Chapter 20 Come here, brother, give me a hug

Author: Nan Ruoruo

Chapter 20 Come here, brother, give me a hug

There was a taxi waiting next to the station. Gu Yanci half-supported and half-hugged her into the taxi, unscrewing the cap of the bottle and letting her drink water.

Li Mianmian drowsily took the water and took two sips, then hugged her schoolbag and collapsed in the back seat.

Gu Yanci held a cold water bottle in one hand and placed it on the side of her neck to cool her down. With the other hand, he patted the back of the driver's seat forward and whispered, "Master, could you please lend me your mobile phone?"

"Oh, okay."

This trip was a big one, so the driver didn't care much about the phone bill, so he immediately took out his cell phone and handed it to him.

Gu Yanci dialed Lan Qingwan's phone number, intending to tell her that she was safe.

The couple had been anxious for a long time, but they finally breathed a sigh of relief when they heard that Li Mianmian was fine.

When she received the call, Lan Qingwan even broke down and cried: "I thought I lost her again... If she is lost again, I really don't know how to live... Thank you, Xiao Yan, really

, thank you, you are the savior of our family..."

"Don't say that, Aunt Lan." Gu Yanci consoled her, "Mianmian is fine. She just fell asleep and sat past the stop. Even if I didn't come, she would be able to catch the next train soon."

"We parents are not doing a good job, so it is better for you to be interested in her... When we come back, I will let Mianmian recognize you as my brother." Lan Qingwan seemed to be a little confused, and choked out, "Let her give it to you in the future.

Retirement.”

"..." Gu Yanci didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Aunt Lan, you are saying too harshly... I originally regarded her as my biological sister. You helped take care of my mother in the past, but I couldn't repay you with anything..."

"you……"

Lan Qingwan wanted to say something else, but Li Changfeng scolded him from the side: "What nonsense are you talking about! Xiaoyan is only two years older than Mianmian, how can you support yourself? You should wake up!"

Then the phone was snatched away by Li Changfeng:

"Hey, Xiao Yan, don't listen to what your Aunt Lan is saying. She's talking nonsense. She was trapped more than ten years ago and can't get out, and her brain is not clear. So what, you and Mianmian come back directly. We have already invited the teacher.

It's time for vacation. Your aunt and I are waiting at the gate of the community. You can just take that taxi and Uncle Li will pay you the fare later."

"Okay." Gu Yanci responded, "We'll be there in a moment."

After hanging up the phone, he turned around and saw that Li Mianmian had recovered and was looking at him blankly.

"Is it better?" Gu Yanci squeezed the bottle and said, "Take it yourself."

Li Mianmian raised her hand to cover the mineral water bottle and muttered: "Did I make you worried..."

"It's okay." Gu Yanci said with a smile, "It's normal to stand up after sleeping. No one will blame you."

Li Mianmian pursed her lips tightly and lowered her eyes guiltily.

"Just remember to bring your mobile phone next time." Gu Yanci said, "Don't let us find you."

"Yes." Li Mianmian nodded, "I remember."

After a moment of silence, she suddenly remembered something and asked: "By the way, brother, how did you find me?"

"Simple junior high school math questions." When talking about this, Gu Yanci's expression became meaningful, "Come on, my brother just happened to take the test for you, let's see if you remember it."

Li Mianmian: "..."

If I had known earlier I wouldn’t have asked!

"It is known that Li Mianmian took bus No. 4 at 7:30 in the morning. The speed of this bus is about 40 kilometers per hour. The parentheses can be regarded as uniform motion. The distance between every two stops on the route of bus No. 4

The distance was about 800 meters. Classmate Li Mianmian got off the bus at 9 a.m. and asked, how many stops had she passed at this time?"

After saying this, Gu Yanci said to himself: "It seems too simple. Elementary school students should be able to do it, right?"

It was indeed a very simple question. As soon as he finished explaining the question, Li Mianmian had already mentally calculated the answer.

"That's why it's so simple to make the questions." She felt a little uncomfortable, "But in reality, the speed of the bus is not uniform, it takes time to stop at the station, and the distance between every two stations is not always 800 meters...

You must have been looking for me for a long time..."

"It really didn't take long." Gu Yanci said with a smile, "Anyway, there are only a few nearby stations. I can't find you if I search along the way?"

Li Mianmian didn't speak for a while.

"What's wrong?" Gu Yanci rubbed her head, "You still blame yourself?"

Li Mianmian bit her lower lip and whispered: "I heard my mother crying on the phone."

"...Hmm." Gu Yanci took back her hand, "She's just a little anxious."

Li Mianmian: "She must be thinking of me when I was a child."

It was rare to hear her talk about her childhood. Gu Yanci asked calmly: "What happened when I was a child?"

In the past, he didn't ask much about Li Mianmian's experience. After all, he knew without thinking that it would not be a good memory.

She is still so young, it would be best if she could forget about it, why bother opening up the scar to see it all the time.

Later, he accidentally chatted with Lan Qingwan and found out that even they didn't know much about Li Mianmian's past.

It stands to reason that at her age, when she returns to her biological parents after being wronged, she would usually want to talk and tell her parents what kind of suffering she has endured.

But she rarely mentioned this.

At first, Lan Qingwan thought it was because she and her daughter were not close enough. However, after spending more than a year together, mother and daughter have become very close. Li Mianmian would be happy to share any interesting things he encountered in school with her.

Only in the past, every time she mentioned it, she spoke very vaguely, and took it away with just a few words.

Gu Yanci recalled that when Li Mianmian told her that she had another name called "Mumu", she said that she was afraid of making her parents unhappy, so she didn't like to mention it in front of her parents.

So he thought that if Li Mianmian was willing to start a conversation one day, he would try his best to guide her so that she could say as much as she could.

"When I was young... I actually can't remember many things clearly." Li Mianmian recalled, "I was too young at that time. I just roughly knew that the parents who raised me were not my biological parents. I was bought by them.

Because they can't have children."

"Well." Gu Yanci asked warmly, "So are they good to you?"

"...I don't remember." Li Mianmian touched his neck, "Anyway, when I have memories, they had already given birth to a child, and it was still a son. Then I was given to a grandma in the countryside to raise. One time I secretly heard

They chatted and said that if they hadn’t really been unable to afford a son at that time, they would never have been able to buy a girl and raise it.”

Gu Yanci probably knew that it was an old lady who raised Li Mianmian later, but he didn't expect that the reason was like this.

He felt that his fists were stiff, and he resisted and continued to ask: "Then what does this old lady do to you?"

"Hmm...I don't know what to say."

Li Mianmian thought for a while and said slowly: "If I regard myself as an unwanted child, then she should still be very good to me. At least she will give me food to eat and a room to sleep in. But if

Compared with her own grandson..."

She suddenly showed a very ugly smile: "That should be the difference between humans and stray dogs."

"..."

For a moment, Gu Yanci found it difficult to breathe.

"Why else would she randomly name me wood?" Li Mianmian buried her head, her eyes a little hot, and said in a hoarse voice, "Because it really looks like rotten and smelly wood."

"Yeah." Gu Yanci touched the back of her head, "We don't want to think about it anymore."

He opened his arms: "Come here, brother, give me a hug."

Li Mianmian turned her head and buried her face in his arms.

The two of them were quiet all the way. When they almost arrived at the gate of the community, Li Mianmian suddenly spoke again: "Actually, I haven't felt aggrieved before."

Gu Yanci patted her back: "Huh?"

"I didn't feel wronged because I never regarded myself as her biological grandson. I also regarded myself as a piece of wood after all, I had no blood connection, so I didn't feel sad at all." She whispered, "But then I was beaten by my parents.

After I found it, I realized that I also had..."

The words paused for a moment.

Li Mianmian suppressed the soreness on the tip of her nose and tried to keep her tone calm: "So that day, I felt a little aggrieved. Later, as I spent more time with you, when I think about the past, I feel more and more aggrieved."

"Well, that's great." Gu Yanci took a breath slowly and said with a smile, "This shows that we, Mumu, are living a very happy life now."

As soon as he finished speaking, the car stopped.

When paying, Gu Yanci saw the driver glance at Li Mianmian with a complicated expression.

He didn't care, curled his lips lightly, opened the car door and let Li Mianmian get out.

Li's father and Li's mother were waiting for them on the roadside. When they saw the two get out of the car, Li Changfeng took out his pocket and walked to the driver's seat. Just as he was about to ask how much it cost, the car had already driven away.

Here, Li Mianmian rushed towards Lan Qingwan as soon as her feet touched the ground, with a hint of crying in her voice: "Mom, I will definitely remember to bring my mobile phone with me in the future..."

"It's okay." Lan Qingwan, who had just been coaxed back by Li Changfeng, couldn't hold back her tears. "We won't take the bus anymore. Let your father see you off... No, mom and dad will see you off together..."

-

When he got home, Gu Yanci pressed the hands-free button on the landline to make a call. After the call was connected, he got straight to the point and said, "Come with me to buy something."

"What the hell?" Yan Shinan's loud voice came out, "Why do you need me to accompany you when you buy something?"
To be continued...