Chapter 20: I Took Off My Brother's Green Hat (20)

There have been a lot more phone calls at home lately. Shushu's smartwatch suddenly rang during dinner.

Ji Huaizhi looked over.

Shushu, holding her watch, sweetly called out to her mother, "I'm eating now, Mom. Have you eaten yet?"

Shushu smiled after the other person said something.

Ji Huaizhi turned his head and found that they were all looking in Shushu's direction.

"What is this?" he asked, somewhat puzzled.

What happened while you were away from home?

Ji Huaijin didn't say anything and continued eating.

When Ji's mother mentioned that they were not at home, she said, "Feng Wanyi has been waiting at our door for the past few days. I happened to run into her when I brought Shushu back today."

"She must have missed her mother so much after not seeing her for so long, and she rushed over to her as soon as she saw her today."

When Ji's mother talked about this, she felt that Feng Wanyi was treacherous.

"My child misses his mother, and I can't stop him from being with her."

Ji Huaijin: "It's alright, as long as the two of them don't go out alone."

Ji Huaizhi curled his lip; this was just her routine.

Boiling a frog in lukewarm water.

Over time, some people will say that the original spouse is the best, even if she has made a mistake, she is still the child's biological mother.

Feng Wanyi was a smart woman; she knew to start with the children.

"Shushu, dinner's ready," Ji Huaizhi called out.

Ji Shu looked up: "Mom, I'm not going to say anything more. I'm going to eat."

"Let's talk again tonight, Mom will tell you a story tonight."

Ji Shu nodded emphatically: "Yes."

That evening, Ji Huaizhi knocked on Shushu's door: "Why didn't you come to your uncle's room? Didn't we agree to play puzzles together tonight?"

Ji Shu's face showed embarrassment: "I'm sorry, Uncle, I forgot."

"It's okay, you can do it now." Ji Huaizhi grinned mischievously. "Your uncle is waiting for you in the room."

Ji Shu had no choice but to pick up her smartwatch and change the voice message: "I'm sorry, Mom, I promised my uncle we'd play puzzles together today."

Feng Wanyi frowned; Ji Huaizhi was still such a nuisance.

"But Mom misses you so much."

Ji Shu didn't want to upset her uncle, because he was always there for her when she was sad.

It seems that Mom is behind Uncle in line.

A child's voice rang out: "Does Mom really miss me?"

Feng Wanyi didn't understand: "What do you mean?"

"If Mom missed me, why did it take so long to call me for the first time? If you want to ask, why didn't you come to see me sooner?"

The girl's voice was slightly sobbing, and her tone was aggrieved.

Feng Wanyi remained silent: "Mom has something to do. Mom and Dad are separated, so Mom can't come to see you."

"You and Dad are separated, so you're not my mom anymore?" The child's voice was stubborn: "I tried calling you, but I couldn't get through."

"Mom, I miss you so much. But I want to go see my uncle now."

Feng Wanyi had no choice but to hang up the phone.

Ji Huaizhi opened the door when he heard the noise and saw a little girl crying.

"Uncle, I don't want to play the puzzle. I'm a little sad and I don't want Dad to know."

Ji Huaizhi turned aside to let her in.

Even children have their own troubles, and his uncle is his best friend.

"The grandma outside said that my mom was abandoned by my dad because she did something wrong, but I still miss my mom. But when I talk to her on the phone, I don't want to talk to her anymore."

Ji Huaizhi wiped her little face: "If you don't want to talk about it, then don't."

"I have so much to say, I'm so angry, but I can't bring myself to tell my mom." Ji Shu doesn't quite understand why her parents separated: "I'm unhappy, why does everything feel different?"

Ji Huaizhi patted her head: "Nothing is static."

Nothing is static.

This was the first lesson Ji Shu understood.

That day, Shushu fell asleep on her uncle's bed. She remembers her uncle saying before she fell asleep: "Adults' business is adults' business, it has nothing to do with children."

Children who overthink will not grow tall.

Many things you only understand when you grow up; thinking about them now will give you a headache.

Shushu nods in her sleep; it really gives her a headache.

When Ji Huaijin came in to hold the child, Ji Huaizhi was sleeping next to him.

I covered him with the blanket: "Kids can be so reasonable, and they can even come up with a whole set of arguments."

After closing the door, Ji Huaizhi turned over.

Feng Wanyi finally saw the child, but she couldn't take her outside the community. Ji's mother sat not far away chatting with someone, and could clearly see Shushu sliding down the slide.

Feng Wanyi stood beside the child, playing with him.

“I have to say your family is kind; they actually let her see the child,” said the older woman next to her.

“We’re not being kind; we just feel sorry for the child. Otherwise, we wouldn’t want to have anything to do with her at all,” said Ji’s mother, her tone filled with disdain.

"Who can argue with that? It's all the parents' fault, but it's the children who get hurt."

Feng Wanyi could barely laugh anymore, but there was nothing she could do but coax the child. Seeing how clingy the child was, she thought to herself that she must be her own flesh and blood.

"Shushu, has your dad been seeing any other aunties lately?" Feng Wanyi asked, trying to get information about the Ji family.

"No, Daddy is only with his toy cars." Shushu darted back and forth on the slide.

There were other children around.

"If your dad has another aunt around, you must tell your mom quietly." Feng Wanyi pretended to be pitiful in front of her daughter: "Dad has a misunderstanding about Mom. Do you want Mom and Dad to make up?"

She felt that no child wanted their parents to separate.

But to his surprise, Ji Shu just looked at him with her big, watery eyes.

“That’s my father’s privacy, I can’t say.”

“Mom, your separation from Dad is a matter between the two of you. Even though you are separated now, you are still my mom and dad.”

"This will not change."

Feng Wanyi was quite surprised to see the child speaking so seriously.

Looking at Ji's mother, he guessed that they were the ones who taught her.

“Since your parents separated, you’ll be a child from a single-parent family.” Feng Wanyi said slowly, a slight smile playing on her lips, “Shushu doesn’t want to be a child from a single-parent family, does she?”

"Shushu is not from a single-parent family. She also has an uncle, grandparents and grandchildren."

Looking at her daughter's innocent appearance, Feng Wanyi felt that hints were useless.

Just then, the child next to her came over, looked up at Feng Wanyi, and asked, "Are you Ji Shu's mother, the one who cheated on her husband?"

Ji Shu instantly bristled: "What nonsense are you talking about? Get away!"

Feng Wanyi never expected the child to say something like that: "Whose child are you? How did your parents raise you?"

"Hehe, Ji Shu, didn't your mom go steal someone today?" The child's mockery was malicious.

Ji Shu angrily pushed him away: "Shut up! My mother is not a human trafficker."

The child wiped his nose and said seriously, "Stealing people doesn't make you a human trafficker, stealing people makes you cuckold your dad."

"My dad wasn't cuckolded." There were many things Ji Shu didn't understand.

For example, the other children in the neighborhood.

"The green hat isn't a real hat, that's what my grandma said."

"Your grandmother is lying."