Seeing the old lady and the old man behind her, Chu Nan was immediately surprised and said, "Are you...grandpa and grandma?"
Ever since Chu Nan was sensible, he had never met any of his mother Zhou Hailan's relatives or his grandparents.
Although he later learned that Zhou Hailan's hometown was in a village near a small town below Qianhu City, his mother had never taken him there even after so many years.
Moreover, every time Chu Nan asked out loud in confusion, Zhou Hailan always gave perfunctory answers and seemed unwilling to mention her family too much. As a result, Chu Nan had never met her grandparents, as well as
Uncle and aunt.
In front of him, these country people dressed as farmers suddenly appeared in front of the mourning hall. Listening to the old woman's cries, Chu Nan asked tentatively.
Although he had never met any relatives on his mother's side, Xu Shaoyang knew the specific address, so it was probably his eldest brother Xu Dong who contacted them.
"You...are you..." When they heard someone calling them grandpa and grandma, the old man and the old lady reacted and asked excitedly and suspiciously.
"Dad, Mom, this is Chu Nan, the third child, who is also the son of Hai Lan... Hai Lan's son."
At this time, the stepfather next to him, Xu Shaoyang, made an introduction, looking a little embarrassed.
Upon hearing this, Grandpa took a deep look at Chu Nan, his eyes seemed extremely complicated, and finally nodded and sighed, shaking his head and remembering some past events.
Xu Shaoyang's name for the two elders had confirmed Chu Nan's guess that these country people were his mother's relatives.
In addition to the grandparents, two men and one woman also came. After introducing their identities, they found out that they were two uncles and one aunt.
As soon as the relatives on the mother's side, who had calmed down a bit, arrived at the banquet and took their seats, Chu Nan pulled Xu Shaoyang aside and frowned, "Dad, can you tell me why the relationship between mom and her family is so tense?
We haven't seen each other for more than 20 years. How big of a gap is there?
I can see that my grandparents still like my mother very much, why is this?"
Xu Shaoyang glanced at Chu Nan, sighed and said, "This matter... also happened because of you.
I heard that your mother gave birth to you, an illegitimate child, secretly outside. Later, when she returned to her parents' home, she was looked down upon by the whole village.
At that time, rural people were conservative in their thinking. Not to mention giving birth to children out of wedlock, even if you kissed a man you liked before you were married, you would be called a slut. Do you think your mother could be scolded to death by gossiping? "
"Forget about the gossip in the village, what makes your mother sad the most is that your grandparents, brothers and sisters at home couldn't bear the humiliation, and they began to accuse your mother of having a disorderly life, and they also wanted to marry your mother as soon as possible.
Already.
Although your mother was good-looking at the time, who would dare to ask for her with a dragster like you?"
"Reluctantly, your grandpa made a marriage promise in the village, and actually asked your mother to marry a family with a mentally ill son. Your mother refused to do so, which resulted in a big quarrel. In anger, your grandpa severed the father-daughter relationship with your mother.
, your mother took you to the city to make a living, and then we started a family after someone introduced me to you."
Speaking of this, Xu Shaoyang couldn't stop his tears and said, "For so many years, your mother has been angry with you and her parents, and she has never gone back to see her.
In fact, I know that your mother misses your grandparents very much. Sometimes she refuses even if I ask her to go see her, as if she hates her family for abandoning her so cruelly."
"So that's it..." Chu Nan finally understood why his mother didn't want to see his family so much. It turned out that it was because he had harmed his mother! In fact, can you really blame your grandparents for this kind of thing?
Chu Nan is not a naive child, of course he knows he shouldn't.
Why?
Because people's words are terrible, in the conservative thinking of rural areas, having children out of wedlock is simply treason. Who's family will be proud of it?
If my grandparents asked my mother to get married as soon as possible, the gossip would eventually dissipate. But who would marry my mother in a situation like this?
Except for those idiots who are disabled and no one wants to marry, I'm afraid no one wants to marry a woman who has given birth to other people's children and has to live with them, right?
So when it comes to this kind of thing, it’s impossible to tell who is right and who is wrong. If we really want to say he is wrong, maybe Chu Yunsheng, who abandoned his wife and son, is more wrong?
If it hadn't been for him, how could my mother have ended up in such a predicament?
I have lived in pain for half my life! When I think of my mother's experience of breaking up with her family for her sake, Chu Nan felt another heart-wrenching pain.
He took the initiative to walk to the table of his grandparents and said to them, "Grandpa, grandma, two uncles and aunts, I am very happy and relieved that you can come today when my mother was killed and passed away.
I believe that my mother will also be very happy in heaven."
Grandma wiped her tears and kept sobbing. Grandpa next to her smoked a dry cigarette and frowned and blamed himself, "If your mother didn't blame us, we would be satisfied... It was indeed us who were sorry for her back then. Hey, how could we know?
, she has been traveling with the master for so many years, and she finally came home and something like this happened!"
"Expert?
Going out?"
Chu Nan was a little surprised and said, "Grandpa, what do you mean by this?
Has my mother ever traveled far before?"
"You are her son, and I don't need to hide some things from you."
Grandpa sighed helplessly, "Your mother was in poor health when she was a child. People in rural areas have no money to see a doctor. She was seriously ill several times and thought she would not survive. She gritted her teeth and gritted her teeth to survive."
"Originally, she was too weak to take care of herself, and the family had no money, so she could only be sick all day long. We were all panic-stricken, thinking that this girl might die if she didn't live for a few years.
But then a foreigner suddenly came to the village and offered money to stay at our house for a while. I didn't pay much attention at the time, but later I discovered that he was injured and seemed to be hiding in the village to recuperate.
This shocked me. Originally, I wanted to call the police, for fear that this guy would involve our Zhou family. But when he saw your mother, he said that this child was suffering from stagnation and would not go out to work unless he was forced to do so by internal force.
Only two years."
"When I saw that he actually had a way to cure your mother's illness, I finally gave up the idea of calling the police and let him stay at home to recuperate while also treating your mother's stubborn illness.
I really didn’t expect that after more than two months of treatment, your mother’s illness actually had some effect and she felt much better.
But the man said that his internal strength was not strong and that the disease could only treat the symptoms but not the root cause. If you want to be completely cured, you must take your mother back to the mountain gate to ask the master for help."
"When I thought that your mother wouldn't have a long life anyway, I agreed to let him take her.
Your mother was already ten years old at the time, and of course she had memorized the address of her hometown, so she left home with the expert.
I didn't come back until more than ten years ago. I thought she was dead, and I haven't written a letter to my family since then."
Chu Nan was quite stunned when he heard this. So, his mother, Zhou Hailan, left home with a kung fu master when she was a child and went to a martial arts sect for treatment?
Yes, the expert that grandpa said can actually use inner energy to cure diseases, then it is undoubtedly certain that he is a warrior in the realm of Qi warriors! Such a warrior can really be called an expert! And Chu Nan was even more surprised.
What's surprising is that this is the first time he knows that his mother is actually related to the martial arts sect.
So... the police said earlier that there were obvious signs of a fight near where the mother fell to the ground. Is this not just speculation, but true?
But...if my mother really knew Kung Fu and martial arts, why didn't even her stepfather Xu Shaoyang know about it for so many years, not to mention that he had never seen her before?
Why?
Why does mother Zhou Hailan hide the fact that she knows martial arts?