Mr. Kang left work early today. He wanted to go home and tell everyone about his progress. He didn't lose his temper or cause a scene. He gave the other party enough respect.
He had ten thousand ways to make things very difficult, but he held back and chose a more respectful way. This is the adult world.
Mr. Kang was very happy with his growth.
"I would never have done this before," Mr. Kang said to Xia Sheng. Then he remembered something and explained, "He's not my real grandfather anyway, and he's always looked down on me since I was a child."
"My dad was adopted by them. For my dad's sake, I still gave them some respect."
Xia Sheng yawned and listened to him finish. "Have you ever considered looking for your real parents?"
Actually, she wasn't surprised. Kangkang valued relationships, especially family.
Mr. Kang shook his head. "Forget it. If I find them, there will probably be more trouble. Besides, they were the ones who abandoned my dad in the first place."
Xia Sheng didn't think that was necessarily the case. She grew up in an environment that favored boys over girls. In her years of experience, whether it was from the news or other sources, those who were searched for after decades were almost always sons. Those who were abandoned were almost always daughters.
"Are you okay?" Mr. Kang asked, a little strangely. Why were Xia Sheng's eyes suddenly red?
"It's nothing," Xia Sheng said. "I just suddenly remembered that when we were kids, it was always the boys who would run away from home."
"They would just get into some trouble, get beaten up, and run away from home."
"Hmm?" Mr. Kang whispered, "You think my dad might have run away from home?"
"No, I'm just emotional. I suddenly remembered that I didn't dare to run away from home when I was a kid."
When those boys ran away from home, a large group of people would go looking for them. But when she got up in the middle of the night, she didn't dare to leave because she was afraid that no one would come looking for her.
Seeing her sudden emotional outburst, Mr. Kang quickly took a tissue from the side and said, "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Xia Sheng patted his head. "I've been a little sentimental lately."
Mr. Kang let out an "Oh." He still said, "I'll go check it out and see if I can find out what happened back then."
He didn't have much of an impression of his father. He had only seen a few photos, but they were from when he was a child. After he grew up, he never went to see him again.
When Mr. Kang went back to his room, Little Kangkang came over and hugged Xia Sheng.
"Mom, you've worked hard."
"Worked hard for what?"
"You worked hard carrying me in your belly!" Little Kangkang climbed up and sat down beside her.
It turned out that the kindergarten had held an event today about how babies came into the world. All the babies put a balloon under their clothes.
The teacher said they couldn't break it. Many of the students fell, and their balloons broke.
Xia Sheng's eyebrows shot up.
What kind of creepy children's story was this? The balloon breaks, the baby is gone.
No matter how smart Little Kangkang was, he could only learn from what he had been exposed to. He couldn't imagine things he had never seen before.
So he really didn't know about this before.
"Mom, did you give birth to Little Brother?"
Xia Sheng trembled and quickly explained, "No."
The matter of the younger brother was not easy to explain.
Xia Sheng thought for a moment and decided to use her ultimate parenting technique.
"Mommy doesn't know about this either. When your dad gets back, why don't you ask him, okay?"
However, Xia Sheng was a little curious. "Baby, do you really want a little brother?"
Little Kangkang looked inside and made sure his brother wasn't there before saying, "I don't know."
"Little Brother is annoying sometimes. Every time I want to draw, he's always talking next to me. When I watch TV, he's always talking too. And he tells on me whenever I have a secret."
Xia Sheng held back her laughter. She thought, Mr. Kang was an adult, how could he play the role of an annoying little brother so well?
"But Little Brother is also very cute sometimes. He listens to me and plays with me. When Little Brother wasn't back for a while, I missed him so much."
Xia Sheng looked at her youngest son. Time flies. He had grown from such a small ball of flesh into a big boy who could talk and reason.
She had never thought that she would have a son. After she had him, she was afraid that he would be like her, afraid that he would inherit her fate, afraid that he would have a mother who didn't love him.
Fortunately, she loved him.
Xia Sheng kissed her little son's forehead. "Baby, Mommy loves you so much."
Little Kangkang was talking about how cute his brother was when his mother kissed him. He was a little shy. "Mommy, I love you too…"
Mr. Kang glanced over and snorted.
Xia Ling had been playing with her phone. Now she was amused. "Sometimes I don't think you're their cousin, but…"
Mr. Kang's heart skipped a beat. He was afraid she was going to say he was their son.
Xia Ling looked at Mr. Kang's face and leaned in close. She whispered, "Big Cousin, be honest with me, did you time travel here from over a decade in the future?"
Mr. Kang was speechless. So she still had this thought!
"No, I'm really the same age as you. Our childhood hero was Sun Wukong, remember?"
"That's true." Xia Ling said, "But every time you face my sister and brother-in-law, I feel like you're their child. And your names are so similar, and you look so much alike."
"Our names aren't just similar, they're the same two characters, just in a different order."
That's right, Mr. Kang had never thought about what the character "Yue" in his name meant.
He used to think that it was his father's expectation of him, that he hoped he would become an outstanding and successful person.
Was that what his father was thinking?
Mr. Kang would know the answer to this question tonight.
Assistant Li found some of Mr. Kang's parents' good friends. These were friends from the orphanage. They had lost contact after Mr. Kang's father passed away.
Naturally, Mr. Kang asked this question.
"Yue is the surname?" Mr. Kang heard the explanation on the other end of the phone and repeated, "My father's original surname was Yue?"
Mr. Kang's first reaction was, his father's surname was actually Yue. Maybe he and the Yue family were really related 500 years ago!