Chapter 152 Extra: Jiang Minzhi [2]
The rain outside the window fell on the mobile phone screen, and the second hand of the clock kept turning around and around.
On WeChat, Jiang Minzhi clicked in and out of Li Yanqing's chat box again and again. She didn't know what to say.
A week ago, her uncle asked a professional to unlock her phone and sent a message to Li Yanqing in her name, saying that her grandmother was seriously ill and she had to take care of her during this period and could not go to see him.
Li Yanqing had no doubts and sent her messages every day to ask about her grandmother's recent situation and told her to take good care of herself while taking care of her grandmother.
As midnight approached, Jiang Xinzhi finally compromised, clicked into his uncle's chat box, and replied: "OK."
The next day.
Jiang Minzhi went to rent a house to find Li Yanqing. Her uncle didn't send any bodyguards to follow her. He knew very well in his heart that grandma was her roots. Her roots were here and she could never leave or run away.
Li Yanqing heard the sound of the key opening the door. He took off his heat-insulating gloves and walked over quickly.
Jiang Xinzhi's fingers trembled slightly and he slowly opened the door.
The voice-activated light outside the door came on, and Li Yanqing came over, looked at her, frowned slightly, and reached out to hold her in his arms: "You look so bad, did you not sleep well these days, how is grandma's health?"
Jiang Xinzhi leaned in his arms, silent.
Li Yanqing held her waist, picked her up, and walked to the bedroom: "My dear, I made walnut cakes, do you want to have some?"
Jiang Xuanzhi's eyes were sore and he held his neck: "I don't want to eat."
"Then sleep for a while." Li Yanqing rubbed her head, put her on the bed, and took off her shoes while saying, "Wake up and I'll make you some pork bone ramen."
Jiang Xinzhi looked at him and said, "Lie down with me for a while."
"Okay." Li Yanqing lay down on the bed, let her rest her head on his arm, patted her back gently with his palm, and coaxed her to sleep.
Jiang Xuanzhi gradually fell asleep. He had been severely sleep-deprived in the past few days.
In her dreams, she repeatedly returned to the hopeless rainy night when she was five years old, feeling helpless.
Later, Li Yanqing appeared with an umbrella and held the wet girl in his arms.
When I woke up, it was already evening. The fading sunlight fell on the window, like a mouthful of blood coughed up by an old man.
When Li Yanqing saw that she had woken up, his eyebrows raised: "Be good."
Jiang Minzhi felt heartbroken. She woke up from her dream and wanted to push her umbrella away with her own hands: "Li Yanqing, let's... break up."
That evening, she seemed to say a lot, but also seemed to say very little.
She didn't know how she left the rental house. At the end of her memory, Li Yanqing hugged her and cried sadly, begging her not to leave him, but she still left.
A month later, grandma's conditions gradually returned to normal. Jiang Xinzhi was reluctant to return to the Jiang family and live in the same room with her so-called relatives, so she moved to the ward to accompany her.
The day her grandmother learned that she had broken up with Li Yanqing and was going to marry into the Pei family, she felt filled with remorse, blaming her for not being able to see the evil ambitions of the Jiang family's second branch's silkworm food company, and actually thinking that they would treat the orphan left by her brother and sister-in-law well.
Grandma hugged her and cried bitterly: "Yaoyao, it was grandma who dragged you down. I just wanted to accompany you for a few more years, but I didn't expect that I would destroy your life's happiness. How can I explain this to your deceased parents?"
Jiang Minzhi wiped her tears and coaxed her: "Grandma, the Pei family is very good. I will be happy if I marry there."
Grandma pulled out the needle, lifted the quilt of the bed, and led her out: "I don't want to treat you anymore. You've lived to such an old age. Enough, really enough. You are still young, Yaoyao, go find Yan Qing, you..."
Jiang Xinzhi knelt on the ground, hugged her grandmother, and finally couldn't help crying. If her parents were still alive, they would never let her marry out and would never sell her daughter for fame.
Grandma: "My poor little one."
In my grandmother's hometown, when a daughter gets married, her mother has to sew a veil for her to pray for a smooth and happy marriage.
After the wedding date was set, my grandmother asked a nurse she knew well to buy some satin thread for the veil, and said with a smile, "If other brides have it, my little one must have it too."
The nurse helped grandma put on a black wig to cover her gray hair that had fallen out from chemotherapy. "You are getting better and better. You will be discharged from the hospital soon."
Grandma knew that the nurse was just trying to coax her, but she smiled and accepted the nurse's request: "Yes, she will be well soon. I still have to take care of my youngest son and grandson."
On her wedding day, Jiang Xinzhi was unable to wear the veil embroidered by her grandmother.
The old lady's illness was recurring and her energy was limited, so she only embroidered half of the veil.
The night before the wedding, grandma took off a white jade bracelet from her wrist and put it on hers: "Xiaoyao, grandma doesn't have much to give you. This white jade bracelet was your grandpa's betrothal gift to me when he asked me to marry him. Now it's your makeup, and it's also a token of our love. The other one was broken, so I won't give it to you. Keep it as a keepsake."
After marriage, Jiang Minzhi and Pei Jinyan treated each other with respect. The two elders of the Pei family felt sorry for her miserable life and loved her as their own daughter.
But with the "previous experience" of her uncle and aunt, Jiang Xinzhi no longer trusts anyone except her grandmother. She can't help but feel that others are nice to her because they want to gain something from her.
Otherwise, who would be worthy of someone like her being treated kindly by her sincerely?
The smile on her face became less and less, and more and more shallow. She didn't want to reveal her true feelings to anyone, and she didn't want to tear open her ugly scars with blood all over them to beg for some insignificant mercy and sympathy.
She doesn't need it, she really doesn't need it.
Half a year later, Jiang Xuanzhi became pregnant.
The Pei family was very happy.
After hearing the news, the Jiang family couple rushed back from abroad to congratulate. Since they got connected with the Pei family, the Jiang family's business has been growing bigger and bigger.
Jiang Xinzhi looked at the two familiar yet unfamiliar faces, ran to the bathroom, and couldn't help vomiting.
So disgusting. Really so disgusting.
Grandma's health has improved a little recently. Every day at noon, she would sit on the swing by the window of the ward with a thick Xinhua Dictionary and a Dictionary of Poetry, and carefully name the baby in Jiang Xinzhi's belly.
After the initial worry, Jiang Xinzhi began to look forward to the birth of the baby in her belly. This baby belonged to her, with her flesh and blood in his body. He was the closest person to her in this world, except for her grandmother.
She talks to the baby in her belly every day, and prepares cute little clothes, tiger hats, soft furry socks, a beautiful crib, and a small school bag for her (him) to go to school...
Life seems to be given new meaning again.