Rebirth: Splendid Marriage in the 80s

Chapter 169: Chapter 169 Do They Recognize Each Other?

Ge Xiaotong took the lunchbox, filled to the brim with dumplings still steaming hot, stuffed with her favorite cabbage filling.

Indeed, she was hungry, and she immediately started eating heartily with her chopsticks while still conversing with Liu Pei, ”We should be able to make it. This time I really got you all worried, once Lin Jiang arrives, I’ll have him look for a place to stay.”

”Look at what you’re saying, just stay at the house...”

”Mom, my sister-in-law is pregnant, let’s not provoke her anger,” Ge Xiaotong sighed, ”It’s fine for us to rent a place in town. We still don’t know how long we’ll stay, and Lin Jiang still wants to return to the county.”

Liu Pei nodded, not continuing the conversation on this topic, but rather brought up Ge Liutao.

”I don’t even know if I recognized the wrong person. If it really is your aunt, I don’t know if your father would go up to acknowledge her.”

Ge Xiaotong looked at her in surprise, ”Mom, what exactly happened with my eldest aunt back then? Grandma never forgave her, did she?”

”Indeed, she still doesn’t allow her to come home.” As a daughter-in-law, Liu Pei naturally didn’t speak well of her mother-in-law, so she shook her head and said no more.

Meanwhile, Ge Dejun hurried to the out-patient department and without much effort spotted the three figures who had just walked into the doctor’s consultation room.

Ge Dejun was four years younger than Ge Liutao. In those days, children four years older could already take care of their younger siblings, and Ge Dejun was very close to his sister back then.

He was only fifteen or sixteen when Ge Liutao married Chiang Songhai, initially, he supported his sister because it was the man she loved—why shouldn’t she marry him?

But later, their mother and maternal grandparents strongly opposed it, and their aunts even threatened with death, so Ge Dejun gradually started to oppose as well. He begged his sister to give up the man so their families could have peace, and it would make their parents and elders happier, but Ge Liutao didn’t agree.

She married Chiang Songhai against the entire family’s wishes and went to the impoverished Siyang Village.

Now, over thirty years had gone by, and they were all in their forties and fifties, yet there was still no communication between them.

Last year, one day, Chiang Songhai took Ge Liutao to the big market, and he and his wife Liu Pei happened to see them. At the time, they were with the old mother, and they were afraid the old mother would make a scene, so they coaxed her to go around. That was the most recent time they had seen each other.

Ge Dejun approached the door, listening to the conversation inside.

At first, it was the doctor’s voice, asking about the illness, followed by that of a young girl, her voice crisp and sweet, speaking clearly and logically.

”Doctor Uncle, the injured is my grandfather, and I know the whole process. Let me answer, please.”

Chiang Xiao indeed didn’t want her grandfather to speak; she knew without thinking that her grandfather would probably lie, unwilling to speak ill of his nephew.

But how could Chiang Xiao agree to that?

”Okay, young lady, you speak,” the doctor, quite intrigued, gave her a couple of looks. These days, it was rare to see a girl of her age so fair and delicate, almost like she was from the city.

”My grandfather was hit in the back with a solid wood chair by my cousin. At that time, they were about one and a half meters apart, and the chair weighed at least eight pounds. My cousin is very strong, and it was clear he used all his strength when hitting with the chair. There was a loud sound when the chair hit my grandfather’s back. Last night we asked the village health center’s physician to examine him, but she suspected internal injuries and couldn’t determine the problem, so she suggested we come to the hospital. Last night, my grandfather slept face down and couldn’t turn over comfortably; he couldn’t straighten his back and felt a dull pain in his chest too.”