Extra 8: No Two
The wind is blowing colder, and I don’t know when the days have become shorter and the nights longer, which is completely different from the summer.
Walking out from the darkness into the bright lights, the faint chill around us gradually fades away, and people who are either familiar or slightly unfamiliar with each other smile and nod to each other.
They said, "Don't restrain the children. Let them have fun tonight." They reached out and gently pushed their children forward, then stepped aside and talked quietly in groups of three or four.
"Qili, take Shuangyu and the others out to play." Walking into the room, the elegantly dressed woman smiled, looked at the large group of people in front of her, and spoke to the child next to her.
But for a long time, there was silence and no response.
The woman was startled and turned to look. She saw the three children beside her also staring blankly at the scene in front of them, turning around to look at the groups of people, obviously not noticing her voice.
"Qili!" The woman couldn't help but raise her voice a bit. Jiang Qili was startled and looked up, seeing her smiling gently and saying to him, "Qili, take Shuangyu and the others out to play."
Jiang Qili nodded blankly, turned around, reached out and pulled the two absent-minded children beside him and hurried into the depths of the lights.
The woman watched them go away with a smile, turned around, pinched the arm of the person next to her with a smile, and pulled the person aside.
The children were chattering, and two children who looked similar in height became distracted while listening. Jiang Qili, standing next to them, smiled and agreed from time to time, but didn't say much.
The child next to him complained, "I've been training on that thing for three days, but there's still no progress!" "It's still in the ancestral land... Oh, I'm training for five hours every day now, and I'm tired and angry." Jiang Qili saw the child next to him clenching his hands in the corner of his eye, and the smile on his face was a little stiff.
Three days, five hours, is that a lot? Why are these people babbling so angrily?
Then what about her working day and night?
The fingers of his drooping hands curled up unconsciously, Jiang Qili smiled and said nothing more.
These people feel significant progress every day; of course they love training! But I, after ten days or half a month of training, still feel like I'm standing still. It would be better if I didn't know. Now that I know, how can I not feel discouraged?
Suddenly, the child next to him couldn't hold back any longer and started crying with a "wow". He clenched one hand into a fist and raised the other hand to cover his face, his body shaking with crying.
The children suddenly stopped talking, looked over with wide eyes, blinked blankly, and looked at each other.
"Da da da, da da da--" In the peripheral vision, a tall figure hurried over, put out his arms to hug the crying child, and went out.
The corners of Jiang Qili's lips twitched, and she could no longer maintain the smile on her face. She lowered her eyes little by little, staring at her clenched fists hidden by her sleeves. Her vision was sometimes blurry and sometimes clear. She unconsciously clenched her teeth, trying to suppress the pain in her eyes and nose.
The children's strange questions rang out and then quickly faded away. Jiang Qili felt her whole body was hot and cold, unable to tell the difference. She only knew that her blood was rushing to her head, and her ears were sometimes filled with the gurgling of water, and sometimes with a huge and noisy humming sound...
The huge shame of being deceived and blinded instantly enveloped her head and her entire body.
Why, on what basis, didn't you tell me earlier? Jiang Qili felt that all her past emotional peace and stability were torn to pieces at this moment.
It was as if something frantic was screaming in her throat, jumping up and down, trying to break out of its shell. However, she lowered her head, gritted her teeth, and repeated in her mind over and over again: "If I had said it earlier, if I had said it earlier, why, didn't I say it earlier... Why, shouldn't I say it earlier..."
Suddenly her shoulders sank, and Jiang Qili opened her eyes wide instantly. The pain in her heart disappeared, and her heart felt cold and as if something was wrong, and she couldn't stop trembling.
She, she also has...
"Mom..." Jiang Qili's eyes were red. She slowly turned around and looked at the familiar clothes of the person in front of her, but she didn't dare to look up. She even buried her head lower and lower, and shame suddenly reached a peak.
The woman smiled and touched her head. She took her hand with one hand, and with the other hand she put her arm around Jiang Shuangyu and Jiang Shuangli who were in a daze beside them, and said, "Let's go and eat something." Then she walked out.
Jiang Qili wiped her tears and said "hmm" heavily.
In the back, watching one person after another crying as their elders took them away, the children looked even more bewildered. Why did they start crying while talking?
Strange person.
After a pause, the children looked away, expressed their concerns a few times, and then continued to talk about each other's training plans and progress, complaining about themselves, and agreeing to play and train together in a few days.
As they were talking, they unconsciously talked about "I wonder how people in our hometown learn..." They turned their heads at the same time to look at a group of children not far away, then looked at each other, smiled and walked over.
The children who stayed in their ancestral lands also found familiar people early on, chatting and laughing in groups of three or five. When they saw strangers coming, they smiled and nodded politely, patiently answering almost every question.
only……
The children who got the answer were a little stunned.
It’s not that the answer is bad, but it’s different.
They looked at the child in front of them with gentle and proud eyes. The people in the ancestral land really thought so. They were even a little confused by their confusion and didn't understand why they asked such questions that they could understand by thinking about it.
The children smiled and retreated in silence.
The confused children of the ancestral land blinked, smiled and forgot about it, and continued to talk to each other in low voices.
As they were talking, they glanced at the people outside unintentionally, and then seemed to lower their eyes unintentionally.
In fact, outside of the motherland, the combination of one or two children is the most perfect. You have the love and care you need, and the resources you need, unlike them...
They smiled slightly but continued talking to each other.
But if they were given a choice, they wouldn't want to leave. Here, even if each of them could only get a little, it was still much, much more than the resources outside... The children smiled and lowered their eyes, dodging and hiding them, afraid to let others notice the disappointment in their eyes.
In a trance, I suddenly heard someone say unintentionally, "Why haven't we seen them in our ancestral land before?" In an instant, the children's faces changed slightly, and their laughter stopped abruptly.
The group of children was silent for a while.
They slowly raised their heads, smiled lightly again, looked frankly at the figure in the dim light, and said with a smile: "Yes, I have never seen it before."
In the dimly lit room with tables, chairs and sofas, the children kept calling out "Yunshu" and "Qingge", chatting about everything under the sun, and chattering like birds.
"Xiao Shu." Jiang Yuetan put down the small spoon, stood up from the sofa, patted Jiang Linqing's shoulder, and said to the child on the sofa with a smile, "Linqing is your brother, let your brother feed you, okay?"
Jiang Linqing pursed his lips, called out "sister" softly, walked over and sat down, and reached out to take the small spoon from the plate on the table.
Brother... Jiang Yunshu's eyes moved slightly, and she said "hmm" without any reaction. Anyway, it was fine as long as she could eat it. She didn't care how the delicious food was delivered to her mouth.
Jiang Yunshu held the doll, completely motionless, his face expressionless. His mouth slowly opened and closed, his dark eyes blinking gently. Everyone was startled by the sight; it looked as strange and eerie as a mannequin.
Suddenly, Jiang Yunshu lowered her eyes to look at the doll. In fact, she remembered her previous life and remembered that Jiang Jingjian was the person who had been with her for many years, but it was all too vague and not specific.
Jiang Yunshu raised her eyes and looked at all the people and things in front of her. To her, the present was more real.
In the past, only Jiang Jingjian left a deep impression on me, but Jiang Jingjian never appeared again, leaving only this doll.
Her feelings for him became blurred, as if...
The so-called past life is just a false dream.
Jiang Yunshu's grip on the doll slowly loosened. Just as he was about to let go completely, a strong sense of bitterness and sadness suddenly surged in his heart. He clenched the doll with both hands, and his fingertips turned white.
Jiang Yunshu lowered his eyes and pursed his lips.
The spoon brought to her mouth paused for a second, Jiang Linqing calmly withdrew his hand, put down the spoon, and picked up the juice and handed it to her.
The straw swayed in the cup and was steady by his other hand, stopping at the child's mouth.
Jiang Yunshu paused, slowly opened his mouth to drink the juice, stopping from time to time to have his mouth wiped with a handkerchief, holding the doll, his heart full of sadness.
In the sofa room where the lights are dim but not glaring, the brother and sister live in harmony.
The children surrounding them were talking intermittently, glancing at them from time to time, their eyes unable to conceal the complex and strange expressions.
Is this a genius? He can understand even something like this at a glance.
The children sighed inwardly, but could only let it go. Losing their temper would only hurt themselves. They smiled indifferently.
Jiang Linqing was holding the juice cup, and the corners of his lips suddenly lifted slightly. He raised his face, curved his eyes, and asked with a gentle expression, "What else do you want to eat, sister?"
There's always room for improvement. How can we all just be frogs in a well? Jiang Linqing tightened and loosened his grip on the cup, his smile faltering. They said, this isn't flattery, this is...
"Xiao Shu is the younger sister, and Lin Qing is the older brother. The older brother should take care of the younger sister and be good friends with the younger sister."
Jiang Linqing lowered his eyes, put the juice back on the table, then looked at his sister in front of him with a faint smile on his face.
Jiang Yunshu thought for a moment after hearing this, then lost interest and said, "No."
Jiang Linqing narrowed his eyes and nodded.
On the side, Jiang Yuetan watched with satisfaction for a long time, and then said, "Xiao Shu, if you get tired of playing for a while, let Lin Qing take you home."
Tired. Jiang Yunshu was silent for a moment and said "OK".
Suddenly she felt something and subconsciously turned her head to look.
He met the resentful eyes of a girl in the distance.
Caught off guard, Jiang Anran was startled and instinctively lowered her eyes in panic. In an instant, she was filled with resentment and suddenly felt a surge of shame. Why was she hiding?
Jiang Anran suddenly raised her head, her eyes filled with anger. The one she should hide from was that guy! The one she should be afraid of was the one who killed her...
The child's pair of dark eyes were still staring at him.
Jiang Anran's body was stiff and his mind was blank.
Suddenly, her feet seemed to be out of control and she walked slowly over, "Question her, question her!" Jiang Anran was filled with resentment, and this was the only thought clamoring in her blank mind.
Yes, talk about her, question her!
Jiang Anran stared at the pair of eyes that were as dark and lightless as the abyss, and stood in front of the child almost unconsciously.
She felt the surprised gazes of the children around her falling on her, and felt someone glance at her and then look away indifferently.
Clear, clear, clear—
But she never looked away, staring at the darkness, and slowly opened her mouth.
"Happy birthday, Miss Yunshu."
Jiang Anran heard someone say something and was stunned. Suddenly, there was a deafening roar in his ears and everything in front of him flickered.
When the darkness in front of his eyes dissipated and the blankness in his mind disappeared, Jiang Anran blinked blankly, looked up and looked around. Why was he standing in the corner?
When? Jiang Anran turned slowly, stunned, and her sight was caught off guard by the familiar child in the distance. In an instant, memories and a huge sense of shame and resentment flooded her heart and mind.
The pain made her freeze in place, unable to move.
She looked at all the people in front of her. The children from her ancestral land were laughing in groups of three or five, while the children from outside her ancestral land were nestled in the arms of their elders.
She, she also wants to...
Jiang Anran took a staggering step forward, then suddenly stopped, and stopped his thoughts.
And she, but she, had nothing.
Jiang Anran stood there blankly, his mind blank, and he could hardly tell where he was or what was in front of him.
Suddenly, a small cake was brought to her.
"Miss An Ran..." there was a voice.
Jiang Anran looked up blankly and saw someone standing in front of him, looking at him with worried eyes.
Yes, the one who takes care of her.
She, she also has...
Jiang Anran reached out to take the cake in a daze, suddenly burst into tears and sobbed, and snuggled into the arms of the person in front of her.
The lights were dim in a corner.
The man squatted down gently, put his arms around her, and patted her back. She cried silently, her body trembling. With shaking hands, she picked up the spoon and put the cake into her mouth.
Bit by bit, the sourness is covered by the sweetness.
Jiang Anran blinked hard to clear her blurry vision, and her mood gradually calmed down. She stopped crying and became calm.
Calm, unprecedented.
They are a family, a family, there is no overnight hatred.
A sudden pain surged through her chest, then was instantly suppressed by an invisible force. Jiang Anran leaned against someone, lowered her eyes, and slowly ate the cake, bit by bit.
The sweetness covers the sourness again and again.
Sweet, slightly bitter.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
