Chapter 8 Household Matters
The mule cart was followed by a train, and then by a car. It was three days later when Xiao Ai finally arrived in Yuncheng with her two children.
At this time, the mother and her two daughters were already so tired that they were staggering and could hardly walk, not to mention that they had not washed properly for several days and looked very shabby.
The three of them appeared in the Yunhexiang Sub-district Office with this image.
Most of the people working in the office are lesbians, and most of them are older lesbians like aunts or uncles.
What these people hate most is women and children being wronged.
So when they saw the mother and her two daughters, almost everyone gathered around them.
When Xiao Ai took out the letter she had received, a woman who looked to be in her early fifties squeezed in from behind the crowd, took her hand and said repeatedly: "You are Xiao Ai, you must not remember, I am your Aunt Liu, I held you in my arms when you were a child!
"Oh, I haven't seen you for so many years, I really don't recognize you at all. I remember you were still a little kid in my arms, and now your child has grown up so big!"
The woman began to wipe away tears as she spoke: "If your grandfather were still alive, he would be so happy to see this!"
Hearing her say this, Shi Xiaoai knew that she had met an acquaintance, and this person seemed to have a good relationship with her family, so she immediately felt relieved.
She quickly called out, "Aunt Liu."
Then he smiled and said shyly, "I was young when I left home, so I really don't remember."
Shi Xiaoai has always been a very beautiful girl. Although she is not bright and gorgeous, she is very pretty. She is the type that is particularly attractive and becomes more beautiful the more you look at her.
Although she was too thin due to malnutrition and had suffered a lot along the way, she looked a little haggard.
But because of this, when she smiled and showed a pair of dimples at the corners of her lips, she looked even more pitiful.
Moreover, this kind of beauty is not aggressive. Even people of the same sex will only feel pity for her.
This is how Liu Guiyun felt at this moment.
Looking at Shi Xiaoai's pale, almost bloodless face, she herself didn't understand why, but tears couldn't help but flow down, and she felt terribly painful in her heart.
The last time that feeling appeared was when my daughter returned to the city.
"It's no trouble, it's not. I'm in charge of our alley, and your home falls under my jurisdiction. Xiao Ai, you're home now, and it's a good thing to be home! If you have any problems in the future, tell Aunt Liu. If Aunt Liu is not here, tell the other aunts in our office. We will help you if we can!"
Liu Guiyun said this and glanced at the people around her.
"That's right, going home is a good thing. It's good to be able to come back."
"Xiao Ai, you may have forgotten me. I'm Aunt Wang who lives behind your house, just two doors down from yours. Go back and take a look. If you need anything, come and tell Aunt Wang. We are here to help you out, and we will do whatever we can to help you."
"That's right, with two children. Oh, the child is so sleepy that he can't even open his eyes. Look at the pitiful person. Sister Liu, stop talking so much and take the girl home to see him."
"Here, give me some candy. Haven't you had breakfast yet?"
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Once one person joined in, the others naturally followed suit and all expressed their goodwill towards the mother and her two children.
Not to mention Shi Xiaoai, the two children had never received so much attention before. They all opened their eyes wide in surprise and kept saying thank you.
Twins are almost all sensitive to each other. Even if the two children do not look alike, their expressions and movements when standing together and talking are exactly the same. They are all cute, well-behaved, and very polite.
These aunts and grandmothers were so moved by the sight of them that they almost melted their hearts.
So when they entered the office, there were only three of them as a family, but when they came out, there were a lot of other people.
Everyone surrounded the mother and her two daughters, carrying their luggage and sending them back home in a lively manner.
Shi Xiaoai's grandfather was Shi Peifu. Before liberation, his family ran a small restaurant and had a small fortune.
Fortunately, he is a smart man who can judge the situation.
After liberation, he was the first to hand over his family's restaurant and property to the state, leaving only a small courtyard and a job as a cook in a state-owned restaurant.
This behavior saved him a lot of suffering in the years that followed and also protected his family.
But the old man was smart all his life, but he had a love-struck son, Shi Yunchuan, Shi Xiaoai's father.
When Shi Yunchuan was young, his family was well-off and he was the eldest son, so his family had high hopes for him. Therefore, he did not help out in the restaurant, but continued to go to school.
It was also at school that I met Xiao Ai's mother, Ai Muqing.
The Ai family is a big capitalist, and their conditions are many times better than the Shi family, but the young people don’t think too much about it. They grew up together as childhood sweethearts and finally got married.
When there was a movement, the people in the Ai family ran away or died, leaving only Ai Muqing.
Shi Yunchuan's family wanted him to break off relations with her, and Shi's father even promised to send his daughter-in-law to his friend's house in the countryside to avoid the limelight.
But Shi Yunchuan firmly disagreed.
The situation became so bad that he simply wrote a certificate to sever ties with his family, and moved to the slums with his wife and daughter, renting a temporary house under someone's eaves.
My father was so angry that he stayed in bed for a whole week!
Although the old man was angry, he did not stop this practice. After all, he still had his second son's family to protect.
But at that time he would never have thought that his most beloved eldest son would be killed by someone hitting him on the head with a stick just for protecting his wife in the second month after he left home!
This time the old man really fell ill. He was ill for a long time and almost died with his son.
At that time, the movement had reached its most intense stage. Even though he felt sorry for his daughter-in-law who had to raise her granddaughter alone, he could not take them back because of the certificate of severance of relations. He could only provide support secretly.
Later, Xiao Ai went to the countryside.
In the second year after she went to the countryside, her mother passed away.
The biggest knot in the old man's heart is that he failed to protect his eldest son and his family, and he has been brooding over it for many years.
Before he died, he finally made up his mind to leave the small courtyard where he lived to his granddaughter, so that she could take this opportunity to return to the city.
"Your grandfather put a lot of thought into this. He was afraid your second uncle's family would disagree and cause trouble for you later, so he called the director of our office, the director of your second uncle's chemical plant, and the director of the state-owned restaurant all together to discuss the will. With so many witnesses, your second uncle and his family were so angry that they finally stopped making a fuss."
After seeing everyone off, Aunt Liu stayed behind to talk to Shi Xiaoai.
At this point, she sighed: "Xiao Ai, don't hate your grandfather. There was really nothing he could do at that time. The old man did his best for you."
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