Back to the 60s: The Struggle Career of a Charmed Wife
Chapter 270 - 0270 Guan Cheng Recognizes Relatives 2_1

Chapter 270: Chapter 0270 Guan Cheng Recognizes Relatives 2_1

Upon hearing that Old Granny Xu shared his surname, Guan Cheng’s reaction was more tepid than one would expect. There was no outburst of emotion.

"Yes, my surname is Guan. My name is Guan Cheng," he answered Old Granny Xu’s question.

Old Granny Xu gripped his hands tightly, "So your surname is Guan, and your name is Guan Cheng. You’re thirteen this year, correct? Your father’s name is Guan Zhixuan, and he studied abroad. Your grandfather’s name is Guan Kong, the Kong as in Konghou, right? And you have an aunt, whose nickname is Linglong, delicate and crystal clear Linglong, who married into the big landowning Lu Family, correct?"

Guan Cheng turned blank, "You know my grandfather and my father? Yes, my aunt indeed married into the Lu family, but she has been dead for a long time now."

Old Granny Xu cried and laughed in her excitement and couldn’t get a single word out. She just kept nodding wildly.

After calming down from a bout of crying, Feng Qingxue and Guan Cheng heard her say: "Guan Cheng, I am your great aunt! Your grandfather is my younger brother! When you were born, I made you a set of gold bracelets, anklets, a gold collar, and a longevity lock. You mustn’t remember, as you were just a baby! When the Guan Family crisis happened, you were still too young... I don’t know if your grandfather ever got the chance to tell you about me."

Great aunt? Such a close relation! Feng Qingxue was completely stunned.

She was Guan Cheng’s great aunt, which also meant that she was the biological aunt of Lu Tianjun’s mother.

Guan Cheng racked his brains recalling some vague memory. Before his family fell into disarray, he regularly sat in his grandfather’s lap listening to historical stories. It appeared his grandfather did mention that he had a great aunt who had once lived in Shanghai.

"Did...did you once give me a jade lack piece? It’s white, with the inscription ’Longevity, Century Old’?" Guan Cheng asked.

As a child, he often wore this jade lock on a gold collar. It was only removed once calamity befell his family; looters had taken it away. His family often told him that it was a gift from his great aunt, which left a deep impression on him.

"Yes, yes, that’s right!" Old Granny Xu was extremely excited, "That’s the jade lock. When you were one year old, I commissioned the best jade carver to craft it from the finest mutton-fat white jade. One side was inscribed with ’Longevity, Century Old’ and the other side had a pattern of blessings carried by floating clouds, hoping that you would live a long and blessed life."

As she spoke, Old Granny Xu rolled up his left sleeve. "Let me see, let me see. I remember you had a reddish birthmark on your left arm, about the size of a soybean."

With Guan Cheng’s growth, the red birthmark the size of a grain had grown to the size of a peanut.

An obvious red mark was still present on Guan Cheng’s upper left arm.

Touching the birthmark, Old Granny Xu immediately burst into tears.

"Guan Cheng, you’re alive. You’re alive. I’m so grateful to see you alive. Wonderful, wonderful! The Guan Family has a successor! The Guan Family has a successor!" Old Granny Xu hugged Guan Cheng tightly, crying. "After the Guan Family crisis happened, my family had its own problems, about the same time yours did. Back then, I couldn’t help but put my own survival first, and had no way to find out what happened to you. When I finally gained a slight degree of freedom, I made inquiries through many sources. Some said that every member of the Guan Family had died. Yet, a couple of individuals reported that your mother fled with you. I often wondered to myself how likely it would be for your mother and you to have survived the disaster and famine. I dared not harbor much hope. But, all the same, I hoped you were alive. At least, we’d continue to have a line of the Guan Family, even if I couldn’t see you again!"