But Xu Wentian, having lost his memory, didn't even know he had been sent down to the countryside as a "zhiqing."
The only one who knew this old matter was the family patriarch, who had never brought it up in front of him.
If not for Gao Lihong's mention today, Xu Wentian would have remained unaware of his past as a zhiqing.
Since Xu Wentian still sparsely remembered his time with Gao Lihong, he had asked the old patriarch about it.
The patriarch had lied to him, saying he had run away from home for a while, and they didn't know where he had gone.
The patriarch, having just lost a son and hoping Xu Wentian would marry the woman he had chosen for him, decided not to tell Xu Wentian about his stint as a zhiqing.
If Xu Wentian had known earlier about his time as a zhiqing, would he have wasted so many years?
There must have been records about where he was sent; had he known, he would have gone directly to these people for answers.
