Chapter 180: So, Do You Have Any Other Brothers?

"Hello, uncles, I'm Xiao Shitou…"

Xiao Shitou sized them up while greeting them.

Shi Yun said nothing, just glanced at them and then withdrew his gaze.

An Liu's gaze skimmed past Shi Yun, landed on Xiao Shitou's face, and the more he looked, the more he felt Xiao Shitou resembled his own master.

"Xiao Shitou, you look like my master."

An Shi Yi blurted out.

An Liu: "……"

Just keep it in your mind; why say it out loud? Are you afraid others won't know?

When An Shi said that, Na Lan Ruo Lan walked over and said, "I think so too, Qiao Sheng, Xiao Shitou and Shi Lin, they…"

"They, they have no relationship at all…"

Qiao Sheng answered quickly, not waiting for them to say anything, and then said, "There are people in this world who look alike; they do exist. They must be those kinds of people."

Her words had just finished.

Shi Jin, from the side, said, "My third uncle and I still look a bit alike!"

Shi Ren said nothing.

Na Lan Ruo Lan began to imagine: could Xiao Shitou be Shi Jin's father's illegitimate child? Because their mother couldn't accommodate him, Xiao Shitou ended up wandering outside and was taken in by Qiao Sheng?

That was what she thought.

Qiao Sheng didn't know, and she said, "Grandma, we still have business at the restaurant, so I won't talk more with you; let's chat next time."

"Alright!"

Na Lan Ruo Lan came to her senses and replied.

On the way home, Xiao Shitou said nothing, but his eyes kept glancing at Shi Jin and the others from time to time.

He hadn't paid attention to this before.

Now, looking closely.

Isn't he somewhat like Shi Jin and the others?

Could he be a blood brother of theirs?

Or perhaps a half‑brother?

Qiao Sheng also had this thought; when Shi Lin came again to the house she rented, she asked him, "Shi Lin, how many women does your older brother have?"

"Ah…"

Shi Lin looked bewildered and said, "What do you mean by that?"

Qiao Sheng didn't explain, "Answer my question directly; is my question hard to understand?"

Shi Lin recalled the question she had just asked.

He looked at Qiao Sheng and said, "My older brother and my older sister-in-law were childhood sweethearts; they even fought on the same battlefield. Their relationship has grown from childhood to adulthood. Do you think, given that, my older brother could have another woman?"

"Then you…"

Qiao Sheng began to speak.

Shi Lin immediately understood what she wanted to ask; he raised an eyebrow and said, "I ask why you're asking that—so it's aimed at me, right? I already told you, I don't have any. What, you have a crush on me?"

"If you were to lose your memory…"

Qiao Sheng said only a few words.

Shi Lin's hand immediately knocked on her head.

"What are you thinking about every day? If I lost my memory, could I not know? I see a doctor every so often to check on myself."

Qiao Sheng then asked Shi Lin, "Do you have any other brothers?"

What does she actually mean?

Shi Lin was very puzzled.

He stared straight at Qiao Sheng and said, "Why are you bringing this up? Could it be that you saw someone who looks a lot like me? My mother never gave me that many brothers; I only have one older brother."

"Everyone says Xiao Shitou looks like you."

Qiao Sheng stared at Shi Lin and said.

Shi Lin finally understood why Qiao Sheng had asked that before.

He thought for a moment and said, "I also think Xiao Shitou looks a bit like me, but I truly have no woman, and how could my age possibly produce a son as old as him? As for my brother, it's even more impossible; he's been in Imperial Capital for years and never left my sister-in-law, so he couldn't have children with anyone else."

(End of Chapter)