Abyss of ignorance

Chapter 116 The Man Without a Grave
"Mom, is anyone in our family at Aijuntang?" Lin Xiaodong asked bluntly.

Mama Lin didn't take it seriously: "What hall?" Obviously she didn't understand Lin Xiaodong's words.

"Or, is there anyone who is particularly rich or powerful?"

Hearing this, Mama Lin, who was concentrating on washing vegetables, smiled: "What's wrong with you today? You suddenly started daydreaming? If our family had such relatives, you wouldn't have to work so hard."

"Aijuntang, have you never heard of it?" Lin Xiaodong asked persistently.

"Aijuntang?" Mama Lin stopped what she was doing, raised her head, and thought.

This gave Lin Xiaodong anticipation: "How is it? Do you have an impression?"

"There seems to be..." Mama Lin looked at the street facing the kitchen window, "A long time ago, there seemed to be a Chinese medicine clinic called Aijuntang on the corner in front, right? It feels like it has been closed for many years, don't you?" I really can’t remember it.”

"Is this Aijuntang not related to our family?"

"I don't know what you're talking about, it's okay! Why do you keep asking this nonsense?"

"Someone took my name, registered many companies, and opened this Chinese medicine clinic called Aijuntang." Lin Xiaodong could only tell the truth.

"Use your name?" Lin's mother became more and more confused when she heard this, "Who is so boring?"

"I don't know. To that person, I seem to be very important to him. I should be a member of our family. Tell me, will my dad hide anything from us?"

"Can your father have this ability? Then I woke up laughing from my dream!" Mother Lin teased disapprovingly.

Just as he was talking, the door of the house opened.

Lin Ma followed the sound and smiled: "I really mean Cao Cao, Cao Cao will be here. The big man has gone home."

It was Father Lin who came back. While changing his shoes, he said angrily, "Are you saying something bad behind my back?"

There are three members of the family, only Lin Xiaodong is not in the mood to joke with them, so he went to Dad Lin in a daze, and continued to ask: "Dad, is there anyone in our family who has something to do with Aijuntang?"

However, to his disappointment, Lin's father also looked confused: "Aijuntang? There are only a few people in our family. Are you related to them, or is your mother related to them?"

"Zhongyue, do you think this child is in a daze today? As soon as he came back, he asked this about whether Aijuntang has anything to do with our family. He also asked if there was anyone in our family who was particularly rich and powerful, and suspected that you were hiding it. We are doing big business! Haha!" Lin Ma laughed as she spoke.

But Lin Xiaodong couldn't laugh at all.

Father Lin looked at Lin Xiaodong's preoccupied face, and then he became serious: "What's wrong? Is this related to what happened in your unit recently? Another day, your mother and I will go to pay homage to your master, and things will happen soon." At the door of our house, I don't know anything about being a father, so speaking of it, hey!"

"Dad, you have to think about it. Not only our family of three, but the entire Lin family, is there anyone who might use my name to register a company? This is very important."

"Someone registered a company in your name?" Father Lin wondered.

"That's right, I mean who can be so boring." Mama Lin replied.

"Let's change our way of thinking. Let's not talk about Aijuntang. Is there anyone in the family who is particularly obsessed with selling medicine to make money? Especially the kind of medicine for treating cancer?" Lin Xiaodong asked persistently, as if he had already put his parents Treated as his own important witness.

When he heard about the cancer, Dad Lin finally remembered something, he hesitated to speak, this did not escape Lin Xiaodong's eyes, and he immediately grabbed hold of it: "Dad, tell me quickly."

"It doesn't seem to matter much. Isn't my name Zhongyue? Your mother knows that I should have an older brother named Boyue who died of cancer when he was a teenager. But this seems to be related to It doesn't matter to you."

"Why have you never mentioned this?"

"Sigh." Papa Lin sighed, "It's all old, and there's no need for you to know, right?"

At this time, Mama Lin also came out of the kitchen, scolding Papa Lin and said, "This is nothing to do, why are you mentioning him? My son is bewildered, and you are bewildered too?"

But Lin Xiaodong is not willing to let it go: "No, whether it matters or not, Dad, you must tell me today!"

"This..." Father Lin was still hesitating.

Lin Xiaodong had no choice but to use his trump card: "If you can't find out about Ai Juntang's affairs, your son's life may be lost. Is uncle's affairs more important than my life?"

Hearing this, Mama Lin became uneasy: "Ah, son, is it so serious?"

Lin's father looked at Lin's mother, hesitating: "Then, did I say it?"

"Oh, I originally thought that this kind of thing will be over when our generation knows about it." Lin's mother agreed.

Father Lin sighed, "Your uncle was 16 years old when he left, and I was only 13 years old. Time flies so fast, you are already thirty."

"He died of cancer, why can't he mention it?" Lin Xiaodong asked sharply.

"Because your uncle's death ruined my family. The grandparents you haven't met all passed away because of your uncle. I've already said that this matter has nothing to do with what you want to investigate!" Father Lin was full of resistance, very reluctant to mention it.

"I never asked how my grandparents died." Lin Xiaodong recalled the too-young black-and-white photos on the tombstone every time there was a funeral, "And, uncle, why have we never visited the grave?"

"Because... we couldn't find his ashes, and your grandfather didn't make a tomb for him."

"Why can't the ashes be found?"

When Lin Xiaodong asked this question, Father Lin's eyes immediately turned red.

Lin's mother next to her sighed softly, "Oh, Xiaodong, you..." It seemed that Lin Xiaodong asked a question that should not be asked.

"Because your grandma committed suicide by throwing herself into the river with her ashes in her arms. When the person was found, the urn had already disappeared. Your grandpa didn't know whether he blamed your uncle for taking your grandma away, or he didn't want to admit that your uncle was dead. I just don’t want to be a tomb. Later, your grandpa also left, and I’m still so young.”

"We just want you to grow up happily, and you don't need to know about the things of the previous generation." Lin Ma said.

"What kind of cancer does uncle have?" Lin Xiaodong asked seriously.

"It's liver cancer." Papa Lin blurted out, "I remember that your grandfather was ready to use part of his own liver for a liver transplant, but unfortunately your uncle was too weak at that time, and he never met the requirements for liver transplantation. I can still vividly remember the day he left."

(End of this chapter)