Foreign guests
Didn't he ask her to come? Why did he ask her to go back again? Jiang Yunshu listened to the phone, blinked in confusion, and just said, "I'll do as you say."
A sudden, fluctuating sound, like a low laugh, came from the other end of the line. The Jiang family patriarch slowly said, "Okay... Xiaoshu, stay here for a month and see if you can adapt."
"If you want to come back, just call me and tell me." He said softly.
Jiang Yunshu said "hmm".
After a moment of silence, she took the initiative to ask for the first time: "Is being a human...good?"
The breathing on the other end of the phone suddenly stopped for a moment, and the Jiang family head asked in a daze: "Xiao Shu, are you curious?"
"Yes." Jiang Yunshu said calmly, "I'm curious why the Patriarch wants me to be a human being."
"Bang!" The other end of the phone seemed to have knocked something over, and the startled voice of the Jiang family's head suddenly rang out, "Xiao, Xiao Shu?"
There was silence on both sides of the phone for a while.
The Jiang family's Patriarch chuckled quickly, "Xiao Shu, do you want to come back?"
"I'm just curious." Jiang Yunshu rarely answered him directly, but asked calmly, "I can see the world. So what's the difference between the world I see now and the world people see?"
Jiang Yunshu lowered her eyes. The orange night light shone on the side of her face, giving her dark eyes a light gilded glow. "Being a human, is it good? Can being a human make me happy every day?"
"I can't answer your question, I'm sorry." The Jiang family's head seemed to feel a little tired suddenly, and said in a low voice, "Xiao Shu, let's go back to our ancestral land."
Jiang Yunshu lowered his head and said, "I'm sorry to trouble you."
She paused and said, "I will listen to you and learn to be a good person in the future."
A deep breath came from the other end of the phone, and the head of the Jiang family whispered, "If you want to return to your ancestral land, tell me."
Jiang Yunshu said "hmm".
On this day, she stepped down from the ivory tower.
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Third floor.
"How's it going today?"
The man who came home late asked casually.
The woman next to him said in a bad tone: "It's only been one day, what changes do you expect?"
After a pause, she continued, "I think it's only a matter of time. Today, when Qili and the others spoke to her, she responded. It's a good sign."
"This matter cannot be delayed any longer," the man said. "The head of the family will come to see her this weekend. You must at least make her change noticeably."
The woman frowned. "You're so careless in giving orders. How could there be any noticeable changes in just one week?"
"Then you should try your best!" The man clapped his hands and said anxiously, "There are so many children in the ancestral land. She is favored now. If she leaves the ancestral land for a while, how can the head of the family remember her?!"
"Then why did you take her in?!" The woman suddenly became anxious. This was different from what they had agreed beforehand.
"Didn't you tell me that this child is very special and that the head of the family specifically instructed that her medical examination reports be sent back to the ancestral land every day? Why is she falling out of favor again now?"
She walked forward with a clattering sound, frowning and saying, "Tell me honestly, is she an abandoned child? Otherwise, why would she be sent away from the ancestral land when she's already five years old?!"
"I'm just saying a possibility, a possibility!" the man hurriedly reassured her. "This child is truly special. The ancestral land will definitely not give up on her! I'm just saying that if she continues like this, she might become estranged from the head of the family!"
He said, "Think about it, if she could always be favored by the Patriarch without doing anything, how could we take her over? She would have been snatched away by those old foxes long ago!"
The woman still frowned, but didn't say anything else after hearing this.
Seeing the person in front of him calm down, he struck while the iron was hot and urged, "So it all depends on you! You have to teach her a lesson. At least make her a little more cheerful and talk more when the master takes her out on weekends."
The woman sighed tiredly. Now that things had come to this, she could only say, "I'll talk to Qili and ask them to take her out for more fun."
"That's right!" The man clapped his hands and raised his arms to hug her. "No matter how big or small the family affairs are, we can't do it without you!"
The woman didn't speak.
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Third floor, lounge.
Two four or five-year-old children who looked extremely similar were sitting on the sofa.
Jiang Shuangyu's eyes were filled with impatience. She turned her head away and let out a breath in annoyance.
Jiang Shuangli on the side had a cold face and said nothing.
The door of the lounge was suddenly opened, and Jiang Qili walked in. Seeing the two of them, he sighed helplessly.
"Come on, why are you hiding here feeling wronged..." Jiang Qili closed the door, walked towards them, and said with a smile, "She doesn't take up our resources, and she even benefits us. Isn't that good?"
As soon as these words came out, Jiang Shuangyu seemed to finally be unable to hold back her tears. Tears fell and she choked up and said, "I just don't like it... We have lived together for so long, why did someone suddenly come in..."
Jiang Shuangli didn't say anything, but he meant the same thing.
Their family was pieced together, and after all, they were settled after a unified allocation, so they have long had the awareness and feeling that "we are a small family".
And now, a stranger appeared in their home.
This stranger suddenly broke into their home, claiming to be their family member and wanted to live under the same roof with them for many, many years -
They can't accept it.
They feel like their home is no longer theirs. They feel restricted when moving around and suffocated when eating.
I didn't even dare to talk to him on the same floor, and finally I could only hide here, feeling depressed and bored.
"Why can't she go somewhere else?" Jiang Shuangyu's eyes were red, and tears were falling more fiercely. "There are so many other families out there, why did she have to come to ours? We have so many people at home, why did she have to squeeze in with us?"
Jiang Qili sat on the sofa, feeling uncomfortable and upset when she saw her like this, but she couldn't say that it was her adoptive parents who took the initiative to invite Jiang Yunshu over.
Even Jiang Shuangyu and Jiang Shuangli knew it very well.
But so what?
They are their parents who provide them with food and clothing, and provide them with shelter for their growth. They have a long-standing relationship with each other.
They could not complain about their adoptive parents' decision. Even thinking about it would make them feel sad and painful. They could not blame their adoptive parents. They were full of grievances and anger and could only blame the tactless outsider.
It’s not like Jiang Yunshu can’t refuse. Why should she agree when she sees so many people in their family?
Can't she just find a family that doesn't have any children?!
Why did she have to come and bring disaster to their family!
“Like this, like this…”
Jiang Shuangyu cried and said, "The whole family is different now."
"Didn't you give her a gift today?" Jiang Qili was a little overwhelmed, her eyes slightly red. "I thought you would accept her."
Jiang Shuangyu cried and did not answer.
From the beginning, she knew her adoptive parents needed it, and that Jiang Yunshu's arrival would benefit their family. No matter how reluctant she was, she tried to endure it, one hour, two hours...
I endured it for a whole day, but at night, I still couldn't help crying.
She still... couldn't accept it.
Jiang Shuangli, who was silent beside him, couldn't help but raise his hand to wipe away his tears.
Jiang Qili, even if it was someone like her, was actually not happy with the sudden arrival of this stranger. She wiped her eyes with a tissue, her voice choking with sobs, "Mom said she's from the ancestral land and is just staying here for a while..."
"How long is a while?!"
Jiang Shuangli couldn't help but speak, his voice was a little sharp as he suppressed his tears.
He cried, "We can't chase her away, and we have to serve her carefully. How long will she stay in our house?!"
Jiang Shuangyu quickly reached out to hold him down, crying and whispering, "Keep your voice down..."
This is their home, they are a family, but now they don’t even dare to speak in their own home. Jiang Qili’s body trembled suddenly, and she covered her mouth and cried bitterly.
Amidst the suppressed sobbing, Jiang Qili's heart heaved violently twice before calming down. Wiping her tears, she said, "Just think of it as a way to save resources and bear with it for a while... Mom said that when her personality improves, she'll return to her ancestral home and let us take her out to play..."
"She doesn't lack resources, we do! We all need to train, so why would we want to play with her?!"
Jiang Shuangli cried and suddenly screamed.
In an instant, Jiang Shuangyu and Jiang Qili held him down together.
The three of them sat together, crying so hard that their bodies were shaking. The hot milk and snacks on the table had already gone cold, but no one had touched them.
They gathered together in the lounge on the second floor, as if huddling together for warmth.
Even though it was already past bedtime, even though they had not returned to their rooms all night, no one came to disturb them, as if there was nothing they could do but let them cry their heart out.
That day, the three children cried themselves to sleep and cried themselves to sleep, crying in pain and suppressed pain all night long.
The next morning.
Their faces were swollen and their eyes were red. They dragged their tired bodies back to the room, took a shower, applied ice and slept all morning.
Until noon, they seemed to have forgotten all the unpleasantness of the previous night. They laughed and joked innocently at the dinner table, and chatted with Jiang Yunshu from time to time.
The woman next to him wore a proper smile, looking at this harmonious scene with satisfaction.
Afternoon.
"Mom!" Jiang Shuangyu followed her to the fourth floor and asked, "Can we go out and play with Jiang Yunshu?"
The woman paused, smiled gently at her, and said, "Let me ask."
She turned and walked into the room, took out her cell phone and called the man who often disappeared from home during the day and showed up at the door in the middle of the night. She lowered her voice and asked, "Can Jiang Yunshu be taken out to play?"
"What? Go out?" The man on the other end of the phone was caught off guard by this question and was stunned for a few seconds. Then he hesitated for a moment and said uncertainly, "You are not allowed to leave the ancestral land. Jiang Yunshu is also very cherished by the ancestral land. It should be... probably not possible...?"
This is unreliable stuff, and they won't ask clearly beforehand... The woman cursed in her heart, but considering that Jiang Shuangyu was waiting outside, she suppressed her anger and said softly:
"Aren't you just going to ask the Patriarch? Ask him to show him how much we care about Jiang Yunshu. You can also get in touch with the ancestral land."
The man suddenly realized, "Yes, I'll go ask now."
As soon as the phone was hung up.
The woman didn't want to ignore the girl outside the door, so she walked over and said with a gentle smile, "I don't know yet. But you want to go out and play with Jiang Yunshu? Where do you want to go? Do you need me to accompany you?"
"Aquarium!" Jiang Shuangyu said happily, "Mom is so tired, she doesn't have to accompany us, we can just go with others."
Aquarium... The woman smiled, but she felt a little strange in her heart.
Will that kid really like the aquarium?
I don't know how that child developed such a personality in the Jiang family's ancestral land...
Cold and indifferent, as if blurred by clouds and mist, the child seemed to be born to stand on the clouds, spotless and spotless.
She would look out of place anywhere in the world.
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