Chapter 239
Thinking of the scene in which Aunt Yun was packing lunch bags in the kitchen without letting her know, Wu Yin felt an urge to cry almost instantly.
But she forced herself to hold back her tears, then silently took out the two hundred yuan, put one on herself, and handed the other to Wu Wan.
In her surprised eyes, Wu Yin lowered his head and whispered, "This is my living expenses and accommodation expenses for the next few days. Take it. I will pay you back when I earn money later."
She didn't know whether her behavior and words were beyond the scope of a child, and she didn't really care.
In her previous life, she had quarreled and struggled with the person in the wheelchair in front of her for decades, and they had also depended on each other for decades. She did not deny that she was jealous of Li Zhaozhao, but she was always holding a grudge in her heart, so until the last second before opening the lunch box, she was still thinking about getting along with Wu Wan again and trying to improve their relationship.
But the two hundred dollars was like the gentlest needle, piercing straight into her heart.
True love does not require a child to act nice and try hard to grab and fight for it, nor will it make her worry about gains and losses and even form an obsession that is difficult to let go until death.
Just like Auntie Yun treats Mianmian, just like Mianmian treats her...
Sadly, compared to the two "outsiders", Wu Wan did not even one percent of what they did.
Wu Wan's love had long been given to Li Zhaozhao, and even her husband's life was tied to Li Zhaozhao. Even if Wu Yin quarreled for decades, she would not be able to snatch it away.
The reason why Wu Wan has depended on her for decades is because Wu Wan had no choice. If Wu Wan could choose between herself and Li Zhaozhao, then when she and Li Zhaozhao were six years old, she would definitely choose Li Zhaozhao without hesitation.
And decades later, she might need to struggle for a long time, and then choose Li Zhaozhao again with pain and hesitation.
It's a pity that she only suddenly understood this truth now.
There was no sudden enlightenment or heart-wrenching pain in her. She just saw the two RMB notes and remembered that Mianmian had given her a stack of RMB in the same way in her previous life.
Mianmian was already fifteen years old at that time. Even though her face was burned by the fire and she rarely went out, when she and Wu Wan were worried about college tuition and living expenses, she knocked on her door and handed her a thin wad of money with bright eyes.
"I don't know how much it costs to go to college, but you can take this money first, go to school and study hard, and get my share of the money as well."
Mianmian didn’t receive much education. She didn’t even finish the second grade of primary school before something happened in her family. She was the only eight-year-old child left and it was difficult for her to even survive.
But when she was fifteen, she took on odd and tedious manual work at home and worked for a month, earning 683 yuan and put it into Wu Yin's hands.
The stack of money, both in small and large amounts, still carried the warmth of the body's grasp in Mianmian's palm. The moment it was placed in Wu Yin's hand, it made Wu Yin's heart tremble more than any other large transfer.
She knew how much hardship Mianmian had endured to earn this little money. She clearly saw the calluses on Mianmian's hands. A 15-year-old girl as beautiful as a flower had already developed calluses on her hands.
She vowed to study hard and find the best job to earn more money for Mianmian.
She made this vow more than once, and used it to motivate herself whenever she wanted to be weak and lazy or succumb to fate.
But fate took Mianmian away mercilessly. At that time, Wu Yin had not even had the chance to leave the campus that Mianmian had longed for.
In my previous life, the only person who reached out to me when I was in trouble was Mianmian.
The first person who helped me in this life was Mianmian’s mother.
What is both coincidental and sad is that in both lives and in both predicaments, Wu Wan seemed to be a step slower, and then many steps slower.
She would never be Wu Wan's first choice - Wu Yin tightly grasped the only money in her hand and no longer concealed the peculiarity of her mind and character.
Wu Wan was stunned by her words. He probably never expected to hear such words from a six-year-old child.
Such unfamiliar words even made her heart ache.
But she opened her mouth and couldn't say anything.
She wanted to tell the child in front of her, whose expression was even more indifferent than before, that this was their home and they didn't need any living expenses or rent.
But when she looked at the child's almost indifferent expression, she felt as if something had disappeared before she could catch it.
The uneasiness and palpitations that instantly swept through her mind made her cough violently subconsciously. She covered her chest with her hands, holding the hot hundred-yuan bill, and coughed breathlessly in the wheelchair.
Wu Yin subconsciously wanted to step forward, but when she saw the photo of her, Li Zhaozhao, and a man as a family of three on the cabinet next to Wu Wan, she suddenly stopped and her eyes fell on the happy smiles of the three people for a few seconds.
After a moment, she lowered her head and ignored Wu Wan's cough, then took out the dinner from the lunch bag, took some for herself, and took it back to the bedroom to eat slowly.
Wu Yin sat at the small desk in front of the window, with the dinner that was shoved in and was no longer delicate in front of her. Listening to the sound of the wheelchair slowly rolling outside, she put down her chopsticks, supported her face with her hands, and looked up at the bright full moon hanging high in the window.
She was already an adult, she whispered to herself.
Be strong, live for yourself, and don't be sad because of what you can't get.
God gave me a chance to start over, and he certainly didn't want to see me trapped in the vortex of obsession with family affection and struggling for the rest of my life.
Besides, Mianmian longed for school so much. He studied very hard in his previous life in order to live a good life and take Mianmian with him, instead of getting entangled with Li Zhaozhao and Wu Wan.
So if I had to start over again, I couldn't act like a child anymore. Instead, I should rely on the knowledge I had accumulated in my previous life and my cognition that far exceeds that of the current society to do more things, seize more opportunities, and then let Mianmian and Aunt Yun avoid death, and everyone could live better and better and live longer.
Wu Yin gradually sorted out her chaotic thoughts into a clearer picture. She almost roughly cut off all the irrelevant emotional threads, leaving only the one thread in her hand.
Just this one is enough. As long as Mianmian can accompany me and grow up well this time, and doesn't have to endure any disaster or hardship again, it is enough.
The old people always say that fate has its own measure. Maybe she was too greedy in her previous life, wanting this and that, so she ended up like that after constantly forcing and struggling.
So this time, even if it was just to let Aunt Yun and Mianmian live a smooth life, she must not be a greedy person again.
The little girl's eyes gradually brightened as all her thoughts finally came into her mind. She imitated the silly look of little girl Mianmian in the afternoon, looked up at the bright moon hanging high in the sky and gave an equally silly smile, then raised her head and shoveled rice into her mouth with a spoon.
I've been busy all day today, and now I urgently need the delicious food made by Aunt Yun to save my rumbling stomach.
Li family.
Wu Zhaozhao had already become familiar with Li Gaoyang and Chen Xinya. She knew that her mother would not come to pick her up again because her mother had another child, the child in this family.
They exchanged children.
Wu Zhaozhao didn't quite understand why this happened, but she was a precocious and introverted child. After Li Gaoyang's assistant brought those things back from the Wu family and Li Zhaozhao overheard Li Gaoyang casually say to throw those things away, Wu Zhaozhao knew she couldn't go home.
Wu Zhaozhao saw a small schoolbag among those things. It was a princess schoolbag that her mother bought for her with her hard-earned money. She liked it very much and put all the snacks that her sister Mianmian gave her into the schoolbag.
But the uncle didn't even ask her a word and just asked another uncle to take it away and throw it away.
Wu Zhaozhao wanted to rush down to stop it, but the nanny who came over hugged her and covered her mouth.
When she was carried back to the bedroom, Wu Zhaozhao bit the base of her hand hard. After hearing the painful sound of her inhaling, she sat on the soft big bed and started crying.
Those were all my own things, including the dolls that my mother sewed, the princess stickers that I bought with my sister Mianmian, the beautiful hairbands that Aunt Yun gave me, and the snacks that Mianmian gave me...
But now they are all gone.
She was only six years old. Even though she was precocious, after experiencing all kinds of mess, she could no longer control her emotions. She sat on the bed, crying, wiping away her tears with her hands, and then continued to cry and wipe away her tears.
Sister Mianmian said that you can’t cry secretly when you are sad, otherwise both her mother and she will be very sad.
Sister Mianmian said that if you eat a sweet candy when you are unhappy and sad, you will become happy.
But my mother sent me away, and the candy that my sister Mianmian gave me was also put into a small bag and thrown away...
Wu Zhaozhao wiped her tears desperately, rubbing her eyes until they were swollen and her cheeks were red, but she still couldn't convince herself to stop crying.
She didn't know what to do.
The nanny and my mother both said they would listen to the two uncles and aunts.
But they didn't tell her that her favorite little bag and the treasures inside it would be thrown away...
The child wiped away his tears again, sniffed, and said sorry to the nanny, the only one who would hug him and comfort him.
"Auntie, I'm sorry... I'll bite it back for you..."
The little girl's soft voice was filled with tears. She sobbed and stretched out her tear-soaked little hands, but her eyes were completely unfocused. She just sat on the edge of the bed with her head hung down. Her clear eyes, washed by tears, were full of uneasiness and confusion about the present and the distant future.
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Thanks to the little angel who irrigated the nutrient solution:
Lin Shuyi 25 bottles;
10 bottles of Xiaobobao and xoahui;
Watch the world smoke through 5 bottles;
28281713, Jiuyan, why don't you ask the cat 1 bottle?
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