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Tang Xi couldn't sleep and kept waking up all night. It wasn't because he woke up from a nightmare, but simply because reality was more wonderful than dreams.
Last night, she stopped having a tense relationship with her mother for the first time in a long time and had the opportunity to have a long talk with her. In the end, the mother and daughter hit it off and decided to leave for the hospital together at nine o'clock the next day.
She couldn't help but roll around in excitement on the bed, until the sunlight gradually filtered through the curtains and she realized that the night was completely over. The girl didn't feel sleepy at all, and buried her face in the pillow, letting out a sharp cry that didn't need the crowing of a rooster, and rolled around on the bed holding the pillow until she was dizzy, and then - fell to the ground with a thud.
She hit her butt and tears came to her eyes because of the pain. She supported herself with her hands and sat up, intending to get up and change her clothes, but the door was suddenly pushed open.
She slowly raised her face and met her mother's surprised eyes.
The mother was stunned for a few seconds, her tone a little uncertain: "I just heard a strange noise, so I came in without knocking. Sorry... Did you fall off the bed?"
Oh no, did her mother hear her strange screams? She had just managed to save some of her image in front of her, but she wouldn't burn it all directly.
Her voice stuttered a little: "What did you hear?"
Yu Ji was quite puzzled by his daughter's question and asked, "Could it be that besides you falling, did you make any other noises?"
Fortunately, her mother didn't hear her weird laughter that was comparable to that of a psychopath.
She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart and shook her head quickly: "No, no, I just didn't wake up, so I accidentally fell off the bed."
Yu Ji really couldn't imagine what kind of situation a person could be in that he could roll off the bed just because he was still asleep. Besides, a fall could be a big deal or a small one. Seeing her daughter sitting on the ground for a long time without getting up, she couldn't help but feel worried.
"Why are you so careless?"
As soon as she said this, she remembered her daughter's blunt accusation last night: "You always speak so sharply, I thought you hated me."
She coughed twice and before her daughter could misunderstand again, she took the initiative to explain: "I'm not blaming you, I'm just a little worried that you might have been injured somewhere."
Yu Ji saw that his daughter still didn't say anything, but just looked at him blankly.
After hesitating for a moment between the possibility of his daughter getting angry with him again and the possibility of her losing her mind, he chose to stride over to her, bend his knees and squat in front of her until he was eye-level with her.
She raised her hand to first feel the temperature of her forehead, then pinched and stroked the back of her head, and asked again: "Tang Xi, I'll take you to the hospital to check your brain first."
Tang Xi was stunned for a while, and finally managed to say: "Should I go to the hospital with grandma?"
Yu Ji belatedly noticed the dark circles under her eyes, and now he understood why his daughter looked dull.
She bent her fingers and tapped her forehead, her tone helpless: "Your grandma didn't want to check with you, so you just didn't sleep well last night, so you seem so slow to react, right?"
Tang Xi pushed her mother's hand away, stuck out her tongue, and grumbled, "I'm not slow to react, I'm just a little uncomfortable that you would be the first to care about my health."
Yu Ji raised his eyebrows: "Whenever you were sick before, I wasn't there with you."
Even if she no longer dared to admit her mother's love for her, she could not deny the established facts.
Although she was not sickly when she was a child, children are always prone to illnesses of varying degrees.
Her father always said nice things to her. Whenever she was sick, he would do whatever she wanted and his words were full of comfort. He would let her do whatever she wanted and would immediately satisfy her desire to eat.
Her mother was the complete opposite. She never said anything nice to her. She accused her of not caring about her body, which resulted in her being unable to control her diet when she was sick, causing her illness to recur.
However, her father usually did nothing but 'care', while her mother would sit by her side day and night, taking her temperature and handing her a bowl of perfectly cooked porridge when she woke up.
There was no nanny at home at that time. How did she ensure that the porridge was at the right temperature but not overcooked?
She realized that all her love was effortlessly embellished, but if she dug deeper, she would find that the love she displayed was no more or less than that of her father.
She opened her mouth blankly, and after a long while, she could only utter one sentence: "I thought you didn't care at all. I'm sorry."
The mother half-closed her eyes and raised her hand to pluck her messy hair: "You don't have to apologize to me. I remembered everything you said to me yesterday, and I will reflect on my mistakes."
Tang Xi's eyes were brighter than before: "Really?"
Yu Ji laughed: "Of course it's true. I'm glad you're willing to give me another chance."
Tang Xi smiled happily, holding his mother's hand and boldly performing the action that he had fantasized about thousands of times.
behave in a spoiled manner.
She buried her face in her mother's arm and rubbed it, laughing and saying, "Mom, grandma will definitely be very happy if she knows."
Her mother nodded, raised her hand and patted her head twice, and said, "It's already eight o'clock. Wash up, go downstairs and have breakfast. It's just the right time for us to go out."
When Tang Xi saw her mother stand up, she realized that she had changed out of her home clothes early today and was wearing a more formal but extremely simple white cheongsam. The only embellishment was a light blue thread of a night-blooming cereus blooming on a white background.
Her hair was obviously well-groomed, with a simple hairpin pinned behind her head, and she also exuded a very light scent of sandalwood perfume.
She stood up unsteadily, patted her butt and asked, "Mom, aren't we leaving at nine o'clock? You're ready so early, are you as happy as me and can't sleep?"
"I'm really happy." Yu Ji's eyes were filled with a gentleness that could melt ice and snow, "But I didn't wake up early because I couldn't sleep."
Tang Xi tilted his head in confusion.
Yu Ji tucked her hair behind her ears and said with a smile, "Tang Xi, do you think that if the two of us walk into the hospital, we can just take grandma away?"
Tang Xi did not hide his disappointment: "Can't?"
Yu Ji sighed, "The discharge process is very complicated. The attending doctor needs to examine your grandmother's physical condition and approve it. Then we need to go to the hospital front desk to pay the fee and go through the formalities. Finally, we can pick your grandmother up. But this is not the end. After we bring her home, we still have to arrange a guest room for her and Aunt Mo. We can't wait until she gets home to prepare it, right?"
Tang Xi exclaimed: "Why not?"
Her mother glared at her. "Although I promised you I'd be more tactful next time, I can't help but ask you, do you really think this will work?"
She stuck out her tongue: "Okay, you're right."
Yu Ji sighed and poked his daughter's forehead with a finger. "That's why I got up so early. I wanted to get her back today if possible. If today doesn't work, she won't be discharged later than tomorrow."
Tang Xi's eyes sparkled, and he accepted the truth incredibly quickly: "Okay, okay, can I tell Tiantian tomorrow?"
"Whatever you say," Yu Ji said. "Duzhou and her daughter have always cared deeply about Grandma. I spoke to her on the phone yesterday. After completing the discharge procedures, she said she would bring Xingchui with her to the hospital to take Grandma home together."
Tang Xi clapped her hands and nodded repeatedly: "So, I can finally have the honor of seeing the true face of my mother's best friend?"
Yu Ji looked confused: "Not to mention that you have seen her on TV, I remember she was specially invited to give you a class."
Tang Xi retorted confidently: "Teacher Song and Aunt Song are definitely different."
Yu Ji raised an eyebrow: "If she knew that she specially found an opportunity to visit you at school, but you treated her as an ordinary teacher, she would definitely be shocked."
Tang Xi held her face in her hands, looking surprised: "No wonder I felt that she was secretly looking at me in class and always calling me to answer questions."
She originally thought that Song Duzhou knew her father, so... She couldn't tell this idea to her mother, let alone her. She felt that this misunderstanding was really embarrassing.
Yu Ji patted his daughter's shoulder again and urged her to wash up quickly so as not to delay going out.
Tang Xi had long known that her mother had obsessive-compulsive disorder, and she accepted her requirement to be punctual. She hummed a song and skipped into the bathroom. After a while, she changed her clothes and went downstairs.
My mother was sitting at the table eating slowly.
Her eating habits are very different from her father's. Her father wants everything Western style, often blurting out a few words of English, and he also uses knives and forks instead of chopsticks as his tableware.
My mother doesn't like Western breakfast at all. In the morning, she always prefers soy milk, fried dough sticks, wontons and noodles to bacon, sausage, sandwiches and panini.
However, Tang Xi really didn't know whether his elegant mother would use chopsticks to roll up the noodles when eating mixed noodles.
Except when she had guests, she usually ate dinner alone in her room. Today, she came to the living room for the first time. Tang Xi was not stupid enough to ask why.
She excitedly moved the plate that was placed opposite her to the seat next to her mother, sat next to her casually, and carefully observed her expression.
Yu Ji was stunned for a moment, then smiled brightly: "Relax, I'm not going to scold you."
Tang Xi became more and more bold: "I always feel that you will scold me for sitting in an unruly manner."
Yu Ji rolled his eyes: "So in your eyes, I'm actually an unreasonable and nitpicking person."
Tang Xi's face was full of innocence. Holding the soy milk in both hands, he blurted out: "Mom, I want to eat. I don't talk while eating and I don't talk while sleeping."
Yu Ji smiled and shook his head, but he didn't really forbid her from observing table etiquette.
She was chewing a fried dough stick in one hand, her eyes fixed on the newspaper on the table, which she was flipping through at an extremely fast speed.
Tang Xi glanced at the boring news above, and now he felt sleepy quickly.
Nanny Wang Lanhua had just finished cleaning the kitchen and came out humming a song, but she saw a very abnormal scene.
The lady and the young lady are sitting side by side, and the atmosphere is very harmonious?
She subconsciously turned her eyes to look for Tang Guangyao, but found nothing in the living room.
She didn't think anyone had changed their personality, she simply felt that Yu Ji was being unreasonable again and had to force her to obey some annoying rules.
She looked at Yu Ji with more and more jealousy.
Really, she is a woman who never leaves the house. She must have not received much education like her. I don’t know why she is so lucky to marry a good man like Mr. Tang, unlike that guy in his family...
Oh, not satisfied at all.
She looked at the two of them, but her expression remained calm. "Ah, Madam hasn't come out to eat in a few years. It's rare to see her sitting with the young lady in such a peaceful mood."
Tang Xi had long felt that the nanny was not a good person. Not only did she often hide in the nanny's room and be lazy, but she also obviously treated her mother and daughter differently from her father.
It's not that she didn't report this to her father, but her father always said, "The nanny is old, Xixi should learn to be tolerant." So Tang Xi also adhered to the principle of out of sight, out of mind.
She felt that her words sounded yin and yang no matter how she listened to them.
After chewing slowly, the mother finished her meal and spoke slowly, "Auntie, if you feel that way, when Tang Guangyao wakes up, you really need to tell her about today's story. Oh, and please be sure to tell Tang Guangyao that Xixi and I are going to the hospital together to pick up my mother today."
The nanny's face changed: "You want to bring that crazy woman back? Oh, that's not possible. With this little salary, how can I serve another person——"
Yu Ji chuckled and offered what she thought was the best advice: "Auntie, if you can't accept it, you can resign. I think my mom's caregiver is pretty good. She's hardworking and doesn't talk much."
The nanny was horrified: "Oh, Madam, you are so polite. I have been working at home for several years, and my husband has never said anything wrong about me. Besides, what does she know as a nurse? She is definitely not as good as me."
Yu Ji chuckled, "Really?"
The nanny knew Yu Ji's temper very well, so she immediately lowered her head, apologized, and left quietly.
Tang Xi was indignant that her mother let her go so easily: "Mom, you're just going to let her go like that?"
Yu Ji raised his eyebrows. "We live in a society ruled by law now. I can't hit her. Besides, it's not my money that I'm hiring her. If she starts asking for a raise or something, it will cause trouble for your father. It's very interesting."
Tang Xi was stunned: "Mom, it turns out you also like to watch the fun."
The mother shrugged her shoulders and said, "There's a lot about me that you don't know."
Tang Xi blinked: "There are many things about me that you don't know."
The mother and daughter looked at each other and picked up the soy milk cup at the same time.
"cheers."
There is a long way to go, and they will have many opportunities to get to know each other.
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