Chapter 13
I don’t know how long it took, but Meng Jinyu came out.
"I'll go to the butcher shop at the entrance of the production brigade to buy some meat and make meatball soup for Huanming and the children in the evening." Old Mrs. Li also came out and touched Youyou's head. "The whole family can stay for dinner."
Youyou raised her little head and looked at her grandma's old face.
She has never been very familiar with her grandmother.
But, their goals should be the same, right?
It’s all to protect Youyou’s biological mother!
"No need, let's go back and eat. We won't cause you any trouble. Let's save some food." Meng Jinyu said as she stood up.
It seemed as if Old Mrs. Li had thought of this a long time ago. She did not try to persuade them to stay and sent the whole family out.
The people coming and going in the village were all familiar faces, and everyone looked at them.
Old Mrs. Li forced a smile and nodded at everyone.
Youyou felt that grandma looked very unhappy.
She pursed her lips and walked slower and slower...
Soon, the little dumpling fell behind.
“Grandma—” Youyou called in a small voice, “Grandma!”
Old Lady Li turned to look at Youyou: "What's wrong?"
The child waved his little hand gently, calling his grandmother to come over.
Seeing Jiang Huanming and Meng Jinyu walking away, Youyou whispered, "Grandma, this is not my mother. My mother has been replaced. She is not the same person anymore." She stood on tiptoes and leaned close to her grandma's ear with great effort, "Grandma, you found out too, right?"
But who would have thought that Old Lady Li said without even a second thought: "What nonsense! Go home and listen to your mother."
Youyou looked confused.
She tilted her head and looked at her grandma for a long time.
It’s hard to say whether grandma discovered it or not, but based on Youyou’s past experience, if the other party doesn’t believe what she says, she will definitely show a surprised expression.
Just like her older brothers and sisters, they don’t take Youyou’s words seriously and just think she is being silly.
But grandma is different, her expression is a little strange.
Will it be——
Grandma also found out, but just like Youyou, she couldn’t do anything about her stepmother?
"Mom, you should go back. Don't see me off." Meng Jinyu turned around and shouted, then trotted over and took Youyou away.
Youyou was dragged forward, looking back every few steps, looking at her only hope.
But grandma ignored her and just watched their backs.
Little Dumpling looked puzzled, but what puzzled her even more was yet to come.
Because, when she met Jiang Huanming's eyes again, she found that her father looked so happy, and the anger and displeasure between his brows seemed to be suddenly blown away by the wind!
"I told you that the money is in my mother's house. Now you believe it." Meng Jinyu took Jiang Huanming's arm and said with a red face, "There is still time. Let's go to the supply and marketing cooperative to buy a bicycle, okay?"
Youyou was completely stunned.
She turned around in disbelief and looked at her grandmother's back as she turned and left.
My grandma is very old and so thin that she is just a bag of bones. Her legs tremble with every step she takes.
After entering the house, grandma looked around and closed the door tightly.
Youyou froze in place, and only started walking again after her father and stepmother called her several times.
Her little head couldn't understand many things, so she could only stare at her stepmother's face for a long time.
She saw her stepmother's happy smile, and also saw the meaningful expression behind the happy smile.
…
Youyou was sent home by her father and stepmother.
I heard that they were going to the supply and marketing cooperative in town to buy bicycles.
Little Dumpling sat at the doorstep, looking into the distance, with too many little question marks in his mind.
After a while, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Guo came back.
The busy farming season is almost over, and in just a short period of time, my brother has become very tanned.
My elder sister wears a little skirt every day and flies here and there like a beautiful little butterfly.
"Brother, can we not go back to school?" Jiang Guo raised his voice and walked briskly.
Jiang Cheng scratched the back of his head: "Didn't Dad say that we can't talk about this again?"
"But Mom will agree. Let's say something nice to her and ask her to tell Dad, okay?" Jiang Guo's voice was sweet, her smile was sweet too, and her eyes curved into crescent shapes.
Jiang Cheng was about to speak when he raised his eyes and saw the little girl sitting by the door.
Under normal circumstances, Youyou would definitely not want to listen to them saying this, and would even stand in front of them earnestly and talk about the benefits of studying with a stern face.
But today, the little girl didn't say anything. She leaned her head against the door frame and stared straight into the distance.
She seemed to have encountered a huge difficulty.
Jiang Cheng walked up and asked, "What's wrong with Youyou?" He touched his sister's forehead with the back of his hand, "Are you feeling unwell?"
Youyou thought for a long time and asked seriously: "Brother, one hundred and fifty yuan, is it a lot?"
"Of course, that's a lot of money!" Jiang Guo came over, "Just think about it, White Rabbit is so delicious. With one hundred and fifty yuan, you can probably buy several bags, dozens of bags, or even hundreds of bags of White Rabbit!"
"Will grandma give mom so much money?" Youyou asked again.
How could grandma give so much money to my stepmother like magic?
Jiang Guo was amused and tickled Youyou's little nose: "That's just asking for money. You're so young, and you still understand that!"
Jiang Cheng squatted beside Youyou and asked curiously, "Why are you asking this?"
Youyou tilted her head: "Will mom go to grandma's house to beg for money?"
"Of course not, little idiot!" Jiang Guo said, "Grandma is so stingy that she always leaves her money to uncle to spend, so that our mother won't ask for money from her."
Youyou was a little confused.
"You are so old now. How many times have our family visited grandma's house? Grandma doesn't like our mom at all and is never nice to her," said Jiang Guo.
Jiang Cheng tapped Jiang Guo on the forehead and said, "We are children, stop gossiping."
Jiang Guo pouted and snorted, "You're just like our dad, boring! Our mom is better, she knows how to make jokes!"
"You're more like dad!" Jiang Cheng pretended to raise his fist to scare Jiang Guo.
The brother and sister chatted and laughed, and suddenly they started to make noise and run around wildly in the main room.
Compared with them, five-year-old Youyou looks like a little adult.
She held her chin with both hands, her little mouth pursed, and she was filled with sorrow.
It's not just the stepmother who's wrong.
There's something wrong with grandma too.
…
"Ding-ling-ling-ling-ling-ling--"
The clear sound of bicycle bells echoed throughout Fenglin Village in the evening.
The members of the production team who were about to go off work found it curious. They carried farm tools such as hoes and shovels and looked around.
As a result, God knows what they saw!
In the afterglow of the setting sun, Jiang Huanming rode a 28-inch bicycle with great energy and pedaled at a leisurely pace.
Meng Jinyu sat sideways on the front bar, her whole body leaning in Jiang Huanming's arms as if she had no bones.
The breeze was blowing, and the couple, both handsome and beautiful, had happy smiles on their faces.
They look like a couple with a very good relationship.
"The third son of the Jiang family bought a bicycle! This is incredible! He has made a fortune!"
"People who work in the city are very successful. They buy bicycles without blinking an eye."
"Before Jin Yu did anything naughty, Jiang Lao San ignored her. Now that she has made so many jokes, how come the relationship between the couple has improved?"
More and more villagers gathered around, and Meng Jinyu held her chin high. After coming here, she had been feeling depressed for such a long time, and finally she felt the high spirits again.
Mrs. Jiang Da and Mrs. Jiang Er brought their husbands out, and even Mrs. Jiang came out of the house to see what the couple was doing.
Jiang Cheng and Jiang Guo were so excited that they ran out quickly to check their bicycles and almost tripped over the threshold.
Youyou didn’t go.
She clenched her little hands, turned around and quietly walked into her stepmother's room.
The truth is about to be revealed. As long as she finds the clues, she can find her mother.
As for dad, just pack it up and give it to stepmother. Youyou doesn’t want him.
After all, he can't even recognize his own wife, so my mother won't be happy with him!
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