Chapter 243: Blocking is worse than Unblocking
In the Zhaoyang District compound, Old Mrs. Jiang was still carrying her bag and wearing half-worn clothes, preparing to go out.
"Grandma, why have you been out every day for the past two months, and why don't you let anyone follow you?" Jiang Shiming parked his motorcycle in the yard and said with some resentment, "And when you saw your big baby coming, you didn't even give her a glance. Could it be that you have a new lover outside?"
Old Mrs. Jiang trembled all over, and walked out without delay, humming, "What do you mean by new or not? I've spoiled you for more than 20 years, but I haven't spoiled you to the point of blooming flowers and plants. Why don't I go out and relax?"
"Where are you going? Can I take you there?" Jiang Shiming said guiltily, putting his hands in his pockets and following his grandmother's steps, swinging slowly.
"You are so busy every day that you are nowhere to be seen. How can you still think of an old woman like me? Go back to the house. Xiao Zhang has made your favorite dried plum meat. Don't stop an old woman from going out for a stroll!"
"I can't eat such greasy food early in the morning. Can you be more serious about your reason for sending me away?" Jiang Shiming refused to leave like a fly, and a sly smile almost escaped his eyes. Grandma's face was getting older, but her childish nature had never changed. Not to mention that grandpa loved grandma as his granddaughter from the bottom of his heart, even he, a junior, couldn't help but treat her as a sister who hadn't grown up.
However, a dark color flashed across his eyes. Whose mind would not grow with the years? The departure of her aunt had dealt a great blow to her. Her memory had regressed more than ten years, and it had not changed since then. Even as time passed, she still thought that she had just married into the Jiang family, but she had inexplicably grown old and had more children and grandchildren.
The old lady couldn't get rid of her grandson and was a little angry. "What's wrong with you, my dear? You usually run away, why are you caring about me now? Or is it because the Friendship Store closed down and you have nothing to do?"
Jiang Shiming begged for mercy again and again: "Grandma, please stop relying on me. Okay, I'll go get some things and then go to work. Please be careful on the road." As Grandma Jiang earnestly saw him off, he turned and left. After turning the corner, he stopped immediately, took out his sunglasses and adjusted the angle. From the reflection of the lenses, he saw grandma looking at him worriedly for a full five minutes. After confirming that he had left, she turned around and walked forward with a smile.
Jiang Shiming raised his eyebrows. Grandma, you have a secret! He followed Old Lady Jiang all the way to the gate of the factory.
Old Mrs. Jiang first went into the guard room and talked to someone for a while, then came out with a stool and sat down obediently, watching the people coming and going. She returned the stool only after everyone had gone off work and left. She then hurried home with a unhappy look on her face, looking back every few times.
Jiang Shiming followed her, and when he saw her arrive home, he turned back the same way and went to the guard room.
"Uncle, my grandma came just now and said that she had dropped a brooch and asked me to look for it," Jiang Shiming said with a smile, "She said that this brooch meant a lot to her. If I hadn't stopped her, she would have come here in person."
The security guard really started to look for it underground: "No, it's not there. Did the old lady remember it wrongly? She only walked back and forth twice. It's impossible that she just dropped it here by chance."
"Forget it if I can't find it," Jiang Shiming sighed softly, "It's just a thought anyway. It would only make me sad if I keep it."
The security guard also sighed: "The old sister is a person with a miserable life. She is more punctual than the young people in the factory every day. Is your aunt still alive? You young people don't try to persuade her, but just let her suffer day by day? We all feel sorry for her when we see her!"
Jiang Shiming clenched his fists and said with a smile: "Why didn't we persuade her? But the old lady was so stubborn that she ran here without telling her family. Do you remember how she asked you at the beginning?"
"I remember, she would repeat the same thing every day. She would ask me if that tall, pretty and fair girl had come. There were many female comrades in our factory, and I had worked as a security guard for more than ten years but I didn't recognize all of them, so how could I know which one she was talking about?
My elder sister insisted that she had seen it here. What could I say? "
After chatting with the guard for a while, Jiang Shiming figured out his grandmother's little secret and walked back with heavy steps. Grandma actually still remembered the existence of her aunt? She kept it a secret from her family, or maybe she had always remembered that she had a daughter for so many years, but she didn't mention it on purpose to prevent her family from worrying, so that everyone thought she had forgotten her aunt.
When he got home, he pretended to know nothing and asked with a smile, "Grandma, you've been running out a lot lately. You don't even watch TV? I heard that the spring performance group competition was very successful a few days ago. It was different from usual. I didn't have time to watch it. It's over the TV show. I asked someone to find the tape. Can we watch it together?"
"No," Old Mrs. Jiang ate her meal quickly and said, "How can I be like you, a kid who hangs around all day doing nothing? I have to take a nap after dinner and then go out!" She picked up the soup and gulped it down, wiped her mouth, and went upstairs on her legs.
"Grandpa, you don't care?"
Old Master Jiang sighed and took out a newspaper from the pile of newspapers beside him. It had been flipped through so many times that the edges were frayed. "Do you know this little girl?"
Jiang Shiming took it and said with a smile: "Kyoto is big, I know everyone there?" But when he saw the person in the newspaper, he was stunned, "Grandpa, what's wrong with her?"
"She looks about 70% like your aunt, especially when she smiles, they look like they were printed from the same mold. Your grandmother must have seen her somewhere, and she has been waiting for her without giving up," said Mr. Jiang, although he didn't like to go out much, but he knew everything.
"I have sent people to investigate recently, but her mother's information is too ordinary. She doesn't look like your aunt who left home," said Old Man Jiang, shaking his head. "Xiahua is very big, and there are so many people. It is inevitable that there will be two people who look very similar. Besides, it was not long after the founding of the country more than 20 years ago. The country was not peaceful. A young girl left home alone. Eighty percent of the time, eighty percent of the time, she met with misfortune. Otherwise, how could we not get any news even if we spent half of our assets?
Rather than letting your grandma have hope and then have it shattered, it is better to let her make a fuss. After a while, she will really let go and live a good life. "
Jiang Shiming pursed his lips tightly and looked at An Zhixia's smiling face, "Master, is it really similar?"
"Well, they look alike, but their temperaments are very different. Your aunt is a proper lady from a noble family, gentle as water, and has no opinion of her own. She just had a temper tantrum once, and it caused our whole family to suffer for most of their lives.
But this little girl is like a star, and the perseverance and vitality she exudes are not something your aunt can possess, nor can she cultivate them. "
(End of this chapter)
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