Text/Luo Hui (Material/Li Yan)
The woman's name is Li Yan, a native of Chongqing, since her adoptive mother fell ill, she has never gone out to work, but chooses to go home to plant, first, to take care of her sick adoptive mother, and secondly, to add a little income to the family.
On this day, Li Yan had just returned from the orchard with a hoe, and her adoptive mother Lin Shujuan called her to her side, as if she had something important to say to her.
Lin Shujuan struggled for a long time, took a deep breath, and said with some seriousness: "Xiaoyan! I've thought a lot about it in the past two days, I think you should go and recognize your biological parents! Your biological parents' family conditions are better than ours, and it is better for you to follow them than to follow us."
When Li Yan heard Lin Shujuan say this, she was immediately a little displeased.
She said, "Mom, what are you talking about? I will only have you as a mother in my life, and I will not go to other people's homes, no matter how good the conditions are."
"Besides, what are you going to do when I'm gone?"
When Lin Shujuan heard this, she sighed: "You are also not a small child, it's time to start a family, a family like ours will cause you trouble, why are you so stubborn?"
"If your biological parents hadn't found you, now that they've found you, and their conditions are good, why don't you want to go back?"
Li Yan shook her head and said: "Mom, you said that you are almost seventy years old and still worry about this, I grew up with you since I was a child, and I have no feelings for them, although they are my biological parents, but I am still very uncomfortable in the face of them."
"You don't have to worry, I'll find you a son-in-law in the future, and I'll guarantee that I can support both of you."
When Lin Shujuan heard Li Yan say this, her brows tightened, and she sighed: "The conditions of our family are so poor, how can we find a suitable son-in-law?"
"Once you become a door-to-door son-in-law, it means that you have to take care of our old couple, and others are not stupid, which is obviously a burden for yourself!"
"Listen to me, go and recognize your father and mother."
Li Yan heard her mother Lin Shujuan say this, and there was a trace of helplessness in her eyes.
She said, "What will you do if I go? That's it, I won't go, and as for recognizing them, I'll talk about that later!
This is not Li Yan's iron-heartedness, but that she has always had a knot in her heart that she can't untie.
She has lived with her adoptive father and adoptive mother since she was a child, and her biological parents have not been heard from for so many years, but now when she grows up, she suddenly comes to her, saying that it is impossible for her to have no knot.
It is said that "it is better to be kind than to be gracious".
In Li Yan's opinion, she was raised by her adoptive father and adoptive mother since she was a child, and worked hard for her to study, so she couldn't finish it in her life.
Now that her biological parents have found her, she is reluctant to go back from the bottom of her heart, and she is even a little resistant in her heart.
Even if the conditions of her biological parents' house are very good, she has no intention of going back, her adoptive father and adoptive mother are only her daughter, how can she bear to leave?
Although her adoptive father and adoptive mother all wanted her to go back to recognize her relatives, Li Yan insisted on refusing, she knew that once she went back, she might never have the opportunity to continue to serve her adoptive father and adoptive mother!
After all, the two of them are so old that it is a burden for anyone's family, and her biological parents will definitely not be happy for her to take care of her adoptive parents together, which is exactly the obsession in her heart.
Lin Shujuan didn't know what Li Yan thought, she said to Li Yan again: "Your father and I have already discussed, when you go back, we will sell the few fields and fruit forests at home, and the money we get can let us live in a nursing home for a long time, and you can also visit us if you have the opportunity in the future!"
When Li Yan heard her adoptive mother Lin Shujuan say this, she immediately smiled and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? Even if I don't get married, I can still afford to support you?"
"If we meet the right one in the future, we will marry, and if we don't meet the right one, we will serve you at home!"
"Although the nursing home is also a good choice, there are so many elderly people in it, even if there are nurses to take care of them, how can they be all-encompassing?"
"Don't think about it so much! I'll cook for you."
Li Yan said that, and hurriedly found an excuse to leave.
She was worried that Lin Shujuan would continue to entangle again, and she couldn't find a suitable reason to refuse.
When she came to the kitchen, Li Yan was a little absent-minded.
Thinking back to her mother's words, she sighed secretly in her heart.
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A week ago, three strangers suddenly came to Li Yan's house.
Through the introduction of Li Yan's adoptive father, she learned that these three strangers turned out to be her biological parents and eldest brother who she had not met for more than ten years.
Most of the reason why they were able to find Li Yan was due to her adoptive father Li Jun, who led them here.
Since Lin Shujuan fell ill, Li Yan has been taking care of their old couple at home, which makes Li Jun and his wife feel very uncomfortable.
They think that Li Yan should go out and wander, and should not be delayed at home because of them, otherwise the book will be read in vain.
Li Jun repeatedly hinted that Li Yan would go out to work, but he didn't expect Li Yan to quit her job directly!
At first, Li Yan didn't understand anything in the first year and spent a lot of money tidying up the orchard, only to find out later that the choice of fruit trees was wrong, and she lost a lot of money because of it.
Later, Li Yan accumulated experience while learning.
Although there have been some results, Li Jun is still unwilling to bind her to the countryside like this, and wants Li Yan to go out and break through, so as not to delay his good years because of them.
It was at this time that when Li Jun went to the bus station to deliver something to someone, he accidentally saw a missing person notice.
He leaned in to take a look, wasn't the little girl on the missing person notice Li Yan when she was a child?
Looking at the contact information above, a ripple appeared in Li Jun's heart, he thought about it for a long time, and still contacted the other party.
The main reason why Li Jun did this was that he didn't want Li Yan to continue to suffer with them, and if she could return to her former family, she might be better.
In addition to this reason, Li Jun has also been looking for Li Yan's biological parents all these years, and the reason why he did this was not entirely for himself, but for Li Yan.
Due to the age gap, Li Jun and Li Yan are not like father and daughter, but a little like grandchildren.
This makes Li Yan often teased by friends of the same age, saying that her father can be her grandfather at his age.
Li Yan was ignorant when she was a child, and when she came home, she asked Li Jun why there was such a big age difference between the two of them, and Li Jun did not hide this matter, and directly told Li Yan that she was sent to him by someone else.
Li Jun originally wanted to accept her as a granddaughter, but Lin Shujuan thought that they had no children in their lives, so she wanted to raise Li Yan as a daughter.
It was at this time that Li Yan believed that Li Jun was not her biological father, and it turned out that what the people in the village said before was true.
The friends in the same village all said that she was a wild child picked up, and Li Yan would refute it at first, but then gradually stopped paying attention to it.
Although Li Yan didn't say anything, Li Jun knew that she was very eager to find her biological parents, and these superficial words made her childhood incomplete, perhaps because of this reason, she has not been able to accept her biological parents.
But no matter what, Li Jun decided to try it himself, he and Lin Shujuan are getting older and older, and they don't want to become a burden to Li Yan, if Li Yan has the help of her biological parents, maybe she will be much better off than now.
But more than 20 years have passed, and there has been no news.
He didn't expect that more than 20 years later, he would see Li Yan's missing person notice at the county bus station, and I have to say that this is really fate.
After Li Jun contacted Li Yan's biological parents, the two parties agreed on a meeting place and met, Li Jun saw a lot of supporting materials from Li Yan's biological parents, and after confirming that the other party was Li Yan's biological parents, he took them to his home.
At that time, Li Yan was also there.
She didn't expect that she would see her biological parents again one day.
Originally, she was looking forward to it in her heart, but I don't know why, after seeing them, that excitement disappeared, and was replaced by an inexplicable strangeness.
This made her very resistant.
Because of this, she did not recognize her biological parents.
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Lin Shujuan looked at Li Yan who was leaving, and sighed secretly in her heart, Li Yan's temper was also quite stubborn, and she didn't know how to persuade her.
Time flickered, and another month passed.
In the past month, her biological parents have not bothered her again, which has relaxed the tense nerves in Li Yan's heart a lot.
On this day, Li carried a hoe to weed in the orchard.
Suddenly.
"Chewing ......".
Her hoe seemed to have dug into something.
Li Yan was startled by the sudden crisp sound, and she hurriedly squatted down to pull the dirt to see what she had dug up.
I don't know if I don't see it, and I'm shocked when I see it.
I saw that there were a few broken pieces of porcelain mixed with the sparse turf, and her hoe smashed the porcelain jar, which made a breaking sound.
At this moment, Li Yan found that there seemed to be something in the broken porcelain jar, she pulled the soil on both sides and threw a few pieces of broken porcelain to the side.
Halfway through the pick-up, her hand suddenly stopped.
There was a pile of golden things in the broken porcelain jar, which looked like gold coins made of gold, and she hurriedly dug all the dirt on both sides and dug the broken porcelain jar out of the soil.
A few minutes later, Li Yan dug through all the gold coins in the jar and the dirt, and she counted them, and found that there were as many as twenty-two gold coins.
Looking at the gold coins in her hand, Li Yan was a little at a loss, how could there be these things in this orchard?
She was suddenly a little flustered, and after putting the gold coin in her arms, she hurried home, and when she arrived at home, she hurriedly found her adoptive father Li Jun, who was making bamboo baskets, and asked, "Dad, I ask you something!"
Li Jun put the unfinished bamboo basket in his hand next to him and asked, "What's wrong?"
Li Yan took a deep breath and said, "Dad, did our orchard have any old houses before, or are there any monuments?"
Li Jun glanced at her and asked, "Why are you asking this?"
When Li Yan heard this, she took out all the gold coins in her arms and put them in Li Jun's unfinished bamboo basket, and said, "Dad, look at what these are?
"I dug up all these gold coins in our orchard, and I checked them just now!
When Li Jun saw Li Yan take out so many gold coins, he was immediately shocked and asked, "Xiaoyan, did you dig these out in our orchard?"
Li Yan nodded and said, "Dad, you haven't told me what happened to our orchard before!"
Li Jun took a deep breath and said solemnly: "Xiaoyan, you may not know that our Li family ancestors were also arrogant, and they were still landlords during the Qing Dynasty!"
"I heard my father say that in the past, these mountains and forests near our village belonged to our family, and the orchard used to be our family's ancestral shrine, and then the family declined, and the ancestral shrine was demolished."
"The rest of the tribe walked and scattered, leaving our branch here, so that only I was left."
"I guess these gold coins were left by your ancestors, where did you dig them?
When Li Yan heard this, she was immediately overjoyed and said: "I dug it up on the side of the pile of rocks in the orchard, and it turned out that that there was the site of our family's ancestral ancestral hall!"
"Dad, you hide these gold coins first, let's eat first, and then we'll look for them after dinner."
After that, Li Yan handed all the gold coins in the bamboo basket to Li Jun.
Li Jun took the gold coin and said, "Okay, let's eat first."
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In the next few days, Li Yan and Li Jun have been weeding in the orchard, and in order to find some more treasures, Li Yan even borrowed a miniature cultivator from a neighbor's house, which can not only be used as a weeding machine, but also plough the ground.
In addition, Li Yan did not let go of the pile of rocks in the orchard, cleaning up the stones and digging the soil at the same time.
She had weighed the gold coins from the other day, and they were 645 grams, and if she found some, then her idea would come true.
Hard work pays off.
Two days later, Li Yan dug up another porcelain jar in the soil layer below the pile of rubble, and this porcelain jar also contained a small jar of gold.
Unlike last time, the gold in this porcelain jar is all gold bracelets and small gold bars and the like, which is more mixed.
When Li Yan dug up the porcelain jar again, she also didn't believe it.
Originally, she had the idea of trying her luck, but she didn't expect to dig up another can, and such an unexpected harvest naturally made her happy.
In the next week, Li Yan's luck seemed to run out!
She turned over the orchard inside and out, but found no other harvest, especially the pile of rocks, which was even more boring.
Those who don't know think that she is laying the foundation and preparing to build a house!
After the villagers found out, Li Yan said that she was going to build a greenhouse, and everyone did not suspect it, and when she found nothing, Li Yan was a little unwilling to stop.
After this incident, the orchard was cleaned by Li Yan, there were no weeds at all, and people who didn't know praised her for her quick work.
Only Li Yan herself knows that she is actually looking for treasure.
On this day, Li Jun took out all the gold coins and the small gold bars he found later, and said to Li Yan: "Xiaoyan, I heard that the price of gold during this period is good, and you need money now, you can exchange these gold for some money, even if you find a son-in-law in the future, you will have confidence, right?"
After Li Yan heard this, she said with a smile: "Dad, what kind of son-in-law are you looking for with this money, this money is enough for us to use for many years, even if we want to find it, it depends on fate!"
Li Jun smiled bitterly: "I mean, you have this money and confidence, even if you consider going to the door-in-law, don't let others look down on you!"
"Alright, let's go!"
"Or it's too late."
Li Yan put the gold coins and gold jewelry into her bag and said, "Then I'll go to the county seat to exchange money first, you and your mother will wait for me to come back, and I will bring you delicious food."
Li Yan said that, and left the house with the bag.
Li Jun looked at his daughter who had left, and returned to the back room with a secret sigh.
Lin Shujuan looked at him and asked, "Old man, can we hide it from her like this?"
When Li Jun heard this, he said lightly: "There is no way for us to do this, she is unwilling to accept money from her biological parents, so she can only make this decision."
On a road not far from Li Yan's house, a man and a woman were standing.
These two are Li Yan's biological parents, and when Li Yan left, her mother Xu Qin said: "Husband, is it really okay for us to do this? She won't know, right?"
When Zhao Dong heard this, he sighed: "She refuses to accept us, what we can do is to compensate her as much as possible, even if she knows in the future, it doesn't matter, we just do our best."
"I heard Li Jun say that she has always wanted to open a store, and with this money, she should be able to fulfill her dream, and I am also relieved."
Xu Qin didn't say anything, her eyes were full of worry.
Although Li Yan didn't recognize them, they didn't blame Li Yan.
only blamed themselves for not being optimistic about Li Yan back then and losing her, and now Li Yan doesn't want to recognize them, so they can only try to compensate her in this way.
In order not to let Li Yan refuse, she could only take this way.
It's really pitiful for the hearts of parents all over the world.
What they didn't know was that Li Yan had already discovered all this, she looked at Xu Qin and the others at the intersection, looking at the things that covered the noodles.
Mixed feelings.
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Note: Part of the content of this story has been fictionalized, art comes from life and is higher than life, artistic processing has been carried out for the convenience of reading, please read rationally, do not sit down.