Chapter 73: Fake Daughter in the Entertainment Industry
The old man led the three little ones into the house. On both sides of the yard were small vegetable plots that he had cleared.
Shi Yutong immediately spotted the fruits on the vines on the left that were almost covering the entire wall. Green, long...
"cucumber!"
She excitedly pulled Su Youran to show her that she had found one at the first store. This task was a very simple one.
Lu Yichuan moved closer and carefully identified it for a long time:
“It doesn’t seem so. It’s different from the picture.”
Shi Yutong didn't believe it:
"It's just a cucumber! The color and shape are the same, how can it be different?"
"no the same."
"Same!"
“It’s really different.”
“They all look the same to me!”
Lu Yichuan: ...It's unreasonable!
Seeing that he was silent, Shi Yutong thought he had admitted defeat, and she immediately became delighted. She smiled triumphantly at him, and then used the same trick again to ask the old man to let her pick two "cucumbers".
The old man just smiled as he watched them having fun, with love and unconcealable longing in his eyes.
Su Youran stood beside him, holding his hand tightly.
"Grandpa, do you live alone?"
The old man lowered his head and patted the little girl on the head, smiled and shook his head. After thinking for a while, he took her into the house. Lu Yichuang and Shi Yutong behind him didn't bother to pick vegetables and quickly followed in.
The room was simply furnished, with a cement floor, a low square table and four stools. There were doors on both sides, so it must be the bedroom.
The old man pointed to a stool and asked the three people to sit down. He went into the room on the right and came out with a photo frame in his hand. He sat on the remaining stool and pointed at the yellowed photo. He slowed down his speech and introduced it to them word by word:
"My son... my wife... well, my grandson!"
At the end of his speech, obvious pride appeared on his face, and his dull eyes seemed to glow again at this moment.
Shi Yutong leaned over to look at the photo. It should be quite old. It was one of those photos that were taken in a photo studio. There was a fake background behind it. There was a teenage boy standing between an ordinary couple.
She had never seen anything like this before, and stared at it carefully out of curiosity;
"Then why aren't they home?"
The old man was also looking at the photo, with a smile on his face, but it made people feel sad for some reason:
"Working in another place..."
"work to earn a living?"
Shi Yutong didn't quite understand and wanted to ask more questions, but Lu Yichuan stopped her:
"Where are the vegetables you just harvested? Are they lost?"
Shi Yutong immediately became anxious:
"How could it be lost? They're all outside. I'll get them right away!"
The last three people left the yard carrying a large basket, which was full of various vegetables, eggs and meat.
Lu Yichuan and Shi Yutong were struggling to carry the bag together. Su Youran wanted to help, but the two refused to let her:
"No need for help, we can do it!"
"Of course, this one isn't heavy."
The old man had spent a long time packing these things, and he just had to force them on him. He was used to being alone, and it was rare for a kid to be willing to chat with him. Although Su Youran and the others didn’t understand, they still patiently stayed with him for quite a while.
The old man was grateful for the children's thoughtfulness and knew that they were looking for various vegetables, so he packed most of his home stock for them.
Su Youran turned around and looked at the old man standing in front of the door, smiling at them. She waved her hands vigorously.
"Grandpa, I'll come again."
The old man with gray hair and a hunched body also raised his hand and waved. The sunlight fell on him and his long shadow fell behind him, making him look lonely and desolate.
On the way back, Su Youran was silent for a long time. Lu Yichuan looked at her worriedly, because the weight of the basket in his hand made his breathing unstable:
"Of course, are you unhappy?"
"What? Are you unhappy?!"
Shi Yutong was anxious to comfort her sister Ranran, and almost subconsciously let go of the hand holding the basket.
"Hello!"
Lu Yichuan was unable to remind himself in time, and his body tilted to one side due to the sudden increase in weight. The basket tilted, and the vegetables on it kept falling down.
"oops!"
Shi Yutong finally reacted and quickly picked up the other handle of the basket. Su Youran bent over to pick up the vegetables that had fallen to the ground.
Even Lu Yichuan, who was a calm person, was furious and glared at Shi Yutong fiercely:
"Could you tell me before you let go?"
His arm was nearly dislocated!
Shi Yutong knew she was in the wrong, so she avoided his gaze, turned her head to one side, and muttered:
"I just didn't remember that I had something in my hand..."
Lu Yichuan looked at Su Youran who was running around picking up things, and said with all his strength, suppressing his temper:
"Let's put the basket down first. There are too many dropped and Ranran can't pick them all up."
Su Youran squatted on the ground, holding a large cabbage and smiling adorably:
"Just let me hold these, and you will feel more relaxed."
Lu Yichuan disagrees:
"It fell on the ground and made all the dust on your clothes."
Shi Yutong also refused:
"That's too heavy. Ranran, your arms are so thin, how can you hold such a heavy thing?"
Su Youran was about to say something when she heard a "thump, thump, thump" sound coming from the front. The three of them looked over in surprise and saw a "car" with a somewhat strange shape driving over.
As it got closer, Su Youran suddenly cried out in surprise:
"dad!"
Isn’t the person sitting in the driver’s seat of that red machine and steering the wheel Xie Yan?
Lu Yichuan and Shi Yutong looked at this "big guy" with no roof and a truck bed in the back in amazement. What is this? Uncle Xie can actually drive!
Su Youran ran over with the cabbage in her arms, her pretty face filled with joy.
"Dad, why are you here?"
Xie Yan got out of the cab and half-knelt on the ground, letting Su Youran fall into his arms. Seeing that her temples were wet with sweat, a trace of heartache flashed across his eyes. He tucked her scattered hair behind her head and said with a smile:
"I'm here to pick you up..."
He looked at the other two little guys and finally changed his words:
"I came to pick you up. Junchen and Xiche went back a long time ago. I waited for a long time but you didn't come back. I was a little worried, so I came out to look for you."
Su Youran rubbed Xie Yan's chin like a kitten, her cheeks slightly red, and she looked a little embarrassed:
"I forgot the time while talking to grandpa. I'm sorry, Dad."
Xie Yan picked her up and put his head against hers:
"Ranran never has to say sorry to dad."
Lu Yichuan was very envious of the father and daughter kissing each other, and he also wanted to be as close to sister Ranran...
Most of Shi Yutong's attention was still on the strange car. She was the type who would say whatever she wanted to know. If she wanted to know something, she would ask immediately:
"Uncle Xie, what kind of car is this?"
Xie Yan placed Su Youran next to the driver's seat and waved at the two of them:
"You sit in the back and I'll take you back."
While explaining: "This is a tractor. They lent it to us when they helped the people here harvest crops. We will return it soon."
He picked up the basket with one hand and put it in the back of the car first. After Lu Yichuang and Shi Yutong climbed in and sat down, he sat back in the driving seat.
Su Youran's eyes sparkled:
"Dad, you are so awesome! You can even drive a tractor!"
Xie Yan pinched her ears lovingly:
"I can drive. No matter how you change it, you still have to follow the basics. I can learn it with a little study. It's not difficult."
If the other four fathers gathered in Shi Lei's building knew what Xie Yan said, they would definitely think he was being Versailles.
Isn't that difficult? They can drive a car, but they really can't drive a tractor!
Although the tractor was very bumpy when driving, it might be because there was no roof and the feeling of facing the wind was very comfortable. Or it might be because it was their first time and it was new. Anyway, the three little ones were quite happy.
Even the more mature Lu Yichuan couldn't help but feel a little excited.
Unfortunately, the village was not big, and they returned to the small building in a short while. Zheng Xiche had been waiting at the door, and when he saw Su Youran finally return, he immediately went forward and kept talking:
"Sister Ranran, where have you been? What took you so long? Are you lost? I told you to be in my group, and I will never let you get lost!"
Shi Yutong, who was about to get off the car, refused to do it:
"We are not lost! Look at what we brought back..."
She patted the basket with a proud look on her face:
"Look, there are so many, there's almost no room left, and there's still meat!"
Shi Lei came over to pick up his daughter and looked at the basket with surprise:
"It's indeed a lot. Where did you get it from? Did you steal everything from your fellow villagers?"
Xie Yan held the basket in one hand and held Su Youran's hand in the other, listening to Shi Yutong's clear voice recounting their experiences to Shi Lei:
"Grandpa was so enthusiastic that he insisted on giving it to us... He even showed us photos... Grandpa said his son, daughter-in-law and grandson all went to work. Dad, what is work?"
"Well, working part-time means working outside the city."
"Then they won't come back? Grandpa is alone at home, it looks so pitiful."
"…It's too far, and the round-trip ticket is expensive. Most people only come back during the Chinese New Year."
"oh……"
Xie Yan looked down at Su Youran, who seemed to be in a low mood, and asked softly:
"Baby, what's wrong?"
Su Youran held his hand tightly:
"Dad...Grandpa misses his family very much."
"Um?"
Xie Yan paused, squatted down, looked her in the eye, and tried to relax his face:
"I'm sure I'll miss you if I don't see you for a long time."
My heart tightened. The strange grandfather would miss his family if he couldn't see them. What about Ranran?
Does she miss her mother too since she can’t see her?
Su Youran's black and white eyes were filled with uncertainty and anticipation:
"If we can't meet in person, we can use video calls, just like I use video calls with my grandparents, brother Tianhua, and brother Tianqi. We can use our phone... we can see them on our phone. We don't need to run around. We can see them every day if we want!"
Xie Yan was slightly stunned, then slowly smiled, with even his eyes showing a smile:
"Yeah, yes, we can video chat."
Su Youran's eyes lit up as brightly as stars after receiving the affirmation:
"Dad brought his phone, right? Shall we go and help Grandpa with the video this afternoon?"
At some point, Shi Lei and Shi Yutong stopped talking, and together with the other people who came out after hearing the noise, they smiled quietly at the father and daughter.
The reason why childhood is beautiful is not only because of the simple and pure life, but also because of the heart that has not been polished by society and is still pure, innocent and kind.
The author has something to say:
There is only one update today, because it ends at 7pm, so I can only write one chapter... I'm so tired these past two days, I get up at 5 or 6 in the morning and go to bed around 12pm. In one word, I'm sleepy! (laughing and crying)
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