"Look at my sister, she's quite the meddlesome one. Even the traffic police don't care, but she has to," Qi Si said, pointing at Qin Xiaoyu with a smile.
"Just because we don't care now doesn't mean we won't care in the future."
How can you know what the future holds?
"I know a lot more than I do!" Qin Xiaoyu was too lazy to argue with him and helped her third uncle out.
"Little Fish, actually, I came here for more than just these things." Third Uncle sat in the back seat of the car, seemingly sobering up.
"Is there anything else? Please tell me." Qin Xiaoyu's heart pounded. She felt that something unusual was going on. Even someone as slick as her third uncle couldn't bring himself to speak, so he must be in a very difficult position.
"Hey, your mom's back, do you want to see her?"
Qin Xiaoyu was stunned.
This must be the host's biological mother returning. This woman abandoned her one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and left; how heartless! If it weren't for her, the host's fate wouldn't have been so tragic.
But from another perspective, she is also a pitiful person.
Originally, after the host left her body, she didn't have much understanding of the grudges the host had experienced, but she had a knot in her own heart. In her previous life, she was abandoned by her mother at her maternal grandmother's house from a young age, and was estranged from her family. She was also someone who severely lacked maternal love.
"Little Fish, I won't make things difficult for you. If you don't want to see me, then don't." Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, her third uncle could only say this.
"Let me think about it some more, I'm a little confused." Qin Xiaoyu drove her third uncle to her maternal grandmother's house, following the route she remembered, and left without getting out of the car.
None of her memories here were pleasant, and she didn't want to stay a minute longer.
When they returned to the Zhou family home, they had already eaten.
"Have you eaten?" Zhou Xing's mother asked as she came over.
"I've eaten, I'm going upstairs now." Qin Xiaoyu was so flustered that she forgot to even ask where Hanhan and her younger sister were.
Zhou Xing's mother and Zhou Yue exchanged a glance, both looking somewhat worried.
Qin Xiaoyu took a shower, dried her hair (which was still a little damp), put it down, put on a thick bathrobe, and sat by the window in a daze.
From this window, you can see the hairdressing school, which is brightly lit; Master Wang must still be busy.
"Little Fish, may I come in?" Zhou Xing's mother asked from the doorway.
"Come in." Qin Xiaoyu quickly wiped away her tears and saw Zhou Xing's mother carrying in a glass of juice.
"I don't know what you ate. Should we prepare some more? You might be hungry tonight." Zhou Xing's mother had completely switched into the role of a loving mother.
"No need, Auntie, I'm fine." When Qin Xiaoyu said she was fine, her lips curled up, almost like she was about to cry.
"Little Fish, what's wrong? Did someone bully you?" Zhou Xing's mother asked worriedly.
"No, it's just that something came up." Qin Xiaoyu hesitated, then stepped back to sit on the edge of the bed, fidgeting with her fingers, unsure of where to begin.
"Can I share some of your worries? It'll make you feel better if you talk about it." Zhou Xing's mother sat opposite her.
"Um, my mom's back," Qin Xiaoyu stammered. She was still unfamiliar with the word "mom" and found it hard to say it.
When she was in the Tang family, calling Hanhan's grandma "Mom" always felt like a ritual. But when it came to her biological mother, she felt nothing at all.
Wasn't it the same in her previous life? Even at the very last moment of her life, the person she wanted to turn to for help wasn't her own mother. Some rifts, once formed, can never be healed.
Zhou Xing's mother knew something about Qin Xiaoyu's background, and after listening to her, she remained silent for a while.
“Little Fish, I won’t make a decision for you. I’ll just share my thoughts. Life is only a few decades long. You’re still young, so you don’t feel it yet. But at my age, especially after what happened to my little sister, I’ve realized that some people are worth cherishing. If you miss them, you might never have them again. I’m really getting old. I’m afraid of this and that, afraid of losing what I love most,” Zhou Xing’s mother said with a wry smile.
"You're not old at all." Qin Xiaoyu sensed the sadness in her voice and quickly moved closer to her.
“Don’t try to make me happy, I know exactly what’s going on. You’re young, you have many chances to start over, and it’s okay to make mistakes. But your mother is different. She might be my age, or even older. If she misses this opportunity, she might never have another one. Think about it.” After saying this, Zhou Xing’s mother stood up, patted Qin Xiaoyu’s hand, and walked out.
Qin Xiaoyu stared at her back and suddenly realized that she didn't look as upright as she used to.
After a good night's sleep, Qin Xiaoyu was full of energy and in a good mood.
The family sat down to eat breakfast. They had probably heard about what happened last night. Zhou Xing glanced at Qin Xiaoyu a couple of times, seemingly observing her expression.
Zhou Yue was the last to sit down, and she was holding a book in her hand.
"Eat your food properly. Why are you reading while you're eating? I didn't see you studying this hard when you were preparing for college!" Zhou Xing's mother rolled her eyes at her.
"It's because I didn't work hard in the past that I want to make up for it now. I want to enroll in a self-study program."
"What?" Everyone was taken aback.
Because the college entrance examination was so difficult at the time, students who failed had two options: one was to attend a radio and television university, and the other was to take the self-study examination.
The characteristic of the Open University is that it is difficult to get in, as you have to take the adult college entrance examination. This adult college entrance examination is less difficult than the regular college entrance examination, but there are still score requirements.
Self-study exams, on the other hand, are entry-level with no entry requirements, but obtaining a graduation certificate is extremely difficult; each exam feels like passing through the gates of hell.
Zhou Yue has to take a self-study exam, which is practically torture for her.
"Sister, what major do you want to study?" Zhou Xing asked tentatively.
"I want to take the bar exam."
"Sister Xiaoyue! Do you have a grudge against your client? If you help him defend, he'll get a longer sentence!" Qin Xiaoyu exclaimed.
"Qin Xiaoyu! Am I really that bad?!" Zhou Yue slammed her book on the table in anger.
Zhou Xing's mother and Commander Zhou, who had been grinning, could only put on a serious face when they saw Zhou Yue's angry expression.
"But it seems like legal provisions are hard to memorize, and the books are so thick. Should I learn accounting instead?" Zhou Yue started to have second thoughts.
"Pfft." Zhou Xing sprayed a mouthful of soup all over his little sister.
"What are you doing! It's a brand new dress!" Zhou Xing's mother angrily poked him twice, then pulled her younger sister over to wipe it with a towel.
"Sister Xiaoyue, accounting is also very important. You see those are numbers, but they're all money, all money! Do you understand?" Qin Xiaoyu's accent changed in her haste.
"That's true, miscalculating the money is even more serious. So, should I become a doctor?"
"Sister, sister, I beg you, just be a good housewife, doctors? That's a matter of life and death! A matter of life and death!" Zhou Xing was already pleading.
"Look at you all! It's good that Xiaoyue is ambitious, and it's never a bad thing for her to learn something. But before she's even started, you're already discouraging her enthusiasm!" Commander Zhou, seeing that things weren't going well, quickly took charge. Hearing him say this, Zhou Yue blinked her eyes in grievance.
"However, what they said makes sense. Why don't you just learn a little bit? It's never a bad thing to learn more. Even if you learn it, you might not actually do it, right..."
"Dad! Are you trying to smooth things over?" Zhou Yue was truly furious.
"Exactly! Why are you trying to smooth things over!" Zhou Xing's mother came out of the kitchen and snapped at Zhou Xing's father, "Xiao Yu and Zhou Xing are clearly right about this."
Qin Xiaoyu bit her lip, trying to hold back her laughter.
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