Chapter 157
Despite my reluctance, I still forcefully dragged her out of bed early in the morning.
"Jiang You, come here quickly and put the earrings on me."
Jiang's mother, dressed in new clothes, sat in front of the mirror trying on gold earrings, but she couldn't get them on no matter what she did.
"Mom, when you go to the hospital, people dress up so fancy. If they know you're there for a medical checkup, they might think you're there to provoke someone."
Jiang You bent over listlessly. The gold earring was a circle with one pointed end and the other hollow.
She quickly aligned her hands and inserted them: "Okay."
"Really?" Jiang's mother asked hesitantly, only thinking about looking clean and presentable when seeing her sister. "Should we not wear it?"
Jiangyou's maternal grandmother gave birth to three daughters. The second daughter died, leaving behind the eldest and youngest daughters.
The eldest daughter was to marry into the groom's family. The groom's family had five sons, and they didn't have the money to pay a dowry for each of them, so they could only let two or three of them marry into the bride's family.
Jiang You's uncle married into his maternal grandmother's family, and his son took his aunt's surname.
Later, my uncle's older brothers made money in business and helped him out. Suddenly, my uncle became wealthy, straightened his back, bought a house in the county, and moved in, acting as if he wasn't a live-in son-in-law. In recent years, he's even been thinking about having his son change his surname.
“Your aunt has even more jewelry on her, so you can just wear one earring,” Jiang You said, checking if his phone was fully charged. He planned to greet everyone as soon as he entered the ward and then hide behind the room to play on his phone.
Completely unaware that Jiang's mother had lowered her head, she was also unaware that her words were exactly the same as the derogatory things Jiang's mother often said.
“That’s true,” Jiang’s mother said.
“Wait a minute,” Jiang You suddenly realized that his father wasn’t going. “Why can’t Dad go?”
"Didn't you say last year that you didn't have a TV to watch the Spring Festival Gala? When you came back a couple of days ago, they offered a free TV with the broadband purchase, and your dad insisted on buying it. Today is the day the broadband installer is coming to our house, and your dad is staying home to wait for them."
Jiang You: "I just said it offhand. Besides, we only come back for the New Year, so even if we install the internet, no one will use it."
“I was just saying…” Jiang’s mother said as she walked out.
Jiang You tried to resist, but his mother smacked him on the head, and he immediately became obedient.
It takes an hour and a half to get from the rural area to the county, and then I had to get an IV drip before going to the hospital.
Jiang's mother bought a box of milk and fruit, and two cartons of cigarettes at the hospital entrance.
Upon learning that the patient had been discharged, Jiang You, with a deadpan expression, held his milk and watched his mother make a phone call.
"What? You were just discharged from the hospital? Didn't we agree to bring Youyou to visit you today?" Jiang's mother said with a warm smile. "Oh, I see. Okay, okay, let's go..."
After hanging up the phone, Jiang's mother met her daughter's gaze and felt a little embarrassed. She said awkwardly, "Uncle has been discharged from the hospital. Well, he's a very busy man. Let's go home."
The daughter didn't speak, but lowered her eyes and nodded. Jiang's mother said, "You take the cigarettes, they're light. I'll take the milk."
Jiang's mother carried a large fruit basket in one hand and two packs of cigarettes in the other. Seeing her daughter shake her head, she had no choice but to keep walking.
Her daughter is incredibly lively when no one's around, but once she's outside, it's like she's been poisoned and can't utter a single word.
However, she was proud of her daughter.
Jiang's mother walked for a while and saw someone selling pancakes ahead: "Jiang You, are you hungry? I'll buy you two pancakes."
The daughter looked up, gave a wry smile, and said, "Didn't you say that buying this kind of jianbing guozi is a waste of money? I wouldn't dare waste money."
Jiang's mother thought of the past: "How much money can you spend on something just once in a while? Oh dear, why do you talk like your father?"
The words, "Why do you talk like your father?" exploded in her head like a thunderbolt, and Jiang You's hand holding the milk carton trembled slightly.
What is she doing? Whistling at her mother like a dog? She doesn't want to be like her mother and father.
Jiang You, panicked, clutched the milk carton in his hands and lowered his head: "I... I'm not hungry."
"It's good that you're not hungry," Jiang's mother said, unaware of her daughter's unusual behavior. She continued walking and stopped at the roadside to hail a taxi.
Jiang You followed his mother to the neighborhood, and after a long journey, they arrived at his aunt's house, only to be greeted by a stranger.
Jiang's mother had no choice but to call again, only to find out that her uncle had bought a new house and rented out the old one.
After hanging up the phone, Jiang's mother was a little afraid to look at her daughter's expression. After all, she had said yesterday that her aunt was the closest person to her, but now that she had left the hospital, she didn't say anything, and she didn't say anything even after moving to another hospital.
“We work in another city, and there’s not much to say about moving houses, so they didn’t mention it. They just forgot about it this time,” Jiang’s mother said, trying to make amends for her aunt.
Jiang You didn't say anything and continued to follow behind his mother. The box of pure milk was very heavy. When she got tired of carrying it, she would lift it, and when she got tired of lifting it, she would carry it in her arms.
After going around in circles and taking many detours, we finally arrived at my aunt's husband's new apartment complex.
"Mom, I can't walk anymore," Jiang You put the milk on the ground, propped one knee on the ground, and rested with his head hanging down, looking utterly hopeless.
I set off at six in the morning, and it's almost eleven now. In the past six hours, I've only walked for two and a half hours; the rest of the time I've been walking.
She was originally going to buy beef after leaving the hospital, but now her beef stew is out of the question.
In Jiang You's heart, he had already stabbed his uncle 1,000 times.
Just as she was lost in her fantasies, a casual and pleasant voice rang out from ahead: "Auntie, where are you going?"
The voice sounded familiar. Jiang You looked up and a beautiful, fair hand reached out beside him: "Let me help you with that."
He brushed his fingertips across the back of her hand and picked up the milk.
She recognized the person as Lin Yu. He met her gaze, tilted his head, smiled, and winked at her.
Jiang You stiffly looked ahead, and the person talking to her mother was none other than the playboy Shen Yi'an!
Damn it, what are these two doing here? Weren't they supposed to be almost killed by Xia Bei?
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