The modern fortune-telling history of a small shopkeeper

"Huh—"

A plane flew through the sky and landed at an international airport in country P.

"Cold?"

"Fortunately, it's not very cold."

"We'll go to the hotel we booked first, and then we'll find someone."

Zhou Xing held the suitcase in one hand and Qiao Minglang's hand in the other. The two came out of the airport, called a car outside, and reported the name of a nearby hotel.After arriving at the hotel and checking in, after taking a short rest in the hotel, they didn't come out of the hotel until almost noon.

After going through the rental procedures at a taxi company, they got a car, and Zhou Xing drove the car, driving the two of them to the address written on the note.

There was a distance from there, and after driving for three or four hours, they arrived at the place. They didn't expect it to be a nursing home, and Zhou Xing showed a slightly surprised expression.The car was parked at the designated place at the door, and the two got out of the car. Zhou Xing said to the young man, "Let's go."

"What is this place?" Qiao Minglang asked when he saw that there was something wrong with the expression on Zhou Xing's face.

"This is a nursing home for patients. Come on, let's go inside and ask if they are here." Zhou Xing took the young man inside, communicated with the staff inside in proficient English, and asked if there was a hospital here. The woman they were looking for.

"Yes, we have here a lady like the one you describe."

The other party knew that they were looking for a woman from Huaguo, so without their asking, the other party told them a lot of things about that woman, which probably meant that the woman was very pitiful, and since she was sent here, there was only Two children followed her, and two more children.

Here they are a nursing home for critically ill patients, that is, the doctors in the hospital have issued a verdict, and there are basically no patients who can be treated and recovered.Most of the people sent to them are terminally ill patients, and it will be a matter of time before they see God.

The medical staff working here noticed that woman because she had a different skin color than them.Moreover, the woman has been here for nearly half a year, and now she can only lie on the hospital bed with only two children by her side. She has never seen any other family members or friends come to visit her. Both children were full of sympathy.

Zhou Xing asked how old the two children were, and he probably still remembered the ages of Xu Haimei's two children, so he said two approximate ages, and asked if they were that old.

"That's right, it's a boy and a girl. The boy is a few years older. Both children are growing up very well, and they follow their mother." Seeing the two Chinese people coming here, the medical staff thought that The other party was a friend of the patient, who came to visit the patient, and without thinking too much, he took the two men to the ward where the woman lived.

By this time Zhou Xing was basically sure that the other party was the person he was looking for, so he turned his head and glanced at the young man walking beside him.

Noticing the way Zhou Xing looked at him, Qiao Minglang gave him a comforting look and said, "Didn't you always want to find her? Then let's go and meet her."

"Hmm." Taking advantage of the nurse walking in front not noticing them, Zhou Xing held the young man's hand and squeezed the bones of the young man's hand.Qiao Minglang rolled his eyes at this man, and withdrew his hand, telling him not to move.

At the door of the ward, the nurse opened the door.

In the white ward, a thin woman was lying under the white sheets, and there were two children in the room, a teenage boy and an eight or nine-year-old girl.

When the two children in the room heard the sound of the door opening, they all turned to look in the direction of the door.

"Thank you, I'll go in and have a look at them." Zhou Xing noticed the two children inside at a glance, and he recognized the older boy, who was his half-brother Zhou Rui, and an eight or nine-year-old The girl is the daughter of Xu Haimeisheng later.

It's just that at that time he seldom went back to Zhou's house, so he only met this half-sister a few times, and he had no memory of the little girl's appearance.

The first time I saw the two children, Zhou Rui's appearance still carried the shadow of his childhood, and his facial features followed that of his dead father.And the little girl's facial features couldn't find the slightest resemblance to their Zhou family, and she didn't look much like her mother.

But this has nothing to do with him, he came to find Xu Haimei today.

"Mom." Seeing two strangers approaching, the little girl called out to her mother a little scared.

"Why are you here, who told you to come!" When they left Zhou's house, Zhou Rui was already eight or nine years old, and he already had memories of many things, so he recognized this same father at a glance. Half-brother.

"Who's here?" The woman lying on the bed opened her eyes, and dimly saw two tall figures standing at the door.

After seeing who was coming, Xu Haimei's eyes showed a little nervousness and fear, but then she put away the expression on her face and asked her son to help her sit up. It seemed that it was not surprising that Zhou Xing would come here, "You Here we come."

"I've been wondering all these years whether you will find this place one day."

Zhou Xing didn't pay attention to Zhou Rui looking at him.

Under the nervous eyes of the two children, he walked to the hospital bed step by step, stood still two steps away from the hospital bed, looked at the woman who was so sick on the bed, hooked the corner of his mouth, and said, "See you!" , you are calm."

Qiao Minglang stood behind Zhou Xing, he noticed the two children in the room, and knew that they should be the younger brother and younger sister that Zhou Xing had mentioned before.The woman on the bed should be the wife Zhou Xing's father married again.

"Do you know that I have been looking for you all these years?" Zhou Xing's words were not a question, but affirmation that Xu Haimei knew that he would definitely look for her, so she took her two children to hide in a foreign country.

Looking around the small room, he turned his head to look at the woman, with a sarcasm smile on his lips, and asked, "Why, isn't your adulterer by your side? Did he leave you behind after using you?" Throw it in this small place?"

"Actually, I've always wanted to ask you, what can our Zhou family do to you? Is there anything I can do to you that makes you unite with others to stab our Zhou family in the back like this?"

"Ahem..." Xu Haimei coughed twice, but did not answer this question, but turned her head with difficulty, looked at her son and daughter next to her, and asked her son to take his sister out to play, "How much do you and I have with your brother?" There is something to say."

Zhou Rui stared at Zhou Xing, but didn't do what his mother said.

"What do you want them to do? Or do you think that what I said to you can't let your two children know? Since you dared to do such a thing back then, why are you afraid to let others know now?" heard The woman asked the two children to go out, Zhou Xing thought it was funny and asked.

"You are not allowed to bully my mother, or I will definitely make you look good!" Zhou Rui glared at Zhou Xing, and even threatened, before pulling his younger sister who refused to leave to the door.

Zhou Xing looked at the two children going out around them, twitched his mouth, turned to look at the woman on the bed, and waited for her to order the two children to leave because they wanted to say something to him.

The door of the ward was not closed either. Zhou Rui and his younger sister were sitting by the flower bed at the door. The ignorant little girl was asking her brother who those two were.

"Remember, except for my brother, everyone else is a bad person!" Zhou Rui naturally knew that one of the two people who came was his half-brother.From childhood to adulthood, all he saw in the eyes of that half-brother was disgust and dislike for him. Until so many years ago, he still remembered the way that half-brother looked at him.

Zhou Rui didn't know why her mother took them away from home and brought them to this small place where they lived in a small courtyard and didn't even have a servant around.But no matter how much he cried, his mother refused to take them home again. Later, he gradually accepted the fact that the family could only stay here.

A few years ago, his mother wanted him to call another man his mother, but he always refused to call that man his father.When he was a little older, Zhou Rui actually understood why their mother took them away from home back then, and why he asked another man to be his father.

The little girl was only one year old when she was brought abroad, and she has no memories of her childhood. She only remembers living here with her mother and brother since she was a child. There was a man who came here once upon a time. Watching them, she calls the man daddy.

It's just that every time she finishes calling that man to be her father, her brother will scold her, saying that they have their own father and that man is not their father.

But then the man who often came to see them no longer appeared, and only their brother, sister and mother continued to live here.Since that man didn't show up, their mother often drank. Every time she got drunk, she either scolded them or the man who didn't come, and sometimes scolded their father. The little girl didn't remember that she had another father.

They used to live a good life, but since their mother fell ill and spent almost all of their family savings, their life will become more and more difficult.

"Brother, will mother leave us?" The little girl was very worried. Since they came here, they saw people being carried away with white cloths every day. They were afraid that their mother would be like that one day. was sent away.

Hearing his sister's words, Zhou Rui stretched out his arms to hug her, and comforted her: "Don't be afraid, my brother is still here."