Chapter 7 Chapter 7 This is a story about two people whose mother is completely missing...

Xia Li had a satisfying sleep. She hadn't gotten enough rest the night before at the hotel in the county town. She couldn't help but stretch and open her eyes comfortably.

It wasn't until she accidentally tilted her head to the left that she realized there was a little person beside her, someone she had stolen in the middle of the night. Thinking of this, Xia Li almost laughed at herself.

The child seems to still be sleeping.

Charlie slowly adjusted her posture, resting her arms and hands under her head, preparing to take a good look at her son whom she hadn't seen for two or three years.

Although two or three years is not too long for me, for a child, it is all he has in terms of self-awareness.

These were two or three years when the mother was completely absent. Charlie knew that she owed her child, but fortunately there was still a chance to make up for it.

She gently stroked the child's hair with her fingers, and traced the child's eyebrows, eyes, nose and mouth bit by bit with her eyes, and then prepared to imprint her most affectionate kiss on the child's forehead.

"Ginger, my ginger is so cute. I want to kiss our ginger. I see that ginger is still asleep, so I will take it as your consent." Xia Li said with a malicious intention.

If she hadn't looked closely, she would have thought the child was still asleep. What a clever child, even pretending to be asleep, he almost fooled her, Charlie thought.

Jiang Zai was watching his mother seriously at first, but his mother woke up after a while. He didn't know what to do, so he quickly closed his eyes and pretended to be still asleep so that he could sleep a little longer with his mother.

However, he still had his eyes closed, and he felt as if his mother was touching his hair and his head with her hands, which made him feel very comfortable. No one had ever touched him so gently before.

He wanted to make a sound out of pleasure and open his eyes to look at his mother, but he was worried that his mother would stop touching him if she saw him awake. So he had to try very hard to hold himself back. Then, he accidentally let his little eyeballs move.

This made Charlie notice something was going on.

Jiangzai didn't know that he was exposed. After his mother touched his head, she even said she wanted to kiss him.

Mommy actually wants to kiss him. His heart is beating so fast. He is very good, he is still sleeping, mommy, please kiss him.

Until he felt the warmth and softness on his forehead, all the scent of his mother. Jiangzai saw his mother's smiling eyes, curved and big, with a child in them. Then, he saw his mother lower her head and gently kiss his face.

His eyes didn't blink, filled with disbelief.

Xia Li hadn't expected her son to be so stunned by just two kisses. He stared at her with his eyes wide open, seemingly unable to blink. "Silly boy, you were just pretending to be asleep, how come you opened your eyes so quickly?" She hadn't teased him enough.

Jiang Zai was still immersed in disbelief, but he saw his mother suddenly wave her hand in front of his eyes. He suddenly realized that he seemed to have opened his eyes without knowing when.

Oh no, oh no, mom won’t find out I’m pretending to be asleep. His little face suddenly turned red and hot, and he quickly tucked his neck in and crawled under the quilt.

As an adult and a mother, Xia Li naturally had to give Jiang Zi a way out. She said to Jiang Zi, who was hiding in the quilt with only some hair left outside, "Jing Zi, I'm sorry, Mommy woke you up. Can we get up?"

Jiang Zai, who was hiding in the quilt, heard it, carefully pulled open the quilt, and then slowly nodded to Xia Li.

"Why is our Jiangzai a little mute? Can't Jiangzai speak?" Until now, although the child's attitude towards her has improved, he has not said a word to her.

Jiangzai hurriedly shook his head to indicate that he was not a mute, and then quickly said, "I can speak." He was worried that his mother would misunderstand him.

"Okay, our Jiang cub can speak. He's not a little mute, and his voice is very nice."

Charlie prepared to get up first and then dress him. She put on the women's suit she'd worn yesterday, then sat on the edge of the bed to put on the last shoe. Just as she was about to turn around and dress Jiang Zai, she suddenly remembered that she had only stolen the child last night, and his clothes were still in his grandmother's room.

There was no other way, Xia Li could only let Jiangzai on the bed wait for a while while she went out to find clothes for him.

Arriving at the door of Jiang Dong's mother's room, Xia Li called out, "Mom, I'm coming in."

After entering, she found Jiang Dong's mother sweeping the floor in the house and asked her what she was doing there.

Charlie said she came to get Ginger's clothes.

Jiang Dong's mother looked down on her, saying that she had already fed the chickens, cooked the meal, and almost swept the floor this morning, but she had just gotten up.

Xia Li kept smiling and kept apologizing, saying, "Mom, you've worked so hard!" Then she quickly took Jiang Zai's clothes and left.

Jiangzai in the room was still waiting obediently, not showing any impatience. Xia Li returned to the west room, took out Jiangzai's clothes from yesterday and was about to put them on him, but was surprised by Jiangzai's actions.

This time she was praising him 100% sincerely, "Baby, you are really great. You are so young but you can dress so well." Really, Jiang Zai is so small, but he is very skilled in dressing himself, without any drag, it is so smooth and flowing.

Jiangzai felt embarrassed when he heard his mother’s praise, as he had learned to dress himself a long time ago.

Charlie thought, this child was really different from the four or five-year-old children she had seen outside, and it probably wouldn't be too troublesome for her to take care of him in the future.

After breakfast, Jiang Dong's mother started to chase everyone away. She had previously thought that either Xia Li would come back on her own, or Jiang Dong would go out and find her. There was no reason for the couple to disagree. They could just work things out. At least they could give their children a complete home. Life passed quickly, so there was no need to dwell on many things.

However, now that Charlie has really come back by herself, she finds that she still feels resentful about how much suffering her son and grandson have endured because of this woman.

Not to mention, she came back this time to take advantage of the situation and wanted to take her Jiang family's grandson away, which was absolutely impossible.

So, Xia Li should not come back in the future. Forget about it this time. Just see the child and leave quickly.

Xia Li refused to give up. She had taken leave from her job all this way back home just for this matter, and there was no way she was going to leave without getting it done. But Jiang Dong's mother was adamant and no matter how Xia Li tried to persuade her, she was unsuccessful.

Before leaving, Xia Li found Jiang Dong's mother who was busy in the vegetable garden in the backyard, and spoke to her earnestly without caring whether she was listening or not.

"Mom, you think I, Xia Li, am a selfish person. I want to take your Jiang family's grandson away. But think about it, I am his biological mother. Did I come all the way back to harm the child? Jiang Dong is in trouble now, and I don't know when he will be able to come back. Who will raise the child? In a few years, when he goes to elementary school, who will pay for the tuition and living expenses? You say you will pay, but you are at home every day to take care of the whole family. After you are busy with the housework, you have to take care of the things inside. How much money can you make in a year? Don't you care about your health? If Jiang Dong knew that he was not at home, how distressed would they be to you! And the uncles and aunts in the East Room would not mind raising one more person? You said they would not do that now that the child is young, but what will happen when the child grows up? You don't know how grateful I am to see that you have raised the child to be healthy. However, when I see that the child is so well-behaved, my heart aches. It's because the child has no parents to love him! Now I realize that I was wrong. I can't let the child be without the company of his father and his mother!"

After hearing this, Xia Li burst into tears and couldn't control herself. After she finished speaking, she ran out crying with her bag.

Jiang Dong's mother was squatting on the spot, pinching a handful of grass in her hand. Her eyes were straight and her hands did not move for a long time.