"Well. We wrote a relationship diagram before. From what you said, it needs to be modified."
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"Yes, that's it. After we recognized each other, we held a wedding and got married. Shen Changshou lived a long time. He and his wife gave birth to a son and a daughter. After the son was born, my grandfather's great-grandfather became very ill. . As soon as the old man died, the family was divided. The fields were divided equally between the two families. The two families did not live together or in the same house, but they often visited each other and did everything together during the New Year. It was the same after my grandfather was born. Until After Shen Mingyi died, the relationship between the two families was no longer so close."
"Well. Let's talk about the next generation. Shen Changshou has a son and a daughter. What's going on with their two siblings?"
"It's all like that. It's just like that. He doesn't have much potential, and he can't be said to be a loser. Just one thing, the son of Shen Changshou, my grandfather and they called him A Gou, has a dog nose, and his nose is very smart, so he is called A Gou. He got married several times, three or four times. They got married early at that time, and he got married very early, probably at the age of fourteen. He didn't have any children for two years. Shen Changshou was quite anxious. That Agou's wife didn't seem to be very well, either with a bad temper or something. She got divorced later. It wasn't called divorce at that time, she just ran away, went back to her parents' home, and later married somewhere else. In those few years Later, there was a war. Agou married several more wives. They were like aunts and grandmothers. It was not like getting divorced and finding someone to marry again after marriage... When there was a war, Shen Changshou was anxious to ask Agou to leave a son... tossing. I’ve had it several times. My grandpa said he was struggling with poverty at that time. At that time, his family sold all the land they were allocated for their wives. My grandpa and my great-grandfather all helped out."
"Yeah. Have you ever done anything special?"
"What?"
"During the process of seeking a child, did you kill the baby girl or seek help from gods or witchcraft?"
"No, no. He can't even enlarge a woman's belly. When he married a third wife, others thought there was something wrong with him. My grandfather said that Shen Changshou lost his temper when he heard people say this. . It makes everyone look bad."
"OK, all right."
"I have been struggling for several years. I have also thought about raising children. His sister got married and had a child, a daughter. It seems that she also has a son... I am not very clear about this. Basically what I heard is Agun's story side things."
"Um."
"His sister couldn't support the child. Maybe she didn't have a son, maybe her brother-in-law didn't agree. His sister was sold by Shen Changshou. He was not willing to sell the land, so he married his sister off and the bride price was paid. Then he went out to find another wife for him, and to see a doctor and so on. That's probably it. So the relationship between the two families is not good. "
"Um."
"He just waited until his granddaughter was getting married. When his granddaughter was born, the land on Shen Changshou's side was almost sold, and there was no money left. But Shen Changshou's godfather still had money. His godfather's My biological son is very old, younger than him, but older than his granddaughter. My first wife died, and I wanted to find another one. My grandfather didn’t know how the two families negotiated, so they got involved and it was finalized by both parties. , the godfather’s son came into their family. It seemed that the man was eating his granddaughter to death, and just like the young man who wanted to be friends, she had to have her. There must be something going on. In the end, the two of them got married and gave birth to a child. My first son was Xiao Wuzi, Xiao Yingsheng. When he was born, he was adopted to Agou."
"So, you don't know what happened?"
"I don't know. My grandfather didn't tell me, and my father didn't understand it either. They met for business matters before, and speaking of it, none of the relatives could explain it clearly... There must be something in it."
"Um."
"When the fifth son was twenty years old, maybe even less than twenty years old, Agou died. Shen Changshou had also died long ago by that time. Our closest blood relationship is Agou's sister. Agou's sister didn't know what was going on, and wanted Xiaowuzi to recognize his ancestors and return to their family. Didn't Xiaowuzi's biological father marry into his wife? Later, it seemed that his mind suddenly cleared up and he refused to marry into his wife. I had to ask the fifth son to recognize his ancestors again and recognize their family. This matter was done several times. At that time, several elders above me were still alive, and they were often called to eat and visit, just to talk about this matter several times. The house is noisy."
"You don't know which family Xiao Ying went to to recognize his ancestor?"
"I do not know."
"What's his last name? The postcard he sent was signed Xiao Ying. Don't you know which family this is?"
"Uh... I really don't know about this. I don't remember whether Shen Changshou's daughter married a man named Xiao, or the godfather Shen Changshou recognized as Xiao. I don't know. My dad doesn't know either."
"In that case, how do you determine that Xiao Ying is the fifth son?"
"I asked about this. My dad was still alive at that time. The relatives of their generation are still in contact. It's not just our family that received New Year's cards, but many families received them. I didn't think about it at first. My dad also I thought it was my colleague, his old colleague, my mother, my wife or something. There was no recipient’s name on the greeting card. After two or three years of sending it, we talked about it during the Chinese New Year dinner. A pair, just It can only be Xiao Wuzi."
"That said, you can't 100 percent guarantee it's the same person."
"Well… "
"Your son said before that some of your relatives have basically passed away. In their generation, there is no contact with them."
"That's right."
"There is no one on your side that we can contact so that we can follow up the investigation and confirm Xiao Ying's identity?"
"No more. I am an only child. My father also had a brother and a sister, but they both passed away. Among my peers, one immigrated, one came to the capital, and one died in a car accident very early. The child remarried with his mother. , has cut off contact with us.”
"Yeah. Do you all receive the same postcards?"
"Well... the address it was sent to should be the same. We didn't see the specific address, so we just talked about a person named Xiao Ying who sent the postcard from somewhere. As we talked, we talked about Xiao Wuzi."
"I understand. Regarding the deposit slip, there is no way to confirm whether others have received it?"
"I had several phone calls with the immigration people and the one in the capital. After they moved out, I didn't receive the postcards. They didn't notify me of the change of address. I guess they didn't continue to send them..."
"We need the contact information of your relatives."
"I can't remember this either."
"Can you provide us with the names? When we conducted the investigation, we could only find the immediate family members with file records, your father's brothers and sisters. We found no connection from the files."
"Oh, this should be okay... I can call some of the names, but I don't know how to write them specifically."
"Just write as detailed and correct as possible."
"OK."
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"Well, you still want to use this method to check? Can't the kind of soul-calling or something like that work?"
"We now have a more suitable spiritual medium. But after listening to your father's account, we have some doubts about Xiao Ying's identity."
"I just said, it's not that person from your family. Your dad told you before that they were almost torn apart over the matter of recognizing their ancestors, so why would they send postcards to our family? He doesn't necessarily know that in our family Know."
"You must know if you know."
"Mr. Shen, when did you buy the house you live in now? Is your family the first owner?"