Our tacit understanding
The warm and soft little hands rubbed against her face again and again, and the touch on her face could not be ignored. Guan Shanyue looked at the owner of the hands with tears in her eyes.
Zhenzhen was held in Shao Zizhuo's arms. She stretched out her body towards Guan Shanyue, but was stopped by Shao Zizhuo's hand. She was eager to get closer to Guan Shanyue. She struggled, tears welling up in her eyes, "Mom, what's wrong with you? Who bullied you?"
Guan Shanyue turned her head away, wiped the tears from her face vigorously, then turned back and forced a smile: "It's okay, Mom just looks a little happy."
Zhenzhen's tears welled up in her eyes, and she wore a confused expression. "Mom, why are you saying you're happy when you're already crying?" Her pretty brows furrowed in a melancholy that didn't belong to someone her age. "But the teacher said people only cry when they're sad."
Guan Shanyue was stunned and completely immersed in thinking about "how to reasonably establish a children's outlook on life", no longer confined to the moral circle of transmigration itself.
After thinking about it again and again, Guan Shanyue blinked her eyes and completely stopped crying. She leaned close to Zhenzhen and smoothed the wrinkles on her forehead. "There's a phrase called 'crying with joy.' It means that if a person is extremely happy, they can't help but shed tears. This is also an expression of this joy. Teacher is right. Most of the time, people shed tears when they are sad, but in a very small part of the time, people also shed tears when they are happy."
Shao Zizhuo kindly added, "If Zhenzhen feels carefully, she might be able to understand this emotion."
Zhenzhen seemed to understand but not quite, and asked with her head tilted in confusion: "Is it because mom was very happy having dinner with that handsome uncle, so she was very happy and crying?" She didn't quite understand the meaning of the word yet, and spoke it haltingly.
Guan Shanyue subconsciously looked at Shao Zizhuo. His smile gradually faded, and his expression suddenly became gloomy. He looked away, as if he didn't care about her answer. But when you look closely, why did he feel inexplicably aggrieved?
Guan Shanyue was almost going crazy. Children speak without restraint, but why did it come so directly without any preparation?
Her mind raced as she looked at Zhenzhen, but she was talking to Shao Zizhuo, "Mom and that uncle talked about an old friend of his. Mom and the uncle's old friend had a somewhat unusual relationship. The reason he was always nice to Mom was because he wanted to know where the old friend had gone."
Zhenzhen listened intently: "Where did uncle's old friend go?"
Guan Shanyue touched Zhenzhen's head and said, "Mom doesn't know either, but this meal taught me a lesson: things in life are impermanent, so cherish what you have."
Too many difficult words were thrown at her all at once, and Zhenzhen's three-year-old brain was at a loss for words. She scratched her head in pain and said, "Mom, this is too profound. I don't understand."
Shao Zizhuo's voice interrupted: "Okay, Zhenzhen has learned to cry tears of joy today. The learning task has been completed. You can learn the rest in a few days."
Zhenzhen breathed a sigh of relief: "Okay." She climbed down from Shao Zizhuo's arms, holding Shao Zizhuo with one hand and Guan Shanyue with the other, "Let's go home!"
Guan Shanyue smiled and turned to look at Shao Zizhuo: "Zhenzhen didn't understand, what about you? Did you understand?"
Guan Shanyue saw the corners of Shao Zizhuo's eyes curl up: "Life is impermanent, cherish what you have now." He tilted his head and looked at her, "I understand."
Guan Shanyue explained softly, "Yu Yang had a vague feeling for a long time that I wasn't the Guan Shanyue I thought I was, but he didn't dare believe it. Now that I've explained the whole story to him, it's actually confirmed his suspicions."
Shao Zizhuo paused and glanced at Guan Shanyue anxiously: "Did he hurt you?"
Guan Shanyue shook her head, her tone melancholy: "No, he does miss her very much, but he's not so heartless as to want to hurt me."
Shao Zizhuo sighed softly: "If I were him, I don't know how devastated I would be. The person in front of me is her and not her. I dare not do anything, and I can't do anything."
Guan Shanyue lowered her head, her voice unclear: "If I disappear, you must live a good life and take good care of Zhenzhen. Even if you have to find a stepmother for Zhenzhen, you must find one who likes her. Give her all my property and half of yours. The children you give birth to in the future are not allowed to touch her things..."
Before she could finish her words, Shao Zizhuo interrupted her: "No, Zhenzhen will not have a stepmother, nor will she have another child. I had no plans to get married, nor did I plan to have children. You are the unexpected accident that deviated from my life plan, and Zhenzhen is the unexpected loss of control. I am happy with it, but other than that, I cannot accept anyone else interfering in my life."
Thinking of her origins and the disappearance of the other "Guan Shanyue", Shao Zizhuo felt a lingering fear: "Let's live in the present and not worry and grieve over the unforeseen separation in the future, okay?"
Guan Shanyue raised her eyes and looked into Shao Zizhuo's eyes. She had never been so sure as she was now that they understood each other.
Guan Shanyue was about to answer when Zhenzhen's childish voice rang out, "What are you two whispering about that you can't let me hear!" Zhenzhen felt aggrieved. Zhenzhen wanted to say, how come you take advantage of her height and speak so quietly that I can't hear you at all!
Shao Zizhuo laughed and picked up Zhenzhen: "I'm talking to Mom about moving!"
Zhenzhen's eyes widened, and she was so excited that she almost flew up: "Mom, are you going to move in with us?"
Guan Shanyue shared their plans and asked Zhenzhen what she thought. "Dad and I were planning to renovate the 28th floor and move in. The 28th floor was Dad's house. Mom also lived there for a long time. There are many memories of Mom and Dad. Later, Mom and Dad separated for a while, and then we bought a house. After a while, Mom bought the house back."
"But the renovation will take some time, so Mom will move into Zhenzhen's current house first."
Zhenzhen understood, and she cheered: "Can I decorate my own room in the newly renovated house?" Xiaomei's family's newly bought house was decorated according to her ideas, and she wanted her own room too!
Guan Shanyue agreed without hesitation: "Sure!"
"Alas!"
In the evening, Zhenzhen's excitement had not yet worn off. She looked at her father who was typing on the keyboard in the study, and then at her mother who was doing something with the door closed. She pushed the toys into the storage basket and ran to open and close Shanyue's study door.
She gently pushed open a gap, squeezed her face into the crack of the door, and whispered to Guan Shanyue who was reading the documents: "Mom~"
Guan Shanyue looked up and saw Zhenzhen, who was squeezed so tightly that she couldn't see her face. She waved at Zhenzhen and said, "What's wrong, baby?"
Zhenzhen opened the door a little wider, squeezed in, and closed it again. She listened closely before coming over and climbing onto the chair next to Guan Shanyue. "Mom, I want to put a picture of a big chicken drumstick on my wall so I can quench my thirst by just looking at it!"
Guan Shanyue was silent. She simply couldn't imagine putting a giant chicken drumstick in her room? While the reasoning was sound and even used an idiom, wasn't putting one up a chicken drumstick a bit too far? She suggested to Zhenzhen, "Zhenzhen, when she's hungry, you can tell Mommy. You don't have to look at the picture of the chicken drumstick and quench your thirst. How about we change the picture to something else in the room?"
Zhenzhen put her arm around her neck and asked her quietly, "Can you tell me when I'm hungry?"
Guan Shanyue nodded: "Of course, if you're hungry, just tell me and I'll buy you something to eat."
Zhenzhen's voice became smaller and smaller: "I'm hungry now, I want to eat chicken legs."
Guan Shanyue stood up and prepared to go find Shao Zizhuo: "Wait for me to ask your father if he has any chicken legs at home..."
Zhenzhen desperately grabbed Guan Shanyue, "No, no!" She asked her father and knew she wouldn't be able to have a midnight snack today. She started to act pitiful, "Dad said it's healthy to eat until you're 70% full, but I get hungry at night. I don't dare tell Dad because he won't let me eat at night."
Guan Shanyue looked at Zhenzhen's pitiful and aggrieved face, and her motherly love arose spontaneously: "It's okay, I will go talk to your father, if Shao Zizhuo dares to say anything to you, I will tell him!" The child is growing, how can you not let the child eat enough!
Why do I have to tell Daddy! Zhenzhen was about to cry: "Then I won't eat it. Mommy, don't tell Daddy~"
Seeing Zhenzhen's tears rolling down her cheeks, Guan Shanyue panicked and quickly wiped her tears with a tissue: "Okay, okay, I won't tell Dad. Mom will secretly order you a large chicken drumstick from takeout and let you eat as much as you want!"
Zhenzhen quickly stopped crying and asked hesitantly in a tearful voice, "Really?" Takeout, I heard takeout is delicious!
Guan Shanyue pulled out her phone and quickly placed an order for a bucket of fried chicken at a certain fast food restaurant. Just in case, she changed the address to the 28th floor. After ordering, she showed it to Zhenzhen: "Look, it will be here soon!"
Zhenzhen succeeded and nestled in Guan Shanyue's arms, smiling like a little fox.
A short while later, the takeaway call came in, and Guan Shanyue quickly picked it up: "Just leave it at the door, I'll get it when I get back." She instructed Zhenzhen: "Just wait for me in the study, I'll bring it back and you can eat here. Then I'll take out the trash and make sure your father doesn't find out."
Zhenzhen felt a sense of mission: "Don't worry, Mom, I promise to complete it!"
Guan Shanyue tiptoed to open the door and slid to the door in one go. Just as he was about to open it, Shao Zizhuo's voice suddenly rang out from behind him: "Where are you going at this time of night?"
Guan Shanyue smiled guiltily: "I went to the 28th floor to get some information and forgot to bring it down."
Shao Zizhuo put down the cup he had just filled with water and said, "I'll go with you."
Guan Shanyue quickly refused: "No, no, it's not much, just a little. I can go by myself, you go ahead and do your thing."
Shao Zizhuo didn't doubt it, nodded, and went back to the study. Guan Shanyue breathed a sigh of relief, quickly went to the door to get the takeaway, and hurried back with the takeaway, took it out of his arms and handed it to Zhenzhen: "Eat it while it's hot!"
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