"Mr. Gu?" Wu Lan murmured to himself, and then his expression changed drastically: "Mother, are you not dead?"
"No, no, no! You died, but Mr. Gu brought you back to life!"
As Wu Lan said this, she tightly grasped the gentle woman's arms, as if she was afraid that her mother would disappear from sight in the next moment.
The gentle woman smiled and shook her head: "My mother is dead and not alive... The reason why you can see your mother is because more than 20 years ago, Mr. Gu sealed a trace of my mother's soul on your forehead. .”
"At that time, Mr. Gu told me that if there is a chance, we two can meet again."
Wu Lan's thoughts were very confused. She pointed her jade finger at her forehead and said, "So, my mother has always lived here...did she watch me grow up?"
"Silly child, my mother only woke up recently...it was when Mr. Gu hit you on the forehead for the first time that a ray of my mother's soul gradually awakened." The gentle woman shook her head and responded.
"No wonder, no wonder Mr. Gu keeps hitting me on the forehead." Wu Lan lowered his head guiltily: "I wrongly blamed him..."
The gentle woman looked at her daughter with a playful look on her face, and said with a chuckle: "Really? How could I still see that you had other thoughts about Mr. Gu when you first met him?"
Uh-huh!
Wu Lan's face turned red in the blink of an eye, reaching her neck and behind her ears.
"Mom! What are you talking about!"
"At first I just thought Mr. Gu looked familiar, but after I found out his identity, I always treated him as an elder... I was told to call someone who looked about the same age uncle... I’m just a little embarrassed to say it!”
At this point, Wu Lan changed her tone and said seriously: "I have absolutely nothing but respect and gratitude for Mr. Gu!"
The gentle woman smiled even louder: "Okay... Mom is just teasing you, why are you so serious?"
Seeing that her daughter couldn't joke at all, the gentle woman stopped teasing her and just told her past stories with Shopkeeper Wu little by little.
When talking about why she died, she also told her daughter very seriously: "I will give you my life in exchange for yours. Mom will not regret it!"
Hearing this, Wu Lan burst into tears and almost suffocated from crying!
She finally understood why her father and Mr. Gu would describe her mother in that way, and why her father lied to her and said that her mother died of illness...
"Mom! I hurt you!" Wu Lan choked and said, "If you didn't want me, you and your father would be very harmonious, and you would be able to have another child of yours in the future."
"Now that you are separated forever, it's all my fault!"
The gentle woman patted her daughter on the back and whispered softly: "It's not your fault. If you really want to say it, I still have to blame my mother."
"When Mr. Gu asked us to choose, your father chose me...I chose you."
"Even though I sacrificed my life, I looked at my perseverance, but the sadness I left behind was actually given to you and your father."
"Especially for a big boss like your father, he must be in a hurry to take care of a girl like you."
"But after seeing you these past few days, I know that he takes care of you very well."
"I just don't want to find a marriage for you..."
After listening to her mother's words, Wu Lan's crying gradually stopped, not because she was no longer sad, but simply because she understood that crying was useless.
Wiping away her tears, Wu Lan looked at her mother with a serious face and said, "Mom, I'm going to ask Mr. Gu. He has magic, maybe he can bring you back to life!"
Hearing this, the gentle woman's face suddenly became serious: "No! There is no resurrection after death. No matter whether Mr. Gu can do it or not, we can't trouble him to do this."
"If you die, you are dead. If you come back to life, wouldn't you be working against the laws of heaven?"
"It is a great blessing for us and my mother to meet each other. We must not be greedy."
"Xiao Sanhua, do you understand?"
After being stunned for a long time, Wu Lan nodded vigorously: "Mother, I understand!"
"Good girl." The gentle woman took Wu Lan and walked towards the back of the tea stall. As she walked, she said, "Let's go see your father, this drunken old man."
"Dad! Dad can also see mother!" Wu Lan was shocked.
The gentle woman smiled and said, "Yes, thanks to Mr. Gu, our family can be reunited today."
"So you still want to trouble others?"
Wu Lan paused: "I don't want to anymore!"
Huh-shhhhhhhh!
On the recliner behind the tea stall, shopkeeper Wu with gray temples was snoring rhythmically, and the smell of alcohol on his body could be smelled from a long distance away.
The gentle woman reached out and pinched Shopkeeper Wu's nose, counting silently: "Three, two, one..."
Huchi!
Shopkeeper Wu, who was blushing, sat up suddenly and took a big breath of fresh air.
When he turned his face and saw the dreamy figure, he jumped up from the recliner.
"Mother, mother, mother!" Shopkeeper Wu shouted excitedly.
The gentle woman covered her mouth and smiled: "Hey, who is your mother? I am not as old as you!"
"Dad! Don't steal your mother from me!" Wu Lan smiled and hugged the gentle woman's arm tightly.
"Daughter, you are..." Shopkeeper Wu rubbed his eyes: "Madam, you are..."
"Am I dreaming?"
"It's not a dream!" Wu Lan responded, then looked at her mother and smiled: "Isn't that right, mother!"
The gentle woman nodded: "Yes."
Snapped!
After Shopkeeper Wu raised his hand and gave himself a mouthful, he grinned and said, "It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!"
"It's not a dream! It's not a dream!"
While laughing, Shopkeeper Wu opened his arms and took his wife and daughter into his arms... This family of three was reunited for the first time in more than twenty years...
As the family hugged each other, Wu Lan's eyes fell on the official road not far away. With tears in her eyes, she smiled and said: "Uncle Gu, thank you..."
...
The sun gradually sets in the west, and the rays of light on the sky "burn" red.
After Gu Ning'an walked out of Muyun Road, he headed south all the way to Lexiang County, which is affiliated with Xiangzhou.
There is a property of his in Lexiang County, which is a medium-sized courtyard called Ansi Xiaoyuan.
At that time, he was passing through Lexiang County and met someone who was in a hurry to sell his house. The price was just right, so he spent all his belongings to buy a house.
Maybe the price was right, maybe he liked the customs and customs of Lexiang County, or maybe it was because of his obsession with buying a house in his previous life that he bought a house so impulsively.
Gu Ning'an still remembered that the house cost him a total of twelve taels and seventeen dollars at that time, and he only had fourteen taels of silver on him at the time... The remaining silver after buying the house had to be paid to the fan. The "hard work fee" is about eight coins.
This money was all earned through hard work when he traveled around the world, teaching people how to read, or helping people read their faces...
After buying a new house, Gu Ning'an couldn't help but contribute to her "new home".
In the end, all the money he had was spent, and he was in a state of inactivity for several days. Grandma Sun, who sold "yokan", would always glance at him when she saw him passing by, but would not eat it.
The kind-hearted Granny Sun saw that he was short of money, so she gave him a lot of "yokan" on credit.
"I have to settle my money before I leave. If I borrow money, I will pay it back. It will not be difficult to borrow money again." As he muttered to himself, Gu Ning'an's palms felt warm, and another wisp of worldly aura emerged in his palms.
In this second ray of mortal air, there is the figure of a family of three reunited, and there is also a heartfelt word of thanks.
"Happy birthday, little Sanhua." With a smile, Gu Ningan tightened the package on her shoulders and strode towards the Lexiang County that floated in her eyes...
