Chapter Thirty-Eight: We Are Family
After my careful explanation, my mom finally believed that what I said was true. I happily said that it is worth celebrating, and in order to celebrate Yingying officially becoming a member of our family, she is going to buy a few good dishes tonight to improve the food.
Since my mother was going to settle Yingying next, the task of going out to buy groceries naturally fell to me. The old man first told me which vegetables to buy, and then asked me to call my sister's family back for a family reunion dinner tonight.
That's when I had to tell the truth. Pulled my mother aside and told her about Grandpa Liangliang's illness and hospitalization. My mom was taken aback and complained about why I hadn't told her earlier. When you ask me to go grocery shopping, I'm stopping by to buy some fruit or something. After dinner, she went to the hospital to visit her in-laws.
So, I got to the point: I don't have any money!
After taking a hundred yuan from my mother, I went out to the Xishi Street vegetable market near my house to buy some vegetables and some fruits. Since my sister's family had to take care of the sick and couldn't come, my mother told me not to buy some dishes.
In the evening, my mother and I added a new arrival, Yingying, and the family of three officially had their first meal. I don't know if this girl named Yingying is due to introversion or family changes, and she has rarely spoken since I saw her. It was only when my mom asked her anything, or when my mom helped her with the vegetables, that she replied softly or said thank you. As for me talking to her, she always kept her head down, and sometimes she would be afraid to look for my mother's hand, and then hide behind my mother's back to hide from me.
These actions of hers only made me feel more pity for this poor girl. I know that after all these years, the relationship between me and her, which I was not very familiar with, is now completely indistinguishable from strangers. Her family has changed dramatically, and she is disabled, and she inevitably feels fear and fear of all strange things.
However, it doesn't matter, I'm sure sooner or later, she and I will get acquainted with her. Anyway, she came to my house, and that's my family from then on. I have this obligation and responsibility to do my best to care for her and take care of her. Let her no longer feel sad and lonely, and let her face have laughter and happiness again!
As soon as dinner, my mother took the fruit I bought back to the hospital to visit the patient. Since Yingying was inconvenient to travel and unfamiliar with the situation at home, my mother asked me to stay with her.
I cleaned up the dining table and washed the dishes and chopsticks, but I found that Yingying was missing from the living room. I hurriedly went to my mother's room to take a look, but I saw that she was sitting alone on the bed, holding a doll that she might have brought, facing the wall with big eyes, her body motionless, not knowing what she was thinking.
Seeing this girl so lonely and desolate, my heart was filled with nameless pity. In my memory, she used to be a girl who loved to laugh. I can still vaguely remember the innocent and happy laughter at that time. However, God doesn't know why he would treat an innocent girl like this, not only to rob her of light, but also to make her suffer the pain of losing her loved ones and losing everything. Such pain may not be able to withstand by a man, let alone a weak girl like her?
A person with limited eyes usually has more sensitive ears than the average person. As soon as I walked to the door, the girl felt it. I saw her clench the doll in her hand subtly, and her body seemed to tense.
I sighed, slowly walked in front of her and squatted down, and said softly, "Yingying, don't be afraid. From today onwards, we are family. In the future, we will be your relatives, and we will like you and love you like relatives. You won't be alone anymore and you won't be hurt in any way. Forget about those sad things and live happily with us, okay? ”
My words seemed to make the girl slowly relax from the tension. Empty eyes turned to me, but not to my face. Looking at it so closely, I felt the girl's beautiful and vulgar face, if it weren't for the godlessness of her eyes, it could really be described as the embryo of a peerless beauty in the future.
But what an important organ the eyes are, if they lose their brilliance, her whole person will lose her aura. lost his aura, and no matter how beautiful his appearance was, he was immediately eclipsed.
The girl silently "listened" to me, frowning, as if remembering what I was like when I was a child. When I saw that she didn't seem to be afraid of me anymore, I immediately said, "Remember? When I was a child, you called me Brother Dai Yong. ”
The girl hesitated for a moment, then finally nodded lightly and said in an inaudible voice, "Remember, you...... You've also grabbed my braids. ”
"Really?" I couldn't help but laugh a little, and I remembered that there had been such a thing. But I don't remember exactly why. However, this was the first time a girl had spoken to me since she moved into my house, and I couldn't help but be overjoyed. This shows that the girl has started to adapt to the place and is willing to communicate with our family.
With a good start, I couldn't just miss it, so I continued, "When you say that, I remember it too." At that time, you combed two small braids and walked and shook a little, did I think it was fun, so I grabbed it in my hand and played with it? ”
The girl didn't seem to think so, pouted, and said, "No, every time I came to your house to play when I was a child, you always bullied me." My mother...... Having said, you're a bad boy, tell me not to play with you. ”
I sweat!
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