Chapter 144 The Sick Grandma
Perhaps due to her sadness, or perhaps because she happened to mention something about her mother, Ji Yuqiao suddenly wanted to express her thoughts freely.
"Although my mother passed away early, I met someone as gentle as my mother." Ji Yuqiao said.
When she was seven or eight years old, because they were worried about her being alone, Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu would always take turns picking her up from school.
But for some unknown reason, neither of them came that day.
Seeing that all the students in the school had almost left, Ji Yuqiao stood at the school gate and gradually became panicked.
Started to find his way home by himself.
Until it got darker and darker, she stood in a deserted alley and cried.
She cried heartbreakingly, and her cries echoed in the alley.
"Isn't this our Yu Qiao? Why are you crying so sadly?" A hoarse and slightly kind voice sounded.
An old woman with silver hair and a stooped figure walked toward her step by step on crutches.
The old man had a kind smile on his wrinkled cheeks and reached out to touch her head, "Tell grandma, why are you crying?"
"I...I can't find the answer. It's time to go home..." Ji Lanyue looked at the old man with tears in her eyes and burped.
"Don't be afraid, grandma will take you home now." The old man took Ji Lanyue's hand and walked out of the alley.
Ji Lanyue thought she was going to take her to find her brother, but she was taken to a strange and shabby small room.
"This is not my home! You are a bad guy! Let me go!" Ji Lanyue thought she had met the human trafficker Ji Tingyang often talked about, and was so frightened that she kicked and bit the old man.
The old man was in pain, and his grip on her hand relaxed by more than half.
Ji Lanyue took the opportunity to slip away without daring to look back.
She ran to the road crying, and was finally found by the police uncle and sent back to her relatives' home.
“I’m so sorry, the kids are running around, I’m really troubling you.” The relative was thanking the policeman.
Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu held Ji Yuqiao's hands, sweating profusely with their clothes covered with mud, and apologized to her tremblingly.
"I'm sorry, brother is late today and didn't pick you up..."
Ji Lanyue hugged Ji Tingyang's neck with both hands, hung on his body and cried bitterly, "Brother , there are bad guys over there, you almost missed me..."
From then on, Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu never dared to be late again.
When Ji Lanyue thought that this incident would just go away, she did not expect that a few days later, she would meet the old man again at the school gate.
The old man stood at the school gate and kept looking in. After meeting Ji Lanyue's gaze, she smiled and waved to Ji Lanyue.
Ji Lanyue was startled and quickly complained to the teacher: "Teacher, there are bad guys over there, and that old lady is a human trafficker! Last time, she called someone else's name at me and took me to another place. !"
The teacher looked over and sighed after seeing the old man, and explained to her: "That old lady is not a bad guy, she is just sick and thinks you are her granddaughter."
< br>What kind of disease would cause the granddaughter to mistake her for herself?
Ji Lanyue doesn’t understand.
But after hearing the teacher say that the old man was not a bad person, she breathed a sigh of relief and let down her guard.
Later during the physical education class, Ji Lanyue was running on the playground and accidentally fell.
The pain spread from her knees, and as soon as her tears came out, a pair of wrinkled hands pulled her into his arms.
"Yu Qiao doesn't cry. Grandma hugs her and flies away in pain..." The old man didn't know how he got in, so he hugged her and coaxed her softly.
Ji Lanyue didn't know why, but her crying stopped.
"Yu Qiao is so good, grandma will give you candy." The old man took out a toffee from his ragged pocket and handed it to her.
I don’t know how long this toffee has been there, and there are still a few pieces of black mold on it. "Grandma, you can't eat candies after they've expired. You'll get sick." Ji Lanyue said.
"Well, it's all grandma's fault. Can grandma take you to buy new candies?" The old man looked annoyed.
"No, school will be over in a few minutes. My brother will be anxious if he can't see me." Ji Lanyue shook her head and said goodbye to her.
However, unexpectedly, the old man came again the next day, this time with a pocket full of new candies, which he stuffed into Ji Lanyue's schoolbag.
"Grandma bought this secretly. Yu Qiao must hide it, otherwise it will be confiscated when you go home and let your parents know." The old man warned.
Ji Lanyue scratched her head.
Her parents have passed away a long time ago.
Later on the third and fourth days...
Ji Lanyue would meet the old man at the school gate. The old man was very gentle. He would hug her, tell her stories, and buy her a lot of delicious food.
"If Yu Qiao wants to eat anything in the future, tell grandma and grandma will buy it for you." The old man said with a smile.
"Grandma, you are so kind!"
Ji Lanyue thought, the teacher often talks about the warmth of maternal love, is this what it feels like?
This feels so good.
However, the good times did not last long.
Another half month passed, and she never saw the old man at the school gate again.
Ji Lanyue couldn't hold it back and ran to ask the teacher.
The teacher told her that the old man was hit by a car while crossing the road and died.
“She usually doesn’t cross the street when she goes out, and I don’t know why she took that road that day. I heard that when she was hit, she was still holding a box of colored pencils in her hand.”
Ji Lanyue was stunned in place.
She suddenly remembered what she had muttered to the old man a few days ago - "I want a box of colored pencils."
Every time she went to art class, other students had Colorful crayons, and she only had a black pencil.
She didn't dare ask her brothers for it, they would secretly save the money from breakfast to buy her colored pens.
However, I didn’t expect that because of her words...
Her eyes suddenly became sore, and Ji Lanyue's chest felt as if a needle had pricked it, and there was a continuous pain.
When she went home that night, she locked herself in her room and cried for a long time. No matter how Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu tried to persuade her, it was of no use.
The next day, with her red and swollen eyes, she told Ji Tingyang that she wanted to change her name.
"No! Your name was given by your mother and cannot be changed." Ji Tingyang and Ji Zeqiu refused righteously.
Ji Lanyue cried and fussed.
In her opinion at the time, the old woman was much closer than the blank mother.
Relying on her brother's love for her, she resolutely chose to go on a hunger strike. After two or three days of hard and soft tactics, they finally reluctantly agreed.
When Ji Yuqiao thinks about it now, he feels that he was too willful back then.
After hearing what she said, Lin Xu smiled.
It seems that her willful temperament is largely due to the pampering of these two brothers.
"By the way, what was your previous name?" Lin Xu asked curiously.
(End of this chapter)