Not long after Jiang Mingzhu and Zheng Linxu finished talking on the phone, He Chuyan entered her room.
Jiang Mingzhu: "Mom, you are back."
She usually uses this tone when she acts coquettishly, and paired with her pure white pajamas and those beautiful eyes, it makes people feel soft and loving.
He Chuyan walked to the bed and sat down: "Why aren't you asleep yet?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "I just called my uncle."
There was no need for He Chuyan to ask, Jiang Mingzhu had already taken her arm and told her: "Qingming Festival is coming soon, my uncle will take me back to Hong Kong City to see my brother."
He Chuyan had forgotten this day recently because of Jiang Mingzhu's incident, and only then did she remember that Tomb Sweeping Day was only three days away.
Jiang Mingzhu visits Pei Ye every Qingming Festival, but He Chuyan doesn't stop her.
He Chuyan: "Want to chat with mom for a while?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Okay, what does mom want to talk about?"
He Chuyan: "Let's talk about the wilderness that Zhizhi said. Is he chasing you?"
Jiang Mingzhu's expression paused.
When He Chuyan heard the name in the morning, Jiang Mingzhu began to worry that she would "interrogate" him.
What was supposed to come came.
Jiang Mingzhu didn't know how to explain her and Yuanye's affairs to He Chuyan.
When he was worried, He Chuyan said, "I just asked Zhizhi, and she gave me a brief introduction."
Jiang Mingzhu: "Well, that's pretty much what Zhizhi said."
He Chuyan: "He is chasing you, do you like him?"
After asking this question, He Chuyan never moved her eyes away from Jiang Mingzhu's face. Although she was smiling, her eyes were sharp and she did not miss any change in her eyes.
Jiang Mingzhu thought seriously for a long time: "I was very happy when I was with him. He is very good."
"Just like older brothers." Jiang Mingzhu and He Chuyan confessed their feelings: "Does this count as love?"
He Chuyan touched her hair: "Of course, there are many kinds of love, not just love between men and women."
Jiang Mingzhu: "But he wants me to be his girlfriend. I can't give him what he wants, so I don't want him to come to me again."
He Chuyan: "Why?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "His time should be spent on more meaningful things instead of wasting it on me."
He Chuyan: "Silly boy, the relationship between people does not have to be equal in giving and receiving. There is no absolute fairness."
Jiang Mingzhu looked at her with confusion: "I don't know, but I don't want to owe anyone."
He Chuyan: "Won't Zhou Li let you contact him?"
Jiang Mingzhu: "Yeah."
He Chuyan: "To be honest, do you want to see him?"
Jiang Mingzhu hesitated.
It’s not because I don’t want to see the wilderness.
He Chuyan: "Assuming that without Zhou Li's agreement, would you still meet with Yuanye now?"
Jiang Mingzhu nodded after thinking. She leaned on He Chuyan's shoulder and said, "When I play with him, I am very happy...I will think of my brother."
He Chuyan touched Jiang Mingzhu's hair without touching her. With these words, she was sure that her choice was correct.
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After Jiang Mingzhu fell asleep, He Chuyan and Gu Shu had a conversation on the terrace downstairs.
What we were talking about was the wilderness.
He Chuyan repeated to Gu Shu what Jiang Mingzhu had just said describing Yuanye.
Gu Shu took notes.
He Chuyan: "I talked to him over the phone about Zhuzhu's situation, and he was very willing to help."
Gu Shu looked at the words on the notebook: "You can try it."
Regarding Jiang Mingzhu's current mentality, they can be said to be helpless. The existence of Yuanye is undoubtedly a surprise.
As long as there is a glimmer of hope, you have to try.
He Chuyan: "Gu Shu, tell me...if Ye Yu had not died, would Zhu Zhu be with him?"
Regarding Jiang Mingzhu's feelings for Pei Yegu, He Chuyan has never come to a very clear conclusion.
Jiang Mingzhu has always called Pei Ye's brother, but her "obsession" with Pei Ye can no longer be explained by pure "family affection". There must be other emotions mixed in, and I'm afraid she herself is too ignorant to distinguish them. .
Jiang Mingzhu was frail when she was a child. Dean Zhu also said that she was the youngest in the orphanage. When she first went there, she spoke very little and had no sense of presence. Only Pei Ye, who went there on the same day as her, would be there all the time. Take care of her.
Their names were also given by Dean Zhu.
Ye Gu, Liuzhu, one fire and one water.
The same surname binds them as "brother and sister", but in fact they have no blood relationship.
Later, Pei Yegu took care of Jiang Mingzhu's everything. When Jiang Mingzhu grew taller and had a bigger appetite, Pei Yegu would give her his chicken legs and eggs.
When Jiang Mingzhu was bullied and laughed at, Pei Yehu would stand up in front of her without hesitation.
Later, Pei Yegu personally took Jiang Mingzhu into the environment of the orphanage and became one with the children around him.
To a certain extent, Jiang Mingzhu's character was shaped by Pei Yegu.
When He Chuyan and Jiang Guming went to Lantian Welfare Home for the first time, they noticed her among a group of children almost at a glance.
At that time, the children recommended to her by Dean Zhu were all five or six-year-old children. Adopters generally would not choose those who are too old.
But He Chuyan and Jiang Guming unanimously decided to ask for Jiang Mingzhu.
Jiang Mingzhu was very repulsive at the time and did not want to leave with them at all. Under the "education" of Dean Zhu, she reluctantly said hello to them.
At that time, He Chuyan felt that Jiang Mingzhu did not look like a child who grew up in an orphanage at all. Her temperament could be called arrogant and willful, like a spoiled young lady from aristocratic families.
Later, Dean Zhu told them that the child had been pampered by her brother since she was a child. She was not rude, but she just didn't want to leave the orphanage and be separated from her brother.
Thinking of the past, He Chuyan sighed.
Gu Shu closed her notebook: "If these things hadn't happened, I guess they would have been together."
"They grew up together and went through adolescence together. It's easy for them to develop feelings. It's just that Zhuzhu may not be enlightened in this regard. If Ye Yu is still here, she should have realized it."
He Chuyan rubbed her eyebrows, exhausted.
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Jiang Mingzhu slept in and went downstairs yawning at half past ten.
When Jiang Mingzhu walked down the stairs and saw Yuan Ye sitting on the sofa, her yawning stopped.
She rubbed her eyes to make sure she saw it correctly.
Yuanye stood up and waved to her: "Come here quickly, I brought you a cake."
Jiang Mingzhu was still confused when she walked up. She glanced at He Chuyan at the side, and then looked at Yuanye.
"Why are you here?"
Yuanye: "Aunt He invited me here."
There was a hint of slyness in his smile, "Zhou Li only said he wouldn't let you contact me, but he didn't say he wouldn't let Aunt He contact me."
Jiang Mingzhu: "..."
There was nothing wrong with this explanation, but she was more curious about why He Chuyan wanted Yuan Ye to come over, so she looked at He Chuyan again.
He Chuyan glanced at her watch: "Mr. Zheng's flight is at noon. I will go to the airport to pick him up first. Zhuzhu, you can play with Yuanye."
