Chapter 330
Yunmian couldn't get anything out of him, and could only guess that the system uncle was unhappy because she left one of its balls at home.
The child held the little light ball and apologized obediently, then ran to squat beside his grandfather and washed dishes and played with water with him.
While popping the detergent bubbles on the water with his fingers, he whispered, "Grandpa, is grandma secretly sick?"
Yun Yuanzhe was puzzled: "What's the secret illness?"
Yunmian continued to poke the bubbles with her fingers and said softly, "When we went to the pharmacy just now, the saleslady told grandma that Aunt Chen came to buy medicine again?"
As Yunmian spoke, she didn't notice Grandpa's sudden stiffness and asked in a daze, "Grandpa, is Grandma catching a cold? Is she feeling better now?"
Yunmian didn't ask her grandmother, because her grandmother had bought the medicine secretly, obviously because she didn't want her mother to worry, just like when she was in so much pain in the hospital before, she hid in the quilt and cried secretly because she was afraid that her mother would worry.
Yunmian is a meticulous and thoughtful child, so she chose to ask her grandfather, who would definitely know whether her grandmother’s illness had recovered.
The system squatted silently above the host's head, looking at Yun Yuanzhe's equally stiff and silent expression, and sighed helplessly again and again.
My boy, you are just too meticulous sometimes...so everyone is caught off guard and can't even draft a lie in the first place.
Yun Yuanzhe rubbed his granddaughter's head helplessly and sighed, "Good girl, Mianmian, grandma just has a slight cold and is fine after taking the medicine."
"Are you really well?" Yun Mian raised her little face and said worriedly, "I can make some cold medicine for grandma~"
"It's really healed." Yun Yuanzhe removed his hand and smiled, changing the subject: "Hurry up and wash your hands. They are covered with foam."
"Oh~" Yun Mian looked down at her hands covered in bubbles, then obediently stood up and rinsed them under the faucet.
When she happily went to talk to her mother again, the old man turned his head, and her small, excited figure was reflected in his cloudy eyes. After a while, the smile on his face gradually faded.
In the following days, apart from the fact that the system uncle became more and more mysterious, Yunmian did not find anything else unusual about her mother.
School life gradually returned to normal. Due to Yunmian's unyielding fighting spirit, the children in the middle and senior classes no longer dared to bully her.
As time passed, Yunmian gradually forgot the strange doubts about her mother that day.
I followed Cheng Mu early in the morning and watched him carry my schoolbag and take me to school.
When she was about to turn the corner, Yun Mian didn't know what was going on, but suddenly she looked back as if she sensed something.
Outside the shed not far away, grandparents supported mom and stood at the door, looking at her back. When she turned around, grandma waved at her and told her loudly to remember to listen to Cheng Mu and not to fight and cause trouble for him.
"I know~" Yun Mian answered loudly, and the next second Cheng Mu grabbed her collar and carried her away like a chicken.
The system stopped on Yun Mujin's shoulder. It watched the host disappear around the corner, then turned and looked at the three elderly and weak members of the family.
The moment after Mianmian's figure disappeared, the kind smile on Chen Fanghua's face disappeared.
She lowered her head and patted her daughter's hand, forcing a smile and saying, "Xiao Jin, let's go out and see if we can find anything today. You are home alone, and unless Mianmian comes back, don't open the door if someone else knocks..."
Yun Mujin lowered his head and listened to his mother chattering in his ear about many things.
From small things like letting her get more sun every day and avoid catching a cold from the wind, to big things like what to do when Mianmian grows up.
Perhaps the mother herself did not think at first that she would not be able to control herself and give so many instructions.
Yun Mujin held the rough, dry hand covered with calluses with his backhand, tilted his head slightly, looked at his father beside him, and said softly: "Dad, Mom, I know everything you put under the sink."
Feeling her mother's hand suddenly stiffen, Yun Mujin clenched it tightly and said calmly: "You have found where Tang Chen is, right?"
"Mom, don't go." She shook her head slowly and whispered, "Mianmian's 6th birthday is coming soon. If you go, what will happen to her in the future?"
Perhaps the moment he heard her say that he knew, he had already anticipated that she would make such persuasion. Chen Fanghua and Yun Yuanzhe looked at each other, and saw a bit of determination in each other's eyes.
Chen Fanghua used her other hand to push her daughter's hand away inch by inch.
She raised her head slightly, and gently touched her daughter's broken eye sockets and cheeks with shaking hands. Her old voice was trembling but gentle: "Xiao Jin, you are my only daughter. Your parents have lived for so long just to avenge that beast for you. We are old and useless. This is the last thing your parents can do for you."
Yun Mujin lowered his head and sniffed the faint scent of old age on his mother. His chest rose and fell for a moment, and then he reached out and tightly grasped her arm: "Mom, you and Dad...stay here and help me take good care of Mianmian. Help me watch Mianmian grow up, and don't let her become a child that no one loves and no one wants."
The two understood what their daughter meant.
She wants to go along too.
She wanted to dig out that bastard Tang Chen's eyes with her own hands.
But she was also using this method of exchanging life for life, trying desperately to save one of their lives.
The system flew up and hit the host mother on the forehead, wanting to tell her that she couldn’t go, because if she went to Mianmian, she would really be left without a mother.
But it went through Yun Mujin's forehead and body and hit nothing, and no one could hear what it said.
The system was a little discouraged. It knew that it should rush out to call Mianmian back and let Mianmian come back to stop them.
But this family... deliberately chose today because there was a planting activity in Yunmian's kindergarten today, and they wanted to provide proof that the child was completely absent, so as to avoid implicating her as much as possible.
The system flew hesitantly near the family, listening to them arguing about who should stay at home. After a while, it finally made up its mind that it would fly to get Mianmian back and stop them, even if it would expose its existence.
We can't just... let them die like this, right?
It didn't even dare to think, if Mianmian lost her mother and grandparents, would the child's originally strong soul be broken by the pain.
The system doesn’t dare to gamble. It doesn’t dare to gamble whether Mianmian will still be the kind and innocent child after losing her mother.
After figuring it out, the system no longer cared about the three people who had already made their decision, and quickly flew in the direction the host had left.
But just as it flew around the corner, it suddenly stopped in mid-air in horror.
The two people squatting in a daze in the corner and the two people standing with their hands folded against the wall and their heads down, one young and one old, were Yun Mian and Cheng Mu who should have arrived at school.
How come they are here and not leaving?
The system slowly and stiffly flew down and landed on the host's shoulder.
"...Mianmian?" it called out cautiously.
The next second, the child raised his head, his eyes slightly red with tears, and the smile in his eyes when he waved goodbye was no longer visible.
The inquiries that the system had originally organized could no longer be asked.
It flew up silently, stuck to Mianmian's forehead, and stayed with her quietly.
Cheng Mu looked down at the surveillance footage on his phone, then lowered his eyes, his complicated gaze falling on the child curled up at his feet.
Half a month ago, Yun Mian found him and hoped that he could help see if there was anything strange or dangerous hidden in the house, because she could always smell a strange smell every time she went home, but when she wanted to look for it, she was always stopped by her grandparents.
"Brother, my mother has been in a daze for a longer time recently than before, and my grandparents always go out together to pick up trash, and they don't care that my mother is alone at home."
"Grandpa has been cooking a lot of meat lately. I've never eaten so much meat before."
"Mom folded up a lot of money and put it in the straw mat under my pillow."
"My grandma embroidered beautiful flowers on many of the clothes she gave me. She also washed all my clothes and shoes cleanly and folded them and put them at the bottom of the closet where I could reach them."
"Grandma and grandpa wrote a lot of papers, and they were all in a small box. I couldn't see any of them."
"Grandma said a lot to me, but I didn't understand it. But she insisted that I remember it."
Cheng Mu sat on the steps outside the school gate, looking at the child holding her schoolbag that had been maliciously scribbled on by other children. She frowned and counted on her fingers, describing one by one the things she had found wrong during this period.
Yun Mian said a lot, and finally she looked at Cheng Mu, the only person she could turn to for help, pursed her lips, and asked him in a low voice: "Brother, can you be a detective and help me investigate secretly? My grandparents and mom have been acting so strange recently, I'm a little scared..."
She couldn't explain why she was afraid, but every night even when she was sleeping in her mother's arms, her heart would palpitate uneasily, always waking her up from her sleep again and again.
And every time she woke up, the grandparents she saw during the day, although they still had the same kind and loving behavior and smiles, in Yunmian's eyes, it was as if they had suddenly put on a thick mask, which looked strange and incongruous.
Yunmian couldn't ignore this incongruity at all, but every time she asked her grandparents and mother, they always tried to change the subject. She really had no other choice.
"I'll help you, but Mianmian, you know the rules. We need a [proper] deal."
Since the last time, Cheng Mu has been more cautious than before.
Yunmian nodded seriously: "Okay."
During the three minutes she waited, Cheng Mu thought of many "deals", but in the end, looking at the child's red eyes due to worry, he said: "If I find out your family's secret, I want your grandfather to teach me to read and write, okay?"
He used just a little effort to get a professor to give him lectures, which was a sure win.
Yunmian hesitated for a moment and said he would go back and ask his grandfather.
She never used her family as a bargaining chip, but if it was about learning to read, Yunmian would not stop her as long as her grandfather nodded in agreement.
The next afternoon, Cheng Mu came to the door with many gifts, hoping that the white-haired Grandpa Yun could teach him to read and write.
He did not become a disciple, and Grandpa Yun said that he would never accept another disciple.
Taking this opportunity, Cheng Mu placed the cameras that Zhou Xin helped him get in several hidden corners of the Yun family.
But neither he nor Yunmian expected to hear such a conversation today.
Cheng Mu squatted down beside the child who was staring blankly at the air, lowered his head to cut out the interface, and called her teacher to ask for a day off.
After hanging up, he patted the child on the back and coaxed her in a low voice: "Don't be afraid, I said, I will help you."
See you tomorrow morning.
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