"Mingxiu, I'm sorry, I seem to have asked something I shouldn't have asked." Qin Yuchu apologized in a panic. Everyone has pain that they don't want to be touched by others, and Zhou Mingyuan is the pain that Zhou Mingxiu tried his best to hide.

"It's okay, Sister Qin. In fact, Mingyuan has leukemia." Although it was only the second time she met Qin Yuchu, Zhou Xiuming felt that she was a trustworthy person, so she ignored Zhou Mingyuan's illness.

He told her reservedly.

Zhou Xiuming's words shocked Qin Yuchu, and the kitchen knife in her hand fell to the ground with a clang. Only now did she understand that Zhou Mingyuan's bald head was due to chemotherapy.

"How could it be possible... He looks very energetic." Qin Juchu stared at Zhou Xiuming in disbelief. She tried to lower her voice as much as possible to avoid disturbing Mingyuan who was playing in the living room.

"I took him to the United States for bone marrow replacement some time ago, and the results were pretty good, but the doctor said he could survive for up to 6 years."

Zhou Xiuming's words made Qin Yuchu's heart churn, and he felt deep sympathy for the poor siblings. God always likes to let kind people go through all kinds of pain.

The dinner that Qin Yuchu ate was very unpleasant, but the two siblings Zhou Mingxiu and Zhou Mingyuan ate very happily.

"Sister Qin, I really want to thank you tonight. We haven't had food from home for a long time." After helping Qin Juchu put away the dishes, Zhou Xiuming expressed his gratitude with a smile.

"If you don't mind that I'm not good at my craftsmanship, you can come to my house for dinner more often in the future. It just so happens that Xiaoran also likes to play with Mingyuan."

Qin Yuchu looked at Zhou Mingyuan, who was accompanying Gu Ran with a smile on his face, and felt filled with emotion, why such a good child got such a disease.

"Mingyuan seems to like Gu Ran very much. Let them play for a while. I'll go back to work first and pick him up later." Zhou Mingxiu looked at his brother comfortingly. He hadn't seen Mingyuan smile so happily for a long time.

Maybe he also saw the shadow of his childhood in Gu Ran.

"Don't worry, go back to work. It's so close. If he wants to go back, I can just send him back." Qin Yuchu waved his hand, indicating that Zhou Mingxiu didn't have to come to pick him up.

After that night, the relationship between the two families gradually became closer. Zhou Mingyuan didn't talk much, but he always had a bright smile on his face, not like a terminally ill teenager at all.

Every time he saw the smile on Mingyuan's face, Qin Yuchu would always feel an uncontrollable feeling of regret in his heart.

Because Zhou Mingyuan never went to school, he always stayed alone and bored after Gu Ran went to kindergarten during the day. Qin Yuchu proposed to Zhou Mingxiu that he should help in his flower shop.

Although her flower shop is small and there is no need to hire a helper at the moment, she still wants to do her best to help this distressed boy.

Zhou Mingyuan was very happy that he could find a job. He carefully followed Qin Yuchu to learn how to build flower branches, package flowers, and smile at every customer. After his help, Qin Yuchu felt a lot more relaxed.

"Sister Qin, this is the income of the flower shop today."

Today Qin Yuchu went to a flower garden in the suburbs to buy the flowers that the flower shop will order for the next season. Zhou Mingyuan spent a whole day closing the shop alone.

"Mingyuan, I've worked hard for you today. I'll make hot pot chicken to reward you tonight."

"It's not hard. Sister Qin is willing to let me work in your store. I don't know how happy I am. I don't feel hard at all."

Zhou Mingyuan spoke the truth, because every day he watched his sister working hard to write, but he looked like a useless person, unable to do anything to help, and his inner anxiety was self-evident.

But he couldn't show it because he didn't want to add to his sister's burden. If he could make his sister a little happier by smiling all the time, then he would be willing to hide his true feelings and face everything with a smile.

But now I'm better, I can work, and I can make money to share with my sister. All of this is thanks to Sister Qin in front of me, she is really a kind person.

"It's a pity that Sister Qin's store makes too little money and can't give you a high salary."

Qin Youchu looked apologetically at the well-behaved and distressed boy in front of her. If possible, she really hoped that she could help him more.

"That's a lot. Thank you, Sister Qin."

"Silly brother," Qin Yuchu smiled, "it's almost time. Let's close the store and go buy groceries. Mingxiu should have taken Gu Ran home."

Ever since Qin Yuchu let Zhou Mingyuan come to work in her shop, as a return gift, Zhou Mingxiu took the initiative to help her take Gu Ran back to her home every day. In this way, Qin Yuchu didn't have to close the flower shop in advance every day, and this amount also increased to a certain extent.

The flower shop adds some income.

"Well, okay." Mingyuan nodded and began to clean up the flower branches that fell on the ground during the day.

After closing the store door, Qin Yuchu put his hand on Zhou Mingyuan's shoulder, and the two walked towards the market talking and laughing, just like a pair of biological siblings.

Zhou Mingxiu ran down the stairs in a panic, raking and grabbing her hair with both hands. She was particularly inspired today. She has been writing since she got up. Fortunately, just in case, she had asked Mingyuan to set an alarm on her phone.

Bell, otherwise I would really be delayed in picking up Gu Ran today.

However, because she was in such a hurry to go out, she didn't even have time to look in the mirror. She was wearing the same home clothes she wore to bed last night.

When she saw a DaBenz parked at the gate downstairs, Zhou Mingxiu didn't hesitate at all, and started to straighten the instruments directly towards the window of the DaBenz. Du Ruo in the car stared dumbfounded at the woman outside the car who used her window as a mirror.

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Wearing wrinkled home clothes, her hair was permed into big waves and messy on her shoulders. Although her eyes were bright and bright, there was an untimely eye drop hanging in the corner of her eye...

This is really a sloppy woman. This was Du Ruo's only impression of Zhou Mingxiu when she first met her.

Zhou Mingxiu roughly smoothed her hair with her hands, wiped the dirty things from the corners of her eyes with her fingers, and then took photos from left to right to make sure she was barely satisfied with her image before leaving.

"Aunt Mingxiu!"

Gu Ran ran towards Zhou Mingxiu from afar. Recently, Aunt Mingxiu has been picking him up. His mother told him to listen to her words on the road, so he obediently followed Aunt Mingxiu home every day.

Gu Ran actually likes Zhou Mingxiu to pick her up because she often buys herself some delicious food on the road. Her mother always refuses to buy roadside snacks for her on the grounds that children cannot eat too many snacks.

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"Xiaoran, do you want to eat candied haws?"

"Yes!" Gu Ran nodded vigorously. He had been craving candied haws for a long time, but his mother said eating it would cause tooth decay, so he never bought it for himself.

"But you must not let anything slip when you get home, otherwise your mother will scold Auntie to death." Zhou Mingxiu warned Gu Ran repeatedly. After making sure that he really understood, she bought a candied haws and handed it to him.

Du Ruo watched in surprise as the sloppy woman led Gu Ran all the way. If it weren't for the fact that Qin Yuchu did live in this building, he would have thought that this woman was a trafficker.

"Of course." Du Ruo thought for a while, but got out of the car and greeted Gu Ran with a smile, although he knew that he might scare the woman next to Gu Ran.

Sure enough, when Zhou Mingxiu saw a handsome man stepping out of the car that she had just used as a mirror, she wanted to find a crack in the ground and crawl in. This man had been sitting in the car, so he had just combed his hair.

The scenes of getting my hair done and getting dressed, and even... wiping off the shit from my eyes were all seen by the other party without missing a beat!

"Were you sitting in the car just now?" Zhou Mingxiu asked with a sense of luck. Maybe he just parked the car here and no one was in it at all.

"Yes." Of course Du Ruo knew why Zhou Mingxiu asked. He wanted to say no, but he was always honest and nodded.

"Haha..." The last trace of hope was ruthlessly shattered, and Zhou Mingxiu could only smile dryly to cover up his embarrassment.

"Pretty uncle, why are you here?" Gu Ran didn't understand the inexplicable conversation between the two adults. He only cared about what he wanted to know: "Have you seen my dad recently? However, you haven't seen him for a long time."

Because he gets upset every time he mentions his parents, Gu Ran has not asked about his father for a long time. Now that his mother is not here, it should be okay to ask his beautiful uncle about his father. Gu Ran comforted himself in his heart.

, he didn’t betray his mother, he just missed his father too much.

"Your father is very good, but how are you doing with your mother?" Du Ruo didn't expect that Gu Ran's first words were about asking him about Gu Chao, and he felt a little uncomfortable.

"Xiao Ran, do you know him?" Zhou Mingxiu pointed at Du Ruo and asked if Gu Ran knew him. After all, society is not peaceful now. Although this person looks sanctimonious, who knows if he is a bad person at heart.

"Well, the beautiful uncle is mom's good friend," Gu Ran nodded, then leaned into Zhou Mingxiu's ear and lowered his voice and continued, "But he always wants to compete with dad for mom, so Xiao Ran doesn't like him very much."

Although Gu Ran's words were vague, the smart Zhou Mingxiu still understood. The man in front of him turned out to be Sister Qin's suitor. But what Zhou Mingxiu didn't understand was that this man clearly looked very shrewd.

, why do you do things that destroy other people’s families?

She intuitively believed that Qin Juchu divorced Gu Ran's father because of the man in front of her, so she looked at him differently.

Du Ruo looked at Zhou Mingxiu with some confusion. For some reason, he always felt that there was a trace of contempt in the eyes of the other person looking at him.

Just as Du Ruo and Zhou Mingxiu were examining each other, Qin Yuchu and Zhou Mingyuan walked in from the gate carrying two large bags of fresh ingredients. "Du Ruo, why are you here?" Qin Yuchu looked surprised when he saw Du Ruo, and kept his work a secret.

She did such a good job, she didn't know how Du Ruo found her.

"Fuchu, long time no see." Compared to Qin Fuchu's surprise, Du Ruo seemed very calm, "Are you okay?"

"Well, it's good." Qin Yuchu was filled with emotion when she saw Du Ruo again. It had been almost half a year since she had been in contact with her familiar friends. She had almost forgotten her past life. "Now that I'm here, I'll

Come and sit at my house."

Qin Yuchu invited this old friend. After all, she and Du Ruo have been good friends for many years, and what happened last time had nothing to do with him.

"Sister Qin, who is this?" Zhou Mingxiu, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up. Only then did Qin Yuchu remember that he should introduce everyone to each other first.

"This is Du Ruo, a good friend of mine who I have known for many years," Qin Yuchu introduced Du Ruo to Zhou Mingxiu with a smile, her voice full of tenderness, then turned to Du Ruo and introduced Zhou Mingxiu and Zhou Mingyuan to him, "This is Zhou Mingxiu, this is

It’s Zhou Mingyuan, they are siblings, our two families live on opposite sides of the same floor, and they take good care of me and Xiaoran.”

"Hello, Miss Zhou. Nice to meet you." Du Ruo nodded to the siblings and then extended his hand to Zhou Mingxiu.

Zhou Mingxiu was a little embarrassed, and she really couldn't let go of Du Ruo seeing her embarrassment. However, the other party behaved so appropriately, and it was hard for him to offend Sister Qin. After all, he was the one who raised the question first.

"Hello." Zhou Mingxiu stretched out his hand and shook it casually with Du Ruo, then immediately retracted it.

"Don't stand here stupidly. Come and sit at home." Qin Yuchu did not notice anything strange between the two of them and reminded everyone with a smile.

"Wait a minute," Du Ruo walked to the car, opened the trunk, took out a large gift box and handed it to Gu Ran, "Of course, this is for you.

The remote control plane printed on the gift box was indeed the toy Gu Ran had always wanted, but the toy was given by a beautiful uncle, so he didn't know whether he should accept it or not.

"Xiao Ran, Uncle Du specially picked a gift for you, please thank Uncle Du quickly." Qin Ruochu saw his son's hesitation and was afraid that Du Ruo would not come to power, so he quickly reminded Gu Ran and asked him to accept the gift.

"Thank you, Uncle Du." Gu Ran took the gift box and thanked him reluctantly. His father was not here and he didn't know if his mother would be snatched away by his beautiful uncle. He was really worried.

Because there was one more person, Qin Yuchu asked Zhou Mingyuan to go down and buy some semi-finished cooked food for processing. As for Zhou Mingxiu, who had a grudge in her heart, she kept hiding in the kitchen and refused to come out on the pretext of helping. So for a while, she just

Du Ruo and Gu Ran were left sitting in the living room, one big and one small, staring at each other.

"Pretty uncle, can you please stop snatching mom from my dad?" Gu Ran, who couldn't sit still, finally said, his dad is not here, he must protect his mom for his dad, and she must not be snatched away by other men.

"What if your mother chose Uncle Du?" Du Ruo didn't answer the question and faced Gu Ran calmly.

"No, mom only has my dad in her heart." Gu Ran said anxiously, hoping that the beautiful uncle could understand that mom can only belong to dad.
To be continued...