Chapter 29 Childhood Experiences
But Gu Mocheng had no time to think about it. Too many things had piled up in the past period of time, and many decisions of the company needed him to step forward and make the final decision. He also had to go on a business trip to K City today. Ye Nuan could already get along with her mother and others, so he could rest assured. For this sister who had not grown up with him since childhood, Gu Mocheng put her in the same position as Gu Muwan and others. Although Ye Nuan was still a little unfamiliar in front of him now, he would treat his sister well and let her get used to it slowly.
After breakfast, Gu Mocheng was on his way to the airport when his phone rang. He picked it up and saw that it was his younger brother Gu Moci, whom he hadn't contacted much since Ye Nuan's visit to the Gu family. He answered the call.
"Aci, what's wrong?" Gu Mocheng asked.
"Brother, I'll go back tomorrow." Gu Moci has always been a taciturn person.
"Okay, I'm going to K City on a business trip today. When you come back tomorrow, you can meet Nuannuan first."
"Has she returned home?" Gu Moci asked hesitantly.
"Well, I haven't officially returned yet. I'm still a little unfamiliar with everyone. Yesterday, I went shopping with mom, your sister-in-law, Xixi, Xiaoyan, and Xiaochen. I didn't buy anything and stayed at home for one night. This morning, I left before everyone else got up because I said I had an early shift."
"Well, brother, you go ahead and do your work. I'm going to sleep first." Gu Moci hung up the phone, leaving Gu Mocheng with a confused look on his face.
"What's this? He called me because he couldn't sleep at night, and hung up when he felt sleepy?" Gu Mocheng recalled the content of the call. It seemed that this was one of the few calls Gu Moci had made to him that was not about serious matters.
Gu Mocheng didn't think it was a serious matter, but Gu Moci thought it was very important. He had already understood what he wanted to know through his eldest brother's words: his sister had not yet fully accepted the Gu family, and might have been unhappy about something when she was shopping with her mother and others, otherwise she would not have left so early.
Gu Moci thought a lot. The reason he waited so long to return was because he didn't know how to face Ye Nuan, his biological sister, who was born at the same time as him, yet was swapped, and raised in an orphanage, going to school and working alone. What had she, a little girl, experienced? He had read the information his father and older brother had investigated, and even from the general information, he could tell that she hadn't had a good life these past few years. He wanted to make up for all that he had missed, but he felt that no matter how he did, he could never make up for the life situation his sister had missed out on. So, these days, he had been planning what he would do after returning, how to make sure his sister could live with them without any obstacles.
Her mother took her sister shopping, but she didn't buy anything. This was also what Gu Moci was worried about. The places the Gu family went to, the things they bought, maybe a piece of dessert could be worth a few days of living expenses for Ye Nuan at school, and she definitely wouldn't want it. How to make Ye Nuan feel that all this is not charity, not pity, but what she deserves? This requires taking into account Ye Nuan's self-esteem. Gu Moci has seen too many real cases of children who were taken away from the wrong place and raised in the wrong place, so he needs to come up with a way to minimize the harm to Ye Nuan.
If Ye Nuan knew Gu Muci's worries, she would realize that this was the biggest gap between her and the Gu family, and she would also understand why Gu Muyan said that to her.
Ye Nuan grew up in an orphanage. The kindergarten was still run by the director. The children in the orphanage were divided into different classes according to their age. Relying on government subsidies and social donations, they just needed to ensure that the children had enough food and clothes to wear. But for elementary school, children had to go out of the orphanage and go to a regular school. Ye Nuan remembered that when she first started elementary school, the school distributed notebooks, and the pencils and erasers were prepared by the director of the orphanage, but Ye Nuan’s class teacher said it would be better for everyone to prepare a pen. Ye Nuan went back to find the life teacher of the orphanage to tell her about this request, but the life teacher told her: "Why don’t other children want pens? Now you go to the director and ask for one. The director will buy you one, but that is her own salary and she has no obligation to spend her money on you. If everyone wants a pen, how can she support herself and her family this month?"
Ye Nuan listened and nodded bewilderedly. She was only a little over six years old, but she remembered the words "I have no obligation to spend money on you." She thought that if other children asked their parents to buy things for them, she could ask the director to buy them for her, too. But the life teacher told her not to. That was the first and last time Ye Nuan asked someone to pay for something for her. Besides the supplies allocated to each child by the orphanage, after leaving the orphanage, Ye Nuan would buy whatever she needed and could afford with whatever she could earn from working. This idea always existed in her mind. Therefore, when shopping with Gu's mother, Ye Nuan saw things that she really didn't need or could not afford, and she didn't even think about buying them with other people's money.
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