After finishing the call with Lu Zhinian, Jiang Suichu stood under the eaves and looked at the Bodhisattva tree for a long time.
She looked at the Bodhisattva tree and murmured a prayer in a low voice, "Bodhisattva, please protect grandma."
The cold wind blew by, mixed with a faint smell of smoke. She turned her head and saw Jiang Mingjie standing by the door, leaning on the door frame and smoking.
There were no lights on outside, so Jiang Suchu couldn't see his face clearly, and could only see the cigarette burning between his fingers.
Jiang Suchu didn't know how long he had been standing here, and he wasn't interested in knowing. When she passed him and was about to enter the house, he suddenly stopped her.
"Jiang Suichu."
Jiang Suchu stopped and looked at him sideways, "Is something wrong?"
Jiang Mingjie took a puff of cigarette and looked at her with squinted eyes, "Lu Zhinian is so precious to you."
Jiang Suchu frowned, wondering why he suddenly mentioned Lu Zhinian, "This doesn't seem to have anything to do with you."
"Ha~" Jiang Mingjie chuckled and looked at her, "You are smart enough to find yourself a rich and powerful backer."
Jiang Suichu turned around and looked at him coldly, "Jiang Mingjie, if you have anything to say, just say it. There is no need to be weird here."
Jiang Mingjie tilted his head and said mockingly: "What are you pretending to be? Lu Zhinian took off one of my arms before, wasn't he just because he was afraid that I would cause trouble for you?"
What?
Jiang Suchu opened his mouth and glanced at Jiang Mingjie's right hand. It turns out that Jiang Mingjie's arm was injured by Lu Zhinian last year. Jiang Suchu thought of the day last year when Lu Zhinian and Pei Shuo said they were going to play ball, but they didn't take her with them. She felt strange at the time that they would take her with them wherever they went, but why didn't they take her with them that day?
She thought about Lu Zhinian not letting her touch his hat, could it be...
Jiang Suchu raised his eyes and looked at Jiang Mingjie coldly, "Did you hurt Lu Zhinian?"
Jiang Mingjie paused, then blew out a puff of white smoke with a smile, "Unfortunately, the injury was too minor."
The two were in a scuffle at that time, and he caught a glimpse of the iron bar on the ground out of the corner of his eye. He picked it up before he was prepared and swung it over his head. Lu Zhinian was a fierce and cautious person. The iron rod only grazed his forehead and did not cause much damage. On the other hand, Lu Zhinian finally had his right arm removed with his bare hands, and he was unable to use his strength for more than a month.
Jiang Suchu clenched his hands into fists and dug his nails deeply into his palms. She stared at him closely and warned word by word: "Jiang Mingjie. If you dare to hurt Lu Zhinian again, I will definitely fight you to the death!"
Jiang Mingjie paused and twitched the corner of his mouth, "Don't forget your last name?"
"You also know that my surname is Jiang?" Jiang Suichu smiled bitterly and asked him, "In these years, when did you think I was from the Jiang family?"
Jiang Suchu didn't want to say more to him, so he glanced at his right hand indifferently, sneered and turned around to enter the room.
Just as her legs crossed the threshold, Jiang Mingjie suddenly grabbed her collar. Jiang Mingjie grabbed her collar and dragged her farther away from the house.
Jiang Suchu squeezed his hand hard and said, "Jiang Mingjie, let me go!"
Jiang Mingjie dragged her to the yard where firewood was piled and threw her into the pile. The firewood in the firewood pile are all dry branches picked up from the woods, many of which still have thorns. When he fell, Jiang Suichu reflexively used his hands to support the ground. Unexpectedly, his palms directly pressed against a piece of dry locust wood.
"Hiss~" The thorns on the tree trunk pierced directly into the palm of my hand, causing excruciating pain.
Before Jiang Suchu could stand up, Jiang Mingjie stepped on the back of her hand.
"Ah!" The sharp thorn pierced the palm of his hand a few times more, and the bright red blood wet the dry wood.
"Jiang Mingjie, you are sick!" Jiang Suichu glared at him, groping behind his back with his other hand.
The light was very dark, and Jiang Mingjie didn't see the movements behind her. He crushed the back of Jiang Suchu's hand hard with his feet, bent down and pulled her hair, forcing her to look up at him.
"You asked Lu Zhinian to do Yaqi's expulsion from school, right?" Jiang Mingjie gritted his teeth and stared at her fiercely.
Zhang Yaqi was expelled from school?
No wonder Jiang Mingjie didn't bother her last year, but today he couldn't help but attack her. It turns out that he came to avenge the goddess in his heart.
Jiang Suchu glared at him, "No! I never told Lu Zhinian about Zhang Yaqi."
Lu Zhinian didn't know Zhang Yaqi at all, so how could it be possible that he did it.
"Do you think I will believe it?" Jiang Mingjie snorted, "Isn't that Sun Feifei in No. 1 Middle School expelled by Lu Zhinian? This time Yaqi was expelled, just like Sun Feifei at that time."
My mobile phone and computer were all hacked, and I sent a report letter directly to the Provincial Education Bureau.
Because Zhang Yaqi was investigated for bullying her classmates at school, it was natural that some of the things her father had done to protect her were also investigated. The whole incident was like a domino effect, affecting the whole body and directly involving a series of official corruption issues.
No one in Muyang Town knows that the mayor has been suspended for investigation.
Jiang Suichu raised his head and looked at Jiang Mingjie with a sneer, "Ha~ Don't you know how many immoral things Zhang Yaqi has done and how many people she has offended? There are so many people who want her to be ruined. Why do you think it was Lu Zhinian who did it? .”
Jiang Mingjie likes Zhang Yaqi and has been following her since junior high school. When Jiang Suichu was bullied by Zhang Yaqi, Jiang Mingjie worked hard just to please her.
Jiang Suichu stepped back a little and touched a piece of firewood, "I can only say that Zhang Yaqi deserves it!"
"Fuck you..." When Jiang Mingjie raised his hand and wanted to slap Jiang Suichu, Jiang Suichu quickly took out the firewood from the pile and hit Jiang Mingjie's arm with a stick.
"Ah! Damn it!" Jiang Mingjie raised his hand to block it out of reflex. Jiang Suichu took the opportunity to push him away, got up from the ground and ran into the house.
Jiang Suichu didn't retain any strength in that blow, and Jiang Mingjie's hand was constantly swollen for several days.
Back in the house, Jiang Suichu took a basin of cold water and washed away the blood on his hands. The wood thorns were stuck in the flesh. Jiang Suichu found the needle used by his grandmother to sew clothes, gritted his teeth and pulled out the thorns in his heart.
The palms of his hands were bloody, and the backs of them were bruised by Jiang Mingjie's steps. Jiang Suchu looked at his palms and squatted on the ground feebly.
Zhang Yaqi was fired and the mayor was investigated.
Was all this really done by Lu Zhinian?
She didn't dare to think deeply about how many things Lu Zhinian had done for her behind the scenes.
He never told her. If Jiang Mingjie hadn't told her today, she thought Lu Zhinian would never have told her.
Jiang Suchu buried his head in his arms and took a deep breath. She took out her mobile phone from her pocket and opened her photo album to see the pictures she had taken of Lu Zhinian during the previous video between the two of them.
Looking at the empty photo album on her mobile phone, she remembered that her previous mobile phone had been broken in the stairwell on the day her grandma was hospitalized. She was anxious to ask for leave from her class teacher. The current mobile phone was bought for her by Aunt Shu Yuan. She had only used it for a few days and there was nothing in the photo album.
Miss him so much.
Jiang Suchu wiped her tears on her sleeves, clicked on Lu Zhinian's WeChat, and looked through their chat history. There are not many chat records on the new phone, so I scrolled to the top within a few minutes. She scrolled down from the beginning again, reading word by word.
It wasn't until her legs were numb from squatting and the tears on her face had dried that she put away her phone and stood up. She washed her face again, then pulled out some of her sleeves to cover the bruised backs and injured palms.
Back in the house warming up by the fire, Jiang Mingjie was walking out with his mobile phone charger. Jiang Suchu didn't look at him and just passed him by.
Jiang Mingjie just glanced at her lightly and went upstairs with the charging cable for his mobile phone.
Grandma didn't know when she woke up, and she looked at her with her eyes open. Jiang Suichu poured a glass of warm water and gave grandma water with a spoon.
"Grandma, are you feeling uncomfortable somewhere?"
Grandma shook her head slowly, "Mingjie... bullied you?"
Jiang Suchu paused and hid his injured hand in his sleeve, "No."
Grandma looked at her for a long time, then slowly sighed, "Sui Sui."
"Huh?" Jiang Suichu raised his eyes and looked at grandma.
Grandma closed her eyes and said in a drawled voice: "Grandma is gone, so don't... come back."
Jiang Suchu paused for a moment, looked away from grandma, and said stubbornly: "Grandma, you will definitely get better."
Grandma tried her best to reach out to her, "...Suisui, listen to grandma."
Jiang Suichu looked at grandma's skinny and waxy hand, quickly put down the water glass, choked and held it in his hand, "Yeah. Grandma, tell me."
Grandma didn't have much strength, she just held her little hand weakly, "Grandma knows her body well, and she will leave sooner or later."
Jiang Suichu lowered his head, not looking at his grandma, and kept shaking his head.
"I... I just can't worry about you." Grandma's cloudy eyes looked at the hands of the grandfather and grandson clasped together, "Before... I always thought that I would wait until you were admitted to college so that I could meet your father. . Now it seems... ahem... I can't wait for that day."
Jiang Suchu felt that her nose was so blocked that she couldn't breathe. She choked and said, "No way."
Hot tears fell on the back of grandma's hand. Grandma looked at Jiang Suichu's hair and smiled weakly and lovingly, "...We are so smart and hardworking, we will definitely...be admitted to a...good university."
Jiang Suchu nodded vigorously, "Yes, grandma. I will definitely get into a good university, and then I will take grandma to the university to check it out."
"I won't go." Grandma smiled, "I want to live a happy life in college every year."
Grandma tried hard to raise her hand and wanted to touch her face. Jiang Suchu felt what his grandma wanted to do, so he quickly took her hand and put it against his face.
Grandma’s hands have been doing farm work all year round, and there is a layer of calluses in her palms. When she touches her face, it feels like she has been tempered by years.
Grandma looked at her carefully with appreciative eyes, "We are born good-looking every year, and we are blessed with looks. We will definitely have success and no illness or disaster in the future."
The old people in the village often say this. He said that her ears were higher than her eyebrows and her earlobes were fleshy, so she would be very lucky in the future.
Jiang Suchu rubbed his face against her grandma's palm, "I don't want much blessing, I just want grandma to be by my side forever."
Grandma looked at her, tears seeping into the wrinkles at the end of her eyes, "Sui Sui, no one in this world can stay with someone forever."
"You have to learn to be independent. Life is a process of coming and going alone."
"Life, old age, illness and death are all decided by God."
"It's rare for someone to be able to accompany you through this life from beginning to end."
"Do you understand?"
Jiang Suchu nodded, tears sliding down his cheeks, "I understand."
That night, Jiang Suichu lay on her grandma's lap and talked a lot with her. It wasn't until the sky turned white that my grandma fell asleep again.
Grandma finally fell asleep. Jiang Suichu was afraid of waking grandma, so he lay quietly and did not dare to move.
She was tired but couldn't sleep. I just closed my eyes and fell asleep, but my mind was like a revolving lantern, with more than ten years of experience flashing through frame by frame.
From the little princess who was admired by all the stars in the family compound, to the time when her father died and her mother remarried and was abandoned by her grandmother. Later, I was left under someone else's roof, and was bullied and bullied.
She gritted her teeth and came through.
But this time, she really didn't seem to know where to go in the future.
Jiang Suichu has always felt that she is a lonely bird, and her grandma is her wings. Now that her wings are almost gone, how will she fly in the future?
Slowly, the sky became completely bright.
Jiang Suchu stood up carefully, covered her grandma with a quilt and walked out of the room quietly. She didn't sleep all night, and her eyes were dry and painful.
The fire in the stove was almost out, so she went out to load a few coals. As she was about to enter the house, she caught a glimpse of a person walking on the path not far away.
The winter morning was misty. When they approached Jiang Suchu, they saw clearly that the person coming was Jiang Minghao.
Jiang Suichu put down the poker in his hand and called him, "Jiang Minghao, did you come back by the early train?"
She came back early without picking up her winter vacation homework. Normally she would just come back today.
"Yes." Jiang Minghao carried the box and walked directly into the courtyard gate and walked towards her.
Jiang Suchu glanced at the black suitcase he was carrying. Jiang Minghao never carried suitcases. Moreover, the suitcase looked familiar to her.
She pointed to the suitcase, "Is this your suitcase?"
"No." Jiang Minghao pushed the box to her, "Lu Zhinian asked me to bring it to you."
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment, "Lu Zhinian?"
Jiang Minghao: "Yeah. He said the winter vacation homework is in there."
Jiang Suichu: "...Winter vacation homework needs to be packed in such a big box?"
Jiang Minghao smiled, who said it wasn't the case?
He was not a gossip, so he took it as Lu Zhinian asked him to, without asking what was inside.
Jiang Minghao: "There should be others. You can see for yourself later. It's quite heavy."
Jiang Suchu: "...Oh."
Jiang Minghao frowned when he saw the green color in her eyes, "You haven't slept all night?"
Jiang Suichu nodded, "Absolutely."
Jiang Minghao looked inside through the window and saw his grandma sunk in the recliner.
"Grandma..." He paused, "...are you okay?"
Jiang Suichu lowered his eyes, shook his head, and said nothing.
Jiang Minghao looked at her and knew how uncomfortable she felt. He didn't know how to comfort people, he just raised his hand and rubbed her head.
Jiang Suichu curled his lips and asked him, "Have you had breakfast?"
Jiang Minghao twisted his sore neck from sitting in the car, "Not yet."
Jiang Suichu: "Then you go back first, I'll go over and cook noodles in a while."
Jiang Guodong often goes out drinking and is away from home. Sometimes when Jiang Suichu has no food at his aunt's house, he will go to Jiang Minghao's house to cook his own food.
Jiang Minghao glanced at her, his face full of exhaustion.
He said: "You stay with grandma, I will get it done. I'll call you when it's done."
There was no hesitation between the two of them. After he said this, Jiang Suchu was not polite to him.
"Okay." Jiang Suichu carried the box, "Then I'll go in first. When you're ready, just call me instead of running over to call me."
"Yeah." Jiang Minghao saw that she could carry the box, so he didn't help and turned around and walked towards his home.
Jiang Suichu carried the box into the room, placed it on the ground and opened it. In addition to winter vacation homework and certificates, there are also a lot of food and warm patches.
She randomly browsed through a few items, including her favorite snacks and some supplements she bought for her grandma. She picked out everything grandma could eat and carried her to the room where she was warming herself by the fire.
The uncle had already gotten up and saw a bunch of supplements held by Jiang Suichu. He stepped forward and took a few of them, "Where did these come from?"
Jiang Suichu thought for a moment and said, "Aunt Shuyuan bought it and asked Brother Xiaohao to bring it back."
Jiang Zhiguo: "The Lu family are really good people. They paid so much for us in the hospital. I didn't expect to buy so many supplements."
"Yeah." Jiang Suchu didn't explain much.
She picked a can of black sesame paste and thought about soaking it for a while and feeding it to her grandma when she woke up.
Grandma likes to eat sesame-flavored things.
Buzzing~
The phone in his pocket vibrated twice and then hung up. Jiang Suchu took a look and saw that it was Jiang Minghao.
The noodles should be cooked.
Grandma hadn't woken up yet, so Jiang Suchu said softly to her uncle, "Uncle, I'm going to Brother Xiaohao's house. I'll be back in a while."
Jiang Zhiguo: "Go, go. I'm watching over you, grandma. It's okay."
Jiang Suichu went to the room to change out of his slippers, then took his mobile phone to Jiang Minghao's house.
The sun has come out, and the grass on the roadside is covered with crystal dew.
When we arrived at Jiang Minghao's house, there were two steaming bowls of clear soup noodles on the wooden table in the main room. Jiang Minghao was not seen. Just as Jiang Suichu was about to walk to the kitchen, he saw Jiang Minghao holding two pairs of chopsticks in his hand.
The chopsticks had just been washed. Jiang Minghao shook off the water on the chopsticks and handed them to her, "Go over and eat."
"Yes." Jiang Suichu took the chopsticks and walked back to the table to sit down.
The door of the main room faced the direction of the sunrise. Jiang Suichu ate noodles and squinted at the sun that had just emerged on the hillside in the distance.
"Jiang Minghao."
Jiang Minghao was eating noodles with his head down, and he looked up at her when he heard the sound, "Huh?"
Jiang Suchu pointed outside with his chopsticks and said, "The sun is coming out."
Jiang Minghao raised his eyes and looked over. The morning sun was gentle and warm white, not too dazzling.
He looked at the light and chewed slowly, "Yeah."
Jiang Suichu: "Will there be such good weather in the future?"
Jiang Minghao: "Well, it's such a good weather."
As they say, the weather is going to be sunny and sunny. Jiang Suichu often pushed his grandma to the yard to bask in the sun during the warmest times.
The sun was shining on the two of them, making it particularly warm.
On Jiang Suchu's birthday, she accompanied her grandma to bask in the sun in the yard. She took a lot of selfies with her grandma on her mobile phone, and added a lot of cute special effects. She sent all the photos to Lu Zhinian.
Lu Zhinian replied to her: [Cute. 】
Jiang Suchu: [Grandma is cuter than me. 】
Lu Zhinian: [They are all cute. 】
Jiang Suichu curled his lips and leaned his head gently on her grandma. The surroundings are filled with sunshine and the smell of grandma, which is warm and smells good.
Lu Zhinian: [Jiang Suichu, today is your birthday. 】
Jiang Suchu: [Yeah. Another year older. 】finally.
Lu Zhinian: [I’ll give you a gift. 】
Jiang Suchu: [What is it? 】
Lu Zhinian: [Picture]
Jiang Suichu clicked on the photo sent by Lu Zhinian, which was a model of a cabin. There are courtyards and trees, and the house has three floors, with all kinds of decorations inside. The warm lights are on in the model, making the whole house look particularly warm. Jiang Suichu enlarged the picture and saw an orange cat lying on the sofa in the living room and a golden retriever lying on the carpet.
This is...Mimi and Beibei?
Jiang Suchu: [Is this? 】
Lu Zhinian: [I will send you home. 】
Jiang Suchu was stunned for a moment, [Home? 】
Lu Zhinian: [Yeah. Jiang Suichu, I will give you a home from now on. 】
Jiang Suchu was stunned, his eyes burning.
Lu Zhinian's message came over again, [Baby, trust me. 】
Jiang Suchu raised his head and blinked, trying hard not to shed tears. She smiled lightly and typed back to him, [Yeah. I believe! 】
After finishing chatting with Lu Zhinian, Jiang Suchu held his grandma's arm and said to her: "Grandma, I will definitely have a warm and happy home in the future. Don't worry."
Grandma didn't speak, just patted her hand gently.
Perhaps because the weather is getting warmer, grandma's spirit is obviously much better. In the days leading up to the Spring Festival, I could even hold a spoon to eat by myself.
People in the village came to see grandma, and they all said that after the Chinese New Year, when the weather warms up in spring, grandma will be fine.
Jiang Suichu was also looking forward to this.
Soon, the Spring Festival arrived.
On New Year's Eve, every household is busy cleaning, pasting couplets and hanging lanterns.
Grandma has been in much better spirits these days, and uncle has also relaxed a little. He went to the street and bought some Spring Festival couplets and red lanterns, saying they were to get rid of the old and welcome the new.
Let grandma get rid of the bad luck of the year and pray for good health in the coming year.
Jiang Suichu was also happy. She changed her grandma into clean new clothes and said, "Grandma, today is the New Year."
Grandma's voice was still very weak, "Grandma... I don't have any lucky money for you this year... I'll give it to you."
Jiang Suchu smiled and shook his head, "I don't want lucky money, I want to grow up quickly."
This way I can take better care of grandma.
"Sui Sui, come out and help check whether the couplets are posted correctly." Outside the window, the uncle stood on the ladder and posted the couplets, calling her to go out and check whether the couplets were posted correctly.
Jiang Suchu smiled and said to her grandma: "Grandma, I'm going out to help my uncle post couplets."
Grandma blinked, "...go ahead."
Jiang Suichu tucked the blanket around her grandma's legs, and then touched her grandma's hand to make sure it was not frozen before she hurried out to help her uncle.
Jiang Mingjie held the ladder, and her uncle stood on the ladder holding a couplet and asked her, "Is it right?"
Jiang Suichu raised his head, raised his index finger in front of his eyes, squinted his eyes, and said, "Move to the left."
Jiang Zhiguo moved to the left, "Like this?"
Jiang Suchu shook his head, "There's a lot more, go further to the right."
Jiang Zhiguo moved to the right again, and Jiang Suchu stared at it. When she was about to call it quits, she saw Jiang Mingzhu coming out of the fire-warming room from the corner of her eye, calling someone with a frightened look on her face.
"Mom! Dad!" Jiang Mingzhu stood in the room, a little at a loss, "Grandma... Grandma, she..."
Qu Ping was cooking in the kitchen and hurried over wearing an apron, "What's wrong?"
Jiang Zhiguo paused for a long time and almost fell off the ladder. He threw away the couplet in his hand, climbed down the stairs in a few steps, and staggered into the house.
Later, Jiang Suchu heard a heartbroken cry, "Mom!"
Jiang Mingjie saw her frozen in place and brushed her shoulder sarcastically. Jiang Suichu's body was like a falling leaf, shaking and finally falling to the ground.
There were sobs coming and going in the room, and Jiang Suichu felt so far away from him when he heard them. She stared blankly at the couplet that fell on the ground, the bright red color a bit glaring.
She touched her cheek.
Why are there no tears?
She should cry, right? Why can't she cry.
The crying sounds of the uncle and aunt in the house came one after another. She looked at the house, got up from the ground, and walked slowly into the house.
She stood at the door and looked at grandma.
Grandma is sitting on a chair, with her eyes closed and a kind face.
It's no different from before, I just fell asleep.
She walked with heavy steps to her grandma until she felt her grandma's hands were cold. Her whole body felt as if someone had suddenly had her bones ripped out. Her knees suddenly hit the ground and she knelt in front of her grandma.
But she still couldn't cry. She just held her grandma's hand and smiled lightly.
"Grandma, Happy New Year."
