"Goudan, what's your name?" Ju Jingbai gently poked Goudan's little face. "Are you calling me or the photo?"
"Mom, Mom~" Goudan was still too young and could only make a soft single sound. He held the photo, and crystal clear saliva flowed down his chin along with his smile.
Ju Jingbai wiped Goudan's saliva with a tissue and said with a smile, "Are you so happy? This is your mother, right? She looks like a great beauty!"
Her first reaction was that Goudan was abducted, and this is his biological mother?
But she immediately overturned this idea, because the more she looked at it, the more she felt that the girl in the photo was simply a photoshopped version of her current face. If her face was whiter, the wrinkles at the corners of her eyes were fewer, and the mole at the corner of her mouth was removed, she would look exactly like her now.
"Mom...Mom~" Goudan's childish voice rang out again, "Woo wa ba ba ba."
"You're so happy after peeing? Fortunately, I changed Qi Yue's diaper before, otherwise you would be crawling naked!" Ju Jingbai poked Goudan's little chest. Could the person in the photo be the young appearance of the person she possessed?
Ju Jingbai pondered the question while changing a diaper: "Goudan, how old do you think Mom is this year? She can't be young anymore. Her face is full of traces of time. Maybe it's because I came from outside and I'm old that your grandma didn't recognize me. Later, she thought I was a bad omen for your dad."
"I heard from those mothers-in-law this afternoon that your grandmother wants her youngest son to divorce and marry someone from the village. They even said everyone in the village knows each other, and given her youngest son's bad character, the girl will suffer if she marries him. But your village is pretty good, unlike the ones my sister encountered before, where they all favor boys over girls. Tsk!"
Ju Jingbai muttered as he sorted out the clues: "I don't even know how old I am now. Goudan, be good. I'll find my ID card."
Goudan refused to give in, making a "hmm" sound, and grabbed Ju Jingbai's hand with his chubby little hands. His chubby fingers clenched tightly, and he stared at Ju Jingbai with his deer eyes blinking: "Mom...hmm...Mom!"
"Okay, okay, don't cry. You want me to hold you, right?" Ju Jingbai couldn't stand the wet look of children the most.
She carried Goudan in her arms and rummaged through the drawers at home, and finally found a small bag containing his ID card at the very back of the closet.
Qian Meizi’s full name is Qian Minmin, and she is only 25 years old this year.
Ju Jingbai was stunned when he looked at the photo on the ID card. The ID card photo was obviously a magic mirror that could magnify all the ugly flaws, but the photo of Qian Minmin on the ID card was better looking than the one in Goudan's hand.
Moreover, the date on the ID card is from October 11, 2018 to October 11, 2028, and the date of the photo was less than two years.
Qian Minmin's appearance has changed so much, hasn't it? How could she suddenly become like this?
This is obviously not normal. Did someone take away her beauty? Or what happened?
Ju Jingbai stroked the photo. She usually paid more attention to the character of others, but judging from the looks of the people she met today, they all looked good.
Locals and foreign wives are relatively good-looking. There are only a few who are a little ugly, but their looks are not so ugly that they cannot be seen in public.
She really believed that the local climate and soil nourished the people.
"Hey, Qian sister, Qian sister, your aunt from your uncle's family has passed away." Suddenly, Aunt Song's voice rang out anxiously outside, "She's going to be buried soon, you should go and see her. Oh, it's really true! I saw your aunt taking care of the children a few days ago, and I didn't expect her to pass away today!"
"How did he die?" Ju Jingbai asked.
"Don't mention it. He was hit by a truck on the curb and died on the way to the hospital." Aunt Song said, waving her hand. "I won't talk to you anymore. Take Goudan to your uncle's house for the funeral. I'm going to go call the others."
"Why is the funeral being held now?" Ju Jingbai nodded. "Don't we usually have to wait until the seventh day has passed?"
"We need to make room for the Qixi Festival. On such a festive day, we have to deal with the dead quickly." Aunt Song said and left in a hurry.
This... after all, the dead are much more important than this kind of Qixi Festival, right?
Ju Jingbai shook his head, turned around, picked up Goudan, and followed the crowd towards his uncle's house.
Ju Jingbai was among a group of expressionless people and pursed her lips. She had thought there would be a grand funeral.
It’s a good opportunity to take advantage of the mourning period to find someone who is participating in the metaphysics competition.
I didn't expect that after a funeral, the silence would be so suffocating.
She also took the opportunity of covering the dead body with a white cloth to secretly glance at the dead old man. The old man and her uncle did not even look like they were from the same generation. The old man was old and ugly, and looked a whole generation older than her uncle.
Ju Jingbai glanced at the group of beautiful uncles, aunts, brothers and sisters-in-law next to him, and suddenly shuddered.
"Auntie Song, why is there no one crying at the funeral?" After the dull funeral, Ju Jingbai followed behind Auntie Song and asked.
"It's almost the Qixi Festival. If we cry and anger the priest who protects our village, it will be disastrous." Aunt Song said in a mysterious tone.
"That's right, the Qixi Festival is really important." Ju Jingbai nodded, "But, my aunt is a foreign daughter-in-law, right?"
"Well, she's been married in our village for decades. Your uncle has a good job and is handsome. I heard he tricked the most beautiful girl in his workplace into marrying him." Aunt Song said with joy, "When your uncle got married, most of the people in the village attended the wedding. The bride was so beautiful, like a star on TV. She was so pretty. When your dog grows up, we'll find a wife according to her standards."
"But I think my aunt was so ugly when she died." Ju Jingbai asked bluntly.
"There are reasons for that. There are some things I can't tell you in advance. Now you are the only one left in your family. You are already a member of our Gaoliang Village. As long as you make up for the ceremony on the Qixi Festival, there will be many benefits in the future!" Aunt Song smiled and patted Ju Jingbai on the shoulder.
In the next two days, Ju Jingbai looked everywhere for the whereabouts of those foreign wives, but those people lived in seclusion and she didn't see any of them.
She hadn't even met any of the contestants in the metaphysics competition.
The Qixi Festival will begin soon.
Late at night on the day before the Qixi Festival, Ju Jingbai was awakened by the sound of clanging and heard cheers outside.
Groups of children cheered and passed by the doors of each house, knocking on them and asking for good luck.
Finally, she knocked on their door. Ju Jingbai took out the chocolates and fruit candies she had prepared in advance, opened the door, and took a look around. All of them were the various dogs she had met in the village these days.
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