

Author Qu Quanzhen

Ah Hua Qiu Kite continued to flip through the photo album, and the more she looked, the more surprised she became. After turning to it, he was silent, just looking at the photo and contemplating......

Gobert took off his glasses, wiped his tears with a tissue, and asked Jiaojiao in a sad tone: "Mr. Yuan Hanying is only over 60 years old and left, what kind of illness made him say goodbye to the world?

Gobert asked Jiaojiao first, and without waiting for Jiaojiao to answer, he turned his face to his wife, Qiu Kite. Autumn Kite, a professor at the Washington School of Medicine, was engrossed in studying every photograph in the album and was unaware of her husband's doubts.

Gobert turned his face back to Jiaojiao. He asked in stiff Chinese, "What is Mr. Yuan's uncured disease?"

Jiaojiao replied in English: "On the battlefield in Korea, my uncle was blown through one kidney by a US bomb. After the war, he underwent kidney removal surgery. ”

"Ahh

Jiaojiao nodded.

Gobert's eyes widened and asked, "American?"

"Yes! Bombs dropped by American planes!" replied Jiaojiao.

After his uncle transferred from the Volunteer Army, he first served as the head of the United Front Work Department of the Jianghan Municipal Party Committee, the deputy secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, and the dean of the Jianghan Foreign Language College. Later, when 30,000 young people in Jianghan City were reclaimed and garrisoned, he took the initiative to ask to lead the team and worked in the reclamation area for six years. When Jianghan City planned to serve as the chairman of the CPPCC, his kidney function failed, and he was not rescued, and he was not yet 50 years old when he died. ”

Gobert suddenly stood up and said: "Korean War! Life and death are contested, stupid! Stupid! Yuan translator, Mr. Yuan Hanying, my good friend, I want to go to China to see you! Look at your wife and children, and give you flowers!"

"Don't get excited, don't get excited! You have high blood pressure and heart disease, rest for a while. ”

Autumn Kite took out a pill from the coffee table drawer, Ruth brought a glass of water, Gobert took the medicine, and was helped to the easy chair and stopped talking.

Autumn Kite asked Jiaojiao to sit with her and asked for the name of each photographer. One of the photos is a group photo of Ho Wah Wing's five daughters, the oldest is 10 years old and the youngest is 5 years old.

Jiaojiao said: "The eldest aunt in the photo is called Yuan Qiuyun, the second aunt is called Yuan Qiupeng, the third aunt is called Yuan Qiuhe, the fourth aunt is called Yuan Qiuluan, the fifth aunt is called Yuan Qiuhong, the sixth aunt is called Yuan Qiuyu, the uncle is ranked seventh, called Yuan Hanying, and my mother is the eighth, called Yuan Qiuyan." Later, my grandfather changed his surname to He, and my mother changed her name to He Qiuyan. ”

Ah Hua Qiu Kite's Chinese is no problem when she hears it, but when she hears it, she actually hugged Jiaojiao and cried with a whimper.

Jiaojiao let go of Qiu Kite's embrace, took out Qiu Hong's photo from the album, and compared it with Qiu Kite's photo, even Qiu Kite couldn't tell which one was herself and which one was her sister.

Jiaojiao wiped away her tears for the autumn kite, and she burst into tears. She sobbed and asked, "Do you have a birthmark under your hair?" the size of a fingernail. ”

Autumn Kite was surprised and asked, "Ah! How do you know?"

Jiaojiao smiled slightly, and finally revealed the secret that her grandfather had hidden for nearly fifty years.

It turned out that the autumn kite was given to the nursery by her grandmother, and General Yuan Zurong at that time did not dare to disobey his mother's order, but he was worried that his daughter's whereabouts would be unknown in the future, so he asked the secretary to chase him to the nursery overnight to establish a file for his daughter, looking for the unknown marks of the father and daughter in the future. The secretary found a red mole behind the left ear chakra and a birthmark on the top of his head.

Yuan Zurong specially explained to the secretary that the red mole behind the ear was difficult to cover people's eyes, and the birthmark on the top of the head was not recorded in the registration book of the nursery. As Autumn Kite's hair grew, no one knew that she had a birthmark on the top of her head. Gobert and Ahua Autumn Kite have been husband and wife for decades, and they don't know the secrets on their wife's scalp.

A kite with a broken string finally found a clue to the owner who flew it, and the autumn kite was so excited that she burst into tears and couldn't control herself.

Gobert's mood had calmed down, and he tried to understand the conversation between Qiu Kite and Jiaojiao, but the two of them were talking in Chinese, and he was confused.

Autumn Kite walked up to her husband, bent down and stretched her head in front of her husband's eyes, brushed the black hair on the top of her head with both hands, and said in English, "You see there is a birthmark under my hair!"

Gobert said repeatedly, "I see, I see, how did you find out? Are you a goddess with heavenly eyes?"

Qiu Kite smiled proudly: "This is my password, my niece cracked it." She found your father-in-law for you, and your father-in-law will talk to you on the phone later, but don't ask questions!"

Surprised, Gobert asked Jiaojiao in English, "Are you her niece? Who is she?"

Jiaojiao replied in English: "She is my aunt, I am her niece, and you are my aunt." ”

“ Oh my god! This is unimaginable!（我的上帝！太不可思议了！）”戈伯特站起来同娇娇拥抱，嘴里不停地念叨着“ok！ ok！”

Qiu Kite suddenly grabbed the phone next to the sofa and asked Jiaojiao: "Is your grandfather high blood pressure?"

Jiaojiao replied: "Grandpa is in good health, I just talked to him on the phone yesterday." ”

"Please tell me the phone number, I want to talk to my father on the phone!"

Half an hour later, the phone was connected, and the other party asked, "Who are you looking for?"

"Yuan Ding, you invite your grandfather to speak, and his daughter Qiu Kite wants to talk to her grandfather. ”

"Ahh

The phone number is a landline installed in the living room to make long-distance calls, and He Huarong and Zhang Yusu have come from the study.

"Grandpa, I'm Jiaojiao, I've found Aunt Qiu Kite, I'll ask her to talk to you!"

"Dad, I'm the autumn kite, I'm the kite you fly, and I've finally found my dad who flew me. Dad, I miss you and Mom so much......" Qiu Kite just said a few words, and cried bitterly on the phone, unable to say a word.

He Huarong's voice in Hong Kong was a little trembling, he was afraid that his emotions would get out of control, so he spoke very slowly: "Little kite! Dad shouldn't have given you such a name! What's wrong with it, you have to call it an autumn kite?"

The uncontrollable cry of the autumn kite came from the phone, and He Huarong continued to pour out his heartfelt feelings to his daughter: "The most unhappy thing in my life is that I didn't want you back from the nursery, it's not that I don't want to come back, who cares if you really want to come back? During the war years, your grandmother took your five sisters back to their hometown, and four of them were killed by bombs dropped by Japanese planes, and even her old man did not save her life. I sent my secretary to the nursery to complete your background information and check the special marks on your body, just to find you later, where did you think that you have been looking for almost 50 years! Your mother has not even seen you since you were born, and now she may be listening to me calling you!"

Qiu Kite's mood gradually stabilized, and she continued to say to her father: "Ever since I could speak Chinese, I have always wanted to call my father and mother, but who will I call to go? Who will give me a promise! Now I can call my father out loud, and I have become the happiest person among my sisters." Dad! I love you! I don't hate you! I hurry up and get ready, and in a few days I will go to Hong Kong with your son-in-law to visit you. Now, my husband is talking to you, his name is Gobert, he doesn't know Chinese, and he can only make a phone call in English. ”

Gobert took the phone, called his father-in-law in English, and said in English that he liked Chinese and Ahua Qiuyu. I hope my father-in-law can rest assured that he will love Autumn Kite for the rest of his life.

The long-distance call has been talking for almost half an hour, and the operator has already pressed the reminder bell twice, which means that there is still a long-distance call behind him.

Jiaojiao took the microphone and said, "Grandpa, let's talk about it here today, don't be too tired." From now on, whenever you want to be aunt, you can call this number at any time. Auntie plans to visit you and grandma in Hong Kong as soon as possible, so take good care of your health!"

Autumn Kite did not go to medical school because of a recurrence of Gobert's heart disease. asked Jiaojiao if she wanted to hear about her magical experience, and Jiaojiao happily agreed.

How did Autumn Kite cross the ocean to grow up, and how did she meet Gobert and become a couple......

January 23, 2024

(To be continued)