Chapter 2247 Reunion
Xiao Jun stared blankly at the two people walking towards him. The woman was walking in front and the man was following silently behind. The woman was carrying a basket of flowers and the man was carrying a bag of vegetables.
The tall trees on one side of the courtyard grew vigorously, with their branches extending to the road.
The woman was wearing a plain long skirt and a white cotton shawl, and was talking as she walked.
The man helped her push aside the branches, smiled faintly, and nodded in agreement.
As she climbed the steps, the man put his hand on her side to protect her.
This scene seemed to bring Xiao Jun back to more than ten years ago.
At that time, Uncle Quan also silently guarded my mother, but he was just a home security guard.
More than ten years have passed, and Uncle Quan's appearance has changed, but the woman he protects seems to be still the same person, and is still the mother in Xiao Jun's memory.
She has a slim figure and beautiful eyes. Apart from some wrinkles on her face and a change in her clothing style, nothing else seems to have changed.
In the past, my mother loved to wear silk, but now she obviously prefers simple cotton.
There is another difference. My mother used to have the habit of cutting flowers and putting them in vases. However, at that time she would cut them directly from her own garden, but now she has to buy them at the market.
Xiao Jun looked at the two familiar figures coming towards him and stood up involuntarily.
He wanted to fly into his mother's arms like he did when he was a child, but he found that he was already a head taller than his mother.
So he stared at his mother in a daze, as if he had lost the ability to speak. He had a thousand things to say and didn't know where to start.
How did my mother come back to life? How has she been living these years? Who saved her? How does she survive?
After leaving the Xiao family, is she a little happier?
Also, the mother has not contacted him. Is she afraid that he will be found by his father, or is she afraid that her son has disowned her?
Hanlu obviously knew that her mother was still alive. Why did Hanlu know that but he didn't?
Xiao Jun had too many questions he wanted to ask his mother.
The flowers in the mother's hand fell to the ground. With red eyes, she murmured, "Ajun..."
The familiar voice of "Ajun" made Xiao Jun's eyes swell up, and everything in front of him was so unreal that he even forgot to call "Mom".
His mother came to him, reached out her hand and touched his face.
Xiao Jun hugged his mother's shoulders, feeling like a dream.
"Ajun, I'm sorry, I used to..."
"I never blamed you."
During the last time he spent with his mother, her mental health began to deteriorate significantly. She often drank alcohol and would beat Xiao Jun when she was drunk.
But Xiao Jun did not blame his mother. He knew that the root of the problem was not his mother.
When his mother beat him, her mental state was very bad, and many of her behaviors were out of control and even unconscious.
"Your Uncle Quan said you were injured. Are you healed?" the mother asked worriedly.
"Okay, everything is fine."
Whether it was physical injuries or emotional injuries, he was now all healed, thanks to one person...
Then he suddenly realized that he seemed to have forgotten to introduce this little girl who was very important to him.
He let go of his mother's shoulders and brought Ruomu, who had been standing behind him, to his mother: "Mom, this is my wife, Ruomu."
The mother quickly wiped away her tears and nodded gently to Ruomu: "Ruomu, hello."
"Hello, Auntie!" Ruomu answered foolishly.
Xiao Jun knocked her head and said, "Call me mom."
Ruomu blushed and obediently called out "Mom".
The mother smiled and nodded, "You don't look that old..."
Ruomu hurriedly said, just like she had answered Xiao Jun before, "I'm an adult now. I'm already nineteen!"
Xiao Jun stroked his forehead.
The mother was stunned and looked at Xiao Jun deeply.
Xiao Jun inexplicably felt guilty. Strangely enough, when he was with Ruomu, he often felt like he was committing a crime...
He quickly changed the subject and asked his mother what had happened that year.
The mother lowered her eyes. It was difficult to explain it in a few words.
Uncle Quan reminded: "Let's go to the back and talk."
Xiao Jun nodded to Uncle Quan.
Meeting Uncle Quan again, I felt a lot of emotions in my heart, but the communication between men is always very simple, a nod, a look, whether it is concern or emotion, everything is unspoken.
Uncle Quan said to the young clerk, "Mingzi, go and close the door. We're closed for business today."
"Okay," the young man took the vegetables from Uncle Quan, "Uncle, should I start preparing the meal now?"
Uncle Quan nodded, and the mother said to the young man, "You can make it spicier."
"You can't eat spicy food?"
The mother smiled and said, "Ajun likes to eat, just do as I say."
Xiao Jun didn't expect that his mother still remembered his taste for spicy food when he was a child. He did like spicy food since he was a child, unlike most children.
But later I got sick and many of my medicines required me to avoid spicy foods, so I had to change my eating habits.
Of course, what surprised Xiao Jun even more was that Mingzi, who seemed unreliable, could actually cook.
When Mingzi was with her mother, she seemed very relaxed, as if she was not just a shop assistant, but more like a family.
Xiao Jun suddenly became curious about how his mother had survived all these years.
Did she remarry? That Mingzi looks a bit like her mother, could she be her mother's new child?
I don’t know if my mother is single now, and what she has been through in these years...
Mingzi agreed and headed out. Xiao Jun came to his senses and said to Mingzi, "It doesn't have to be too spicy. The doctor recommended that Ruomu eat something light."
The mother looked at Ruomu and asked Xiao Jun, "Are you sick?"
Ruomu blushed and lowered his head: "No..."
Xiao Jun cleared his throat and said, "Ruomu is pregnant."
His mother looked at him more deeply, but didn't say much. However, Xiao Jun felt his face getting a little hot, and that sense of guilt came up again.
Akiko has already left the front hall.
Uncle Quan picked up the flowers on the ground, patted his mother's shoulder, and said, "Ajun and the others must be tired after traveling all the way here. Let's go to the back first, have some tea, and then talk slowly if we have anything to say."
The four of them went to the back hall. Mother asked them to sit down, and Uncle Quan asked Ruomu to go make tea. Ruomu understood Uncle Quan's intention: he wanted to leave some space for Xiao Jun and his mother.
So after serving the tea, Ruomu said that Uncle Quan had arranged the room and she would go with Uncle Quan to put her luggage first.
Xiao Jun said, "If you feel sleepy, just take a nap in your room. I'll call you when it's time for dinner."
"Okay." Ruomu agreed with a smile.
After Ruomu and Uncle Quan left, the mother finally put aside her worries, opened her heart to Xiao Jun, and told him everything that had happened over the years.
Xiao Jun learned everything his father had done to his mother, understood why his mother betrayed him, and finally knew why his mother took him to jump into the sea.
He even knew why Hanlu came to the Xiao family...
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