Grandma Ding's house, living room.
Grandma Ding sat in front of the eight-immortal table, and Gu Lan sat opposite her.
Qingqing was held on Grandma Ding's lap, her soft little body was still trembling, so pitiful.
"My dear, don't cry, my dear is the best..."
Grandma Ding held Qingqing with a kind face, and her wrinkled old hands gently patted Qingqing's little back to soothe her. After
sobbing for a long time, Qingqing finally stopped sobbing, but her eyes became as red as a rabbit, and her little fleshy hands rubbed her eyes sleepily.
She was tired of crying and wanted to sleep.
"Second Master, please wait a moment."
Giving an apologetic smile to Gu Lan, Granny Ding carried Qingqing into the inner room. She did not put her directly on the bed, but took out a freshly washed quilt from the closet with one hand, wrapped Qingqing carefully, and took the child back to the living room to sit.
At this time, what a child needs is not a comfortable sleeping position, but a safe environment.
"Aunt Ding, don't you ask why my sister has become like this?"
Gu Lan seemed to rarely call Qingqing "sister" in front of outsiders, and he was still a little dazed after saying it.
"What are you asking?" Granny Ding lowered her head and gazed tenderly at Qingqing's tear-stained face. She said softly, "You've been wronged again. If you ask too many questions, the young lady will be unhappy. As an old woman, won't I feel bad too?"
She was not only the nanny of the Gu family, but also Qingqing's wet nurse.
After giving birth, the lady refused to breastfeed in order to recover her figure as soon as possible. Qingqing didn't get enough nutrition from milk. At that time, she was as thin as a monkey and cried every day, which made people feel distressed.
It just so happened that Granny Ding gave birth to a little son that year. When
the child was just one month old, she had to work as a nanny to make a living. Seeing the young lady crying pitifully, she couldn't help but secretly feed the child together.
Later, the wife found out about this. Granny Ding thought she would be unhappy, but she didn't expect that they just gave her an extra salary and continued to allow the young lady to drink her breast milk.
It can be said that Qingqing was brought up by Granny Ding.
Over the years, she has completely treated this child as her own daughter and loved her like her own. She
took care of her diet, taught her to read and be sensible, and taught her the principles of being a human being, almost like a biological parent.
If the wife didn't like the young lady being too close to her and dismissed her, maybe the young lady wouldn't have suffered so much injustice later.
At least she could know that there were still people around her who cared about her.
Granny Ding's words seemed to
have brought back a lot of memories. Gu Lan was silent for a long time before he whispered, "I'm sorry."
He felt that he should apologize because he didn't protect his sister well.
In front of this elder who dotes on both siblings, Gu Lan felt helpless and guilty.
"Second Master, there is no need to apologize. If anyone needs to apologize, it should be the eldest lady who should apologize to you. Her attitude towards you before... I, an old woman, have seen it."
Qingqing was not very kind to her brother, and this was a fact known to all the servants in the Gu family.
"She doesn't like me, I've known it for a long time."
Gu Lan's face was a little stiff, but he could understand his sister's feelings in his heart.
Originally, when there was only one child in the family, the parents would more or less pay some attention to her.
After all, Gu Qingqing was the only one in the family.
But later, there was a brother like him who took away the parents' limited love. Anyone would be furious about this.
Although Gu Lan didn't value that little bit of care,
he could rationally say that if his mother hadn't gotten pregnant just now, if it had been a dozen or twenty years earlier, he might have done something more extreme than Gu Qingqing, instead of just disliking her.
"Who told you that the eldest lady didn't like you?"
Grandma Ding was surprised to hear what Gu Lan said.
"Isn't it?" Gu Lan raised his eyebrows.
"Of course not. I raised the eldest daughter myself, how could I not understand her? Although your arrival was a surprise to the eldest daughter, she has never disliked you."
Granny Ding still remembered that when the eldest daughter was young, she begged Madam not to let her have a second child. At that time, Madam was in charge of the huge Gu Group alone, and naturally had no energy to have children, so she agreed to the eldest daughter's wish.
Unexpectedly, the eldest daughter was notified that she would have another younger brother just after graduating from elementary school.
Granny Ding still remembered clearly that although the eldest daughter was a little disappointed, she also told her privately that she was looking forward to the arrival of a younger brother.
"The eldest lady's disappointment is only for Madam's dishonesty, not for you, the second young master. Before you were born, the eldest lady had thought about how to be a good sister in the future and make up for the love that Madam and the others didn't give you."
"..." Gu Lan didn't know what expression he should put on.
He knew that Aunt Ding was upright and never lied, and that's why he felt even more absurd.
How could it be possible?
"How could Gu Qingqing like me? Doesn't she hate me the most and wish I had never been born?"
Maybe
the shock was too great, Gu Lan unconsciously said all the psychological words that had been suppressed for a long time.
"I don't hate you."
The childish voice of the little baby suddenly sounded, attracting the attention of the two adults present.
It turned out that Qingqing woke up.
She was wrapped in a quilt, and was trying to stretch out her little hand, trying to reach Gu Lan's big hand.
Gu Lan looked at the little hand that was trying hard in silence, and tentatively stretched out his big hand, and then the little hand tightly held two fingers.
"Qingqing doesn't hate her brother."
Afraid that Gu Lan would not believe it, Qingqing repeated anxiously: "Qingqing likes her brother the most. In the future... When Qingqing grows up, she will take her brother to the amusement park, buy candies for her brother, and more..."
Qingqing originally had a lot of things to say, but in her nervousness, she forgot everything.
She stared at Gu Lan's face blankly, sobbed, and wanted to cry again.
"Why are you feeling wronged? I never said I blamed you, you little crybaby."
With a long arm, he lifted Qingqing across the table. Gu Lan said he disliked her, but he wiped her tears with the cuff of his expensive shirt.
After wiping her tears in a few strokes, he habitually took out a candy from his pocket and stuffed it into Qingqing's hand, and maliciously refused to peel off the candy wrapper for her.
"Candy, candy!" Children are really easy to coax.
Qingqing happily lowered her head to peel the candy after getting the candy, and had long forgotten why she was crying before.
Fortunately, the candy that Gu Lan gave was not sealed, but simply wrapped in a layer of candy wrapper. Qingqing fiddled with it for a long time and finally saved the candy from the candy wrapper after going through a lot of hardships.
Then it was eaten.
"Second Master, there is one thing I have never told you."
While Qingqing was indulging in the deliciousness of the candy, Granny Ding said hesitantly to Gu Lan.
"Aunt Ding, just speak your mind."
Gu Lan thought that many of his previous misconceptions of his sister had been overturned, and it was actually nothing to be overturned a little more now.
"Do you know why the Gu family no longer hangs out with those side relatives?"
"Because my cousins used to bully me."
When this matter was mentioned, Gu Lan still had some impression.
He was young at the time, and was not liked by his parents and sister at home, so many outsiders mistakenly thought that he was not favored and bullied.
Among them were two cousins from his mother's family.
The two cousins were spoiled by their family. They were used to bossing people around and wanted people around them to flatter
and give in to them.
Gu Lan had never had a good temper since he was a child. Whenever he met them, conflicts were inevitable.
Gu Lan didn't remember how the dispute started. He only remembered that he was pushed into the swimming pool at home when he was only eight years old. He was also falsely accused of falling in because of his greed.
Not only did he have a high fever afterwards, but he was also scolded by his parents.
At this point, Gu Lan was completely disappointed with his parents and no longer expected to get any love from them.
But later, those relatives of the Gu family inexplicably stopped contacting their family.
At first, Gu Lan did not think deeply about the reason. He only vaguely knew that it was related to the bullying by his cousins.
Now, when Granny Ding mentioned it, he realized that there might be another hidden story.
Granny Ding did not answer immediately. She looked at Qingqing in Gu Lan's arms, and the smile on her face suddenly became bright and proud.
"Hahaha... You don't know, the eldest lady back then was very fierce. After knowing that you were bullied, she chased the two cousins to school, dragged them from the classroom to the toilet, and gave them a bath with the faucet on, saying that since their minds were not clear, she would help them sober up."
"..." Gu Lan.
I always knew that his sister was very cruel, but I didn't expect her to be so cruel.
"Not only this time, but also anyone who dares to say a bad word about you will be punished by the eldest lady in private. After a long time, won't those people have to stay away from you?"
After all, bullying people is fun, but life is more important, isn't it?
This time, Gu Lan's expression was so complicated that it was hard to describe. He lowered his head to look at Qingqing in his arms.
The little guy's cheeks were puffed up, and he was still eating candy. His hands were holding his two big hands and playing with them boredly. He counted one, two, three, four, five, and six with his ten fingers, but he always missed seven, and in the end he couldn't count at all.
So stupid...
He didn't know that he was protected by such a stupid person for so many years. In fact, he is the more stupid one, right?
"Second Young Master..." It was not
until Granny Ding's cautious voice sounded that Gu Lan realized belatedly that his face was wet.
"My little brother is crying!" Qingqing also noticed it, "Still laughing?"
She tilted her head in confusion. She didn't quite understand why Gu Lan was crying and laughing at the same time.
But this didn't affect her comfort: "Brother, don't cry. Crying is ugly."
Her little hands wiped Gu Lan's face again and again, trying to wipe away his tears, but the more she wiped, the more tears she made. In the end, Qingqing couldn't help but turn her head in panic to ask Granny Ding for help.
"Aunt Ding, my brother is crying, please comfort him."
This sentence is familiar, as if it was a long time ago, every time when Gu Lan cried, Qingqing would beg Aunt Ding to help comfort him.
But this time, Aunt Ding just shook her head gently and said, "It's okay, Miss, the second young master is just too happy."
"Why are you crying when you are happy?"
This question is obviously not within the knowledge reserve of children.
"This... Qingqing will understand when she grows up."
Qingqing pouted and opened her arms to gesture to Aunt Ding: "Qingqing is already a big child, she has grown very big."
Aunt Ding couldn't help laughing at Qingqing's cuteness: "She still needs to grow a little bit more."
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